Deeb Talks Player of the Year

Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Girl Podcast, the number one poker podcast in the universe. You can believe that universe, the universe, the galaxy, the Milky Way, the Milky Way, whatever you want to call it. Where the number one poker podcast, wherever you want to call it. My name is Donny Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth. Fun little show today because we had an impromptu interview with Sean deeb who is gunning for Player of the Year. He already he already want

a bracelet earlier this summer. He's the captain of our twenty five K fantasy team. What I mean by that is he's the guy we paid the most money to get. Okay, so we're pulling for him, you know, on the inside. We're not trying to show it on the outside, but we're pulling for him on the inside. We'll get to that interview in a

little while. Fun show today. Overall, we had some winners, David Simon winning the half and half fifteen hundred dollar Potlam and Omaha slash Noelman hold Him or Noelman Holham slash Potlam and Olmaha, whichever order you want to put it in. That was a huge event. By the way, I didn't realize how big it was. Claus Ilk topped the Super Seniors event. Ryan Miller aka Little Shit, and I say that as it is his nickname. He loves it. It's totally endearing from his friends and his peers in the

industry, So no malicious intent there. That is his nickname, Little Shit. He won his first bracelet. Michael Rodriguez was denied another bracelet. He was denied by William copp. Gabriel Schroeder won the Super Turbo Bounty that was supposed to wrap up yesterday but was pushed to a second day. Three players remain in the six hundred dollars Deep Stack Championship. They are currently to the left of us bagging up their chips. Beers are being had. They will

return tomorrow to play to a winner. You have the five K six max playing down towards the final table and Ian Matacus is in the field. And if you don't know who Ian Matacus is, he is the current Player of the Year front runner coming out of nowhere. Believe he's from Minnesota. Yeah, online player by trade, Yeah only really plays Noliman hold him in polo

crush came out here want a bracelet online? Has I think, well, if you include this five K six Max tournament, his sixteen cashes this summer Jesus six are online and him and Sean deeb are neck and neck for the POI title. And the reason why we were able to get Sean is that Sean came over here after bagging the fifty k PLO to meet Ian and talk with him and basically impose his will on him and be like, listen, this is my turf for the moto. That's not really what happened, but

that's what I like to think happened, Matagus. Depending on where he finishes, it'll just decide how big his lead is because he's guaranteed to overtake Sean Deep. That's why I say he's the POI front owner right now. So that's a cool old story that is going on here at the World Throughs Poker. You had the Ladies Championship down to the final fifty six forty eight. Okay, they're they're getting close to a final table. They're pushing onwards.

Yeah they're not gonna make it today, but they're pushing onwards to a final table. The ten k no limit deuced seven single draw bagged up their chips. They bagged up early because they had a late start time, but they backed up massive, massive, massive numbers. In the Colossus I played today, I fired two bullets. We're gonna go over that because I got three cool hands that I played. Not two of them weren't well. One of them was cool, but I still got eliminated on it. But I still

think it was freaking really cool. Um because I wrecked the guy. The other one not so cool because I'm whatever the Plo high roll or this fifty kpol Ohi roll or the one that Sean d bagged in Timmos me a coffee, boys and girls, listeners from all over the universe, the Galaxy, the Milky Way, whatever it is. Because the line was one sixty one, I took the over. They're at at least one hundred and sixty seven. There's probably gonna be twenty five more. Tomorrow morning. We could see

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have to be hard with storm X, earning crypto is easy. Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna kick it to the Sean Deep interview first. Okay, so we're gonna throw it to that He sat down with me, Tim sat it out because we only have two mike set up. We don't want to do it. I got replaced, You got replaced temporarily, temporarily, but it's good. It did hurt a little bit. It's a good

interview with mister deeb who is gunning for Player of the Year. You'll hear all about that right now, and then we'll come on back and we'll get into the news and happenings, all right, Sean Deeve, I heard you had a million chips over there in the PLO. I do, yeah. I actually had one point two earlier in the day. Got down to like

seven to fifty one some pots the other night. I kind of knew everyone wanted to bag up, so I went for it on some spots and they just folded to the c beat and yeah, picked up some interesting hands on day one. It seems like to me that you are extremely good at polo

tournaments. Where do you rank it among like the different games. I think that the issue with Pilo tournaments for other people is all the best Pilo players or cash game players and there's so many more tournament ranges in spots that they're not as used to and stack deps so they're not gonna possibly choose some of

the sizings I would take or some of the hands to play back. And you know, Pilo cash gun players assume that people are always calling their three bet while an a Pilo tournament you actually get a ton of folds preet, so you actually deny equity. So a lot of your weaker hands are actually better to pick us three bets than calls, and they're used to so often getting called, so they're tend to be a little bit too passive, pretty

I think. And and then when other people squeeze because other people are three betting so tight that they actually call too much, because they're like, oh, I've eight, eight, nine, ten double suited, like I'm always seeing a flop of this hand. But it's like you're thirty five blinds deep putting in eleven blinds us a pretty strong range, like you're not too happy when you flop. You know, a gut shot and a tenie flush straw,

you're gonna get it in. But your an equity is not gonna be nearly as good as it would be in a cash game where against like dry aces or some other you know, non paired hands, a little more often. How do you think your summer's going so far? Obviously want a bracelet already. Yeah, so you know my number one goal every series is POY second goals. Bracelet's third goal is money, So I'm the third goal is money. A lot of players would have that number one. Yeah, thankfully

I have enough money right now, but it's not that important. But no, I think, you know, I know the money comes with the other two things usually, but this year for POY, I'm currently second and Ian some some fucking how it's still in this fucking five random online player out of the Midwest. Yeah, his crushing he has had. He's had summer of all like sixteen cashes. I think six of them are online. He won and online bracelet. So yeah, when and actually met him, bagged the

PLO came over. You had to meet him for the first time. You know, you want to see your competition, talk some ship to him, but no, it seems like a super nice kid. We're chat and he was talking about how Lucky got with the ace Jack first ace king. You know, if he gets ninth place like he's doing these positions, he keeps finishing these tournaments are not that good at POY. He could have in the Millimaker, he could have got one hundred and eightieth or fifteenth and got the

same amount of points and been there for two less days. So it kind of shows one of the flaws in the formula. But obviously he's having an amazing summer. Obviously he's a great player. I've never played with him before online or live, so I'm intrigued to see. And obviously he doesn't even play any mixed games. He's a Nolan and PLO only player. Told me he's sold enough action to play the fifty KPLO and he's like, oh, if I bust this, I might max lay red. She's like should I

was like, of course you should. Like you're obviously a good player, and you sold the actions, You're gonna be comfortable to the stakes. And it's also a great field. So and I was like, I don't want to win because you are priced out of some of the buyings. I want to have, you know, this battle to the last week, because that's

one of my favorite parts this POY is the unknown contender stepping up. You know, I know a lot of people know who josh Ry is, but he didn't have good term results when he won, you know, he had the outlier year, and that's Ian this year, and that's kind of fun. It's like every year I battle with whoever's the outlier of the year. You know, last year Dan Zac great player, Dan Wyman, great player, but I was right there with them, and so I'm always you know,

in striking distance. My goal most years is to be within a bracelet of ever's had the outlier year. But this year, with my results, you know, first, second, two fifths and a bunch of cashes, I you know, usually would be such a big equity favorite. But Ian is crazy. Man. He's got almost you know, four thousand points. Now. I think he has an online score for two hundred points that he's

even calculated yet. So I'm stalking him. Well, I'm keeping on updates, keeping tabs, and yeah, it's gonna be a crazy final two weeks. Why is POI like the number one thing that you chase. So it starts from the first year I really got into poker. I battled for the Poker Stars tournament leaderboard. I came second the first year, like playing full

time when I was eighteen. I won it the next two years, and so I've always cared about yearly leaderboards because I think the grind aspect in the volume is one of the most impressive things in such a mental sport as poker. So if I've always cared about that, and as the bracelets get diluted every year, with you know, hundreds given out a year, what's the

thing that there's only one of and that's Player of the Year. So and early on in my career, you know when Frank Casell one, Ben lamb Win, Gordo one, Jason one, like all these kids I was really good friends with who I thought I was as good, if not better, a terment player and also put in more volume. I was like, and

they needed me for years. So after like fifteen and sixteen, when I was playing a lot of cash, I think it was seventeen or eighteen, I said, all right, I'm never playing cash during the series again. I'm going Player of the Year all in, gonna play every event, possibly multitable, fired up, have some fun. And I've loved it every year,

and I love building up the hype for it. And I really hope Caesar's or whoever takes over the World Series at own point in the future puts a massive, massive, Player of the Year prize pool up because they will get that money back five to tenfold if they gave him million dollars and paid out top thirty people. You have everyone, every big name player, playing all these events, all this extra rig all this extra promotion, and that's

what I'm really hoping will happen one day in the future. I mean, it seems like that sort of thing, like the big prize pool for it is I guess more necessary now or or would be better now. With all the competition that you see around town, a lot of guys you know, go into other places. They go over to Aria, play some high roller tournaments there. There's that bet MGM series. The win always has to like

there's all this stuff going on around town. Well, you would almost force people to stay here, especially the people like yourself, but other people that are you know, if you're like fortieth in top twenty five or thirty, gets some money, like you're like, okay, I guess I'll stay at the series. Yeah, And I think everyone who wins a brace It early is going to use that money to try to make sure they stay on that leaderboard. I think it's so obvious to us out pace for itself. Getting

corporate to get on board is the really difficult part. And you know, I came close to this year to doing a player funded prize pool. I had this concept where I was gonna put up fifty k. Anyone who's won Player of the Year before it puts up twenty five k, and one who's never one it puts up ten k, and be winner take all, you know, must win Player of the Year. And so if I don't,

if there isn't a prize pool next year, I'm definitely doing it. And I was too distracted with the weight loss bet in the last couple of months to really organize this. And really, you know, and I think I'm taking the worst of it. It's like I'm not going me five x better than Ben you or you know, Benny Glazers. So there's so many like

