WSOP Mailbag! We Answer More Than 50 WSOP-Related Questions

Hello everyone, Welcome back to a brand new episode of The Pokers Girl Podcast, the number one poker podcast in the land. Today's show WSOP mail Bag episode with myself, Donnie Peters and my main man, Tim Duckworth. This is our final SOP prep week episode. We've done shows all week long already, you're sick of me already, But we have a whole crap ton of days coming up even more so, um starting Monday with the Fantasy Poker League Draft. You will be auctioneer. I will be in the field drafting.

You guys can watch that. You can watch the live stream of the draft Monday, May twenty nine. That's this Monday. So after you're done hanging out Memorial Day doing all that stuff, having beers by the pool, grilling out, etc. Get yourself in front of a computer, fired up on your phone whatever the poker Go YouTube channel right around six pm Vegas time. We'll get things kicked off. It's gonna go along, it's gonna go deep

into the evening. So if you've got nothing to do, we certainly encourage you and welcome you and would love to have you join us for the draft. All right, This episode basically we sourced listener questions from everyone far and wide regarding THESIP. Some are serious, some are funny, some are somewhere in the middle. We're gonna answer all of them, trying to the best that we can, putting our knowledge to use. And yeah, you want to just get right into it, like do you have anything else? Do

you have any intro that you want to do? Like, no, I'm coming, I'm ready, I'm ready to answer some questions. Okay, good, good. So first question, we're coming out hot Sharon Helldorfer via a Google will form that we put out there for our listeners to make questions. Sharon said, do you think WSP would ever have a buying option to have a comfortable office like chair in lieu of the inquisition like ones they offer Now, I'd pay extra. What do you think, Sharon? You out of

your mind? Those chairs are so comfortable. I love him nice high back, straight back, you can lean back, crack you back and win. You're a little little time. I love the WSP chairs. I don't know what anyone I mean, the team team to Graner, we both love these chairs. I like the chairs as well. I liked the old chairs better. Um that said, I still like these chairs. Honestly, I think I think that people that don't like these chairs, but the slouches, Yes,

you have you sit upright, like you have to sit upright. You have to have good posture. You know, you have to have like your your your legs on the floor, both both feet on the floor. Um, you kneed spent ninety degrees like sitting upright. You know. I think that that's how you sit in these chairs, and if you start to slout or you bend over or whatever it is, that's how you start to get

the back pain. At least that's my experience from from sitting in them and playing in them, and not only playing them, but like we work in these chairs. You know, we sit in them all the time. So um, maybe it's just something that we've gotten accustomed to. That said, remember that year when Ellie Lesbe showed up with an office chair at the Rio. Yeah, he not brought an office chair into the Rio into the pavilion

room and was like sitting and playing with it. I think he was claiming that he had a bad back, and you know, people were looking at him like he was crazy. Some people try and take dealer chairs with a lot of people, and they always take them away. Some people will stack two chairs on top of each other if they're a little bit on the shorter side they want to or they just want to sit higher, all that sort of stuff. So I don't think. I don't think peopill ever do this.

Um that said likes money. I'm assuming as a business all businesses like money. Maybe this is the way to get some extra money. Yeah, get a nice you know, Herman Miller comes in and sponsors the entire WSP and supplies three thousand chairs or whatever is needed. I didn't ever see it happening. So if you don't like the chair, which I know a lot of people don't, we might be in the minority here. You can a lot of cushions, you can. The only thing that I don't like about

the chair is how easily they tip over. They do. They need to be like front weighted and waited on the bottom, so that especially in a poker setting where everyone's hanging a backpack or something on a chair and as soon as you stand up, that chair is going over. Yeah, exactly, And it's always kind of awkward, like you just lost a hand, you might have busted out of the tournament, you stand up to leave, your chair falls over and makes a loud noise. People think you're making a commotion,

but you're really just trying to exit the tournament quietly. But then the attentions on you and it's always kind of awkward at that moment with them all right, Moving on, Mike Berger asked, still very disappointed in the inaugural PGT mix games. We're not on Poker Go. Come on, Mike. With that being said, will there be more mixed game broadcasts this year versus last year? We feel like in an orphaned subset at times justified or not.

Well, mister Burger, looks like we're planning to live stream eight mixed game events this year. Now, that could be give or take because we're keeping things very flexible, but internally that's kind of what we have, which is I think around like twenty percent of the events that we're streaming, So it's not just eight events, it's eleven days because we're doing Day three of the ten K Horse Championship. We're also doing Day three and Day four of

the Poker Players Championship, so eleven days of mix. Obviously, yes, schedules may change, but at this stage that's a good amount of mix and if you want to include Omaha like PLO in that, we're pushing, you know, and there are some days on the schedule where we're going to be streaming on the main feature table and then also the secondary Horseshoe table is what we're calling it, and then that secondary horseshoe table will probably be a mixed

game setup. So you're gonna get two stuff that day. You know, the Noloman Hold Him people can go watch the Noloman Hold Him invent or whatever events running on the main feature table, and then the mixed game people can come watch a second event, So you know, we're giving you two things to watch that day. So I think that we've done a pretty good job for the mixed games. And I'm not just saying that because I'm a company man. Tim and I love mixed games. We love putting them out there

as much as possible. Totally hear you on the PGT mixed games not being streamed, and that's something we're trying to work towards doing next time around. So yeah, So I would say that if if Tim most importantly is happy with the mixed game schedule, that we're putting out there because he's like the mixed game guy in the company. Then I think we're in a good place all right. The next the next three questions are kind of all on the same vein, so I'll just kind of hit on them all together. Chris

