WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:13.880 Hello everyone, and welcome back to a new episode of 2 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:19.920 the Poker Go Podcast. And we got a good show tonight, 3 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:23.760 at least I hope. So I feel freaking good and 4 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:28.519 absolutely positively historic night here at the World Series of 5 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:33.359 Poker Historic forty eight hours, to be quite honest, shina 6 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:41.119 Okamoto more like shina Oka Godo. Okay, that's right, buddy, 7 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:48.240 that's right. That's why they's, Oh my god, it's so mad. 8 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:51.799 The thing is that you can't Here's the thing, and 9 00:00:52.119 --> 00:00:54.520 I've talked with producer with trying with some people like 10 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:58.640 this before, is that like you can't be in the middle, right. 11 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:01.520 You have to be like so good that it's good, 12 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:04.840 Like like when I see Poker Gros like Mainset production, 13 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:07.400 like it's so good that it's good. Right, So that's 14 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:09.439 like the top of the top. Or you have to 15 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:11.760 be like so bad that it's bad but it's good, 16 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:14.519 you know what I mean? Like when I see like 17 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:16.959 like the example of this, and I freaking love the guy, 18 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:20.319 but Worldwide Wide brought Pereze, like when he fires up 19 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:23.599 his like late night with Wobbs after NBA games and 20 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:27.640 it's just like him on his iPhone on Twitter or whatever, 21 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:30.400 just like talking into a camera like there's no special lighting. 22 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:31.920 He's not in a studio, like he's in his living 23 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.480 room like whatever. You know, it's just like it's just 24 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:37.239 off the cough, it's raw, it's whatever. So, yeah, that 25 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:39.200 joke was so bad that it's good. That was my 26 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:41.640 dad joke. I got two kids, I'm allowed to say 27 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:44.959 like that. Yeah, Shina Okamoto is the freaking goat. Okay, 28 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:49.879 Shina Okugoto. That's how we do it. Narcus Nadelku. Hope 29 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.200 I didn't butcher that name, but I probably did. Winning 30 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:54.560 the fifteen hundred dollars eight game, We're going to take 31 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:57.319 a look at who will be this year's Gladiator of 32 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:00.519 poker because they are playing down towards the final table. 33 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:02.439 Don't think they're going to get there, but they're down 34 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:04.319 to the final couple of tables. Either two or three 35 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:06.200 tables will finish up tonight and then they're going to 36 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:11.039 come on back on Monday. Trying to look at my 37 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:13.680 Clock'm all confused. It's eleven fifty six pm. 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God Baby. 132 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:57.279 How many times are we gonna say this? 133 00:06:57.519 --> 00:06:59.920 You've probably probably fourteen time. 134 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:00.680 Let me come on. 135 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:05.279 Okamoto does it again. She successfully defends her title in 136 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:09.279 the Ladies Championship here at the World Series of Poker. Now, 137 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:13.319 not only does she defend her title first place last 138 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:15.279 year in twenty twenty four, first place this year twenty 139 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:18.680 twenty five. In twenty twenty three, she got second. We've 140 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:20.800 talked about it a lot already, so I know I'm 141 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:23.639 repeating myself by saying she went second, first, first in 142 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:27.879 three consecutive years, but I cannot state enough how freaking 143 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:29.959 awesome that is. She won one hundred and eighty four 144 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:33.319 thousand dollars this year. If you run the numbers on 145 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:38.079 the probability of finishing in the top two spots in 146 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:40.399 twenty twenty three out of a field of twelve hundred, 147 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:43.079 finishing first in a field of twelve hundred and twenty 148 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:45.839 twenty four, and finishing first in a field of thirteen 149 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:47.439 hundred in twenty twenty five. 150 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:49.720 The answer, what is it? Fifty to fifty. Either happens 151 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:53.680 or it doesn't. Okay, right, I'm sure, Am I right? 152 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:54.160 Everybody? 153 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:59.040 But am I wrong? Any that happens? Yeah, that doesn't happen. Yeah, fifteen. 154 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:01.439 Any time you want to play heads of her roles, 155 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:05.240 let's let's go one in nine hundred and thirty million. 