Hastings, you know, our mercy. I might come out retire. There's so many people who can battle for Player of the Year, who are great players at all the games, and I think it's just an extra little bit of motivation, an actually a little bit of camaraderie. And you know, even the funny thing is like everyhere I do Player of the Year like when josh one and when dan Zac won, they would ask me like, what's

the order to play things? Let's do this, and I give them advice every time, like I've solved a lot of the theory behind what's optimal hourly to point ratio and how to play, you know, with Player of the Year contentions, and yeah, it's been fun. And I think if I somehow suck out on Ian and win this year, I still think I'm a small favorite. But obviously his result in the six Max, if he gets top three, you know, it really puts me in a tough top spot.

What events going forward do you think kind of give you the best chance? I would say other than the fifty k PELO because you bagged a million there so, and any online event just because they're so fast and you can multi table doing them without hurting your equity in a different tournament. But I was gonna say, I think, you know, if I get to two, we're going to see a new Daniel Grona next year, and we're gonna see him going grind, going into the full shown deep schedule, which I

think will make his vlogs amazing. I think he's done so well in some of the small buying small big field events, and I really just hope to light a fire under his ass, because you want to see great competition. You want to see the top guys with results. And I think if Daniel, you know, takes Play of the Year seriously, he's gonna be my number one competitor. How do you manage the double venues a little bit different than the rio of the old that was all kind of crammed into one space.

I know I had different rooms, but it wasn't horseshoe to Paris. So I actually think it's easier here because of the fact that back then you'd be in the three rooms a lot for different day ones and moving around and different things. Yes, they are slightly closer, but day two is weren't in the same room now this year, Day two is always gonna be closer. So the one thing that hurt me for multitabling this year was the compacted

schedule with the ten am star time. The ten k's moved up to two pm and shortened at eight levels that day last year and in year's past I used to bag whatever the no limit was at, you know, eleven or twelve, and then go play four or five hours in the ten k and try to run up a stack in that now because the redge closes in such a narrow window for the three events, and there was twenty four days of triples this year, so that made it a lot harder. You know.

There was one time I was in a fifteen hundred stud eight. I was going to play the Salute of Warriors, but I there was half the tables around this side, half tables on the other side, and I drew the parriside, so I on Rench. So I definitely try to go for it in some spots. But yeah, I think, you know, this venue is so so much better. There's so many more positive I love staying at these rooms. I go to my break when I make a day two or day three to my room and it's I have all my meals there. Like

Poker Meals has done a great job. I just got new meals today. I'm so excited to go to the room and get some you know, variety out of my meal plan. And that's actually the crazy. It's like the weight laws bet. Having the food on to man and being ready has made so much eas It's not like I sit around that I'm hungry and that go get food an hour. It's like, I know my food's there. My massage therapist, Kim has been running food for me all summer long. Whatever

I need, she's been there. So I've had more help this year than any other year. So it's been awesome and that's part of the reason for my continued success. How do you think the way loss bet is going? Is it better or worse than you had expected coming into the summer. It's about what I expected. I've lost about fifteen pounds during the series so far, but unfortunately I have not gone to the gym and lifted at all. I've done some push ups in the room a couple of nights. I'm probably

do a couple tonight. And I only went to the gym to the treadmill on the night I want a braceletause I knew I wasn't going to sleep at a time soon. So yeah, I kind of I care about Like you see how passionate about Player of the Year, and people are like, oh, even millionar welos bet. But player of the Year you only have a couple of times in your career you have a shot for it, and this

year I really have a shot for it. And so like if Ian didn't have his year, I would have been a bracelet ahead of everyone else. I would have been to win it. And so it's like kind of unfortunate because having thirty five thirty seven hundred points this early for me with my volume is crazy, Like I'm on pace for five thousand points, which no one has ever came close to in je Vegas. I mean the year I won in eighten, they had like forty three forty five hundred points. That was

with Europe where I had like a thousand points over there. So this has been by far my best POY year, but also spend one of my worst financial years because I've you know, done so well in every fifteen hundred and I've bombed all the ten k pluses. So yeah, I really got to do wellness plot, so the balance sheet looks a little bit better. Speaking of pace, you're the captain of our fantasy team. We are currently in first place. I'm trying not to get ahead of ourselves, but we are

at a pretty good pace right now. I think it's like a record study based us and ren Lyn's team. Is your team a top ODB? Is that you D five D one? Yeah? All the ODBS. I'm dominating the ODB. Yeah, you're like four out of the top fifteen or something ridiculous. I was first, second, six, and twelfth, I think last I checked. But I mean, here's the first tea. I knew Michael Moncheck was a fantasy stud. I want to draft him on my team. I got stuck with Darren and Justin, two great players. I thought

it would go for more. And then I had the most points and I had a choice between Jow Samoa or Munchek, and I knew Joo was playing a lot of stuff. His taxes stuff was getting cleared up. He's a great player, Mancheck is you know, not a professional poker player. He loves poker, he loves to grind, has side bets. And I wasn't one hundred cent sure he was coming out. And I texted one of his friends I played with down in a stream and Champions Club, and he was

like, you should coach him a mix. He's going for all these bracelets and I was like, is he definitely coming? And he didn't respond till twenty minutes after the draft ended, and I was like god damn. So immediately texted ODB. I said, hey, I don't know how the fuck this guy wasn't drafted. He got fourth and po y last year of fifth, he played the two fifty k. He's a fucking plays everything. He doesn't know what he's doing all the games, but he puts in the volume

and that's all it managed for fantasy. I was like, make sure he's a bonus player. So ODB ads him as a bonus player, and obviously he crushed the summer one of Bracelet the first week, got second or third third in the ten k raz and uh yeah, him and Dan Shack have carried all my ODB teams. And so my strategy was I had my core of my cheap guys and my bonus player, and I just rotated the high guy being myself, Daniel Javieira and Dan Zach. So that's why my teams

have done so well. Is my core have just absolutely crushed it. And uh yeah, it's a lot of fun. I hope to you know, win a bunch of money in that and hopefully my fantasy team we got some great no women players. Like the thing is, the main event is worth so many points. The field bonus is gonna be massive this year. Anyone can win if they get two people hit the field bonus in the main event.

I'm well aware. My co captain Matt Clark is like, I feel like he's getting ahead of himself, and I'm like, dude, there's so much to go. I mean, not even just the main event. Obviously this fifty k plo that you're in, you got the twenty five k horse and me did the whole bunch of stuff. Still going and I'm like, long way to go, man, long way to go. But it feels

good so far, and you're leading the way. Our captain, which is don't have that many fancy points and every only one of them was a ten k where I got two points, Like that's just I mean, that's a lot of fantasy points for me in general, but like the fact that it was all individual events is just crazy. Like I'm very happy with what I've done, but I expect more out of myself in the higher buyings, like

that's where I'm supposed to shine against the elite opponents. But I had to skip almost half of the ten k mix so far this year, so it's unfortunate. And but you know, there's always a few left that I having the best is a few left. I mean, I think you're gonna probably do pretty well in the main event. I mean, you probably have to be one of the top favorites in that field. I mean, if there could ever be a favorite in like a nine thousand player field, that's just

a bunch of landmines the whole way. I mean, I get it, but I would put you up there with anyone, if not number one. Here's the thing is, I'm not the most skilled Nolan player in the main Event, but I have a good image and people are afraid of me, and that is very beneficial in that type of tournament where most people are taking the shots and it's their one opportunity of their career. So if I somehow

get deep in it cool, I can abuse some people. But the funny thing is the main Event is the single worst POY tournament of the year. It is so bad for POI you don't cash end to day three, you miss a bunch of stuff, you can't multitable during it because there's just too

much money on the line. So I'm always happy when I bust Day one of the main I'm obviously gonna try super hard because I did this crossbook where I laid a big price verst Ari Engel, who I know is going to go hard o. So yeah, so I'm gonna try and if I don't do well, I'm gonna be okay with it. And that's the one nice thing is when you're going for what I'm going for, it's the only time of your career you're happy to bust the main because you get to go hop

in whatever dumb tournament is next, that's gonna finish five days earlier. Yeah, and then you know, you know one of my brakest I won after I busted the man i Max lay Redge, the ten K, six Max and eighteen, so that was you know, there's always the next event, and that's the mindset I have, and that's the mindset poker players need to have. So you bag day two for this fifty K PLO, which has insane numbers. All these plos are just out of control. Every events out

