Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Girl Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth. It's the end of Day two d We're heading into Day three, when all of the remaining players will be under one single roof Yes for the WSP Main Event, the record setting WSP. Yeah, it really was a record smashing main event. No need to bury the lead. We have the numbers, the official numbers. We've been speculating, we've been listing them as unofficial for a few
days now, but we have the tally. The attendance is ten thousand and forty three entries for the two thousand and twenty three World Series of Poker Main Event. That is a prize pool of more than ninety three million dollars, if you can believe it, that is unreal, twelve point one million dollars. We'll be going to first place. That is the largest first place prize in WSP main event history. That does eclipse the twelve million dollars at Jamie
Gold One back in two thousand and six. We're gonna talk about all about it on this the show. How you doing, Buddy Good? I'm surprisingly not very tired well, that'd be about that too many zero's coffee. You're probably hyped up on all that caffeine. Yeah. The only thing I'm hyped up on it is all the coffee that I've been winning from you. Goddamn. That's right, baby. We might have a stack correction coming. M I might have one one, but we'll see. Um Me. We'll talk
about the record. We'll talk about the payouts twelve point one million to first. As I mentioned, day two D is in the bag we today. If you were watching on the live stream of either the Horseshoe Feature Table, which was for the first two levels of the day, or the main show, the Night Shifts Back all Jad and Nick Scholness, doesn't matter which stream you watched, you got the full on Nick Rigby experience. The dirty Diaper
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We got a community cards segment to kick things off here on the show. We are recording this on Sunday, July nine. It's just about to hit one am. What do we got for community cards here? Attention, attention, good morning, good afternoon, and good evening to the poker Radio audience near and far. It is now time for a brand spanking, spiffy and new. Shout out to some of our most loyal listeners who likely got
a bit too lucky on the way to the spotlight. You're listening to the number one poker show in the land, and it's time for a new edition of the Poker Go podcast Community Cards. The first announcement, first section of Community Cards is we have the hats. Oh my gosh, it's about time. And we told you guys on yesterday's pod email us your name, your address, and most importantly the past pass. What I'm not going to tell you because if you're a loyal listener, you should already know what it is.
I've been hyping it up all World series. We've already claimed twenty people have already emailed us and claimed the hats Kia that we've given them out already. De fine, So guys, if you really want one, get the emails in. Do you know how many we got? I mean it's two boxes. I don't know. I didn't really count it. It just it feels like I think I think it's the same order as the last time.
One hundred and fifty. Oh okay, okay, So I mean there's there's two boxes and we got two boxes last time, so one hundred and twenty five left. So if you want one, get that email in and it leads the second part of Community cards. A man by the name of Kurt. I can't say's last name Shusharrett. I don't know. I'm might a butcher Sharrect. Yeah, we're not very good a name shush shrecked. I don't know how you got shush sharrect. Kurt. If you see Tim,
God give him trouble for that. I mean, Kurt shush erect. I can't wait till he tells you that you got it right and I got it wrong. But anyway, continue on. So we sold Kurt earlier this week. He's like, any has I'm like, no coming coming. Um He's like, okay, I'm playing tomorrow or something. Came back today. It was first break of the main event, Jos. The break just went started. He comes over to our kind of area and he says, hey, Tim, have you got those hats? And I say, oh, actually
they came in today. I'm gonna I can walk to the shop after this break and get one, and he goes, please do I only have twenty thousand? Break ended went to the shop, got the bucks, the hats, brought it back, walked past his table. He told me, you know I'm on this table, delivered him a hat. He puts it on straight away, just puts it on, and someone of the table, as I'm walking away says, is that the lucky hat? So he's obviously had
told them this stought some kind of story. So he had twenty thousand, what do we start the day at? Well, the starting level in day two, um, it was it's four hundred eight hundred. He had twenty k, so he already lost half his stack. Gave him the hat. This guy bagged two hundred and eighteen thousand. Every time I walked around, the hat was on his head. He didn't take it off. From twenty
k to two hundred and eighteen thousand, that's a damn lucky hat. And I spoke to Kurt, asked Hi about his day and and the whole hat situation than the luckiness behind it. Now, Kurt, they say that a lucky hat is worth a thousand dollars, But to you, I think it's worth two hundred and eighteen thousand, because you just put two hundred and eighteen thousand in your day. Two D chip bag. But I want to start with You came over to me in first break. You said, I've already
seen you earlier this week, I believe. You said, have you got any of the lucky hats? I said no, but it is break, I'm going to run to the shop get some, and I gave you one. And what did you tell me? How many chips did you have at that point? I told you I was down to twenty thousand chips and I needed the hat quickly before I ran out. So I went and got the hat. I came over, I delivered a hand delivered to you, and then I think I heard the table say something like, oh, is this
