Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Speaker 1: Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. His name
Speaker 1: is Tim Duckworth. Fingers crossed that this recording works had
Speaker 1: massive technical difficulties, very possibly user difficulties. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know what's going on, so hopefully this goes out to
Speaker 1: the masses. If not, then I'm gonna throw my computer
Speaker 1: into the middle of Las Vegas Boulevard. But other than that,
Speaker 1: things are good. It is the middle of the Poker
Speaker 1: Go Cup. Event number four wrapped up today, so the
Speaker 1: halfway point as things stand, it is Saturday evening February,
Speaker 1: I should say February fifteenth, day after Valentine Day, tomorrow
Speaker 1: Sunday day off. Yes, at least for people at Poker
Speaker 1: ro p Tour, I should say yes. I'll be a Venetian, uh,
Speaker 1: doing some commentary for the card Player Poker Tour final
Speaker 1: table that's going on over there. But yeah, let's talk
Speaker 1: about the Poker Girl Cup. What's happening. You're the commission
Speaker 1: You've been here every day. What's the story.
Speaker 2: The story is massive, massive field sizes. We kicked off
Speaker 2: event one five.
Speaker 1: Massive, massive, massive and massive.
Speaker 2: They're not massive, Okay, buddy, I don't know what your
Speaker 2: definition of massive is, but it hits mine because we have.
Speaker 1: My biggest My biggest head peeve in poker is the
Speaker 1: over use, the abuse of the word massive. It is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Everyone uses massive, massive, massive, massive, massive, and then secondary
Speaker 1: to that is smashed, smash the guarantee, smash, mash the guarantee. Listen,
Speaker 1: the fields are big relatively speaking towards what we do. Okay,
Speaker 1: they're not massive.
Speaker 2: Let's just that's's just let's just we're only compared.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, don't we don't want to like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to downplay the success that we've had. I
Speaker 1: just let's let's not sound like idiots.
Speaker 2: We're not idiots. I think people know that this is
Speaker 2: not the ten k WSP main event. We are in
Speaker 2: our own little niche of turbo high rollers, and with
Speaker 2: what that is, we're we're smashing.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I hate you. They were massively smashing
Speaker 1: overlay alert.
Speaker 2: But the first event one hundred and seventy seven entrance.
Speaker 2: The previous best for a five K NO hold before
Speaker 2: that was one thirty one, forty six more players. We
Speaker 2: had an additional thirty one unique players, which is really big,
Speaker 2: And that's what I want to touch on mainly, is
Speaker 2: that we're seeing throughout the whole series, even up until
Speaker 2: you know, Event five is underway right now, a lot
Speaker 2: of new faces here in the studio, which is great
Speaker 2: to see. You know, we have our regulars, the Januine
Speaker 2: Negrand who's out there, the Darren Oliases, but we're seeing
Speaker 2: some new fresh faces. You know, either they're taking a
Speaker 2: shot or they had none players that are you know, decided,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm gonna play a few five k's
Speaker 2: and ten k's this week. So that's really good in
Speaker 2: my in my eyes, seeing these new faces come in
Speaker 2: the studio, experience what the PGT has to offer, experience
Speaker 2: the great stuff here at Aria, and uh hopefully a
Speaker 2: couple of them, you know, get a result of stick
Speaker 2: around and kind of keep playing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, listen, the numbers have been good. The
Speaker 1: number of new faces in the field have been good.
Speaker 1: The satellites, that's where it all began. Yes, the five
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty dollars satellite that was held the day
Speaker 1: before the twenty five Poker Girl Cups started had one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty two entries and gave away fourteen.
Speaker 2: Massive field size. Absolutely, you absolutely hate you.
Speaker 1: The thing is is that like if people in the
Speaker 1: company listen to this, they're gonna think that I'm trying
Speaker 1: to like poo pooh at all and not just I'm
Speaker 1: trying to keep it in check, Okay, because people can
Speaker 1: just get way too far ahead of themselves.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Now I will say this, kudos to you and I
Speaker 1: because we tried to tell them this year we're gonna
Speaker 1: need a bigger studio. This year, we're gonna need to
Speaker 1: address the size of the TV set because there's gonna
Speaker 1: be too many players. And that happened in the first event.
Speaker 2: We had alternates.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was like twenty alternates, a lot for us.
Speaker 1: We also had alternates in the ten K there was
Speaker 1: three or four alternates there. I mean that was part
Speaker 1: of the problem. There was that final table was still
Speaker 1: playing with Michael Wantsek and Joey Wiseman played for nineteen
Speaker 1: days heads up. But yeah, so numbers are good out
Speaker 1: of the gate. Also you have Texas Mike winning the
Speaker 1: first events topping Joey Wiseman. Then those two same players
Speaker 1: go heads up again in the second event. That is outrageous.
Speaker 1: It is that is absolutely outrageous. So Michael monsec aka
Speaker 1: Texas Mike he wins the opener. He took home one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five eight hundred and fifty dollars, beat
Speaker 1: Joey Wiseman, Cherish Andrews third, Michael brinking off for Stephensong fifth.
