Massive Main Event Final Table Preview

main event final table once again. We're gonna kind of preview it a little bit more. I know, we ran through the players on the last episode, you know, everyone that made the final nine, and then we'll get into that. We'll also touch into everything else that's going on here at Horseshoe paris pretty slow day overall, but do have a couple of winners. Don't think we're gonna get a winner in this ten K six max, but that is

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you at the Tables WSP Main Event Final Table. We ran through the final nine players and gave a little bit of the bio on each of them on the last episode, so if you miss that, we're not gonna do too much of that particular thing, So go back to the last episode and check it out, or you can head on over to PGT dot com and check out the Meet the twenty twenty five doas Be Main Event file table article that was done by the great

Shan Chaffin as biles on all the players. So if you're a little bit unfamiliar from these final nine, obviously Michael the Grinder, Miss Rocky is the big headlining, the big notable name but if you're unfamiliar with people in general and you want to be like, oh, where's my rooting interest going to lie? You know, go listen to the last episode or watch it on YouTube, or go check out the article on PGT dot com to familiarize

yourself with the players. We have seat one Leo Margetts from Spain fifty three point four million, that represents thirty three big blinds. Seat two Kenny Hallard from Belgium eighty point five million or fifty big blinds. Braxton Dunaway is in seat three. He's from the US ninety one point nine million, fifty seven big blinds. John Wosnock out of the USA one hundred and eight million, one hundred and eight point one to be exact, sixty eight big LiLine.

He is the chip leader. Seat five is Michael the Grinder Miss Rocky, also out of the USA, ninety three million, even for the Grinder, fifty eight big blinds. De Young Lee out of South Korea thirty four point nine million, twenty two big blinds. Luca Badjokovic out of Serbia fifty one million or thirty two big blinds. He's in seat seven. Adam Hendricks out of the USA is in seed eight forty eight million, thirty big blinds, and then Seed nine.

Rounding out the twenty twenty five WSB Main Event final table is Jared Minguinea out of the USA twenty three point six million. He's also the short stack of the final nine. He's got fifteen big blinds to work with when play resumes on Tuesday, July fifteenth. All those nine players had the day off on Monday. I think all of them came down here to the Horseshoe to do some interviews, take some photos, maybe some various interviews with the media or whatnot, what not.

on the video. Hopefully we'll get a little shot right here from producer Rich right in the middle of us. This is per Derek Walters on Twitter. He goes by Derek underscore Walters. He's always talking about the ICM values for the stacks. He's also regularly offing excuse me to buy pieces of people at their ICM value. And it's

interesting how you how things stack up. You got wasnock is way up on top of a one hundred and eight million, You got m in guineas on the bottom with twenty three million, right, So there's what it's about. Four and a half x whsnuck stacked to mc guineas. But like the ICM value, you know, first place in this thing is ten million. Everyone's guaranteed a million. Like, it's not that big of a gap. It's not a nine million dollar gap in the ICM value. The ICM

value is obviously scrunched down. Wasnock has the largest ICM value of course because he's the chip leader four point five seven million, Then you have four point twenty four four point two one seven three point nine three point two three point one three million, two point five seven nine, and then ming Guinea stack is right now worth two point one three one million. I'm assuming all the players

are aware of this at least to some degree. Now, I would say the one that's probably the least aware of it would be Well, I think he's least aware of it out of choice. I don't think he gives a shit. Okay, So but I think I would assume that Wa Wasnak because he's like the the he's the token old guy. He's a recreational player. He's I think he's an investment consultant is what his job is. So he also might like just not be as in tune

with it. You know. Maybe, yes, he has some people telling him about it, but I feel like he's just going to be a guy who's just going to play his game and not really worry about this, Whereas I feel like someone like let's say Kenny Hallard or Adam Hendrix are going to be like, oh my ICM value is this Like I'm going to try and ladder up accordingly or whatnot. So just wanted to kind of lay

those out there. As we head into the final table again, everyone is guaranteed a million dollars for making the final nine, and then it goes one million, one point twenty five, one point five, one point nine, two point four, three, four, six, ten, I believe are all the payoffs, so kind of smallest jumps to start, but then obviously once you get into it, the jumps get pretty pretty big. And then of course that four million dollar jump from second to first is

absolutely astronomical. I guess let's take a look at, you know, this final table as it compares to some recent years. That's something that I wanted to hit on, you know, I just I think a lot has been made about how awesome this final table is, and when people start throwing that around, you know, this is the best fil table ever. This is the best fiel table ever. I mean, I just it's not that it's not I don't know,

but I just immediately think is it right? And then I kind of want to look, Yeah, so what is best main definition? Here though, Well, I'm just saying that's what I've heard from a lot of people, like this FILEL table is so great, This fil tables the best, like, you know, like finally we got this type of final table. So I think obviously a lot of it has to

do with Leyo Marjetts. Yeah, you know, being the first woman to make them an event final table in thirty years, going all the way back to nineteen ninety five, when Barbara Enright did it. Barbara Enwright was the only player or only female player to do it. It's taken thirty years now for Leo Marguetz to do it. And of course she did it with a six six sick runout going Club Club to back into a flush after her jacks were out flopped against Ace King on day eight.