the lucky hat you've been talking about? So I'm assuming you've been talking about it. Yeah, I was saying I needed the lucky hat, and it
showed up. You gave me the lucky hat. And in that first hour and a half after I got the hat, I went from twenty to eighty and then went back down to forty at some point later, but worked my way all the way back up to one six and then um and then just two minutes before the end of the session, I ended up getting all in against somebody else ace King versus Queens, and the ace King came through for one hundred K pots, so that got me to two hundred. I think
it's safe to say that this hat is very lucky. I'm gonna guess that you are not taking it off when you come back tomorrow, and I'm wearing the hat the rest of the series. Definitely. How else did everything go for you today? You know, a pot from obviously those few hands you discussed. But it's a long day. Just sit here and play poka. You know, ten hours of poker play, It's it's tough on anyone. Yeah, it was a long day. It was. It was the the
group was good that we had um. I think most people were playing pretty straightforward. We didn't have anybody today that was like bombing pots left and right and stuff. So it was mostly just if you had cards, and if you had lucky cards that they came through for you, and most importantly a lucky hat. If you had the lucky hat, well that brought you the lucky cards. I mean, the hat's just the hat runs hot. I
don't know. I think I'm gonna have to wear it, wear it tomorrow because I haven't been running hot for the first two days, but I think I'm about to throw the hat on. Did you wear the other hat you bought? I did on day one? How was your Day one? What do you give the hat? Out of ten? That hat? I mean, it was fine, it was fine. Well, you know the thing is, remember your hat got stolen. It did get stolen. Now you actually get a new hat. So maybe the new hat you get is the
new lucky hat. I think I'm gonna wear the hats im and we'll see. We'll see. You could just you know, take them on and off. Yeah, I'm definitely well. The Day one hat that I was wearing it was a corduroy World Series of Poker hat with a cool logo. I liked the hat. It did cost me forty six dollars, but whatever, I kept flipping it frontwards and backwards, you know, I mean, listen,
I made it through and I'm moving on to day three. Basically you can say it's lucky your bag chips, I know, so you know, actually went to this kind to complain. I went to the store today because you know, as you recall, I finished fifth in the WSP Media event for one hundred and fifty dollars in rewards credit's amazing. But I remember the remember the gentleman with the hoodie, I mean called him out on the podcasts. Yeah, it's the same I wanted. I was like, oh,
I was in the tournament today. By the way, let's see how much this hoodie is or whatever it's called a police Yeah, they only have double XLS or triple XL so I was like, all right, that there goes that dream. So how much was it? I didn't even look at the price because they only had the triple xls, so they're kind of useless to me. I was gonna waste my rewards credits that, but you know, I'll find something else for him. So if you want a hat, you
know the Drill podcast at pokerg dot com. We need your name, your
malin addressed, and we need the password. Yeah, we're not going to stay the password, but you know, as Tim said, if you're a listener of this podcast, you know what the password should be right now, or if you're here around the horse shoe still, um, you know you can find us and hit us up with the password and we'll get you Hey hats all right, um, News and happenings here the bulk it's going to be, of course, the World Series of Poker main event, the record
center largest ever ten thousand and forty three entries. The previous record that stood for seventeen years eight thousand, seven hundred and seventy three entries from two thousand and six, the year that Jamie Gold won it, So it's been a
while. Last year I think was eight thousand, six hundred and sixty three, so it was a right an it was one hundred off the record, or right around one hundred off the record on hundred and ten, whatever it is, so they got very close, ultimately didn't do it this year. Absolutely ridiculous how big this thing has gotten. As I mentioned, more than ninety three million dollars in the prize pool. It's pretty pretty ridiculous to think
how big this tournament has gotten. They also released the payouts. So ten thousand and forty three entries I think it's ninety three hundred dollars goes into the prize pool. Seven hundred all rake I think, yes, right, or it's ninety four and six. I can't remember one way or the other. That's what it is. So there was ninety three million, three hundred ninety
nine thousand, nine hundred dollars in the prize pool. The top one thousand, five hundred and seven places will be paid first place twelve point one million dollars, second place six point five million. How would you like to play heads up for five point six million? Ten? As I keep putting in a group, you do keep putting this. It's really a six point one million heads so much because supposedly this bracelet is worth half a million dollars.
I'll say this, the bracelet is the best wistmin event bracelet I've ever seen. It's the same as last the horseshoe element to it looks so awesome. It looks so good. I mean, it's it just looks so sexy. Can I have a quick quick tangent? Go ahead? Following on from yesterday's podcast The Dinner the serving Plate, Well, I tried to tip away one hundred dollars. I showed you. We found it, We found the serving play it's fifty dollars. There you go. So you're gonna save yourself money
by just buying it online or whatever? Yeah, exact course, all right, So let's let's go ruts run through the main event final table payouts.
