Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Poker Go Podcast, the number one poker podcast in the land, in the universe, in the Milky Way, and I don't even know what the order correctly goes to, but whatever, the biggest thing out there is we are the number one podcast in that number one poker podcast in that How you doing, buddy, doing good buddy. My name is Donny Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth. It is June twenty first, twenty twenty four, eleven eleven PM.
What day of the WSP is it, Sir twenty five? Because it was Kobe Bryant yesterday. We're supposed to have this straight away. On today's show. We are going to talk about Norway's Erland melsom Win. I need the three thousand dollars and no limit, hold them, freeze out Melson, Melson. We'll talk about that in a second. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars Super high Roller kicks off. Peter Park won the fifteen hundred dollars Super
Turbo Bounty. The Millionaire Maker kicked off the ten thousand dollars RAZ Championship needs an update. We're also going to update you guys on the Seniors Championship, the five thousand dollars Nolan Mad Hold Them six Max, the three thousand dollars nine Game Mix aka the tournament that should be named the Mini PPC, the twenty five hundred dollars Mixed Triple Draw. We'll touch on what is happening tomorrow.
Lots and lots and lots of stuff going on. I have an update on the numbers on how the events have been doing, because we're about the halfway point. Also, Tim and I said that we would talk about our stories at the halfway point. We're not going to do on this episode. We're punching it to the next episode because we got too much stuff to talk about on this episode. Plus, listen, selfishly, I want to get out of here at a respectable hour because I'm trying to get in there and
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on to the actual content. First things first, Erland Melsum wins the three thousand dollars no limit freeze out. Melsom is from Norway, top d a field of twelve hundred and fifty two entries to win five hundred and twenty three thousand dollars plus his first World Series of Poker Gold bracelet. Now we live stream this one today. I was joined by Andrew Headley, a commentator from Europe out of Scotland. We had a great time. I thought the commentary
was great for the two of us, but we screwed up. Not Andrew's fault, my fault, but on the screen. I mean it wasn't my fault. But I'm the one that had the lead, so Andrew was following me. But I gotta blame the producers. I gotta blame the graphics people. Probably gotta blame Tim. I don't know. I gotta blame a lot of people. Basically, they had Erlin Melsom's name spelled wrong. What it was you tim his hand in the air. Yeah, all all early era,
I got it something. So they had his name spelled as Mel's son with an N at the end. His name is mel Sum with an M like M and m's like Murphy like mini rays shout out phil ivy. But yeah, so the entire time I called him Melson the entire time. I also looked up a hend Him mob profile Earland Melson, which had like nothing on it. It had I have my notes right here. It had ninety one hundred dollars in live tournamentarings, third ever cash according to Hendon wrong hand
in profile. Thanks everyone, you know, you just make me look like a total idiot. I apologize to Arlin Melson for that mistake. My fault. I'll own it. Should have corrected itself, because listen, you can't trust other people to do things right. They never will. They're always gonna let you know. I apologize Melson again. Five and twenty three thousand dollars
for him for winning event number forty nine three thousand dollars. Nolanman hold and freeze out a couple of big hands that he was involved with at the final table. Some good action, some fun action on this stream. You guys can catch it on poker Go. You can catch it on the poker Go YouTube channel if you want to watch it and you happen to miss it. But he took out David Stam in a big three way all in clash.
This was interesting because Jonathan Schwartz was extremely short stacked, finally found something to go with King Queen off under the gun, moved all in for like four big blinds or three big blinds or something super small folds to David Stam in the small blind. He rips in Ace King and then Erland Melsom finds Ace Jack off calls from the big blind, so it's Ace King for Sam,
Ace Jack for Melsam, King Queen for Schwartz. Jack on the flop to put Melson in front, Queen on the turn, which ends up giving the Queen on the turn ended up holding, so the Queen on the turn gives Jonathan Schwartz a triple up, but the jack on the flop Melsom held from there and took out David Stam, who had I thought played great, played really well at the final table. He also had a fourth place finish in
the twenty five k high Roller that was won by Nick Shulman. He won like five hundred and twenty nine thousand dollars there here for this finish he took one hundred and thirty two thousand dollars. So two final tables for David Stam. Very very good showing to far at the World Series of Poker for him. But yeah, that was a kind of the catalyst to Melsam's day. Then during heads up play three to two chip deficit for the large majority of
heads up play wasn't too much happening. It was him. It was Nikolai YOSAFHFV from Bulgaria. You know, they were kind of just throwing some jabs, you know, kind of feeling each other out here and there, and then all of a sudden boom that gives you Joseph OFFV Kings. They give Melson Ace ten of diamonds. It goes limp on the button with the kings, It goes rays with the eight ten of diamonds, It goes re raised with the kings, it goes jam with the ace ten, it goes call.