Speaker 1: Then in the next event, one hundred and eighteen entries
Speaker 1: in that one, the bian was kicked up to ten
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Joey Wiseman, Michael monsec Our heads up once again.
Speaker 1: This time it's Joey Wiseman coming out on top. He
Speaker 1: takes home two hundred and ninety five thousand montsec second,
Speaker 1: Eric's Sidell third, Andrew Marino fourth, Sam Laskowitz fifth. There
Speaker 1: and then I'll just get through the next two events.
Speaker 1: You have Adam Hendricks in event number three, one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty nine entries. There started to seem like we
Speaker 1: were going to see a PG kickoff esque trend in
Speaker 1: the field sizes, because you you know, normally the field
Speaker 1: size is when the byans are the same, they start
Speaker 1: to go down over there. Here they went up from
Speaker 1: event to to event number three. So we had one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighteen entries and number two and then ten
Speaker 1: k again into ve number three hundred and twenty nine entries.
Speaker 1: Adam Hendricks gets heads up with Harvey Castro. Hendrix comes
Speaker 1: out on top an incredible bluff that worked out during
Speaker 1: heads up play. I have no idea what Adam Hendricks
Speaker 1: was doing. I have little to no idea how Harvey
Speaker 1: Castro folded. So I'm just blown away by this hand
Speaker 1: that happened.
Speaker 2: So there was that.
Speaker 1: You guys can find the clip either on Poker Row,
Speaker 1: it's on the YouTube channel, it's on our Twitter slash
Speaker 1: x account, It's everywhere. If you haven't seen it by now,
Speaker 1: just go look. But that that bluff ended up, you know,
Speaker 1: propelling Adam HENDRICKX to victory. He gets what was it
Speaker 1: his seventh or.
Speaker 2: Eighth, It was his sixth PGT title sixth. I'm just
Speaker 2: I'm giving them just very impressive giving.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure. So he wins three hundred and
Speaker 1: sixteen thousand dollars. Harvey Castro second, as I mentioned, Joscemouth third,
Speaker 1: Manual Fritz, one of those new players is here firing away.
Speaker 1: Very good player at that. So Manuel Fritz is actually
Speaker 1: he was going to come for the Bounty series that
Speaker 1: you had planned for last season that ended up getting
Speaker 1: put on the shelf for a later date, likely this season.
Speaker 1: But he came and he was like, all excited for
Speaker 1: it didn't happen, So then he stuck around and played
Speaker 1: napt Las Vegas or maybe I can't remember where you
Speaker 1: were putting the Yeah, that's yeah, but I remember him
Speaker 1: saying that he was super excited about the idea of
Speaker 1: a bounty series because he's a European player, because the
Speaker 1: Americans have no idea how to play bounties, and that's
Speaker 1: probably very true. Yeah, And then in that event, Daniel
Speaker 1: Sepiel finished fifth there also of note, Cherish Andrews got
Speaker 1: sixth place, so two final tables for her. And then
Speaker 1: in event number four, ninety eight entries here and you
Speaker 1: get down to heads up playing, Oh look who's there
Speaker 1: once again Joey Wiseman. Just I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: what this guy's drinking, what kind of drugs he's on, steroids,
Speaker 1: I have no idea performance enhancing. Somebody tests this guy
Speaker 1: for ped Joey Wiseman is absolutely crushing it. And I
Speaker 1: can't remember exactly, but I think, didn't you pick him
Speaker 1: like our predictions?
Speaker 2: No, I picked, I picked him to get into the
Speaker 2: top forty because he finished there you go, Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: crushing best.
Speaker 1: So he goes heads up with Eric Blair Joey Wiseman.
Speaker 2: All smashing my predictions.
Speaker 1: Joey Wiseman ultimately finishes in second place. Eric Blair his
Speaker 1: I believe this first cash and first victory of course,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty four thousand second cash something like that.
Speaker 2: He cashed the definitely not his first the first win, yes,
Speaker 2: the first win whatever.
Speaker 1: Eric Blair aka Blizzer aka Big Vegas Vegas. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: his nickname, really, Big Vegas. Two hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 1: for him. Joey Wiseman second, Justin Saliba, who had the
Speaker 1: chip lead in this tournament from for sure, from two
Speaker 1: tables down, if not before that, he was crushing the
Speaker 1: whole way, just a massive, massive ship lead and just
Speaker 1: going all the way down. Things didn't ultimately break his
Speaker 1: way when they got down to three he had a
Speaker 1: massive blow up. No, he had a massive, massive, massive ship.
Speaker 1: He gets third place, Darren Elias fourth place, around Zobian
Speaker 1: fifth place in that one. So as the and then
Speaker 1: event number five is playing out right now, it got
Speaker 1: one hundred entries even, which is a couple entries more
Speaker 1: than event number four, So numbers are holding very strong.
Speaker 2: There will be two.
Speaker 1: Hundred and fifty five thousand dollars up top in that one.
