Two Tables Remain in the Main

Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. I am joined by Tim Duckworth. Day seven of the World, who is a poker main event. Just wrapped up here at the Horseshoe, Las Vegas, down on the fabulous Las Vegas Strip. Rainy, wit yeah, rainy way, kind of dust, stormy, foggy, overcast, all that sort of stuff. Some lightning out there as well, So storms are coming. I joked with a friend that came into town,

storms are coming. It's called the main of NFL. Sable baby. I had a friend coming to town today. She's British and I said, it's British you. I say something like, you British girls brought in all the bad weather. We haven't had rain here in three hundred dice. I'm not a fan of British girls. I'm not a fan of British accents. I love what yep. The British accent is maybe the worst in the top

accent, the worst, number one, It could be number one. I mean, I'm just saying, give me a British accent any day of the week. I'm all in, like strong, Yeah, I'm all in on British accent. I'm not. I'm for sure not. Ok We are down to eighteen players in the twenty twenty four World Series of Poker Main Event, the record breaking World Series of Poker Main Events, the greatest poker tournament in the world. Okay, right, no, no, just just in the

world, man, just in the world. The players, the remaining eighteen players are all guaranteed three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. We're going to recap the action today, everything that went down, very very very exciting day on the felt I guess we also got to talk about some other stuff that happened here. Even though I only want to talk about the main event, only the main Event, I almost feel like we need two different podcasts, two

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guaranteed three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. But they're gonna come back and they immediately have a six figure pay jump, the first six figure pay jump of the tournament, because seventeenth place four hundred and fifty thousand dollars wowsers a lot of money. There's a lot of money. They came back today with fifty nine players. Our guy Stevensong was not able to spin it up Team DPMC, but he didn't get us the field bonus. So I'm not going to

complain at all. I'm not gonna say win some other events that is very true. That is very true. I heard he hopped into I think the ten K six Max. But Stevensong went out in fifty seventh place. He jammed all in with Ace nine. He ran into Ace Queen. Believe it was Jonathan Tomayo who had the Ace Queen and that was all she wrote for Stephen Song. Now we also lost Alex Keating in fifty fifth place. We

lost Jesse Capps, the fun Jesse Capps in fifty first place. Now in forty eighth place, we lost Kevin Davis, who came into the day as the chip leader. So I'm a bit puzzled as to what the heck happened? Is the lost is the hand in the blog? I hope? So yeah, but I know that that's a from type of C. So maybe

not is what you're gonna say. Yeah, the Table Sea stuff is just I mean, if I were to grade it, I would give it a C. I mean, had someone tell me that the coverage was fantastic, and all I could picture was your face getting upset the stuff that we would like to add to it to make even better. Yeah, I mean, it's oh, Kevin Davis here, so he so he wasn't eliminated on the kings versus Ace's hand. Hes like left with the couple big bonds. Maybe.

So here's what happened over on Table C, which is essentially the third feature table. We have three feature tables. You have the main one up on the main set. You have the secondary one, which you know is one of the there's two outer ones. The secondary one has it has card graphics, and then there's a third one that we cut over to every once in a while, but it doesn't have actual card graphics. So really the only time that you see the cards is when there's an all on a call.

This happened to be one of them. So Kevin Davis, who started the day as the chip leader, six time WSB circuit ring winner Kevin Davis out of Kentucky, he battled with Gerardo Hernandez, who is actually the Mexican player that Ali made the cherill comment about later on in the broadcast. They're playing one twenty five, two hundred and fifty thousand. Davis makes it six hundred thousand from under the Hernandez three bets to two million in the cutoff seat.

Davis comes back with a four bet to six point one million, Hernandez jams for nineteen point six million. At the time, Davis had a little bit more, not too much more. I think he came into the day with a little bit over twenty six maybe twenty seven million, but he had a little bit over twenty million. He snaps off the jam from Hernandez with two kings, only to see that Hernandez has the rockets. Baby. Nothing comes for Davis on the flop and he's left with fewer than five hundred thousand

chips, and then he was eliminated shortly thereafter. So I mean, just a bit of unfortunate on Day seven four. Kevin Davis, You know, you can't really say that he blew up like some of the some of the Day seven chip leaders that we've seen kind of blow up or punt their sacks in the past. Didn't really wouldn't wouldn't certainly wouldn't call it a meltdown. I mean, you have kings, Dasis, I mean, what are you going to do. It's just a brutal spot a cooler, and Kevin Days

was eventually out the door in forty eighth place. Who else did we lose after that? That's of note. We lost Russell Rosenbloom in forty sixth place. So I saw a statistic on Twitter, mister statman. Oh, people were questioning if he's the only player to I think it was make the final table in like the two thousands of the WSP MADEVN when did he make the found table? Look this up? But it was but it was make the final table in like some year and then finished top fifty like later on something

like that. Two thousand and two he finished sixth and yeah, six yeah, and then he came forty six forty six this year. So basically they're just, you know, they're saying, like, listen, very good you know, two runs like this for Russell Rosenbloom, which it was a very good run. So someone's saying it was said again what they said they said, like, is there anyone else who did he also make? Did he make the found table twice? Two thousand and nine and then two thousand and

yeah, twenty one, I would I would have to look up. It was like a random account that said it, or maybe Greg Ramer said it. There It is. This is like when Sports Center says Lebron James is the first thirty eight year old just scored twelve points, fourteen rebounds and six blocks on January fifth, nine, twenty twenty four. It's one of those things. It's like if you had to manipulate the stats of the okay, how you qualify? Here's what I found it on social Greg Ramer. Greg