But but yeah, I pulled I pulled the most recent final tables going back to twenty twenty one, So that gives us it's all the post COVID years can't really count twenty twenty because obviously that was the weird COVID year where everything was like it was like there was an international tournament, there was a USA tournament. They combined to one tournament. They played it it was very weird, right, and then I didn't feel like going back, you know,

before that. So I would say that, you know, this one, it's got a pretty strong mix of star power. It certainly has that historical significance, you know, largely due to Leo Margetz and the history that I just mentioned it being thirty years since we've had a woman make the final table. I think there's a lot of like poker credibility at this final table. Overall, I would view it as very well rounded. If a final table like can be versatile, I think this one checks that box. You know,

we talked about Leo Marguetz. You know, she's the global storyline. She's out of Spain, you know, but she's he's very much that global storyline now because she is the female that has made the final table for the first time in thirty years. That is entirely historic. You got Michael Msrocky, right, He's one of the most decorated players in the history of poker, one of the most decorated WSP players. Tim and I have talked at length about the fact that

he's won four Poker Players Championship titles. He has seven total bracelets, he's now made the w CMIAT final table for a second time. I mean, it's just it's I can't even like believe it when I keep saying it. Yeah, it's just so wild to me.

you know. Now, maybe he didn't rise to the ultimate heights of a Dan and mcgrondy or a Phil Hollimey or a Phil Ivy, but Grinder was as big as they come for a period of time. Yes, Like you know, he was crushing everything. He was winning multiple WPT titles, just a face everywhere, bracelets, all this sort of stuff. And then yeah, obviously he had you know, his own issues that he had to deal with. But I mean, the guy is freaking back and if you want to

like pull up the nostalgia strings, well, Grinder's it. Kenny Hollard, you know, another final tableist that is returning. He's got a great ws AP resume, specifically in the main event. I think he even has like another deep run in the WSP Man event that wasn't one of those final tables that was a very deep run. You know, Kenny's been around the industry forever. He's been He's a tournament director, he's a live events advisor, I think with poker stars.

So I mean, the guy is just an absolute freaking crusher. He got sixth place in twenty sixteen. In twenty seventeen, sixty fourth, so very very deep run there by Kenny Holler. And then of course he's got this run twenty fifteen, by the way, the year before he made the final table one hundred and twenty third. I mean, this mister Main Event twenty twelve, three hundred and twenty third. I mean, this guy's an absolute beast in this tournament. It's absolutely wild.

He's got another cash eight hundred and sixty second in twenty twenty two, so I mean, it just goes on and on and on and on as it pertains to the WSP main Event with Kenny Hollard and here he is once again, so you know, not as big of a name, yes as Grinder, but still a big name within the industry and a very well respected person who you know, dabbles in both sides. He's on the industry side of things with his you know, his career and his profession and whatnot. He's also on the player side

of things. You've got Adam Hendricks. He's this year's top tier pro. Like he you know, he's the highly skilled, like a high roller type of guy. The pro We've seen plenty of them in the years past, almost almost too many of them in years past. You know that kind of made it seem like it was lackluster. Yeah, for us in the industry, we're going to nerd out about it. But you know, we have Adam Hendrix here representing the pros. John Wosnack Now he's obviously the chip leader.

He's and I say this with total respect, but a complete wild card to me in that like I don't he's a recreational player from all accounts, and I mean he's the token old guy. Always got to have one of the old guys, right, you know we've had We've had Jason Segel, We've had Jan Peter Yachman, We've had Aaron Duckzak, We've had George Holmes. Like you always get an old guy, we always get an old guy. Right. He is the old guy this year, and he's the

freaking chip leader. And in a way, like I don't know, to me, this is like for every recreational player, for every older guy that's just hanging out, maybe playing a home game with his buddies once a week, once a month, whatever, like this keeps that dream alive exactly right, which is which is dope. So that's great. And then you know you got that international flair with some of these players. You know, obviously Leol Margetz we already talked about her,

but she also dips into that international flare too. So you know, I think overall we have a really really good final table. I do want to touch on these other ones from from twenty twenty four to twenty twenty three, twenty twenty two, and twenty twenty one, so again the post COVID era. I'll go back to twenty twenty one first.