156 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:08.480 That's a big number, big big. 157 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:11.360 Now, that's the sort of scale we're dealing with here. 158 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:12.759 That this happened. 159 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:18.120 It should absolutely be celebrated, absolutely be championed far and wide. 160 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:23.360 Part of this what makes this such a cool story now, 161 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:27.800 the accomplishment is simply incredible, absolutely extraordinary, Right, I mean, 162 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:31.439 it's like just gasoline on the fire that she's Japanese. 163 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:36.279 Japan is a burgeoning market, like it's ready to explode 164 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:39.320 should things break a certain way, and poker has becoming 165 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:42.960 been becoming, you know, a little bit more culturally relevant 166 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:48.360 over there in Japan. So that's great. You know Masada Yokosawa, 167 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:51.080 the superstar Japanese logger. Every time that guy plus a 168 00:08:51.159 --> 00:08:53.679 log about poker, he gets a million views. I mean, 169 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:56.039 it's it's wild how big it is or how big 170 00:08:56.120 --> 00:09:01.240 he is. Right just looking at Shina Okamoto's Twitter, for example, 171 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:03.399 anytime she was posting about the event. Now, it's not 172 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:05.240 like she has no followers. She does have I think 173 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:08.600 thirty five thousand followers. It's probably a few more after 174 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:12.960 what happened tonight, but you know, it's thousands of likes, 175 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:16.679 hundreds of retweets. You know, however, many comments like it's 176 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:19.320 there's a lot of buzz around her, So there is 177 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:23.360 something happening here. And I mean just speaking to the 178 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:29.919 just speaking to the accomplishment itself. Okay. We always talk 179 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:32.279 about consistency, you know, we talk about it a lot 180 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:37.200 when it comes to poker, because that is oftentimes like 181 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:39.480 a measure that we can grade things on, Like, yeah, 182 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:41.759 anyone can kind of get hot here and there, but 183 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:44.799 to do it repeatedly, I mean, that's like this holy 184 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:47.200 grail that people just hope to latch onto and find. 185 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:52.120 And what Shina Okamoto did is you know, it's honestly 186 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:54.759 the way that she performed in this event is beyond consistency. 187 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:57.240 She dominated. Yeah, I know she didn't win that first time, 188 00:09:57.320 --> 00:10:01.200 she finished second, right, but the second time around dominated 189 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:06.799 this final table tonight dominated. You know, it's absolutely just crazy, 190 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:09.519 Like she's not on a heater. She is writing her 191 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:14.360 legacy in real time. And like I feel like I'm 192 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:19.080 gonna remember this as the Sena Okamota era, Like this 193 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:20.159 is her era. 194 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:24.720 So twenty twenty three she was the chipleader unfinished second 195 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:28.639 like that's yeah three found was she the chipular last year? 196 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:30.960 I think she went to the found right now? That 197 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:34.519 is usself is just I mean inside, she's the most 198 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:36.799 accomplished player in the history of this event handed down, 199 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:40.240 Like that's not even debatable. And this is one of 200 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:43.320 the greatest feats in all of poker, all the WSP, 201 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:46.240 in all of history. She was not the chip Ladaka 202 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:49.080 in twenty twenty four when she won, but she was 203 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:53.840 literally nine big blinds out of one hundred and twenty something. 204 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:56.919 I highly doubt anyone's ever going to do this again. 205 00:10:57.159 --> 00:11:00.399 I mean now I'll say that until Okamoto aka Oka 206 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:02.919 Goodo runs it back in twenty twenty six, right, I mean, 207 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:03.960 because that's what's gonna happen. 208 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:07.399 Yeah, that Grime is probably gonna win five. 209 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:12.039 You're gonna win his fifth, his fifth PPC, and Okamoto 210 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:15.320 is gonna win the Ladies Championship once again. Back to 211 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:17.799 back events, or back to back wins in an event 212 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:20.960 is extremely Where we talked about, you know, a couple 213 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:24.720 episodes ago. Obviously, you know, we talked a lot about 214 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:27.919 not not this year, but in past years, Adam Friedman 215 00:11:27.960 --> 00:11:30.720 and the Dealer's Choice, the ten k Dealers Choice winning 216 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:31.519 it three years in a row. 217 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:33.840 There's not that many to win just to go back 218 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:35.080 to back in general in the world. 