of control. Well every event is out of control, but the PLO is like, for whatever reason, feels like a little bit Yeah. When you know the twenty five KPLO, the guys who got second got as much as I got both years I won it, and Kaka, I'm so happy he won because you know, we battled. He's a great player. You know, he got very unlucky the final hand versus me, Um, you know

a couple of years ago. And I'm super happy. He's a nice kids, very gracious winner, super polite and you loved seeing those hard worker grinders successful. So you're gonna be playing two tournaments tomorrow, just focusing on the plo. How does that go? Um? So they actually pushed the Redges back, and because I sold Action the fifty KPLO, I don't multitable during

it. But it's forty minute levels. But unfortunately the start time is gonna be delayed as well because I'm sure thirty plus people are gonna maxilate Redge, So there's that issue. But yeah, so I don't multitable when I have other people have action to me. I think that's just I'm like charging markup. It'd be different if I was doing what Daniel did and charges no markup

for the whole series and they get the equity and other stuff. But yeah, I try to be as fair as possible to those win to invest in me, because you know, sometimes they invest me. I don't know if the pieces of they're buying are profitable. Some of the big no limits you know, against all the GTO robot specialists who studied no limit the last ten years while I've played you know, four weeks a year of no limit in the last ten years. We'll let you get out of here. I can

go eat your food. Yeah, I'm excited, workout, maybe do some pushups and some pushups. I'm gonna go check on the end because you know,

cajing the poker news updates are not great. Um so, yeah, I gotta see somehow if he busted, and I can celebrate and just laugh about how bad he's running, Like he's running so good to get to final two tables, but how bad he's running, not to get a fifth or fourth or like another bracelet, because man, if he gets another bracelet, I had to get a bracelet more so, it's definitely a motivate me.

It's it's gonna be a great battle. And he seems like if he does, you know, beat me, he's gonna be a good Player of the Year contender, and it'll show that you can win Player of the Year without win playing mix, which a lot of people don't think as possible. Yeah, I think that That's kind of my big takeaway a Lease is that you know, he kind of came out of nowhere. He's done it focusing on

the Nolman in the PLO. He's done a lot of focus online and it just kind of shows the people that, yeah, if you have some success early Parley, that's success into bigger things and then you can be challenging Seawandeve even though Sean's running own playing seven tournaments a day. Yeah, it just shows that, you know, skill is more importantan volume sometimes. That's right, all right, Sean, well, good luck tomorrow on the fifty k PLO or rooting for you of course, team DPMC. You're our captain,

so let's go. All right. So that was Sean Fan Deeve, Ted's fish Fry himself. He's here, he's done it, Tim, Tim gave me a face when I said Ted's fish fry because why you don't know what Ted's fish fry means. It's his online name from back in the day. It'll before my time, Yeah, before your time. M D bagged up pretty well in the fifty KPLO. So let's go Sean F and Deeve.

He obviously cares a ton about Player of the Year. It was really interesting to hear his Player of the Year idea in terms of like getting the players to put up a prize pool. Yeah. Interesting. I'm not sure you would get all of them to agree to it, but probably not, But you know, I still think it would be cool or it'd be fun overall. I do think, you know that it would be massively beneficial to the

WSP to have a big prize on Player of the Year. Yeah, you know, I mean I think that that should kind of be your I don't know if i'd put it like one B or one C behind the main event winner. Obviously main event winner, Trump's all got it. Then I could see arguments for fifty KPPC winner, okay, for like the person you want to highlight the most, I guess, but player of the Year. I think he needs to be right up there, you know, highlight the player

of the year. They did it for a whole summer. They battled it out. They you know, they in the very least they made more full final tables, if not one, multiple bracelets, right usually, So I think that that is something that is I think is one bay Okay, Yeah, that's Trump's Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, that's fine. There's not PC banners, right, there's main event. If there was PPC

banners not well, they did have the Chippers Trophy. That's kind of like a version of a banner, I guess, yeah, yeah, m but player of the Year for sure, you know, get people you know to play here gunning for it. Even more, there would be a lot of people that would be chasing things. You know. For example, Mike Gordonski wins the ten k horse, you know, has had some success this summer.

But in in his interview afterwards, you know, he said that, like in regards to the Player of the Year, like, no one's gonna catch Sean Deep basically in his mind. So he's fine with taking this week off, going home before he comes back for the main and all the other stuff to wrap up the series. But if there's a lot of money on

the line, does he chase it? You know, a guy like even if there's you know, when we talk about player of the year, if I ask here, you know who finished runner rop in twenty eighteen, no one's really gonna not in what Player of the Year. Yeah, it's really just a if you were to ask me that for any year. I would just answer Phil Homi because he's finish pretty good. But like you know, I think the first thing is how do we recognize player of the better?

And I would say some kind of prize, But that doesn't mean we have to limit the prizes to just first too. We could top thirty. I don't know. I don't know if I would go that deep um, but I do think a prize. I think that that's that's probably something that you could get some sort of sponsor behind. I don't know if you're going to get a seven figure sponsor, but you know you might be able to get a spot. Can you get a car? You know, remember when Daniel

Tuning that was a badass. I mean, well maybe it's now the Tesla truck. Yeah, whatever, I mean, I think you could talk to the WSP sales team. Let's see if we get that working for twenty twenty four. I mean, I've always thought the WSP does really well with getting sponsors, like new sponsors every single year. I know it's not the easiest thing to do in poker get sponsors, and it's certainly not easy to keep

them around, but exactly there's always sponsors. So they're doing something right in that regard, you know, and is a sponsor then more enticed to get involved if they can be like the title sponsor of the Player of the year. I don't know, but that would be cool. So fifteen hundred all half and half Nolan hold them slash PLO two thousand and seventy six entries, which I think is wildly large. I mean, I don't know what this I don't know what this tournament got before. I haven't looked it up,

but that seems insane. It felt very big. I'm gonna check right now see what it did last year, So you check right now, because that just seems like I saw that David Simon won and he won what four hundred and ten thousand dollars, and I was like, hold on for like a half and a half tournament. That seems wild? Yeah, sand Pulasani one, Yeah, okay, twelve thirty four and it got two thousand and seventy s What is going on? Everything? Everything is okay. There have been

a couple of tournaments that have been down, but it's very small. And if they're down, they're not down on a low, Okay, they're down like you know, like it got like one hundred and fifty players last year. It gets one hundred and thirty this year. Like it's small stuff. The stuff that's up is freaking astronomical. Like it's wild. You have the

Gladiators of Poker becomes the second largest live poker tournament in history. Okay, we're gonna talk about this Colossus, which is just the number is still going up. By the way, the clock's right there. Like are people still waiting in line out there? I mean they have to because the numbers keeps going up. I don't know what's happening, but it's just wild. You know. You have like stuff like the the I think the six hundredar deep

SEC Championship is actually down numbers. I thought I saw that, but I don't. I don't know about scheduling because it was pretty close to the Colossus. So if you're going to come out or you're like, well, I'll just wait and spa. It's on a weekend, so it's a little bit you know, that sort of thing. But that's what our social media manager dude, I said, come play that the six hundreds. No, I'm going to save it for the classes. Yeah, so I would I would

guess that there's a bunch of people like that. Anyway, David Simon won four hundred and ten thousand dollars for defeating David ProCheck. David ProCheck was going for his seconds vehical bracelet. David Simon got his first. Simon pretty unknown from New Jersey but lives in Hawaii. Now, um, we had his biosheet and it was honestly like reading a resume. It was like it worked for it worked for this newspaper, did this sports coverage, did this.

He's a journalism major or studying journalism in college and did some basketball writing and all that sort of stuff. And now here he is on the biggest stage in poker winning this. This event was live streamed on Poker Grow, so if you are a Poker Grow subscriber, you can check that out on the live stream. But Tim spoke with him afterwards, and here is that interview

with David Simon. Congratulations David. First of people, RASA, since I work on production, I have the luxury of having your bio here, and it feels like I look through it quickly. I think you're a little more qualified to do this interview then I might be looking at it it's got some of your LinkedIn stuff on it. But firstly, you know, congratulations. I don't really want to talk too much about I want to talk a little

bit more about life. And you know, you live in Hawaii, and first question I have is, you know, what is the poker like over there. The poker in Hawaii is, uh, it's all home games and it's basically all all cash games. But everybody is very everyone has a lot of gamble, so the games are really fun. The games are really talkative. The game I play in I need to shout out to a town. Uh, they're they're they've been railing from back there the last few days.

