A Couple of Studs

Hello everyone, and welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth. This is take two. Okay, this is take two. So here's what's happening. It's two eleven am. I am beyond over it. Okay. I've been up since seven o'clock in the morning. I'm ready to get out of here. I want to do the pod. You guys generally know when we do the podcast because we usually say what time it is at some point in the show. Right,

I'm very tired.

I know. That's why I wanted to do the podcast and get out of here. Also, you don't realize that, like I have to download the files, I have to put them in the drive, I have to do all this nonsense. It's like an extra half hour to my night every night. And then tim' is like, oh, I'm going to be up before you. No you're not, because I'm going to be up at six thirty tomorrow morning driving my e F and kids to school. Okay, And you're like, I'm going to sleep here. Yeah exactly, okay, exactly.

But we can bang this out. Okay, twelve minutes, Okay, not twelve minutes.

You know, I'm probably gonna give the people a half hour. So before we get into all of that, allow me to tell you about play poker Go once again. I need to remind you guys every single day about play

And I'm just wanted to throw wrench.

I'm overruling you. Okay, I'm overruling you. Already out of the gate, I said I was going to do this, but no, I'm not going to do it. We are overruling you. Are they playing this out? What are they doing in this stud?

The stud all right? Well down a trip plan?

Answer my question?

Well, I came over during the break, so I don't know unless.

Okay, we're gonna go back to that. Let's let's hit on the twenty five K high Roller first, because there was a bit of a situation at the ben the day and you were here for it.

Yeah.

So last night on the previous episode, we talked about how they had three hundred entries on day one, they got all the way up to three hundred and ninety two. Enormous field, colossal, some would say massive, some would say massive, we won't say massive, we'll say other words like gigantic, you know, stuff like that, monstrous, monstrous works. Yes, I'm

Yeah, that sounds right.

So you send a text to our group chat saying they're redrawing the entire tournament. What the heck happened?

You have very very interesting developments. Basically, they played a level while Vegetation was still open, mass que of people trying to jump in, and you know they've got the new iPads. It's it's rather difficult to balance the old way where you hi cott tables open new tables.

It causes quite a headache. And I don't know.

Who made the decision WSP or maybe it was the people in the app. They did it, you know, redraw of the tournament. That way, you can just basically immediately redraw all the new players in. They all get their push notification, they all move tables, very uncommon way to do it. But I was out there I didn't really hear any gripes about it, So maybe this is the new way to do.

It, I was gonna say. I mean, at least as it pertains to the SP because now with the WSP plus app, you basically press a button probably right this is redraw or something. So I mean, should that be the case in these tournaments when you have these large groups of late registrants that come in. Should you just

Okay, Personally I don't love it.

I still like the way we do it to the studio where you you know, high cat is such.

A butt in all candis, but you see it.

You can't compare it to the studio, I know, but in all fantus this is still random. So if it saves ten to fifteen minutes and it's just an easy way to do it, and no players object.

Hey, I think this might.

Be the new way to do these big field high rollers, especially here at the WSP.

Yeah, I'm with you on that, So I just thought it was interesting. You know, you've never seen anything like that. Obviously. The app makes it easy to just you know, press a couple buttons and rejar everyone. Everything gets shot out to everyone's phone and that's that. So after day two

I say we go to the six hundred.

You're so ridiculous. Okay, We're going to go over to the fifteen hundred dollars PLO double board bomb pot, which has a winner, jijang Luo lou oh Is Lap. So I have no idea to say his last name, don't I don't know. I just know that there was a guy at the Venecient final table today who had the same last name, and the whole time that I was saying his last name, it was non stop correcting me in the chat. So I don't know, I don't know

Was the American Chinese. I think that might matter. I mean, maybe I'm listen.

The chat was telling me NonStop, So I just I listened to the chat because that's the professionals of the worldat the YouTube chat is the professionals of the world. So that's what I go with Jizang here winning his third bracelet in three years. He won to last year, right, and he won this one this year, so he's just obviously the greatest player.