As I mentioned at the top, fifteen hundred and seven are going to pay out, so I'll go bottom to top, so ninth place, nine hundred thousand, eighth place, one million, one hundred twenty five thousand, seventh place, one million, four hundred and twenty five thousand, six place, one million, eight hundred fifty thousand, fifth place is two point four million, fourth place in even, three million, third place also in even number
four million per third, six point five million per second, and twelve point one million buckaroos up top. There's been a lot of talk about the payouts. I have some issues with it. Yeah, I mean you have some issues with it. I mean, we're not going to really get into it. It's it's whatever one easy is. It's it's obvious to see that this right. They wanted to make first place more than the Jamie Gold year because they want to double record basically, yeah, exactly, And there's been a
lot of pushback on that, to be honest. You can see it on social media talking with some players throughout the tournament, talking with players around the industry or people around the industry, that's where the biggest pushback seems to come. That looks worse than it does compare to two thousand and six, is because in two thousand and six, I think they paid ten percent. Yeah, now they pay fifteen percent. Yeah, so you have to they're trying
to basically thread a needle here. They're trying to pay more to first place, but then also pay way more spots, right, so it gets tricky. You know a lot of things that people are pointing out is that you make the found table, you're not getting a million dollars. That's something that people are pointing out. But you know, whatever I mean, So it
is what it is to touch on your point. Eight hundred and seventy three people cash and Jamie Galzia nearly double for this year fifteen hundred and seven. So even it's not double to percent, no I know, but like don't forget, we're going from eighty seven hundred plays for ten thousand, so that five percent is very sufficient to you know, and we're only actually gaining and
eleven million dollars in the prize pool. Obviously, there's a lot of talk about the million dollars, sorry, the not being a million dollars For ninth easy Solution, you take twenty five KFF eighth and seventh and the fifty k off six that gets you to a million. But then obviously all the payout jumps below that are a little wonky. But yeah, it would have been cool to have everyone makes the final table wins a million dollars. But we
talked about two thousand and six before. Yeah, I think it's the top twelve made a million or more in two thousand and six. Of course, listen, you're not paying out an additional five percent of the field, so there's a lot of money that comes from that. When you add it all up, the first six figure payout will be eightieth place I believe, one hundred and nine thousand, four hundred dollars. I think it's in the in
the ninety thousand rained or ninety something thousand before that's um. And then you hit into six figures and you get to the top haiti um. If you bubble the final table seven day nine, Yeah, seven hundred K will be the payout there. Um, if you make the final two tables, so top eighteen, that'll be three hundred and forty five thousand dollars. A min cash is worth fifteen thousand dollars, and then I think gets right around two
hundred and fifty spots before there's a pay jump. What yes, it's like fifteen or seven. Then there's about two hundred fifty spots, twelve forty four or something, twelve forty nine, something like that. They go up to seventy thousand, five hundred. Okay, I'm reading the you're shaking my head. No, because he said the milestone pay as a thousand and fourth was twenty. They they skip the number. No, they skip the number and
there. But I will say that if you went min cash to that one thousand and fourth place, so a min cash is like the top fifteen percent of the field, and then if you just took that that five percent chunk from fifteen percent to ten percent and just that was all one payout instead of having an additional paoud in between. Um, I think you save like six hundred and ten k M. You could put that in a few spots exactly.
Listen, the payouts are going to get a lot of conversation. Um, there's been a lot of pushback on it, but you know ultimately that this tournament, you know, agree or disagree with the payouts, it always is a spectacle at all. It becomes a talking point, and you know that's what we have here. We know what they're doing here. You know the record with the twelve point one as well. But my thoughts are next
year, looking ahead, what happens next Listen. Well, first of all, I think next year is I'm going to say bigger field size for sure, you know, and then let's say it's let's say it's not bigger. Let's say it's the same size, well like one player more do they have to go like twelve point two million like themselves in a way, You're you're setting that precedent. Yes, So Pandora's Box of payouts. I understand. Listen, I'm with you. I mean, I think it's it's tricky.
You know, it's not you're you're gonna you're gonna miss on something. I don't know what you're gonna miss on. You have to sacrifice something, That's what I'm trying to say. So are you going to sacrifice that first place prize not being the largest? Are you going to sacrifice you know, making the players in the community of a little bit annoyed with this? Are you going to sacrifice I don't know, payouts elsewhere on the payout table you're gonna
have to sacrifice something to make this all work. Right, Looking at it to next year, I think the field tide gets bigger. So that'll make it easier to do what they did this year again next year, is what I'm saying, meaning if they want to again have a bigger first place prize, because if they let's say they have ten two hundred players next year,
so about one hundred and fifty two hundred and sixty more players. Well, with how they did it this year, they can carry it over next year and it'll at least be the same as what they did this year, right, so that that that would make sense, the trend would continue. But I mean, listen, I mean twelve point one million for first place. You know, if you guys have opinions, let us know. You can email them in, you can tweet at us whatever. You know. We
love to listen. We love to hear what people are saying out there. So so yeah, let us know what you think. You got some statistics here. I saw you tweet some of this stuff out, which is cool. I liked it. I mean, yeah, obviously I'm a nerd for stats, a stat nerd with this inclusive of this main event. Over one point three billion dollars in prize money awarded in the WSB main event. That's just bananas. That total of seventeen thousand, three hundred and sixteen players have
cashed, not unique, just cashed. That's including some of those you know times where they three people bubbled and they split, you know, they took five k each, stuff like that, will include the times when they voted for the winner. Well yes, because I'm joking, all the world champs take all their money. You pull it together, one hundred and ninety four million dollars have been awarded to the winners in the WSP main events. So