Stott said, how do you register for an event? I went out to the WSB three years ago to play in a couple of cheaper events, couldn't figure out how to register, said he saw crazy long lines, waited for a couple hours, didn't have the patients. Do they allow online registration? Andy Gold said, first time going to the WSP playing in several events, what's going to be the quickest way to register for a tournament and get my seat to avoid the long lines? And then Joe Diastolfo said, can you

talk about the best way to register tournaments? Are you able to pre register online before arriving in Vegas? So first things first, the old fashioned way is to head on over to the registration area at Paris that's connected to the Horseshoe So Paris, Las Vegas out on the Las Vegas Strip, with your money, make sure you have an ID with you, go to the registration

line. Make sure you have your Total Rewards card too, Yes, so you're gonna need a Total Rewards card, you're gonna need your ID, and you're gonna need whatever money you're you're planning to buy in for the tournament. Go through the registration line. Sometimes the registration line is two people, sometimes it's two hundred. Okay, inform the teller when you get up there, which event you'd like to register. Hey, I'm going to play the classes.

I want to play Day one. B cool. You pay the entry fee, you collect your ticket, you're often running, you're on your way. Just quickly on that in terms of times when I was I like registering the old fashioned way, because I don't know, I was talking about Jeff Platt with this. There's there's something about like waiting in the line, that

that anticipation, that excitement going up. They're actually handing them your cash getting the ticket back, Like it just feels like you're buying a ticket to the game and you're gonna get into the day. Like that's what I like. I'm probably kind of over that now that I've done it a bunch of times. That said, I totally understand if people want to do it, let me just add to that that you know we're gonna have two hundred people in

the line sometimes. And if you're playing the Colossus the millionaire making somebody with multiple flights and you're trying to register for a flight, maybe it's tomorrow, maybe it's in two day's time. Make sure you communicate I want to register day one C. Once you get the receipt, you know, these guys have been working eight hour shifts. Just make sure that you it does say day one C because otherwise when you turn out, that's going to be a

headache. So just double check your ticket, double check everything, double check the event number, because you don't want to go through that line once more. Yeah, definitely. To my point of what I was saying is I found that like going kind of later at night if you can do it,

you know, midnight, one am. You know, Tim and I were always there working, So if I was going to play an event the next day or whatever, I would just wait till that night and do it and then not have to show up extra early the night before, not knowing what the line would be. Sometimes there would be a line at night, but it was never really too bad. You would generally get through in twenty minutes. They were so max u sometimes you would just walk right in and get

it right after the front. So if you're doing it live and in person, that's what I would suggest is do it in like the off hours. So if you're a morning person. Let's say you're from the East Coast, you're out here. Now you're here, and you wake up at you know, six am Vegas time, because it's really nine am wherever you're from, Well go down there and register. You know, if you're going to do it late at night, you can do that too. Online registration can happen

through Bravo Pokerlive dot com. That's Bravo b r a v O Pokerlive dot com and you can also find this information on UBSAP dot com. Once you complete the process of signing up for Bravo Poker Live dot com, all you need to do then is visit the Champagne Ballroom at Paris Las Vegas once before you play in your first event. This is so that you can get verified

for the online registration that you completed. When you go to do that verification process in person, bring a valid ID to do so, because they're going to verify your stuff. And then Once you've verified, you can you know, fund your account. You can pick your events online via Bravo Poker Live. You can utilize the self service kiosks that are located throughout Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, and then those will allow you to print c cards before you

head into play. If you follow Daniel Lagron you on Twitter, you'll know that he does this. He did it a couple days ago. He talked about it. I think you did it. I did it yesterday. There you go. How easy was It was incredibly easy, except for the fact that Champagne Ballroom is not open currently, so it will be people listening exactly open on Monday, but you can if not, if you're listening to this today Friday, just and you want to go do it. It's the main

cashier in Paris. But give them your money. There is for people out there. There's a minimum twenty five hundred dollars deposit per transaction. And you know, if you're only playing two events and they're both fifteen hundred dollars and you want to use this fast track, remember there is a three dollar fee, so don't just deposit three thousand, deposit three thousand and six dollars to

cover the Bravo fee. Um but yeah, man, I think and then you if you have any money left over, and then you can get it back at the end of the series or the end of your trip or whatever, you just go cash in the following year. Even Yeah, well you don't risk that. But no, I do have a friend that did that. They waited a whole year to take their money out and they had no issues. Yeah. So um so yeah, Bravo Poker Live dot com if you want to do the online registration stuff before you head on into Vegas.

I think I'm going to take advantage of that this year. I know it comes with the three dollar fee. Some people might fret at having to pay the three dollar fee. Personally, I just want to skip the line. So that's what I'm going to do, especially for events like you know, three hundred dollar Gladiators, four Hunt It dollar Closus, etc. But as Tim mentioned, twenty five hundred minimum deposits would just be aware of that.