219 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:37.480 I know, it's absolutely crazy. And then you do it 220 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:41.799 in a large field tournament, no limit hold them like, 221 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:43.919 there's just there's a lot of variants involved in right, 222 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:45.720 and you have to be able to like you just 223 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:47.960 get through the minefield, like you just can't lose. Like 224 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:49.879 it's just the whole thing is just absurd to me, 225 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:50.679 It really is. 226 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:52.559 I know, I'm the stats man and I'm going to 227 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:54.519 go out on a limb and say this is probably 228 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:59.440 the biggest ever back to back in WSP history. You know, 229 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:01.840 got those smaller main events in the early years. We've 230 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:04.440 got Adam Friedman you mentioned, we've got Dan Keats in 231 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:07.080 the PPC. We've got Aaron Cummings from a few days 232 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:10.279 ago in the deuce. But those fields are we're talking 233 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:15.360 you know, a couple hundred, you know, fifty in the PPC. 234 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:21.679 This is thousands, just completely completely different scale of things, 235 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:24.600 so even more impressive. And you know, didn't we talk 236 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:27.840 the other day about like the greatest accomplishments w this 237 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:31.279 we have to put this somewhere on that on that 238 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:34.039 tree for accomplishments just I don't know where it is, 239 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:37.279 but it's up there somewhere, just due to the field size. 240 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:39.879 And you know, even throwing in you know, we talk 241 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:42.840 about Johnny Chang going win, win, second, second to helmet, 242 00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:45.279 this is like the opposite second win, win, you know, 243 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:48.360 but in massive fields. So yeah, it's right up there. 244 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:51.519 Has to be I think also something needs to be said, 245 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:53.679 like you get so close in poker, and we've seen 246 00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:56.320 it at times. You know, she got second in twenty 247 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:59.240 twenty three, could have been some heartbreak, could have been 248 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:01.840 like you know what I'm so close could have messed 249 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:04.960 with her mentally, but you know, instead, look at what 250 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:08.159 this is turned into. And then she comes well, she 251 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:11.080 runs it back, right, she wins it. Then she shows 252 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:13.960 up this year and like that, I mean for sure 253 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:16.600 when when she was coming into the event this year, 254 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:20.200 even I thought it and probably said it that this 255 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:23.080 is like her event. You know, let's see how she does. 256 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:26.440 Especially she she gets a chip lead early on, right, 257 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:28.559 and we're like, oh my gosh, she's doing it again. 258 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:31.960 Here we go. And once that starts happening and people 259 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:34.120 start talking about it, I mean you can start hearing 260 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:37.720 the whispers, you can start seeing the messages or whatnot, 261 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:38.960 or like is she gonna do it? Is she going 262 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:40.200 to do what type of thing? And that means the 263 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:43.759 pressure builds mm hmm. And then she goes into the 264 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:46.360 found table with the chipley. She freaking dominated this found table. 265 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:49.240 I mean, just amazing stuff from start to finish. So 266 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:53.639 like having that mental fortitude to get through this all 267 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.240 is also you know, part of this being able to 268 00:13:56.279 --> 00:13:59.200 execute on poker's biggest stage. And she did that, and 269 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:02.480 she did it, you know, three consecutive years back to 270 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:05.360 back years as a winner and then I mentioned that 271 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:08.039 the Japan thing and how that ties in. You know, 272 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:12.639 she's she's from Japan. It is untapped there. You know, 273 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:16.080 I know that poker is starting to gain some legs. 274 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:18.159 You know, there's some events that are like part of 275 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:22.080 more poker clubs than they are like actual like casinos 276 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:24.600 and stuff like that. It's because the restrictions on real 277 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.000 money gaming there are still holding things back. But you know, 278 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:31.840 there's been talks about if and when a casino opens there. 