You remember which one he won last yet I know that he beat your boy, one of the hashems in the in this tournament.

Yeah, exactly, well it was.

It was slightly different, but last year it was no one at hold him slash Plo. They didn't do the bomb pot every hand, so kind of changed it up. He won that, and I don't know what else he won.

I don't know, but I just want to see if you got that first one.

I'll say he won the nine game fifteen. Is there a fifty three K nine game? There is a yes, Yeah, I'll say that. I'm just completely guessing. I honestly have no clue. What do he won? What do you got for me?

Close? Twenty five K Horse high Roller. You're in the I mean you're in the vicinity of.

I knew it was a mixed game tournament. He's a mixed game guy. He's obviously the greatest mix game player in the world, well second greatest to Benny Glasser.

But I don't know. I don't know. He might be Uh, they can run at it.

This one also took for it if we topped at the horse twenty five K horse final table. Josh all Are No Alba Dahir, Michael Manchek, Phil Ivy, Ryan Miller's got see it?

David Ben you mean Adam Friedman? Cool? That is a murderous row.

Yeah, means twenty five What do you expect? No, but yeah, this tournament? Uh luo winning two hundred and ninety thousand. Whose heads up with Robert Klein? I mean they they played heads of forever a long time. Yeah, there was two heads up matches going on and opposit side of the rooms. You had this one between Luo and Kline. Then you had the other one between China Raim and Nikwaghini, which I guess is still going on over there for god knows what reason. These these ten K limit tournaments

Yeah, got scooped.

By the way he well, the way he didn't act made me. I was like, am I misreading what's going on here? It was like, clearly you're just eliminated. But he was kind of like sitting there like, oh, I have a set well yeah, but he has a straight so it doesn't matter. So what are we doing anyway? A little side there? Uh, former Player of the Year Iamatakis seventh place in this event. All right, we're done with that. All right, let's talk about the stud shall we?

Yes? Do it?

So it's Nick Waghanty, it's China Reem. They are heads up and as of right now, it looks like Nick Waghanty has the chip lead. Yep, it's just incredible. What was the size of the chip lead for Chino? Like, what did it get up to? I think he had six to one?

Yeah, a little bit les a little bit worse than a six to one lead at one point during heads up play. And you know, we thought, as the broadcast was going on of the day two coverage of the twenty five K, we were going to crown potential winner in Chino Reem first time brace the winner on that out of table. But Nick slowly grinding back, you know, got it to even went back to Chino's way, back.

And forth, back and forth.

Obviously they're playing pretty big limits just finished hundred K, two hundred K, and obviously these guys both want it pretty bad. I'd say China wants it slightly more so. It's a grind out there. And you know they did talk about ending at one.

What happened to that five? And I want to bring up another thing because.

When on a fifteen minute break, Nick Gaghani is nowhere to be found when the clock starts, and Gino's like, well, wait, Nick had six big bets, okay, I caught him twice. Gino messaged him. I think ODB said he messaged him. He came back fifteen minutes later, and I am very confident that he would have been blinded out in fifteen minutes with six big bets. You have to physically deal the hands, I believe, still right, and then take the chips and move on on.

What was he doing?

Why did he do that when he came back?

Because he has a room here, He shares a room here with a few upstairs. So like we just assumed he went upstairs, you know, maybe change his clothes, eat some food, go to the bathroom.

Whatever it is.

He said he wanted thirty minutes. And I think that's where there was a bit of a bit of a confusion between before Gino Nick. But look, hey good on YouTube, you know if not you know, dealing the cards and taking that brace at home a little unfairly.

Well, I mean, listen, it doesn't look like Kara is going to be on Chino's side, because clearly Nick is just taken out yet. So I pointed something funny out years ago. I don't even remember what year it was. It was two thousand and eight, it was maybe two thousand design. It was one of those two John Rebert Balon who is friends with Gino his heads up with Mac Graham in the fifteen hundred dollars Limit Hold Them shootout way back in the day. And also kind of

It was a fifth place.