that's just kind of staggering numbers when you put it all together. Wild. So next next year that's gonna e clipse two million dollars for sure. Two million. Ye sorry, yeah, that's gonna be that's freaking wild. I mean Jesus, that's kind of cool. You know, next year is going to be a big year for some milestones at the WSP with all these like numbers. But yeah, we'll save that for another day. Man, this millivent is just absolutely crazy. I can't imagine playing heads up for five point
six million dollars I mean six point one. Um, here, you can have the bracelet. I'll take the five point six million. How about that deal? Deal? Okay, cool, because you seem to be all about
this bracelet. I like the bracelet too, but I want to wear it as a belt buckle for the next with my cowboy hat and my boots, So wheat the bracelet is absolutely no. I just think I just think the bracelet, a bracelet like this being worth so much, you know, is we have to consider it in these kind of discussions because the other bracelets are
worth nothing, nearest. Yeah, but I mean I understand what you're saying to consider in the in the financial discussion, but I'm not sure you're ever selling that bracelet ever, So I don't think it even matters I have this discussion you. Let's say you in the main event in twelve days. Congrats to you. You've just quit poker go. I'm left to do all your emails. You know. Let's say you have sold twenty percent of your action. Okay, so you don't have any percent of self. You have the
bracelet. I have two percent of you. I don't expect two percent of the bracelet, right of course, it's yours where you can do it where I can't wait to find out where this is going. No, but Daniel, are going to ask for more money. Listen, let me finish. You're gonna ask Let me cook. You're gonna ask for what hunter k Let me cook. I'm not No, I'm not gonna ask for any of the bracelet oviously se price you want a friends But now he said, I don't
want this thing. This thing is ugly. I'm gonna sell it. There's no shots. Guy decides I'll give you two hundred K for it undemoket value. But you know whatever, you're like, that's a good deal. You sell the price of a two undrek Do I get two percent of two hundred k? Now? No, No, I don't get two percent. I do. I'll see your asmall claims called buddy, what if? What if I can? What if I can? I mean No, We're not even going down this world. This is just stupid. No, we're not doing
this. This is what we do. We talk about ship stuff. So people were not doing well. All right, let's get into some of the nitty gritty details of a day two D. So if the board is correct that I'm staring at right now, it says that there's three thousand, five hundred and seventy three chies remaining, which is combined across both of Day two's. Okay, so that was to ABC that took place yesterday and then Day two D that took place today. So there's you know, three thousand,
five hundred and seventy three. I'm not sure if that's exactive. It might tick down a little bit, you know, overnight, but it's it's probably
pretty darn close, okay. I mean, they kept that that number pretty dialed in at the end of the night because they're breaking tables, they're moving people to other rooms, all the sort of off all the floor men and women are on walkie talkies, you know, they got from runners all around grabbing seat tickets like it's a It's a pretty efficient operation overall, so I'll trust that that number is pretty darn close, if not accurate. Maurice Hawkins
leading the way nine hundred and forty one thousand. So last year, I can't remember the gentleman's name, but he did bag over a million. There was a chip leader with over a million heading into day three. So this year, uh, Maurice Hawkins is the closest to a million, but not quite there nine hundred forty one k second place. The Nicholas Rigby Show has
been on full display. Came into today with the chip lead with I think four hundred and eight thousand more than doubled his stack, put nine twenty one five hundred in the bag. An absolute animal at the table. This guy plays I think eighty percent v Pip beautiful, maybe higher. It's out of control. We all know about the diaper and the dirty diaper, the three
Duce and the three Duce offsuits. We also got to see him play against Phil Hellmuth, which he ended up busting Phil Hellmuth in a pretty wild hand early on in the day when they were on the Horseshoe feature table that was on the YouTube stream where Remco and I were doing commentary alongside Kane Callus. Helmuth and Rigby are talking to each other, you know. Helmuth asked him how many times Rigby thought he would bluff Hellmuth, and Rigby said nine times.
I think he got up to four before he busted him. So there was that. We met Ben Parent, who was interesting, who was I'm going to say this with all the love in my heart, the most annoying kid in the room. Wow. And I listen. I thought it was great entertainment, But I know what the audience and what the viewers were sitting in the chat, people on social media. I mean, it was this kid Okay, I think he said he was twenty three years old, he's
in he's in school to be a dentist. Basically said that I just don't want to. I just don't want to embarrass myself so much that I get kicked out identist school. He did not stop talking for like thirty minutes, like it was legit, not stop talking. It was unbelievable. And it got to the point where they basically told him that he couldn't talk for a certain period of time and then he could only ask Phil Hommy with a certain
number of questions, which I think was five questions. Helmy put his headphones on. They literally started ignoring him at points, like just just flat out of not answering his questions. People were people were on social media and in the chat saying that they were saying, well, three things, one, holy crap, this kid is annoying, or maybe they were saying four things. Then they said you need to mute this guy's mic. Well, we're not muting his mic, Like, I guess it's not happening. Why because
he's talking a lot. He was his his talk was innocent. He was just literally talking all the time. The next thing that they were saying is you need to move him off the table. Well, we don't have control of that. That's random, so we're not. No one's gonna do that. And then the fourth thing, which was the most insane thing was people were people were legit telling us that he needs to get a penalty. Can you get penalties from the commentator's booth? No, but they were saying,
like, he needs to get one. Like they weren't for that, they weren't coming to us, but for what excessive took chatter. I mean, it's happened before. He swore once. I think he said the word asshole and he immediately apologized afterwards because he felt so bad and was like my mom's watching him, sorry, like I didn't mean to swear, you know, hexent blah blah blah blah. Like he was just like he was like your annoying little brother that just like NonStop. Now do you pull on your shirt?