Sam Cosby who works for us, but he's a listener to the pod so he can write in a question, he said, who is the top pick for the twenty five K Fantasy Draft? This year. If you guys missed it, yesterday, we did a whole episode about the twenty five K Fantasy Poker League. We had Daniel lagron you on Tim and I talked a lottle bit about it, and we also had Matt Clark on. Matt Clark is my draft partner for this year's draft. So who was the top pick for

the twenty five K Fantasy Draft this year? I'm not going to answer it on this one. That's fine, that's you can answer it. I did some talking yesterday on the episode, so if people want to go back and listen to a little bit of tidbits that I was dropping here and there, fine, but I'll let you answer this one here. Number one pick, it's always Daniel Olgroner. Ah, he is going to be by himself in Tier one. Tier two, you've got Sean Deep Dan Zach. Normally you'd

have a Steven Shiitwick in there, but not this year. I don't think he's arriving on time. Maybe I should have said that because I'm just giving away crucial information. So, yeah, it's always Daniel olgrender But the best part is that I can just delete that. Yeah, but then then leave in this part where I'm saying that I deleted it, so people are out there wondering what the heck is going on, which I think is what I

mean. You should put a fake name in name of fake name. M Yeah, do a whole podcast on rankings and just have totally fake names and rankings and throw everything out there. What's wrong with that? That sounds like the great idea. It sounds like games some ship to me. Yeah, easy number one, pick conq wroung if you pick him? Alright, Next question, Andy Heidelberg in the Bounty events, when you pull your prize, is Jeff Platt also going to give you a packet of mayo or hot sauce?

This, of course, horse is alluding to the no gamble, no future wheel of pain when one of the things is you have to like drink a pack of mayo or hot sauce if you spin it. Yeah, so I don't think so. Although if Jad is Jeff Jeff sorry is doing the MC duties, maybe he should have, you know, a packet of mayo and one pocket of a suit a packet of hot sauce and the other one and he should give it to you. If I was Jeff Platt, and

I'm assuming Jeff's gonna play five or six eventsment of him this year. I would in my pocket have a pack of Mayo, pack of hot Sauce and a no gam Win no Future patch, and if he gets busted, give that patch and give that Mayo packet too. He's a partner kind of like you know, a fossil man. He's just signed the fossil No, this is the the Jeff Platt motion. No, no, Jeff's not doing that. There's no way we could get some custom Mayo packets with no gam win

A future. That's what we needed. Okay, that's that's different. Yeah, that's we should work come out. UM all right? John Friends wrote in what is the best day to go in the event flight ABC or D. First of all, he's forgetting two flights. How about how about day two ABC and two D? Yes, because you can late register into the day twos. I think it's one level. I thought it was. I can't remembers three levels. No, I have no idea. You you can

be basically look it up on WP dot com. But you can register into um day two either Day two what it's ABC and the day D or Day two D. If I play this year, I'm registering the latest I possibly

can because I'm the worst player in the field. Um, you know, it depends what your goal is here, John, Do you want to play against the most players and have the potential to accumulate the biggest chip stack, Then you're going to choose Flight D. But a lot you know this is going to fall around, you know, July fourth, So it's really up to you how you want to schedule out your next kind of basic basically weak because if you play Flight A, you have three days off, then you

play your flight, then you play Day two, then you have a day off, and then you play day three. So that's a nice lot of rest for some people. Some people, if they're coming into town, maybe they want to just do the day two or they want to do day one, Day one, day off, play Day two, and then straight into day three. So it's really it's always going to be a personal choice.

I don't think there's any right answer in this. Yeah, I mean, I think the best day from an EV standpoint is just probably Day one D. I mean, that's just going to be the biggest field. That's when people will be coming in from out of town who are looking for like the shortest trip, you know, that's what That's the day they're gonna play, just coming as late as possible so they don't have to spend you know,

an extra night or two on room nights all that sort of stuff. So that's the day that I would play if I didn't have other things to think about. I think about like work stuff, So I might play like, Okay, I can do one C because then I can do something else on one day, like stuff like that. You know. So you know, it does all that up to be an event. Is good because all these starting flights in also the option to come in on day on the day twos.

You know, it does allow some flexibility like let's say you've got stuff going on on day C and D okay, well you come in for flight ay and then you go take care of that stuff on those days and then you can come back for the day two if you make it that far. So someone pitched me a really good idea. What's Lasia one of our close friends, and he said that there should be seven seven day one seven. Yeah, why are we limiting it to a four day window? You know?