The river was a king, but it gave Melson Broadway. So he takes that one, flips the stacks, gets a big lead, and then goes on to win it from there. Again, that is normal ways Erland Melson winning the three thousand dollars Noldman Hold and freeze out. Joseofoff took home three hundred and forty eight thousand dollars for his second place finish. Local player Ben Hoy out of Henderson, took home two hundred and forty nine thousand dollars
for his third place finish. Interesting little nugget on Ben Hoy is that his fiance Madison was here on the rail along with her girlfriends, her bridesmaids. We fell out. They blew off their bachelorette party at Lake Moujave to come sweat Ben Hoy's at the final table. That's cool, you know. So and he took home two hundred and forty nine thousand dollars for his efforts. So I'm assuming the bachelorette party just got a bit of an upgrade, you
know. Maybe they'll go to a sweet, Maybe they'll have some more alcohol, a few more strippers, saying I have no idea, but but yeah, so shout out Ben Hoy and shout out to his fiance Madison, congratulations on the engagement. All the best with the marriage. Jonathan Schwartz finished in fourth place. He got that ladder as I just mentioned, with the nation
of David Stam in fifth place. Schwartz took one hundred and eighty K. David Stam took one hundred and thirty two thousand dollars, and then before the live stream we lost Max Coleman in sixth place ninety eight K, Joseph Carden in seventh place for seventy three K. This name is going to continue to
haunt me. Yuri Reykenstein eighth place, fifty six thousand dollars. And the reason why I say that it's going to haunt me is that every single year for the past three years I have Yuri on my list of people to draft for bargain basement players in the twenty five K fantasy. I never draft him. Then he goes on to have success. It's absolutely killing me. I need to just draft this guy next year and get on with it. The problem is is that I always get shy because I don't know him. I
don't have a contact for him, so I have no idea. I mean every year you look at the results and he puts up some numbers, so I should just bank on that and go with it. But now, actually you should get his contact. So I think that my co commentator today, Andrew Headley, knows him. So now I have that content, we're in. So we're in. So Yuri, welcome to the team next year, okay. And then John Morgan Petro finished in ninth place for forty three thousand
dollars. Again, that was the three thousand dollars no limit, hold them, freeze out. The two hundred and fifty k super high Roller kicked off today. They are ahead of last year's pace. Last year, on day one, fifty six entries signed up. They ended up with sixty nine overall. This year they finished day one with fifty nine entries, so slightly ahead of pace. Tim and I both thought that this would get over seventy entries
this year. So it's looking good to do that. Last year, if I remember correctly, late registration was open until the start of day two yep. And then this year it's like a little bit into day two. Y fix breakah first break. So what that means is that there are some players who might bust out tomorrow and then re enter, because you do get a single re entry in this one, So that extra little bit of play in the early go for day two, there might be some of the shorter stacks
they hit the rail, they elect to fire a second bullet. It's kind of crazy to think that these people fire two bullets in a two hundred fifty thousand dollars buying. It's crazy to think that they they play a two hundred fifty thousand dollars bying. I mean, let's let's talk about that. They we were out there to begin with, I mean, what did you think of the field? Looked horrible, like as in like horrible, as in like why would you ever play? Yeah, everyone looked like a crusher.
I saw some people like the quote unquote spots like, we're not not that bad. Yeah, they were not. Add there's a lot of people in the field that I thought would probably lay register. But they were there on time, So that kind of surprised me. Obviously, we had some people trickling slowly, we had some re entries, but yeah, it wasn't Yeah, it didn't look crush shot out though. Yeah, I mean it looked super tough. Some of these tables looked like, why are you trying to
pick the weak spot? We were like, I don't know if there is one. Yeah, I mean I don't know. It's just it's a very interesting thing because I guess it's it's an ego thing. I mean I don't yes, yeah, but like do you really need ego? It's gonna run good for three days and win five million dollars, that's kind of what it is. I mean pretty much. It's it's pretty wild. But yeah, I thought the field was super, super tough. I know a couple players,
like I saw Jeremy Olismus in the five K six max. You know, he said it didn't look that good over there. I know David Coleman basically like looked at the two fifty K said no thanks, I'm gonna go play the five K six max. So it's just kind of interesting. End of the day though, ahead of pace from last year. So you know, plenty of egos out there, plenty of quote unquote dick swinging to be done, and that's what's gonna be done in this event. Day one,
you got Shawn Winter our Boy twenty five K Fantasy. Let's go Sean. You are effin do okay bagged in the chip lead. Now. I don't know if anyone's ever watched Sean Winter Play. If you're listening to the pro podcast, you likely have watched on Winter Play on Poker Go. But you ever see this guy play with like six big blinds, you can't kill him. Imagine him with the chipley good luck getting those chips, like, I mean, just good luck. I hope he runs like god and plays his
ass off. Let's go Seawan Winter Adrian Matteos second and chips. Former winner of this event, Daniel Negranu. We'll talk about him more when we talk about the ten k Raz, but Daniel bag chips at the very end of the night. He got it all in with Pocket Kings against Orpen Cassetchi Cogloo's Ace, Queen Queen nine nine on the flop King King Quad Cowboys for real kid poker. Let's go. Hopefully it's a sign of things to come.