Asked you a billion question, what's that? What's that? What's that? What's that? What's that? What's that? You know, like over and over and he's like, my two and a half year old daughter,
like that's exactly what he was. So when he when he came to the feature table today, and by the way, it was it was hilarious that he was next to Helmuth because Helmuth is someone who obviously like he'll have his moments, he can get annoyed, whatever, But Helmuth is also a dad, so help me, probably very well knows what this type of personality is like, having bid a dad. I mean his kids are much older now, of course, but like, you know what it's like dealing with kids
like that. So it was just funny that it was Helmy next to him. When he came up to the Whole Street table today, he asked, the deal is this? He's like, I think I'm at this table and the deal is like, is a six forty one? He's like yes, He's like, yeah, you're a PSC three and he just canna ask you a question that there's like show no problems. He goes, is it okay
if I shit my pants on stage? Because I'm about to be playing with Phil helm With so I immediately thought this this kid was kind of like be sucking up to fail and just being like no, I go an actual pretty fun for the show. And then it went completely the other way that that feature table was our best of the summer. You had that dynamic with Ben Parent, then you had um Nick Rigby playing every f in hand. There was a lot of fun hands at the table. Um, you had the
whole Helmew thing. There was also this guy Moden's at the table who was like kind of going back and forth with Phil like all this sort of stuff, like Phil got lucky in one hand hit the river and like it was a smallish pot, nothing big, but like you know, they saw afterwards that Phil got lucky and like they everyone was like, oh, you get lucky too. And the film because like these idiots don't even understand like that, you know, all it was all this, It was the film.
It's experience. It was great. Then they got then they go on break, they get moved up to the main set because the main poker girl feed is going to start. I don't know, six hands in Nick Rigby busts Phil Helmy two pair to two pair on an ace ten nine douche board. Um, So that happened, um, And I mean yeah, the whole it was just the day was great, It really was. Nick Rigby runs it up. He was a huge hand late of course, he gets it
in three ways. With the worst of it, he's got ten eight of spades on a ten xx board flop against aces and Jack's he just rivers the flush for to knock out two players. So there was that. Um. Yeah, and Nick Rigby ends up going up to bag nine hundred. Nick Nick Rigby twenty twenty one took I believe it was fifty second place, and that's what really put him on the poker map. Guy from Pittsburgh comes out
here. You know, we got all his friends, both on the rail and from afar Um are telling us that, like, you know, we need to look out for this guy Rigby. You need to look out for this guy Rigby. He gets on the main set and he did not disappoint. He's playing the dirty diaper like just like an animal out there. He's making all these crazy plays. He's doing everything. Ultimately, you know, lived by the sword, Die by the sword type of thing. And he
got got in fifty second place. But it looks like he's setting himself up for another run, and boy is it fun to watch Nick Rigby play some other big stacks on Day two d Jeff Shapiro eight hundred and thirty two thousand, Jacob Mitch six hundred and sixty thousand, We got Joe Palma five hundred and six thousand, five hundred. Kathie Liebert had a successful day four hundred and seventy seven thousand. Chance Corneth four in forty nine thousand, five hundred.
So the Year of Chance Corner, or the Summer of Chance Corneth continues. Tom dwan Fourer twenty six five hundred, Yeah, Joseph Liberta four hundred and eight thousand, five hundred, Daniel Lahi three hundred and fifty three thousand, five hundred, Pouna Punt three three hundred fifty three thousand, Christian Harder three hundred and forty nine thousand, Chris Moneymaker one of two champs back sacks today. Who was the other one was Johnson day two inch and is okay?