Uh. And it's it's like a real Ohana game. Um, and everybody's just very welcoming. And we basically just play cash games because there's no casinos, so there's no way to play live tournaments. We run one tournament a year on Super Bowl. So really the Hawaii poker scene for me, I play a couple of times a week that at the farm and we play cash games and play one three and it gets pretty crazy sometimes, but that's that's the extent of it out there. So definitely a pot time poker play obviously

a huge squall here. Yeah, do we think that pot time status may change? Maybe we're gonna jump into more of a professional realm. You know, I haven't even thought that far ahead of it. You know. I come out to the series every year. I'm usually here for about a month or so, and I try to grind a lot of tournaments, a lot in the like fifteen hundred and under area. And with a score like this, it is pretty tempting to look around and see if there are some other

opportunities to play some more events. But I don't see myself like leaving where I live and like hopping on, you know, to go play everywhere. But I will probably take some some more trips each year than than just coming out here. So I'm stung going to your friends on the rio and she was saying, how you know, you're trying to sell a bit of percentage here and there, and you didn't sell that much of this event, which is obviously Yeah, um, what what did you you know? Why did

you choose this event? You know, a mixed tum mix on mahyes, that's something you kind of specialize in. Um. I would say that I'm much more of a no limit tournament player. Um, I do enjoy playing PLO cash games, and I've done okay in some of the mix events here and some of just like the PLO deep stack events here. Um you know, of the of the more smaller buy six USand eight hundred like, I haven't run super deep, but I have played enough where I feel comfortable in

PLO tournament formats. But I'm always been way more of a of a no limit player. And I knew all the guys at the final table. I think we're better PLO players than I am, so you know, maybe it'll show in some of the footage. I think between sterdaying today, I was I overfolded probably a little bit in PLO, but I was mainly just trying to stay out of the way in spots where I didn't need to get in the mix and save myself for the hold the orbits, and it seems to

I'm mostly paid off. I guess one thing I'm always interested in when you get a brand new face on the scene, not only at the WIT elsewhere and poker, but it's it's certainly heightened at the WP. Is they're gonna stick around? What are they gonna play? We're gonna see him putting in a full schedule next year. Like what you know, what happens because obviously the WSP bigger than anywhere else in the world that you can win life changing

money for very little amounts of money. David Simon turns fifteen hundred dollars into more than four hundred thousand dollars. So to me, that's enough to come blast a full summer next summer, you know, like play some bigger buying events. Like I don't know what his full plans will be at that time, but it'll be interesting to see because then you start seeing people and you're like, oh, like we covered him last year, you know, we talked last year, and like now he's doing this and this and this.

So I asked him a little bit about that. And when he was getting interviewed by Pokiness, I was talking to his friends on the rail and kind of a little bit, okay, you know, learning a little bit about him. And he tries to sell action to his events. He saw like

twelve percent to this one. Um, so I guess he was pretty happy that he didn't sell a big chunk And see that's awesome, Yeah, say that that money geta's to others, but I'm sure, I'm sure someone that passed on buying the action, you know, or possibly passed him buying the action, is feeling the opposite. Yeah. Um the one thousand dollars Super Seniors three thousand, one hundred and twenty one entries in this one, which I also think is an increase over last year. I think last year was

in the two thousand. Somewhere closs Ilk won it for three hundred and seventy one thousand dollars. Surprisingly, this was one of the most rowdy rails. It was yeah, well there was an Argentinian at the rail and it was bonkers until the Argentinian went out in six or seventh placed. Class is sixty six years old. He started the day with eight big blinds. I think it was twelve left to south. The day two ran it all the way up, wins the whole damn thing. It's Austria's seventh WSP goal. Brace

it overall for this year. I'm joking, not this year overall, so that's very cool. Congratulations to Class ILK ten thousand dollars Stud High Low Championship, one hundred and forty one entries in this one. Needed a fourth day, came back with six players. They didn't really have that many chips. Like Ryan Miller wins the event for three hundred and forty four thousand dollars. He was the chip leader when they came back with six and he only had

fourteen big bets. Then Bryn Kenny was right behind him with thirteen. Fourteen. It's a decent amount. I mean, yeah, but it's not like you know, it's not massive. I mean, it's it's obviously deep in big blonds. Okay, I would argue that's less than fifty big blinds, but it's fourteen big bet in a split pot gang. That's a lot. I mean anyway, Yeah, and what three guys had like three big bets each side? You need watching the Grounders vlog where he talks about his one

big bet coming into day three. I know it mixed games. You can get very very short, trust me, I'm well aware, especially in the stud games. But I'm just saying that, like there wasn't a lot of chips in play overall. Well, it is a three day event, I know, And it went to a fourth day with six people as they played forever yesterday, These these ten K limit mixed game tournaments are just they take forever. It's just that's just what they are. So and this one took

forever. Today they what time did they start today, because they got to the two and they finished the bat ten yeah, ten or ten thirty Yeah, with a dinner break in there. Yeah. I don't know why those guys took a dinner break, but whatever, it was a good idea for Ryan Miller. So they're playing. Ryan Miller starts today as a chip leader. Um Bryn Kenny is right on his heels and then quickly takes the chip lead. They're playing throughout the day. They eventually get to three handed play.

Ryan Miller's the short stacks, then Maximilian Maximilian Schindler goes out in third. It's Bryn versus Ryan Miller. Like they exchanged the chip lead a little bit, but Bryn Kenny basically opened up a massive lead, leaves Ryan Miller with I don't know, three or four big bets something like that. Then they decided to take this seventy five minutes to the break when Ryan Miller has like sub four big bets when they would come back, okay, all the

momentum was for Bryn Kenny pre dinner. After dinner, things changed. I don't know if there was some frog poison and Bryn's food. I don't know what was happening, but I mean it did not go well posted or for Bryn Kenny. You know, maybe we can ask him in a couple of days, but I'm pretty sure he probably had a reservation in Nobu and wanted to keep it. Something as simple as like that. I mean, that's fine, but like I'm just saying, it didn't go well for him because

he came back. Ryan Miller fought right back in, you know, eventually took the lead. Brent took it back, but then Ryan Miller took it back again and stretched out his only next thing, you know, it's Bryn Kenny, the one with you know, two three, four big bets. And then Ryan Miller was able to finish him off not too long after he you know, got him down below a million chips. And that's that. Bryn Kenny misses out on his second BSP goal bracelet. He had won one

in twenty fifteen. Believe it was either eight game or ten game, ten game, ten game, Um, I'll guess Calvin Anderson. No, Calvin Anderson went deep in that event New Zealand, a New Zealand player yes, no beyond oh okay. And then Ryan Miller took his first WSP goal bracer for beating Bryn Kenny in this one. Ryan Miller aka little Shit is what he goes by. East Coast cash game legend plays in the Big Game at Borgata, mostly crushes it. I'm speaking with some of his friends on the

rail, you know. They say he's probably won millions in that game. Stud Hilo is one of his better games, plays very well. They also said that his biggest flaw over the years, and probably the reason why he didn't have a bracelet yet because he has had some deeper runs in these WSP tournaments is um, he treats the tournaments too much like a cash game and he hasn't like correctly adapted. Okay, Um, he doesn't put it in a lot of volume of tournaments. He plays a lot of cash out here

during the summer, plays a lot. I think over at Aria might even like, you know, be kind of in charge of a game over there or whatever. But yeah, I think and I think that's three hundred and six hundred, So that's you know, no small game whatsoever. Um. But yeah, so he did he did well here. You know, he

comes out on top. He's able to kind of, I guess, figure out the tournament strategy at least in this tournament and take home what three hundred forty four thousand, six hundred seventy seven dollars for his first WSP goal bracelet fifteen pot limit Omaha high hand low. That's kind of like half and half because there was a high enalo. Sure. William Copp wins it all two

hundred and fifty nine thousand dollars. His sister Katie Copp won the Casino Employees Event last summer here, the first time the series moved down to the last figas strip. Michael Rodriguez took second place. He won the Bedoguie event, the first ever Badugi Eventum. And in his you know, we've been we've been talking about the POI stuff, you know, yet trounde we got Ian

Matacus. Uh, Michael Rodriguez is like in the top ten, top five somewhere, you know, especially with the second place finish for William Copp twelfth cash. No, sorry, this Isuez. This is the worst ever. Yeah, okay, I'll admit that it is so you just want to focus on Michael Rodriguez and just forget William Copp. That's basically that's literally what Tim has wrote on this. We write that. But so I continuing the POI Tokia. All right, William William Copp, congratulations, two hundred fifty nine

eleven are twenty five dollars. Unfortunately, I have to stick to the rundown and I have to move away from you, and I have to talk about Michael Rodriguez, who earned his twelfth cash fourth final table. It's his biggest cash money wise. Yeah, and he's top three now in POY pending all the bather results pending pending this well, yeah, you got he's not over taking day ball in but I think he's I think he moved into three pretty

safely. Got it with second place one thousand dollars. Super Turbo Bounty again, this one needed another day. These are the super turbos quote unquote super turbos, even though I don't think they're that super turboe. There's supposed to be one day events in and now, well, when you get eight thousand entrances get pretty hot. Just about twenty eight hundred and twenty four entries. Gabriel Schroeder, Brazilian. I think you're resilient. Um. He won for

two hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars. I believe he was the one with the other big rail today. Yeah he was. He had usually on one side, he had Argentina. On the other side, you had Brazil the World Cup. They had balloons for this guy of his. I thought the balloons were down Lowry's. I don't know there was there was a cow bell. Did you hear the cows? Oh my god? I mean I was a point I know in the past, like you know, when the Brazilians

kind of first came on the scene, they brought the vouzelas. The Voozela's got nixed. I am team noisemakers. Do whatever you want, like as long as you're not breaking shit, you know, which we almost actually had that the other day at the Millionaire Maker. Probably we lost the TV we did, but that was that was sweet lose team. Oh yeah, you know, like what happened to the million Maaker. Somebody broke a They had one of those giant like drinks and they were slamming it and the bottom of

it broke. It was shaped kind of like a ball then upside down ball and the bottom of it broke and the fucking it went everywhere. It was a mess. Yeah, so like, just don't break stuff. If you make a final table, I'm gonna like, I'm gonna bring a trump, howbells, vovo zelas. You want to walk in here with a with a drum over your shoulder beating it, let's go like I'm in for all of it. And if you got a problem with the noise, get out of

here. I don't like like especially it's it's just and also like the South Americans or Central and South America are the best round they don't how to do it, they know how to do it now good No, but but rerem Quin I were talking about this the other day on the live streams. The English have are not good anymore. They're just not when's the last time they've been good? But maybe that's back when it was like Jake Cody making final table. That was like eight years ago, ten years ago. The British.