Speaker 1: We're recording this about an hour before REMCO and I
Speaker 1: get on commentary for Day one coverage. But as things
Speaker 1: stand on the series leaderboard, Joey Wiseman up on top.
Speaker 1: As you might have expected, he's got one win, he's
Speaker 1: got three top three finishes, three cashes total five hundred
Speaker 1: and six hundred dollars for him five hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: one points had he won event number four. I mean,
Speaker 1: good luck to everyone else trying to catch him. Not
Speaker 1: that it's impossible, but it would have taken a lot.
Speaker 1: And what's also of note as it relates to Joey Wiseman,
Speaker 1: he skipped an event. He didn't play event number three
Speaker 1: because he was heads up with Michael Monsek and he
Speaker 1: chose not to enter. Afterwards, Remember Monsig dropped a stack
Speaker 1: and then they had a break and he went over
Speaker 1: and just jammed every hand. Joey Wiseman didn't play. So yeah,
Speaker 1: just I mean, that's that's interesting to me. You know.
Speaker 1: So he's played three of the four events. Well, I
Speaker 1: mean he played event or five, but he played three
Speaker 1: of the four events. In all three of them he
Speaker 1: finished either.
Speaker 2: First or second. Yes, he's having a very good series.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and from what I've seen, I've watched all the
Speaker 1: final tables, I've obviously been in the booth for the
Speaker 1: Day one coverage. He's played extremely well, extremely well. So
Speaker 1: I would say watch out for Joey Wiseman, not only
Speaker 1: on the PGT but a year long. You know, if
Speaker 1: he continues to play like this, continues to be on
Speaker 1: his A game catch cards, all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: I mean, good luck beating this guy this year. So
Speaker 1: he's the top leader board five hundred eighty one points,
Speaker 1: fairly big gap. Michael Montsek is second three sixty nine.
Speaker 1: Then it's Adam Hendricks in third, three sixteen, Eric Blair
Speaker 1: in fourth two fifty five, and Harvey Castro runs off
Speaker 1: the top five with one ninety four. Of course, the
Speaker 1: winner of the leaderboard or the player that tops the
Speaker 1: leaderboard have to have two cases. You will win the
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand dollars PGT passport bonus. So there's that
Speaker 1: that's up for grabs. All right, you talked about the numbers, right,
Speaker 1: you talked about the new faces. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: what you got any other thoughts on the series in general?
Speaker 1: How things are going?
Speaker 2: Like, I mean, just today we were I was walking
Speaker 2: around and trying to catch some hands, had players talking
Speaker 2: about the field sizes and like, you know, what's what's next?
Speaker 2: You know, if we keep growing We've been kind of
Speaker 2: growing series on series here on. Yeah, we're obviously doing
Speaker 2: our best to keep that trend upwards. And they were basically,
Speaker 2: as you're gonna fit more tables? Can we play at aria? Like,
Speaker 2: what's the solution here? So the players know that it's
Speaker 2: it's it's coming that we are working on trying to
Speaker 2: figure out it's not really a problem, but it's in
Speaker 2: a way, it's a problem figuring out the problem of
Speaker 2: not enough tables, not enough space. You know, the obviously
Speaker 2: easy solution, you up the buy in. We don't really
Speaker 2: want to do that, So you know we're going to
Speaker 2: work towards. Obviously, the next real big series for us
Speaker 2: when it comes to this is going to be Poker Masters.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And the reason I say that is I think.
Speaker 1: You're a Debbie Downer.
Speaker 2: You believe I know the poker tournament world back like
Speaker 2: the back of my hand.
Speaker 1: Yet you won't. You wouldn't bet me, and I was
Speaker 1: giving you a better line than you off. So for
Speaker 1: context here Tim is, Tim is saying this because he's
Speaker 1: skipping mentioning US poke Ropen. You know the Pokagro Tour
Speaker 1: has three majors, Poker Girl Cup, US Proke Open, and
Speaker 1: Poker Masters. Poker Masters is always big, yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: gonna smash this year. Both you and I. You know,
Speaker 1: internally we're telling people like Poker Masters this season is
Speaker 1: going to be massive.
Speaker 2: We need to be prepared for it. Now.
Speaker 1: We were a little bit behind, to be honest, because
Speaker 1: the Cup is smashing. Good problem to have. Don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, Tim thinks US Poker Open is not going
Speaker 1: to be as big as a Poker Grill Cup. You
Speaker 1: said it would be down thirty percent. I said they
Speaker 1: won't be down twenty percent. And we can go event
Speaker 1: for event. I will take less than twenty percent down
Speaker 1: in each event for like twenty dollars per event. And
Speaker 1: you you just laughed it off like you just didn't
Speaker 1: want because you're viewing nonsense. Yet every day, every day
Speaker 1: we go in there. I tell Tim that it's going
Speaker 1: to get some number. He's like thirty five entries below
Speaker 1: what I say, yet is under where it comes.
Speaker 2: To one event three, Event four though I crushed. I said,
Speaker 2: today is going to be down.
Speaker 1: And by the way, is that number one event number one,
Speaker 1: which at one hundred and seventy seven entries would have
Speaker 1: had two hundred had we had space.