Ramer said, no, he didn't actually come. He didn't actually come with a stat that's water. How did it explode? Okay? He said, a huge congratulation, congratulate, congratudolences, congratulate adolences. I can't even say graduate. Yeah. Whatever. To Russell Rosenboom on his forty six place finished in the dest Be Maine event. Although he made the final table and finished sixth in twenty two, he actually beat a much higher percentage of the field

this time. See you next year when we both make the final table and then at heads Exploding responded and said, has any other poker player final table the main event in the two thousands and finished in the top fifty in the twenty twenties? As anyone responded, there's one response, and it was Andy Block who said, I believe you are correct, but he asked a question, So that's not really I'm going in answer you're going in here, I'm

going in. I'm just gonna double check Jock codd a right, without even doing any research, I'm pretty sure. But the in the twenty twenties, twenty twenty one, didn't he finish? I don't. I don't remember if it was like twenty nineteen or what wasn't twenty nineteen. I can't remember the eighteen fifth. Yeah, so that doesn't count, damn it. See so

it's closed, but it doesn't count. But I mean it's still like I think that would twenty eighteen is closer to the twenty twenties than it is to like two thousand and five, right, I mean it's just a different era of poker for sure. Yeah, you know so so yeah, I can definitely find it definitely financeer this, Yeah, I mean I think you could for sure. It's top twenty to fifty. I was looking just file tables, top fifty. Yeah, no, he says, top fifty. Has

any other poker table poker player, excuse me? Final table the main event in the two thousands, and finished in the top fifty in the twenty twenties. An incredibly impressive performance by Russ Rose Rosenboom. I mean, listen, very very good performance. From Russell Rosenbum and great to pair those two things back to back. I mean, one of the players, Jason Segel finished twenty third in two thousand and four. He's still in in the final eighteen,

so I mean that's pretty incredible if you ask me. I mean, how about Brian Kim as well twenty twenty two finished twenty third. I believe it was, and he's still in. I mean that's pretty wild, right. I know it's not final table, but a final table in twenty twenty in two thousand and two versus a top twenty five finish or a final three table finish in two thousand and twenty two. It's kind of comparable, right, I mean, just given the way that the fields are, the difficulty

in poker and all that sort of stuff. All right, So Kevin Davis forty eighth, Russell Rosenbloom forty six. Then we lost bracelet winner Nick Chivkov and forty third, Brandon Cantu, Philamy's best friend out in thirty ninth, Alex Shilkoh in thirty six place. So Sheilkoh won the PSPC. I don't remember if it was the last one or the one before that. You can possibly look that up. I don't know what you're doing. We don't need to do that right now, Come on, stay on top of that.

I already found it. Well, we need to find Alexander Schilko. He won the PSBC in twenty twenty three for three point one two million buckeroos, had a deep run here in this event, thirty sixth place for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I played with him last year or maybe the year before, for almost a full day. Very very tough player, very very tough player. What am I looking for? Nothing? I already figured it

out. Arthur Morris Poker podcast pro Arthur Morris finally had his rock luck excuse me run out in thirty fourth place. He took three hundred thousand dollars home for his finish. You know he was, I believe it was pretty grateful, appreciative of the opportunity. After he busted out, he did speak with Jeff Platt, So let's play that interview for you right now. What a run in the main for Arthur Morris. What's it like to go through the

ups and the downs this tournament? Man, it's just the most incredible tournament in the world. There's moments where you feel total euphoria, you feel invincible, and then there's moments where you're back at two big lines, you know, praying, trying to figure out how many hands you have before you're blinded out. I mean, I was under two bigs on four different occasions. To get this far. Took an incredible amount of good fortune and you know,

a will power. I guess it's like a test of endurance. It's an awesome tournament. I heard you tell somebody, how could I be unhappy with this run? Is that a good way to sum it up for you? Yeah? I mean, like, I don't think I made a critical mistake, which I just wanted to come out and play as well as I think I'm capable of playing. And you know, Brian opened, I had ten bigs with tens and like I found a spot, and you know, he's a friend, and I'm glad. I'm glought it was him. I

he was gonna lose, and I'm kind of proud of myself. I feel like I put I'll good fight out, all right. That was Arthur Morris, three hundred k in the bank for him just skipping the rest of the series. Really, I mean yeah, I don't know how you can make day seven and the maniment knock on, I'd be like, I'm out of here, see you guys the f later. Who else we got? Mentioned canto? Right? I did mention Kantuo? So who's that my arrest? Yeah, well I haven't got there yet. Shunden Chiao one of two women

remaining. She ultimately goes out in twenty eighth place. She made a i'll say ambitious play with two tens against I forget who it was who had ace deuce and flopped two pair. I think it was Ace four duce or Ace three duce, one of those, but Xiao lost a chunk of chips there. She ultimately goes out I don't know an hour or so later. She finished in twenty eighth place for three hundre k. But listen in extremely impressive

showing from her. She hasn't been around poker for too long, but everything that I've seen shows me that she might be around for quite a bit of time, you know, just reading through her bio. She is a software engineer by trade. She has a resume that includes working for I believe it was Google, Amazon, and LinkedIn. I mean, those are some heavy hitter companies, and when you have those companies on your resume alongside software engineer,

tells me you're probably pretty successful. So that combined with the fact that she cashed for three hundred k in this event, you know, I think she's probably going to have a decent sized bankroll to be able to continue forging forward in poker. And that's great. You know, I thought she played really well. Shout out to Shundan Chiao. I'm sure this won't be the

last time we hear from her. Orson young popular player pro been around a long time, finished in twenty sixth place, and then Brian Rast the poker legend, he goes out in twenty fourth place. Rass never really seemed to like like play like massive pots or anything. It was always kind of just like steady, kind of chipping away at stuff, you know, not getting too like like like some of these people, like I mean Arthur Morris.