That was Kari Aldemir's winning year. Who I mean, he's he's a beast of a player, right, obviously a crusher, but like he doesn't really bring like the big star power that let's say a Michael Muzroky does, so it kind of falls short there. Now. Again, this is not to take anything away from any of these players we're trying to compare. I did like that year, the Papo MC factor, m m Alexandre Lococo. You know, he's like the rapper from Argentina. He brings that global flare. He's

a bit of a wild car with his play. He's all over the place. So you got that. You of course have George Holmes. It had some high entertainment value and I think it ultimately played out. I mean, you had the big hand where like Lecoco gave all of his chips to Karai Aldemir. You had a pretty good heads up match between the old guy George Holmes, like the home game Hero versus the high roller Karai Aldemir. You had that, but like it just I don't know,

it fell short compared to this year. Right, If you want to give kry Aldemir, if you want to make him like the Adam Hendrix of this year, well you don't have the Leo Margets. Of course, you don't have them like Rocky, so you're kind of falling a little bit short. I think ultimately this one played out quite nicely and it delivered some some nice TV and it was certainly entertaining. But I certainly don't think it compares

to this year. The next year that was espen Georgs dad's win, and that was twenty twenty two when we moved over here to the Horseshoe in Paris for the first time. Now Espen he won a bracelet. That summer, he won the tag team event alongside Patrick Leonard aka Pads, but still pretty unknown.

boy Adrian Attenborough. I mean obviously obviously that it was a marathon, but also that one hand that took like twenty six minutes or something insane, Like that hand alone, which is the final hand, was just absolutely wild. So I think that helped ultimately, like being results oriented, that helped that final table. How like grueling that heads up match was if you're gonna look at like the notable pros from that final table. Let me just run through

the list of who was at it. Felipe Suki, Adrian Attenborough, Mattia Doebrich, Mickey Dueck, Matthew Sue, John Eames, Jeffrey Farnes, Aaron ducksak and Espen Georges Dad. I mean we already talked about George Dad, we talked about Adrian Attenborough. I mean, Matthew Sue was kind of a no name within the industry. John Eames, no name within the industry, Mickey Dueck, no name within the industry. But in no way, shape or form, is like the common poker fan going to know who

any of these people are at this final table. So that's ultimately like kind of where this one fell short. I would say from a technical aspect, I think this is a very good final table, yes, but like star power, headlines, all that sort of stuff, that's where it falls short. Which again is fine for all those of us that love poker, But if you want to hit that home run, and if we're always like, you know what can help poker get into the mainstream war, you know this unfortunately

just isn't going to do it. Twenty twenty three, we got Stephen Jones, Juan Masierras, Daniel Hosner, Adam Walton, Ruslin Priedrich, Dean Hutchison, Toby Lewis, Daniel Weinman and Jan Peter Yachman. After the fact, with this one, you got Daniel Winman winning it. Of course he had that big hand. I figuret I it was on day seven or day eight when he hit that jack on the turn, which was absolutely incredible. Wineman is extremely well liked with the poker community,

has been around for a very very long time. But still like this is another one of those where it's it's just short on names. Yeah, you know, coming into the thing, right, I mean, Toby Lewis, I would say, is arguably the biggest name here now I'm talking about going into it coming out of it now. Obviously Daniel Wyman is a bigger name because he won the damn thing.

latch on if you're a casual fan, right. I feel like what I'm getting at here is like I think a lot of people tune in to the WSP main event for the final table only, right, So when the casual fan pulls up the list of the final nine, are they going to be like I'm gonna watch that, or are they going to be like, who the heck are these people? So I feel like some of these final tables it's more like who the heck are these people?

doesn't get fulfilled at the final table, we may switch off. Now, I know you and me are gonna watch it, but I'm saying that the people that consume a lot mega you know what, this final table doesn't interest me that much.

Like and I had it was like trying to talk to a two year old about poker. I mean, I love my mom, but it was very difficult. I would I would have rolled so much if I was. No, it's just you know, she just doesn't know. Yeah, but you know now she's invested and she doesn't care to watch the final table, but she's invested now because she

has that that female tie, right. So like it's those types of people who are invested for for those reasons who get sucked in based on a story, you know, Yeah, the people who are kind of always like going to tune in for the final table and just the final table. We're probably gonna get them, right, But how do we how do we draw the attraction of people who are like not even paying attention and then all of a sudden they're like, oh wait, there's a there's a woman

at the final table. Oh wait, Grinder's back. Like you know, Grinder to me is like the way I viewed and I know you'll get this that plenty of people out there will probably have no idea what I'm talking about, but plenty of people will have an idea what I'm talking about wrestling coming back, but like the old guys like the stone Colds, the Shawn Michaels, the rock Et cetera.

