Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to a new episode of
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Speaker 1: at least I hope. So I feel freaking good and
Speaker 1: absolutely positively historic night here at the World Series of
Speaker 1: Poker Historic forty eight hours, to be quite honest, shina
Speaker 1: Okamoto more like shina Oka Godo. Okay, that's right, buddy,
Speaker 1: that's right. That's why they's, Oh my god, it's so mad.
Speaker 1: The thing is that you can't Here's the thing, and
Speaker 1: I've talked with producer with trying with some people like
Speaker 1: this before, is that like you can't be in the middle, right.
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Speaker 1: be like so bad that it's bad but it's good,
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Speaker 1: like the example of this, and I freaking love the guy,
Speaker 1: but Worldwide Wide brought Pereze, like when he fires up
Speaker 1: his like late night with Wobbs after NBA games and
Speaker 1: it's just like him on his iPhone on Twitter or whatever,
Speaker 1: just like talking into a camera like there's no special lighting.
Speaker 1: He's not in a studio, like he's in his living
Speaker 1: room like whatever. You know, it's just like it's just
Speaker 1: off the cough, it's raw, it's whatever. So, yeah, that
Speaker 1: joke was so bad that it's good. That was my
Speaker 1: dad joke. I got two kids, I'm allowed to say
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, Shina Okamoto is the freaking goat. Okay,
Speaker 1: Shina Okugoto. That's how we do it. Narcus Nadelku. Hope
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Speaker 1: We got Shena Okamoto aka Sena Oka. God Baby.
Speaker 2: How many times are we gonna say this?
Speaker 1: You've probably probably fourteen time.
Speaker 2: Let me come on.
Speaker 1: Okamoto does it again. She successfully defends her title in
Speaker 1: the Ladies Championship here at the World Series of Poker. Now,
Speaker 1: not only does she defend her title first place last
Speaker 1: year in twenty twenty four, first place this year twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. In twenty twenty three, she got second. We've
Speaker 1: talked about it a lot already, so I know I'm
Speaker 1: repeating myself by saying she went second, first, first in
Speaker 1: three consecutive years, but I cannot state enough how freaking
Speaker 1: awesome that is. She won one hundred and eighty four
Speaker 1: thousand dollars this year. If you run the numbers on
Speaker 1: the probability of finishing in the top two spots in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three out of a field of twelve hundred,
Speaker 1: finishing first in a field of twelve hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, and finishing first in a field of thirteen
Speaker 1: hundred in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: The answer, what is it? Fifty to fifty. Either happens
Speaker 2: or it doesn't. Okay, right, I'm sure, Am I right?
Speaker 1: Everybody?
Speaker 2: But am I wrong? Any that happens? Yeah, that doesn't happen. Yeah, fifteen.
Speaker 1: Any time you want to play heads of her roles,
Speaker 1: let's let's go one in nine hundred and thirty million.
Speaker 2: That's a big number, big big.
Speaker 1: Now, that's the sort of scale we're dealing with here.
Speaker 2: That this happened.
Speaker 1: It should absolutely be celebrated, absolutely be championed far and wide.
Speaker 1: Part of this what makes this such a cool story now,
Speaker 1: the accomplishment is simply incredible, absolutely extraordinary, Right, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like just gasoline on the fire that she's Japanese.
Speaker 1: Japan is a burgeoning market, like it's ready to explode
Speaker 1: should things break a certain way, and poker has becoming
Speaker 1: been becoming, you know, a little bit more culturally relevant
Speaker 1: over there in Japan. So that's great. You know Masada Yokosawa,
Speaker 1: the superstar Japanese logger. Every time that guy plus a
Speaker 1: log about poker, he gets a million views. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's wild how big it is or how big
Speaker 1: he is. Right just looking at Shina Okamoto's Twitter, for example,
Speaker 1: anytime she was posting about the event. Now, it's not
Speaker 1: like she has no followers. She does have I think
Speaker 1: thirty five thousand followers. It's probably a few more after
Speaker 1: what happened tonight, but you know, it's thousands of likes,
Speaker 1: hundreds of retweets. You know, however, many comments like it's
Speaker 1: there's a lot of buzz around her, So there is
Speaker 1: something happening here. And I mean just speaking to the
Speaker 1: just speaking to the accomplishment itself. Okay. We always talk
Speaker 1: about consistency, you know, we talk about it a lot
Speaker 1: when it comes to poker, because that is oftentimes like
Speaker 1: a measure that we can grade things on, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: anyone can kind of get hot here and there, but
Speaker 1: to do it repeatedly, I mean, that's like this holy
Speaker 1: grail that people just hope to latch onto and find.
Speaker 1: And what Shina Okamoto did is you know, it's honestly
Speaker 1: the way that she performed in this event is beyond consistency.
Speaker 1: She dominated. Yeah, I know she didn't win that first time,
Speaker 1: she finished second, right, but the second time around dominated
Speaker 1: this final table tonight dominated. You know, it's absolutely just crazy,
Speaker 1: Like she's not on a heater. She is writing her
Speaker 1: legacy in real time. And like I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna remember this as the Sena Okamota era, Like this
Speaker 1: is her era.
Speaker 2: So twenty twenty three she was the chipleader unfinished second
Speaker 2: like that's yeah three found was she the chipular last year?
Speaker 2: I think she went to the found right now? That
Speaker 2: is usself is just I mean inside, she's the most
Speaker 2: accomplished player in the history of this event handed down,
Speaker 2: Like that's not even debatable. And this is one of
Speaker 2: the greatest feats in all of poker, all the WSP,
Speaker 2: in all of history. She was not the chip Ladaka
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four when she won, but she was
Speaker 2: literally nine big blinds out of one hundred and twenty something.
Speaker 1: I highly doubt anyone's ever going to do this again.
Speaker 1: I mean now I'll say that until Okamoto aka Oka
Speaker 1: Goodo runs it back in twenty twenty six, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: because that's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that Grime is probably gonna win five.
Speaker 1: You're gonna win his fifth, his fifth PPC, and Okamoto
Speaker 1: is gonna win the Ladies Championship once again. Back to
Speaker 1: back events, or back to back wins in an event
Speaker 1: is extremely Where we talked about, you know, a couple
Speaker 1: episodes ago. Obviously, you know, we talked a lot about
Speaker 1: not not this year, but in past years, Adam Friedman
Speaker 1: and the Dealer's Choice, the ten k Dealers Choice winning
Speaker 1: it three years in a row.
Speaker 2: There's not that many to win just to go back
Speaker 2: to back in general in the world.
Speaker 1: I know, it's absolutely crazy. And then you do it
Speaker 1: in a large field tournament, no limit hold them like,
Speaker 1: there's just there's a lot of variants involved in right,
Speaker 1: and you have to be able to like you just
Speaker 1: get through the minefield, like you just can't lose. Like
Speaker 1: it's just the whole thing is just absurd to me,
Speaker 1: It really is.
Speaker 2: I know, I'm the stats man and I'm going to
Speaker 2: go out on a limb and say this is probably
Speaker 2: the biggest ever back to back in WSP history. You know,
Speaker 2: got those smaller main events in the early years. We've
Speaker 2: got Adam Friedman you mentioned, we've got Dan Keats in
Speaker 2: the PPC. We've got Aaron Cummings from a few days
Speaker 2: ago in the deuce. But those fields are we're talking
Speaker 2: you know, a couple hundred, you know, fifty in the PPC.
