PGT PLO Series II Recap

the big winner from all of it. We'll touch on that how Wantman did his success, which was pretty plentiful, and then we'll get into the PGT leaderboard and how things shake out heading into the Super High Roller Bowl PLO. Of course, we do have to update everyone on our little fantasy competition between Tim and I and then yeah, we'll talk about that Super High Rollerblele PLO. So still a very heavy PLO centric episode. So if you hate the four card game, I guess you can turn this off,

you know, I guess. I guess That's how it is. The reason why I called him Michael Phelps is because Tim. Obviously people can't see this, but Tim and I are on video. He has no shirt on and he has cupping marks all over.

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offer is only available for a limited time. All right, let's get in to the PGT PLO series recap. We got Matthew Wantman topping the leaderboard aka Bucky as he is known commonly amongst the poker circles. There were nine events as part of this series and Bucky cash in six of them, which is pretty damn incredible if you ask me. He also won one of the events. He won event number three, a five thousand dollars PLO event for one hundred and seventy eight thousand, two hundred and

fifty dollars. The other cashes for Wantment included event number two, the pl Progressive Bounty. He got ninth place for fourteen K event number four, the ten K PLO, fourth place four ninety thousand dollars. Event number five, a fifteen K pl PKO eleventh place there for twenty two thousand dollars, and I'm guessing he probably got some bounties along the way. Event number six another ten K potlom and Omaha third place for just under one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

And then event number nine fifty one hundred dollars PLO bounty that was a single day tournament, the final tournament seventh place for Bucky, and that one for just over ten thousand dollars. All told, he won four hundred and thirty four thousand, three hundred and eighty dollars in prize money. That does not include any bounties that he might have

won along the way. It also doesn't include the ten thousand dollars PGT passport that he now has in his possession and he can put to use in future PGT events. So four hundred and fifty three points for Wantman to top the leaderboard. Right behind him not too far off, Jeremy Osmas four hundred and twenty points, Alex fox In three seventy eight, Daniel legrand Who three sixty six, and Sammy Sippola three forty seven. That is the top five as things rounded out, if you want to extend it

to the top ten. You had Isaac Hackson in sixth place, Ben Lamb in seventh place, Ben Tolering in eighth place. You want to Yuka Mining in ninth place, and James Chen in tenth place. A lot of really really really big names, you know, doing well at the series also, you know, showing up at the series. You know, there were obviously some big names that didn't put up a ton of results. Pretty good showing overall for the the entire series. You know, obviously the Wantman really showed out.

You know, he was absolutely crushing. Had all those cases that I mentioned five in a row. He knew it was. I knew it was like three or four for sure, five in a row. I mean, what a beast, absolute beast it was. It's almost like kind of a matter of time for for Wantman. You know, he plays all of the events that we have, well, not the mixed but he plays everything else, all the PLO stuff, all

the no limits stuff. He's always out there battling, always seems to be you know, kind of knocking at the door. I mean, obviously he's won some events before, but being able to become a series champion is extremely incredible, so good for him. Just quickly on the other notable happenings throughout the series. The series kicked off with Latarro Guerra, who's the O G Polo Series champ. He won event number one. Uh funny there he he beat josh a and heads up play. Josh Aray had a big chip lead,

and I mean he punted it off for sure. I mean there was a couple of hands that you know, I'm sure josh would want to have back. And this isn't the first time that we've seen josh lose a big chip lead, was it? Was it the plo also or was it something else?

six PGT points. Tim and I will hit on the overall PGT leaderboard, but Daniel did move up on that season long leaderboard, so we'll touch on that a little bit later in this podcast. Jeremy Osmas finally winning a PGT event, his first of this year, his first of last year, his first in six one hundred and eighty four days. He won event number seven. What was that? Fifteen K? Yeah, yeah, fifteen K. He won two hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars. Long, long, long, long battle

heads up with gruff Pugh Jones. I mean they battled forever. Nick Shulman got third place in that one. Nigroney made a deep run he got seventh in that event. And then we had Ben Toleering once again closing out a series in the twenty five K buy an event with a win. He did it at Poker Masters, he did

it here at the PGT PLO series. So Ben Toleraing, one of the absolute all time best PLO players in the history of the game, comes in, does extremely well during the series, wins the twenty five K for just under half a million dollars. All right, So there have now been four PLO series as part of the PGT two per season over the past two seasons. Kind of similar turnouts and results from all of them. The first one had nine events, one seventy nine entries, nine and

fifty thousand dollars in prize money. The second one had ten events, nine hundred and sixty eight entries nine point almost nine point seven million dollars in prize money. The third one ten events, again nine hundred and sixteen entries, more than just over eight point seven million dollars in prize money. The fourth one, this is the one that just wrapped up nine events, nine hundred and sixty five entries, eight point five four or five million dollars in prize money.

