Haxton Has Finally Done It

Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Go Podcast. We are back two days off because Tim wasn't feeling good. Apologies, but he's back. He's feeling great. He's a gladiator. He's a gladiator. Hopefully he's playing the Gladiators tomorrow. Maybe it is well. I was gonna say it's Friday, June ninth, foot it's only twelve to ten am, so still Thursday to me, as far as I'm concerned. A big

show today. We gotta get caught up on a lot of things, chief among them Chad eve Sledge winning another bracelet, absolutely crushing his second bracelet of the twenty twenty three WSOP his third overall. We got Jeremy Iyer winning the five kingle and hold him freeze Out. We got Brian Yune taking home his fifth WSP goal bracelet. Isaac Haxton wins his first long time coming for Ike.

Daniel mcgrand new bagging an absolute pile of chips in the three hundred dollar Glad Years of Poker tournament, which I'm pretty sure no one thought he was gonna play. I think someone even wrote in to our mail bag episode as because and I looked up his tweet with his schedule and it wasn't on there, so we got the twenty five dollar nom and hold him freeze out. That is approaching a final table. We'll quickly hit on that because that is

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purchase. Event number ten the ten thousand dollars Dealers Choice Championship formerly the Adam Friedman Invitational. But we at least have somebody challenging for like a Dealer's Choice title. I don't know if we want to call him Dealer of the Year, which some people have joked. But Chad eve Sledge wins this event three hundred and eleven thousand, four hundred and twenty eight dollars for first it's his third careerspegal bracelet. He topped a field of one hundred and fifteen entries.

What makes this win even better is that he won the fifteen hundred dollars Dealer's Choice. That's the fifteen hundred dollars version of this event. I don't know a handful of days ago, four or five days ago. So yeah, the guy just goes back to back in the Dealer's Choice tournaments, extremely hard tournaments to win, extremely good skilled fields. People are picking all different kinds of games. There's how many games nineteen or twenty they added deuce to seven

rose this year? Okay, maybe one most so maybe it's twenty one or twenty two. Yeah, I mean that's just bananas, and chad Ea Sledge wins both of them, which is wild. We're gonna talk about another finish he had in another event coming up a little later, but I believe he's currently leading Player of the Year WSP dot Com Player of the Year stats.

I believe they lag like a day or two, but last I checked, chad Ea Sledge was the front runner there rightfully, so coming out of the gate winning two bracelets in a week, it's incredible, it really is. Yeah, it's I mean, is he gonna just win seven bracelets this year.

I mean, he nearly won hestad. He's gonna play a bunch of the big mixed games where we're gonna get one hundred players, one hundred and twenty players, So he's definitely gonna have another crack at it, you know, whether it's the final two tables, final table, maybe gets full hand in front of the bracelet. But he seems to be running pretty hot and

he's gonna ride that luck. Yeah, it's pretty wild. How good Chad eve Sledge his in a relatively short period of time, at least in kind of the bigger picture, you know, being a star in poker and all that sort of stuff. Um certainly has come on lately. Obviously has what two WPT titles yep as well. So, I mean, the guy's just an absolute crusher. And the third race of that he won was twenty twenty two, Yeah, twenty five K something Nolan hold him high roller, Yeah

that's it. Yeah, So I mean he's clearly well versed in all the games. Yeah, just an absolute crusher. M We tried to get him in twenty five K Fantasy, but ultimately couldn't afford him. After we had got Shaunde, But that would have been the tandem that we would have really loved to have. Event number twelve, five thousand dollars Nolan hold him freeze out. This had a seven hundred and thirty five player field, which is wild. Jeremy Iyer he topped that field to win his first goal bracelet and

six hundred and fifty thousand dollars in prize money. He denied Brazilian poker player, longtime poker player, somebody who's been around in the industry for a while forever as far as I can remember, Philipe Ramos. He denied Philip Ramos's first gold. Philip's one of those guys that every time the conversation for best poker player without a bracelet comes up, start adding name. Said that list you take some people off after they win some stuff. Philippe has been on

that list for a while. Probably wants to get the hell off the list, definitely, So he was super close here, but ultimately Ayer proved to be too tough. The final hand was Ayer's Queen's verse, Ramos's jack, So you know your head's up in an oldman holding tournament Queen's verse jacks. The money's going in pre flop. Not much you can do there. Of course, Ramos did not hit a jack and Iyer comes out on top. Pretty fun final table was this one almost had had a decent rail on his

side. I Er had a decent rail on his side. Ramos's dad was, I think he's visiting Las Vegas for the first time ever, and it just so happens that it times up with with his son getting heads up for a gold bracelet, So that would have been really cool to see. Ultimately didn't happen, but I'm sure we'll see Philippe Ramos get get back to this spot and hopefully, you know, can finally get that monkey off his back. And then I I thought he played extremely well throughout the final table.

Early on in the final table, like there was a whole bunch of wackiness. Was it? Shimizu was his name? Japanese player, Yes, was doing the hood duke in it was Great entertain Supposedly he's the number one telemarketer in Japan. I mean it was yeah, And I guess he's now leading the ten thousand dollar limit Hold Him Championship that kicked off today, So I can't wait to get this big guy back at the final table because he was out of control, super fun, and the other players at the table were

like playing into it, having a lot of fun as well. So you kind of like, if you were watching this dream remcoin, I did a one hour preview then then the rest of the stream took place on Poker Go, you wouldn't think that it was a five thousand dollars gold Bracelet event.

You would probably think it was like a one K like just because of the how laid back the players were, despite the fact that they were playing for six hundred fifty thousand dollars up top super marquee event being a five K buy and all that sort of stuff, but they were just having an absolute blast. Higher thought, I thought he played really well overall, and it is

certainly a very deserving winner to come out on top. Here. I'm assuming we're going to see plenty more from Aire, just kind of judging by what I saw at the table and then the fact that he won six hundred fifty K now, so I think he's probably due for some runs coming up. Event number fourteen at ten thousand dollars stud Championship Brian Yune. Now, we just talked about Philipe Ramos, being a player who is kind of always on

the best. To not win a bracelet list Brian Yune, I think it is probably an unfortunately on the underrated or overlooked list, like you know, like he's got he had four bracelets coming into this event. Wins his fifth thirty third player in USIP history. To do so takes some three hundred and eleven thousand, four hundred and thirty three dollars. But Yun is a tremendous player at THESP, I mean his five bracelets, So he won this bracelet.

