Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. I'm joined by Tim Duckworth, and we have reached the twenty twenty three World Series of Poker Main Event Final table. Nine players remain from the record shattering field of ten thousand and forty three entries. Wow, what a day, Pretty quick day Overallum got out of here quick. I want it to be here for forty hours. I'm not even lying.
I don't know what time we officially wrapped up. Seven thirty maybe, yeah, that sounds about it. It's just it's just past nine o'clock now on Friday July fourteenth. That's when Tim and I are recording super fun day, pretty action packed day overall. We saw it as arguably one of the most sighting hands in WSP Main event history. People might think that I'm crazy for saying that, but I'm telling you that hand that happened that we'll talk about the three way all in clash, Wow, out of control. So
thep Main Event Final table is set. Nine players are made. Adam Walton is the chip leader. Daniel Weineman hid an insane turn card in the hand that I just alluded to. We'll talk about that. Toby Lewis came into the day pretty healthy, but is not the short stack coming back for the final table, and then we're gonna get into some of the other stuff that happened around the Horseshoe and Paris. We're gonna run through that stuff pretty quickly.
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some fun questions. So how much it is down for the year, I mean, we're gonna we'll go over our number at the end of the world. I think I'm I think I'm down very slightly, but um, pretty close to even. I think I have no idea how to win. Having looked close to even is a win of the Yeah, I was talking to somebody the other day, um, and they were asking me, are you up or down or whatever? I said, I think I'm pretty close to even, which is like a win because then it just seems like you were
able to free roll yourself to possibly hitting a huge score. So all good there, All right, it was Day eight of the World Series of Poker main event. Normally day eight means final table day. Surely, I mean, yeah, but you you only go by the plain dies. But what I'm saying it is only the final table of day and then the day two of the final table. What I'm saying that, yeah, no, that's true. But but what I'm saying is that in prior years, we've never
said, like day eight. It's been day seven. You've made Day seven, you're playing down to the final table like that. So it's weird to me to say day eight. I hear what you're saying. That's what I'm saying, Like, we haven't had a day. This is day like obviously Sunday is not. It's technically day nine, but we call it, you know, final table day part one or whatever you want to call it. And then there's another final table day on Monday. But previously it was get
to day seven. Then you're playing final three tables down to the final table. You know, this year is a Day eight because they added a year or they added a day. Thank god that they did, because they had, you know, a crap ton more runners, which is awesome, you know, and I think that it helped the schedule out. Players had an early night, you know, crew staff, all that stuff gets an early
night tonight. Also a day off tomorrow as a pertain to the main event, even though there are tournaments that are going to be running here at Horseshoe and Paris on the Las Vegas Strip. You've made jumping in the two fifty deep stack Las longa hell, it's not a sable Helmo. I'm done with poker for the World Series. I can't hand this a one ky free zack
coming up. I don't want to. I can't handle it. Not if they ripped my heart and soul in the main events, you can go from the main event to the two fifty days that Yeah, honestly, I'm I know these people do it. You know a lot of these poker players obviously do it. You know. I don't know if I could ever do it. It's it just seems like so hard to do. I mean, maybe I'll get to that point someday, but I don't know. We'll see. So they came back with fifteen players today for Day eight, and it turns
out that Jack O'Neill was the first player to go. He bust in fifteenth place. I believe Jack O'Neill came into the day fourteenth out of the fifteen players, and then Kong Fam was the shortest act, but Kong Fang hung around a little bit, and it was actually Kong Fam that eliminated Jack O'Neill
in fifteenth place. Then in fourteenth place we lost a former end of day chip leader, the Day six chip leader, Joshua Payne or josh Payne, and he went out in what was one of the most exciting hands at least that I can remember in World Series of Poker mainiment history. And I don't think that that is like some sort of crazy overstatement to make. I really
don't. This hand was absolutely out of control. Also, when you consider like the stakes fourteen players left, they're on a money bubble or i'm sorry, a money jump. They're all guaranteed four hundred and thirty thousand. I think the next place or two places was five hundred and thirty five thousand, So you know there's there's that money that's at stake. Obviously, all of
the equity that's involved in a hand like this. So here's here's how the hand played out, and we'll just talk about it, and then we'll play a little interview with the winner of the hand, which happened to be Daniel Wineman, who then went on to make the found Table. So they're playing four hundred thousand, eight hundred thousand. They're at two tables of seven on the main feature table stage. Joshua Paine makes it one point six million to
go. Joshua Paine like he'd been playing like kind of aggressive, so he doesn't necessarily have to have a super premium hand here. It turns out he's got pocket kings. Okay, it folds on over to Jose Aguilera and he three bets to four and a half million on the button. Now action slides one seed over to Daniel Wineman and he's I believe he's in the small blind on this hand. He goes into the tank and we know, so Aguilarra
three bets with queens. So you're watching, like the screen comes up MC and I are doing the commentary, and like you know, they kind of show you the hand, the cards of the players. When it gets to each of them so like, you know, Pain, Okay, Pain's got kings, Okay, we have a potential for a big hand. Oh, aguilar has got queens. Okay, Oh my god, Daniel Wyman's got Jack's.