Speaker 2: This is thousands, just completely completely different scale of things,
Speaker 2: so even more impressive. And you know, didn't we talk
Speaker 2: the other day about like the greatest accomplishments w this
Speaker 2: we have to put this somewhere on that on that
Speaker 2: tree for accomplishments just I don't know where it is,
Speaker 2: but it's up there somewhere, just due to the field size.
Speaker 2: And you know, even throwing in you know, we talk
Speaker 2: about Johnny Chang going win, win, second, second to helmet,
Speaker 2: this is like the opposite second win, win, you know,
Speaker 2: but in massive fields. So yeah, it's right up there.
Speaker 1: Has to be I think also something needs to be said,
Speaker 1: like you get so close in poker, and we've seen
Speaker 1: it at times. You know, she got second in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, could have been some heartbreak, could have been
Speaker 1: like you know what I'm so close could have messed
Speaker 1: with her mentally, but you know, instead, look at what
Speaker 1: this is turned into. And then she comes well, she
Speaker 1: runs it back, right, she wins it. Then she shows
Speaker 1: up this year and like that, I mean for sure
Speaker 1: when when she was coming into the event this year,
Speaker 1: even I thought it and probably said it that this
Speaker 1: is like her event. You know, let's see how she does.
Speaker 1: Especially she she gets a chip lead early on, right,
Speaker 1: and we're like, oh my gosh, she's doing it again.
Speaker 1: Here we go. And once that starts happening and people
Speaker 1: start talking about it, I mean you can start hearing
Speaker 1: the whispers, you can start seeing the messages or whatnot,
Speaker 1: or like is she gonna do it? Is she going
Speaker 1: to do what type of thing? And that means the
Speaker 1: pressure builds mm hmm. And then she goes into the
Speaker 1: found table with the chipley. She freaking dominated this found table.
Speaker 1: I mean, just amazing stuff from start to finish. So
Speaker 1: like having that mental fortitude to get through this all
Speaker 1: is also you know, part of this being able to
Speaker 1: execute on poker's biggest stage. And she did that, and
Speaker 1: she did it, you know, three consecutive years back to
Speaker 1: back years as a winner and then I mentioned that
Speaker 1: the Japan thing and how that ties in. You know,
Speaker 1: she's she's from Japan. It is untapped there. You know,
Speaker 1: I know that poker is starting to gain some legs.
Speaker 1: You know, there's some events that are like part of
Speaker 1: more poker clubs than they are like actual like casinos
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. It's because the restrictions on real
Speaker 1: money gaming there are still holding things back. But you know,
Speaker 1: there's been talks about if and when a casino opens there.
Speaker 1: You know, I remember my time at the WPT. You
Speaker 1: know we did we did a partnership or whatever with
Speaker 1: some people in Japan, and I can't remember exactly, but
Speaker 1: the idea is, like listen, we at the WPT when
Speaker 1: I was there, It's like, we want to be positioned
Speaker 1: that when this market does open up, if it does
Speaker 1: open up, we want to just be able to go
Speaker 1: flying in there right away. Because I think everyone sees
Speaker 1: the potential that Japan has. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: what people see with that potential is you know when
Speaker 1: you see a Masata Yokosawa post of log and it
Speaker 1: gets snap a million views. When you see you know,
Speaker 1: Shina Okamoto generating the buzz that she's generating when she
Speaker 1: posts on social media like that, there is a ton
Speaker 1: of buzz there some of those you know, clubish events
Speaker 1: or whatever however you want to you know, classify them
Speaker 1: in Japan. I mean that they get big numbers, big turnouts, right,
Speaker 1: So there definitely is a market that is ready to
Speaker 1: expand rapidly explode there. I mean, it just a matter
Speaker 1: if it ends up happening. The cultural legitimacy of poker
Speaker 1: is growing in Japan, so that's why this matters on
Speaker 1: that scale. You know, it can and it should inspire,
Speaker 1: It should certainly open doors. You know however you want
Speaker 1: to frame that part of the conversation. So I'm here
Speaker 1: for it, you know, let's go. And then I also
Speaker 1: don't want to overlook the fact that this forty eight
Speaker 1: hour stretch that we've had has been amazing. Yes, Michael
Speaker 1: the grind Dermans Rocky first, that was last night, he
Speaker 1: cements his legacy with a fourth PPC title. I mean,
Speaker 1: just wild shit right there, absolutely wild shit. And then
Speaker 1: Sheena Okamoa does this or Shea Okagoto as I keep
Speaker 1: calling us, I mean, come on, you know you know
Speaker 1: what I feel, you know what I thought of when
Speaker 1: and This is funny because of what's been happening today
Speaker 1: on the internet. When I thought of the Sena Okagoto thing,
Speaker 1: because I obviously wrote in the rundown Sheina Okamoto more
Speaker 1: like dot dot dot, because then I was gonna drop
Speaker 1: it on the thing. But what what made me think
Speaker 1: of it was Dave Portnoy and how he has these
Speaker 1: stupid like nicknames and whatever and things. And then it's
Speaker 1: just funny that there's like a video going around today
Speaker 1: on the internet about some guy freaking out at a
Speaker 1: pizza shop, like like he like hits the pizza out
Speaker 1: of the guy's hand, Like, no, it's not Dave, but
Speaker 1: if you glance quickly, it looks like Dave. Like if
Speaker 1: you don't fully like followed and like watches reviews or whatever,
Speaker 1: you might be like, oh, that's Stave Porton. And I
Speaker 1: think the tweet says like that Dave port Andy like
Speaker 1: what an a hole, like whatever, but it's it's not him,
Speaker 1: so but it's just it's funny that that's getting buzzed.
Speaker 1: And I was thinking about the whole Sina Okagoto thing,
Speaker 1: and like basically how Dave Portnoy attaches himself to Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna attach myself to Sina Okagoto. That's fair enough, right,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get a goat,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put two bracelets around his neck, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna walk around this place because that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 2: Definitely.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, forty eight hour stretch here, Michael
Speaker 1: the grinderb is Rocky. Now you have Sena Okamoto. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just absolutely outstanding greatness on display this summer. You know,
Speaker 1: Miss Rocky's the guy who's already a legend, winning three
Speaker 1: three PPC titles, you know, six gold racelets. That is
Speaker 1: just absolutely incredible. Then he goes on and wins a
Speaker 1: fourth for his seventh go racelet I mean hello, And
Speaker 1: then you know sheena like she's she's like it's it's
Speaker 1: it's it's an interesting thing because I think she's a
Speaker 1: legend like already, but she's also like building her legendary
Speaker 1: status in real time. So it's like both things are
Speaker 1: happening in at once because to go second first first,
Speaker 1: you're a freaking legend, right, But it's also like it's
Speaker 1: not done, Like she's you know, she's like still like
Speaker 1: this is still in the moment, So she's building this
Speaker 1: legacy of hers in real time. As I stated, like
Speaker 1: this is the sheina O Kamodo era, like ten twenty years.