Johnson and Chris Moneymaker bag three hundred and seventeen thousand. Looks like Barry Greenstein two hundred and sixty three thousand, five hundred. George Holmes, Yeah, second place to cry Aldemere a couple of years ago, two hundred and seventy four thousand. UM. I see Johnson is at two hundred ninety seven thousand, five hundred. JC Tran two thirty one five. Cliff Josephie one
hundred and ninety nine thousand. I spoke with Cliff Josephy after I was walking this silver section, couldn't really find anyone to interview, and then I like kind of turned around and like Cliff was like right there. I was like, all right, let's go. You're already bag. Let's let's make it happen. So I quickly talked to him afterwards. Of course, Cliff has had some deep runs in this event, so he knows a thing or two
about him, and I asked him about it. All right, Cliff Joseph the end of day two, d I heard you just now it was a miracle that you put one hundred ninety nine k in the bag. Tell me about it. I had. I had a decent start. I went from twenty nine thousand. Day one was tough from twenty nine thousand to seventy five thousand, and then I lost Ace King to Kings. It left me with thirty five hundred. You want the details, so you want the details of
the spin up. Then I had I was under the gun, and I stuck my thirty five hundred and with King two suited, bigline called Jack two suited, I doubled. Then I doubled Jack ten suited versus Ace, queens suited, And then I doubled Ace jack suited versus tens, And then I got to play poker again, made some hands, had some hands busted a couple of short stacks queens against four is a six suited against kings um and just you know, and chipped up in general. But yeah, so it
was a miracle. But from thirty five hundred under the gun to one hundred ninety nine thousand will take it. So I'm through the dubs re main event is obviously much more of a marathon than it is a spring. You know
that more so than a lot of players. How four and his patience throughout this whole thing when a couple of people who hadn't played it before or haven't succeed haven't been successful in it. Asked me this week, you know, heading into it, what the most important thing is I'm gonna just be patient. Don't play like you're play in a cash game. You know, it's all about the patience, and you don't have If you lose some chips, you don't have to get them back right away. And it's very important and
the people with the best composure have the best chance. I think. You know, obviously there's a lot more that go into the game, but yeah, I think patience is very important. As good point for you. How do you feel about the record breaking number? I haven't Today was the first day I started looking at the poker news updates. No, no offense to any any of the press or anything. I've been trying to just to focus
on my stuff. Yeah, I'm very I'm very happy. There seems to be just a tremendous amount of money around and a tremendous amount of interest in our game, and for that, I'm very very happy. Right, So, yeah, it's awesome. The man formerly known as Johnny Backs, how you interviewed him, I think at the Rio in twenty twenty one, maybe before that, I can't remember, but he said, Johnny Backs is no more, so we don't call him Johnny Backs anymore. But why I know
many people. You know, it's just retired. It's long. No more online poker um. Brittany Stout another person to bag up chips two hundred and twenty six thousand, five hundred. She actually had bagged less chips today than she did on day one. I think she came in fourth or fifth and chips overall with three hundred and something thousand, so she puts two twenty six point five in the bag. Sam silverl bag in one hundred and ninety five
k that's our guy, Sammy baby, do it for the team. Kevin Pollock famous actor, one hundred twenty eight thousand, five hundred, Matt Affleck one hundred and twenty eight thousand, Jason Mercier's out there ninety nine thousand, one more champion survivor who we got. He passed the sugar today many times. Joe Hash him three twenty eight thousand. Okay, that's pretty good. Famous boxer Ryan Garcia Ye put thirty six thousand, five hundred in the bag.
Now I'm looking towards like kind of the bottom of the chip counts.
M Carrie, that's the sixty two thousand, James Romo sixty thousand, so starting sack, David Williams fifty eight thousand, Eric Misserraki fifty six thousand, five hundred, Johnathan a Little forty eight thousand, five hundred, Francis Anderson, who spent some time up on the feature table with Nick Rigby forty eight thousand, Michael Missracki forty four thousand, five hundred, Andrew Nimi of course, famous vlogger Donnie Missrahi bag as well, wow forty thousand for Andrew Nimi.
I mean, listen, you can be super short in this thing, and you can grind your face off. You guys heard Cliff jose if we talked about it. How you know it's not really like a technical poker thing. But patience is so, so, so so important. I have found way more ways to be patient in this tournament than I ever thought were imaginable in poker. But you can just continue to do it. You know, I just ratted off a bunch of chip sacks on the thirty forty and fifty
thousand. None of them are within ten big lines, because the big blind on day three will be twenty five hundred. So you know, you can have twenty five k and you got ten pigs. You know, twenty five k feels like nothing, of course, but if you say ten bigs, okay, it's you know, it's obviously down, but it certainly is not out, you know, one, two doubles, and you are certainly right
back in this damn thing. So, yeah, three thousand, five hundred and seventy or so remaining, trying to get down to fifteen h seven. The big question today was are we going to hit the money at the end of day three, which is something that we've become more accustomed to, something that the players, you know, kind of know that happens. They get kind of close to the end of the day, they say, okay, we're gonna extend it, you know, we'll get into the money. I
don't know if we're going to get there tomorrow. Last year was last year to coming into day three was two thousand, nine hundred ninety three entries in the top thirteen hundred paid. So this year they got about six hundred more players coming back, two hundred more spots get paid. It's about the similar percentage though. Yeah, So I'm just I didn't know that short. I didn't think we were anywhere near thirty five hundred, So that threw off my
my thoughts. I mean, you were trying to bet people on it. Yeah, I thought we had four thousand people left. But yeah, obviously I mean the clock and boom. Yeah, we'll see how they go. Um, I hope not, because then we hit at four am, three am. I don't really want to be here. And that's that's of course, uh, pretty pretty crazy. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see
if they get there. I also think it. I think it'd be probably just better just a plan to even if you have to cut tomorrow short by like an hour or something like that, you know, and then come back the next day. You know, you definitely don't and then I think the w C always does a good job of this. You know, you don't want to like go home for the night and come back fifteen people off the money. I mean, that's just kind of shitty for the same people.