But what the hell this is insane? Daniel Wineman looks at his hands, or sorry, looks at his cards and immediately looks like he's just like in pain, like are you kidding me? Like this spot right now? Really fourteen left in the US be maniment, all this stuff going on, all this money on the line, a shot at the final table, all this equity, what like what what? And so the blinds are again four in eight hundred thousand, and Dan Wineman has right about twenty nine million.
So what's that thirty something? Big bines, Yeah, thirty six thirty. I don't know it's thirty eight. My brain's not working right now. So he's kind of thinking. He's going back and forth. He looks at Aguilera's stack and he gets a count on his stack. Wineman knows that he has Josh Pain covered across the table. Aguilera actually has Wineman covered, okay, So he's thinking, thinking, thinking, Eventually he announces that he's all in
for a little bit over twenty nine million actions on Pain. Now he looks like, what the heck He's got two kings Like He's immediately like kind of sits up in his chair. He's like, what huh? Like really like three bet and a jam behind me, you know, I mean, ultimately Paine's never folding the kings there, I don't think, and he doesn't. He puts his money in then actions on Aguilera, who thinks for not all that long, but did think for a little while, and then he makes
the call. So all the all the players are all in. Josh Payne is the shortest stack. He's got pocket kings. The biggest stack is Jose Aguilera, he's got pocket queens, and then Dan Weinman has pocket Jack's. And it's like, oh my god, what is going on here? If Aguilera somehow wins this hand with the queens, he's the biggest stacks, so he'll knock out two players, and a bunch of the other short stacks are all going to get this pay jump sold like that's happening as well. Obviously
Payne is looking to triple up here with the best hand. Pain is also friends with Daniel Wineman, like it says all this sort of stuff. It's just converging. At one time, fourteen players left in the main event on the main stage. I mean, it's just absolutely wild. Flop comes Ace seven four. Now it comes to two hearts. The hearts don't matter because
no one between the King's Queens and Jack's had hearts. Also, something that's a little bit of a worst thing for Daniel Wineman going into this with the worst of the three hands is his bolt of his suits are covered. He can't make a flush, okay, so turn boom, Jack of Hearts. I mean Wineman's face complete shock, because it honestly looked like it honestly looked like to me that he couldn't breathe. I mean it was like out of control. I was like, like he like legit can't breathe. I mean
that's what That's what I thought. It looked like. I mean, just absolutely wild that he hit that hand. You got Josh areas like in the background, like jumping up and down, fist pumping with that jack on thetern and it was the Jack of hearts, you know, but again, no player had a heart. The river comes, it's a three, it blanks off, so Wineman wins his hand. He takes out Pain in fourteenth place.
He doubles through Aggie Lera, who's then left pretty short. Overall, he's down to twelve and a half million again big blind at the time, eight hundred thousand. So just an absolutely wild hand, certainly one that I won't forget anytime soon. And then after the whole day wrapped up, after we got down to nine, I went and found Daniel because I had to ask him just about this hand. All right, Daniel Wineman, I really just want to ask you about the jack's hand. How was that? Yeah?
That was fun. I've never like been the emotional guy at the table and almost like sometimes you laugh the guys that go crazy until you're deep in this tournament and realize like how stressful it is and like how your emotions are on every single hand you play, so to get it in and like by far the biggest equity spot of my life and just hit the jack. It's it's insane. I mean your face, I think, at least to me when I was watching it, it was pretty much utter shock, complete shock.
I mean, you know that are just two left in the decks, but you never expect it's going to come. I think Shand've already changed the background of his phone from glanced sweating the million dollar bounty to my face hitting the jack, So he'll have to look at me for the next year or so. Now, pre flop, what's going through your mind? Raised three bed in front of you. You had I think thirty thirty five big binds about that. You look down, you see two jacks, you're shorthanded.