I'm saying, like, yeah, but even when the Brazilians stunk at poker, and listen, the Brazilians are the best at poker right now, but they used to be like used to laugh, yeah at the Brazilians. Now they're like, you don't want to see a Brazilian at your table because you can put you in the blender of Brazilian times and you hate it. But before, but they still came out for their people, of course, you know, in support, which we might get tomorrow because I believe Yury

Zoelevski's brother Vitour is still in the five K six man. Yes, so we might get more Brazilian craziness tomorrow. But today we had in Argentinian rail which was bonkers. They chanted, They literally marched out through the Colossus field and we're chanting the whole time. They walked right behind me, chanting the whole time. They were the ones that were throwing the money. I texted you, I said, I said, uh, they're throwing the money everywhere.

We have this like what year is that table ten? The actual final table? Yeah, which I shame on us. We haven't mentioned this all summer. We have the actual final table. We got it from the warehouse and we put it on display in the Horrors Shoe event center. Right when you walk in, there's like some stairs on the right, you'll see a big WSP sign. We lit up WSP lettering on the left side. You'll see this display. It's the actual table that was used. We got out

of the warehouse. Tim built this whole display thing and we put a whole bunch of fake money on it that you can sit down and take pictures. People have been taking pictures all summer long. Okay. You can also enter to win over there, to win a what lifetime subscription to Poker Go and the main events? Holy crap? Can I win? No? Well, yeah, sure, guess the riot get the question right. I don't remember what the question was. Guess how many entrance are in the main Oh yeah,

okay, um, so yeah, so they have that. But so this these Argentinians went over there and they were shooting a video celebrating and chanting. There was like twenty of them throwing the money. The money's bundled up. You and I bundled it up. They were throwing it out, they were making it rain and I was like, uh yeah, they're throwing the money everywhere. And I saw one security guard like go over there, like before you got there, and I saw you walk over there, and I'm

assuming they kind of cleaned it up a little bit. No, those fucking guys just they just like they just like took it off the tape security cleaned it out. Well, I'm good whatever, because they should have been doing their job and telling them not to fucking mess out with my ship. I mean, what are you gonna do, man, Tomorrow, I'm gonna fix it. All it was, it was. It was a blast having these

rails, um, really it was. But what I was gonna say is that the Americans have the worst rails usually because well back and forth, the chants are bad. Okay, they chant stupid things. They usually the Americans. If there's ever rails that get out of line, it's the Americans. Like they go they go too far. They make fun of the other people, say stupid shit like just be fun, chant for your man, you know, they just say dumb stuff. They as in week. Because I'm

an American, we do dumb things like that's just what we do. We just do dumb crap, like just keep it cool. But the Brazilians, the Argentinians, if we get vitour Zevlevski over there, there's a five K rail is looking big. He must still be in because I see the Brazilian media over there. It's the only thing on Let's go. Yeah, everyone's watching Height, I believe, and that's gonna be live stream tomorrow on Poker Grow, which probably gonna be absolutely bananas in this one case, super Turbo

Bounty. Getting back to that, now that I did rated the conversation for a bit, Andy Black got the third many Black is back. There's this. There's this random I mean you you guys have to watch this this do you know what I'm talking about? The random documentary on on YouTube with Andy Black like all in it. It's called it's called the Million Dollar Deal. If you just look it up, The Million Dollar Deal. I believe it's on this person, Luke McManus's YouTube page. Watch this. It's about forty

five minutes long. But it's great. It's great, and Andy Black is all in it. So I would encourage you just to go to YouTube search the Million Dollar Deal. Check that out. You'll see Andy Black's face there. Um yeah, that's a fun one. Anyway, he's back. He got there. Daniel Lowry got six places the six hundred dollars Deep Stack Championship. Four thousand, three hundred and three entries in that one, almost two hundred and seventy one thousand dollars for first place. Three players left, John

Taylor, David Guay and Stephen Stolzenfeld. I hope I got that last thing. He died. They are going to battle for the prize tomorrow, so you know, we'll talk about that winner when it happens. Twenty four k right now, playing for two hundred and seventy Okay, I like it. Five thousand dollars. Noelman hold him six max about eight players, I think, give or take one. We still heard some commotions. Maybe you were

down to set. The rail looks a little bit smaller and look looks a little bit more condensed, So maybe they are down to one table, which would mean seven players left. Because a six hundred event, this one again had eleven hundred ninety nine entries nine hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars for first place. Angelina Rich is leading the way. I think she had to skip the Ladies event because she's going deep in the pretty good decision. Yeah,

Norbert Skeezi is up there. Vitour Zebleski, Daniel Lazarus, Tyler Cornell and Poy frontrunner possible Player of the Year in Matacus. His vacant chips. This one will be streaming on Saturday, July one on poker go dot com starting at eight pm Eastern time five pm Pacific time. If you are not a Progress subscriber, what the heck are you doing? Use the promo code dream Pod dream Pod for thirty dollars off your first year of a new annual subscription.

There are monthly quarterly plans also available, but best price is annual if you use that promo code. The one thousand dollars Ladies Championship twelve hundred and ninety five entries. How did that compare to last year? Statman? Look that one up. Twelve ninety five entries, hundred ninety two thousand dollars for first place. Day two is down below fifty players remaining. Mary Devorcan is leading the way. You have Jessica two Soul also in. She won the

event last year, so she's still in title defense. That's pretty great. Patty Landis is also in aka Daniel Legron who's assistant, still doing well, and Maria lamperprop fulis probably butchered that last name. She's a crusher. She's like a one of the top people on the Argentina all time money list. By the way, she's like up there. Yeah, yeah, I think so, because she had I think she had she won the million dollar. I think it was a party poker live event. Um, but close enough,

same sort of thing she stood. Yeah, see can your name first and second? You should be out of get this first and seconds. I'm not gonna give you anyways. Isn't one her her either? I don't know if they're still together. But boyfriend who's in second, I haven't Luca, Yeah, him, that's what it is. I couldn't remember his name, but they they used to be together. Maria and I okay, um number one on Argentina. Uh, Leo Fernandez, No, but he is seventh,

darn I don't know. Jose Ignacio Barbato number one? What's Damien sallis fourth? Yea fourth? Okay? And then Lococo's six and uh your boy American? Andres Cohn is in fifth American? Arn't He's not American? According to WSP is no. Um, you look up the numbers one thousand and seventy four entries last year in the Ladies Championships. So nice uptick there,

not nice, that's huge. It's a good uptake, Yes, I mean, I'm not downplaying the upticks twenty three saying that's a good up tips huge final Table is on the poker Go YouTube channel, available for everyone for free

on Sunday, July seconds, so check that out. Time is still tbd depending on how things go tomorrow and playing is tomorrow played out to the final table, come back on Sunday, finish it out live stream it all the way to we get a hundred ninety two thousand dollars winner the ten thousand dollars.

No, there was there were so many events today, I mean it was what it was like what five winners like this is kind of but there was like eleven or twelve events total run ten thousand dollars, no limit duced to seven single draw, one hundred and fifty four entries in this one three hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars for first place. There are twenty players remaining.

They are in the money. Have they bagged yet? No, they're playing on this level, playing out this Yeah, play not playing the lost level tonight because they started late today. We'll get into that when we talk about the Colossus. Alex Livingston looks to be leading in the way, which we do not like to see on Team DPMC because he is on Team Lady Gaga and we are going head to head with them for the gold and we need it. Okay, But there's tons of big names still in Ellie Lesser's

out there. Daniel mcgron new is out there off his deep run in the ten case tot eight, Jason Mercier, who just won the fifteen hundred dollars version of this event, the fifteen hundred dollars Nolan meduced the seven single draw took home on one hundred and fifty one thousand I think it was, and

we had him on the show post win on the last episode. So we'll see if Jason can find his way in the winner's circle again and make Rich Ryan's little take should Amis get a little bit more true because Rich said Jason murch is going to be the first person to nu chance overtake Philammies. Yeah, I mean he'll he'll be right in the mix if he wins four bracelets

this year, and the way that he's going it might happen. Actually, so underway today you had the four hundred dollar colossus, which is absolutely out of control. Okay, So this thing's supposed to start at ten. I'm gonna play. Tim was on the fence. I gotta I gotta seat on the Horseshoe side. I show up here, I'm on time, I'm ready to go. We haven't started on time. It's it's nine fifty eight.