Jarby is heads up with Mac Graham, and Jarby has a big lead, like ten or eleven to one, something like that. At some point in the night, it was very late. They were playing Forever. I remember I was working with James Gwill. Shout out, James Gwill, Combin CODs, yeah, Combon cards, him and I were working for IS at the time. And sometime while their heads up, Chino shows up. The Chino shows up. He's talking to his boy JRB. You know, he's trying to sweat him a little bit,

Okay, I would like to read a post you might have made at five point fifty three am on July third, two thousand and eight.

There you go, title egg McMuffin time. It's almost six am, and thought us a.

Breakfast at the beginning to provide perhaps we should send the floor lady to McDonald's.

That was definitely h James James's for much of that for much of what year was that two eight two eight? Yeah, so that was my first year. For much of that I was reporting on the floor and handing stuff to him and he was writing it.

Graham getting irritated. Six fifty nine am. The loans railbirds are getting a little too rowdy here at the Fie table. After a hand one of the spectators was giving Graham a little too much grief. Graham's had something to him. Security stepped in and spoke with the spectator. We've been told that if it gets much more rowdy then security will start removing people from the rail. This final post even fifty three, only fifty three events of this world

Yeah, it was outragious.

Seventeen hours that post seven thirty am. Yeah, it was kind of marathons back though in those days.

Absolutely ridiculous. Well, these guys are still playing over there for god knows what reason. Just go home, guys, come back.

Been sleeping.

How you mentioned I'm going to go upstairs and sleep since we have a room. You mean you could take that too, but you think kids at school. Two thousand and eight, there was one day I finished at like five am. I want to pay for the cab to go back to our rental house in Chinatown. So I slept in the player's lounge, laptop in my arms like this, cuddling it on the couch.

And then like every time security.

Would come in or people would come in to like, you know, go to the player's lounge, I would like wake up. And then I woke up to the stampede of people coming into the rio about eleven fifty, went to the bathroom, did like one of those washers, you know where you get the water and you hip yourself down, and then started at shift to twelve o'clock.

There you go.

Yeah, good old days.

So before these two you had Paul Volpi busted out in fourth place, Mori Esk and Donni made a run all the way to fifth place, seventy thousand dollars for him. Adam Friedman was in there, sixth place for him, Dan Hi Miller seventh, eighth place, Mike the mouth matters. So so a good group of names there that ultimately bout out. And yeah, Yang Zoo also busted in third. He busted today. They played three handed for a while as well. You know, it wasn't just the heads up play that lasted quite

Place finishes is a third couple of fourths, and he's either going to get a win or another second place.

Right yeah, yeah, so he's he's you know, been there close many many times. Chino has of course won many big tournaments in his career. He's won plenty of stuff in the studio as part of the PGT. He's a two time PGT Mixed Games Champion, you know, but he has still yet to claim AWASP Gold bracelet. And he's right there. He's right there right now. So you know, if we get a winner during the rest of the show, we'll do some breaking news. If not, you can expect us to hit on this one and close it up

Yeah, I agree.

Now, I think there are exceptions to every rule. For example, if let's say Daniel Legron, who is in third place? Okay, I get it right, but come on, guys, come on. You got James Calderao, big show baby, he's in third, Kane Callus is in eighth. What's what? What's going on in this tournament? I haven't even checked in this thing all day. Two seventy five entries. Yeah, good lord, they're in the money. Okay, who else is in there?

Kyler Brown's in there? We got a brace winning in the Joseph Sanders, cal and Anderson he had a chip lead for a long time, doesn't have that anymore. Angel is a Gary Balden. I know, we love our Gary Balden, mat Gregorich.

It's not an omal tournat if Gary Bolden is not on the course.

Of course, the sorry, all right, a few of these kind of mixed game notables we are used to uh talking about.

All right, sounds good. I mean we might as well do it. Now, let's let's sit on this colossal. Yes, that's you know. I I after you tried to put it at the top to bury everything colossal, I went and then buried it.