Speaker 2: Would have had at least let's still for sure hundred was.
Speaker 1: Going to for sure had two hundred. First of all,
Speaker 1: there was twenty people waiting. At least there was get
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five people waiting. Other people were re entering.
Speaker 1: I'm honestly, I'm curious to see, like if anyone had
Speaker 1: a close decision and went one way because they.
Speaker 2: Were because I want to wait.
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean why wouldn't you, right, I don't have
Speaker 1: waiting live for an hour? Yeah? So yeah, so I
Speaker 1: think USB Pok Girlblin is still going to be big.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, let's hope it speak. The fact that
Speaker 2: it overlapsed the seminal event by a couple of days,
Speaker 2: it means we will lose a few players. But look,
Speaker 2: let's just hope I'm wrong. I always want to be
Speaker 2: wrong on this one. So yeah, espn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's going to be amazing. The thing
Speaker 1: is is I don't. So there's also there's there's a
Speaker 1: second problem that I think everyone is is overlooking, or
Speaker 1: at least it hasn't been discussed yet to my knowledge,
Speaker 1: and that is the the length of the field sizes, sorry,
Speaker 1: the size of the fields in combination with these majors
Speaker 1: have the seventy five K five level back in. Also
Speaker 1: in combination with the fact that players in general are
Speaker 1: getting better at poker as they go, like it's always
Speaker 1: getting better, right, especially these players who are the best
Speaker 1: of the best, is always getting better. And then also
Speaker 1: like I think the strength of the tour and the
Speaker 1: want to perform and compete well in it plays into
Speaker 1: the whole thing as well, where the final tables are
Speaker 1: taking longer. Yeah, so that's something that also needs to
Speaker 1: get addressed. And here's why, I mean, there's for sure.
Speaker 1: One reason is when you have a series that's eight
Speaker 1: events long, in my opinion, like you have to play
Speaker 1: every event, so like really have the best person be
Speaker 1: crowned the winner. You can't have people skipping events, so
Speaker 1: it's like it's a tricky spot. But it's also tricky
Speaker 1: like from a production standpoint, because things are going very
Speaker 1: late some nights. Like, it's just it's it's interesting. I honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't know any sort of solution. I haven't really
Speaker 1: thought about it at all, but I just know that
Speaker 1: it's becoming more of an issue. Yeah, I mean, these
Speaker 1: things are going to draw out much longer now. Two
Speaker 1: nights ago we played till three am. That was on
Speaker 1: day one, and then you had the Joey Monsec and
Speaker 1: or sorry Joey Monsec, the Joey Wiseman and Michael Monsec
Speaker 1: one of their heads up matches last Forever, right, I
Speaker 1: mean even today Joey Wiseman played Forever, Like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's becoming weird. Well I don't know what
Speaker 1: to do, but it's becoming weird.
Speaker 2: We made one rule change. You know you talked about
Speaker 2: adding the one twenty five level that was definitely a
Speaker 2: player request. We made one rule change where we're shot
Speaker 2: in the levels at three handed, so it's it's it's
Speaker 2: TBD time, So if we're running along, it could be
Speaker 2: ten minute levels, right, It never going to be, but
Speaker 2: we just have that built into the rules. At the
Speaker 2: PLO series, we're going to experiment a little bit with
Speaker 2: the ten case structures basically going to be thirty minutes
Speaker 2: up until like level twelve, So we're going to try
Speaker 2: and shave off like an hour of play, which really matters,
Speaker 2: like you said, when we're playing late at night down
Speaker 2: to the final table. So we're trying to get through
Speaker 2: more of the structure without you know, and we can
Speaker 2: still try and bring back six players. So we're going
Speaker 2: to experiment that with a PLO series and then if
Speaker 2: how that goes, will kind of push that into the
Speaker 2: no limit holder majors going forward. So yeah, I think
Speaker 2: both you know, ask the PGT and are aware of
Speaker 2: these sizes hopefully and you know, continuing to grow, and
Speaker 2: we have to try and get ahead of some of
Speaker 2: these issues that are coming up. We thought we were
Speaker 2: going to get ahead of it this series with the
Speaker 2: three handed obviously when we didn't expect one hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy seven Entrancing Event one one, twenty nine events Entrancing
Speaker 2: Event three, both records. Yeah, it's good. It is a
Speaker 2: good problem to happen.
Speaker 1: By first, like the first solution that popped in my
Speaker 1: mind and I have no idea if this is even possible.
Speaker 1: I'm leaning that it's not possible, but I this is
Speaker 1: just what I thought of is some.
Speaker 2: Trying to think if I could figure out what you're
Speaker 2: gonna say.
Speaker 1: Okay, see if you can think about it, you're you're
Speaker 1: for sure gonna say it's not possible. I already know
Speaker 1: you guys, but I'm going to whatever you're gonna say.
Speaker 2: Eleven am.
Speaker 1: No, I was gonna say every event needs to be
Speaker 1: three days.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's obviously possible.