Some people, well, day one day is gonna have twenty seven people might be a good day to back some chips. No, it's not. What do you mean you're gonna bag what two times starting stack be the chip leader of the main event. If you told me right now that I could play Day one for the rest of my life and bag two times starting chips on day one, I would take that. That's pretty good on day one when you're ten billion big, You're ceiling is capped. Hey man, you

I'm fine with that starting stack. No, we're not doing it. We're not going a week of the starting days. We're not doing that. Okay, well, I know it's not a deal. But in a perfect I thought what I thought you wonder, what I thought you were gonna say, was like, you have a starting flight every weekend throughout the whole World Series. I thought you were gonna says, that's a good idea too, But it's not. Okay, okay, it just kind of flights. Here we

go. Yeah, I'll actually like that idea. No. The only thing, the only thing that I think needs to be adjusted as it pertains to the starting flights is the final starting flight I believe should be on Saturday, so you start Wednesday for a so it goes Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. I mean that's just the Bay completely disagree with that's the best Those are the best one days already, the biggest Why are we putting it on the best day to play? Day one? Him in the best day to

play, that's when most people are available to play. That's my points. That's why one auld be Saturday, so we can get that that field bigg off so it's a bit more balanced throughout the throt. I don't think that works to have the flight bigger. I think the only way that you can that you can control how big the earlier flights are is that that you force

satellite winners to play earlier flights. Yeah, we will always say that, but but the tricky part with that is that if you're giving away satellite packages, then you're likely going to have to offer more money for accommodations and stuff like that. So it's it's tricky overall. That said, I think you start, if you're a four starting flights that this, you start out on Wednesday, you finish it on a Saturday for the for the day one flights,

and then you go from there. Anyway, moving on Connor uh ts ts, I hope I'm saying your last name somewhat correctly. Connor. Um, Will Daniel Legrand you be playing in the Colossus this year? Connor says the Colossus will be my very first WSP event. Congratulations on that, and I am curiou to see if any of the big guns will plan it. So, Daniel Lagron, you responded to somebody on Twitter a bit ago, and he posted basically his entire schedule of events over on poker steak dot com.

He listed a package worth one point eight million dollars that people were able to get action of. He sold out pretty quickly there. He posted all the individual events then, or at least what he's planning, on his Twitter feed a week or two ago. I did not see the Colossus listed on that schedule. Um didn't do too much digging into what exactly is going on

that day. There's probably other stuff going on that day. I'm pretty confident in saying that Daniel will be playing every single day at the World Series of Poker. That said, not the Colossus, at least according to the only way he's in the Cossus if everything on that day has kind of failed. But even then it's it's such a commitment to play these multi flight four hundred

dollars. It's for someone like him, I mean, And maybe there's some sort of possibility where like he's in some running, some heated battle for a Player of the Year, and um, he wants to, you know, get a bullet or two in that to be able to hopefully try and get some points or something. I don't know, but at least as of right now, I don't think. So that said, you asked if any big guns are be playing it. Yeah, of course there's gonna be plenty of

big guns in it. I'm assuming Sean Deeve's gonna be out there. He plays everything. You know, he's gonna be out there playing. He's a big gun. UM don't know if Phil Helms play, does he play the Colossus. I feel like Max Max Max late reds of the Colossus. No one knows what feels read and Butter is big field, no limit holding. So we'll have some tweet about sleep and that's why he's gonna sleep till two pm and then two six pm. I'm just saying that there's gonna be plenty

of big names in the classes. Yea. The field is so big they might not get to your table. But Connor, I'm assuming you're gonna sea someon people in your You're going to see some people walking around even just being out at the World Series of Poker, like just walking around the venues, You're gonna see big names. You're gonna be able to see them. You're gonna be able to you know, talk to them, introduce yourself, you

know, ask them for a photo, whatever is. You know, most of the big stars are certainly willing to do all of that sort of stuff for the fans out there, So so yeah, that's good stuff. Alan Taylor wrote in super crunch Time mode, probably more crunch time now since it's been a couple of days since you submitted this question, I need help deciding if I should pursue this dilemma. Alan writes, I love poker, and I absolutely love the main event. In fact, I've been binge watching all

of them for the past month as a Poker Gros subscriber. Shout out Poker Grow subscriber. Love it. If I were to compete this year, it would be my first time with little to no turney experience, and I would love to get a shot at a bracelet. Okay, the problem is that I'm in the middle of trying to secure a buy in with my work as a delivery driver and security guard, and it sucks because I feel like this year would be my year, especially since my daughter turns four and my favorite

number is you guessed it four. My question for you, guys is would you try and make the push to travel to the desert and compete with little time and no reservation or would you wait till next year when you're guaranteed to have funds for a buy in, room reservation, etc. Thanks guys, enjoy the pod. I would say wait. My reason is that the WSPUM event isn't going anywhere, I mean, pending a global pandemic like we had in twenty twenty, you know, and even in that case, it's coming

back. So I know there's a lot being made of the fact that the main event is likely going to have a record field size this year. That said, it's probably gonna be bigger next year than I mean, you know, So I don't think you need to over extend yourself if that's what you're asking us here, to get out there and play this thing, because it is going to be around. I know it might hurt a little bit in your heart. Daughter turning four, lucky number being four, I get it,