Like Grinder to stone Colds. I'm saying like those are the those are the the Poker boom stars, like those guys, right, and like there's obviously a good selection of the wrestling audience that has just followed it the whole way through, right, and they're all about the new stars. But for me, I don't know. I kind of was like I lost after like those characters, the Attitude era and whatnot. I kind of was like, you know what, I don't really like these new guys that much, so I'm not as

attracted to it. So I kind of would go away. But then if I saw like the Rock showing up on WrestleMania, like I'm in so like there's gonna be those people that got into poker, you know, during the boom, might have fallen out from it, and then they're like, oh wait, Grinder's back like that those people, which I'm I'm already getting a lot of messages like oh my god, Grinder, like from my friends that like I came up playing home games with who have no interest at all a

poker anymore. But now they're like Grinder again, like he's back.

main event. Find all the old school, the Mike Manosius, the Daniel grind As to feel home is, the Sean Chakhans, the corey' Zeidman's, all of them, and then allocate them an attitude or a wrestler if like that would be the most off topic thing to do right now, but I know there's people at him saying, please please do this.

a long time, you know. But it's just like again, very technically solid here, but no like to us, Nicholas Us that is a big name. No one knows who the heck Nicholas. It's like no offense to Nicholas, Like, I love the guy, you know and like, and we know who he are is, but casual fans don't know who it is. You know, Brian Kim is one of

my really good friends. No one knows who he is casual like, you know what I mean, Like, yeah, people might walk around here and be like, oh, like you know Brian Kim, Like, but casual fans again, they're just not.

it's it's leaps and bounds better. Obviously, the fact that we have a woman there makes it way better. But even if you were to take Layomar gets out like, it's still better, right, just with the fact that you have Grinder, you finally got a really big name. You know, you got Kenny Hollard story is incredible, you got you got the pro the pros boxes checked with Adam HENDRICKX. You know you have those things. So think you're right.

You know you got you got kind of that recreational player, every man token old guy in uh Wa wasnak the chip leaders. So you have a bit of it all here, right, if you want to dig a little further, I mean the Jared mc guinea thing is very cool, where a professional snowboarder was trying out for the Olympics. I believe is how the story went. Got injured, ended up, didn't

make it. But if you want to look even further, he lost his brother in October twenty twenty two in a motorcycle crash about I think two or three weeks later, he went to play the was Sippy Circuit event, the main event in Lake Tahoe, and he basically pledged or called his shot that he was going to win it for his brother, for his brother Bobby, who was thirty six years old when he had the unfortunate crash, and

he did win it. He won the whole damn thing for one hundred and fifty three K. So that's a really cool, damn story. Now, Jared McGann has got a lot of work to do. Twenty three point six millions is the shortest stack, but still that's an awesome story. It's got a bit of that underdog appeal. It's also you know, for any athletes out there. You know, I'm sure plenty of people out there who have gotten injured their careers have you know, basically been put aside and

you can't do anything. You know, there are a lot of people out there who are athletes then find poker to you know, get that competitive edge, and Jared mc guinney's one of them, and here he is at the was B Main Event final table. So all in all, I think this final table is pretty freaking incredible. You got the poker prestige, you got michaelmas Rocky, you got Adam Hendrix, you got Kenny Hollard. Okay, I'll put them in like the poker prestige thing, right, the emotional stakes

as it pertains to the viewers. I think that's kind of another little bucket here that we can put people in. You know, that involves like the history element with Layo Margetz. I guess you could also put the Kenny Hollard and Michael Moss Rocky redemption part in here because they both made this finel table before they didn't win it, but

now they have a chance again. And like I mean, it's you and I were talking before we went on on air about how it's so hard to even like cash this thing and so many people go forever without cashing it. And these guys have two shots to win the damn thing at the final table, which is freaking wild. And you also have, as it pertains to emotional steaks. I think like, I think a lot of like older people out there will just latch onto Johnnock. He's the

recreational grinder guy. He's a bit of a total unknown. He just seems like you're everyday man, just the amateur of the wreck, you know, who's coming out here taking a shot. He's he's for sure held his own. So he's not like any sort of fish out of water when I say amateur recreational, but just a regular dude. And he's in a big moment, and he's obviously thriving.

He's got the freaking chip lead. You know, this could be that that fairy tale type story that you know, you see so often that a lot of these guys, even if you don't know their names, right, So we had again going through those winners kry Aldemir espen George said, Daniel Weinman, and then last year Jonathan Tomorrow. Even if those guys aren't the biggest names in the world, they're

still hardened pros. So what I'm getting at is if Wasnock is able to come out on top, that shows a lot of the average poker players out there are the regular people that like, yeah, that can still happen. You can still do that. You don't have to be this this like crazy crusher in the game for you know, thirty five years playing every single day professionally in this and that. No, you can take your shot. You can

live that dream. So that's what I like, you know, with the with the wasnik, I think it would handle there.

long long time. Now. If you go back, like when do you think the last amateur you know, I think it's going to have to probably be Jerry Yang two thousand and seven. I don't think you can count and sand Well and Sam played played regularly.