Speaker 1: You know, oftentimes we sit around all the time and
Speaker 1: we do it. We sit around, we say, oh, remember that,
Speaker 1: h remember that. I remember that, Like we're gonna remember this,
Speaker 1: remember that time she and Okamodo went second, first, first,
Speaker 1: and that shit was bananas?
Speaker 2: What I mean, what the heck? So anyway, you can
Speaker 2: have the floor. No, I mean even everything, I've done
Speaker 2: nothing else to that.
Speaker 1: Really, I'm just amped up by it. I think it's great,
Speaker 1: can it?
Speaker 2: Like you said, it has been a pretty wild lost
Speaker 2: couple of days here at the World Series, and you know,
Speaker 2: as we kind of touched on, it's just it's pushing
Speaker 2: us in the right direction. The main event three or
Speaker 2: four days away. You know, the buzz is happening in
Speaker 2: the rooms again, busy, so many players here, and like
Speaker 2: you get in moments like this that are really just
Speaker 2: pushing us towards this finish line of the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five WSOP.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking of I'm trying to find a fourth thing.
Speaker 1: But in my mind, the top three things right now
Speaker 1: that are sticking out to me as like if I
Speaker 1: were to ask the question, you know, what is your
Speaker 1: what is your standout showcase moment from the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five WSP, I would say A cossats No, I would say,
Speaker 1: these aren't any order. These are just the three that
Speaker 1: I have on the list, and I'm trying to find
Speaker 1: a fourth one. Michael to grind. Name is Rocky. Fourth
Speaker 1: PPC title, Shina Okamoto winning this year, going back to
Speaker 1: back second, first, first in the last three years. I
Speaker 1: would say Nick Shulman was the other one, winning the
Speaker 1: biggest ever ten k deuces. Even you're shaking your head,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna remember that.
Speaker 2: You're not very good at this. Trump, go ahead? What else?
Speaker 2: Benny Glossaw, Buddy.
Speaker 1: Benny Glaser, that's the other one I was forgetting. Well, No,
Speaker 1: but I'm trying to come up with four, and I
Speaker 1: think Shulman makes it in there part of why.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. Shulman by itself is big enough.
Speaker 1: So here's why I put certain things into categories, and
Speaker 1: it's it's because of the buzz that it generates on
Speaker 1: the outside. If I don't even know if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be able to fully explain myself. But Shulman his specialty
Speaker 1: is Nola meduce to seven. He won the biggest ever
Speaker 1: Nola medus to seven championship after a grueling eight hour
Speaker 1: heads up match against an incredible Nola Medusa's seven player
Speaker 1: in Darren Olias. Like exercising that type of greatness as
Speaker 1: specialized as Nick is with that game when it's the
Speaker 1: biggest event after that type of match, like that is
Speaker 1: just some incredible stuff. Like so that's just a standout
Speaker 1: moment to me, Like what are what are the standout moments?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: I will tell you, I'll be honest. The reason why I,
Speaker 1: you know, ignorantly overlooked Benny Glauser, is because it's still
Speaker 1: ongoing and it's been three separate wins. Now, I should
Speaker 1: not do that. It's a mistake of mine. I'm fully
Speaker 1: on fully you know.
Speaker 2: Duck up, right, a duck up Donny Pizza Pi, Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, because it's like it's just when things are
Speaker 1: stretched out, I kind of need to sit back and
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm getting too honed in, you know, But yes,
Speaker 1: you are right, Benny. Benny Glaser is the other one.
Speaker 1: So those are the four. Basically, what I'm saying is like,
Speaker 1: if if you were to put this out as a poll,
Speaker 1: you know, what's what's your standout moment?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Or the other the other thing is you have to
Speaker 1: wait till the end of the summer. Yeah, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna say something like, you know, what
Speaker 1: are you gonna remember most from the twenty twenty five sip?
Speaker 1: And then you list the things so and the reason
Speaker 1: why I come up with four? As you know, I
Speaker 1: think of like Mount Rushmore as four. If you do
Speaker 1: a Twitter poll, it has four things that you can
Speaker 1: put into it. So right now I think those are
Speaker 1: my four. And I know I already know what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen is you're gonna I'm gonna put the pole out
Speaker 1: and people are gonna be like a lot about this.
Speaker 1: Victor Blahm making four, Well, he didn't win one, so
Speaker 1: he just he can't be in it. Like I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's just not I got.
Speaker 2: Two I want to add. I'm not saying that they're
Speaker 2: above the fund to consider.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this, it's not that you can't
Speaker 1: add them, it's that you have to, Like you have
Speaker 1: to just put them in this like on the short list,
Speaker 1: and then you have to try and come up with
Speaker 1: the four.
Speaker 2: No, I get it.
Speaker 1: I just like, right now I think the four the
Speaker 1: three are for sure Benny Glausser, Mike ms Rocky and
Speaker 1: Sena O. Kamoto and then and then now we need
Speaker 1: to find a fourth for me. I would I would
Speaker 1: put Shulman there, Okay, but there's other considerations.
Speaker 2: Yes, go ahead, Okay, my first one. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: it's worth as equal to these. I just want to
Speaker 2: consider it. Let's throw it out of it, let's hold no, no,
Speaker 2: put it in around the year of seven. And what
Speaker 2: I mean by that is we've had some several big
Speaker 2: names win bracelets. Win that seventh bracelet now Benning Ony
Speaker 2: seventh and night. Let me finish grind us seven. You
Speaker 2: kind of already touching that, Shulman, Brian Rass. It's a
Speaker 2: big number. Obviously, you now tied with Hennigan Backs and the Grinder,
Speaker 2: et cetera. That's one, but like you know, you've already
Speaker 2: startled a bit of it. So like, I don't know
Speaker 2: if we want to put that in there.
Speaker 1: But before you go to the next one, Okay, I
Speaker 1: feel like you said last year was the year of seven.
Speaker 1: I'm not joking. I'm pretty sure you said that, Rich,
Speaker 1: can you go maybe it was two years ago, but
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure we had a year of seven or
Speaker 1: I don't know if we did. How many years of seven?
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I'm not sure we're supposible the next.
Speaker 1: One, because didn't Seaver do it?
Speaker 2: Steven got to seven? Last yeah? Yeah, but I think
Speaker 2: and the Grinder got to seven? That was it? What
Speaker 2: about the previous year? That was Hennigan Aria the Arias six?
Speaker 2: It was the year of six. Everyone got to six.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure we did this conversation.
Speaker 2: Rich, wind it back and here's the other one. I
Speaker 2: think that has a bit more weight than that one.
Speaker 2: And I want to say it's a year of first.
Speaker 2: We always talk about, like people players to win their
Speaker 2: first bracelet. Some of these names from this year, Okay,
Speaker 2: I think the biggest one Seth Davies. Okay, we've got
Speaker 2: Philip Sternheimer. That's a big one. In my mind, I've
Speaker 2: just lost my whole place. Your reign of Campaig high stakes,
Speaker 2: big high steaks guy from Germany.
Speaker 1: Man, I listen, I already. I'm already changing my list.
Speaker 1: I already got my fourth. I know what it is. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm an idiot again.