Of course, ten thousand dollars seven Cards stud Championship event one hundred eleven entries, not the biggest field, but a super tough field. Okay. He also won the ten thousand dollars duced to seven Triple Draw Championship. That's also a super tough field to get through. Then he like kind of switches it up where he won the little one for one Drop which had like six

thousand something people in it, right, so he wins that one. He wins the fifteen hundred dollars Monster Stack one year, which had over four thousand or over forty five hundred players, you know, so he's kind of doing it like in the massive field old smaller buying Nolaman holding tournaments. He's doing them in the super elite ten K championship events and then kind of smack dab in the middle he wins a five K no limit as well. Why not?

I mean, the guy is an absolute crusher. He is, and when he gets down, you know, to deepen these tournaments, he's like a favorite to close every single time. I mean, five goal bracelets, that's wild. If you pauled like not just random people, but like actual poker player is I think a lot of them would be like, have no idea that he's won five. They might be saying, yeah, maybe he's won one. I think it could be hit or miss, because I do

think a lot of people are like, Brian Unis is incredible. He's really do see did he get drafted in Fantasy Yeah, we tried to draft him. Okay, he's the guy crushes every year. Yeah, he's a very good player, so very deserved that he got that fifth goal bracelet. I'm sure this won't be the last time that we see Brian Union winning a bracelet, just given the success that he's been having. Again, thirty third player

in WSP history to do so, which is pretty pretty wild. I mean, this is like the kind of conversation where Poker Hall of Fame nominations are going on right now. Is he in the conversation? I mean, some people are gonna get nominated that haven't won five bracelets, right, you have a point, you know, It's like he destroys the WSFP clearly, and like I like the fact that he's kind of spanned or he's his wins are like versatile, Like he's got those smaller buying, big field no limit wins.

You know where somebody wins, you know, one or two of those, A lot of times they point to that person like, yeah, you know, that's kind of lucky to win one of those. You gotta run super hot for five six days, you know, we get it. Okay, fine, Then he won a five K no limit, then he won two ten K championship vents. It's like, this is really effing good.

Yeah. So I think he deserves a lot of credit for his success, and hopefully he starts kind of kind of getting away from people like overlooking him. Event Oh well, quickly, let me just hit on chack. That's what he beat heads up. Now, I don't know if this is true or not. I'm gonna just believe Dan Chack. But he saw me when they were on break from the final table and he said that this was the

first straight seven card STUD tournament he's ever played. I can't believe. Like he's played Stud in the horse games, He's played the fifty k PPC stuff like that, and Stud has always been in it. He also mentioned that at times he's like kind of a tried to avoid the STUD rounds. Now, you can't really avoid them if you're playing them, but you can kind of play a little bit tighter. Maybe you just sit out all that sort

of stuff. I remember when we saw Crazy Mike at the Pgteam mixed games, he like didn't play an entire he didn't play like when it got to PLO in the eight game or something like. You know, stuff like that. If you want to take it to an extreme, that's what you do. But Dan Jack was saying how he kind of spite registered for this because he like he kind of hates STUD so much, but he knows that he wants to get better at it because when he plays the mixed games, it's

always in the mix. So so yeah, so he got in this next thing. You know he's heads up, um, but he's ultimately denied. Dan Shack another one of those players where you know when people are like somebody who's been around for a while, somebody who's had a lot of success want a crap ton of money but doesn't have a bracelet. Dan Shack is on that list. He almost came close, or he did come close, and he almost won one in the Mystery Millions, you know, eighteen thousand,

whatever the heck entries in that one. He gets seventh place in that one. Um, he ended up three beat jamming and that one runs into pocket Jackson. That was all she wrote for Dan Shack. There so two close calls for Dan Chack. Dan Chack has a run around finish at the WSP thirteen years ago. Can you name the game? It was a five K If you tell me it was seven cards, said I'll die no, because that would just be funny. How he's like, I've never played seven card

set term. But then he got heads up. Tell you who he beat? Um, no, no, no, hold on her. I think I know this five K. Wait you tell me who he beat? Didn't tell you who he beat, but I thought you's not. Who are sorry? Who? He lasts her? Yeah? Um, yeah, go ahead, Christopher Bell. I'm pretty sure I covered this final table. You know we can verify that too. But ten also at that final table, Eric Sidow PLO eight bang yeah, yep? Was it a five K? Yeah?

Yeah, there you go. I'll get that. Chris Bell's a legend, have the same name in a while. Actually he was. He's playing the bidoogie. He might even still be in what yeah, or he was there today for sure, one hundred percent. I know Chris bell Um that bidugi event still, by the way, absolutely looked it out. Yeah there you go. Uh just quickly on that pidougie event, because we've been off for two days, five hundred and sixteen interliev the first time they've ever had

a fifteen hundidougie event. I know Remco has been super bummed out that he didn't play it. He wouldn't never play anyway, No, he wanted to play it. I don't believe I told. I said, listen, I'll handle the stream duds. Go play like what I mean, Go have some fun. Man. He loves bidougi. I love beidoogie. Two. I think it's great that they got over five hundred entries. I think that they have to be over the moon. I mean, I don't see how you cannot be. You know, I was thinking if they got three fifty,

you know, this is like wild. I mean, this that turnout. I know we're kind of on this little sidebar here, but like that turnout tells me that nextually they needed ten k. I mean, if you get five hundred and sixteen, you can pull between one hundred two one hundred and fifty for a ten gate, which is what all the ten kate Championship events get. Yeah, I think that with that number, I think it's very inflated by I mean, how many's the first time event and you want to

just beat you want to be how did that first time events? How many people over there right now would probably play a ten k David Baker, I see, David Back, David Bach, John Pearl, Jammer Turner would probably get in there. Probably Shyla Thornton maybe. I mean, Terrence Chan is out here hes he loves the draw games. He could probably get in there. You know, Danny Tang's in the field. We know he plays whatever

the heck the buying what he's doing, it doesn't matter. But I'm saying if he's if he's playing this tournament, okay, he at least is interested in Bedougie. And then and then we know that he plays all the massive buyonds on trading, so I don't think ten thousand dollars price point is like out of his range. So I think he could get in there as well. I think the number for Bedoogie would very much match a number that we get for say the limit duce to seven triple jaw. Yeah, that's fine.