among a field of pros. And that is what wasn't to get I mean amateur or sorry, moneymaker was an accountant from Tennessee. This guy is an investment consultant, father of four, fifty years old out of Washington. I mean he's not he's not a pro like so it just it's showing that, like listen, you can do this. Yeah, you know, you can play good on this stage and the biggest tournament in the world, and you can break through like Wosnik is doing and that is truly incredible

to see. So and it doesn't matter, like all you need coming into poker, you just need the money to sit at the table. He had ten k, just like everyone else had ten k, you know, and he battled with the best to him and he's gotten here, and that's freaking cool to see. You know. It gives even someone like me, you know, who might play more than Wasnock. But still, I don't think that I'm necessarily like the

best player in the field by far. You know, even as I was going deep, I was like, there's a lot of freaking good players around me that are really really fucking good. But like, still, you can play really well for a shorter period of time in the grand scheme of things, you know, six seven days, you can hit some cards and you can be that person. You can be that story. So like that's what I think

everyone needs to lean into. With John Wasnock, Like I wouldn't just look at him and be like, oh, he's just like he's just an unknown, like we don't care about him whatever. No, that's a cool ass story that

like those types of people can do it. I looked that similar to Lee when twenty twenty one George Holmes, Like George Holmes is like he's just the everyman, you know, He's just a dude, like probably plays a home game a couple times a month with his buddy's like whatever, you know, like doesn't really have all that that much you know, money in like career, live tournament earnings and that sort of stuff. I think for Wasnak, it was around like one hundred and fifty k coming into this tournament.

So I'm sure there's plenty of people out there that are listening to this podcast, that are watching on YouTube or that are going to tune in for the final table have one hundred and fifty k and earnings or less, you know. And but you can do it, like you can be that person. Yeah, Like and that's that's dope to me. So that's where I would like to lean in,

you know, with that one. And and hopefully like he kind of embraces that too, right And then of course, you know, we still have those those quote unquote underdogs,

I guess or unknown players. You got the Jared mc guinea I talked about him, uh Lukabadjokovic, uh Day Hung Lee and then Braxton Duneaway, Braxton don't always kind of in that same sort of like creational player ish not maybe not as much so as w Wasnock because he won the Monsters to actually, you know, but but still like he's he's got a job from from everything I can tell, he works in the oil and gas industry, so you know, he's.

there's a lot of really cool, you know, storylines here. Overall, I think it's the most complete, headline worthy final table that we've had, you know, probably. I know I only talked about the ones specifically. I got into going back to twenty twenty one, but I don't know, like when was the last like really like headlining one, Like I mean not look at the banners like two thousand, fifteen fourteen, Like who is who are those years? Like that?

Then we'll look at where his career has come. Yeah, sure, you know I saw, Like I think when we look back retrospectively at all these other years, we say, oh, that was actually pretty good, But like at that moment, we're playing, eh, a bit of a dodge.

just say what it is. You got the woman, you got the superstar and grinder, you know, you got the pro like, you got the the you know, the the recreational guy, you know, the you know for all the everyday dudes out there, the dreamers, like, you got a bit of everything. I think it's gonna be a lot of fun to watch it. I'm very, very, very excited to watch it all play out. I do want to do two little segments here. One is a rank this,

oh babe finally coming around. Let's rank the remaining players the final nine in terms of most likely to win the event in our opinion. And we'll start with number nine, which means least likely to win, and we'll go up to who we think has the biggest chance. So you go first, Jared win, Jamie same.

that was like, I don't know. I saw that, and I heard about that, and some people were messaging me about it, and I'm kind of like, hmm, yeah, I don't know, you know, so I mean, we'll see you never know. I also got him second. He's also I believe he's the second short step is the second shot I got Luka Padjokovic next. Yeah, well those are the three. No, that's not the next shortest stuff. No, but those those three are in order for if you pick those three names,

we listed them in order of chips. You know what I'm saying, Like mc guineas is short. Is shorter than the joke rich? Right? But yes, but that's that's what I'm saying.

of pressure on you. You know you, I mean you, you said it yesterday that you think she probably wants to get fifth, which is what Barbara Nrick got. Well, if that is, let's say that's the case. Obviously we don't know, right, but let's say that's the case, then you're thinking about it, whereas you're not just going in and playing freely. So you know, we'll see right, It's it's a lot to make the final table as a woman, and like you have all those people like talking about it and asking

you about it and whatever. So I don't know, does that just constantly weigh on her mind and then it allows her to not play as freely? You know, we'll see very early on. Of course, I also think she does have a pretty bad spot at the table. She got Kenny Hollard next to her, Braxton done Away next to her, was knocked next to her, Like it's just

it's bad. Those those four seats are very bad, so that that's going to be quite difficult, you know, and especially when like if she's in the I believe it's cut off or hijack, Miss Rocky will be in the big blind, which he's going to play any hand. The guy is ridiculous, So all right, who's your next one? So kind of touching on Lea.

Joey did or something. So I have her laddering up to fifth place.

seven hundred and thirty five. So the fact that she's even made it to the final nine like percentage wise, she's gotten way farther yep than Barbara Enright did okay, you know, so like that's if I was advising her, I would basically try and tell her that be like listen, like I understand, I understand, but I'm saying if you were trying to like help her like get through it mentally, you'd be like, don't worry about that, like you've gotten this far for a reason, Like, just play your game.