It's colossal that it needed to be first.

Can you are you able to effort right now? Check the structure this year? In last year? I want to know what the deal is with the struction? Okay, you which one are you going to check? How about that? Okay,

Are you not able to have?

Fine? Anything you got to go to like Poker News or something, right, Yeah, I'm going to like Day one A of Poking News.

The problem is that they changed all these freaking all the stuff on the website, so you can't this is.

What I have. Yeah, no, it's forty k.

Starting one to forty minute levels, three starting ves play fifteen levels all fifteen percent of the field.

So wait, that was last year.

That was lastly.

So this yea, you saw fifty k slightly more chips, still forty minutes. I'm not sure what the first level was. Can you tell us was one hundred tw hundred, two hundred yeah, okay, so basically the increase in siding chips.

Yeah, but the increase of twenty five percent, that's a lot. It's a lot of chips and also extending, which they obviously, I mean they like it because the buying is higher.

Yeah, right, And they increased the amount of play on day one, although it was still down to the money, but they did allow for seventeen and eighty levels. So that's the main difference from this year.

I lostium.

Yeah, and I think also, as you pointed out on yesterday's episode, that it was later in the schedule last year. Yeah, right, so that you know, it's it's probably not exactly one thing. You know, it's probably not the structure. It's probably not this, it's probably not that. It's probably you know, there's a pie chart and everything has its share of stuff, you know,

The field, and there was also one more an other of w so Ryan Lang.

Okay, this was supposed to be already down to nine players for one o'clock stream tomorrow, you're what.

About ninety eight players heavy?

So we are already making some contingent plans here to maybe push it into another day, maybe stream at eight pm or nine. We're going to see how fast it plays. Every sacks about twenty big, so it should be pretty quick out of the gate eleven am restart, you know. So there is still hopes we'll get this on Pugga Goo on Monday, just a little lighter than the one pm that I had scheduled about three months ago.

So well, people are playing too good in the Colossus. Yeah, I have an idea for the classes.

Got it.

Looking at this first place prize, it's five hundred and forty two thousand dollars in a whole lot of money. Now, I think a lot of people are probably gonna hate this idea, but I'm going to roll with it.

I'm trying to think of what you're thinking.

Cap the first place at five hundred.

K Okay, why I don't know, is that clean number.

I mean, it's a nice clean number. But then but then you get you can beef up all the other payouts, okay, And what you then get is, you know, hopefully you get kind of these these dreamers, these shot takers, recreational players that are firing into this, you know, to maybe get a little bit more payout. You know, you cash for let's say eighteen hundred instead of fifteen hundred. You know, I don't think that the top makes that much of it.

Month, so stock next week.

Yeah, so that's that's just my random thought there. It just came to me right now. I have no idea if it's a good idea or a bad idea. I'm sure plenty of people will tell me it's horrendous. But that's what the uh, that's what the old YouTube comments are for. You guys can just land us go nuts in there. So yeah, so that's the colossus and then we have the ten thousand dollars no limit hold them

Yeah, they increased the re entries from one. Well, first of all, most of the championship events no re entries. A love makes sense, freeze out, Love It Championship on the no limit do is a little special, Okay, So it's all. I had one a bit more gamble for the reason, you know, to Benny Streets just all in call. This year they made it two, so that definitely factors in. I saw a post from Benny Glasa he was in for all three. Got that third one up to an okay stack.

So John Sharman on our twenty five k team was also in for all three.

Love it.

Good work, John, this is what we need. You need to get us over the line because Jeremie has was not doing too well.

So yeah, that was the change.

And obviously the best way to view this is at the end of the day, we get the uniques.

You look at the uniques and you look at the.

Total entrance and and see if it's more based on the re entries or more based on new players.

You know, we I.

Walked over there first person. I saw Elio Sion, who we talked about. Uh, loyal listener, set me a DM today. Pedro Brofman was like playing the deuce, bringing me your hat. Of course, of course he's playing.

