WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:12.960 Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the 2 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:17.559 Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. It is Sunday, 3 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:24.640 July nineteenth, ten, twenty nine pm on the Clock. Has 4 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:27.000 some things to put a bow on here for the 5 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:31.519 twenty twenty six World Series of Poker. First up, we're 6 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:34.399 going to talk about the final event that did wrap up. 7 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:38.679 That means that all events other than the WSLP main 8 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:43.479 event are complete, ninety nine gold bracelets in the books, 9 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:46.439 and we still of course have the biggest one of 10 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:50.000 them all to be decided coming up in early August. 11 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:52.960 I want to touch on who is leading the WSP 12 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:56.079 Player of the Year race Right now with everything wrapped 13 00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:58.640 up and no real implications that are going to come 14 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:02.000 out of the WSP event final table, we're able to 15 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:04.719 look at the leaderboard see where players stand. And then 16 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:07.400 the next big thing, of course, the big finale to 17 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:11.200 the ws appoy race will be DIVISIB Paradise down in 18 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:15.480 the Bahamas in December. Also got to touch on twenty 19 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:18.920 five K Fantasy. Let you guys know who won if 20 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:21.480 you haven't seen it already, we'll be talking about that. 21 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:24.040 I'll kind of quickly run through some of the teams 22 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:27.000 and my thoughts on the big fantasy leagues, and then 23 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:29.959 we'll get up on out of here. Yeah, it's gonna 24 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:32.200 be a fun little show. Probably not too long, but 25 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:33.879 you know, you know how that is every time I 26 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.079 say that, I end up going for much longer than 27 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:39.439 I anticipated. You guys are going to be listening to 28 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:43.560 this on Monday, July twentieth, and that is the day 29 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:48.879 when poker Go just dropped twelve new episodes of No Gamble, 30 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:53.719 No Future. That's right, Season eight is now out. It 31 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:57.200 is available exclusively on poker Go, So if you guys 32 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:59.480 want to go check it out, then I would highly 33 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:02.000 encourage you to do so. You guys can use the 34 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:05.879 promo code n G NF eight that'll get you thirty 35 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:09.120 dollars off your first year of a new annual plan. 36 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:11.120 That's good for upgrades if you're a month of your 37 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:13.520 quarterly member and you want to upgrade to annual. It's 38 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:16.360 also good for any new subscribers out there to get 39 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:19.960 that thirty dollars off your first year of a new 40 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:23.199 annual plan. Phil Helmyth is in the mix during this season. 41 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:26.680 Sean deeb Abby Murk, David ODB Baker they all make 42 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:30.039 their No Gamble No Future debuts. You got Sam Kekey 43 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.960 in the mix, Eric Wasserson, you know a lot of 44 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:36.759 big games. Jennifer Tilly's in there, Jimmy Dimbrosio, Jimmy d 45 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:41.439 the Menace himself, He's in the mix of plenty during 46 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.919 this season steaks I believe as low as twenty five 47 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:46.800 to fifty, but then all the way up to two 48 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:49.840 hundred four hundred. So check that out. That's the new 49 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:53.599 season of No Gamble, No Future dropping on Monday on 50 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:56.080 Poker Go. All all episodes are gonna drop it once, 51 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:57.840 all twelve episodes. So if you want to just get 52 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:01.800 in there and benjam go right ahead. First up, we 53 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:04.840 got to talk on this one K Super Turbo, the 54 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:08.879 final event, Event number one hundred at the twenty twenty 55 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:12.240 six World Series of Poker, Shi Wong tops a field 56 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:15.639 of sixteen hundred and ninety nine entries to claim his 57 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:21.360 first bracelet and two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars. Wong 58 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:25.000 was very, very happy to get this one. He said, 59 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:27.479 I've been waiting for this for a long time. I'm 60 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:30.879 so happy, and I'm happy I had my friends here 61 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:34.080 to support me. That quote was given to Poker News 62 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:39.159 in their recap. Wong defeated Ryuta Nikai in heads up play, 63 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:42.240 Nikai taking home one hundred and forty four thousand dollars 64 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:46.639 for him. Nikai is a twenty five K Fantasy player. 65 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:49.919 But this result, I believe, if my memory serves me correctly, 66 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:53.719 did not impact the final standings in terms of who cashed. 