Speaker 1: It's just yeah, But I just didn't know if it
Speaker 1: was like doable from like a like a fitting everything
Speaker 1: on the schedule staffing. Like I I hadn't fully thought
Speaker 1: it out. I was thinking, like what if you start
Speaker 1: events like on day one, you start them at like
Speaker 1: four o'clock and they play like a basically a half,
Speaker 1: so so each event is like two and a half days. Like,
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I haven't like even put this
Speaker 1: down on paper and like try to like speck it out.
Speaker 1: But that's like my first thing is like all these
Speaker 1: events are gonna need to be extended. I know you
Speaker 1: and I have talked about like the five k opener
Speaker 1: should just have two starting plots. Yeah, like that, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's that's more easy to contain. But then once
Speaker 1: you like get into the middle of the schedule, it's
Speaker 1: like weird because you also have to factor in that.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of these players they like in
Speaker 1: and out, like it's basically one day, or you make
Speaker 1: the final table exact, and like a lot of people
Speaker 1: like that, like it's in and out. You get a
Speaker 1: lot of quote unquote volume. I know it's not a
Speaker 1: ton of volume, but you still get a lot of
Speaker 1: volume in a small window. You know, it's good for
Speaker 1: recreationals who can pop in for one tournament here or there,
Speaker 1: and then it's good for you know, like the Stephen Chidwick's,
Speaker 1: the Jeremy austmas Is, et cetera, where you know, you
Speaker 1: cram eight tournaments in eight days like boom boom boom.
Speaker 2: Like that.
Speaker 1: That's great. So but but then you start if you
Speaker 1: have eight tournaments and every tournaments three days, it's like
Speaker 1: everything gets extended.
Speaker 2: So can you even do that? I mean I could
Speaker 2: obviously do it, it's just not we do. And I
Speaker 2: think the players play our events for certain reasons, and
Speaker 2: I think one of those reasons is that we're kind
Speaker 2: of offering this kind of one day tourbo If you're
Speaker 2: playing twelve hours, you're in the money. If you make
Speaker 2: it to day two, you're playing for potentially quarter million
Speaker 2: dollars or more. And I do think poker will start
Speaker 2: trending that way where it's kind of quicker tournaments, faster structures,
Speaker 2: but you get a bigger ROI on time invested, and
Speaker 2: I think that's important for obviously for businessmen and VIPs,
Speaker 2: it's such a that's important, but I think these players
Speaker 2: are understanding that the ROI on time is also important.
Speaker 2: And look, there are you know you want your four
Speaker 2: day five K World Series has one of those you
Speaker 2: know it has multi you know, if you want like
Speaker 2: a big ten K with many days and ninety minute levels,
Speaker 2: you go find that on a WPT. You can find
Speaker 2: those slower things around the country at other times. But
Speaker 2: you're kind of coming to us for like, hey, you know,
Speaker 2: if you're a say a down elas you coming, you're
Speaker 2: coming to Vegas. I'm coming for ten dice. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get eight events in. I'm gonna be able to get
Speaker 2: in half a million of buyings if I'm if I
Speaker 2: run bad, but half a million of buyings in ten
Speaker 2: days and then I can go home for a couple
Speaker 2: of months, you know, So you can't really do that
Speaker 2: in anywhere else in America. So we offer something that's
Speaker 2: very niche. But I think that niche is growing and
Speaker 2: we can see that in these numbers, and the field
Speaker 2: size is trending up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, listen, I like it again. I'll say,
Speaker 1: good problem to have is, you know, the field size
Speaker 1: are obviously growing, and you know, Tim and I like
Speaker 1: we joke internally with people. We say, you know, we're
Speaker 1: gonna make you guys change the set or we're gonna
Speaker 1: make you do that. You know, like we're gonna basically
Speaker 1: we're gonna make the tour so big relatively speaking to
Speaker 1: what we do that you guys are gonna have to
Speaker 1: like the set can't be as big as We're gonna
Speaker 1: need to fit a couple more tables in here, like
Speaker 1: stuff like that. You know, we joke, and it's it's
Speaker 1: getting to that point. So you know, good, great, you
Speaker 1: and I have to do a podcast on Monday, I
Speaker 1: believe because I think the schedules coming out. They put
Speaker 1: it on Twitter, that's coming out. Yeah, I got it,
Speaker 1: so let's go. So we got that. For those listening
Speaker 1: at home, I do want to remind you, we've talked
Speaker 1: about it before, I'll say it again that you can
Speaker 1: play the play Poker Go Cup on play PokerGO dot com.