Speaker 2: Duck up. Okay, yours is not a I'm a duck up.
Speaker 2: You're like the Donnie Pizza pile or something. Whatever.
Speaker 1: No, it's it's it's now. It is the Poker podcast
Speaker 1: Ducked Up, hosted by Tim Duckworth, just like it's the
Speaker 1: Ladies Championship hosted by Sheena Oakuma.
Speaker 2: The other one I forgot to mention because I was
Speaker 2: talking to him today was obviously Darren Olias.
Speaker 1: No, none of that matters. The fourth one, Sorry, Nick Shelman,
Speaker 1: you gotta go. So we're kicking Nick off. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: missed Casino Royale himself, it's missed or not like that,
Speaker 1: not like that.
Speaker 2: He's not like don amathing yet he cannot be on.
Speaker 1: This is one of those. This is one of those now.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, this is a this is a
Speaker 1: moment in time. When you look back, you're going to say,
Speaker 1: like that was the summer when X and people. There
Speaker 1: are going to be enough people that say, Martin Cabrell,
Speaker 1: I need.
Speaker 2: One more moment. I need one more rebound to get
Speaker 2: my trone.
Speaker 1: When I'm like, you don't manage the social media. I do.
Speaker 1: It is freaking Martin Cabrell, all freaking I still look
Speaker 1: at the social media. I mean, you've got people at
Speaker 1: the Venetians saying not like that at the final table,
Speaker 1: like I mean, it's just it's it's spread like a disease.
Speaker 1: And some might say it is a disease at this
Speaker 1: point because they don't like the guy and they don't
Speaker 1: like his antics. But it is everywhere, it is everywhere.
Speaker 1: So that's right. Now, it's me. Now listen, this is
Speaker 1: of course, this is of course a list that is
Speaker 1: not solidified.
Speaker 2: No, it's it's in shoppy. We just got to make
Speaker 2: sure we just don't give it choppy.
Speaker 1: We just got to make the top four and then
Speaker 1: when you know, July, whatever seventeenth rolls around will be ranking.
Speaker 2: Mon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm saying because I bumped out Nick.
Speaker 2: Bove Benny, That's why I was not kind of asking.
Speaker 1: I bumped no, no, no, But Benny's for sure in there,
Speaker 1: and Benny's probably gonna win five, so he's whatever. I'm
Speaker 1: still not going to get on nothing. That's a good question.
Speaker 1: That's a good question, might awake I know, I know, right,
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: He spent four days playing the PPC.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, so it is funny like if you're
Speaker 1: that's actually something we're thinking about, is it? Or maybe
Speaker 1: how much did playing the PPC for so long like
Speaker 1: hurt his chances and other events? I mean, not that
Speaker 1: probably whatever, But yeah, but Benny's good enough to win
Speaker 1: the PPC obviously. So anyway, a lot of different topics
Speaker 1: that we hit on there. But again shina Oka goto
Speaker 1: six ye absolute huh six six what gut references? Oh okay,
Speaker 1: guard six times? So you're gonna do in twenty five six? Amazing.
Speaker 1: So she defeated Heather Alcorn in heads up play, Heather
Speaker 1: taking home one hundred and twenty two thousand dollars for
Speaker 1: her second place. Finished former the Dealer of the Year
Speaker 1: here at the WSB in twenty nineteen. So great run
Speaker 1: by Heather, Stephanie Hagberg third place, Julie Hewn fourth place.
Speaker 1: Uh Sonya Shasha Kina Which I have a question and
Speaker 1: you don't have the answer, but I have to ask.
Speaker 1: So I turn on the stream today and I'm watching
Speaker 1: and it says on the leaderboard at the top and
Speaker 1: also on the whole card graphics. For the name, it
Speaker 1: says Veronica.
Speaker 2: Okay, maybe she goes by Veronica. Well, what's your name?
Speaker 2: Because you got buy a different name.
Speaker 1: No, but as it was, they showed the last names
Speaker 1: on all that stuff, so it says Veronica.
Speaker 2: So is, wait, had lost they had a lost name
Speaker 2: as Veronica.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I think she might go as by Sonya Veronica.
Speaker 1: But like what I'm at saying is that like in
Speaker 1: all the YouTube descriptions and stuff that you write, it
Speaker 1: says Sonya Shasha Kina. So I was just very confused
Speaker 1: as like what was going on.
Speaker 2: Wait, I don't know where Vernic came from either, do
Speaker 2: I I'm assuming, Oh, I say, look, I say this, I'm.
Speaker 1: Assuming she told them that that's what she prefers us
Speaker 1: her last name or something. I don't know, That's what
Speaker 1: I mean. I was very confused. I'm just wondering where
Speaker 1: when did production make that change? And what could they
Speaker 1: tell us next time because now I don't know what
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be calling her. So so I do apologize.
Speaker 1: But fifth place for you, congratulations, Juliet Hegatus. Sixth place, Sumir,
Speaker 1: you know Maaki another Japanese player. I believe she was
Speaker 1: actually eliminated by Shina Okagodo, and then I'm going to
Speaker 1: cram in. That's the final seven that came back today
Speaker 1: on the stream, very very entertaining stream too, and I
Speaker 1: would highly encourage you to find that on the poker
Speaker 1: Go YouTube channel or on PokerGO dot com to won
Speaker 1: that again. Sheena Okagdo, let's go.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to finish out. That's what lacky Asian number.
Speaker 1: Narcus, Narcus and Nadelku winning the fifteen dollars eight game
Speaker 1: his first WSOP gold bracelet. Like sheen Okagodo, Nagadelku won
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty four thousand dollars same first place prize.
Speaker 1: You know, he defeated Scott Abrams in heads up play,
Speaker 1: another close call for Abrams. Abrams does have one bracelet.
Speaker 1: I think it was twenty twenty three he won his first,
Speaker 1: but he's been close many times at the WSP as well.
Speaker 1: You know, he's one of those players where maybe things
Speaker 1: break a different way. He's got four bracelets.
Speaker 2: I mean, did you see the final hand?
Speaker 1: I did not see the final hand. I was too
Speaker 1: busy watching sheen Okugodo ten.
Speaker 2: I believe they'll playing plo as part of the eight
Speaker 2: game or some version. I don't know. Huh. They both
Speaker 2: at King ten, they got it in. They hadn't that straight.
Speaker 2: You see Scott in the video kind of go like this,
Speaker 2: the kind of you know, sign that it's chopped up,
Speaker 2: but actually a Nacus had a flush with the King
Speaker 2: ten went run around a flash to eliminate Scott. So
Speaker 2: a little bit of a.
Speaker 1: Everyone just everyone just misreading polo hands with King ten, and.
Speaker 2: Well, I think he did that when he was like
Speaker 2: when he was shopping and then obviously hit the I
Speaker 2: think went run around a club club on the river
Speaker 2: and yeah, a little bit of a bad, bad bait
Speaker 2: dad from Scott edwrams, I.
Speaker 1: Say, Walter Trickerici is that how you say his last name?
Speaker 2: No idea? Okay?