Do your thing right. The fact that you made the final table, that is enough. That is all what everyone wanted. How we were always rooting every single year for a woman to make the fol table. That is done, okay, so just go do your thing. I got John Wosnock next, and my reasoning is wow, So two things. I know. I didn't say that I looked at seeding position, but I remember thinking about that his seeding position was particularly annoying because he's got Michael mcrocky on his direct left,

and miss Rocky is in every fricking hand all the time. Like, so, now I know, Waznock obviously finished with a chip one hundred and eight million, he's got like sixty eight big

lines or whatever it is. But I didn't think like when I was watching that he like went and got the chips more so that they he kind of just let them come to him, which is not bad, not a bad strategy, but I'm saying like, if he if he kind of just sits back in the beginning, maybe we see a Braxton Dunaway or a Michael mcsrocky, somebody who's a little bit more active and aggressive. They take the chip lead from him, right, and then he just kind of starts to like slide on it. So I

mean it's gonna be very interesting, you know. I always I always want both as like the poker player in me, the commentator in me, the know the analyst in me, the poker fan in me. I always want the chipleader at any final table. It doesn't matter if it's this final table or you know, some other final table. I want the chip leader to be the one driving the action and getting in there. And you don't think he's

gonna do any am, I don't know. But also I feel like if he tries, miss Rocky's right there, yeah, and like Miss Rocky might like he like Wasnock might like literally raise the first hand, and Miss Rocky might be like, you know what, I'm just gonna three about this guy, because I'm gonna say, I'm gonna set the pace like Miss Rocky. That's how Miss Rocky is. He's a freaking gorilla out there, like he's gonna be He's just gonna put his fist down like as soon as

he can. I feel, like I said yesterday on the last episode that you know, I think like Miss Rocky and Dunaway are gonna just clash in a big pot. That's part of this. Like I think Miss Rocky is gonna like come in and like basically try and like run the table. That's what Miss Rocky's gonna do. And if Wasnock is right there trying to get active and Miss Rocky kind of tries to shut it down, then maybe Wasnock just kind of says, like, you know what, Okay,

it can be your table. That's fine. I'm gonna sit back. But if you sit back, it doesn't necessarily mean that you've got the best chance to win. So that's why I put Wasnock there. I also it's also part of his I don't really know too much about his game, Like I don't know he.

depends on the pace it does. But you know, like I stat checked out.

million dollars. For someone that has, you know, such a big chunk of themselves, you know they are going to care more about loud obviously. Now, if you only have twenty five percent of thing, he might gamble a little

bit because you're not gonna win as much. So Adam I realized, you know, he's basically equity of his starting stack here, and you know he understands, you know, all the dynamics or the ICM and I feel like this is the spot where he'll be comfortable, you know, taking a risk maybe to try and hey, if I can double up here, I can have that aggression on the second day, I'm going to have don't forget. Let's talk about Adam Hendrix's friend group's Shanna Shaw. He's got Francis Anderson,

He's got David Coleman. These guys are going.

the four. He takes a little bit of a risk to try and chip up make day two of the final time and then have that advantage of his friend group being just some of the best players in Las Vegas. So I'm going to guess that it doesn't work out, he loses a flip and he's adding fourth place.

the WSBM an event. So I would very much expect Adam Hendrix to you know, proceed with caution, not just like coming and be like, you know what, I'm going to take the table over. I know I don't have that many as many chips to some of the other guys, but I'm just gonna, you know, basically exert my dominance and my experience over everyone. I certainly don't think he's going to do that. I think he's just gonna attack, like very like cautiously and and try and basically ladder up.

You know, as as you mentioned who you got next.

It's going to be some kind of massive shout out, massive explosion in hands where it's like open three bet just four bet jams from John with Ace ten off and Grind the calls with Kings and we hit an Ace Grind is out in third right and John goes to take a massive heads up lead against Kenny Hallett.

So I'm gonna say, I'm gonna skip ahead Kenny Hallett's runner up and then you can flip a coin because it's going to be some insane hand between John John was Michael Musrahi to just I had the heads up match, So I don't know who it is. I kind really give an answer, but I'm gonna stick with my guns of really wanting to see Waznock win. So Grinder, I'm sorry to do this to you. The strip clubs will

be fine. You're still winning four million dollars. Third place, Michael the grind name is Rohi, all right.

a lot of spots and work his way up. So in terms of like potential to win, I got him third. Who you said you said you had Kenny Hollerd.