But get a new lucky number of her of five. Then when she turns five next year, you're in there. But I wouldn't go crazy over extending myself. I've personally always told myself that when I do play the US event for the first time, and my first time was last year, I want to do my absolute damnedest and be set up where I can play it every single year. And that's my goal now going forward. So you know, I wouldn't go crazy trying to do it this year if it's going to

set you back going forward or overextend yourself. Like I said. Again, like I said, it's always going to be there. It's only going to be another year, way not that long. This will allow you to you know, if you've been working to kind of save some funds to play some poker with in your eye and the Wan event, well you can still continue to save those funds targeting next year, but then maybe you have a little

bit more funds. Maybe instead of saving of ten thousand and you have twelve thousand or third teen thousand, So then you're able to be a little bit better off getting those accommodations, or you're able to fire the one thousand dollars mini main event in addition to the main event, so you're able to do kind of more things with your money. That would be my suggestion. I'm not sure he's saying to play the main event though. I think he's saying

to come out and play out event. Well, so he said, I know he used to love the main event, so I'm assuming it was the main event. Well, Alan, if you don't, maybe you can come out and just play the eight hundred you know, deep sack Championship. Yeah, especially if if you, like Alan said, he has little to no Turney experience, maybe you want to come out for the first year, play a couple of side events, play the Colossus, the Mini main Event, etc. Get that out of the way, get a feel for it,

get a feel for the tournaments. You know, get a little bit accustomed to playing in the World Series of Poker, because a lot of people if they if they come in and they're playing for their first time and it's main event, I mean that can be full on like center court at the NBA game, the water in a smaller event, And I want to touch on his comment about room reservations. You know, it's technically we're only a few days away from the World Series, but you know, the roommates are not

astronomical. If you pick the right week, the right hotel, you're okay walking, you know, ten minutes to get to the horse Shoes slash Paris. Yeah, the room roommates are definitely not going to kill you, even if it's this late in the game. So just yeah, do some research. Maybe find an event that interests you, whether it's maybe the six hundred deep Stack or a flight of the Colossus, and you know, do some research on rooms and maybe come out for the weekend. Just don't be all

in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we definitely enquire against being all rich. Ryan, our buddy wrote in when reporting deuce, he's referring to douce to seven. Do you need to include suits? This goes back to the fact that when I was live reporting manager at Poker News, I got mad the guys for not reporting not reporting suits induce and everyone kind of got mad at me. So it was the whole thing. You say, no suits, You wrote some expletives on the sheet here. Um, no, suits

in raz no suits in low ball games unless they matter. So if someone has a flush induce, it's obviously bad. You can mention that. But that was that was my point is that yes, they they don't matter, but they also do matter because induced flush is kind of against you. So the chance of you having a flush induce is like, no, I understand, But what I would what I was getting at my angle was let's say you have four cards, you're drawing one yea, and they're all spades.

That then then you were trying to put it there. And then their argument was like, yeah, but they didn't make the flush. Show doesn't matter, but but it would, it would make sense. And then if you see the other person's five cards, you're like, oh, well that person only has one space, so there's more spades in the decks. Like that was kind of my whole point that My thing was this, if you're trying to be perfect, you do everything as perfect as possible, which includes suits.

I think it's just whether they matter or not reads about from a lot of reporting perspective. Okay, you know that's okay, whatever. Anyway, we're along past that in our lives. But thanks for the question. Jake Kim I one day want to play in the main event. I was wondering what should one do for hotels if they want to play it, because it's so long and you could be knocked out immediately. Yeah, this one's this

one's a really tough one. I would suggest that if you're planning to play the main event, you have to prepare for worst case and best case scenarios. Best case obviously making the fountable bit. A more realistic best case would be, let's say, making day five, if I would book my hotel through to a day five, because you know, if you're still in the main event, that means you're probably making five to ten thousand dollars at that

point, so it's worth you can just extend your trip. But you also have to prepare for the worst, and that is busting one of the main but you should know that, Hey, look, I got five more days in Vegas. I have this on my schedule. I can play the Lucky sevens, I can go to the Win, I can play this five hundred,

I can go to the Venetian play this four hundred. So give yourself some backup options and just pray to God that you don't need to, you know, follow through with us. Yeah, I think that's the way you approach it is. I would probably if I was coming in from out of town to play the main event, that's kind of the anchor point of what

I was doing. I would plan to stay three nights, and then I would have backup plans, as Tim said, for if I were to bust out on my day one of the main event, to have something else to play on the day two or the day three. Ideally you don't need to play those events. You're still in Las Vegas, because you're still in THESM event, and you can go from there. You know, you make day four, you can find a combinations, you can continue to go on from

there. That's how I would do it. I don't think that I would come out and just be like, I'm only gonna play the main event, because then it's tricky. Should I book two nights? Should I book three? Should I book two weeks? You know, I'm still like so it's kind of it depends. Also, coming from you can probably just drive hunt well, if you're flying from say Boston, Yeah, you definitely have to do some planning. Yeah, and then and then of course I mean check

with hotels that you're going to book on cancelation policies. You know that way, if you come out and you are only going to play the main event, and you you know, you book three nights initially, you know what happens if I want to leave early? Can I get those nights refunded to me? Just just make sure that you have, like the the rules for for what's allowed and what's not allowed, so you know you're not caught by

surprise in any sense. Evan Price writes what documentation is required to play Event number one, the Casino Employees event? Have you ever played this? Um no? I played a different casino employees event at the win last year, but I've never played the one at the I played this once. I took I at the time Poker News media badge there. But in that experience and other people's experience, they really don't check anything. But sounds like you're,

you know, coming from maybe you're you're already in the casino industry. I would just bring your you know, your badge or your casino ID, just in case there's not too many people out there, hopefully zero people out there trying to sneak into the casino employees event that is not a casino employee. Um, you know this is put on for a select pool of players, so there's not too many people out there ruining that. But yeah, bring