67 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:57.240 Sarah probably had some some you know, shaken out to 68 00:03:57.280 --> 00:03:59.080 do as it relates to the side bets that are 69 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:01.520 made during the whole thing, but you know, it did 70 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:05.360 not impact the people who cashed in twenty five K Fantasy. 71 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:08.680 Dmit you your Banovich. He won his bracelet, his first 72 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:13.080 bracelet earlier this summer. Here he is getting third place 73 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:16.800 here for one hundred and four thousand dollars. So another 74 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:20.600 nice little score for Erbanovich. You know, he's We've talked 75 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:23.240 about it before, but I'll just mention it again. He 76 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:25.000 had that one year when he was like, I'm gonna 77 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:27.279 win three bracelets bet against me, and uh yeah, he 78 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:30.519 did not win three bracelets, but he has had a 79 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:34.639 successful summer in twenty twenty six. I also see at 80 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:39.319 this final table Nick Unis, John woo Lee as well units, 81 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:43.000 got seventh for thirty one K, lee eighth for twenty 82 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:47.120 four K as it pertains too Long the winner of 83 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:51.079 this one K super Turbo event. He finished thirteenth in 84 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:55.600 the WSIP Monster Stack earlier this summer for ninety three 85 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:59.560 thousand dollars, and then previously he had a big run 86 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:01.839 back in in twenty twenty one in an eight hundred 87 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:04.720 dollars deep stack event at the series. He took sixth 88 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:07.879 in that one, turning the eight hundred dollars into forty 89 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:12.600 thousand dollars. So congratulations too Long winning the final bracelet 90 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:16.079 of the Heart of the Summer, I guess because we 91 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:17.680 still got the main event to come in in a 92 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:21.160 couple of weeks. But that wraps up all the bracelet events, 93 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:22.839 all the stuff that we didn't hit on. I know 94 00:05:22.879 --> 00:05:26.000 in the last episode, this event was still running while 95 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:29.240 I was recording. Now, let's shift things over to the 96 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:33.720 WSP Player of the Year race, where it is Sean 97 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:37.800 Deep up on top. At least that is perwsop dot com, 98 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:41.040 the official website of the World Series of Poker, and 99 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:43.319 that's where I navigate to the Player of the Year 100 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:46.839 section and I find that Sean Deep has three thousand, 101 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:51.079 four hundred and ten points. I actually thought, or at 102 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:54.279 least that was under the impression that Nihoa Kihara, with 103 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:57.519 his finish in the twenty five k horse, had done 104 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:00.839 enough to move into first place for the Player of 105 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:03.279 the ear race, but that doesn't look to be the case. 106 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:09.000 He is twenty two points short of Sean deeb Naoa 107 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:12.879 Kihara does sit in second with three thy three hundred 108 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:15.079 and eighty eight points, so thirty four to ten for 109 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:18.519 deep in first. Kihar has got thirty three eighty eight. 110 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:21.759 Alex Foxen isn't too far behind. He's just seven points 111 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:26.399 behind Kihara. He's got thirty three eighty one. Then there's 112 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:29.199 a little bit of a bigger drop off justin Loberto. 113 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:31.319 It's I mean, it's not the biggest drop off, but 114 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:34.920 justin Liberto twenty eight twenty eight in fourth place, you've 115 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:37.399 got josh Aria in fifth. Daniel Legrand who is in 116 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:39.560 the mix. He of course won the one hundred k 117 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:44.279 PLO high Roller among several other deep runs at the 118 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:46.839 twenty twenty six Doubsip, but he's in sixth place. Jesse 119 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:50.680 Lonus is in seventh, Elis Parson in in eighth Texas, 120 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:53.920 Mike Michael Manchek is in ninth, and then Josh Reichard 121 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.399 is in tenth. There's there's plenty of other players, you know, 122 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:02.959 within the top fifteen, the top twenty, the top twenty five. 123 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:05.439 You know, you've got Benny Glauser is in eleventh, Nick 124 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:09.839 Shulman's in twelfth, Calvin Anderson's thirteenth, you know, just kind 125 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:14.360 of scrolling a little bit further down, Chris Brewer nineteenth, 126 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:17.920 just ahead of him, Michael mcsrocky in eighteenth. You got 127 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.000 Archur march Rosian's doing well, Sean Winters in twenty fifth. 