Yeah, well that's also the lowest number in all the championship. That's fine. I think that that's fine. I mean, I don't love it, but don't I mean, or maybe you just make it like a triple jaw championship. I like that, you know. And and then it's it's a mix of some triple jaws as opposed to just the one off duced to seven triple jaw, which I think now we've we've proven that that there's at least another game that's like in the conversation, just because it came out of

the gates, it's five hundred and sixteen entries. I mean, that's just bananas to me. Yeah, maybe it's like a triple draw championship. We have uce to five bedoogie you could put it in. Uh. I mean it depends how crazy you want to go with it, really, but yeah, it could be a good event. Yeah, but that's you know, that's one of those things where you know, you could easily talk to that group of players, see what they would want, and work out on an

event in that regard. Oh, Chad eve Sledge busted in twelfth in the in the ten thousand dollars event, so you know, he's just the guy's on fire. I mean, honestly, I thought he was gonna win when he was like down to the final two tables, I'm like, yeah, of course he's Chad is gonna win. Eight race Event number sixteen, twenty five thousand dollars high Roller, a massive field for a twenty five k high roller, three hundred and one entries. Isaac Hackson Ike Hackson finally gets WSP

gold. It was his eighth WSP final table. He won just under one point seven million dollars in prize money. Hackston's twenty twenty three is out of control. It's not even ten days into June. And the guys won more than seven point six million dollars this year alone. He started it all off Poker Girl Cup in January. He shows up to the final event, he wins the fifty K top carry Cats I believe in that one. Then he

goes down to the Bahamas for PCA wins. I think he wins one hundred k, like, finished a second in another hundred k, like, has a crazy time down there. Then he has a whole bunch of trite and stuff. Like the guy's just on fire. I think he had some success. But at the PLO series was it he had a cash at the in the ten K bounty of the fifteen K bounty of the Payloas series. I mean, then he want a USPO event USPO, that's yeah. I mean

the guy he's wanted something in Monte Carlo. Yeah, he's been just absolutely well. He does his one fire, it's his sixth victory of twenty twenty three, and he has ten top three finishes. He has thirty seven point five million dollars in live career live tournament earnings according to the hendemov dot com. That is twelfth on the all time money list, ahead of carry Cats and Steve O'Dwyer. Like I said earlier, his first World Series of Poker

goal bracelet. There's a little media scrum afterwards. Tim. Tim was asking a lot of the questions in there. I thought he was going to tear up that first question you asked him. It kind of seemed like it. He's wearing the masks and you can't fully tell, but um, I felt like I could kind of hear it in his voice that this had kind of

been a long time comment. Not that not that ike needs validation. It definitely doesn't mean, you know, but it still must feel maybe really good personal validation, just like like it's like, man, I finally got this done, you know that sort of thing. So, um, here's the interview for you now, and then we'll come on back and we'll talk a little bit more. I hacks and congratulations on your first upsp bracelet. The first thing I noticed after you want you're picked up that bracelet. You gave

it a little look deep down that meant something special riot for you. It did. Yeah, Yeah, this is my twentieth year as a professional poker player, and it does feel good to finally get that bracelet. This year you've had you have six wins, you have ten top three fanshes, But coming to the WSP was something like a mission. Feels just to finally breakthrough gret that first bracelet. I don't know, I tend not to think about that kind of thing too much. I mostly just want to play well and

make some money. But sure, I mean it feels great to win along those lines. There's that best without a bracelet thing. I know. I talked to just what you finally wanted. He said, you know, it's kind of just a relief to get that off your should enough to hear that anyway, can you can you address that issue at all, just kind of not having to hear that, you know, thing in the media or just sure, yeah, I agree, it is a little bit of a monkey off my back. I guess, um. You know, I've had a

funny career in terms of like finished distributions. I prior to this year had all my biggest scores were like second place, third place finishes except for the super high rollerbole and then this year I've got like six wins. All of them been pretty big stuff. And uh, yeah, it's been funny watching a change, and I guess this is one more off the list, where would you break this and turn of your your favorite wins are once and most

enjoyable or meant the most. You do think about it even that way, or it hadn't occurred to me to think about it that way, But I suppose it's got to be up there. It's it's a pretty big one. Winning a three hundred player twenty five k is pretty good. Now. Obviously, Um, you and Justin have a very close friendship. You just talk to me a little bit about what that friendship has mean meant to you in

terms of your poker career and then also just in general. Yeah, sure, I mean I've known Justin since right when I first moved to Vegas in two thousand and eight, and yeah, we've always been very close and collaborated a lot on poker, and yeah, he's been an incredibly supportive friend and incredibly valuable partner in poker study and training. Absolutely, you touched on twenties in the industry, And I want to know kind of what motivates you?

Is it? You know, right now you're twelfth on the all time money list. I are you just trying to, you know, play your best poke or are you looking up at Justin saying I want to challenge you for that top spot one day. Nah. I don't think about the all time money list at all. It just feels good to still be around, still able to win and talk to tournaments, and yeah, I like playing cards

and making money, all right. That was Ike Haxton feels good. His buddy Justin Bontomo was right there the whole time, hopped in the winner's photo with him. Bottomo of course, as he's been to the WSP winners circle before, unlike at Isaac Haxton before this event. But but yeah, remember when remember the forty k years ago they kicked off the series. Yeah, and Ike was there and used just one time and Vitelli Lunkin won the tournament. I mean that tournament. That was bananas. Um. I think Greg

Rammer was at that final table. That's a weird one. Um Lex Velhouse might have been at that. That was that was insane. Yeah, that was the whole thing was just wild. But good for Ike. You know, he's uh, he's removed himself from the list from the list, the list do you like don't want to be on? Yeah, we need an updated list. We do need an updated listen and it's I mean I asked you kind of beforehand, like it's like, who is really on that list?