your badge. You shouldn't have any issues. Yeah, it shouldn't shouldn't be too hard. Um, you know, I would bring everything I have. You know, if I have look an employee ID something like that, an employee card, whatever it is, I would just bring it with me and just to just to be safe for getting in there. Uh. Dean Marino rates in why are all the draw poker games at the WSP lowball games where's five card draw high? Five card high actually is in dealer's choice. I

was about to say he's wrong. Well, I mean yeah, but you don't see that because you only see dealer's choice. You don't look at all this twenty um high games. And it's not Texas, it's not nineteen eighty three anymore. People don't really enjoy playing draw high or variants of draw high. Lowball is the preferred way. Bedoogi, but ac beduci you know, duce to seven as five, all those just more popular. And you know, WS we obviously care about the best numbers in these events, and they're

the ones that are the most popular. So that's why you're going to see more lowball, then then you do high I would love to see a five card draw high I'm in I think it'd be great. Why do you play it? I mean maybe I don't know. You've played the no limit does before? Right? Yeah? Fifteen hundred, Yeah, I want to play that one. Love. I love that game for sure, all right.

David Inger does play stop on day two of the Mystery Bounty Turner, which is the million dollar bounty at the Dibisity every time someone gets knocked out. If not. How does the drawing of bounties work? It was a bit of a mess last year, Um, I think the first time doing it and listen fourteen, so it was it was just insane. You know. It'll probably be a lot more streamlined this year, which is a good thing.

But it wasn't like it wasn't horrible last year, and it was largely because the players like they were kind of all over the place, leaving seeds wanting to draw this time that time, run all like it. It was just kind of a mess. Um, Yeah, but it'll be a lot better this year for sure. Yeah, I'm assuming they're gonna streamline everything. You know, they were doing some cool stuff with iPads and treasure chests and reveals. I'm assuming it's going to be very similar, just maybe a lot

more iPads. I believe actually used that iPads last year and we only had something like thirteen to give them. Hopefully they have thirty thirty iPads for this mystery bounty reveal. But your play doesn't stop. It doesn't officially stop, but people want to turn around. They want to see if the million dollars bounty goes off, so it, you know, kind of stops, but not really stops. Yeah. Um. Justin Mowatt tips on navigating food and

beverage for new WSP players. Taking a fun stab at the gladiator. That's that's a three dollar buying Gladiators of Poker tournament that he's referring to. What to bring or not to bring in, how to do dinner break if I make it? Thanks, Well, there is a seventy five minute dinner break on the starting days, which is approximately six thirty PM. Is when that that seventy five minute dinner break will start. Of course, that could be

a little bit later. Than six thirty, depending on when they kick things off, but the w B usually kicks tournaments off right on time, so approximately six thirty pm on the day one. If you do make it to day two. Looking at the structure sheet says a sixteen minute dinner break on day two, So plan accordingly. Listen. Horseshoe and Paris have a lot of good venues for food, specifically over on the Parriside there's a lot of stuff over there. We're also now located down on the Las Vegas Strip.

Like you can walk I know a lot of people that were walking over to like the Cosmo. Yeah, like food court area, which seventy five minute dinner break. It takes about ten to fifteen minutes to walk over there. If you get up and leave right away, you can make it all. You might think like, oh my gosh, Cosmo, like that's two blocks down, but no, you can make it there. You can make it

there. You can eat and then you can get back, get your steps in, get some exercise, you know, avoid that post dinner break lull. Yeah. You can also walk right across the street to Blagio. There's obviously restaurants over there. There's the little food area right like the pavilion area, I guess right out front of Horseship, Grand Bizare Shop, the Grand Bazaar shops. There's a lot of stuff out there. There's a wall Wallburgers, there's some other stuff, a dirt dog, there's a couple of chicken

places, Subway what. First of all, I'm going to suggest put a snack in your bag just in case. But if you do have a seventy five dinner minute dinner break, or even if you're just on your your twenty minute, didn't break directly below bottom of the horse Shoe, there's a food court, There's Subway, Johnny Rockets, sabaro Um, something else there, Nathan's hot dog. You've also got as Donnie mentioned, the Grand Bazaar shops.

There are a lot of options. Um. Now, if you do make a dinner break and you have a car, you know you're ten minutes from Chinatown, you have five minutes from all kinds of other places where you can eat. So there are a lot more options for players this year. It just depends if you want to, you know, walk to a different property, or do you want to just kind of stay on side and hit up one of the food courts. I would. I would get off ste Um. I mean, if you're gonna go over on the paraside to one

of those restaurants, I think that's obviously totally fine. I think I think one the one out in front of Paris is Hex. I think it's what's called Umm, not sure how late it's open, but you can obviously check that online. The Cosmo option seems like a good one. Jumping over to the to Bellagio is another good one. So yeah. One other trick is have a friend, go get a table, or go get a reservation or

whatever. That's always like an elite move. You know, you say, hey, so and so, I'm gonna have dinner break in an hour and forty minutes. Can you head on over there and get a table? That way, you when you get there and it's the start of your dinner break and you're already into your dinner break because you had to walk there, you just walk right into the restaurant, find him at their table, and sit