We obviously had some events going on, you know, big events around the world that affective numbers such as EBT Cyprus, and we still you know, broke some not broke records, but we still set some pretty big field sizes in these events that you know, really really impressed me. Especially like we look at the five K we had, you know, one hundred and fifty five player field. Twice, we had one hundred and fifty nine entrant field and they were you know, top five biggest five k's we've done in Omaha.

Even with the ten k's we had you know, a couple of hundred player fields, a couple of one hundred entrant field sorry that you know, was top five ever for a ten K. So it shows a PELO is still popular. Players are coming down wanting to play this, and you know, like we've kind of touched on the

podcast to us you know, a few series summaries. We still have a lot of people missing, a lot of people traveling, you know, deciding to skip a series here or there to try something different, and that's okay, you'll come back eventually, come back to where the real, the real, the real men play, real men and women play. But yeah, I was extremely happy with how everything went.

But I can understand the flow of steadily increasing buy ins being a little more popular, so will probably make that change. I thought this schedule was the best of all four. However, I think the next schedule I've already done it. It's ready, it's in the works. I think it's going to be better than ever. And hopefully these guys that you know, I've already kind of briefed them on it. I'm pretty excited to try this one new event we're going to do and yeah, hopefully they all come back in March.

on it, all that sort of stuff. So like, on one hand, you know, you have players that are like I just want to stay at home or wherever I am, go to a sports book, maybe friend's house, whatever, watch a bunch of the games, bet on them, chill out.

also see really good numbers after the day off. You know, you give these players their own chance to just reset, they come back and gamble it up even more so, whether it's the PLO series or PGT Last Chance, the Mix Game series and our majors, we're going to be Sundays off going forward. So that's that's definitely one big change for the PGT for next season, and some other little things obviously. I mean, if anyone's been on social today and seeing Daniel grind and call me out for

owing him seventy thousand dollars. We're going to make some small tinkerings, and we were already planning to do this, you know, slight adjustment to the points for when it comes to bounties. You know, we're also going to make some small adjustments to points for the different buy in

such as the fifteen k and fifty ks. And you know, we're going to have a little look at the payouts for these bigger fields because once you hit those like one P fifty, you know, around that those payouts they're a little they're not great, so we want to maybe just tweak them a bit. But yeah, the change is coming for next season. Always happy to hear feedback from players and have whether it's healthy discussions or nonhealthy discussions.

We're always open to, you know, trying to put on the best product for these guys, because at the end of the day, it's I see it as there to her. You know, we're just we're just building it for them, but it's them that's playing and putting up the money and spending hundreds of thousand dollars to try and win some PGT titles.

we'll make like some content. We'll send Antonio out there with his cameras and like we'll just have fun with it, some kind of Ben Lamb plays golf, All these guys golf, Like you know, it'd be kind of cool. But yeah, I think it would only really work for like the PLO series because like they a lot of the guys like they make a whole thing of like the golf

and the poker. I mean, the Finns came out. They played in this Raiders one hundred and fifty thousand dollars tournament the weekend before, Like they were in that scramble. I know, Sean Winter was going over to their villa, you know, hitting on the putting green in the mornings beforehand, so like they're they're all into it. So that would be a cool little kind of twist because are golf, Like he'd be in there too.

They still get good numbers. So like for now, yeah, we're going to have a one and a two one in March, one in the fall, and yeah, they could be the same schedules, but I think people like people like the schedule. They want to come out and play. They don't get these PLO series anywhere else in the world except for one series in Rasvedov. So yeah, I don't see us at all at all changing what we're doing right now.

We've done a five K five card. I believe and they haven't been great this one, you know, we made the decision to just put something kind of normal. We did a five K Bownie normal bounty, so two K per person knockout. And even though a lot of players like to argue with me yesterday, it was always this event and previous finale events have always been part of the Points Race. So what that meant was Jeremy Osmus, Jesse Lonis, Alex Foxon, Matthew Weman, we're all playing this event.