This is why I knew we weren't going to start on time when I walked over there and it was nine to fifty eight and people weren't allowed to go inside the Rooge yet. I said, okay, well, we're definitely not starting on time. Normally like five to ten minutes before they let you in. I'm like, okay, well, we're probably not gonna start on time. Then we get word that they just flat out announced dealer shortage. You

know, we're waiting for dealers. They had the restart of the ladies event was going on in the Horseshoe event Center, and then what's the other one called the Grand Ballroom. The Grand Ballroom is where like most of Classus was, but also some of Colossus was in this room. But people had tickets for seats where the women's were already seated, so that was a whole mess. But they started Paris at ten. Paris was good to go the parasite,

so they started. We didn't get started on this side till just about twelve o'clock, so about two hours behind, which is wild. I mean, not that it matters, because we didn't like start into the tournament two hours We started at zero like, so it was still fine. The field. Last year on Day one A, I think the total it got over thirteen thousand, A little bit over thirteen thousand. Last year on Day when

A, it had fifty eight hundred I think sixty nine. Okay, this year, the current clock that I see about one hundred feet from us says seven seven hundred and five Jesus, So almost two thousand more entries this year and you could only in this tournament. It's only one re entry per flay, so you can only put max four bolts in this thing. I mean, more than two thousand entries today. Tomorrow is gonna have ten thousand people, isn't it. Yeah, I'm not playing. I mean I was planning

on playing tomorrow. I don't think I'm going to now, because if you want to, you should be definitely registering tonight. Yeah, but like my problem is if I register tonight, I wish they could just tell me that I would be starting at noon, or like this size is gonna be delayed or that side is gonna be delayed. Like that would just be easier for my life, right, I don't want to come here and like sit around and do nothing. I can give you some work if you want to.

I have plenty of work. But it's like the getting up in the morning, you know, you're all over the place. Regis to say, I might lay redch tomorrow, We'll see how it goes. I'm also I just I don't know how much more ten handed poker I can take. I just I just don't and I'm just like ready to lose it. It's just not that I like I understand capacity issues. I get it, but like it's it's mostly just these people, Like people don't understand that, Like listen,

we're all there's ten of us at the table. Everyone is uncomfortable, Like just be nice to the neighbor, like, don't try and take up more space, like because you were there first or something like. It's just it's the people that I get frustrated with. So I fired two bullets today. Lay redge actually went extremely fast. Um, I was a little bit worried that I might get stuck in a line for a little while, but it took me maybe fifteen minutes. I have three interesting hands that I want to

talk about. We haven't talked about any hands in a while, so bear with us here. If this is something you don't care about, you can also just shut it off and move on. I don't know. So first table I'm at is bananas. I mean, there's these people are just there's one guy at my table. One guy at my table. He's like chatting with some people on the other side of the table, and then he looks at me and he says, welcome to the table. I'm like, thank

you. You know, what's your name? I forget his name. Like we start chatting. First thing he says to me, are you a pro? I say no, not a pro. And then he said stop lying or something like that. And I was like, I'm not I'm not a pro. And he said sports betting. I said no, I have a real job. He's like, stop lying. I'm like, all right, well, I just can't Like, what do you want me to say? Man? Like what I have a job. I think it was because he asked me where I was from and I said, Las Vegas. So he

just assumed that I was like a professional gambler. But I mean, I don't think I want to know what's the percentage of the seventy seven hundred entries that are professional gamblers that are showing up at ten am to play ten handed poker. It's got to be very small, three three people exactly. So people aren't doing that. They're professional gamblers. The shot takers like myself, off the dreamers. Those are the guys showing up at ten hand okay,

not the professional gambles. Those guys are max late redging, possibly skipping because they don't want to do this. Then he proceeds to tell me that he's from San Diego and he hates the weather in SoCal Because I said, you know, I spent two years. He said, how long have you been out here? I said two thousand and nine, But I did spend two years in southern California and Irvine, so you know I know about southern California. San Diego is great, especially the weather down there. I love it,

he said. He said, I don't really like Irvine, hate the people there. I don't really like the weather in Southern California. Either. I was like, huh, Like, who doesn't like the weather in southern California. You just can't be a real person, Like, you just can't be I mean, so this table is bananas. You got one guy at the table who played. He played every single hand until he busted. And

he busted. I think in the second level he tried to see every single flop and I'm pretty sure he saw ninety percent of them and the one hand that he didn't see the flop he actually had pocket queens. Like it was like the most unreal stuff. It was bizarre land right, because the hand with the pocket queens was I think it was under the gun raised under the gun plus one called, under the gun plus two called. Then middle position three bet. The guy who was playing every hand calls on the button.

Then the first guy calls the original razor he called, and then the plus one re raised, so it back raises after calling. Then the three better goes all in. Then the guy folds his hand on the button. This is the guy who's been playing every hand and when he folded, he like exposed the queens. Okay, Then the first raizor folds. Then the next guy goes all and the other guy calls it's Ace King. It's Ace King for the guy who called the first raising, then back raised, and then

it's aces for the other guy. So that money goes in. So the tables just bananol. Then this hand comes up where I played against the guy who just had aces. We started this with. We started with forty k it's I'm gonna say this is level two and I get pocket queens. This guy raises to eight eight hundred dollars eight hundred under the gun. I have two queens, red queens. I make it twenty three hundred on the button. I was just like, you know what, I'm just gonna three bet

and then go with it. If this guy just continues to raise me pre flop like I don't, it's the colossus. Whatever, let's go. Um he calls it comes nine seven six with the nine seven of spades. He checks as the three better, like they're gonna bet here. I decide to size it up and size up very large. Um. My reasoning here is like I just put a lot of one pair of hands, you know,

like Jack's tends. The way he kind of called pre flop made me think that like he had like a he had a hand, he won't he didn't, like he thought pre flop, and like I was like, you know, he definitely wants to continue with his hand, but I don't know if he'd like how strong he is. Yeah, but he definitely he like he is interest. You know. It wasn't just like I'm just gonna fold us right away or like oh this is so bad, or you know whatever. He felt like he had a pretty good hand. Good not great, I

don't know. So anyway, so he's thinking for a while, and I'm on the flop. Because the flop was like sixty to six hundred, I think he was in there or something like that. I bet six thousand, so basically full pot. He thinks, for a while, Thanks for a while, Thanks for a while, probably a minute in the tank. And the longer he thinks, the more I'm thinking that, like I kind of nailed with what I wanted to do here, and that is to put hands,

like because I don't have the Queen of Spades in my hands. So he can have all the flush straws in his hand. He can have Jack's, he can have tens, he can have eights here, which flops an open ender. Obviously, if he has nine sevens or sixes and he flops the set. I mean, whatever, good game. I'll tap the table and I'll go find the rantry line. Maybe a chance he has like a nine and eight suited, you know, something like that. So I'm like, all right, well, you know, okay. So then he calls

after a little while, fine, great. My plan for the turn is to see a good card and then if it's a good card for me, I'm likely just gonna move all in if he checks to me and just like absolutely put him in a horrible spot. He checks Deus the Hearts on the turn, and he checked, I have thirty nine hundred in the pots, like eighteen k. I put it in. He tanks for a minute or so, calls it off with the jack tennis spades, jack tennis spades.

So he hit a flush draw and a gutter interesting, and he hits the King of Spades on the river. So I was out. But I but I'm actually very happy with my play here. Everything that I thought throughout the hand came to fruition. Obviously there's some luck involved there, I get it. But I think that you know, I took I guess kind of like a less gto line more exploitative line there, but it's the Colossus and you can just absolutely wreck people in this spot. Um and I think I pretty

much wrecked that guy. But he just got there and whatever it is, what it is, no big deal. So I go re enter, get moved to another table. I'm in this this this new room in the silver section or this whatever events center ballroom, I don't know whatever. I don't know the names of these rooms anymore. I had to be at the coldest seat in the room. I love it because it's cold, but holy crap, the guy to my left had shorts on and I could tell he was

like gonna go into hypothermia. It was like so cold for that guy. So there's his hand. I play where it's three hundred, six hundred or ten handed. It folds to me in the hijack seat. I have ace three of spades. I make it fourteen hundred the small blind a woman she calls it comes ace nine three, no spades, rainbow. So I flopped top and bottom pair. She leads for sixteen hundred. So I'm thinking,

you know, should I raise here? Should I just call? I mean, she had been pretty like make her hand, bet it you know. So I'm like, Okay, she probably has an ace. No big deal, Like, I can probably milk her for at least a street before I need to make this any larger. I don't need to scare away here, so I just call turn is the Jack of diamonds. There are now two diamonds on board, the nine and the jack ward diamonds. She decides to check. Now, okay, fine, I go thirty five hundred, so