128 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:26.079 So a lot of big, big names that are highly 129 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:29.800 likely to head down to the Bahamas for w SIP 130 00:07:29.839 --> 00:07:33.720 Paradise and blast away. If I was handicapping this thing 131 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:39.279 right now, I'm gonna say that and listen, it's a 132 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:41.720 little bit unknown because we don't know what the WSIP 133 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:48.720 Paradise schedule is. But because Alex Foxen is so close 134 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:53.040 to Sean deeb, he's only twenty nine points behind, I'm 135 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:56.839 gonna make Alex Foxen the favorite because I think when 136 00:07:56.879 --> 00:08:00.319 it comes to a lot of the really really high 137 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:03.279 buy and stuff that tends to make up the bulk 138 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:08.639 of the A Paradise schedule. I'm gonna put fox in 139 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:12.319 slightly ahead of DEEB in that regard. Now, if they 140 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:14.959 do have one of those eight game events or ten 141 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:16.959 game events or whatever that they had, I think Eric 142 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:20.199 Wasserson won that last year, maybe the year before, I 143 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:22.959 can't remember exactly, But if they have one of those again, 144 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:26.199 then then maybe that kind of evens things out for DEEB. 145 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:29.120 And I do feel like I'm kind of just throwing 146 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:32.200 Niaoikihara to the side here and listen, maybe I am, 147 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:35.320 But again, we don't know what they're gonna do with 148 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:38.559 the WSIP Paradise schedule. If they keep it in line 149 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:41.879 with what they've done in the past, which is a 150 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:44.159 lot of really big buy and stuff, if they partner 151 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:48.320 with Triton again, you know, all that sort of high 152 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:51.200 stakes poker that's going to be played, I have to 153 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:54.279 imagine Alex Foxon is the one that's going to excel 154 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:57.240 in that sort of format. You know, he's the one 155 00:08:57.240 --> 00:09:00.639 who again if if Triton is involved, and even if 156 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:03.360 Tridon isn't is a involved, but they still have those 157 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:06.080 type of events. You know, fifty K's hundred k's a 158 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:08.279 two hundred and fifty k, whatever the heck. It is 159 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:12.879 the types of players that frequent those fields. Those are 160 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:16.080 the players that Alex Foxen regularly battles with and regularly 161 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:18.519 has a ton of success against. Like Alex Foxen is 162 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:21.799 one of the best to ever do it right, Deeb 163 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:24.399 maybe he doesn't play as big for example, if they 164 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:25.919 have a two hundred and fifty k like, maybe he 165 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:28.960 skips that event. Maybe Deeb is a little bit more 166 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:31.240 I mean, for lack of a better term, fish out 167 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:33.200 of water when it comes to playing with those types 168 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:35.480 of players. I mean, yes, Deeb is an incredible player, 169 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:38.759 and he can certainly hold his own, but is he 170 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:42.159 a little bit more less familiar with some of his 171 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:45.200 opponents across the table where Alex Foxen is very familiar 172 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:47.200 with them? You know, I'm gonna say Alex Foxen is 173 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:49.600 probably the more familiar one in that sort of community 174 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:52.519 that's playing these events. And then with Kihara, I mean, 175 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:53.960 I don't know if he's really going to be able 176 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:57.840 to go hard at Paradise. You know, he's he's more 177 00:09:57.879 --> 00:10:01.519 of a mixed game special who I would say it's 178 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:05.159 probably mixed games for him, then Plo slightly ahead of 179 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:07.879 Nola at hold him. Maybe I have that second part wrong, 180 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:11.000 but mixed games for sure, he's like his fancy. So 181 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:14.240 are they gonna have a lot of stuff like that 182 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:17.240 that Kihara can play, or at least that that favors 183 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:21.000 him down at Paradise judging by the past schedules that 184 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:23.440 we've seen at Paradise. I'm gonna say no. I mean, 185 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:26.320 of course that could change, but so I'm gonna say 186 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:28.759 that I just don't know about him. And then listen, 187 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:31.879 I don't think you can throw out somebody like Daniel 188 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:35.279 mcgrono in sixth place, Jesse Lonis in seventh place, because 189 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:38.360 if if those top guys, the Deeps, the Kiharas, the Fox, 190 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:42.320 and if they just have duds when it comes to 191 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:45.480 WSP Paradise, we know and Grand is going to be 192 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.080 there firing every single thing. He's already said he's going 193 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:50.200 to be there firing everything. We know. Jesse Lonis is 194 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:54.279 also going to be there firing everything. So those guys, 195 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:56.200 I think you got to put in the conversation, same 196 00:10:56.279 --> 00:11:00.000 with you know, eighth place, Elis Parson in ninth place, Michael, 197 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:03.200 you know right, like, they're going to be blasting, blasting, blasting, 198 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:05.759 So it's going to be very interesting. It's gonna be 199 