Speaker 1: Eighty three thousand dollars for third place, Mark led Key
Speaker 1: fourth place for fifty seven k John Cipriano, Elaine Ron,
Speaker 1: and Christian Malik round out the final seven. Anything else now,
Speaker 1: you just looked at me. I thought there was something
Speaker 1: else there, all right. So congratulations to Narcis and Nadelku
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty four thousand dollars for him the
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred dollars eight game winner. On Monday, June thirtieth,
Speaker 1: we are going to find out who is this year's
Speaker 1: Gladiator of poker. Remember this became the second largest live
Speaker 1: poker tournament of all time baby with twenty four thousand,
Speaker 1: six hundred and twenty nine entries a three hundred dollars
Speaker 1: buy in. There is four hundred and twenty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: up top for the winner. How many how's it looking
Speaker 1: over there?
Speaker 2: Seventeen left? It is flying? Of course, we thought, what's
Speaker 2: to happen to blinds twelve? I thought we were going
Speaker 2: to know it was twenty before it was going to
Speaker 2: bag with twenty runners. We hit we're just into the
Speaker 2: lost level and I we're already at seventeen, so we
Speaker 2: could be down at twelve. We might have to give
Speaker 2: them a little bit more of a sleep. Tomorrow, we
Speaker 2: went on eeding. Come early.
Speaker 1: Well, the plan is on Monday to stream the final
Speaker 1: table of this event. I believe it will be on
Speaker 1: PokerGO dot com, so you have to be a subscriber.
Speaker 1: I believe the next two days of streaming are on
Speaker 1: PokerGO dot com. Have to be a subscriber to poker
Speaker 1: dot com. If you are a subscriber, use the promo
Speaker 1: code podcast so you can save yourself twenty bucks on
Speaker 1: the first year of a new annual plan. Any names
Speaker 1: over there, rolland Israel Ashvili was in there. He still is,
Speaker 1: he still is. Oh my god, rolling.
Speaker 2: Rolling chips ll looks like about fifteen bigs Roland I
Speaker 2: move it on the average, can't.
Speaker 1: I can't even fathom being in a twenty four thousand,
Speaker 1: six twenty nine entry field and being down to the
Speaker 1: final seventeen. It's just that has to be quite surreal.
Speaker 2: But otherwise, yeah, it looks like Manuel Reyes is the
Speaker 2: Chipley that was staggering Chipley.
Speaker 1: This hundred they guarantee right now, like twenty k. Let's look,
Speaker 1: you said there's seventeen left.
Speaker 2: Oh now says this fifteen left, twenty four k.
Speaker 1: Twenty four k. Jesus Christ, it's so good for three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars buying. I love the World Series of Poker.
Speaker 1: It's mean, it's just the best thing ever. He really is,
Speaker 1: all right, So more on the Gladiators of Poker on
Speaker 1: the next episode, but do tune in to poker Go
Speaker 1: dot on Monday, June thirtieth Time tvd or is it.
Speaker 2: The stream is set to go live at five pm Pacific,
Speaker 2: a pm Easton. We're just trying to work out what
Speaker 2: time to bring him back, so the I'm not here
Speaker 2: waiting too long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, all right, So that'll be on poker
Speaker 1: dot Com on Monday. Tune in for that one. Should
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. Four hundred and twenty one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars up top in this year's and Gladiators of
Speaker 1: Poker the ten k PLO Championship. How many did I
Speaker 1: do you remember what I said it would get for entries?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: What did it get? It got eight ninety four, eight
Speaker 1: seventy four, got eight seventy four. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: this feel is ridiculously enormous. Isaac Kempton leading the way
Speaker 1: right now one point three nine to four million, so
Speaker 1: basically one point four million dollars up top. They did
Speaker 1: get into the money a little bit earlier today, a
Speaker 1: fairly extended hand for hand portion. First player to bust
Speaker 1: in the money was Nico Milgram. It's funny because I
Speaker 1: was I was over there. They actually went hand for
Speaker 1: hand with one hundred and thirty seven players left in
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty two pains, so earlier than normal.
Speaker 1: Normally they go two off the money. They go to
Speaker 1: hand for hand, but there was so much stalling that
Speaker 1: they decided there was a though. Right, yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: but who cares? These guys stall all the time, so
Speaker 1: they're stalling, so they go hand for hand. Earlier Nico
Speaker 1: had nineteen K, I believe, okay, and eurse does he
Speaker 1: have nineteen K? Twenty you hat twenty four K and
Speaker 1: he's he goes through the big blind. It was five ten, ten.
Speaker 1: He goes to the big blind. He obviously pays the
Speaker 1: ten and the ten he folds. He's got four K left,
Speaker 1: so he's going to be blinded in the next hand.
Speaker 2: But somebody goes broke. Well, playing Naker, somebody goes broke
Speaker 2: and he gets into the money with four K. He
Speaker 2: busted on the hand. He busts on the hand, you know,
Speaker 2: But good for him. But Nico did cash.
Speaker 1: I think he took twelve tenth in the in the game,
Speaker 1: tenth in the A game, and then so whatever that
Speaker 1: pays ten points. I think more than that seventeen points.
Speaker 1: Look that up.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know. The fantasy stuff, buddy, that's
Speaker 2: all you.
Speaker 1: I believe it's twelve points, man, We are way down
Speaker 1: there right now.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Twelve points, okay, and then he got two more points
Speaker 1: in the ten k Omaha for cashing. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're trying, but Jeremy Osmas is just not doing it
Speaker 1: for us. So what are we gonna do? You Yesterday,
Speaker 1: by the way, speaking of freaking duck ups, good lord,
Speaker 1: you're like, get on this show and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Osmons is leading. He was like fucking one hundredth
Speaker 1: in chips. No, it was he was so far off
Speaker 1: first place. It wasn't even funny. It was unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, I mean, holloway, why would you do that
Speaker 2: to me?
Speaker 1: It's just, yeah, making me look like a foul I mean, Chad,
Speaker 1: what are we doing here?
Speaker 2: What are we doing?
Speaker 1: What are we doing?
Speaker 2: What are we doing? All right?
Speaker 1: So who else is in there in this thing?
Speaker 2: So all the plo hero is going? You mentioned Isaac Kimpton.
Speaker 2: We got Seth Davies together, We've got Michael Rucco making his.
Speaker 1: I saw set today in the hallway one of the breaks,
Speaker 1: and I said I thought you were taking a break.
Speaker 1: It's like I got bored. Okay, I got bored, Max
Speaker 1: late reds ten Kpolo one of the bigger stacks. Let's go.
Speaker 2: We got a your van hoof. Who is Jim Murray's
Speaker 2: random player of the day. I have to correct him
Speaker 2: and said, he's been here the whole series.
Speaker 1: But we've been talking about.
Speaker 2: Your you know what he's doing. He's obviously not listening
Speaker 2: to us. Alex Fox is in there. We have Roberts, Rahi,
Speaker 2: Chris Frank, I mean everyone is Steven, Michael.
Speaker 1: Ben lamb Ryan got Bowman's in the money, phil Ivey's
Speaker 1: in there, Bryan Reese. Okay, Phil Helmuth is in there.
Speaker 1: Let's funny with Phil Helmuts. So, in typical Phil Helmy fashion,
Speaker 1: they get the heads up play in the in the
Speaker 1: Ladies event. Who's between who shows up on stage? Sina
Speaker 1: Okagodo and Heather Elcorn? Who shows up on stage? Phil? Help?