Speaker 1: We are having one event a day until February nineteenth,
Speaker 1: or February nineteenth will be the last the last day
Speaker 1: for an event. Four events are done. It was Prostophilia
Speaker 1: won the first event, JD Rocket twenty won the second event,
Speaker 1: Stone Monk won the third event, and koy Roy Ace
Speaker 1: ace or AA won the fourth event. Coy Roy, you
Speaker 1: lucky little bastard busted me or sorry, took two thirds
Speaker 1: of my chips or sixty percent of my chi, I
Speaker 1: can't remember either way. He lim called all in from
Speaker 1: the small blind with queensix suited and beat my ACE
Speaker 1: four and I ended up finishing in sixth place. It
Speaker 1: was just absolutely brueal. I feel completely scammed. It's just wild,
Speaker 1: all right. The one thing I did want to hit
Speaker 1: on is overall leaderboard. How things are shaken la PGT leaderboard. Yes,
Speaker 1: so as you might have expected, Joey Wiseman is is
Speaker 1: up out on top, up out up on top up
Speaker 1: on top.
Speaker 2: I can't speak.
Speaker 1: So he's up on top seven hundred and thirty points.
Speaker 1: He has the three cases, the win and the two
Speaker 1: second place finishes from this Poker gro Cup. But then
Speaker 1: he also had two cashes from the PGT kickoff series.
Speaker 1: So Joey Wiseman is off and running quite nicely. He
Speaker 1: didn't qualify last year, right correct, And this year he's
Speaker 1: already got seven hundred and thirty points. We think the
Speaker 1: line will be right around nine to fifty to one
Speaker 1: thousand again. So I mean he's if he doesn't get in,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the biggest upset, right, I mean, how
Speaker 1: does he not get in?
Speaker 2: Well, if we've got to make sure he doesn't go
Speaker 2: on a trip around Asia for six months like he
Speaker 2: did last ye and he'll get in.
Speaker 1: He could go on a trip around Asia for eight
Speaker 1: months and he'll still getting Wiseman moving into first place
Speaker 1: on the lead board. That kicks Kristen Foxen down to
Speaker 1: second place. She's still in second. She had a couple
Speaker 1: finishes here, She's up five cashes as well. On the season.
Speaker 1: She's got five hundred and seventy eight points. Then it's Jausimau,
Speaker 1: Then Eric Blair, then Patrick Leonard. Patrick Leonard was in second,
Speaker 1: it was it was Kristen box and first. It was
Speaker 1: Patrick Leonard's second entering the twenty twenty five Poker gro Cup.
Speaker 1: So Leonard has slid down a little bit. He has
Speaker 1: had one or two cashes. I forget the seventh last night,
Speaker 1: seventh last night. Yeah, yeah, so you know he's he's
Speaker 1: also up to five cashes there are on the season.
Speaker 1: There are three players with five cashes at least through
Speaker 1: the fourth event of Poker Groke Cup. And those four
Speaker 1: are Joey Wiseman's got five cashes. I'm sorry those three.
Speaker 1: Joey Wiseman's got five cashes, Kristen Boxin's got five cashes,
Speaker 1: and Patrick Leonard has five cashes. So the PGT is
Speaker 1: off and running. I love it. Are there any surprises
Speaker 1: so far, like season wide, like anyone that's kind of
Speaker 1: high up on the lead aboard, maybe somebody who hasn't
Speaker 1: really gotten any points yet, like anything that sticks out
Speaker 1: to you as it relates to the overall leader, because
Speaker 1: now we're including kickoff as well in.
Speaker 2: This, I mean, I think a surprise points wise would
Speaker 2: be Michael Manchek obviously not someone we would count on
Speaker 2: being at these events, but obviously playing for a good
Speaker 2: cop had a good start. He's sitting in six. One
Speaker 2: player that kind of two players that really stand out
Speaker 2: to me not having a lot of points. One Jeremy
Speaker 2: Osmas he had that one cashing event five PGD Kickoff,
Speaker 2: but no, he has not anything. He's not running that good,
Speaker 2: but you know, he had a good season last year.
Speaker 2: Soon he can take some time off. Another guy who
Speaker 2: skipped some events to play our events, hasn't cashed yet.
Speaker 2: Jeremy Becker break the kickoff, he's breaking the cup. He's
Speaker 2: still an event five, but he has not had a
Speaker 2: good start to the season. And he is a little
Speaker 2: upset that he kind of bubbled the championship last year,
Speaker 2: didn't he didn't get to play and he assured us
Speaker 2: he's going to make it this year. So surprised that
Speaker 2: those two really, you know, haven't kind of got the
Speaker 2: results have needed. But you know what season is young,
Speaker 2: a lot of time, but you know, kickoff was a
Speaker 2: good spot. Probably Cup was a good spot to kind
Speaker 2: of start the season, you know, off and running.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would look at Andrew Lichtenberger has gotten off
Speaker 1: to a good start he believe he missed out last year, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he only had live Yeah, he only had five and
Speaker 1: sixty five points. He had ten cashes last season on
Speaker 1: PGT but ultimately fell short. And he's someone who I
Speaker 1: feel like I would almost expect to be in the
Speaker 1: top forty already this season. He's at three twenty six,
Speaker 1: so more than half of what he got last year.
Speaker 2: So there's that.
Speaker 1: I think Stephen Song is off to a good start.
Speaker 1: I think Nick Seward is off to a good start.
Speaker 1: Andrew Marino is off to a good start as well.