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:08.240 a very exciting race right till the end, and it's 200 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:11.320 gonna all come down to what happens at Paradise. I 201 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:14.559 think I briefly mentioned it last week. There was some 202 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:18.240 social media chatter about, you know, how the WSP Player 203 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:20.879 of the EURA should end. I think it should end 204 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:25.679 with the series in the summer, the WSOP the flagship 205 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:28.480 series under this brand. I think that's just a really 206 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:30.960 fitting way to end it. I think you kick it 207 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:34.639 off with Paradise, that would be great. Then you do Europe, 208 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:38.960 then you do the WSP stuff also, like then you 209 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:43.960 can award these packages for WSP Paradise for that then December, 210 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:45.840 and then you know, hopefully all those people that are 211 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:48.600 in this race they go there and they kind of 212 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:51.840 kickstart their next go at. The WSP Player of the 213 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:54.639 Era's right, So I think that that would be a 214 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:57.159 better way to do it. Also, I feel like making 215 00:11:57.240 --> 00:11:59.639 a I think the WASP did a really good thing. 216 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:01.799 When are putting all this money behind it this year 217 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:04.399 for the first time, they're really awarding a ton of prizes, 218 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:08.039 The formula seems like it's the best it's ever been. 219 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:10.279 I think there's been a lot of chatter, you know, 220 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:13.960 with is the formula perfect? I mean no, but is 221 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:16.639 any formula going to be perfect? Probably not, But this 222 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:19.840 is the best THEWSP Player of the Race has ever been, 223 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:23.039 both from the outside looking in and then from also 224 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:24.480 from what you can gather from a lot of the 225 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:26.679 players in the race. You know, they love the prizes, 226 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:29.919 they like the scoring, like you know, all that sort 227 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:33.600 of stuff. But would you want to end that like 228 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:37.559 and like for example, like maybe you know the person 229 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:41.000 who it is because the WACIP Actually it's a win 230 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:42.919 win now that I think about it. So if you 231 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:45.000 do for next year, if you did the delay of 232 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:46.879 the final table again where it's off for a couple 233 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:48.559 of weeks, they're going to be coming back in August 234 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:52.600 and playing it. You're gonna either be able to a 235 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:56.720 award and celebrate the WACIP Player of the Year during 236 00:12:56.759 --> 00:12:58.720 the final table. You can make a whole thing of it. 237 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:02.080 You can tell you know, the crew at Omaha Productions 238 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:04.399 at at ESPN to hey, we want to make this 239 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:06.000 a thing. We want to work it into the show. 240 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:09.240 We want to award this player with that prize on 241 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:11.639 the biggest stage, you know, so they're going to break 242 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:13.360 of the Final table or whatever it is. Maybe you 243 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:16.519 do it like entering day two of the Final table 244 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:19.480 play and you award that honor, right, you give a 245 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:22.639 trophy the whole thing. I think that would be really 246 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:26.360 cool also now, because there are a lot of points 247 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:29.440 that are up for grabs in the WSIP main event itself. 248 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:32.120 I think this year it's nineteen hundred and ninety maybe 249 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:35.080 slightly more than that are up for grabs for first 250 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:38.480 place in the DOUBSIP main event. Now, I don't think 251 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:41.159 that that factors into any of the nine players who 252 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:44.639 have made it this year, but in the chance that 253 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:48.759 it does in future years, that's a great additional storyline 254 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:50.679 that you can really harp on, like, oh my gosh, 255 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:53.480 this guy needs second place or better to be able 256 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:55.679 to overtake Player of the Year. It's coming down to 257 00:13:55.720 --> 00:14:00.279 the death. That sort of sweat would be super cool, right, 258 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:02.279 And maybe you I mean, if you really want to 259 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:05.879 get crazy, maybe you get the person who's like currently 260 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:08.240 up on top to either come out to the Final 261 00:14:08.279 --> 00:14:11.480 table and watch or do it like NFL draft or 262 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:13.639 something and send a crew to their house and have 263 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:16.679 that person like bring in the sweatcamp like that would 264 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:18.960 be dope, right, So I would really like for that 265 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:21.320 to happen and you get to celebrate the WASP Player 266 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:23.000 of the Year, which