Sometimes I feel like people just get thrown on there because they're just around for a while and they don't win. Like, is Alan Kesler on the list? Yeah, he's on that list, you know. I mean he's on top five, but he's on the list. Yeah. I mean, I don't I don't know we should stop that. I think Shannon Shore is on the list. I think Shannon Shore is below Alan Kesler? Are you

are you out of your mind? Yeah? No, in terms of well, I might be out of my mind, but I don't think that's the title of this list, not that we named it his best poker player without a bracelet. Oh okay, I thought, okay, okay, let's wind him back. Yeah. I thought it was like most deserving. I thought you were about to tell me that you would take you would take Alan over. I thought you were going a different pure Hell no, no, no

fan sound, no chance. I mean we just talked about Philip Romo's getting denied. He's always kind of throwing on that list. M for a long time. Jason Koon was on that list. He obviously won the twenty five K heads up to get that monkey off his back, which he uh basically threw off his back figuratively after he won. Dan Smith was on that list for for a while. UM, trying to think who else Ryan Altman last ya won the online break Online. Yeah, so he's like half off half

on. Yeah, I would I would get as well. I would probably say that even if you were to ask Brian Altman, and I don't know this for sure, but like he would tell you that he wants to win a live gold gross because that's that is what's seen a little bit more, what people recognize a little bit more. Somebody, somebody who was at this twenty five K found table Darren Elias. I was gonna say, we should do a draft. We like drafting. We should do like a five person

Snike draft for this. Okay tomorrow, Um, maybe not tomorrow, but we'll do it in the next upcoming episodes next week. Fine, we're doing. Um, but Aaron Elias, you know, he's another player. Uh. The thing with Darren is always like it's just a volume game. I feel like like I don't think he puts in the most amount of volume that a lot of these guys like Shannon Shore played like one summer he played like freaking sixty tournaments. Just bricked this like it's I mean, it's insane.

Yeah, you know, I mean Darren at least like he's got three WPT titles. He won that WD Tournament champions as well, so you know, it's it's pretty it's pretty crazy. But we'll have to do some digging on this. Probably carry Kats, yeah, I mean he's always around, you know, like that's a massive volume. Play doesn't play enough. I mean I don't know, might play like thirty five events, Dan Shack is there, same with Shack thirty five events, yeah, I mean, but like

they like they always they always play enough events, I would say. I mean there's obviously, like you know a lot of people that are absolut crushers who don't have bracelets just yet, and the Kins probably eventually get them. I mean, I don't think he puts in enough. I mean, like so his someone like a Maurice Hawkins, Like his volume is all in tournaments that are like so hard to win because you've got to get through six thousand people. I mean, like like that's just like so hard. I mean

obvious. Yeah, but he's kind of in like the Alan Kessler group where it's more like, I don't know, he just I feel like they need another gear in order to break through and get the wins. I've always said

this about Alan Kessler. If he just showed up to the World Series one year and just basically played like Gus Hanson, like people are like Michael Mrocky, people like what the f is going on and they wouldn't know what to do, like especially if he did, especially if he did in like the Big Bead Games, when you can like you know, actually put people pressure

on people and stuff like that. Like people people think Alan plays pretty conservative, so they'd be like, oh, he just is getting hands, he's on a run, and it would be it would be kind of crazy. So that's my tip to Alan Gustos. Just switch it up one year,

Just go forgetting bananas. If at number eighteen, the three hundred dollar Gladiators of Poker tournament, it kicked off yesterday with day one a insane number three thousand, nine hundred and forty entries on Day one A. So this is a three hundred dollar buy in and it has four starting flights started on Wednesday, So Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. UM, you can register. You can re enter twice per flight. I believe it's once, so

I think I think it's twice. What can you look that up for sure? I'm pretty sure it's twice per flight? UM, so maximum three bullets for flight three times four would be twelve entries across the whole thing, if that's what you want to end up doing. So yeah, Day one A

three thousand, nine hundred and forty entries. Day one B looks like it's twice per flight, right, yes, right, because I'm playing tomorrow, prepared to fire and all my bas but you're nine hundred dollars ready to go, that's right, loaded up my whatever the heck account, Bravo account today and I'm ready to blast it off. UM. Day one B four thousand, five hundred and seventy one entries, it looks like. So that brings the total up to eight thousand, five hundred and eleven UM. This tournament

had a three million dollars guarantee prize pool. Looks like that is going to be absolutely annihilated m probably tomorrow. UM. Day one. See, you know, this is one of those tournaments where it's just the field sizes are going to get bigger every year. I'm guessing tomorrow we'll get easily five thousand plus, probably right around six thousand, and then I have no f an idea what Saturday is gonna do. What's the capacity to this place on Saturday?

I mean, because that's what it's gonna get, right, and what other events actually leading the other way? I think it's pretty other way. I think the first two days are above average, and I think we're gonna be pretty flat the next two days. I'm not saying we're gonna get less. I don't think we're gonna get ten thousand on Saturday, though. I think we might get like sixty five one hundred on Friday. Maybe we get on Saturday. Yeah, I don't give me, give me a number.