Knowing how Daniel has like had this kind of weird sixth sense on how the all ins play out, I would love to hear what he thought when the flop came Queen ninety nine, and he probably immediately thought, here comes another quart. Yeah, nice, here it comes, yeah, or an Ason the river. There was a massive hand kind of in the early part of the day with Justin Bonomo, Isaac Hackston, and Jason Kuhn. Bonomo had aces, Haxton had kings, and Jason Kuhn had queens. I mean in
a two and fifty k super highwall. I mean, what the hell Bonamo opened? I believe Coon three bet, Haxton flatted behind Action got back to Bonomo. He four bet, Coon five bet. Basically Jammed had a couple of chips behind. Haxton calls off Bonomo of course calls off the aces hold for Bonomo. He's on his way. Kathy Laney, she is the only person I believe to fire two bullets. You can fire a max two bullets. So she put two bullets in you and I saw her at the cage
entering for the second time. I guess she the SI. Yeah, she was already in and then she rebought and according to the reports on wsip dot com, she used up both entries and is out. Isaac Hackston, Jason Kuhn Orpen Kiss at Chicaglu Johanns driver Chris Brewer, who won the event last year, Christoph Vogel saying they all are on their second bullet, so they're
entering day two having spent five hundred K in this tournament. You have Victor Blohm, you have Mattias Ibinger, you have David Peters, and you have a name that I'm no way in shape or form we're gonna be able to pronounce, mik Alai Vaska. Boyna cow Right was like, that's pretty close, and I kind of read the name backwards for some reason, like my eyes fucked up, so I don't know how I did that, but they
busted out and will likely be back in tomorrow, I would guess. I think if you're going to fire two hundred and fifty K, you're going to fire five hundred K. Don't think we saw phil Ivy yet, but believe he's going to come tomorrow. He was making a deep run in the raz and then will likely late. Reg should see a whole bunch of other other
people late. Reg Scott Scott sever interestingly because I was out watching the ten k Raz play down to the Money last night and he was out there and he was talking about how he didn't want to play it or didn't want to play it because he didn't want to play a tournament where he didn't have the majority of himself in it. Daniel mcgroanney was like, yeah, you know, I totally get it. I understand, and then Scott Severer was also saying, you know some things like, you know, if I play,
I feel much better if I just have the majority myself. That way I can play what I want, don't have to worry about, you know, playing other people's money and stuff like that. So it didn't sound like he was going to play it at all. And then today there's a tweet from him saying like, hey, I'm selling ten percent minimum, gonna sell it face and then I'm possibly going to get in there. So maybe we'll see Scott sever tomorrow. Brian Rass is the name that maybe we see, but
he was still in the nine game mix as far as I knew. A couple of people were still over in the five K six Max. I know Sergio Aida, who won the fifty K high Roller, played the hunter K cashing that, so I would expect him to play the two fifty k, but he had a deep run today in the five K six Max, so maybe we'll see him late reg tomorrow. So yeah, I mean good field overall, I means super tough field, but it's a field that you know
has a lot of start power in it. I mentioned Winter being on top of the chip counts Adrian Mitteo second, Aramaganion, maybe a surprise name there, third and chips. John Jaffy fourth, Alex Koulev fifth, Leon sterm six, Jason Kuhn bagged up a lot of chips on his second bullet. Santos Servana is doing well, Chance Cornet, Justin Saliba, Steven Chidwick bagged up a good stack. Let's go, Stevie go, Alex Fox and Justin Bonimo, Danny Tang, Brian Kim, Ben toleraan and then who's next on
the list. Jake Schindler. Hello, mister Schindler, welcome to the WSP. Haven't seen you at all. That was my spoiler for my random player of the day. Yeah, well he's here on the chip gun, so I gotta talk about him. Got it's fast. Oh, Michael Monset got in the field. Charldie Hook got out there in the field, Brandon Wilson got in late. Nick Shulman's out there battling. Yeah, you're you're shocked.
With Brandon. Brandon Wilson seems like Max Gambler at all times. He might honestly have two hundred and sixty K to his name and has fucking two hundred fifty K in this tournament. I mean that that's the type of player he seems like he is. Uh Negron, you put just over a million chips in the bag courtesy of that late night double up with those Kings. You start with one point five million, so hey, but hey, he's
still he's battling. And then because of that that late night double up with those Kings through orpen Casse at chicaglu Orpen bagged five thousand chips a single chip into the back. Because that's that must be depressing. So I don't think it must have been the last hand or one of the one of the last hands that's been George Dad, Chris Hunekin Hunikin just won the hunter K high
Roller to lost you kerchies out there. So yeah, I mean, you guys can hear all these names here, absolutely stacked field, and we're gonna get a handful of more people to get in there tomorrow. We'll see if we get Jeremy osmas I don't see him on the list here right, No, he's not on the list yet, but he said he might fire depending on what happened in the five K six max. Maybe we get David Coleman, depending on that, Sergio Ido, etcetera, etcetera. Ivy is definitely
going to get in there. So so yeah, Brandon Steven didn't see him out theres Nope, didn't see them. Dave port Lloyd, we didn't see Dave port Dave Portnite was today was the Boston Celtics parade. Portnoy is absolutely fucking hammered on the duck boats okay, hammer like to the point where I can wonder if he was even seen straight And I also don't even know how like Portnoy just like does he like call people up to get on these things, Like did reach out and invite him? They reach out to him.
So yeah, that's the two and fifty k Super high Lord. What's the plan for tomorrow, because yes, it's day two and we're we're planning on live streaming this. So for those of you out there poker Go subscribers as will be on poker Go, but Day two coverage, well Day two will be live stream and the final table on Sunday. So what's the plan. Well, you got to pick up coverage at the first break, so that's when registration will have concluded. Everyone will be in. We will choose a
feach table. We're gonna probably do two levels, switch them out, two more levels, switch them out head on dinner break first in his new Fear and lowthing in Las Vegas. We'll see we'll pick a good table, but like, look, isn't every table at good table? Then two fifty K. I think it's going to matter who we put up with. Yeah, I know Sean Deeve had action listed on Poker Steak, but he did not get in there. But he was making a run. He's making a run
in the ninety Was he double be for sure? Tell me I thought he was because he was in both chip cons would assume he's out of the night. He wasn't. He wasn't. There's no way because there are on opposite sides of the biggest strip. So anyway does Phil Helmuth play. Definitely not get in there. Phil, show us what you got, buddy, show us what you got. The fifteen hundred dollars super Turbo Bounty Peter Park Tops
the field of two thousand, one hundred and ten entries. He won at Oh, it looks like about three fifteen am local time, so that's not too bad at all. I said it once, I'll say it again. I love these super turbo bounties. I think they should have eight thousand of them on the schedule. They're just great. I'm jealous that I couldn't play this one bit of fomo there. Peter Park takes home two hundred and forty
thousand dollars plus whatever bounties that he won. Mark Dube second place, four hundred and sixty K, Joe Couther ninth place, twenty two thousand dollars. I'm a big fan of these. I think you could almost just like progress. You could have a one K of fifteen hundred, a twenty five hundred, a three K, a five K, a ten K, and hell of it, have a twenty five K. What do I care? Yeah,
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Need to have these on all of the multi flights starting days like tomorrow when it's Day one B. What about all these people that are going to back Day one A of the Millionaire Maker. They got two days to do nothing no, super correct what ten K super Turbo? Oh there is one. Yeah, but that's like it doesn't miss. That doesn't meet the price same it needs to meet the price point. It needs to meet the price point of the player that
bags, that played the event. So for the Millionaire Maker, you're you're targeting fifteen hundred dollars, but you can probably go up to like twenty five hundred because if they bag, they're likely in the money and they're doubling their money. Do you do you finish in the money in the Millionaire Maker? You didn't in the Monster set, but you did in the Mystery Millions,
so then maybe yeah, let's look, I mean we can look. Well, I don't think they're doing coverage, so you'll need to look at the structure shet, Yeah, look at the structure sheet and see I think I think the Millionaire Maker gets in the money. If not, it'll be in the money kind of early on day two. It just says play eleven levels.