Speaker 1: Of course? Right?
Speaker 2: Phil? Come on, let the ladies have that moment?
Speaker 1: Then what hand does sheen Oka goto win it with?
Speaker 2: Don't say nine? Does two black knines?
Speaker 1: Black knins? Black wood?
Speaker 2: What is this white magic blacknines? What is this white magic.
Speaker 2: I know it happens. It happened like the next hand.
Speaker 1: It was like within like a couple of minutes. This
Speaker 1: is I go over to Fill and I said, I said, philed,
Speaker 1: did you just see what happened? He's like no. I
Speaker 1: was like, she just won it with two Black Knights.
Speaker 1: He's like, you're kidding me.
Speaker 2: I was like, I swear to gout.
Speaker 1: He like went up there and like touched her with
Speaker 1: his white magic and then walked off. Boom, two Black Nines.
Speaker 1: Game over.
Speaker 2: It's just this is eerie. This is very eerie.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't you can't make it up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you absolutely can't make it up. I mean it's just
Speaker 1: Benny Glaza from one goat to another. That's It's just
Speaker 1: great stuff.
Speaker 2: Benny Glaza selling too. Okay, what about Benny Ludlow he
Speaker 2: just busted. Oh my god, Benny, come on wan wan
Speaker 2: ish so hey, he made some money.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine it Benny glausers bracelet. Yeah, it would be beautiful,
Speaker 1: it'd be absolutely amazing, absolutely amazing. I mean, just some
Speaker 1: crazy shit. Seriously, h the twenty five hundred dollars mixed
Speaker 1: Big Bet and the Mini Oh by the way, quickly
Speaker 1: Before I get to that, the ten K PLO Championship
Speaker 1: will be streaming on Tuesday on Poker Grow, so stay
Speaker 1: tuned for that one. The twenty five hundred dollar Mixed
Speaker 1: Big Bet and the Mini Main Event both kicked off today.
Speaker 1: Which one do you want to hit on?
Speaker 2: First? Let's go to the Mix Big Bet Okay.
Speaker 1: Mixed Big Bet had four hundred and fifty eight entries
Speaker 1: this year. I just pulled up Poker News and there
Speaker 1: is a picture where DEEB looks like he's laughing his
Speaker 1: face off and it says deep with the slow roll
Speaker 1: love it. It had four hundred and sixty eight last year,
Speaker 1: so ten less, I mean whatever. Two hundred and seven
Speaker 1: thousand dollars up top in this year's event. Obviously, Sean
Speaker 1: Deeve is in there, looks like he's doing well. Chris
Speaker 1: Vich looks like he's doing well. James Ops, that's your boy.
Speaker 1: Kangaroo Group, Brian Rast, Dylan Wiseman, Dario Alioto, like the
Speaker 1: greatest one dollar pick in the history of twenty five
Speaker 1: K fantasy. Dean Eggs is in there. Hopefully he's not
Speaker 1: misreading any hands, but he's in there. Jeff Madson, Rob Holland,
Speaker 1: John Turner, Jake Schwartz, Phil Sternheimer. Who else we got
Speaker 1: Marco Johnson, Allan Lee all look to be in there.
Speaker 1: I see Johnny Sharman, London John. Let's go well, let's
Speaker 1: go be He must have been double dipping today because
Speaker 1: somebody sent me a screenshot of Yeah, and London John
Speaker 1: was at his online table. So putting in the in
Speaker 1: the work is London John. I'm telling you thirty cashes,
Speaker 1: it is on the way. He just needs to make
Speaker 1: a final say, but I think that's also coming. The
Speaker 1: guy's getting close. But yeah, maybe the main event. You
Speaker 1: never know, maybe he'll be the token old guy in
Speaker 1: the main event that runs the the John hesp the John. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean little less colored on the jacket. You know
Speaker 1: we can get John is like you know, his black cap,
Speaker 1: that black hoodie. He's he's a grinder man. We don't
Speaker 1: we don't need the flashiness like we got we got
Speaker 1: it London John.
Speaker 2: Baby.
Speaker 1: But if he does, if London John makes it up
Speaker 1: his final table, I'm going to get him a special
Speaker 1: big Ben card protector. That's what we're gonna do. What
Speaker 1: do you think like a little big Ben maybe one
Speaker 1: of those little London.
Speaker 2: Here's the phone with the Big Ben's always on the
Speaker 2: construction or broken. We don't want to put that on that.
Speaker 2: We don't want to put that out.
Speaker 1: Since when are you a freaking expert on big.
Speaker 2: B I'm an expert. Don't worry. We need to get
Speaker 2: him something more iconic London. That's the red telephone box
Speaker 2: big right there on the table. Okay, yeah, no, not
Speaker 2: a big Ben. We don't want broken big Ben.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's go London, John, Let's go London, John.
Speaker 1: The mini main event kicked off today. Now, I was
Speaker 1: not aware that they have two starting flights this year,
Speaker 1: and they did not have two starting flights in the past.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, we did not know this.
Speaker 1: I thought last year it was just the same thing.
Speaker 1: But they I guess they added a starting flight. So
Speaker 1: that means that this thing is going to be absolutely
Speaker 1: freaking enormous. Yeah, some would say massive, massive, some would
Speaker 1: say massive. This flight today four thousand and seventy seven
Speaker 1: entries last year. Can you confirm with this this last
Speaker 1: year thing? Please? I looked on Poker news, but like,
Speaker 1: can we look look somewhere else? What exactly like? It
Speaker 1: won't look I want to say, I want to make
Speaker 1: sure that there was only one flight last year.
Speaker 2: If she looked on pokings, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Poker News just had days one, two, three, which
Speaker 1: would tell me that whatever is it in like your
Speaker 1: like biggest flight doc or whatever that thing is.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's not called the biggest flight.
Speaker 1: Doc whatever whatever that that spreadsheet is that you have
Speaker 1: confirmed as three days last year. Yeah, so I mean,
Speaker 1: this thing's gonna have ten thousand entries in are you playing?
Speaker 1: Get in there? I'm in there. I'm in there tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm dusting it off. I'm dusting it off. I
Speaker 1: can't freaking wait. I cannot wait. I'm getting in there
Speaker 1: with the people. Nice early am start.
Speaker 2: Damn you I came, of course.