One of those players I'm not going to say his name, fired a lot of bullets in an effort to win the Player of the Series. But I think it was a success. It had eighty four entrants. I would say that's pretty good for a one day bounty turbo five k.

Plus it was Fox and had a sweat. You know, it made the points race like interesting, even though it was in two different rooms, two different events. But I get what the what the players are saying. It's like it makes more sense to end with the main event, but like it's hard to argue against these numbers, and like when we go to finalize the schedule, why would we want to kill an event that had you know, eighty four entrants in four hundred and twenty k in the prize pool.

So that's that's how it is. That said, you know, it's I do think you should end on the twenty five K, But you know, the business person in me says, I mean, you like that revenue, you like those numbers,

like you like that sort of stuff. I also like the fact that it makes so like most of the time on the final day when the twenty five K Final Table or Final Day is happening, the studio is dead, like the atmosphere is dead because there's not all that stuff going on, Like you don't have all these extra

you know, events happening in players and whatnot. So yeah, I mean maybe the solution, and this really only works for like this series, would be to run the ten K satellite for Super High Rollable on this day, right, so then the room is still like lively, you think a lot of those players would probably still fire it, like like maybe that's the option and then and then kick off the Super High Rollable the following day. But obviously that you know, it's a quick turnaround and stuff

like that. So I will also say that, like, I mean, there was a chance that like we would have signed off from the twenty five K stream and not known who the winner was, which I think I think is a little bit awkward. So like, you know, I think like part of me says, like we should stream the final table of whatever that final event is. But then it's also kind of like a really big step down because you're going from twenty five k to then that.

So it's it's interesting, I kind I mean, I don't hate how it turned out, you know, I just I don't know if there's something better or not. So it's just, yeah, it's tricky.

So it was very different this time, and I guess it's just a part of the variance of the leaderboard and and awarding.

That said, I didn't think that I would like it as much as I do like And I think that, you know, Daniel Legrand, who put out a couple of tweets late last night that I, you know, I just kind of want to reference. I think I tweeted something out that like, I love the PLO series. It's just so much fun. With all these guys. But what Daniel said is the PLO Red crew is my favorite crew. I'm one of the few who hangs in the high stakes. Nolan At hold them Slash PLO and Mixed Turney Streets

and the PLO bunch are the nuts. The camaraderie is real. The Finns and the other Euros who come are all class just really fun group of guys. Sick talents too. He then quoted that and added to it he said crew observations, and then he put a bunch of questions and gave his answers complains the most mixed, has the most gamble PLO, happiest crew PLO, smokes the most weed PLO has the most money toss up, but definitely not

the Mixed crew, highest myths. Nolam At hold them slowest crew, nolim At hold them friendliest crew PLO by a wide margin. And then he said, if you are curious about the answer to the other questions about the various crews asked below, and I'll get to it. But yeah, I mean the pl crew PLO crew is is just it's like so much fun. Yeah, these guys just they have a blast. They're all kind of you know, just just gambling, having fun.

bread and butter be cash games. So then this is kind of like more of an event to get together of everyone that that you know, frequents the cash games, you know, So it's it's a little bit more of a celebration and less of a grind, you know, as part of it. I love the gamble aspect and I think that plays into the whole competition and enthusiasm that

is involved here. I mean, I'll definitely agree with Daniel that like the slowest crew is Nolan hold them and the complaints the most is the mixed I think that's both those things are givens. The only thing I might challenge Daniel on is highest percentage of knits. I mean the mixed game crew might.

the sports bets that he has. I mean, this guy bets on everything everything. Yeah, he was at final tables sweating whatever games he put on a little monitor next to the table harder than he was sweating the action at the table. I mean, it was Natcho was just He's in the action.

this year. As I mentioned, Negron new in second. He's got three wins, twenty one cashes just under two point four million dollars one. What are the notable movements? What do we got happening here? I know you have a lot of different colors on this leaderboard. That so how it's all shaken out?