279 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:35.000 You know, I remember my time at the WPT. You 280 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:37.399 know we did we did a partnership or whatever with 281 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:43.200 some people in Japan, and I can't remember exactly, but 282 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:46.639 the idea is, like listen, we at the WPT when 283 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:48.360 I was there, It's like, we want to be positioned 284 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:50.360 that when this market does open up, if it does 285 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:52.240 open up, we want to just be able to go 286 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:55.320 flying in there right away. Because I think everyone sees 287 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:58.679 the potential that Japan has. I think a lot of 288 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:01.440 what people see with that potential is you know when 289 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:04.519 you see a Masata Yokosawa post of log and it 290 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:07.399 gets snap a million views. When you see you know, 291 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:10.840 Shina Okamoto generating the buzz that she's generating when she 292 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:12.840 posts on social media like that, there is a ton 293 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:16.600 of buzz there some of those you know, clubish events 294 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:19.519 or whatever however you want to you know, classify them 295 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:23.080 in Japan. I mean that they get big numbers, big turnouts, right, 296 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:27.559 So there definitely is a market that is ready to 297 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:31.960 expand rapidly explode there. I mean, it just a matter 298 00:15:32.120 --> 00:15:36.159 if it ends up happening. The cultural legitimacy of poker 299 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:39.480 is growing in Japan, so that's why this matters on 300 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:42.320 that scale. You know, it can and it should inspire, 301 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:45.320 It should certainly open doors. You know however you want 302 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:48.720 to frame that part of the conversation. So I'm here 303 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:51.639 for it, you know, let's go. And then I also 304 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:55.399 don't want to overlook the fact that this forty eight 305 00:15:55.480 --> 00:16:00.279 hour stretch that we've had has been amazing. Yes, Michael 306 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:03.639 the grind Dermans Rocky first, that was last night, he 307 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:06.799 cements his legacy with a fourth PPC title. I mean, 308 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:11.240 just wild shit right there, absolutely wild shit. And then 309 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:16.879 Sheena Okamoa does this or Shea Okagoto as I keep 310 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:19.360 calling us, I mean, come on, you know you know 311 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:21.080 what I feel, you know what I thought of when 312 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:23.120 and This is funny because of what's been happening today 313 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:26.519 on the internet. When I thought of the Sena Okagoto thing, 314 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:31.480 because I obviously wrote in the rundown Sheina Okamoto more 315 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:33.320 like dot dot dot, because then I was gonna drop 316 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:35.200 it on the thing. But what what made me think 317 00:16:35.240 --> 00:16:39.679 of it was Dave Portnoy and how he has these 318 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:42.519 stupid like nicknames and whatever and things. And then it's 319 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:44.840 just funny that there's like a video going around today 320 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:47.399 on the internet about some guy freaking out at a 321 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:50.480 pizza shop, like like he like hits the pizza out 322 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:54.120 of the guy's hand, Like, no, it's not Dave, but 323 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:58.440 if you glance quickly, it looks like Dave. Like if 324 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:01.559 you don't fully like followed and like watches reviews or whatever, 325 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:03.080 you might be like, oh, that's Stave Porton. And I 326 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:06.039 think the tweet says like that Dave port Andy like 327 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:09.079 what an a hole, like whatever, but it's it's not him, 328 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:12.480 so but it's just it's funny that that's getting buzzed. 329 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:15.920 And I was thinking about the whole Sina Okagoto thing, 330 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:20.160 and like basically how Dave Portnoy attaches himself to Caitlyn Clark. 331 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:24.839 I'm just gonna attach myself to Sina Okagoto. That's fair enough, right, 332 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:26.240 That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get a goat, 333 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:27.880 I'm gonna put two bracelets around his neck, and I'm 334 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:30.079 gonna walk around this place because that's what I'm doing. 335 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:30.640 Definitely. 