So yeah, okay, see, but you still like, if you advanced the day two you probably feel good about your chances to cash, so you might take a shot in like a twenty five hundred dollars super terrible bounty, you know, so I don't think that that's out of the question. But just do some fifteen hundreds who cares. It'd be a lot of fun, you know, crank out that rake, let's go award some more bracelets,
have a party. That'd be pretty cool if you were like I bagged the Millionaire Maker, and then I won a bracelet, and then I went back and played and played Day two of the and then I won the million of Yeah, then I won the Millionaire Maker. Okay, the Bravo app said two thousand, eight hundred and two entries on Day one A. So if you just look at one A versus last year's one A last year,
four thousand, five hundred and eighty five entries. But just like they did with the Monster Stack, three starting flights this year, two starting fights last year. Okay, so keep that in mind. So twenty eight hundred and eighty two was the entries this year, four five hundred and eighty five last year, but again only two flights this year. You are allowed one re entry per flight. So I'm coming in tomorrow. I can only play Day one B and I'm bringing both bullets. I'm ready to go. I'm ready
to fire those babies off. So if you if you have some bad luck, I'll say, you could put six entries into this thing, which isn't the worst, you know, but whatever. I remember last year there was a little bit of some wonky payouts at the end because they went one point two million for first, million per second, then six hundred and fifty k for third because they wanted those two million dollars. Yeah, very silly.
I mean first place million dollars like flat, and then go from there, right, I mean the whole point is the millionaire maker, So just have one yeah, right, agreed, that's the whole point of this tournament. Just I would almost just cap cap it at a million out and then like go and like back it down there. Yeah, maybe like maybe cap it at a million, but then like on the side, have like a separate one that if if you can get it to like one point five and even
one point five and even one million, and then go from there. But but like third and fourth can't be like out of whack y. So like that's how I would I would do it. I think that would be cool. So you know, but for the most part, you know, you're probably gonna come in right around the same numbers last year as a lot of these events have, so just capitet and even one million. You know, Donnie Peters wins one million dollar millionaire makers boom, That's how it goes.
But as we've done with these multi flight events, not too much to update you on the day one, so we'll keep you pla guys posted as we go. Four players remain in the ten thousand dollars RAS Championship. Who we got over there? Let's just just do a little refresh because we just had some clapping. There might be fewer than possibly four, Okay, some break George Alexander big Chipley at a four point three million? Does Dmitri Yovanovitch two
point three? Ren lynnon remember when Demitia Orvana which was like I'm gonna win three bracelets in a year and everyone was like, you're an insane person, Ren Lynn three hundred and fifty k. How Rothos thirty thousand? I can't believe redlin Is He's threadlin is the best. It looks like ruth Als just lost a pretty big part against Levanovitch. So does Renlan have any idea how
to play raz He's the RAS king obviously Renlan is another name. He could possibly get into the two fifty k, but you want to finish this time. He's clearly busy. It's kind of like a satellite because first place is what two hundred and eighty K, so you know it's a satellite to guarantee ninety. He's probably gonna ladder up since Ruth Ales has less than an ante. This was another I said we were going to talk about Daniel Legranio.
This was another what could have been both phil Ivy and Daniel legron You made it to day three. There were what how many players fifty teen, fourteen players, thirteen remaining something like that, twelve coming into maybe twelve whatever. Mcgroney was on the shorter side, lost some big pots towards the end of day two after they got in the money. He was cruising up until that point. He ultimately goes out in eleventh place at the hands of Phil Ivy.
All Daniel had to do was make a jack seven on the end and he couldn't do it because he you know, pulled an eight. Just unbelievable. So yeah, ano another close call for DNS as he finishes in eleventh place. So the drought continues twenty thirteen. Sometime in October is when he won his last gold bracelet, his six gold bracelet. That was at Dibisipi Europe. So it's been over ten years, like ten years, seven months something like that, And yeah, it's been a long long time. It
was. It was a long time from phil Ivy when he won his tenth but as we all know, he won his eleventh earlier at this World Series of Poker. So now we're just kind of waiting on mister Negron you to put an end to that drought. Seriously, it's just driving everyone nuts, driving me nuts, drive. I'm sure it's driving him nuts, of course, you know. So yeah, I mean I want Daniel to succeed more than anyone. And I'm not saying that just because he's on our fantasy team.