There's twelve left in the main event. I mean you looked pained when you saw your and and we're kind of looking at it. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't It wasn't me trying to give off a false teller or anything. I was just truly like in a tough spot, like you know, my buddy Josh opens under the gun, I think off twenty five blinds or so, and the Spanish kid three bets on the button, which I know
he's gonna go after Josh. Maybe a little bit light because Josh had been playing like kind of aggressively, so it's understandable that the Spanish guy, you know, my three bit a little bit late for sure. I think he's just gonna use Ason King Blocker's a lot I saw a few hands yesterday where he three bit at king nine suited hand. You know, I was a little worried because he did go with a small sizing. But then I'm trying to think, you know, maybe it's just because Josh is so short.
But at the same time, it's like you said, it's thirty five lines, it's Jack's it's six handed, and sometimes if they have it, they have it. You know. I'll talk to some some people who are a lot better at tournaments than me and find out maybe exactly how bad it was. But in the moment, it felt like time to go. How big is this moment for you now? I mean it's what you dream of as a poker player. It's it's the tournament you never think you're gonna make it.
And now I got a day off to prepare and probably just gonna try to relax, play some golf, not think about it too much, and coming ready to do some battle on Sunday. All right, you heard it there, Daniel Wyman describing his emotion. What's going through his mind? I mean, just so much at stake right there to Jack of Hearts. I mean, he should get that just tattooed on his forehead as far as I'm concerned, I mean, like what I mean, holy hell, Like can
you imagine. I mean, there's obviously been some ridiculous hands and dubis of being made him in history. I mean that just has to be up there with the best of them. I mean, just absolutely wild. All right. So after that you got such in Josie goes out in thirteenth place, then Kong Fam finally succumbs on the short stack in twelfth place, then Alec Tarelli busts in eleventh place, and then Jose Aguilera goes out in tenth place.
Now there was some interesting dynamics as this thing played down. I think they were twelve handed. When there was a bunch of short stacks. You had Fam who was super short. Daniel Holsner was super super short. I think when the blinds, the blinds are still four hundred eight hundred thousand, and Daniel Holsner got down to two point eight million, like Alec Terrelli was
super short. So it was just it was really interesting. And then Agui Larra was also pretty short after he lost that big hand in the three way clash, And it was just really interesting because three of those short stacks. You had Agui Larra, you had Holzner, and you had Terrelli. We're all on the same table, and on the other table you had fam and the players at one point asked if they could go hand for hand. The
tournament staff said, no, the Tanki's out too bad. We're not gonna you know, we're not gonna put you on hand for hand, So they let him go. There was kind of a thing going back and forth with Alec Terrelli and Juan Mas Sierras that was happening. There was a mucked hand for Jose Aguilera because he was away from the table. He was he was away from the table, but he was like within the feature table area just talking to his rail. So there was that, you know, he got
really upset at that when that happened. I mean, there was a lot of different stuff that was happening on of course, in the big poker tournament in the world. On day eight, he was just absolutely wild. So we get down to the final table of ten, Jose Agui Larra is short. He's looking to, you know, try and get back into this thing, double up, make something happen. Holsner I mentioned had gotten down to two point eight million when the blinds were four and at eight hundred thousand,
he doubles up. He ends up like spinning his stack up pretty nicely overall, and he comes into the final table of ten with over thirty millions, so he's doing well. Then there's a hand with Jan Peter Yatman. I believe he raises Jose Aguilera three bets. He three bets till like six point seven million, leaves himself two point five million behind. I believe the big blind was one point two million at the time. Yatman decides to call he's
got ace eight and then Aggui Larra has got ace jack of spades. So the flop comes down six five four with one heart, and Yachtman did have the ace eight of hearts. There was also one spade on the flop and Aguilera has the ace checker spades. Watman puts in the chips to force his opponent all in if he makes the call. Aguilera does make the call. He's got the best fare right now, but he's still got to fade some
outs. The turn just delivers the out that he needs. It's the seven, So six five four on the flop seven on the turn, the ace for Yachtman makes it straight. The only hope for Aguilera at that point is to chop on the river, and the deuce of diamonds does not do it for him, so we lose Jose Aguilera in tenth place. He takes home seven hundred thousand dollars and that is what's set the final table of nine. Adam Walton is the chip leader. He had a crazy day. He was
battling on the outer feature table. Then when he gets up he starts playing pots with Juan Massiras and Toby Lewis like all day he's chipping up, chipping up, chipping up. He's going to be the only player with more than one hundred million chips, and he's got one hundred and forty three million. Then it's Stephen Jones with ninety million, Daniel Weinman eighty one million, Jean Peter Yatman seventy four point six, Juan Massierraz has sixty eight million. One.