The histor is playing the duke.

Of course.

Of course we.

Saw the legend Billy Baxter over there. His his page's still in Uh. I don't know, I've been sweating.

He is stilling.

So yeah, you get a lot of fresh faces that come out for the for the no limber dues.

You've got the extra re entries.

A lot of these no limit guys, Darren Olias, Alex Fox, and they love the deuce.

You know, That's what that's what is saying. You're starting to get a lot of the bigger no Limbic guys transition over to start firing in this one, which is great to see, you know. So yeah, Nick Schulman leading the way. Shocker there, what a surprise, Yeah, what a shocker. He's leaving the Waistcott, sever second Alex Fox, and third you mentioned Darren Olias. He's up there near the top, Dan Smith as well as in the top ten Daniel Negrano also in the top ten, Daniels. Daniel's putting together

Well, we'll have the continued championship going for another eight hours between TEENA Raymond Nick, we have the Cossus. Obviously we touched on what's starting this new, what's setting this new. We have a fifty k no limit hold him high roller.

You really think that that's the event.

Of all the ones on there, it's I don't think it would ever go, but I feel like that's the one most on the out of all the you know, I don't know, I feel I say the fifteen hundred horse, no chance you compare that to say the fifteen hundred big oh no, fifteen hundred start No.

I think that I'm going to need to think on this one.

Now, numbers, let's look at the numbers.

We'll see if we can not right now, you don't have the brain power to.

I just need to kind of go through and see.

Limit hold them for. I mean, look, it still gets a good turnout. I'm just saying that.

Yeah, So if it gets a good turnout, it's never getting Yeah.

I don't think it's because to get evicted.

I'm just saying, if it keeps paying the rent, yeah, no, need to they pay the rent. That's just how it works.

Good point. Good point.

Yeah, Okay, you gotta find something that's not paying the rent, which is like the ten k rass.

Oh wow, you just you just broke Mickey's hot.

I mean, isn't that like the lowest turnout?

Okay, right, stud loss he had one oh seven. Given the ten k is a different I.

Know, but I'm just saying, well, they used to have a ten k pot limit, hold them.

Special.

They evicted that thing, right, Yeah, I mean it can happen, definitely. There's no sacred cars. Well there's one sacred call the main event. Other than that, there's there's no sacred cows here, all right. Yeah, but yeah, so three three events signed tomorrow.

You got a little bit of taste for everyone, the low rollers, the high rollers, and the limit rollers and.

The limit rulers. You're actually absolutely ridiculous. We're leading into a pretty fun stretch. Of course, we have those events kicking off tomorrow, but I'm looking a little bit further down the road. You know, three k free out, ten kplohilo, fifteen hundred dollars Monster Sack, one hundred thousand dollars high roller, like, you know, that's a nice batch of events right there. So I'm really looking forward to what we have for.

The week ahead.

And fresh off the niche Women's high Roller, we did it the way we talked about from the win yesterday. We got the seniors hire all of five K coming up next week as well. So yeah, we have h big high rollers, the seniors hirollos, and some pretty interesting freeze out events coming up.

Alrighty, sounds good. We're not going to keep you any longer. We don't have an interview.

Let me go get on. We just hold on, just just pull the show up, stop stop.

Tim was was hanging on to see if he could get nick er Chino, but obviously they didn't finish, so look to get those tomorrow or sorry today when they do finish. But that's going to do it for the show. We got nothing else. You guys know the drill. If you see us and you want a hat, say the past five hats Jesus, Lord Dragonfish think his name was. He came up gotta hat dragging. Yeah, that's what he said. He wanted to go back.

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He came and got a hat.

He didn't put it together that it was me until then, so we've given out about twenty We talked about Pedroick Brumpman Justin Zachi. You still need to give me the secret code, Jeremy Becker. As for a hat today, well, buddy, you got to give us the secret code too. But yes, twenty five down, seventy five to go if you want one, not we're not reserving it for anybody, so you have to come find us get it.

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