I really do like want him to win. I think it'd be just great for poker. I mean, he's the most popular poker player in the world, and you know, he's somebody who, like, if you're talking about like transcending poker getting into like mainstream conversations, it's it's Daniel for sure. You know, he's in that very very very very small group of players that do that. He's up to seventy nine points for US in twenty five
K fantasy. So all these people out there, there's some other guy on Twitter today is going bonkers yelling at us about like having the worst pick in history. Blah blah blah. I mean, like, I mean, first of all, he's not the worst pick ever. I mean it's not awful. I mean, justin Loberto cost seventy eight dollars, he scored twelve points. Alex Livingston cost one hundred and ten, he scored forty two. You know, there's plenty of people that have scored less. Karry Aldemir twenty three
points, he costs seventy five. You know, Dylan Lindy, he might be the worst pick, to be honest, sixty one dollars, has scored six points. Livingson Livingson scored forty two. He had a deep rats, right, you know, so he's I mean, he's still not that good. But like Warwick Murzachinian forty one dollars. That was I know, I know, it doesn't really count. David Peters thirteen dollars, zero points. He had a fucking baby. What do you expect? Okay, Texas Mike
Michael Monchak. That's fifty six dollars four points. Okay, check check reren linn Well, he's going to score in this raz but he was before fifty five dollars for Renlin had five points up check goodanmatakas Ian mtakas twenty two dollars, so not the worst four points as the defending baker has been horrible. Fifty dollars five points. Wow, I mean he's off the ir now. I know it's time to start catching some passes. Get out there. Like
he's back. He's good. He's gotta get there. He's gotta get some runs in. He'll be fine. The Mike Rowden's skip pick is bad, but like also, that team didn't know that he wasn't gonna play at all, So that's he is one point. He has dollars thirty one dollars six points. Justin Liberto is pretty bad. Seventy eight dollars twelve points. I mean that's bad. I think that's the worst. That's that's for sure one of the worst. Alex Livingston not the best. Seventy dollars thirty points.
Josh Aria seventy three dollars thirty thirty three points. Yeah, but I think he's back because he was playing the five K six max. Yeah, Nacho Barbaro not the year of Nacho forty three dollars twenty four points. Who did you say I should look up? Oh, Adam Friedman thirty five dollars eighteen points. Daniel is not the worst of it, and it's still got a long way to go. He's currently in the two fifty, so I mean, let's go. I mean, I mean, the guy's making runs left
frighton center. He's just getting screwed all over the place, you know, just a bunch of unfortunate situations in the RAZ tournament, unfortunate situations and some of the high rollers. So I still believe, I very much believe Daniel's getting there. So just need that last little, you know, that last little boost to get him up over the hump there. And then phil Ivy, I mean he might have number twelve this year for all I knows,
and then thirteen. Yeah, who the heck knows. He's out there absolutely crushing. So anyway, the ten thousand dollars RAZZ Championship four Left will update you on that one on tomorrow's episode when they have a winner. Oh we didn't talk about We forgot to include on the rundown the ten thousand dollars horse Maxim piezer Enko, because remember yesterday they the recap of that. Oh yeah, okay, yeah, well they they bagged chips heads up piezer Enko and
Mike Lea. They came back today this morning and they finished it out. Maxim pizza Enko fit before I get a call at ten I am, oh, my god, hey, how do we turn the lights on in this room? I'm like what They're like, yeah, none of the lights. I'm like, I don't know, and I'm pretty sure it goes on a timer at ten am, and I look at my watch, it's like ten oh one. I get a text message from Poker News, Hey, how do we turn the lights on in this room? I'm like, I said
the same thing. I'm pretty sure. They get a time at ten am. And then I get another phone call, Oh that they just tend on. So this is why you're to schedule restarts at ten am, Mike Leo and Maxim Piserenko. I mean continue first place in that one three hundred ninety nine thousand dollars. I think it was three hundred nine nine thousand, nine highty eight dollars because it should have just been four hundred but whatever. But yeah, Maxim piece of Reenco takes that one down. Top's Mike Leah in
the end. So that is a quick recap there in the ten thousand dollars horse moving on to the Seniors Championship, they are done for the day. Twenty six players remain. Seven thousand, nine hundred and fifty four entries were in this tournament. They are guaranteed twenty eight thousand, four hundred and forty four dollars up top six hundred and seventy seven thousand big ones who finished deep well. Mark Walpert is leading the way. Mark Safe is still out there
battling, right. Is he still in? Is Greg Raymer still in? No? Greg Ramer busted? Where did he finish? Statman? I mean, I don't think the results updated. Why would they be, I mean, you know, why would they not be? But should be. It's not that hard. Rayma somewhere between twenty eight and ninety two. Oh my
god, they have that many that they haven't put in the NY. This was automatic, like you scan your thing at the that the first payout desk, which like registers you in the system, and then I thought it just went in there right away, all right, so that one will continue tomorrow is tomorrow they supposed to finish the okay, Yeah, so yeah, that one will be fun to fall. I was actually really hoping that Greg Rammer could make the Foul Table because I wanted to make an argument that we should
stream it then because that just would have been fun. A lot of people would have tuned in to watch Fossil Man for sure. Probably, Yeah, I know, That's why I'm a company man. I like to make money. Five thousand dollars. Nola would hold them six max down to fifty players or forty nine eight hundred and eighteen entries total in this one, which is down down thirty percent from the eleven hundred and ninety nine from last year.
But last year this was a bit later in the series. It was event number sixty five, I think, So this year it's a little bit earlier. So yeah, they're guaranteed I don't know, twelve thousand, fourteen thousand, something like that. First place six hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Yang Zang leads the way, Lucas Blanco, Pedro Madera Sonny Franco all doing well, Turbo win huh second chips now wow, third and chips Giorgios snip.