down. You know, that's that's the best move. Man. If there's a group of you going, you know, have one person, you know, head on over there. I've even seen people if if you're can afford to do this and you're willing to this, they'll leave the tournament ten minutes early, or you know, one person in the group of five, we'll leave the tournament ten minutes early and get over there. Um, So if

that's something you want to do, certainly take advantage of that. But I'm definitely pro like every time we've even gone out like so, somebody will go ahead and get the table, you know, and then we'll all show up and do that. Because you know, the media people that reporters all that sort of stuff, they're also operating on the seventy five minute dinner break. You know, they got to get back and do their work. So, um, that would be our option. You know, don't just uh,

don't just hit up the poker kitchen. There's a lot of good options around and sixty minutes seventy five minutes. It does allow you to get to those venues within the immediate area and do so within due time. And always set a time on your phone. That is obviously something that you have to do so you always know when the dinner break ends, all right, Joe Brian, when or have you posted the Poker go Live a wsit schedule that is

pertaining to the WSP live streaming schedule. What do you got dot com slash schedule? I know you did this, so I'm mad. Yeah. We have everything posted there, all the final tables, all the day threes falls that we're doing, along with all the WSP main evente So everything's there. Starting times obviously as always subject to change, but everything's being posted there.

Oh, come watch everything, that's right. Arnie Rod writes in who would be victorious in the Heads of Poker game between daniel Le Grandnew and Jonathan Little. I mean, I'm taking Daniel. I said it all this week. It's the year of Daniel. It's gonna be Daniel. So I'm doing it. That's what I got. I mean, you're on board with me? Yeah, of course? Okay, good, all right? These next looks like four questions are all about the unfortunate passing of Doyle Brunson and like kind

of what the DOSP is gonna do? So Dustin Thomas wrote in I'm sure I won't be the first to mention this, but with the passing of Doyle, thoughts on what slash how the deva speciou commemorate the godfather of poker? Aaron Middlebrook rode in will there or should there be a special to honor Doyle Brunson, He said, I would like a tournament where tens and twos are wild the Doyle Brunson Memorial Tournament, starting at ten after two or something like

that. I don't think there are any w s. Would be events with wild cards anyhow, and there needs to be. Andy Heidelberg wrote in should it be named the Doyle Brunson Main Event? And then Jeremy wrote in what's your favorite Doyle Brunson moment from the debas? So I guess let's tackle first like what sort of uh, what sort of things should they do to commemorate Doyle. I'm not sure what they're gonna do. Um, I'm obviously sure there's gonna be something. I just don't know exactly what. I think.

I've heard that they could be some kind of you know, memorial service in one of the theaters. Yeah, that would be, you know, kind of like a tribute to celebration of life type of stuff. Obviously, Doyle was you know, very much ingrained in the poker community, very much touched a lot of people out there. So they're gonna definitely be doing a lot

of stuff. The wild cards thing probably a gaming regulation violation at some point down before they used to run an ace to five tournament with a joker. Yeah what year before we were born. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, it's a gaming thing. I don't think we'll see that, although that is kind of a fun that seems like a great home game idea. Yeah, and then you know, the renaming it to the Doel Buntson main event. I mean, how about the player of the year. You could name the

player of the year off the door, you could. I mean, there's gonna be a naming, image and likeness thing that has to be worked out there, you know, and you can't just do it like yeah, obviously give the approval that's said. I mean it might be something where the Bruntson family is like, yes, like let's do that. You know, it'd be a great way to commemorate um Doyle. Um. So, so we'll

see. There's there's gonna be stuff, you know. It's obviously the timing is very unfortunate that it happened in the week leading up to the World Series of Poker, So it's gonna very much be at the top of everyone's mind. And Doyle was that big. He was truly the godfather of poker. So he's going to be thought about a lot of times. And there's gonna be a lot of tributes that go on throughout the World Series of Poker. So we don't know exactly what's coming, but there is certainly going to be

stuff that is coming. Yeah, and just kind of stay tuned for everything, stay glued to everything to be able to, you know, see what's what's going to be coming. What's your favorite door runs a moment from the dibsity. I mean, there's been a lot of fun stuff. Oh you go first. I mean mine, I already talked about it when we did the Doyle episode on Monday earlier this week. Just like him and this could

just be totally recency biased, but me, but I don't know. It just really spoke to like kind of who I've always thought Doyle was, and that's a gambler through and through. Is that he comes in he doesn't play tournaments much at all, you know, in the later stages of his life.

And on the fifteen twenty minute breaks, he's coming into the production room to play Chinese poker against Morey because he just wants to continue to gamble through the breaks to like stay sharp, stay active, stay awake, whatever whatever may be. So like that's just kind of my favorite Thingum. I thought there was a great story shared by Gary Gates, friend of the pod on

Twitter at Gary Gates Gary with two rsum. He talked about working on the Poker Stars Big Game several years ago and how I believe it was at South Point that year is where the Poker Stars Big Game was being filmed, and Doyle was in the game, and Gary brought his dad along, who was also named Gary Gates, and uh got to just talking shooting the ship with