Speaker 1: John all right, Yeah, John Reardon is off to a
Speaker 1: pretty good start. You know. John Reardon is somebody I
Speaker 1: talked about it, I think on the prediction spot when
Speaker 1: he's always here. Yeah, and he had fifteen cases last
Speaker 1: year but only was able to muster up five hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty points. He's up to one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: nine points already this season, So maybe things are going
Speaker 1: to break a little bit better for John Reardon. And
Speaker 1: then I guess Manuel Fritz is a good one as well.
Speaker 1: And listen, Pads is kind of a surprise. He's always
Speaker 1: kind of mentioned possibly playing in the studio at times.
Speaker 1: You know, taking to these bigger series on the PGT.
Speaker 1: I know he's if anyone follows him on social media.
Speaker 1: He loves the whole leaderboard aspect of stuff, especially like
Speaker 1: the big online series and chasing like Scoop leaderboards, w
Speaker 1: Coop leader awards.
Speaker 2: Et cetera.
Speaker 1: So that is probably something he very much likes and enjoys,
Speaker 1: is the leaderboard aspect of what we're doing here, not
Speaker 1: only the series leaderboards, but also the the overall season
Speaker 1: long leader board. And it helps with someone like Pads
Speaker 1: where maybe he was going to take a shot during
Speaker 1: kickoff and stuff and then go from there. Maybe you
Speaker 1: don't have any success and then you just kind of
Speaker 1: go back to doing what you were doing. But it's
Speaker 1: like we sucked him in now, you know he I
Speaker 1: think I saw on his Instagram the other day that
Speaker 1: he was going to be skipping Triton to play PGT
Speaker 1: mixed games. You know, so you latch onto those points.
Speaker 1: You have so many already you know you're for him.
Speaker 1: He's got four or five right now if we think
Speaker 1: the number, let's say a thousand.
Speaker 2: So he's forty percent.
Speaker 1: Not the way there. It's still halfway through February and
Speaker 1: you have a million dollar free roll at the end
Speaker 1: of it all. So it definitely benefits you to play
Speaker 1: as much as possible in this stuff. I think Cherish
Speaker 1: Andrews is off to a good start. She had a
Speaker 1: couple of final tables here at the UH at the
Speaker 1: Girl Cup, and then I think I'm surprised that Nick
Speaker 1: Shulman hasn't had as much success, but he hasn't played
Speaker 1: every event. Yeah, I'm not so much worried about him,
Speaker 1: Like he's somebody who also like he's in that camp
Speaker 1: of a Let's say Dan and Legrand new Jeremy Osmas,
Speaker 1: Nick Shulman, I would put in there, Jim Kaliky I
Speaker 1: would put in there, and probably Stephen Chidwick in terms
Speaker 1: of and I would say Eric's head out too. They'll play,
Speaker 1: they'll play all the different series. You know a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys are like just no him and hold
Speaker 1: them or you know some players as well, or like
Speaker 1: we're just pol Yeah, but you know that group of
Speaker 1: players that I'm int and they will be playing everything.
Speaker 1: Patrick Lennard two. Actually, you know now that we haven't hooked,
Speaker 1: I guess, or at least fingers crossed, we haven't hooked.
Speaker 1: He can play it all too so we'll see him,
Speaker 1: you know, out there battling as well. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: got nothing else?
Speaker 2: Something else? What else? When you talk about fact that
Speaker 2: you and me giving away a dream seat, Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: we had to into the PGT million dollars Championship at
Speaker 2: the end of the season.
Speaker 1: There's maybe if I was giving it away, I would
Speaker 1: give it to myself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we're not going to do that because you're
Speaker 2: drink it in that good since you know I'm the best.
Speaker 1: Wait, hold on before we get to this, okay, because
Speaker 1: you're you're trying to dump on me. I have to
Speaker 1: tell everyone about a hand you played.
Speaker 2: Where do you have the right hand history? I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm only going to say the pre flop stuff and
Speaker 1: then we can just go from there. Tim is playing
Speaker 1: the sixty MSPT at Venetian whatever a week or two ago.
Speaker 1: He finished thirty eighth. Somehow, some way after this hand,
Speaker 1: this hand is raised under the gun. Somebody calls. The
Speaker 1: big line was three hundred, so it's relatively early. Guy
Speaker 1: makes it eight hundred. Round of the gun. Somebody calls,
Speaker 1: somebody else calls, somebody else calls. Tim's in the small
Speaker 1: I think no, because there was four and then ended
Speaker 1: up being the two blinds.
Speaker 2: There's six people of total.
Speaker 1: I know you're your hand industry, you don't. Tim's in
Speaker 1: the small line with pocket queens and just calls. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's all. That's all you need to know, that's all
Speaker 1: you need to know.
Speaker 2: Win the hand, yes.
Speaker 1: Somehow, this is why poker is so insane. Not only
Speaker 1: did you win the hands, Okay, you won the maximum
Speaker 1: because I mean I'm assuming you won the maximum because
Speaker 1: if you so, here's let me say how the hand
Speaker 1: plays out. You call from the small bline, which is
Speaker 1: the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The big blind also calls.