Yeah, he gets drafted ground. He always gets drafted ground and then he just like wins like some random Nolan Holme tournament, Carl and Sued, David Coleman, Russell Rosenbloom, Jake Schwartz, krassamirjenkov, Leo Marguetz, Mark Ioli and Ben Wang still in contention out there battling. We lost Sergio Aido. He made a deep run. He gets it all in with kings verses four loses. He gets it all in with tens verses Queen loses. So maybe we'll get Sergio Ido in the two hundred and fifty K, but he got
screwed in the five K. Nolan hold On six Max. Unbelievable the way we're running this summer, but hey, it is what it is. Twenty eight remain in the three thousand dollars nine aim Mix the tournament that should be called what tim the Mini please? So I really don't know why. I see it referred to it as that all of its Twitter as well. Everyone refers to it as the mini people see I heard that the reason why they don't want to call it the Mini PPC is because they don't want to devalue
the PPC. Have at the mini main event, you have, yes, exactly, you have the mini main events, quote unquote, which is if that logic is true, then you're devaluing the most prestigious tournament in the world, the main event, which is silly because it's not and in a way it kind of lifts up the other event. If you look at the positive side of things, you know, it's like, this is the low roller version of that, right, like it's it's it's the everyman's version of that.
It's cool, and I think, as you mentioned, you know, everyone refers to it as the mini PPC, like it's got this little cult following. So just just adopt it, embrace it, embrace it. Sorry, that's how things should be. What's going on in that tournament, Adam Friedman, as we were, just as you were, just like, what has he done? He's gonna win twenty eight remain top five counts. Adam Friedman, Nick Julia Richard Ashby, Urie Dozewski, John Cabar. I think
I saw my random player in that tournament. I've seen two random I had we obviously mentioned that Mark Telcher, well he was in the five K six months from Yeah. Yeah, but in this, in this tournament, Joe is a good one. Also see him in like one tournament. Yeah. Bracelet winners Scott Boldman, I mean sorry ben U Scott Bolman. Uh, Phil your boy as armed not a bracelet winner, kry Aldemir uh non bracelet winners. My two Australians Ash Gupta and Warwick Morzicchinneyan. We also got Phil
Sternheimer, Ray Henson. Phil Sternheimer getting a massage from Drea. Yeah, probably all that all chess work, no effort, all about the vibes for Drea Renee. I mean, hey, if it's working for you, it's working. It was a blajer last night Rugby's mixcamp Fest. Why I got a massage. I got them to take a fight of me, and I said it to us, saying it's all about the vibes because she was robbing my head. Oh my god. There are twenty eight players remaining now,
one two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars up top. I believe that'll finish out tomorrow. Yeah, so we'll have the update. On that one. As we go. A lot of big names still left. As Tim just mentioned, I think Maria Home might be out. I think she just busted. Yeah yeah, let's just check it out. She's had like she's like crashing, She's absolutely crushing. Yeah yeah, I mean she keeps making deep runs
her cashers to the roof. Mixed triple draw is underway. Three hundred and seventy one entries had three hundred and fifty one last year, so nice little uptick there. Last year it was Nick Papio winning one hundred and eighty two thousand dollars, Nicholas Milgram leading the way. We got Mark Roland out there, we got Julia Martini out there, we got Chad Eaves, Sledge,
Matthew Shreiver, Sean Deeb, Max Coleman all in there. It's day one of this tournaments, so long way to go overall, so we'll update you as we go in that one. Pool is set just now, one hundred and seventy seven thousand dollars for first A little bit on because they're doing they're doing the new payouts, the new payouts which are double your money for you in the morning. So I guess just quickly on the numbers, because I
do have some stats here. I'm the statman man. I basically have a spreadsheet of all of the events from last year with like the equivalent event from this year, to see like what's up, what's down? You know, where we're at. Overall. That's always like a big talking point, like oh my god, this is up, or oh my god, all the
events are down or whatever. We've been kind of talking about it a little bit, and it seems like, and we've said out a few times that it's like basically like this one's up, that one's down, this one's up, down and down, just like back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Nothing too crazy. As it turns out, twenty three events have been up, twenty four events have been down. One event was the exact same. What event was that? A trick question should be like
a big buy in event, But it's definitely a trick question. Stops. I mean, it's kind of a truck question. Well, heads up, yeah, the heads up, Captain sixty four, buddy. If you were to add up all of the entries right and like you know, plus or minus based on last year, they're currently minus two thousand and four entries. I mean lots, that's a lot. It's not a lot. But if you look at the average percent increase or decrease, it's actually plus one point
zero seven percent. I think that's because of the Gladiators that was the one that was down. It was down twenty four hundred and forty one from last year. But other than that, you know, everything's kind of like basically it's just around. It's literally just bouncing around, is what it is, you know, And I think I think we're just going to see this. I mean, we for sure know that, like all the high roller events have been up, I mean, and it's it's likely that this two hundred
and fifty k super high Roller is going to be up again. So it's it's just pretty much par for the course for last year. So I guess that leads me to my question. Knowing that, knowing that it's pretty much just been the same overall this year compared to last year, where do we think the main event is going to fall? Last year, ten thousand and forty three entries set the record, shattered the record from two thousand and six when they had eight seven hundred and seventy three. I believe it was back
when Jamie Gold won. So so where do we think it's going to fall ONNDUS? Yeah? But like where oh like you're talking like ten thousand and fifteen, are you talking like eighty five hundred? No, a little dip? Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm probably there as well, you know, get the promotional this the seats, what the satellites hasn't been as like
big of a deal as it was lost yet that might hit. I was I was thinking about that too, because I was thinking about, you know, the overall kind of numbers and like where they might fall from the main event. But aren't they putting more satellite winners in this year? Did Like didn't they come out and say that, Yes, yeah they did. So it's it's interesting that the promotion hasn't been as large. I mean, they
were for sure all in on being the record last year. I mean it was all in times ten they went, you know, no, it was just non stop talk talk talk about that. The talk hasn't really been about that, to be honest, I don't exactly really know what the talk has