I said, what can I bet nothing to more? Today? I'll take I'll take the over eight thousand on Saturday coffee. Yeah done. I mean they had over eight thousand in the last flight of the Mystery Millions, which has is greater than three times the buying. That's a very different tournament. Bro. This is the shot like this is the Mystery Millions. Yeah, I understand, but that's still a thousand dollar price tag, Like, that's a lot for a lot of people in the world to stomach. This is

the lowest price point of a live dubisipy event ever. There's a lot of marketing behind it. It's called the glad Eaters behind Yeah, they've been made a whole thing of this. Yes, one hundred percent, there's a lot of marketing. Look, if he gets over the eight thousand, you can take your coffee and enjoy it. That is right. I'm gonna buy a Trenta. Wow. We even I thought we just better Grande. Nope, trent To. It's gonna be great. Um. Daniel McGrane played day one

A and wait wait, and the Daniel mcgroner. Honestly, I thought it was a troll name when I was looking at the chip counts. And then of course you see the photos you see him in his vlog. All right, we've contemplated, we've looked, and I think I think we've decided that today we are going to be a man of the people, a gladiator if you will. He's out there being a man of the people. He bagged the fourth biggest stack on day one A. I mean, I mean,

that's gonna be t well, no chance. I wanted to find him today, but we got side checked with all the streams and all this sort of stuff. But like, I just wanted to go up to him be like, like, are you taking this event seriously? Like what how are you playing? How are you playing this tournament? I saw those some of the vlog some of the hands are a little little on gto approved. But I think he's just having fun. I mean, is wouldn't you if you're him?

You know, I'm sure we can talk to him about that and figure it out, but like, don't you just play this like the three dollar rebuy on Poker Stars essentially, like you know, yeah, and it works. It works out for him. I don't know what his plan was in terms of like multiple flights, but it works out that he bagged the pile on day one A, he can basically go do other things for the next three days, Like he can go play the ten K limit holding championship.

He even playing the ten K limit. He's in with a stack, okay, well whatever, but he can he can basically win a tournament in between. Yes, coming back for day two. Yes, So it worked out perfectly for him. I'm sure the people in the field, Like the people at his table or whatever tables that he was playing out all day were absolutely loving the whole thing that he sits down. I'm sure the people around him were like having a freaking blast. I mean, this must have just been

awesome. So I think it's great that he played that sort of events. I think it's it would be great if like you could somehow push a lot of the kind of the big name pros to play that, like a hellmuth you know, Maria Ho get in there like stuff like that, like you know comes, I mean, well, he just won't engage with the fans because he's just that's what he does. You know. Mike Madisow would be

hilarious. People love Madisow, you know from the old day and stuff like that moneymaker, you know, but yeah, um but yeah, I mean listen, he begged what did he beg? Two millions on them? I don't even know. I don't even know what they start within this tournament. Thirty thousand money about million? I mean, that's just unbelievable. So if you think it's gonna get over eight thousand, we're talking like you think it's gonna hit twenty k. Yeah, I mean, we're gonna get into this

in a second. Um, So we got day we got day one on Friday. I've already registered. I've got table one in Paris, which that's the best table in the room, because that should mean I don't break all day because they usually break high to low. I should be stuck in the corner. They break either low to high or should be stuck in the corner, and I should not move. That's what's gonna happen. And I'm gonna bag four million, and I'm gonna come on this podcast and I'm gonna talk

about everyone's faces that I incinerated. Shout out Todd Brunson. And that's what's gonna happen. And then Day one d on Saturday. I have the over whatever the heck number we bet I have. I have the over eight thousand. That is the the I'm gonna buy the coffee now because that is the lockiest of locks. Eight thousand. I mean, you really think it's not gonna get eight thousand, We'll see you're out of your mind. Um, all right, so here's what you wanted to get into. UM, Basically,

the largest field sizes in World Series of poker history. I mean I remember when they came out with the Colossus. Was the first one, right, I mean the first like real kind of tournament in this same vein was Remember when they had the first one? K I think it had like seventy five hundred entries or thereabouts. Um, Steve sung won Itaious, Muggy Delicious. Look look up that tournament. I want to say it had seven thousand and seven hundred and eighty one entries. I have no idea if that's right

or not. It's probably not. But yeah, and I think on the WSP profile for Steve's song has his nickname as game Over. No, get Audie, No, that's not his nick It says plays online is muggylicious. But why would you ever put game over as he So that that event you're talking about was two thousand and nine Series one King Element to hold him six thousand and twelve players six thousand and twelve, I was way off. Yeah, yeah, I mean I remember that I think it had one starting flight.

Um, it doesn't actually want to show me. I mean, I have no two I'm just wrong on everything. Um, but that that at the time, I remember the time, like the conversation was like what are they doing and having a one thousand dollars goal bracelet event? What is happening? Blah blah blah. Yeah, I gotta all this sort of stuff. I mean whatever at this point, whatever that was that was crazy when it happened. How much did he win? Seven and seventy one thousand? Oh

my god, what a payout where the payoffs must have been insane? Seven seventy one four Right, So anyway, that doesn't even crack. How many are on this list? One two, four? Well, this list is just events with ten thousand of all players. Yeah, I'm saying that doesn't that doesn't even crack this list, you know, just with how big these

tournaments are. A tournament that does crack the list that did happen this year was the one thousand dollars Buying Mystery Millions Tournament eighteen thousand, one hundred and eighteen entries that is currently fifth on the list. I think the Glad Years of Poker will get more than that. If I think so. They went thirty nine hundred and forty one Day one A, fifty five forty seven on Day one B. I think they'll get fifty five hundred to six thousand day

one c and then eight thousand the next day. So yeah, where you're looking at twenty two thousand is kind of I have it at Um, I'm not sure it touches the Big fifty that was the kickoff event in twenty nineteen over at the Rio, five hundred dollars buying four starting fights, twenty eight thousand, three hundred and seventy one entries. If you can fin believe that, I mean, that was wild when that happened. Has it has the Yeah, the winner was is probably right over there. He was right that

he was sweating. Um. The Brazilian player Raphael Rios, I forget his last name, and that's horrible of me, but um, he won the fifteen dollar in Oldenholme six next today. Femi Fashakin was the winner of that events. Um about one point one five million dollars for a five hundred dollars

buying just absolutely bananas. I mean, not only does the Big fifty have of the record for the largest tournament, has the record by six thousand entries, It's like it has the record for the tournament that Steve Song won, Like like that's the gap. Um. I think this Big fifty will be wild Gladis Poker or sorry, yeah, the Gladiears of Poker. I think it's just gonna be crazy. I don't see how you don't think it's gonna be confident. It eclipses the Mystery Millions, right, eighteen thousand and one.