Going back to him, right, it wasn't until I think day five that he at least he said he hadn't gotten his money in and was like all in and at risk until day five. But then after that, I mean Arthur Morris, because he got short in a couple of spots that he was all in a lot, right, and he survived a bunch, But Brian Rass, like I really don't think was all in at all until his final

hand and then ultimately, you know, busts out. But listen, he did an interview a bust out an interview with Jeff Platt, and you could feel it, man, because you just got the sense, you know, the energy that that I know, Brian Rass has had an incredibly successful career. He's got sixsop goal right, so he's got god knows how much money in UH tournament winnings. Obviously a high stakes crusher. He was inducted into

the Hall of Fame last year. Like, I mean, he's he's got everything as a poker player, right, but you're still so close, yeah, to poker's pinnacle, that being the wast main event, final table and

then ultimately the winner circle in the greatest tournament in the world. And you could tell that he felt it, you know, even though that he's seen almost everything in this game, probably has seen everything in this game, right, So yeah, I mean he said, you know, even though like someone like him, you know, you come into this event, you sign up every single year you play, You're gonna play it next year and every other year that you can, you know, but it still feels impossible that

you're gonna make it this far, you're gonna make it to the final table. But you make it to day seven. You know, you're looking around, there's three tables left. You're like, I can, like I can, I can touch it, Like it's there, Like you know, I just got to do a couple things right, A couple things break my way, and like boom, I'm in the final nine and we're dancing right. Ultimately, Brian Rask goes out in twenty fourth place. The Poker Hall of

Famer takes home three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And we'll play that interview for you right now. And this has been one up and down tournament for you. What's it been like to battle through the swings of the main event. I mean, man, it's been an incredible journey. Like I thought the PPC was a grueling tournament like five days like this, but like here

we are on day seven. I am fucking exhausted right now. And I mean, like I just have such like mixed emotions because it's like feels impossible to go this far in this tournament, and I'm like, like I'm never gonna do this again, you know, like seven days. But at the same time, I'm just like it sucks, but like I'm really kind of grateful, Like this was a cool experience. I want some money, I got to have a lot of fun playing. It just hurts. And finally

you said it was impossible. But with that said, was there a point in this journey where you allow yourself to think I could really win this thing? Man? I know that was that just wasn't the way I was letting my mind operate this. I just think like when you start attaching to specially future outcomes, but like even just what happened in the past while you're still

playing, it's just a recipe for suboptimal performance. So I was just trying to go into every day going like I'm just gonna try to play one handed poker at a time and get through the day and we see what happens, you know, the next day, and just like kind of break break it down and compartmentalize it like that, because I think there's just no other way

to approach this. Like if you start thinking like, oh, what if I win and this, like, I don't think like anybody's mind is gonna let them handle that and perform well at the table, right because it's just too much like ten million dollars like main event champion banner on the thing, like you're like you're gonna think about that and like play good poker at the table. There's just no way. So again, I think you could really feel it, you know, through the interview, through his emotion, what

he felt there. And I think he even put on Twitter not too long ago basically like he's gonna go get wasted or something like you know, what do you do right now? I'm gonna go get wasted. I mean, don't blame you, Brian great run. So twenty second place a player probably not a lot of people know about, but Luis Vasquez out of the Northeast has been playing poker since like two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight, something like that. Good friends with a good friend of mine, Ronnie

Barta. So you know, I was introduced to Luis a while ago. I've you know, known him, like don't don't know him super well, but know him. But the reason why I bring this one is because what ultimately led to Vasquez's demise. In twenty second place was a massive pot with Brian Kim where it went raised from Hernandez from I think either the hijack or maybe the lowjack, but a raise Brian Kim three bets on the button. Luis Vasquez puts in the cold four bet out of the big blind, folds

the back over to Hernandez. He gets out of the way. Brian Kim moves all in for around twenty million or so, maybe maybe a little bit less, maybe nineteen and change. I forget exactly. This was the last hand before break and Vasquez goes into the tank forever like just tank tank tank, tank tank, you know. He asked the dealer to like pull on the four bet amount. He asked for an exact count and the extra chips. He's got the he's got the amount, like kind of pulled to the

side. He's going back and forth. He's trying to study Brian Kim. It's a whole thing. It's going on for or you know, several minutes. Eventually he makes the call with two queens. He's up against the ast

king for Brian Kim. King hits the flop and a forty million chip pot is sent over to Brian Kim, who two years ago took twenty third in this very event, Luis Vasquez was left with I think two maybe three big blinds busted to I believe it was Mora the Brazilian not too long after, so Luis Vasquez taking three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for his twenty second place finish. After Vasquez went out, you had Kayasuki Nagami out of Japan finishing