gonna back down at all. So this is basically both these players are gonna put their nuts on the table, and you know, whoever can just big dick this thing the best, this is gonna come out on top. So I'm very much looking forward to it. I think if it does come down to Miss Rocky versus Doneaway heads up, and they are in any way, shape or form deep in chips let's say thirty to forty big blinds at least each, then we could see one of the most

epic heads up matches we've ever seen. Because like, these guys, again, I don't think they're gonna back down from one another. They both like to play a bit of street poker. I don't think that they're you know, theory studied type of guys. You know, I think they're just gonna get in there and they're just gonna battle accordingly, and you know, try and throw a bunch of big haymakers and whatnot. So you know, I got Braxton Dunaways as you know, the second most potential, and then I got Michael ms

Rocky as the first. And part of part of Miss Rocky is like where he is on the table, He's got wa Wasnack the chip leader to his direct right next to him two to his right is done Away, So he's got he's got good position right and then behind him he's got Lee, he's got Djokovic, he's got Hendrix, he's got ming Guinea. So like those shorter stacks are all behind him. So I think I think his seat lines up very nicely too, doesn't Miss Rocky. So yeah,

it's probably the best seat. Yeah. The title of course for all the listeners out there. If you guys want to give us like your nine in order, you know, you can either like pick the finishing order. You can give us who you think is like most likely to win, all that sort of stuff. Send an email to podcasts at PokerGO dot com. We'll take a look at it before this final table goes live. If you're watching on YouTube, just drop it in the comments right below the video.

We'd love to hear from you guys in terms of how you think this thing is going to shake out. Even if you don't want to rank the nine, you know, give us your winner, give us your top three, give us your biggest prediction, your boldest prediction, whatever it may be.

Barbara's finish? Can she go on a win? Can she be the first woman? Can she be the first woman to be top four, top three, top two? You know, just to keep pushing that boundary higher and higher.

stuff out there. I also think that if that does happen, I think she's got a really good head on her in terms of, like, you know, wearing the Ambassador crown, like, I think she's she's certainly willing to do.

We have Essa Taylor, you know, third place in some say the toughest event poker event in the world, the fifty K Poker Players Championship. Then we have showed a oka goodo back to back in the latest champions So solidifying that she is legitimately a goat and that's you know, Japanese poker player. We've talked about the rise of the Japanese this year. We had one win embracelet last night

in the toss. You know, those kind of things just really stamping the case for just women, kind of crushing the poker scene and not you know, being an afterthought like it was, you know, unfortunately many many years ago.

the med event. Yes, but I mean it changes everything. Yes, it really does change everything. Or what's your next story arc?

fifteen years later doing it all again. So you know, it's just kind of pretty amazing to see this and we'll see how that kind of story, How does that story and does it It can end in so many ways obviously, right, there's nine places you can finish, but I think there's kind of two ways. He flames out, you know, the hot run ends, you know, everything goes called for him and he maybe tumbles out in seventh place. You know, oh it just it doesn't end the rise

of is right. He continues, you know, he gets to the next day at the final table with you know, two hundred million in chiefs, and then he just closes it out, wins. He's an eighth bracelet, right, that would be yeah bracelet and just really stamp his name is as one of the best WSP players of all time.

just it would be incredible. You know, he's one of the few still very active players from that you know, two thousand and three each of twenty ten poker boom era, right, and he has that that aura about him and he certainly if you've been watching him through this run, he's he's got the fucking mojo back, baby like he is like you know, arms are in the air, like he's cheering, he's high five in his rail so like he's gonna

be great theater on this final table. He's wild, he's aggressive at times, almost like times when you're like, what the hell is he doing? He's entertaining. He is like, if you're looking for somebody from this final table to sell poker to the audience, miss Rocky is the guy. So I'm looking forward to that as well. And then what's your last one?

lot of more. So you know, if that story, some would say it does ten times more than is true. That is that math does math? What does that mean for poker in Asia, poker in South Korea? And you know, is he if this is true, if he's going to follow through with this, you know, there's not much more you can be, like you can ask from an ambassador, a world champ to give back to your country, to try and grow the sport that made you, you know, famous poker. So you know it's a little it's you look,

the chance of it happening. You know, the fact that he's one of the shorter secks may not happen, but we've seen, we've seen funny things happen. I think that would be an incredible storyline if that can be manifested by if the cause can fall right for Dahung, he can manifest that and then he can follow through with his you know what he stated and really make a difference back home in his Outh Korea.

Cinderella story in the whole thing. You know, it can certainly inspire the more casual players, you know, keep that poker dream alive. You know, so many of us talk all the time that, like you get down to it in the wspa med event, it's all just killers left, Like it's just that's just how the structure is. Everyone's so good these days. But you got a guy like John Wasnock. You know, he is an investment consultant by day. He's fifty years old, he's a father of four.

that people are gonna be anti sweating out there? Yeah? Who die hung Ley?