I think that they've made a 267 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:27.039 lot of headway in celebrating this award, more so than 268 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:28.960 it has been in any other year in the past. 269 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:34.519 But let's then really do it by bringing it to Vegas, 270 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:36.759 and that's where it ends, right. It kicks off in 271 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:39.399 Paradise and then it ends in Vegas and that that's, 272 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:42.080 in my opinion, the way to go about it, the 273 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:44.679 best way to do it. So we'll see if that 274 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:47.039 change comes. I know there has been some chatter online 275 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:50.559 and then you know we have seen the WSP obviously 276 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:53.879 they've understand this stuff that they hear it, they see it, 277 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:56.679 then you know they'll they'll take internally, they'll discuss it 278 00:14:56.720 --> 00:14:59.159 and they'll go from there and we'll see. But as 279 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:02.240 things stand right now now, Sean deeb is up on top. 280 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:04.759 He's trying to make it too in a row for 281 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:07.120 the WSP Player of the Year title three all time 282 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:10.240 if he can do it. But a very hotly contested 283 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:13.679 race here deeb up on top, Kihara and second foxin 284 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:17.759 in third. Twenty nine points separate those three players at 285 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:20.639 the top of the leaderboard and plenty big guns and 286 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:36.679 big names still in the mix. A race that has 287 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:41.399 been settled is the twenty five K Fantasy League for 288 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:44.559 the twenty twenty six WSOP season, and it is the 289 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:51.120 one the only Daniel Legranu winning his own fantasy league. 290 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:56.440 He had thirteen hundred and thirty seven points clear by 291 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:00.639 about one seventy or so ahead of David Baker's team. 292 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:05.440 Shout out ODB Let's go Buddy. Baker's team was Team Banana, 293 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:10.799 finishing in second. Nigron New's team first of all, so 294 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:13.960 i'll tell you his team josh Aria Dan and mcgrannu, 295 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:17.919 Nick Papillo, Bryn Kenny dong Chen, Jason Kuhn, Ellie Lezra, 296 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:23.080 and Ben Lamb. Out of those eight players, it's wild 297 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:27.639 that Nigraney won this thing with one player scoring zero, 298 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:30.679 and that was Ben Lamb. Now I don't know, I mean, 299 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:34.080 I'm guessing he just had some misinformation because I was 300 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:36.799 in the draft room and I'm pretty sure everyone was 301 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:40.519 aware that Ben Lamb was having a kid, like one 302 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:42.480 or two weeks or whatever it was into the series, 303 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:45.200 and like wasn't gonna be playing, or at least was 304 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.440 maybe gonna be playing like a couple events. But somehow, 305 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:51.720 some way, Ben Lamb's price was fourteen dollars. So Daniel 306 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:53.559 was not the only one that thought Ben would be 307 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:58.120 playing knowing that, and then obviously it's easy to say 308 00:16:58.200 --> 00:17:02.240 hindsight is twenty twenty here. But what Ben Lamb ultimately played, 309 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:04.559 which I'm not sure he played at all. I can't 310 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:07.519 really recall seeing him. Him going for fourteen dollars is 311 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:10.000 just a major screw up. But it doesn't matter because 312 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:12.839 Daniel one anyway, Josh Arie on his team three hundred 313 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:15.319 and fifty six points. Daniel mcgraneo was on his own 314 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:18.000 team two hundred and ninety four points. Those were the 315 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:22.039 two horses. Nick Pipio did his thing as well, adding 316 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:24.720 in two hundred and ten points. Brin Kenny scored one 317 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:28.599 ninety three, Dong Chen one fifty, Jason Kuhn seventy three, 318 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:32.240 and Ellie Lezra sixty one. This is a team stars 319 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:35.480 and scrubs, baby. This is a type of build that 320 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:38.519 I would always do when when I was doing twenty 321 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:41.480 five K Fantasy. We did not play this year, but 322 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:44.240 maybe maybe we'll be back next year. We'll see how 323 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:46.880 things go. But try and get one of the top guys, 324 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:52.039 which is usually a deep a Daniel Legran who you know, 325 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:54.160 maybe you throw someone like a Jeremy Osmonds. I know, 326 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:57.519 we paid a record price for him one year, so 327 00:17:57.720 --> 00:17:59.960 you know, somebody like the super super high of all 328 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:02.279 guys who's gonna go for a lot. I think this 329 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:04.640 year Texas Mike was was way up there as well. 330 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:07.240 So try and get one of those guys. Then try 331 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:11.960 and like basically max out on at least the way 332 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:13.720 that we approached it. Let me I can just speak 333 