Massiras was up two hundred and forty million. Yeah he did that was I saw him off towards he was talking to um Alex and he looked like, you know, he had just made the final type. So he should be happy, he should be excited, he should be like, you know, everything was the opposite to that. He was looking like he had just run over a dog. Yeah, I mean, but listen, Live by the sword, died by the sword. Yeah, we talked about it yesterday.
Juan Massierras had the potential to go into the final table with two hundred million chips, or there was a chance he could have been out like and you know, towards the end, he started teetering more towards that we thought he might be out than we thought he might have two hundred million, just because he kept losing some big pots and big pots. Ultimately, Massierz is gonna take sixty eight million into the final. It's a ton of chips.
It's they're still gonna be playing. One point two million is the big blind, I believe. So he's got a ton of ships. He's got fifty I think it's like a full level. He's got like fifty six big blinds. There's just something crazypes. Russelland Priedric fifty point seven million, Dean Hutchinson forty one point seven million, Daniel Holzner thirty one point nine million, in
the short stack. Returning is Toby Lewis nineteen point eight million, but Toby Lewis, you know, still has what's that twenty fifteen sixteen, like sixteen seventeen Big Blinds, So you know, not horrible for Toby Lewis, Like I know it's it's short, but I mean one double up. He's right in the middle of things. At the top again is Adam Walton, so you know he's cruising along with one hundred and twenty Big Blinds. He was. He's a lot of fun. Like you, you wouldn't expect it.
He kind of really emerged late in terms of like becoming a more of a personality, but he's a lot of fun overall. I know you spoke with him afterwards, So we'll kick it to that interview now and then we'll continue on Adam congratulations ship later of the WSP Manu band I really want to talk too much. I want to talk Jeff Platt. Seems like you and you'll
rail have been showering quite a lot. Do you believe in the Jeff Plat chinks, Well, I don't know if I believe in it, but two years ago I had piles Jeff Interviews me, and that was my last hand in the tournament. So I feel like just decided we're gonna shower Jeff until I'm busted well or win. Jeff does listen to the podcast, so let's confirm. We're gonna confirm that that is true. The next thing I want to ask you about is I believe you and your friend over here, Tim
Chang, have a little bit. I want you to tell me a bit about this boat bet and about the two hundred and fifty k and winnings. Can you elaborate a little bit. We just made a side bet of the first person that made two hundred and fifty k had to buy a boat. Sounds like they've put you down for a big expense already. I mean, it probably depends on how this ends up. Let's turn it back a little bit to poker. You know, chip Lata obviously twelve point one million dollars.
You want to win that pot? Ryan, Now we're gonna die off. How are you going to approach the day off? You know, mentally physically, I'm literally gonna do nothing. I'm just gonna go to sleep. I haven't slept for a while. So the idea is to literally just go to bed and Chell, I don't know, you probably didn't hear it because I was, you know, interviewing Adam Walden and his rail was over there Timothy Chang, some other players. He basically made a bet with Timothy Chang
about first to win to fifty k buys a boat. And what Chang was saying, and I don't know if you caught it, Hopefully producer Richkin, you know, did work. He's magic. Basically, Chang was saying, yeah, it's not going to be some cheap boat. It's going to be like one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars boat, you know, and like this beer is flowing. It was a crazy rail, But I think that is a pretty crazy story that they would make it a bet to Timothy Chang.
Also cash in this main event five hundred ninety first place, first player makes two hundred and fifty k buys a boat. And also Chang is the lucky charm. Jeff Platt is the unlucky charm because a couple of years ago, Walden was interviewed by Jeff busted the next hand. As he said on the call, they were fading Jeff the entire main event, and they're gonna keep fading him until Walty the wins a bus. I mean I'd fade him too. It's you know, Jeff Flatt super unlucky to people. The boat's a
crazy thing. Yes, you know, when I heard that, I was like, wait, what that seems pretty wild? Um. You know I don't think boats are all that cheap, so you know, yeah, I guess I'm pretty close to like me, say you cash for like pretty much exactly two hundred fifty K maybe three. I mean you're just gonna give up one third? Well, no, I think you might buy a little paddle butt from tank, right, you're not gonna buy a one hundred and fifteen
k tree. Well, I mean he's in position to buy a pretty awesome boat. Yeah. At this point, one hundred and twenty big blinds the chip leader coming into the final table of nine. Um, you know, guaranteed nine hundred thousand, likely gonna win a couple million. Um, you know, if things don't become a total disaster for him. But yeah, here comes the boat. I like it. I like it. Don't make
a bet like this what I'm not buying? No, it doesn't need at let's we should make a poke a bet like this next world series, one of us being something we have to do to buy something. Next one series that's future Tim and Donnie's you know item. So play is going to resume for the Final Table on Sunday, July sixteenth at two pm Yeah Vegas time,
Okay, two pm Vegas time, five pm East Coast time. The live stream will start on poker Go at three pm Las Vegas time, so cards in the air at two pm an hour later due to the delay because of gaming regulations. That's when the stream will start again. That is on poker go dot com, so be sure to check that out. It's gonna be a lot of fun. I can't wait to see more clashing between Adam
Walton and Juan ma Sierras. Overall, I thought these guys have played a lot of really fun hands, big pots, creative lines, so I'm looking forward to much more of that, you know, going forward as this thing plays out. And then obviously these money jumps are absolutely ridiculous, so you know, I can't wait to see how that comes into a dynamic overall. And then we'll see if Toby lewis, you know, probably the biggest name at this final table. See if he can spin up that short stack.