336 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:34.680 But yeah, you know, forty eight hour stretch here, Michael 337 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:38.480 the grinderb is Rocky. Now you have Sena Okamoto. I mean, 338 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:42.319 it's just absolutely outstanding greatness on display this summer. You know, 339 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:45.599 Miss Rocky's the guy who's already a legend, winning three 340 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:49.640 three PPC titles, you know, six gold racelets. That is 341 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:52.440 just absolutely incredible. Then he goes on and wins a 342 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:55.400 fourth for his seventh go racelet I mean hello, And 343 00:17:55.440 --> 00:18:00.000 then you know sheena like she's she's like it's it's 344 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:04.279 it's it's an interesting thing because I think she's a 345 00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:08.480 legend like already, but she's also like building her legendary 346 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:10.839 status in real time. So it's like both things are 347 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:13.799 happening in at once because to go second first first, 348 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:17.000 you're a freaking legend, right, But it's also like it's 349 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:20.279 not done, Like she's you know, she's like still like 350 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:23.160 this is still in the moment, So she's building this 351 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:26.160 legacy of hers in real time. As I stated, like 352 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:29.640 this is the sheina O Kamodo era, like ten twenty years. 353 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:31.799 You know, oftentimes we sit around all the time and 354 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:33.559 we do it. We sit around, we say, oh, remember that, 355 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:35.880 h remember that. I remember that, Like we're gonna remember this, 356 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:38.839 remember that time she and Okamodo went second, first, first, 357 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:40.519 and that shit was bananas? 358 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:42.920 What I mean, what the heck? So anyway, you can 359 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:45.519 have the floor. No, I mean even everything, I've done 360 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:46.079 nothing else to that. 361 00:18:46.279 --> 00:18:48.759 Really, I'm just amped up by it. I think it's great, 362 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:49.240 can it? 363 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:52.720 Like you said, it has been a pretty wild lost 364 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:54.880 couple of days here at the World Series, and you know, 365 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:58.279 as we kind of touched on, it's just it's pushing 366 00:18:58.359 --> 00:19:00.559 us in the right direction. The main event three or 367 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:03.079 four days away. You know, the buzz is happening in 368 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:06.119 the rooms again, busy, so many players here, and like 369 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:07.960 you get in moments like this that are really just 370 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:11.000 pushing us towards this finish line of the twenty twenty 371 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:11.799 five WSOP. 372 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:21.759 So I'm thinking of I'm trying to find a fourth thing. 373 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:26.279 But in my mind, the top three things right now 374 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:28.799 that are sticking out to me as like if I 375 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:30.920 were to ask the question, you know, what is your 376 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:36.000 what is your standout showcase moment from the twenty twenty 377 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:41.119 five WSP, I would say A cossats No, I would say, 378 00:19:42.039 --> 00:19:43.920 these aren't any order. These are just the three that 379 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:45.559 I have on the list, and I'm trying to find 380 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:48.519 a fourth one. Michael to grind. Name is Rocky. Fourth 381 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:52.200 PPC title, Shina Okamoto winning this year, going back to 382 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:55.240 back second, first, first in the last three years. I 383 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:58.240 would say Nick Shulman was the other one, winning the 384 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:01.519 biggest ever ten k deuces. Even you're shaking your head, 385 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:03.400 you're not gonna remember that. 386 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:05.880 You're not very good at this. Trump, go ahead? What else? 387 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:10.039 Benny Glossaw, Buddy. 388 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:13.599 Benny Glaser, that's the other one I was forgetting. Well, No, 389 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:15.079 but I'm trying to come up with four, and I 390 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:17.200 think Shulman makes it in there part of why. 391 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:21.119 So here's the thing. Shulman by itself is big enough. 392 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:26.480 So here's why I put certain things into categories, and 393 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:30.720 it's it's because of the buzz that it generates on 394 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:34.240 the outside. If I don't even know if I'm gonna 395 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:39.279 be able to fully explain myself. But Shulman his specialty 396 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:42.000 is Nola meduce to seven. He won the biggest ever 397 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:45.759 Nola medus to seven championship after a grueling eight hour 398 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:49.039 heads up match against an incredible Nola Medusa's seven player 399 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:54.599 in Darren Olias. Like exercising that type of greatness as 400 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:58.519 specialized as Nick is with that game when it's the 401 00:20:58.559 --> 00:21:01.880