that's also like we're we're assuming he's gonna wear the mask. Yeah, of course, assuming when you showed up for pictures today, So I'm assuming he's gonna wear it the whole way through. I do get some like sub zero Mortal Kombat vibes. Oh yeah, you know, because it's like that type of mask. No, but it's that type of mask, you know. But I'm just saying, like it's it's it's not like a It doesn't look like a medical mask. And it looks like almost like one of those like those ski neck things

that you pull up to keep waring. You know, It's not it's not like a I know, I like Hackston wears like the N ninety five mask or whatever, like this is more of like just a whole neck covering. I'm also curious if, like I mean, I don't even know if this is possible, Like, is there even a chance that basically like says anything about it.

he did something to a different player. No one's done any of that. So everyone is pretty much just has their own version of a feel good story here that I think people are going to latch onto. But if anyone were to latch onto the other side of it, I think they're going to latch onto the mask thing with Lee, Yes, and you know, I mean obviously we'll see it in the chat and in the comments, you know,

or possibly on social media. Hopefully that's not the case, but you know, I just know that when whenever I Caxon is on something, whenever you know, anyone is on there with the mask, like, it's just the chat is just on fire. For whatever reason, people just they can't handle.

done up for this whole thing. She's also been She's been generally pretty casual and comfortable coffee. It's the final table, so who knows, right, You never really know, miss Rockey. I'm pretty sure it's going to be black, black shirt with nineteen patches on it. Probably his hat that will probably be backwards or sideways at some point in the middle of some hand he'll be ordering many drinks. And yeah, that's kind of okay.

arms and stuff covered up. I don't know, I just maybe there's like tell things that that can happen with that, but also it just makes me feel comfortable, right, So I don't know. I'd probably go get like a nice jacket or whatever on my day off from somewhere that's way too expensive, but if I'm making a million dollars, I would be willing to.

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night shift and the breakdown. Yeah, so I'm looking forward.

be the biggest poker story in decades. Number two Miss Rocky eighth bracelet PPC slash main double and acclaim the great greatest single dubisip ever. And then he also listened to number three, which is now gone up in flames. But that was Tony Greg he wrote, he wrote a poker fenom who walked away at the top and came back and shipped the main That would be unreal, he says. Obviously, any winner will have a cool story of their own, but those top three, particularly Margetts, obviously would be a

different animal. So Nick Wright, massive poker fan, shout out massive, absolutely loves it. He's going to be getting in the booth alongside Jeff and Brent for these two final table days and that should be a hell of a lot of fun. So tune into Poker Go to watch this all go down. All right, sir, now it's your turn. Please let us know what the heck else happened here?

that's yeah, seven hundred and seventy seven seven seven. Yeah, it's so hard to say. Other event, eight hundred Deep Stack was won by Mariano Barfagon. He won two hundred and fifty two K. That was a little kind of a deep stack turbo. And then we have the three thousand plo playing out over here. They just bagged up

to Brad Albernik chip leader. Ryan Lang second in chips, Joshua Ledeen's, Richard Greico, Zachary Swartz, Joe Sirock, Daniel Zach, Jeremy osmas Chino, Riemeli Orsigon, JC Tran all in contention. There twenty one players left on thousand and eighty eight total entrance, four hundred and seventy one k for first that huge, huge trust prize there and then two events kicked off today. We had the fifteen hundred dollars buy in the closer. That's Day one A Day one B

is tomorrow. That one just completed. Jacob Migle the one of the chip leaders, Julian van Pelt and Leo Lombondazzouzi, both from France, both of the chip leaders. Day one be tomorrow, then Day two that kind of gets a little faster, that wraps up to at the end of

the series. And then the other event to kick off was the twenty five k hi roll the Horse all the Way in Paris, all the way in the Corner by themselves, which is a little weird as we thought, but seventy seven players bagged in that one hundred and twenty one starters KINE class Chip leader Paul Volpi second in chips, feil Ivy third in chips, So lots of heroes left in this. This has got obviously two more

days to go, but that's kind of what's been happening today. Tomorrow, Tuesday, July fifteenth, Day fifty of the World Series of Poker. It is the penultimate day of the twenty twenty five World Series of Poker, Day one B of the closer, Day two of the twenty five K horse high Roller with registrations still open, and then we have the five K no limit hold them two day of kicking off.

That is the penultimate event of the World Series, Event ninety nine, and then the final day we'll crown a world champion and we'll also run a one K tobo.

he's got all of it going. He talked about the stream and the guy's talking about how the Horseshoe event Center needs a new name. He said, I agree, I got it for you. He should be called the call a Sum. The call is a call a Sum.

and a cactus. You need to come up with something else because the call Oseum, although I love it, would be perfect if we were, say at Caesar's Palace, you know, somewhere different. This is, this is the Horseshoe, and this is Paris. We're not in Italy, We're in France over there and here over there, here were the horseshoes, so we're kind of I guess Texasy, right, So you need to come up with a Texasy name. I think a Western name, someone with cowboys, something with boots and spurs.

And then we can name the Paris ballroom something very frenchy. So that's Coliseum. Although I love it, it's out Doug in Tucson, AK the Red and Blue guy, Bear Arrow Cactus.