kind of on the smaller side, I guess. She calls now the river's the Jack of clubs, pairing the board, so it's Ace nine three rainbow Jack of diamonds on the turn puts two diamonds out there, and then Jack on the river pairs the board. She leads for six thousand. I mean this is like, I'm like half annoyed because my two pair just got counterfeited by you know, other aces. Yeah, I'm like, does she have a jack? Well, I don't. It doesn't make really sense for her

to have a jack unless it's ace jack. But you know, the combination there is just on the lower side because there's two jacks on the board. I have an ace. There's an ace in the board. So I'm like, you know how many east jacks are there, So okay, there's that I'm blocking pocket threes ace nine is I mean, at this point it's the

same as my hand. It gets counterfeited. So I'm like, you know, if she's got like in ACE ten, in Ace queen, you know in Ace eight seven, stuff like that, the ace, Like, if she's got an Ace queen or an Ace ten, I don't think she has a king. Although I don't know. I haven't been playing a ton with her to know if she's like gonna be three betting that hand or not. Then I think a shove by me gets it done, gets her to fold

those hands. But then also with like the hands like the nine eight A seven stuff like that, I can probably get her to fold out a chop. Instead of me just calling here and hoping that it's a chop, I'll just go kind of the other way and ramp up the aggression. So she bet six thousand, I moved all in for twenty one nine hundred. She thought for a little while gave it up, which when she was thinking, it just made me believe that she did have an ace, and my plan

worked. So I really liked that one. And then my bust out hand comes up. I will note that Stephen's song got moved to our table. I made sure to inform him because I busted I think one or two hands. After he's had down, I told him, I said, you really need to get the field bonus in this event for our fantasy team. So that was that. So it's five hundred one thousand, ten handed again under the gun plus two makes it twenty five hundred dollars. Twenty five hundred.

Sorry I keep saying dollars for whatever reason. He's like an older gentleman. Seemed like he's been pretty playing his hands pretty face up in general. I'm in the LoJack with nine eightive diamonds. I call. Now, there's probably some arguments you can make here that I can fold, which Tim will make them for me. But you know, it's ten handed poker. Should I be playing a hand like this, I don't know. I feel like, So here's the thing. I feel like, I'm confident with myself post flop

that said you're about to hear how this hand played out. So maybe I'm being an idiot. So I call LoJack. The button calls, and the big blind calls. The big blind just won a massive pot by the way, like the hand before against this French kid who just went absolutely ape shit. Who. I had this French kid too to my left, and I was like, waiting. I could just tell that this French kid was just waiting to absolutely just take his stack and stick eighteen firecrackers in it and just

light them on fire. I could so tell. And then he did it to this guy and I was like, I can't believe you did that, Like, I mean, come on, it was so obvious that guy had a big hand. Anyway, So there's four of us going to the flop. It comes nine eight five with the nine eight of clubs and then the

five spades. So I flop top two. Big Blind just leads for five k like instantly, okay, whatever the plus two the original racer makes it twelve k. I mean, it's blatantly obvious his hand is Queen's plus probably King's races. Okay, now actions on me. Now I start thinking, and I'm thinking for probably two seconds. There's still the button to act behind me, and the big Blind just moved all of his chips in it almost

tabled his cards. I mean, he like he had I don't know one hundred and twenty K So he pushed all of them in the middle, and he was like ready to tables cards the people. Next time, we're like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. So now I'm like, what the f Like what do I do here? Like does he like he clearly like he's like so excited about his hand that like he's like ready to jump out of the building, So like what do I do? So now I'm like, really in the tank, I'm like, am I really

gonna fold this hand? Like I mean he could have pocket fives. I mean he could obviously have pocket nines of pocket eights, yes, but I'm also blocking those hands so less likely in my opinion. I guess he could have eight five, but I mean I have an eight, so I don't know. And then I'm like, you know, he could have hands like jack ten of clubs, maybe as ACE five O clubs, maybe a ten seven clubs, stuff like that, like and he's just ready to go,

like he could obviously have six seven. I get it. And then I'm like, well, then there's this other guy who clearly has like queens plus in my opinion, like that just seems so obvious, so if that guy. So if I think the big blind has like Jack tena clubs, for example, and then there's a chance that the other guy has pocket queens, possibly pocket queens with the Queen of clubs, and that's really good against the

other guy who has Jack ten of clubs. But then even if he has like kings or aces with one club like that also feels like kind of better for me overall. So I'm like, well, I'm like, did I really like flat this hand to fuld top two in the Colossus? Like if this is the dubiest main event, like we're talking a different story, right, I mean, this is the Colossus. I'm like, all right,

whatever, there's all this money out there. I like, I think I'm ahead of obviously the original razor who you know, reraised or raised on the flop, So I mean whatever, So I put my chips in for like I think twenty six thousand, twenty seven thousand, button folds. Obviously the button you know, beats me into the pot again for the second time in the same hand, and then the other guy tanks for a bit, eventually calls it off with he's got two aces with the Ace of clubs. Or

sorry. He didn't have the ace clubs. He had Ace's fades, so he didn't have a club. The other guy had six seven hearts flopped a straight, so you know, I'm just dead to an eight or nine it breaks out. But I mean it was just it was just a weird hand

because the way that guy acted like it changed. I was for sure going to jam the flop, okay, Like I was just gonna think a little bit and then jam the flop, but then he did what he did, and I'm like, you know, it's just it's just it was just frustrating because I don't know if I should just like try and do like a live soul read and like be like he just has it and like fold. But

then I'm like it's the four hundred dollar colossus. Like I've seen crazier shit in my life, Like you know what I mean, Like it's like this tournament because people are out of their minds half the time, Like you know, likes he just had ACE nine and he's just like, yes, I'm in. I'm all in for all my chips top pair, like you know, maybe he flats two tens in the big blind, he's just ready to go like, I don't know, the whole thing seemed kind of crazy to

me. So yeah, so that was just a bit frustrating. But that going back to what I said, where I'm like, I feel like I can call a hand like nine eighty diamonds pre flop, because then I can correctly maneuver post flop. Then I get into this situation where then I'm confused and I don't know what to do. But it was mostly because of the

way that the guy acted. You know, if I had just moved my money in and he hadn't acted yet and it ends up just being the same scenario, then I'm like, all right, whatever, I ran into it, but the way that he acted made me think that, like maybe I could somehow get away from it. But then I was like, I don't know, I'll just go I'm just gonna go for it. The hell with it. But whatever. So yeah, but you said, you know, fold free, fold free, that's what you gotta do. Fould free.

But what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? Man? Maybe I'll try tomorrow, maybe I won't, depends how things go. Um, I mean, we'll see how it goes. Overall. Speaking of tomorrow, it looks like we had down to six in the five k we lost Sean's nemesis. Well look at that. Sean came over gone seventh and jinxed his ass. That's that's what's the goal. I think put the spell on him. Yeah, and just said, all right, you're you're only gonna

finish six? What finished places? Even six? Seven? He finished seven? Seven? Yeah, so I think like two hundred points. I mean, he has enough to move into first place. I'm assuming seventh place paid a good amount of money, so you know, I'm assuming we'll see Ian Matacas blasting and plenty of stuff going forward. You got three hundred and seventy one poy points seven. Yeah, I mean that's a really good score. So that's like as much as he wants bracelet for, you know, So

yeah it is. We also have the fifty thousand dollars potlument Omaha high Roller. There are one hundred and sixty eight entries. Alex Foxon is leading that one hundred and sixty eight entries. I just want to remind everyone is more than one hundred and sixty one. So I get a coffee bank bank. Um, looks like there's eighty eight entries remaining, but that's going to change before I start to play tomorrow, because they do have the Day two late

Redge, So I don't know. Sean deeb seemed to think that there's going to be about thirty seems like a good number. Probably who the heck knows, to be honest, did phill Ivy play? He's probably one of them. A lot of these guys who busted out today might sleep it off, come back tomorrow, you know, get on the text message, grind and fire another bullet and that sort of stuff. Um, you know, Jason Khon busted today, Isaac Haxton busted kind of towards the end of the day.