Might be no if I get it, but it's still like kind of crappy, right for those fifteen people, Like you'd rather just get it over with that night. But yeah, it's gonna be a fun day tomorrow, day three. It's it's it's also crazy to think, you know, after all the different types of tournaments that have been played throughout the summer that the Desman Event is going on to day three and is really at least right now nowhere near the money. Look, it's like, you still, you've come so
far. You've played two long ass days of poker. If you played Day one and day two, you played ten hours of poker each day. You know, it's what eleven twelve hours when you include all the breaks and stuff like that. Yeah, you still got to play a whole another nine ten hours to get in the money at least, if not longer. I mean, that's just definitely longer. It's pretty it's pretty pretty wild how slow and methodical this tournament is. But we're here for it, and we're gonna be
here the whole darn way. What is this like stack correction you're talking about in refer in regards to the coffee bet, Well, day two ABC, we were told one ninety six. I had the under on two ten. I have now heard that it could be over two ten, wow, but not I haven't received confirmation on that. So we still we've got to confirm that. We've got to double checked. One day and then today I had under four seventy one, so pending where the other stack corrections go, you
might win that one. So we've got three pending. We'll see what happens. I'll don't worry. I'll buy you coffees from my tab. That's right, baby. But I think that's it for coffee bets. I think what would they get today? What was it? Sorry? I don't have today's though. You don't have to. You know, we could work it out, but we would need the other numbers first. It definitely is over four seventy one, so you could have ceased coffees or we could have zero coffees.
We don't know. We'll find out, hopefully twelve hours time. Okay, but I think that is that's it for the coffee bets. You are seems like you're probably gonna smoke me in these, which kind of sucks. We can bet on the bubble. What do you want to bet? You name the bet. Listen, you're the one that's in the hole to me, so you can name the bet and I'll just do whatever. I think. I'm just gonna wave the wi fig. Oh wow, he's just kinda
yeah to surrender, all right. Moving on to the fifteen hundred dollar PLO bounty will run through these relative coally. It looks like there's about seventeen players left. Daniel mcgron, you had to run at this one but ultimately fell short, hitting the rail in thirty first place. Satar how Sadoon is leading the way. There's more than one hundred and seventy one thousand dollars for first
place. Twelve hundred and fourteen entries. We're in this field. Jeff Matson, Noah Schwartz, Vincent MUSCOTTI, and Dash Dudley all still all live in the seven hundred and seventy seven dollars Lucky sevens nolamit hold them? That has a seven hundred and seventy seven thousand, seven hundred and seventy seven dollars first place prize. That's a mouthful, But I did this tournament also plays seven handed, yeah, which I think is amazing. I know a lot of
players were like this is awesome. Yeah, you know, space beautiful. Yeah. It was taking place over in Paris um So this tournament had Day one, A drew fourteen hundred and seventy entries. Sixty four advanced to Day two. Thomas Blanton was the chip leader from that flight with two point two six five million, Day one B two thousand, three hundred and eighty six entries, one hundred advanced step In Vinokorov three point three one five million,
David Peters bagged a big stack two point two seventy five. Alex Livingston bagged two point two million. There is still is it one or two more? Storm one more starting flight of the That would actually be crazy. There should be, but yes, that's so, yeah, there should be, and it should be an accumulator while you're at it, right, how cool would
that be? That'd be badass, um for sure, because that's a way to like, you know, there's all this other stuff going around town, like you keep people here for sure, you don't just like you don't just like bag one A and then you skip like whatever one F you know,
because you're already bagged. Like you play all of them because you want to run stack simultaneously with the main event because at the buying point and the fact that you have seven flies, well, I mean probably at that point it's a space issue to make sure space, you know, But you start on the day two yeah, correct, um, so yeah, they should do that started at seven pm while they're at it seventy seven minute levels. No,
no, no, should be seven minute levels. I'm in for seven middle of it was seventy seven thousand ships and side just super super deep stack turbo seven minute levels. Now we're getting crazy seven blinds. So that's gonna be going on day one. C Is there anything else? Yeah, that's event and day one see the Lucky sevens and that's it, right. Let me let me double check. I'm pretty sure I did the rundown correctly. I would hope, so I did do it correctly. For once. We
have two events starting on Monday. Um ti limit hold him? Sounds like that's right up your alley and the twenty five k horse. I will be over sweating that one a bit. But yeah, we're about to hit events seventy nine of ninety five. And it's like you when you say that number that we're at seventy nine of ninety five, we still have sixteen more events to go. I mean they're gonna go pretty quickly. Every everything kind of gets swallowed up by the buzz of the WS main event. But it's there's
still so many events. It's crazy. I actually did miss an event, and the fact that I'm gonna bring it up. Is gonna please one of our loyal loyal listeners Tomorrow Sunday, July ninth, is the stought of the WPT ten thousand dollars buying What's it called WPT everyone for wound I was, I was referring to WSP event out here listening to WPT event. Come on, let's we can still talk about them. I am curious though, to
see what that event draws. Ten thousand dollars? Is it ten thousand flat or is it like ten thousand and five with a couple rake and a sort of stuff? Ten million dollars guarantee? Yep um. I saw something the other day, I think it was on WPT dot com about how them and the win are expecting a massive turnout, saying like it could hit twenty million
in the prize pool, which just seems absurd, seems crazy. I mean, judging by what we saw here at the WP main events, ten thousand and forty three entries, I mean you could, yes, you definitely could go on a fifth of the people go over there. I mean, yeah, you could hit twenty million. You know, I love I love the charity aspect. I think that's might Hinda the numbers, though, I think there's enough people out there that'll be like, oh, I'm not so sure
on that. Um, obviously it's gonna be straked out, you know, by one c rolls around probably you know, five hundred people that are still in this event that com flight. So yeah, it'll be interesting to see how that goes. I mean, poker in general is very alive, very well crushing everywhere. Of course here at the World Series of Poke, where the numbers are just absolutely freaking bananas. I still can't believe this guy over ten thousand, Like I know, like my number coming in it was ninety
four hundred. You know, as we went throughout the summer, I know, ten thousand got in play much more. I know, we talked in recent days about the possibility of even like pushing towards eleven thousand, even though we results in a number over ten thousand, and you know, I started to think that ten thousand was in play. It's still a very pleasant surprise that it got that big. I mean, it's just wild, you know.