I'm confident. Yes, you don't seem so confident. I'm on the fence. But I think it's cracking twenty thousand, Okay. I mean, as long as they can get the bodies in the seats, that's the hottest spot. Yeah, but I think I think they've been doing this enough times that I think they can pull that off. Yeah. I mean, what is David back doing? He is he not on the tournament anymore? Over there? Oh my gosh, we lost gun slinger and look at that. He left his iPad on desk. No, he's not a break. They're

all plane. Maybe they're bagging. Did he hit the fuel bonus? Can you look that up? Says there's sixteen left or fifteen left? Now all the clocks has fourteen. We didn't have to finish on the top eighteen. Oh, he's definitely that. This is okay. Well, that's good. That's an extra five points or something. Um, David about great pick for us. We need fantasy up Dame. Yeah, we will, um so yeah, So I think it's gonna top I think it'll top twenty thousand.

That's what I'm going with. Um. I nailed the Mystery Millions prediction. I said eighteen to nineteen thousand. Smack dab on target. There, I'll go with this one. Some of these events that are on this list, though, had five starting flights, six starting flights, like the one that's the third biggest. The twenty sixteen Colossus Tournament had six starting flights so many ben key Line won that one for a million dollars. Oh that's try.

He was drying for Uber yeah before he jumped in. The Colossus is on this How many times the classes on this one? Two, three, four, five, six times the colossues. I love the Colossus Tournament. I think it's one of the best things that WISP ever did. To be honest, I don't know why do you think that. I love that. I know, just like the name. So it came out. When it came

out, it had the five hundred and sixty five dollars buying. It's now transitioned to have a four hundred dollars buying, which I think is great. You know, as I've said before, I think what THESP has done in regards to catering to these smaller buying tournament players is ultimately a good thing.

I know a lot of people make the argument that a Wsop bracelet isn't worth as much as it once was, but unfortunately we're past that argument and we just need to live in the time that we're in right now and guess what this is, how it is. And I think it's pretty cool when these people can win a crap ton of money, have Thatsop glory, these numbers

can be absolutely booming. Like, I think that one of the reasons why I think that the Colossus is so good is one I feel like it kind of started this whole thing, right, Yeah, So you obviously have an event like the one K Nolan holding that Steve song one back in the day, but like this stuff, I feel like kind of had a new era when it was the sub one thousand dollars buyings, okay, and that the

Colossus was what really ushered that in. And I think that every time that these events happened and you get ten, twelve, fifteen, eighteen twenty thousand entries in the field. That is just such a great organic marketing thing for the entire series. Like this person won this tournament it had eighteen thousand people like that just really sells the dream of achieving that WSP glory at a price point that so many people can access. So that's why I like something like

the Colossus. Honestly, I'm a sucker for a really good name. I like, at my heart, I'm probably mostly a brand marketer, and like the branding Colossus. It's simple, it's one word. It's awesome, you know exactly what it means. Like Gladie Years of Poker is I mean, it's a little long for me, like, you know, you can't really you know, you can't really doesn't really roll off the thong. Glad Years of Poker. But Colossus Colossus, like that's it, Like that's the one.

Like even like Big fifty I think is good. I loved Housewarming when they came out with that one. Reunion think that one's good as well. So yeah, and I also like that, you know, I like the fact that a lot of these a lot of these ones that are on here, Big fifty Housewarming Reunion etc. It's all kind of a different name for the same tournament that kicked off the beginning of the year. Um. I like that the Colossus stays every single year. I think it should stay every

single year. I like the buying, as I said at the four Hunt all or so. Yeah, so that's kind of my reasoning for liking this whole thing now. But unfortunately Colossus might get ticked down a little bit on

this list because glad Years of Poker is gonna blow doors. Um, but just quickly, uh, twenty nineteen Big fifty, twenty three seventy one, two fifteen Colossus twenty two thousand, three hundred and seventy four, that was the first one, right, twenty sixteen Colossus twenty one thousand, six hundred

and thirteen. And look at listen to this. The twenty fifteen one four flights twenty two thousand, three hundred and seventy four two sixteen one had six flights and had I think it also had a million dollars guarantee off had seven hundred seven hundred entries fewer. Yeah, I mean that, just like that twenty fifteen tournament was just freaking wild man cord Garcia one. It remember that,

What the hell? And then the fourth one on this list the five hundred dollars housewarming from last year, so that was the kickoff event for here twenty thousand and eighty entries, and then moving into number five on this list, twenty twenty three one thousand dollars Mystery Millions Poker Tournament eighteen thousand, one hundred and eighteen. All right, enough of that, let's move on twenty

five hundred all no limit, hold them freeze out. Let's see what's going on in that tournament, says I. Pull up the updates over on WSP dot com. Looks like they're down to eleven players. Swan Shoe is the chip Lato. I think you pronounced that. You would pronounce it better than me. Uh, Jean Zoo, let's go with it. Looks like he's leaving the way. Alexander Reared is up there towards the top of the accounts on just Korn, who I thought only played RAS tournaments and cashing RATS tournaments,

is doing very well. Timothy T. K. Miles fun note and I have shared this on various podcasts before, but the first person first poker player I ever asked what their name was after I recorded a hand. This was two thousand and eight, believe this was May. It was down at Harrah's New Orleans for a circuit event, and I remember he was in a hand. It might have even been against Eddie Sabbat. I can't remember, but I definitely I definitely asked. I actually don't think it was a and

said he sabot A spot did play that tournament? Um Timothy TK Miles, and he said, he said t K He said, Timothy Miles. But everyone calls me t K T dot K dot Nice to meet you. Now. Every time I see him, he gives me the head nod. You know. So he's out there. Uh, don't think he has a bracelet. Yeless very good players. Nile Farrell is also out there. He does have a bracelet. We had Stephen Song speaking of twenty five K fantasy and

this one going deep but finished one spot short of the field. Bonus damn it um finished in twenty eighth place. This one had eleven hundred and thirty nine injuries, more than two point five million dollars in the prize pool, four hundred and thirty five four hundred and thirty six thousand dollars up top for the winner. This one will be streaming on Friday on Poker Go, So if you want to watch some nobleman hold him action, this should be a

pretty fun one. Um, even though it doesn't have you know, the biggest of names at the table. Um. I love these these Nolan holding tournaments kind of every buy in, but specifically the sub five k ones at the World Two's a poker because you get to watch a whole bunch of new players that you've never seen before play for a crap ton of money and that wish be glory and that's just great. I'm looking at the updates from two thousand and eight. Yeah, and I found the Timothy Miles hand. Yeah,