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:15.440 to that. We were like we can. We're gonna go 334 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:18.039 max on one guy whoever we target for that year, 335 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:20.200 and we're gonna be willing to go up to one 336 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:23.680 ninety three and then leave one dollar for seven different 337 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:27.759 players to fill out the roster. It's likely that we're 338 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:29.759 not gonna have to go max, right, We're not gonna 339 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:31.799 have to go one ninety three. So what we'll do 340 00:18:31.960 --> 00:18:34.559 is then we'll try and get a second kind of 341 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:38.279 max player, you know, and in this case for Nigroanu's team. 342 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:42.480 His second Max's player was josh Aria, who he got 343 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:45.160 for fifty five dollars, so he had himself for one sixteen, 344 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:47.759 He had Aria for fifty five dollars. You have two 345 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:49.839 Hudred dollars to spend total, and then he filled out 346 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:52.279 the roster with two seven, four, one one, and then 347 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:54.440 the ben Lamb at the fourteen, which also he might 348 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:56.240 have just said fourteen. I can't. I don't know what 349 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:58.319 it would have happened. There might have been just his 350 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:02.039 last bid held fourteen, which sometimes people do, so that 351 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:03.720 that could have had there. So I take it back 352 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:06.000 on some of that stuff if that was a mistake, 353 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:07.680 but if that was a bidding war, which we could 354 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:10.359 check the tape, I'm sure because we did stream this, 355 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:13.000 you know. But either way, yeah, this is the type 356 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:15.119 of build that I would I would go about. And 357 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:18.160 you know, Daniel did the damn thing. I'm sure you 358 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:20.319 know he won two hundred and fifty K for winning 359 00:19:20.319 --> 00:19:22.640 this thing. I'm sure he had plenty of side action. 360 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:25.759 Daniel always has plenty of side action on here, so 361 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:30.079 he probably absolutely just cleaned up, I mean, just tons 362 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:32.920 of stuff. So his his stats are out there on 363 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:36.680 how he did for the summer, which was incredible for him, 364 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:39.599 had a huge profit, of course, bolstered by winning that 365 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:42.279 hundred K PLO high Roller, and then on top of it, 366 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:46.200 here he goes and wins the twenty five K Fantasy League. 367 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:47.640 I mean, heck, with the way that his w s 368 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:50.279 AP season is going, he's probably gonna win Player of 369 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:52.640 the Year. Currently in sixth place, and we'll see where 370 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:55.559 he goes from there and how it ends up in Paradise. 371 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:59.240 David Baker. Yeah, he finished in second place, collects one 372 00:19:59.319 --> 00:20:01.839 hundred and twenty five k. He had the first player 373 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:07.160 ever to score five hundred points in twenty five K Fantasy, 374 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:09.960 and he got that player for a dollar, a whole 375 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:14.599 freaking buck. Niowa Kihara scored five ten. I mean, what 376 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:18.759 a showing for Kihara. We talked about it when when 377 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:20.559 he won one of his bracelets KR because he won 378 00:20:20.599 --> 00:20:24.559 two bracelets this summer, about how he was basically giving 379 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:27.640 it his last go off for one year, and then 380 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:30.240 he was just gonna say, all right, this didn't work 381 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:33.039 out for me. Whatever, I'll just I'll still play poker, 382 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:35.000 but I'm only just gonna focus on cash games. I'm 383 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:37.359 not gonna focus on the tournament grind, and here he 384 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:40.720 is just absolutely having an incredible year on the Felt 385 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:44.119 two bracelets, a bunch of other success for Kihara, and 386 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:47.200 as it relates to Fantasy, first player ever to score 387 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:51.119 more than five hundred points. Team's Spite Work that was 388 00:20:51.240 --> 00:20:54.519 Matthew Wantman's team. They got third for one hundred K, 389 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:59.720 third place by only three points behind David Baker's team. 390 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:02.759 They wouldn't have cashed. I believe if my math is correct, 391 00:21:02.920 --> 00:21:07.000 if David Peters hadn't won the ten K six max 392 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:09.960 that was at the very very end of the series. 393 00:21:10.039 --> 00:21:12.480 I think it was one hundred and thirty points for 394 00:21:12.680 --> 00:21:16.119 Peters to win that tournament and that allowed them to 395 00:21:16.119 --> 00:21:19.440 get up into the money. Here. Team Glue Factory that 396 00:21:19.559 --> 00:21:21.960 was Dan Cipio's team, seventy five K for him For 397 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:26.000 fourth place, Team Lang Gang, Mike Lang and Josh Reicherd 398 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:30.559 they scored one thousand even, and I believe with them 399 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:36.160 they needed Ari Angele at the end to perform a 400 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:38.440 certain result in the twenty five K horse that he 401 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:40.920