in twenty first. You had Yaqui Wu finishing in twentieth place, and then you had Charles Russell busting in nineteenth. And Russell was the final player to go on the day before the final eighteen bagged and tagged. But we do have to rewind a little bit because after dinner it was the Kristen Foxton Show. I mean it was just NonStop. So she came into the day with I think fourteen million chips. Yeah, I think that's it about and she

immediately like started losing, like things just weren't going her way. She was losing pots, you know, every time she kind of tried to enter her pot just wasn't going her way. Next thing, you know, she's just below seven and a half million. Day goes on, she kind of chips back up, but then she gets chipped. She chips back down, like

you know, she could never really like truly find the momentum. And then you have the fact that there's obviously the whole a woman making the final table and that hasn't happened in so long, and are we finally gonna get it? And we got two chances, and it looks like things are going well because they got chips. Shundan Jiao. She came into the day second in chips, behind Kevin Davis. Obviously, Kevin Davis goes out very early on the day. Shi Ou lasts a bit longer, but she's ultimately out the

door. So now, if you're out there rooting for a woman to make a final table, it's down to Chris and Foxing. Now, listen, that's a good person for it to be down to, because she can carry the load. She's pretty damn good at poker, right, But poker can be crazy, Variants can bite you in the ass, and things weren't just

weren't going her way. Go to dinner, come back, she gets a double up, She gets it all in with East five versus Queen's we got to wait till a river, Barry Greenstein, Let's go ace on the river. Three outs, and missus Fox sinner. It is the age. Oh my god, it is the A's going Chrissy, sit, sit right back down that then stack that six point three, oh bye, and then she's

just boom boom boom like woo. In every pot that she played, she pulled a great bluff with two nines, getting jacks to fold on board that had a four flush, even though neither player had the spade that would have made the flush. I mean, she was just cruising. She ultimately finishes the day on more than forty seven million. I think she's fifth in chips. It's the Kristen Foxen Show, and we're all just here. I think everyone's here for it. I mean, how can you not be here for

the Kristen Foxon Show. Actually, before I get to the interview, because we have an interview with Kristen Foxen, but Alex was on the rail Alex Fox and her husband for quite a bit of time. So I think she said on stream earlier in the day that you know, he was playing like whatever he was playing. Maybe the three K, maybe the ten K, six max whatever it might have been, maybe even the fifty K. I don't know who he was playing. I doubt he was playing the tripletop.

I mean on a normal day maybe, but you know, when you know Kristen's going deep, he's probably like, yeah, I'll skip that one. But he ended up popping up on the rail, so he either bagged in something or he probably busted out. I think it was the latter, unfortunately, but fortunately for the fox and family, Kristen is still in the main event and he was on the rail, and it was It was interesting because you know, she was all in a couple times. She got all in

with the ace five versus the queens. She got all in with kings versus sevens. Both times she was the player at risk being the shorter stack, and like she couldn't even watch, like back turned to the table, just like basically staring at Alex saying like, hey, tell me what's happening. You know, she did double up both times. Obviously, there's a lot of people in the poker world rooting for her because of what it would mean.

First and foremost, Kristin Foxen is a crusher and absolutely deserves to make this final table. You know, she's put in the time, she's put in the effort, she has the experience, she has the resume, all of that sort of stuff, and then on top of that, there's the whole woman back at a final table storyline that is that is very very much like I wouldn't even say it's lurking. It's here. I mean, she's in the final eighteen, she's got a good stack. It's here, right,

So there's all that that's happening. And yeah, afterwards after play, after she bagged up the forty seven point four million, fifth largest stack of the final eighteen players, I spoke with Kristin fox and so here's that interview for you. Now, all right, Kristin Foxen, pretty crazy surge at the end of the nights. So you've played a lot of poker over the years, right when you're rushing like that, Like, what's it feel like?

I mean, it was just crazy. The The key thing for me today was just like stay super calm as much as I can and just like, you know, figure out each spot I have. Honestly, like the most the toughest parts of the day were like the ace King fold versus the Ace queen and then seeing that this guy three met me with Jack six suited when I opened ACE nine like in a spot that's kind of ridiculous and like

never should really happen. And then it was at hand and that was, yeah, super frustrating, and obviously they get down to like five big lines sucks. And then yeah, it just felt incredible to like get some momentum. And after I won the five suited all in was what was that?

Like, I mean, yeah, last cart honestly, like it's just so surreal, Like it's all starting to feel very surreal and dream like and like I'm just trying to stay super locked into like the poker moment, and I think it's like this is just such a fun spot because you can really see everybody's emotions heightening, even like you know, some of the pros who probably are like pretty calm, but especially like the not as experienced players like you

can it's just a fun spot. I love playing with all the pressure. When you had the nines and yeah, Igora ended up folding, you kind of let out like a big sigh. I mean, are you are you not worried about like showing emotion like I mean it looked like in a way like it's got a bluffer. Yeah, I mean, he's gonna see it anyway. And I think it was just kind of like the excitement of getting a stack back. It was just you know, because I was like, man, if I get chips back, like, I feel so good in