I found a Timothy Hot Miles hand from day one. So I'm just scrolling out. But yeah, this might be at Lee Wilson wins a monster pot. Sound familiar maybe, So I asked the loser of the pot his name. That's great, So I got off to a roaring start. I'm just letting man, what a time will two thousand and eight? It's so long ago. That's when we both thought it didn't Prince Gaspard finished second? Is that tournament? I'm trying to scroll back and find your hand for us.

Well, this is a great, great podcast, Yeah, great radio, As producer Rich Ryan would say's probably gonna yell at us. Can't you remember who won? Man? I can picture him. I can't, I can't. Did his last name start with a C? Yes it did? Yes? Yeah? And there was an alligator head with freaking money in it? Yes? And Prince Guspard finished second? No? No, TK Miles finished second? What Guspark got third? Nope? What do you think you have a different second event? I believe no, I mean no, unless

it was a different this is May in New Orleans. Yeah, it might have been a different New Orleans event, different, like a different year, A different year, is what I'm saying. Oh yeah, look up, Look up Jehan Gaspard, Prince Guspar John Gaspard, the same sort of thing. Oh t K got second? Yeah damn, I didn't know. Yeah, they had this nice little room at Harris, New Orleans. They had a stage up on the stage. Was the guy's name Henry whatever. I

don't know. It was an HC. Whereas initially Nick CC nick sec Yeah whatever. Yeah, he won. Um, that was a that was a wild trip. That involves um a crazy prophet between Alie Prescott and Michael Binger. Where Oh no, that was the next year. That might have been the year that Princess Spard finished. Next year the next year Prince one. Yeah, that one, that one who Prince beat famous November Mealy Nina,

I don't know, Billy cop. Wow, jeez man, what a time to be like that trip the second one, Um, we all went out one night that in to New Orleans, like down on Bourbon Street and we're in like some courtyard. Remember Ali Prescott was there, Michael Binger was there, and like they just start talking and like out of nowhere, Michael just

like gets up from the table. Like we're in like there's like we're in like a court yar with like a brick building like was like surrounding us like like a square, and he just like goes over to like the wall and he starts, I mean this like brick wall. What Yeah. Like he climbs up like the like the gutter. He climbs up that he gets on top of a window. He gets on like this little roof first and then

to the top. The bet was he had to like get from the table to the to the roof in like a minute and it was like a ten k bet and he did it. It was insane, and of course we got kicked out and whatever. But I mean but it was like all of a sudden, he just started like there's all these people sitting around these tables and then this guy is just scaling this building. It was just like what is going on? Um? So yeah, so that was wild. Um. I think our buddy Dave King was there, he could verify that story

happened. So yeah, Uh what else? Four and thirty five k for first in this Uh, they're guaranteed right now, twenty seven thousand streaming tomorrow. It looks like it'll be starting five pm Vegas time. UM, don't really think it's gonna get changed. At least we haven't been told that it's getting changed. We look like everything is on schedule, So expect to see that on Poker or Girl. All right, let's talk about the Pegs Lead Aboard update. Um, so, Isaac Haxton winning this twenty five k that

that qualifies for the PGT. He's got to be up there, right. I mean, he had that win in January, he had winning He's he's winning top dog by give me, give me the list. Ikacson leading the way, as I said, he's by a long way fourteen hundred and thirty gods Sean Winter second, nine hundred and eighty eight. So we were just gonna see Hike in December. Yeah, Randly in eight sixty three. Darren Elias climbs into fourth with eight fifty nine. Oh, that's a good name

to have on that. Yeah, carry cats, Sam Sarvrol and lataro Guerra take a step back our twenty five K champion from the other day, Alexander, you can pronounce ye good one seven hundred points in eighth, Ryan O'Donnell runner up today, also seven hundred points, running out the top ten alex Fox six hundred and eighty three points where um so three p Fortunately for I see Daniels down there in fourteenth places. Unfortunely, Daniel L. Gladiers,

the poker doesn't count if he stops playing three hundred dollars events. Maybe he'll just petition Carry to make a change to include that one. Where's your boy, latar Guerrera? I thought he was playing at all these PLO events at the series. No, man, he's let him down. All my predictions. We'll be here. I'm sure of it. Just maybe he's just waiting for the big up buying Palo stuff coming up. It's all coming up. Well, none of these one thousand He doesn't bother about one thousand dollar buying.