He's going to be coming in with seventeen big blinds. Can he turn it around and start to climb back up? What would you do if you're in Toby Lewis spot? Are you thinking, Okay, I've got some kind of crazy people. Maybe I would be trying to find aces and double up. Okay, that's obvious, But like, are you actively thinking about laddering up? Are you? Like, you know what, I'm the shortest stack. Everything is a free role from here on. I'm just gonna just play normal.
I mean, I think Toby will probably approach it that. You know, laddering up is obviously important. I also think Toby Lewis has done extremely well for himself throughout his career. You know, he's already had two million dollars scores. He won the Auzy Millions before he finished third in the wind Millions events. That was I believe when Andrew Marino won it. Ye think that was right. But they all they all did a deal and they all
got over a million dollars for the deal. So he also has like another six hundred dollars score. You know, he said he's obviously done well. I think probably in some sports betting, in some business stuff or NFTs or whatever it may be. So you know, I don't think Toby Lewis is necessarily hurting for the money, right, So he's not going to be like
super sweating these pay jumps would be my guess. Ye that said, I mean, you're playing for a retirement money, You're playing for twelve million, so you know, I think he's gonna do his best to play it cautiously but also go for it. If that makes any sense to anyone out there, I'm not even sure if it makes sense to me coming out of my own mouth, Like, I don't think he's going to shy away from spots.
Like for example, today when they were I think there was twelve left, Daniel Holsner folded ACE five of diamonds with one of the shortest stacks, which I thought was kind of a tighter fold because you know, what are you waiting for at that point? And listen, maybe he would have busted. I don't know what Aggie Larra would have done behind him, because he had pocket threes and he ended up going all in. Everyone folded. But like, does he make the call and then Holden's out of the tournament.
I don't know. But that said, like, I don't think Toby Lewis is going to be passing up on those types of spots. I think he's gonna take those spots because I think ultimately Toby Lewis is gonna try to play to win. That's just my read on the situation. But you know, we'll see. I think, you know, while I think Toby Lewis has obviously done very well for himself over his career, I think he also really wants to win and really wants to win a lot of money. So you
know, he's not just gonna come in here firing away. And to be honest, I know he's short. You know, he's got seventeen big blinds as the shortest. At the next shortest is Holzner with twenty seven big blinds, and then it's Dean Hutchinson with thirty five big blinds. I mean, some of these guys are blasters, so like Toby could just do nothing,
like these guys just get the money in because they're just crazy. Like so there's been some wild hands that have played out, So you know, I don't think it's going to be a situation where, you know, everyone's really wading out Toby, because I think that all these guys are gonna kind of play their own hands. Like Juan Massierras certainly not scared. Adam Waldon definitely not scared. So I think you could see a lot of big pots.
I really don't think Johan Peter Yatman is that's scared. Like, I think he's willing to get in there if the opportunity presents itself. So, you know, Toby could let her up by not doing too much, you know, but that doesn't mean he's gonna necessarily take an ultra conservative approach to this whole thing. Chop value, what do you got? It's correct multiple times. I can put it in the in the system. Good three point seven million, nice clean number. Yeah, but at this point, we're playing
for the twelve I'm gambling saying for the gambling today. We're playing for the twelve million and the five hundred dollars dollar races. Have you chomped that price? Though? Everyone takes take a movie, everyone takes wine, movie, take a diamond. Yeah, yeah, I think that's how we do it. Fifty thousand dollars, no limit, hold him high roller again. This one had one hundred and seventy six entries, Alex Kulev coming out on top
almost two point one million dollars in the bank for Alex Kulev. He tops Gurgly Coolsar in second place, Jake Schindler finishing in third place, Daniel Schmilkovich in fourth place, in Karai Aldemir in fifth place. So can I give you a rundown of Alex Kulev's last two months? Yeah, crushing, He's crushing march It two cashes try in Vietnam. Okay, that's that's not much.