this tournament. So it just felt really yeah, I was, you know, and it's the main event. Everyone's showing emotions, and I think, like, let's just embrace that. I don't think it's an issue. And then last question here, how do you not get scared of the moment. It's obviously massive, the money's now extremely meaningful. You how do you just stay grounded through it all? Honestly, I'm just reminding myself, like the thing to focus on is like how many big blinds do I have? What

do I do in this spot in any other tournament? Because that's all this is at the end of the day, is another tournament. So that's kind of like just going back to like fundamentals of like, Okay, I've played this spot a million times? What do I do here? All? Right? That was Kristen Fox, And while I was doing that, I got tim over here went out and talked to the husband. I did, how'd that go? It was good? I uh, I like a pretty calm

man, very chilled, very was ave. And you'll probably hear in his responses in the interview, but you could just physically see I felt like he was like nervous or jittery, like there was a little bit more maybe, and so the heart ray was up more than normal and very obviously understandable why he'd be feeling like that with, you know, his wife, Chrissy in

a pretty great position heading into day eight of the main event. Standing here with Alex Fox and his wife just made the final eighteen of the WSP Main Event. I want to know, from your perspective, what's it like being on the rail watching her, supporting her, not just any tournament, like probably the biggest tournament in the world. Yeah, it's it's a fucking awesome experience. Honestly, part of my language, but it's it's it's so much

fun. It's weird to be on this side, honestly, Like railing is a strange experience when I'm so like emotionally invested because it's not just the money. It's like I wanted it well and I want to see her wins, so like there's more than just that to it, whereas normally, like sweating

anything is just that. And like when I'm playing for myself, you know, like when I'm out there, it's just like nothing's in my mind other than the hands and then you know, but like I'm on the rail and just like you know, trying to figure out what she has, if she's strong or it's just it's a very different emotional experience. It's you feel, like, do you feel like you're more nervous being on the rail than if

you actually in how city right now? Definitely? I Mean I I don't really feel much when I'm playing, but like I've you know, have like a pit in my stomach every time she opens a pot, like not a way of like obviously I trust there's hall of her decisions, but it's just, you know, it's so much more nerve wracking on the rail being a hook a pal couple. Maybe, as you might call it, tonight, you're gonna go home obviously it's pretty late already, two I am. Yeah,

what do you guys do to prepare for the next day? We breaking down some hands? Are we just trying to get a sleep and we do it in the morning. Yeah, I mean, there's probably not time for anything in the morning, so I'll probably watch the like she might, you know, have a bath, get ready for bed, and I'll watch the

stream and relay anything worthwhile. That's kind of we've been doing the last couple of nights where I've watched most of the stream while she's playing, and then kind of like note hands and things that I see, and then we talk about it a little bit before bed and in the morning and yeah, so there, so we might go back and watch a little bit. It kind of depends on how easily how easily she thinks she'll be able to fall asleep, you know, like she can't sleep, that's a pretty good opportunity to

watch a little bit and talk about it. But yeah, no, I mean she's just super well prepared for this from you know, playing everything, and just yeah, I got to keep the A lot of the focus is just just keep the the energy like positive and calm and focus on making the right decisions and treat it kind of just like any other tournament as much as

you can. It's interesting because I mean, I know, you you know, knowing your family, myself as well, like, you know, our significant others aren't in the same industry, so you you know, you wouldn't

have this sort of thing. I guess you can root them on in whatever industry they're in, right, But it's it obviously must feel like a closer attachment, you know, when you're also in that industry and you know you're so you're not only are in it, you're you're so deep in it, like both the Foxes are, right, so it must just be crazy. And then I'm also sure it's you know, it's like when you watch your

kids or whatever, when you you're almost more nervous for them. Yeah, in a lot of ways, right, I'm sure Alex is like in a way he obviously he's he's rooting for her of course, and supportive and he wants her to crush and everything, but like he almost wants to be like

I wish I could take her seat. Not not because I don't mean that, because like he wishes he could take her seat, And I'm probably putting words in his mouth, so I'm probably just being an idiot, But you almost wish that you could just like, okay, not take the seat. But how about this take the pressure off of them. That's what you wish, right, you don't. You don't want them to stress out. You want you to stress out, like you want to take all the tough stuff

off of that person and let them just be free in the moment. So that that's probably there's probably some of that there as well. And that's where like that kind of you know, that nervousness that I think you can kind of get from what Alex was saying, and that you know, end of the day, that's great. That's love and that's what it's about. And it's pretty crazy that you know, it could happen to a lot of poker couples. There are poker couples out there, But are there any poker couples

bigger than the Fox's. I mean, I would say probably the Gaphons bigger in well why like more known. No, I don't think the Gaphons, Like it could happen to just like you know, to a husband and a wife, but it's not. It's not the it's and they're both poker players, but this is the Fox. The only couple I would say would be the Negranus and man is not a poker players. But that's what I mean.

Like not like I'm talking poker player wise. I mean the closest one I think is probably phil and fair Galfon because she plays a bit right, so that that could be something. So you know, this is Poker's aless couple and it's front center. I mean, it's it's the headlining story as far as I'm concerned. You know, obviously Christen's run is incredible, so you know, let's see if she can make it. Let's see if she can close it out. The minimum is so interesting because you come so far.