Um, the Lee brothers, Alan and Tommy both busted. Stephen Chitwick busted. You know. Those are all people that I'm assuming we'll get back in there. Yeah, Daniel LAHI I would assume would get back in there. Josh Rya, I would assume would get back in there. I could see someone like a Dylan Smith getting back in there, Chino Riem getting back in there, Kukuan Law I could see getting back in there. Who was

supposed to fly home because he's wife's having a baby. But I guess yeah, he was gonna skip the fifty k. Maybe they pushed it back. Yeah, um did Sam Sobrell bag chips? It looks like Eric Lingern bag the least. Sam so Roll looks like he bagged a good amount of chips. So that's good for our fantasy team. Sean deep of course bagging the more than one million. And then speaking of fantasy, we gotta talk about it. It's it's getting it's getting to the home stretch. We're rounding this

final weekend before we get into the WISP main event. There are, of course a ton of post slimbs we'll call them, that are going to be going on, you know, surrounding the main event, during the main event, all that sort of stuff. But as of right now, this moment in time, I go to twenty five K Fantasy dot Com Team DPMC is number one on the leaderboard, eight hundred ninety four points. Let's fin go, boys, let's get it done. Come on. I'm excited, but

I'm also like, I'm like so scared. I'm like, I'm so scared, it's not even funny. I got Matt Clark, my captain, my co captain, is in this group chat talking shit to the No Gamble No Future team. Yeah, he shouldn't be doing it. I'm like, dude, what are you doing? He literally you want to know what he did? I yelled at him in the chat, I said, what are you doing? And Jeff Platt's like this, this seems like the perfect time when we're going to go on a run. Who they have Jeremy Osmons says,

their captain on their team, and he bagged a craptonlo as well. So then Matt puts the He takes a screenshot of when Ryo showed his aces premature, like before he made the call and then got his aces cracked. He put that in the chat. He put it in the chat like he did it, basically saying, not only is he like talking shit and celebrating, he's then highlighting the fact that it is exactly what he's doing. Oh, Matt, chill the f out. Okay, we are you need a deleting

from the group. We are all the group? Okay, listen, we are only one point ahead of Team Lady Gaga, that is Wren Lynn's team. Who I think. I think Alex Livingston has a piece of it as well. Alex Livingston's on the team. So so as Ren Lynn, they draft, They basically drafted their whole group of people and they're all doing extremely well. But today, here's what happened today. So I think we came

into the day, were we in first by one point? And then Ren Lynn got Yeah, we were in first by one point, and then Ren Lynn got twenty seventh in the five K six max. First of all, he want an insane hand to even make it to that point. He got it all in with threes against sevens and queens and hit a three. He flepped the full house. It was three four four, so he wins at hand to triple up, which allows him to then go on and finish in

twenty seventh place. Twenty seventh place exactly was the worth of field bonus in that tournament. So that gives Ren you know whatever, ten twelve points something like that to overtake us, and you know, put a small margin between our two teams. But then we get this great news stat correction city They finally fixed the ONLINEBSOP bracelet events. They fixed the field bonuses for them.

So then we move in front. Because we had like four or five things that were wrong that we thought were wrong so we got those points we got. We got additional points for Shaun die when he took second place in his I think we got three extra points there. I think we got like eight extra points for a John Reardon field bonus. We might have got seven extra points for an Ian ste Steimon field bonus. But we're feeling good. So now we're in front by one point. So that's where we are right now.

We're feeling great. I'm ready to go. I'm just I'm happy that the stack corrections are there. I'm happy that. Yeah, and it was stack corrections for everyone. It wasn't just us, but we did benefit the most because we happened to be the team that had the most corrections that were needed. But there is still a very long way to go. Team Fleischmann is in third place, doing very well, anchored very heavily by Chance Coroneth,

who's having it absolutely out of control of summer. Thank god events at the windown't count because Chance went over there and won the Mystery Boundary or whatever the heck that was too. I mean, he's just absolutely lighting things on fire. Team Baker doing very well, also, Team Zamani, Team Maria's Homies Maria won it last year, and then Team Deeves in seventh. I guess I'll just go through the top ten team to Grown You, then Team AJ which is a J. Kelsall's team, and then Team Hello Friscos.

That's the top ten. Still very much anyone's game as far as I'm concerned, the main event's going to be worth a lot. The field bonus is probably going to be the top I would say at least ninety spots in the main event, if not the top ninety nine or one hundred and eight, depending on how many play how many entries the dem event gets. If the event gets eight thousand two just under nine thousand entries, then it'll be the top ninety spots. If it gets nine thousand to just under ten thousand,

then it will be the top ninety nine. If it gets ten thousand to just under eleven thousand, it'll be the top one hundred and eight. And it's gonna be worth one hundred points or you know, just about. So that's just gonna be massive. So you know, you heard Shaun deeb earlier talk about how he necessarily doesn't think he's the best in the Vasu Made event, but hey, we get a lot of good guys that I think can run very deep in the VASP made event, and there's a lot of stuff

going on elsewhere that we can get a lot of points from. Hopefully we get some good runs out of Seawan deeb Sam's over roll in this fifty k pot limit ol Maha high Roller, that would be awesome. I just want to stay neck and neck with ren lns team, That's all I want to do, and kind of distance ourselves from anyone everyone else, and then whatever happens between our team and team Lady Gaga happens. You just want a podium

basically. No, I just I just I want as few sweats as possible, right I don't and I don't believe that we should be overly greeted. We're in a great position right now. I'm grateful for the start that we've had, but I don't want to be like I want to be three hundred points ahead of everyone. Like. No, I'll just stay neck and neck with ren Lyn's team, which is what we've been doing so far. Yes,

that's what we want. Put some distance between everyone else, and then that two horse race come around the last turn, and then damn jam the final sprint, whatever happens, happens. I'll take myself against Ren Lynn and a sprint any day of the week, even with half a knee. I'm good to go. I reckon ren Land sneaky fast. I bet he's quick. I don't know about fast. What's the difference. Quick is like quick,

but fast is like top speed. I think ren might beat you, Like if we had to do like a cone drill or like he would have crushed run or something like that, he might beat me. He would. But if we're running like one hundred yard dash, just straight line, nothing in the way to make fifteen of those yards before you are hamstring pops on us. Yes to watch that. I mean if it meant something, I would do it for sure. Maybe it's with fifty fantasy points. Maybe maybe

we should do it. If what happens is there a tiebreaker? Oh yeah, yeah, we should find out there should actually be. It's funny because we've been like our team and Renland's team are like within five points like every day. It's like shifts like a little bit and we're like right, Like he came into today one point ahead of us. Now we're closing the day out one point ahead of him. So I mean this is no like tiebreaker written. I mean they probably just chopped the money whatever. No fuck that,

um, but yeah I don't. I got my co captain out here running around like we won the damn thing already. I'm like ready to kill. Is he here? Yeah, he's here. He got here today because he brought money from me. Well he beat up. Get on the pod and you two can battle it out, be beef it out. If I want to hear any more of this, Non need to be the judicator. You just need to talent to calm down. How do you feel you you

have a piece of the team. How do you feel? Well, full disclosure, I have a piece of both y'all team and No Gamble in the Future. I am yeah, so that you're a good person to gauge. No Gamble in the Future is sixteenth out of twentieth. They have four hundred and twenty eight points. We have eight hundred ninety four. Okay, how do you how do you feel? I mean, do you feel like do you feel like Team No Gamble in the Future has a shot? I mean yes, everyone has a shot. Yeah, because you can just go on,

we can rip off like this brat events. I know. That's what I'm saying. That's why I'm not confident. You just need to be in our guys. What if our guys go cold and like, you know, four people just rip off of these bracelets exactly. I mean it's like insane and a couple of field bonuses in the main event and it's over. So yeah, it's it's still we're in a great position, well the DPMC team great position, but it's far from oba uh. And you'll be sweating this

out until July seventeenth, that's simple. Yeah, I'm sweating it all the way to the end July eighteenth, just because there's like that last turbo. Okay, I'm just saying over man, I mean, come on, like we gotta the thing, the thing that gives me what is that loss event?

Actually, if I were, it's like a isn't it like a turbo, like a super turbo, like a one day there's a one K turbo on the eighteenth, you're right, yeah, and then on the seventeenth actually even when the final table was going on, there's the three K horses, the one K freeze out, the ten K short deck, the five K no limit there's still a lot of stuff. Yeah, it just doesn't end. Yeah. I mean, I'm like, in no way, shape or

form. Do I feel like we're like anywhere locked into anything here? I really, you know, I want us to like be able to rip something off in these next couple of days. I want us to be able to rip off something pretty meaningful before four the main event starts, if that's possible, you know, like Dave Winning, I would say, I would say before before like day two of the main event starts, or day one, d if you have the Damn Jan Special coming out of the Palo High Low

Championship, Okay, well let's go Damn Jan day two. That's the biggest question. And I hope, so, I hope so. I mean, listen, what I was gonna say is the thing that gives me the most confidence is looking when I listened to Sean Deeb and just how hard he is gonna go, you know, because we made our biggest bet there with Seawan Deeb for one hundred and twelve dollars or wherever the heck we bought him for of the two hundred dollars that we had to go into the auction. I

mean I'm just like him, just non stop going nuts. I also kind of like the whole Gordo going home and then coming back refreshed thing in a weird way, like if it's better than him sticking around here and being written miserable, Look, that's definitely come back. He's fresh for the twenty five k horse some one else? What what? What other mixed games? Like do we think that Gordo would play? I mean, he would probably play Yeah, I'll probably play that twenty five k horse of course. Well then

is the three k horse horse? Yeah? I think you have to play those. You're like, you have to play those of you on the ten k horse, It's just like a rule. Um, there's also the OA, So he would definitely be in that, okay, and then you know, maybe he dabbles in the ten k short deck or the fifteen short deck. Now I'm not really show on those ones. Yeah, I mean, and he did get some points for us online, so you know, yeah, maybe he fires some online while he's doing some of this other stuff.

So yeah, so listen, I feel good, not great, happy and grateful from where we where we are right now, but super a long way to go, and it's extremely nervous to be in this positions, A long way to go, all right, that's gonna do it for us. My name is Donnie Peters, his name is Tim Duckworth. And we'll talk to you guys next time. Peace right tonight, jennyting spread