Ben Toleraane, he jumped up into eighteenth place. Obviously, he won the twenty five K. Pokemons is twenty five k here, he is aware of the championship. That was the first question he had after winning the twenty five k. So he's, you know, ready for that one.

those three cashes. There are a handful of people in the top forty that don't have three yet. There were some that got their third during the PLO series, so that's something to keep an eye on specifically as we are in this kind of home stretch now the PGT. You know these players that are out here saying like, Okay, I got to get this third cash. I got to get in there because I have enough points, I just need to find the next cash.

have people that jumped into the top forty. You know, we're talking about Alex fox and we have Sean Winter in there now, Jonathan Little moved up with his event one cash. So I think people now we're hitting the business and are very aware of the top forty. They understand the rules, they understand you know, what's they're asking

us what's next, what's coming up? So we're you know, trying to get that out there maybe the next week to so that people can finalize their schedules and make a run at you know, qualifying for this million dollar free roll. Yeah.

He's been playing all of our stuff. Then he's been skipping stuff for some epts and Trenton's and whatnot, and he's played some of our stuff. So he's kind of been all over the place. Yeah, but he's sitting forty third. So if things ended right now, he would be in due to the people, some people ahead of him, you know, not reading the qualification requirements. That said, you know, he still does need to earn a couple of points. Matthew Wantman is moving up very nicely after all the success

that he just had at the PGT PLO series. So I kind of keep an eye on on all of that as as it goes forward. I know Brian Kim is sixteenth right now, he's got enough points, he still needs a third cash. I did talk with him recently. You know, he's going to be trying to to hit some stuff. He can't come out for the NPT stuff, but last chance, you know, he's kind of looking at that to come out for those events. Obviously, those are

super popular. Right before the PGT Championship event, as the name suggests, it's the last chance to get in, so that will be happening, and yeah, you know, I think it's a it's a fun little race. I like it, you know, kind of a little bit further outside of the top forty. You got Eric's Sidell on sixtieth place, and you got Jeremy Beck who's been playing many more PGT events. He's in sixty first place. Who else? We

got Dan Shack in seventy third. You have Sam Silverell in seventy six, David Peters in seventy seventh, So I mean, all these people could kind of make runs. They play the events, right, Andrew Lichtenberger eighty fourth, John Reard in eighty eighth, so you know, they play all the stuff, just haven't really had the results to get up into the top forty. So we'll see how that goes. We've been told by Jonathan Tomile that he's going to be playing in Texas. He needs a third cash. Uh you know,

he's got a ton of points. He obviously won the ws BE main event. That was a boatload of points right there. He needs a third cash, so we'll see if he's able to get it. I hope Victor Blam knows about it. I hope Phil Ivey knows about it.

that's coming up. We have there's two events as part of the NAPT and then obviously Last Chance and and whatnot, and then if anything else gets announced, you can find it on the various Poker Grow and Poker Grow Tour channels. The biggest news of the podcast, we have to update everyone on our little fantasy shenanigans between you and I. So we drafted seven players each for the PGT PLO series, Super High Rollerable PLO, the two n APT events, and

then the Texas PLO A round up. We did say, or I did say that the one rule was if if you're if anyone on your team doesn't cash during the PLO series, then you can drop one of those players and add someone new. You, being the PGT commissioner and having talked to everyone and really knowing who's coming and who's not. Somehow drafted someone who didn't show up at all for the pilos.

You are up in wins two to one. You have who Ozmas and Wiseman really.

got two n apts, and I got four events in Texas. Right, So I find someone that gives me the most chance to get the most results, and I'm not going to drop to no limit only guy like David Coleman or rom Zobian because I'm only getting two events out of him.

playing PLO. I would be trying to figure it out, okay, I mean cramming the vision GGO trainer and getting my ass to Texas. That's what I would be doing.

he's probably going to Texas. He also plays no limit hold him, he's not playing one hundred K. I'm drafting Adam Hendrix. Welcome to the team.

allocate two roster spots to that. I mean, I have I mean, I don't think Niroonie is going to Texas, so you know, I'm I'm kind of out there, but I'm I'm really banking on Sean Troja in Texas. That feels like his jam. Huh okay, I mean that feels like his jam. Yeah, I have no idea if Alex fox is gonna go to Texas either. But Alex Foxen might just win the the twenty five k at n apt if he plays that. Who knows. We'll say you

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we made some rule changes. The sate is closed, no, no, it's yeah, registrations because yeah, it's I think there's final five left.

Like I've heard Phil Galfond is playing this. Maybe you get Jason Kuhn comes out and plays it. Yea, So so yeah, I think it'll be a good uh a good turn. I'm sticking with forty six.