Speaker 1: I really it's funny. I think I've said this before
Speaker 1: on the podcast. I've definitely talked about it with friends,
Speaker 1: But when I play live, I absolutely want to be
Speaker 1: their hand number one always, especially the World Series of Poker,
Speaker 1: Like there's just something special about it. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: just being there hand one in an event, and the
Speaker 1: World Series of Poker is just so much different than
Speaker 1: so many other events that you know, you know, there's
Speaker 1: going to be a bunch of other people there. Like
Speaker 1: sometimes I show up at the wind Or I used
Speaker 1: to show up at the wind like hand number one,
Speaker 1: and it'd be like three tables and we're playing three
Speaker 1: handed on one of the table, and obviously it fills
Speaker 1: up right, but like no one's in the rush. But
Speaker 1: I feel like with so many more recreational players and
Speaker 1: whatnot at the World Series of Poker, like that place
Speaker 1: is going to be hopping at ten am. So I
Speaker 1: will have coffee in hand. I will be ready to
Speaker 1: freaking go ten podcast hot coffee in hand, likely not
Speaker 1: a podcast hat. I will have my car, I will
Speaker 1: have my two card protectors. I will have my two
Speaker 1: card protectors on the table ready to go. That's another thing,
Speaker 1: by the way, Jason Khm brought it up. I believe
Speaker 1: Poker dot Org asked him about the car protector. He
Speaker 1: has that little triton symbol once and he said that
Speaker 1: he thinks that, you know, we should bring back card
Speaker 1: protectors because they bring back an element of fun to
Speaker 1: the game. I had this exact conversation with my good
Speaker 1: friend Mike Ziemba like three years ago, two years ago,
Speaker 1: about how card protectors are like cool and fun. It
Speaker 1: was the year that I ran deep in the two
Speaker 1: k here and I was at a table with whoever
Speaker 1: the guy was that won the PSPC, like the he's
Speaker 1: like Russian or something, he want PSPC. A couple of
Speaker 1: years I forget his name, and he was at the
Speaker 1: table was his friend Nikolai Tulan. Okay, look up the
Speaker 1: guy who one the PSPC.
Speaker 2: Alexander. Alexander what Alexandra, he's Bezan, she'll coo, Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: bel him. He has he has this little car protector.
Speaker 2: It's like a I think it's like a guy like backpacking.
Speaker 2: And like then his buddy, like Nikolai Tulan also had
Speaker 2: card protectors like you know, you know, I'm like later
Speaker 2: texting or talking with my friend Mike about how like, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're kind of like fun and they're cool. I sat
Speaker 2: next to another guy at the wind recently. He had
Speaker 2: a little Peppa pig. I know, you know what Peppa
Speaker 2: pig is? Yeah, exactly, And I know too, So I
Speaker 2: asked him, I said, you know, what's the semblance of
Speaker 2: this Pepa pig? You know?
Speaker 1: And he said, oh, it's because my son likes Peppa pig.
Speaker 1: He gave it to me, so I use it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: So I have two little card protectors that I use,
Speaker 1: and I just think that they're like fun little trinkets
Speaker 1: that can possibly park some spark a conversation. I have
Speaker 1: a my bag's over there. But I have a little
Speaker 1: lion because my friend Mike, the person I was talking
Speaker 1: about the car protectors with, very very good talented poker player,
Speaker 1: we always talking whatever, and he's always like reminding me
Speaker 1: just like be a lion at the table. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I thought it was funny then that I should get
Speaker 1: a lion. So I got this little lion figuringe and
Speaker 1: then the other one is like a little black like
Speaker 1: poodle dog because my dog does yea. So I have
Speaker 1: Duke and I have the lion, and they just chill.
Speaker 2: I did I saw this thing kind of light loss, don't.
Speaker 1: Depending on how I'm feeling, I might just put one
Speaker 1: out Like if I'm feeling like, you know, I want
Speaker 1: to funk sit up just the lion.
Speaker 2: If I if I'm.
Speaker 1: Feeling like you know, maybe it's gonna be like like
Speaker 1: w sp me an event, maybe I'll just put Duke
Speaker 1: out there because I don't necessarily need to be a
Speaker 1: lion on day one A and I should probably chill
Speaker 1: and not six bet along with King Queen off.
Speaker 2: So I sawed the same way I could get my
Speaker 2: son to give me, like a hot wheels guy his
Speaker 2: favorite hot See that thing was cool, and then when
Speaker 2: a lust, I give it back and say this wasn't lucky.
Speaker 2: I need a lucky one. So he would go on
Speaker 2: a hunt. He's got like hundreds of hot because he
Speaker 2: would hunt for a lucky one. When I won the
Speaker 2: uh well, when I cashed in the you know, the
Speaker 2: WPT free roll, you know, for four k, this was
Speaker 2: a lucky one. We retired it. But I gave him.
Speaker 2: I got him a roadbox sift card when I went
Speaker 2: deep in the MSPT Venetia and when I cashed for
Speaker 2: like six k, I think I got him one hundred
Speaker 2: dollars Roadbock slift card is like thank you for picking
Speaker 2: out the lucky car. Now, obviously you might want to
Speaker 2: argue the car has nothing to do with how I played,
Speaker 2: but it's also I think a good way to kind
Speaker 2: of involve my signing poker a little bit. Not that
Speaker 2: I play a lot, but I play enough where he's interested. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I did have an idea to double down on my
Speaker 2: my cowboy stick by getting like a vintage Bootspur, that.
Speaker 1: Would mean a bit incredible.
Speaker 2: I'd put on the thing and like so you can
Speaker 2: spin the little thing. I haven't really found one, I
Speaker 2: like because I wanted poker themed. I want some like
Speaker 2: suits on it. So I was very obvious it's poker.
Speaker 2: It's a bootsber matches the whole cowboy get up. You know.
Speaker 2: I could put it on my boots if I want to.
Speaker 2: I haven't really found anything that I love, but like,
Speaker 2: if you guys are out there and find something, see
Speaker 2: something that would be perfect for me, Vintage bootspur, poker themed.
Speaker 2: This guy wants it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm slowly building up the courage to bring
Speaker 1: my Aztec death Whistle as a card protector. Okay, you
Speaker 1: know what that is?
Speaker 2: You do? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, you know what that is. Sometimes they tell
Speaker 1: people they have no idea what it is.
Speaker 2: Let me.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just incredible. It's absolutely incredible. Maybe I'll
Speaker 1: bring that at some point. I mean I doubt it,
Speaker 1: but it would be cool. It's when you blow it
Speaker 1: right and they blow it and it sounds like somebody's
Speaker 1: like screen like dying. It's out of control.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 1: Of course I did not buy that. By the way,
Speaker 1: my friend Mike sent it to me out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Once in a while, I'll just get packages and it's
Speaker 1: from Mike, my buddy who I'm talking about the car
Speaker 1: Protectors with, and it's just like random ship like this
Speaker 1: ASTech death whistle. Context just like no context, just show
Speaker 1: up like it's just almost like what And of course
Speaker 1: I just know it's from him. The reason why I
Speaker 1: know it's from him is that, like when I order
Speaker 1: Amazon packages, it says Donald.
Speaker 2: Peters, okay, this one says this is.
Speaker 1: Donnie okay, And I only know of him sending me
Speaker 1: packages from Amazon, so I'm like, it has to be him.
Speaker 1: And then I, you know, I send him a thing
Speaker 1: and whatever. And but my daughter freaking loves it. She
Speaker 1: loves it so great. Yeah, it's so great. But anyway,
Speaker 1: maybe one day I'll bring that, just put it on
Speaker 1: the table, maybe maybe blow in the middle of MANI
Speaker 1: I didn't have not I wouldn't do it, but I do.
Speaker 1: But I do think, like what Jason Kon said, they
Speaker 1: like it just makes it a little bit more fun,
Speaker 1: little more more light hearted, right, maybe somebody asks you
Speaker 1: about you strike up a conversation if you see someone
Speaker 1: with one with one, I'm like, Okay, at least this
Speaker 1: guy is not like super serious, like he's at least
Speaker 1: having some fun overall. Like so it's it's just good.