He heads over the money. Carlo wins the ept hundred thousand euros Super High Rolla for basically one point one American with US dollars, and he had a final table in a twenty five K. Comes over to Vegas, he takes third in an Aria high Rolla. He takes fourth in the two hundred
and fifty K Super high roll off at one point six million. Yeah, cash in the three K, cash in a fifteen hundred cash in a fifteen hundred six in an Aria high Rolla, he cashed in the win, wpt everyone for one jump and then wins the fifty thousand dollars buy in high roller here at the WSP for his first race, and that's two million. So he's had a one point one, one point six and a two million dollars
score in the span of basically two months. He is on fire. He also moved to where fifth on the PGT leader Boy, he took a big jump. Now there are some obviously main event changes that are going to happen in the next few days, but currently he sits in fifth place, thirteen hundred and thirty three points, leapfrog Jeremy Osmus, Phil helm With and lou Gaza. Alex Coolev. If he finishes in the top forty, is he coming for the PGT Championship? Yeah, I did ask him at Yeah,
I did ask him. He was He's got his eye on it, so he is. Yeah, I think we'll see him. And you know, thirty one hundred points, he could do probably nothing, and I think he might be around that, you know, thirty fifth, thirty seventh place on the leaderboard. All right, well, you spoke with Alex Cooler after the win, so we'll kick it to that right now. Yeah, with Alex Coolev. Congratulations on WSP pracer. Let's wind up back April million euros score,
June one point six million, and now two million dollars score. You must be sitting high on life right now. I've been very fortunate. It does feel amazing, you know. I can say that I've worked hard for it, but the honest is the truth is that I've I've been very fortunate in this three four months and a lot of things have gone right for me. That's why I'm here these three big scores. Is as safe to say you're on top of your pocket game right now. I feel really comfortable.
For me. It's of course I've been fortunate as well, but I think I've been prepared for those moments, which really helps because it makes you feel a bit more comfortable and when the pressure gets to you. What do you enjoy the most about playing these high buying high roller events around the world. The fact that it's so competitive and the competition is at such a high level that it makes you It puts you in very interesting situations which are unique.
They don't come up often and you have to make a decision on the spot. That challenge, you know, makes me want to play them more and more, and it excites me for the future. I'm sure if you're aware about you know, the puger Go Tour. I know you've been in our studio. We're doing a million dollars free role at the end of the year. You're currently fifth on the leaderboard now, so ye, you're in the
top forty. You know, you're already kind of qualified. What's it like that, you know, ask the Puggo Tour is giving back to these high roller players with a million dollar free role. I've I've played twice in the area this year just because of the scheduling. I couldn't have played more. I love it over there. They treat the players very well. They treat the players very well. It's very professional. They just make it easy for
us, and I really appreciate that. And the fact that there is such a such a free role in the future just shows that they care about the players and they're not They just care about the game and the growth of the game. So I appreciate that and I respect that a lot. I've got a couple of big events coming up. We've got a ten K six max a day over at the Wine hundred k Alphae. Where are you going to be heading right after this? Ah? Right now? Or just take a
few moments, but I'll probably go to the win. If that doesn't go well, I'll come back here to play the thank A six. All right. That was Alex Kolev again winner the fifty thousand dollars Noelmant hold him high roller for two million, eighty seven thousand dollars three thousand dollars PLO six Max Matthew Perry wins it all four hundred and eighty. K Ian mataikas POY front
runner, takes third. So it looks like he's got almost forty six hundred POY points, which is, you know, the decent gap between him and Chris Brewer, who's in the second. You know the Vince caught a gift after the Slam Dun contest where he say it's over. I feel like I want to put that gift on this result. It's not over, I know, but it's that's so many. That's such a big league. You basically have to win a bracelet. Yeah, I know you get to win a
bracelet, but did you guys win bracelets? Brewer, Josh r A, Shawn Deeb, I mean, anyone? Those are those are the three players immediately behind. Ian takes and they can all win bracelets, So you know, I wouldn't say that this is over. I mean, it's gonna be hard for them to catch him, but I'm saying I know it's not Oliver, but that's how I feel. I mean, I know Brewer is the closest. So it's forty five hundred and ninety seven points right now for IMA
Takes. Chris Brewer has three thousand, eight hundred and twenty eight. Then it's Josh Area with three thousand, six hundred and eighty eight, and then it's Shawn Dee with three thousand, six hundred and seventy one. Now I think Sean Deeb actually has the best chance to catch IMA Takes. I mean, Chris Brewer has talked even though he's won two bracelets, how you know