You know, ten and twelve players started this thing. We're down to eighteen. We still have so much to go to get to a champion. Like if you just if you think about it in hours that it's gonna take. I mean, what do you think, how long is it gonna take from here to get to a winter? How many hours of play? Tomorrow's gonna be white six eighteen hours, like six hours a day, because we

have three days left. I think tomorrow could be no, yeah, six hours tomorrow is gonna be I mean on average, because like if tomorrow is short, okay, well with the final tables, we know those cools forever sixt sixty six basically will go off. Yeah, so we still have eighteen hours of play three days. I mean it's like it's a lot can happen in that in that time. You know, things can come crumbling down if you're short stacked and you're kind of limping through today eight like things can just

spin up the other way. You've got Boris Angelov and Jordan griff both on eight point three million in chips coming back to I believe they're still going to be playing four hundred thousand and eight hundred thousand, so just over ten big linds for each of them. But you can spin it up. We saw Kristen foxon Spin it Up today, right, you know it can happen. So yeah, why don't you go over the leaderboard? Who do we got? You mean the chip counts? Oh yeah, the leaderboard? Who's who's

leading the way? Maloy? How do we say letting out? Let her know us Latino wall. That's how I would say it, Although it's has to be that commeddation from Texas. I don't believe he is a chip lay at a sixty one point three million Diogo Coela from Portugal fifty one point five Canada's adjacent Sego fifty one point four. Nicholas hous to that Sego quickly is the one who finished into the and four in twenty third place for one hundred

and twenty thousand dollars, so another deep run for him. Nicholas fifty million. Even you mentioned Chrissy forty seven point four, that is the top five, Joe Sirok forty six point three, Malcolm Frenzi forty five, nine Canadian Jason James forty five point eight, Brian Kim forty two point four. Now here is a big drop off. That's basically the top nine players the bottom nine players. We start with twenty seven zero point six million, so it's

basically fifteen million less than Brian Kim in ninth place. But Jesse Bryant, Gabriel Mura, Gleamo Sanchez, Otero, Jaego, Moroles, Jonathan Tomayo, the've all got those mid twenties. Jonathan he drops down at eighteen point four, Andres Gonzalez fourteen point nine, Geraldo Hernandez thirteen point four, and then Jordan Griff Baris Angelo. They round out the foun table eight point three million each. That is the final eighteen w it really is interesting to see that

gap. You know, we have Brian Kim is that ninth place person forty two point four million, and then the tenth place person is twenty seven point six So that's like the clear divide. And then of course you have the two shorter stacks, which given the fact that we're going to be on a one hundred thousand dollars pay jump to start the day, eighteenth place three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, seventeenth place four hundred and fifty thousand, four hundred

dollars, so could create some interesting ICM dynamics there. And then of course, you know throughout the day, you know, we're starting to get into the point where the payout or sorry, the pay jumps become more often.

So three point fifty right now, three hundred ten thousand is what the players are guaranteed with eighteen left, sevent fourteenth through seventeenth place four hundred and fifty thousand, four hundred dollars, then twelfth and thirteenth six hundred k, tenth and eleventh eight hundred k, and then of course ninth is one million dollars,

and of course ninth is not only a million dollars. Yes, that's awesome, but it's also making the ws AB Maine Event Final Table, getting the day off, coming back front and center, the biggest stage in poker, like all of that sort of stuff coming together. So a bunch of pay jumps are going to be happening tomorrow, Sunday, July fourteenth. The eighteen players are going to play down to nine. It doesn't matter how long it takes them. It doesn't matter if it takes twenty seven hours, doesn't

matter if it takes two hours. We're getting to nine. They're going to combine at ten, right they still we still combined in at ten. I don't like that, but we're going to combine at ten. I like it. I know you like it because you're a knit and like ten handed poker. No incorrect. I don't like it for the main and it's like, don't make it, don't I don't mask. Don't mask your knittiness with some other reason. But for the main event, I like the ten handed.

For every other one I want I don't want it. I want to Why do you like the ten handed because you're in the history. I like the history of the ten handed, the history. What does the history matter. I like it that way, But what does the history matter? It might have no idea how many players are at the table in nineteen seventy three, mister history, you literally have no idea. It could have been twelve, that'd been awesome. You have no idea. I mean, you have no

idea what was happening. But the history of the modern era, the era that we have been around for. I like ten in the modern era, where no one plays ten handed poker, it's the silliest thing in the world. Should not be playing ten. We should be five and five and that's how it should work. And both the tables should be up in the middle of the main set. We should figure that out. We should figure that out. They should both be up there. From the guy did he yesterday

said, I don't understand how quet production works. Look, this is very obviously you don't understand that production works. How are you gonna why the graphics? If you want to spend the money, you will get it. The way to spend the money, you will get it. To the tables is fine? Table a table like we have? Nope, nope, nope. So yeah, they're gonna get down to ten hands. They're going to join at one table and they're gonna go from there. Two hundred thousand dollars pay

jump at that point. All right, so what are the top three storylines for you, sir? Let's uh, let's throw out Kristen Foxing because she's obviously the snap number one pick. So let's let's find let's it's not that we're gonna throw her out, We're gonna pick. We're just gonna focus on the two other. Okay, well, obviously number one is Kristen fox I'm gonna go with Gabrielle Mora being the villain. I knew you were gonna do

this. I mean, he is the villain. I mean, I can give you the I'm just trying to just trying to mix up a little bit. He is the villain, for sure. We need a villain. You need a villain, You need a villain. I mean, Chrissy is the hero, yes, you know, yes, and then I think to a different degree, yeah, but he listen, he's just not the hero right now? What's that Batman quote? The hero we deserve, but the hero we need? The faous Batman line. You know what I'm talking about.