been about. Like it's kind of like it's just general like this is the World Series of Poker obviously people are winning braces on a bowload of money, you know, but it's not like there's not really one like huge thing front and center to me, Like, for example, like coming into the summer, I think everyone thought the thing that would be front and center, Jeremy
Becker Landon. I mean it's like barely mentioned right then, Like there's not not a lot has happened, Like I think Jeremy's like plus six k. Landin' is like minus twenty three k. Like it's not like it's not like one guy's up two hundred and seventy five thousand, he's won a bracelet, the other guy's buried one hundred and eighty k. Like you know, it's just it's just kind of whatever, right, So I think that was like a big story coming in that people thought, you know, was gonna like
have a lot of headlines and whatever. To be honest, I don't even think I've seen Landing Tice around here. I saw him touch today, Yeah, but that's it. I'm like, where have you been? Are you just like at the wind, Like I don't even know what's happening. So so that's been kind of surprising to me. Phil Ivy I think is top of mind, like even like probably probably the close call of Neigranu, the close calls I should say of Negronyu is like kind of top of mind to
me overall. I mean, obviously we have Scott sever who's won two. But yeah, I don't, I don't know. I just feel like it's just I feel like last year it was just like in my face, we're breaking the record from two thousand and six. You know, there's no ifans or butts about it. That's what we're gonna do. You know. This
year, I feel like the push isn't there to break the record. Not that I would be surprised if they break the record, I wouldn't, yeah, you know, but overall, you know, I think it's fine in general. I mean, whatever, if I was gonna give a number right now, I mean we are right about the halfway point, I'll say nine thousand, eight hundred and seventy nine, so so like a slight dip,
okay, I was thinking high like ninety nine hundreds. Yeah, I mean, so we're just ten k yeah, I mean, which is fine, and it's probably gonna be stupid and everyone's gonna say, oh, it's down this year but what they make will they make fast twelve point two? Please don't do that ever again the Bay that day. I mean no, I don't. I don't think that they should do that should yeah, but why would you want to have first place be more if the number is less so
that the headline is the biggest main event first prize of all time. You know what the headline is, So and so wins eleven million. That's a headline. This tournament had ten thousand entries. That's that, Like, I mean, there are multiple headlines like that. It's not there's no competition between the WSP Main Event and the wspre main Event from a year ago. So it's just not like it's just the WSP Main Event is the biggest and best
tournament in the world every single year, hands down. It doesn't matter like it should that. That's just how it is, you know. And I'm sure we're gonna get seventeen text messages in the morning telling us how it's not and I don't care. It is. It is, hands down the best, and even if it dips a little bit, it doesn't matter. They're still gonna get ninety five hundred plus entries. It's just an absolutely mammoth field
ten thousand dollars buying, it's out of control. Somebody's gonna win eight figures. Like, it's just it's wild. You know, whole found table is gonna be millionaires. Blah blah blah blah blah. You know, it's whatever. You know, it's like that the event sells itself, you don't. I don't. I just don't think you need like some sort of like kind of marketing gimmick for it because the event itself is like the greatest thing in
the world. So, yeah, what did you say, You said ninety nine hundreds or something like that, just hot, like just on the ten k. Yeah. I mean it also like we're gonna be able to look at like the the whole of the WSP is going to be up entries because they have more events of course. Yes, So so that's why you can really only compare like what exactly happened last year versus what happened this year. But again it's it's like literally they're just ping ponging around the same number.
So we're just very much on pace for last year. I also wouldn't be surprised if this year for the WSP main event they just had like ten thy two hundred. I mean, like I just wouldn't be surprised. You know, it's just because some of the these events are up, and to be honest, all the bigger buying stuff is up, and WSP main event is a bigger buying event. So you know, I know two people who are
just friends colleagues that I have worked with over the years. They're not in poker, but they both text me They're like, we're coming out to play the main event this year. They haven't played. They're like, we haven't played since like twenty twelve, So like they're gonna be so like, you're gonna have people like that. Maybe there's a lot of people that saw the record last year and then they're like I gotta go, you know, I
mean we still have a couple of weeks. What have you know, Bitcoin spikes, I mean, I don't know, you know, that's the big one, you know, it's like all that sort of stuff. Yeah, you know, so so yeah. I also think that obviously the satellite stuff, there's a lot of satellites that are going on. I think can you look up on WSIP dot com. I think they have two twenty five seats scrambles this year, not one go to online promotions. I think I think
they'd to. Yeah, yeah, So twenty five seats scramble, twenty five seats guaranteed to the main event in June thirtieth and July third. Two hundred and fifteen dollars buying is what I see on the schedule. So you got that right there. You know, obviously we have a lot of GG poker qualifiers, we got Club GG qualifiers, you got all the live satellites that
are happening here. I think things like kind of secondary affecting things. And what I mean by that is like there are all these poker tournaments around Las Vegas, all these other venues are having series, they're all having really good turnouts. Well, I think anyone that wins anything is going to fire into the main event. Like there's that sort of stuff. So you know, I'm I haven't bullish on the WSP main event number. I remain bullish on
it. I certainly think ten thousand is in play. I think another record is in play. Yes, we'll see how things go going forward with some of these numbers. We'll obviously monitor things. I don't know if you remember, but remember like it used to track the Aussie million's main event, like exactly, yeah, and now there's nowhere AZI million's main event, so I can't try to get anymore. You know, so the millions of man and
zero. So maybe that about minamental zero. You know. Could you imagine if like one day you showed up in the Doubs Manac at seven entries. It's never gonna happen. I know, But I'm just saying, first of all, never say it, never, buddy, never say no. I'm saying never that we've seen the traffic outside. They could bust a pipe and just no can get in this place. It's not again, let's just talk about what's on tomorrow one b with a million that makeup and crushing Sauls.