he's not really gonna push for the Player of the Year too much. It's obviously great to win two bracelets and win a boat load of money, but um, without there being a you know, big cash prize on offer for Player of the Year, I don't expect him to chase it. And you know, as hard as Sean Deeb will and then also Josh Area, I don't expect to chase it as hard as Shaan Deebill he I think Josh Ayer will chase it harder than Chris Brewer, but not as hard as Shaun deeb
Shawn Deeve's blast and everything. Shawn Dee's gonna be playing all the online stuff that's still left. So, you know, I think Sean deep has has the best shot out of those three, although I think, you know, any of those three is more of a long shot than not, because I Matagus has had such a great summer and really, you know, he's put
a stranglehold on this thing. He doesn't quite have it locked up just yet, but he's holding onto a firm and he could certainly be the WSP Player of the Year for twenty twenty three, you know, pending how the last week or so, you know, half a week of events that are going to take place. Here, the six hundred dollars ultra stack that had seven thousand, two hundred and seven entries, Joseph Row wins it all four hundred and one thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars. Congratulations to Joseph Row.
Fifteen hundred dollars. Noelm and hold them shoot out They're down to ten from a field of nine hundred ninety seven entries, two hundred and thirty seven thousand dollars up top for the winner. These final ten players are guaranteed nineteen thousand dollars. You got Yuri Zeveleski, Adam Friedman for Raz, Jocka mo Zao Ao Chen, Olga Irmlcheva. I probably totally butchered that. I'm sorry, Olga. I'm gonna butcher this next one too. I mean, what are
these names? I know I had to put them all. Edward Marach Kouzikowski, Yeah, I'm sorry, Edward Alan Mellow. That one's easy. Mateo Cavalier also easy, and Michael Feinstein also easy. Sorry to everyone else who doesn't have an easy name, and I'm horrible at pronouncing names, please forgive me the nineteen hundred and seventy nine dollars Poker Hall of Fame bounty. Looks like there's about fifteen players left out there. Jason James is leading the way
currently, there's more than four hundred and two thousand dollars up top. You got Martin Zamani's in the field. Martin Jacobsen is in the field, Anthony who is in the field and also Francis Anderson. PHILH. Halmuth finished in nineteenth place. King John Reard in the third took eighteenth place, got us a couple more points he hit the field us, then he got the extra
five for finishing in the top eighteen. I don't think that puts us in the lead fantasy, but it gets us points to close the gap between us and Team Lady Gaga, and we will take any gap closing that we can get. At this point, this thing's coming right down to the wire. I absolutely love it. Let's go twenty five Omaha High Low Slash Stud High Low Mixed the tournament. That's gonna take nineteen thousand days. Because it's nine thirty on day two of that tournament. They are not in the mind.
It's insign It's absolutely wild. There are about seventy two players left from the four hundred and sixty that started two hundred and twenty one thousand dollars to first place. Sixty nine players will finish in the money. David bakes Baker is leading the way, Nick Papeale's out there and just Korn Karina, jet Eddie Bloomenthal and Ron Ware are also all in the field pushing towards the cash to
that one. I mean it's scheduled for a three day event. I'm not sure that happens, but you know, we'll be here for a couple of days. There's no big deal. Yeah, and we'll follow this one as we go underway today and we'll get into these a little bit more tomorrow. We don't need to hit on them too much today. But the fifty hundred Noelman hold him. The Closer event kicked off first of two starting fights. He had the one thousand dollars Flipping Go m Shawande won his way to the
actual real tournament. Part of the head cashed, so he cashed. So that's because we would complaining he was on the rail sweating Dan Wyman. But yeah, but he didn't have to he didn't have to go back to play the Flipping Go till like seven people. We might have spoke too soon. We're getting mad at him that he wasn't playing events, but he already cashed. Well, yeah, you know, ten thousand dollars six Max Championship also underway. Um so tomorrow, um, we'll have day one B of the
Closer, three thousand dollar horse, the Flipping Goal will be continuing. The six Max Championship will be continuing as well. UM, we'll get into more of this stuff as we go. You know, we really wanted to focus on the main event today and then just kind of quickly run through what else is going on. UM, we do have one more tournament to talk about. It's not a WSP event. It doesn't have a gold bracelet. It actually doesn't even have a WPT title for grabs. I guess, wait,
does he do? No? Surely he won something, right? There was a trophy. There was the wind Trophy on the table as well as what it looks like trophy. It looks like you know what it looked like. It looked like the WPT Prime trophies, although bigger is what it looked like. I did not see a cup. I did not see that. Look exactly like that, just with a different set of engravy. I'm much bigger. I did not see what that's special. There is a trophy. It
looks like a very fancy sparkling water bottle. Look right there. Say that it's like they got three trophies. That's all. This guy won three trophies. That's awesome. I'm very anti the multiple trophy thing one trophy. You don't need multiple trophies. Why do you need you? He won one tournament, he'd win three. I don't think he needs the WPT one. I like the wind one wind do great trophies and the water bottles. Cool, that's all you need a think. Listen, just collab with the venue.