Hi, man, it's come on. Okay, okay, all right, So that's the PGT leader. Well, let's check out this twenty five K fantasy lead aboard. Okay, we've dipped back a little bit, currently in fifth place, but as it says right at the top of the site, results for online events are running later than usual. They will be published when they become available. We are missing two scores. So Sean Deep has

seventy one points right now. He's got four cashes, but he's missing his second place finish in the one thousand dollars online event, which I believe is like forty five or fifty points. I think it's forty five and then plus six, so it might be fifty one points because there was six hundred something entines in the field and then so we have that, so we got fifty

one points coming our way. And then we also have John Reardon. He had a deep run in the six hundred dollars online event that happened that same day. Reardon right now just has three points for us, but that finished that he had in the six hundred dollar event. I think he got the field bonus, so I think he should have twelve and a half points coming our way. So yeah, so we got what sixty seven point sixty three and a half points coming our way. I'm assuming there's gonna be some other

players on some other teams that are in the same situation. So I'm not just gonna sit here and be like, yeah, we're gonna move up the first place, because there was a lot of moving. But the two hundred and forty thirty four points that we're showing, that's team DPMC. If you go over to twenty five k fantasy dot com, we should be up in the two nineties to have they tallied. I don't think they've talied. Yeah, we had David Bach in the Bidougie. I think he hit a field

bonus, so that's maybe five points coming our way. Six points, yeah, six points coming our way. What about Stephen's song, Yeah, they already tallied his man. That would have been so good to hit that. That field bonus would have been eleven points. I mean that would have been It doesn't sound like a ton of points, but trust me, it adds up, so that would have been good. Team Deep is leading the way three hundred and sixty eight points. Leading score for Team Deep is Dan Shack

one dollar, two hundred and eleven points. Obviously had that deep run in the Mystery Millions that we talked about earlier and the second place finished in the ten thousand dollars stud He also had Darren Elias what was he third in the twenty five K, So good finish. There's Jao Vieira ran pretty deep in the twenty five K second place Team Lady Gaga. That's Wren Lynn's team Sean Winter. One hundred fifty seven points is the biggest score for him. Alex

Lemington's second biggest score was seventy eight Team Maria's Homies. Maria's team. She was Team Ooth cry Aldemere last year. She won the damn thing. She's got Brian Yune crushing two hundred and two points. For Brian Yune. What the heck has he done? Oh? He hit the field bonus in the Mystery Millions and he won the ten K seven cards side there were some questions about this exact thing. I think it's what spawned the questions on social media

where they were like, how does a hundred how does it? Basically saw one hundred place finished in the Mystery Millions equate to winning a ten K championship event. I mean, whatever, it's set. I think it's I think I think it's fine. I mean, I know, like it's not really the same thing, but you still got one hundredth place out of eighteen thousand people, right, yeah, I mean that's pretty crazy. Who else we gots? Who else is ahead of us? Team Zamani. That's Martin Zamani's

team. He's got mac Lanz who hit the field bonus in the Mystery Millions. Dan Coleboys also hit the field bonus and the Mistery Millions. What's it like to get two field bonuses? Max Coleman ran deep in the ten Case stud for eighty one points. He got third place, so a lot of points there for Team Zamani and then Warren fifth. So we need to do some work here. Team Noel gam in the future definitely needs to do some work. Kristin foxon who you know if you would follow Jeff Platt and Brent

Hanks on social media. They recently promoted christ And Foxon to co captain. Personally, I think she should be the soul captain because no one else on this team has done anything correct. She's co captain alongside Jeremy Osmas. Jeremy Houses hadn't done squat this year yet. Therefore, Kristin Foxon should carry the flag as the champion because she is having a great summer so far. She had a sixth place finish in the five k half and half that's half NOL

and hold them half PLO. She had a twenty sixth place finish in the five k freeze Out, and then she had a twelfth place finish in the twenty five k high Roller that Isaac Haxton won. So good summer so far for Kristen Foxton, but the team overall not doing so hot. But just as I've always said with our teams over the years, it's super early. We're barely a weekend, you know. We just hit the week mark, so we still got five six weeks to go. So there's a crap ton

of stuff coming up. You talked about some of the PLO stuff, lots of big buy ins you got, you know, fifty k's, hundred k's two hundred fifty k, you got fifty k PPC tons of those ten K championship events. So yeah, so there's a lot of stuff still to be had. So Team No gamb in the future. They're currently sitting tied for eighteenth out of twenty teams. They can certainly move on up the leaderboard. So that's the update for twenty five K Fantasy. Just heading over to twenty

five K fantasy dot com if you want to sweat it. What do we got coming up? I've been in everything. We have you bagging four million in the day one save glad you heard it. You heard it here first on Friday, you heard it here first. We've got a fifty k starting tomorrow. We're gonna be streaming that final table on Sunday. I don't know if you guys can hear this, by the way, yeah, but I don't know how well these mics pick it up. But that is the I

guess the after party. Yes, for the fifteen hundred dollar Noelman hold him six Max, that was Raphael Race one fourner and sixty five thousand dollars. This event ended like two hours ago. They're still here. They're still here. It'll get wild, having a party of the drink it. No, let them have their fun. Man, they're having a party of it. They guys want a bracelet. This is amazing. You gotta love it. So m Raphael is a Brazilian player of the Brazilians always come out in full

force. They've been singing and dance on the whole damn night. It's amazing. Um. So yeah, he won, As I said, four and sixty five K top the field of twenty four hundred and fifty four entries. In that one, John Manette finished in fifth place. Didn't think he would play no hole in six max, but here he is coming in fifth place, one hundred and eleven K. Yeah. Um, anyway, go back to what you were saying, what's coming up? Fifty K no limon high

rollas yea streaming that final table that one? How how many days is that? Three days? So can Daniel play that one? Huh? Can Daniel play that one? He'll have to move about them all the table Mega. He was playing a three hundred and same time if he's hilarious, fifteen hundred dollar rats thoughts on Friday as well, and then on Saturday, the ten k Omaha Hello Championship. Okay, got some fun stuff going on coming up

today. We did have the kickoff for the ten k limit Hold Them Championship, so I think that final table is scheduled to be live streamed, depending things don't change, but you know they can always change, of course, but that should be a fun one coming up. So yeah, lots of stuff as we're just getting into the second week of the twenty twenty three World Ties of Poker. Numbers are absolutely amazing. So far, We've talked about a lot of them, and I'm assuming we're gonna talk a lot more about

them. Most immediately will be the glad Ears of Poker. We'll see how Day one seed does tomorrow. We'll see if I can make the dream come true and bag four million. That's the goal. I'm gonna try and make it happen. I'm gonna do my damnedest, all right, that's gonna do it for us. My name is Donnie Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth, and we will talk to you guys later. Base