I'll be in there. I think I'm gonna get in there right around eleven am. I put my money in my account today. The lady said, wow, it's a lot of money. I was like, this is your first get deposited one hundred thousand dollars every and just you go, right. I wish So they wont event starting tomorrow, Well, I mean that's because the millionaire maker. Yeah ten K super Turbo Bounty one day event. We're actually making them a two day event. He's gonna win this, Yes,
I feel how many invitation? Yeah? Uh, we're gonna actually stream this the next day on the horseshoet table, So we're gonna turn that into a two day event. But that's it tomorrow. I think it's seven thousand plus three thousand, Yes, that is the correct numbers. Do we know how many bounties fill one? Last year? It might be in the Pocones recop. I don't know. Anyway, that's a fun tournament. We'll see if that one follows a suit of the like all the high buying events getting larger
numbers compared to last year, so that'll be cool to see. That's a fun one. So that's the only one that starts tomorrow. What have we got starting on Sunday? Sunday see the million the event fifty ay PPC it is the Big nine Game Mix. Huh the Big Nine Game Mix with PPC. Okay, I was trying to I thought that started my Monday. Our coverage starts of correct and then three events not that day, so good weekend,
good weekend of poker. I have Helmet's thing and it says Helmut taking eight hundred and three thousand plus bounties for the first place fish that they didn't
track it. I didn't ask him more. I wish they would track bounties, not not just here at the World Series of Poker, but I think I feel like we're getting to that point in poker where there's now there's enough bounty tournaments, whether it's just a straight bounty, whether it's a PKO, whether it's a mystery bounty that like, why isn't that stuff tracked like in Hendon Mob for example, and like it's too hot to get the data? Like that means it's like, Okay, when I went I played the one
K Super Turber Bounty, I had three bounties. I think I can't even remember two or three. But like you go to cash out, you have to turn those in and they put it on your price slip, like they actually put it there, so like it said I cast for three thousand and five hundred. Yeah, when like but if you go to my handing mob, it says that cash for twenty six hundred because boundies didn't come. But I'm saying on my official slip, it says it if the official slip doesn't
go to handon Mob or Cordplayer or ever any result checking place. Why doesn't it If it goes to the I r S, it should go to Hending mab. Sure you talked to Hendon Mob about getting getting an RSS feed from the I R S. No, I'm just saying, but like that has to be tracked somewhere. It's in the ws AP system. It's not tracked. It's in all these under stems. It'd be like, okay, hand them up gets our events right, and I put the payouts. Now, in a perfect world, we could send them that like, oh, player
X was actually in for three entries, he actually didn't profit. If there's a reason why we don't, but we have the data, Like think about how much extra work that is for me, same thing goes for that specifically. We do it for a reason, of course, But I'm just saying with you, it's a workload labor. Like the guy who pulls the million dollar bounty. That should count. It's taken out of the price. Sure, I agree with you. I'm just saying that's why it's locked up.
I'm just saying we should have some foresight because you know we're gonna get to five years down the road and wish that we track this stuff. I want to see who's pulled the most mystery bounties, Like that should be a separate leaderboard, unhended. Like there's probably some guy out there who's like pulled like seven massive mystery bounties. I mean there might be a lot, I know,
but that's what I'm saying. I'm not saying seven million dollar ones, but like that, like maybe he's pulled a couple fifty k's, like you know, it's like something like that. I think that would just be cool to track. All right, cool, So that's gonna do it for us. I'm gonna try and play poker tomorrow. Hopefully I do all right, feel great, feel feel really great, so feel good. I'm gonna really try and mess some people up at the table. Hopefully I get like the
soft table. Just catch some puns. Don't really have to think all day. That's the dream, right, just don't have to think. Yeah, I haven't flopped a set yet this World Series. I only played every one event, but I played all day, haven't flopped a set, So I actually did not flop a set at in the event that I played at the win put multiple bolts in that thing. So I think I'm due to flop some sets. I would like to flop some sets and have other people have
top pair. That's what I would like. Second set, sure, whatever, But it's just hard to go set over sets. I'm just gonna say top pair, but you want to get stacks in top pay, might not get stacks in. Have you seen people play poker? We're back to like there's so there's there's a there's a difference right now. There's something happening that I've noticed from people playing. There are two kinds of poker players. There are the people that are willing to get their money in the top pair,
and then there are other people who are literally checking top pair. And I'm not saying that, like, so you're checking top pair, but you're not checking top pair for the type of people that I'm talking about. The people that are checking top pair that I've seen a lot of for some weird reason. They're not like tight players, but they're just like checking top pair.
I don't know, maybe I missed the memo, but I've noticed that, like in some of the recent stuff I played, people are checking top pair a lot, and I'm just like Okay, I guess I missed the memo. You guys just don't like to get any value whatever, because I don't know if the other people know this, but like you can call bets with far less than top pair, so just bet your hands people. Anyway, I'm looking forward to tomorrow, ready to get back on the saddle, ready
to make some noise. Maybe in a couple of days i'll be a freaking millionaire. That would be amazing. I'll tell you why. I'll tell you this as I talked about it with Andrew Headley today. If I make a final table, the rail will be fucking better than Big Hunis. I'll tell you that much. And that's saying something that's a big statement. You'll be there. You'll probably be in like a fucking panda suit, yeah, something like I think. No, I still have my pandace. It'd be bananas,
it'd be absolutely bananas. I want nothing else than to make a WSP main event, or sorry, a WSP final table, just because I know I would have a good rail. That's what I want. I want that to happen. I also want to win the money, yes, but I want that part to happen. I want to experience it. I really really really want to experience it. So yeah, anyway it that's gonna do it for us. My name is Donny Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth.
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