Speaker 1: I like having him. So yeah, so normalize card protectors. Yes,
Speaker 1: have him be like a cool, fun little thing. And
Speaker 1: like I've looked at like I've looked at different ones,
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe I'll get one that's just like
Speaker 1: completely whacky and whatever. But like I think they're cool
Speaker 1: and fun, So let's have them share them on social media,
Speaker 1: do the whole thing. Like, I think it's good for
Speaker 1: the game. But the matter at hand. Mini Main Event
Speaker 1: four thousand and seventy seven entries in this flight. They
Speaker 1: have another flight tomorrow or sorry, on Monday. I'm going
Speaker 1: to be in it. Last year they had six thousand
Speaker 1: and ninety three entries total in this event. They're going
Speaker 1: to get six thousand tomorrow for today, meaning this is
Speaker 1: going to be a ten thousand entry field for short.
Speaker 2: It's madness for sure. Now.
Speaker 1: One of the benefits of this is from an entry's perspective,
Speaker 1: is you can play both flights. Freeze out per flight,
Speaker 1: but you can play both flights and it's called the
Speaker 1: Mini Main event because it has the same structure as
Speaker 1: the main event, just sped up condemed Yeah op h
Speaker 1: plus the one re entry, but get sixty thousand starting chips.
Speaker 1: You know, you go through the same blind levels, but
Speaker 1: they're thirty minute levels I believe, so a bit faster.
Speaker 2: But yeah, this should really have four flights ten am
Speaker 2: five pm, and then it should have a day two
Speaker 2: where you can enter as well.
Speaker 1: You're saying just exactly maybe it.
Speaker 2: Should be copy piste. If it's the minim event, you.
Speaker 1: Have copy pass to still be able to get it
Speaker 1: over flights.
Speaker 2: On one day. Why doesn't need what they already added
Speaker 2: the daysia, Why can't they ad another day?
Speaker 1: Make it a couple of days I'm saying. I'm saying
Speaker 1: three days, meaning the day ones are one day like collectively,
Speaker 1: and then whatever.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's all ways you do it. If you
Speaker 2: want to make the real mini Main event this, it's
Speaker 2: gotta be more.
Speaker 1: I just think, I just think it. I just don't
Speaker 1: want it to be like too close to like the
Speaker 1: Million Maker and the Monster like it should just it
Speaker 1: should be essentially what I like this to be and
Speaker 1: I know you're not supposed to call it this, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to, but I'm gonna use that to
Speaker 1: paint the pictures a turbo version of the main event
Speaker 1: or a tenth of the buy in, like that's what
Speaker 1: this is. Yeah, you know, so, but you can you
Speaker 1: could do stuff like that, sure, Like you could extend
Speaker 1: registration somehow, like you know, I don't know how, but
Speaker 1: you know, figure it out. Maybe people can come in
Speaker 1: with five big blinds with the hell cares. So we
Speaker 1: do have a duck up that you got to get
Speaker 1: to right now.
Speaker 2: You gotta just put me. You're just gonna throw me
Speaker 2: under that.
Speaker 1: That I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'd like to recap events here on the podcast.
Speaker 2: We talk about winners, talk about the losers.
Speaker 1: We talked about you know, Okagodo.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, we're going to talk about the ghosts
Speaker 2: that you vim me too. We had a little tweet
Speaker 2: today from one of our fans saying that, hey, you know,
Speaker 2: you missed one and I think you need to, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, mention it. So we're going to wind the
Speaker 2: clock back and then sixty one the five hundred dollars
Speaker 2: no lemon holding freezer one by Craig Savage. He topped
Speaker 2: a five thousand and eighty two entrant field to win
Speaker 2: the bracelet and two hundred and twenty nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Oh is that all? That's all free? So Cruisey's way
Speaker 2: through to win. That's so big. Apologies to mister Savage,
Speaker 2: and thank you Evil Roy on Twitter for kind of
Speaker 2: you know, pointing that out, making us go back and
Speaker 2: you know, give give Trevor the curtos he needs. So
Speaker 2: there's a duck up counter make that spin producer Rich Savage.
Speaker 1: If you find his Twitter, which I'm not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to find now on the fly, but if you
Speaker 1: already able to find it, he was kind of like
Speaker 1: sharing updates throughout the event. Certainly it looked like there
Speaker 1: was a lot of emotion when he won, what it
Speaker 1: meant to him, So very very cool to see him
Speaker 1: go on to win again whatever. It was a two
Speaker 1: twenty nine first buying, so simply incredible stuff there, and
Speaker 1: honestly that's what the World Series of Poker is all about.
Speaker 2: So his Twitter bier, you can find him an ex
Speaker 2: Savage X father, husband, educator. That's fine. Neuroscientists psychologic can't
Speaker 2: speak today, pro economics coach. Poker player leads doc blue.
Speaker 2: What's doc blue? Is that Duke.
Speaker 1: Leads Duke Blue. Everything everything on that profile sounds great
Speaker 1: until he got to the bleed Duke Blue.
Speaker 2: You know, we can do Duke the bad guys. Not yet.
Speaker 1: No one likes Duke, like just like you know, no
Speaker 1: one likes the Yankees, like. No one cares about Duke
Speaker 1: other than people who like Duke, like got it for
Speaker 1: whatever weird reason. I mean he probably went to do
Speaker 1: you know, but probably yeah, but yeah, most people hate Duke. Okay,
Speaker 1: so sorry Craig if we're hating dude. But I mean,
Speaker 1: congrats on the accomplishment. Congrats on the accomplishment. We don't
Speaker 1: care about Duke, but congrats on the accomplishment. It is
Speaker 1: really cool stuff for you to go on and get that.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you cram all that stuff in there.
Speaker 2: What was it?
Speaker 1: Psychologist, neurologist, behavioral sign just know how you do all
Speaker 1: that and then be a poker player.
Speaker 2: But good on you, everything, Good on you. Not just
Speaker 2: poke a play bracelet winning poke play true.
Speaker 1: Very very true, very very true. All right, that's going
Speaker 1: to do it for us. It's twelve forty eight am.
Speaker 1: I got to try and get some sleep so I
Speaker 1: can be here ten am tomorrow. Coffee in hand, Mini
Speaker 1: main event time. I cashed it twice before.
Speaker 2: This will be the third time.
Speaker 1: My best finish was one hundred and fifteenth.
Speaker 2: You'll finish back at the old rio.
Speaker 1: Hope I better that finish and go on to do
Speaker 1: great things in this one, because this one is going
Speaker 1: to be enormous, absolutely enormous. I'm gonna say this one
Speaker 1: gets ten thousand and eight hundred runners total. You got
Speaker 1: a number, what did it have today? Four thousand and
Speaker 1: seventy seven.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go nine, nine hundred and eighty six.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, nine nine eighty six, ten thsy eight hundred here,
Speaker 1: and that's gonna do it for us. His name is
Speaker 1: Tim Duckworth, my name is Donnie Peters, and we will
Speaker 1: talk to you guys next time.
Speaker 2: J