If the venue wants part of the trophy. Yeah, and like do some special put them all together, merge him. Yeah, do something that They got that artist guy, and can't they go to him and be like, hey, design us for a trophy. Let's go yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, the guy actually three trophies. He's gonna be showing him off. Oh would you would you win for that one? Oh? The WPT everyone at to win? Oh what about that one? Oh? Also the WPT everyone to win. Oh you wanted two years? No, I actually
just want it once? What about that one? Oh? Also, w oh you want it again? No? No, I won the same tournament. They give me three trophies. I mean, what what are we doing? Well, the man that would be talking about his trophies is beIN wing.
He wins another WPT title and two point five million dollars. He beat WPT Deep Sex champion Scott Balmacy and heads up third place, Nico Coop, Freddie hell A fourth, not the WPT Champions Club member at Domini Nishi in fifth, Tom CONNOLEI in six and guess what seventy five hands to crown a champion at this found table. That is insane. Yeah. I had the I had the live stream on while I was driving into work. I was
not watching it. I just put it literally in my cupholder and I was listening to it um and the first like fifteen twenty minutes there was like three or four all ins. It was like going crazy. So so yeah, so really fun fast final table overall. I actually want to go back and watch this one. Wasn't obviously able to watch it today, but you know, it'll be kind of in my post WSOP relax on the couch week. You know, I'll probably fire this one up and check it out. It's
always good to one be entertained. But also, you know, watching these final tables, I think is a good thing to be able to learn from, you know, see what other players are doing out there, see what's allowing them to win. You know, maybe even like trying to see some mistakes that are being made, stuff that you catch trying to pick up on what other poets doing, all that sort of stuff. You know, great learning tools out there. WPT Alpha eight for one drop kicked off today.
That's the one hundred and eleven thousand dollars buying high Roller Tournament, but also has a charity element. Seven thousand dollars of the buying is going to charity. How many they get today currently at thirty six players. Registration is open until the start of day two. They've got about, you know, three ish four hours left of play. Kind of pretty long day one for this type of buying. You are allowed a single re entry and a lot of
players have already been eliminated. It's down to twenty six I believe twenty two of thirty six players. UM. A couple of the people that are out Adrian Mateias Kerry, Kat's fatal Holst, Jason Coon, Nick Vatrangelo, Stephen Chedwick, Bill Klein, and Mikita Bezikikowski to name a few. Karen Shipley, David Stamm just leading ahead of Arta Matrozaion Dan Smith, and Rick Solomon.
You also got Ian or Aaron Lightburn in there. Michael Limb, Ramen Haadiev, Kevin Rabbitschow, Alex Panikov's all in the mix, phil Ive, he's out there on time. He's out there battle and let's see, like this is what I mean. Chris Brewer is over there playing this. Ye, I mean, he's not winning Player of the Year if he's over there playing this, that's just what he's doing. I mean, can't blame the guy. He's going after the money everything. I get it. You know,
when when's this open? Till? Did you just three days of play? It's open until tomorrow at one pm I believe is the start of Day two play down the final table, and then they'll stream I think they're streaming both Day two and the final table on the WPT YouTube channel. All Right, this will be one of those ones that I'm looking forward to watching as well, but you know, probably gonna have to come in the post WSP relaxation week just because I just don't have time to watch it. Right,
I will not be watching any Polka or at least a month. At least a month, he says, Yeah, I don't want to watch any all right, but you know, well, we'll keep you guys updating on what's happening in that tournament as it plays out over these coming days, But that's gonna do it for us. My name is Donnie Peters, his name is Tim Duckworth, and we'll talk to you guys later. Bas