Have you seen you? Please tell me you've seen Batman, right, I've seen pretty much all the Batman Okay, but yeah, but Gabriel Murrow with his his constant tanking, you know, the kind of weird, kind of pump faky type of things with his chips. He talks to you like, which is you know that might rub people the wrong way. He also does a lot of yelling and screaming. You know when he wins bake hands huh U must have portantly he's barefoot, He's walking around barefoot. That's and other

things. I just feel like the reason why we're saying that he's a villain is because we feel like if if he makes the final table, like the public is gonna view him as the villain, that that's our view just with the way that he acts like he it was very interesting that he he's a very methodical player, plays pretty slow with everything. And then he complained that the all ins took long because production does them a certain way for the dramatic

effect. I mean that just seemed like very long. Does he take each on each street forever? So so yeah, I just thought that that was interesting. But yeah, it's gonna be it's listen if he makes it and he continues to play that he's playing, and listen, it's also not just him. There's some others that are doing the same sort of thing. The number one topic on social media is gonna be clocks. We need clocks in the Mallion event. We need clocks. That's gonna be the number one thing,

right we do. Leena nine hundred. He's over there playing hands in three seconds. Incredible stuff, you know, because he's probably seen ten billion hands of pokes and knows everything's happening. Sposed to play. He's out there to play. So that's your story, the villains one of them. I can give you seven stories. I said top one Christmas Box, and you

come with Gabrielle Mora. I can't decide anything that happens all day, or do you just show up on the podcast and like spitting at three thirteen am to three thirteen yeah, ship, speed it up, kid, Oh my god. My other story is Jason Segel and Brian Kim and their return. That's the answer. I told you top headlines. Okay. When I say top it doesn't mean go digging for the things that no one cares about. It means pick the top most popular one. To me, it's chalky.

No, you're just trying to play a bit. Okay, is what you Your whole summer has been a bit. Your whole summer has been a bit from the start. How the whole thing, the thing with Sean deeb Dylan Wiseman, like, it's the whole summer's been a bit. Okay, summer bits, got it? No, you're a bit. I'm a bit. Maybe you're a knit bit bit. You are a nit bit, Tim the nitbit Duckworth. Yes, I think I have to go. I mean this is like kind of a combination one as well. But no, Actually,

Nicholas A. Stet Leana nine hundred, I mean that's the story. I mean, he's he's the goat. He's the freaking MJ of tournament poker in a lot of ways, even even though you don't think he is. It's Kristen Fox and is the leading story, the leading lady. I like the Jason Sego and Brian Kim return also Brian Kim. You know you can kind of loop him in with the Nicholas Ostet thing where he's just incredibly good at

poker. Yeah, but then you have Nicholas Ostet who's just the absolute crusher that he is, and he's possibly gonna break through on the biggest stage. Another one, little honorable mention here Joe sah Rock and Jonathan Tamile, long time professionals, longtime grinders, finally getting their shot right. So there's that. We also have a pretty international field, which I like to see. You got Boris Angelov out of Bulgaria, You got Gerardo Hernandez out of Mexico,

Andres Gonzalez is Spain. You got Guillermo Otero is Li says uk. I hope that's right. Jason James Canada, Jason Sego Canada, Christen Fox and is Canada. Know she lives here now, Diego Coelo, Portugal. So and then I think Malo Latinois is French. But Malcolm Franchie that is French. Huh. Franchie is also from France. Who's from Friends? Malcolm Francie, Oh he is from Friends? Yeah, Sorry, sorry I skipped

that one. So yeah, you know, pretty international group here, so you know, hopefully we kind of get that international group at the final table. Are we gonna draft? Yeah? I mean we got to go number one. I gotta pull up the last one who cares, cares we're doing a new draft. Okay, I need it right down. Go ahead, you want me to go first. I mean, uh, we're of the same number one. Well, actually we probably make the same. We might

have the same. You're gonna take Gabrielle Mora. He's definitely getting drops it. I'm opening with Chrissy and Nicholas. Yeah you agree, Yes, I have the same too. Okay, I told you that I wanted a final table of the killer. You want. You want the killers. I don't want the killer. I still want the killer completely different. I'm still gonna keep Diego. He's staying on my list. He's been on it now for three days. This Jason Segal story is kind of cool. I'm gonna I'm

gonna promote him. He's kind of my old guy too in a way. So Jason the oldest one left. We would have to check, but we have to check. Yeah, he might be. I'm gonna bring in Brian Kim. He's gonna get the upgrade. He's gonna make my squad. Brian Kim and welcome to the team. I gotta do it. I gotta do my boy, Laura. I mean he's gonna be in mind too. Yeah. Whatever, I mean because like we said, you gotta have the villain,

and he's the villain. He's a villain. And then for the rail we need we need Yeager, right, I mean, yeah, rails bananas, he's there? How many is that? One? Two, three, four, five, six seven? Let's to rock like Spain? Is Spain gonna be any good? Is Spain gonna be they they gotta bring just dump it on the whole country of Spain. Are they gonna bring them? Going to be any good? To the rail? I want to know what's the rail passion? Probably not no, because I feel like you would have seen