And I think that we the main event probably would have gotten to this size sooner had it not had to deal with a lot of bumps in the road, which we've talked about previously. Two thousand and six, I think it was Uiga towards the end of the year, after Jamie olds thing. Later on that year, you have the UIGEA that kind of kills everything, really hinders numbers going forward. Then you know, it's spent time building backup, building back up. Then you have two eleven, Whack Black Friday.
You know, numbers take another hit, spends time, you know, building back up, building back up, building back up. You know, online poker isn't widely spread in the US. Finally it comes back, but it's on a state by state basis, so you know, more so baby steps than you know, taking big leaps forward. Then you have to deal with
the whole pandemic year. You know, it's really it was a pandemic year, but it was more like a pandemic year and a half because they shifted the twenty twenty one to to you know, much later in the year September October in November. So the WISP has certainly had to deal with a lot
of wonky obstacles thrown in their path. But the fact that we're here twenty years removed of you know, the poker boom starting when Chris Moneymaker won the two thousand and three WIS main event, and we've eclipsed ten thousand entries. I mean, that's just wild. And listen now going forward, I know we're far from done from this WSP, from this main event, but you know, just kind of you know, getting ahead of ourselves a little bit
looking towards next year. In future years, I expect the number to continue to climb, especially if a couple things happen. One more states in the US come on board for online poker. You know, one to two states is still a decent boost, and I think it all just helps create that kind of snowball effect. You know, the snowball isn't exactly flying down the mountain, but it's moving along slowly but surely, and you can always,
you know, pick up a little bit of momentum here and there. I think when you continue to ramp up your satellite promotions like the WSP did this year, both the land based satellites and then also the ones that they do online, mostly in partnership with Gigi Poker and Club Gig, I think that that's a very big thing. So you know, if all that stuff continues to happen. Live poker continues to do all right, and you know, thrive around the world. Then it's only going to benefit the World Series of
Poker. And then they just have to fade some sort of crazy freak thing, you know, some sort of law thing, some sort of pandemic thing like you know, just that's what you like, a freak thing that they can't control. Like, that's what you have to fade because this train right now seems like it's going down the tracks at two hundred miles an hour and ain't nothing stopping it. Yeah, agreed. I mean at this point they might need a bigger freaking venue in three years because it's just not a control
here. But that's a very good thing overall. So that's it. Um, we're gonna get out of here on that note. And uh yeah, I'm gonna go try and spin up some chips on a day three. I get eighty two thousand coming back, So you know what's at thirty two thirty three big blinds something like that. It's plenty, that's all I'm gonna say.
Plenty. Yeah, of course, I mean it's it's obviously easy to sit there and think oh, you know, I only have eighty two thousand, you know, because um, you know, so many people had like you got you got Nick Rabe and Maurice Hawkins. Are you know, approaching a million like all? You know, I got friends back in five hundred K, four and a k like all this sort of stuff. And I'm still sub one hundred k, you know, obviously overstarting, but not by
that much. Like I've never been into one hundred thousand. The highest I got was eighty six thousand. Then I had to pay the Big Blind on their pay the yeah, the Big Blind and the ante on the final hand of the night. So um. But when I say thirty two thirty three big Blinds, you know, I think it's thirty two point eight exactly. Um. Then that makes me feel really good because that there's a lot of
play and a lot of maneuverability in that sort of stack. Hopefully I get a good table draw tomorrow and we'll go from there, one hand at a time, one level at a time, all that sort of stuff. As Cliff Joseph, he said, as my friends have constantly told me, and you know, all of my friends that have made deep runs, I've I've watched it firsthand from them is patient and this is really paramount, this this thing, and uh yeah, I'm ready for the marathon, so let's go.
Um. My name is Donny Peters, his name is Tim Duckworth, and we'll talk to you guys later. Face chanting spre