Speaker 1: So now there's six people. They go to a flop.
Speaker 2: The flop was five six fall yeah, four five six
Speaker 2: four or.
Speaker 1: Five six checks to one of the Ryan calla which
Speaker 1: is Ryan the plant, he bets whatever it ends up like,
Speaker 1: you end up calling, but also you only lose one player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's five people, go to the turn. The turn pairs
Speaker 1: the board with a five yeah. Checks around the river
Speaker 1: is another five yeah. So now there's three fives on board.
Speaker 1: So with six five four five five you checked. The
Speaker 1: original razor who was under the gun bets he over
Speaker 1: bets fifteen k into twelve six, you just call he
Speaker 1: has pocket threes. So because if you three bet, he
Speaker 1: probably just pitches the threes. I mean, it depends what
Speaker 1: you make it. But yeah, I mean I don't know
Speaker 1: if anyone else calls or whatever, but like somehow you
Speaker 1: won the maximum in this whole set, just an outrageous
Speaker 1: I have, yeah, outrageous.
Speaker 2: Thirty eighth place is so pretty good. That come on
Speaker 2: places good.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you got there after playing that
Speaker 1: hands anyway, continue, Yes, a dream seat.
Speaker 2: There are many ways to win a dream seat this
Speaker 2: year through probably got we the podcast Donnie and Tim
Speaker 2: with giving you guys, the listeners a chance. Uh, you're
Speaker 2: gonna go to PGT dot com slash gleam glean right, Well,
Speaker 2: there's two ways. There's two ways.
Speaker 1: You can go to PGT dot com slash gleam g
Speaker 1: l e a m Okay, that'll bring you to the
Speaker 1: social media dream Seek giveaway. So there's that, okay, and
Speaker 1: then Tim is talking about the podcast one, which is
Speaker 1: PGT dot com slash gleam Pod. Just put pod at
Speaker 1: the end of that and you'll you'll go to the podcast.
Speaker 1: There's two different like avenues, you should enter both of
Speaker 1: them because then you have double the chance.
Speaker 2: But if you're a listener, why we're sending you to
Speaker 2: the Gleam Pod one is that we're gonna give you
Speaker 2: a few more ways to get in and was following us.
Speaker 2: There's also going to be a secret word every time
Speaker 2: we do a podcast, probably once a week, we'll change
Speaker 2: the word out. I'm not gonna tell you last week's word.
Speaker 2: If you don't have it, you've got to go listen
Speaker 2: to the podcast. Donnie did solo this week's word. I
Speaker 2: think it's fitting right. We're gonna we're gonna keep both
Speaker 2: up each time, so you know, if you're behind the podcast,
Speaker 2: you know both. This week's code word is weisman. Okay,
Speaker 2: so you go into that, you're going.
Speaker 1: To get need to tell them how to spell it.
Speaker 2: No, they if they should be able to figure out
Speaker 2: because they're loyal and we're not going to tell them.
Speaker 1: Because there's a Dylan Weisman or is it Joey White?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good, Pat, it's Joey.
Speaker 1: It's joe Joey. But I said that for a end.
Speaker 2: I forgot I haven't seen them all week. So the
Speaker 2: point is basically we're trying to reward. We're trying to
Speaker 2: reward the loyal listeners. We're giving the most kind of
Speaker 2: raffle tickets for the code word because that means you listen,
Speaker 2: you put it in. You can't guess we're going to
Speaker 2: change the world all the time. It's not going to
Speaker 2: make any sense. Next week it could be MSPT, you
Speaker 2: never know. But this week weisman W E I S
Speaker 2: S M A N. It's going to get you ten
Speaker 2: extra tickets. Last week's go listen if you haven't already
Speaker 2: entered it. And we're going to add more tasks. You know,
Speaker 2: during the World Series, we're going to add some more
Speaker 2: kind of things for you to increase your chances to
Speaker 2: be selected. So yeah, go do that. Enter the code word,
Speaker 2: and one of you loyal listeners is going to be
Speaker 2: playing in the pg T Million Dollar Championship as season's end.
Speaker 1: Let's go all right, No need to keep you guys
Speaker 1: any longer. Tim and are gonna get out of here.
Speaker 1: We'll do the show on Monday as the plan. If
Speaker 1: they release I mean they said they're releasing it. They
Speaker 1: literally tweeted we're released.
Speaker 2: They might release it.
Speaker 1: Do you even see the photo It was a great
Speaker 1: photo of Acequeen of Hearts, with chips from Horseshoe Tuna.
Speaker 1: God forbid, why you would ever do that? I have
Speaker 1: no idea. But anyway, the schedule's coming out Monday, so
Speaker 1: we'll hit on that, and then of course we got
Speaker 1: to recap the Poker Girl Cup whenever that that ends
Speaker 1: on Thursday.
Speaker 2: I think great ends on my birthday. Wow. Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna do it for us. His name
Speaker 1: is Tim Duckworth, my name is Donnie Peters, and we
Speaker 1: will talk to you guys next time.