the passion already. Jason. You know what, Jason James and he's interview with Jeff had a little bit of villainous to So if we lose more, maybe Jason James can take your spot. Didn't he win the tag team? He did? I thought that was going to actually be one of your stories. You got that in there too, and that is another thing. So he's gonna make it. And then I go one more spot you can go to you know what this is? This is a pretty like behind inside Baseball

kind of thing. But let me give it to Jonathan Tomato only because we have a mutual friend that has a little piece of him, and it'd be pretty cool, like kind of you know, seeing how that plays out, so that I don't care about any of that when I stuck him ninth. Ninth is just the weak spot. Huh, I'm ready. Nicholas Kristen, Gabrielle Moro, Oh yes, Brian Kim Yegor, I think Boris Angelov six, Okay, shout stock but Joseph Rock seven, Diogo Coelo malo in wall

is that it great? Perfect? I'm in there so yeah, WSP main event. We are rocking and rolling into day eight, the added day eight, by the way, love it love the added day. Did you factor that in when you were like, we're on pace, we're off past type of thing. Oh, what's the chop value? Oh? Yes, the thing that matters eighteen white chopped value. Right. No, this has become such a good thing that they put it on the broadcast. Now they put the Yeah, I mean it's two million. I would never put it on

the broadcast. By the way, I'm not trying to promote chops to the world. That's that we don't want chops in poker. We want chops. Huh. Well, Tonto chops, it's like kissing your sister. What we're just not having chops, Like, we're out here to play. We're playing for blood blood two million eleven dollars. I think Jesus truck now, let's fucking do it. That's that then that's insane. In sixth place, yeah, that's insane. Yeah, ten million dollars up top six place is two

million dollars. So, as Tim mentioned, the chop value right now is better than six place money. Do it mars Angelo has already It would be very hard, Yes, bosuck on the client WSFV clib Well, they're never just going to do a straight chop. You'd have to do like an ICM chuck of course. Of course. All right, cool. So that's the main event marching into Day eight, Sunday, July fourteenth. You guys can watch it on PokerGO dot com. Two parter broken up by the dinner break.

Play will not stop until the final nine is reached, Okay, so don't miss it. It's one of the most exciting days in poker. Obviously, it's super exciting when the w who made him and kicks off. It's super exciting when the money bubble breaks on Bubble Day and then it's super We're exciting when the final table is made, and that is going to happen on Sunday. All right, sir, tell me what's happening. We're going quick.

You ready ready for this series. Calvin Anderson wins his fifth w s a Very bracelet, came back, heads up Boom five ws A Very Bracelets, fifteen hundred STUT eight ten k ras online online and now he wins the ten K eight game a normal event. Joseph Sanders PGT PLO Series regular wins his first bracelet in the fifteen hundred PLO six Max two hundred and sixty nine K in his pocket. Mike Lear fifth place. Good job, John Raser, Gary Bolden heads up in the three K horse. They're bagged up for

the still heads up. Yeah, they bagged up Racer ten million and fifty thousand versus Gary Bolden's four zero point twenty seven five million. Both players guaranteed one thirty five all eyes on the two hundred and six thousand first place price. John Raser already won a bracelet this year, shooting for his third overall. ODB Baker congrats on sixth place. Jeremy Osmus, congrats seventh place in that one fifty K Highroller. I think that seventh place finish for Jeremy Osmas

temporarily put him in the lead in the Player of the yearies. But we know that Scott sever made an online final table. Yeah. Still to come are the changes, but at least for the time being, Jeremy Osmus should have that top spot in the Poyra fifty K and no limit hold them hi roller down to five. Christoph Voegel sang chip leader, followed by Jard Blesnik

and Jesse Lones, Nacho Barbero and Justin Saliba. At least five have locked up basically five hundred K first price a little bit over two million dollars in that one three K in SATs Championship they combined today they now down one hundred and forty seven players. Chip leader is Michael McNeil. No, sorry, is Takyo Shimuzu who's holding the chip leader in that one U two events kicked off today Day one dy of the seven seven seven Lucky Sevens, that is

down to sixty nine players from nearly fifteen hundred entrance. What yeah, jeez, that's what the thing says. That seemed like a lot to me too. Ten K six hundred Championship started with four hundred and eighteen down to one fifty two. Let me read you the chip counts. The top five, this event is always awesome. Chip leader is Patrick Yarras whatever. Seven?

Did I see somebody else on the top it's I got the counts. Yeah, I'm going to read you the top few, James Chen, Taiwan, Scott Ball, Daniel Nielsen, Alejandro the Coco, Adrian Mittaos, Paulias plus Sniatis, Sergei, rycheks Hussan ensaying. Andrew Marino fourteen, top ten. That's what I'm saying. Right right there, still is Andrew Marino a bow ding. Yeah. You keep looking at Strava is like it just keeps going. This is like the most insane event. But that is a quick looks

like two minute update. I did you up to date? Is that it? Yeah? We done? It's three twenty four am ut. Yeah, we're done. We are definitely done. Sunday, July fourteenth, Day eight of the World Series of Poker Main Event. We will see you guys on PokerGO dot Com. My name is Donnie Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth. Talk to you on the next episode. There you go, Jenny Express