Doyle. Doyle asked him for his address and later on made good on you know, getting his address and sent him a signed copy of every book that he wrote that which is just like super cool because Doyle is the biggest thing in the game, right, So that's just that's really awesome. I Mean, there's a lot of fun moments, the scooter race with the Amarula slim like, you know, stuff like that, like it's just yeah, my

mine, you know, touches on on the sign book. By twenty one, wsp I was helping Doyle a lot get to his tell you know, helping him get some snacks and stuff. And day he played the main event that year, he bagged his chips. I've you know, filled out his chip bag, et cetera. And I've been helping him all day, you know, to help him to the bathroom, bring him Reese's pieces and bags

of chips and pepsis and stuff. And he reached to give me like five hundred dollars like a tip, and I said no thanks, and he goes, no, take it, take it, take it. And I'm like, no thanks, and then he yelled at me, like yelled, he says, take it. Said no, I don't want it. I'm just helping, you know, Maury's friend. He goes, okay, well, thank you so much, and he left. You know, he came back for his day two, and Maury text him. He's like, hey,

he's here, can you help him. I met him, you know, halfway down the hallway and he was in the old pavilion room at the Rio and we're waiting outside the door. I asked security, can you help us? Can we get in a little bit earlier, do you mind? He get yeah, no problems, he guys in. He goes, well, you didn't accept my money yesterday's So I brought this book. Will you accept accept this book if I sign it? And it was like the second edition

of Super System. So he wrote a lot like a lovely note in there, you know, to Tim, a bunch of other things, and gave it to me. So that's my very personal favorite moment from Doyle. I mean, there's a ton of Doyle stories out there, um, a lot of good stuff. So so yeah, and as I said, you know, gonna be some tributes to Summer Long, so stay tuned for those. Michael Larimer wrote in it looks like two kind of a two part question.

Here are two different questions, so we'll get to both of them. Michael said he unfortunately had to skip the twenty twenty two WSP So Paris slash the horseshoe are foreign to me. Can you give me a rundown on the basics, best place to relax, best place to get food, bathrooms to avoid any tips would be greatly appreciated. So we just covered the food aspect.

A lot of options within the immediate area, probably even up to like a ten to fifteen minute walking radius, not only at those venues, but as I said, you can get all the way down to Cosmo, fifteen minutes there, fifteen minutes back. That sort of stuff. So a lot of food options available. The basics are that it's two different venues. Okay, Horseshoe is on one side, Paris is on the other side. If you like big flight day ones, you're likely gonna be in the Paris side,

okay. And that's also where the registration is. That's where you got to go if you register online to do the verification. That's where the payout area is. All that sort of stuff. Day two's, Day three's final table, mainstage, all that sort of stuff that's over at Horseshoe. There is a casino some some casino floor between the two. It's about I don't know what was the walk seven minutes like, it's not not that bad to walking

from one to the other. So yeah, parking is you know, I know, coming into the World Series of Poker, a lot of people is coming into the World Series of Poker, moving to the strip, a lot of people were working about getting in and out. The parking all that sort of stuff. Not that bad at all. You can get in and out pretty easily. You can obviously park at Paris. You can also park at Horseshoe. UM, either venue works, uh, you know pretty well.

Um, quick walk across the the like the UM, like the overpass walkway to Blagio to get over there. That I'll take you into some of those MGM properties over there, because Belagio is connected to city Center area all that sort of stuff. Caesar's is dagonally across the street, Cromwell is across the street. So a lot of stuff right in that area. Very well situated. Best place to relax. I mean, I'm a walker. I like to walk on my brakes, so and you know, you can walk lots

of places. If you're on the Horseshoe side, you can walk all the way over to Paris, go down that hallway, kind of walk all the way back over to where you're at a horseshoe. You can do the same thing. Um from the Paris side. UM, a lot of people just kind of sit in the hallways, stretch, you know that sort of stuff. You can head outside. You know, there's a lot of different outside areas where you can get in and out um to uh you know, get some fresh air, get some sun, all that sort of stuff. So

that's kind of what I do on the brakes. Um, I don't make breaks. There's there's massage you give massages though, lots of massage chairs around. If you want to quick you know, fifteen twenty minute massage, you can do that as well. Um, So yeah, bathrooms, I don't know if there's any bathrooms to avoid. Probably the only bathroom that I would avoid is the bathroom in the main Paris hallway on break. That one gets jammed up a little bit. The other bath the Horseshoe side has like infinite

bathrooms, Like they both have an infinite bathrooms compared to the Rio. Oh for sure, compared to the Rio, but the Paris one, I feel like it's a little bit smaller and gets really jammed up. But you also have to factor in that it gets jammed up because the Paris side houses more players at one time, so it gets jammed up that way. These bathrooms on the Horseshoe side, you go into them and it's like they're like a football field long. I'm like, where does this even go? Like it

just keeps going and going and going. So I really wouldn't avoid too many bathrooms. And there's a lot of bathrooms around, you know, so like if one you think is kind of jammed up. You could easily make it like to the other side to the horseshoe, to go to the bathroom and come back. So a lot of bathrooms around, which is very, very welcome because they weren't the best over at the rio, all right. Michael

then continues, this is more of a philosophical question. He writes, I used to be okay at poker, still winning at low stakes live, but I imagine I've fallen behind your average wisp field. You might be surprised. Michael. He has an eleventh month old at home, so he doesn't get to play as much as he used to. He's been doing a bit of studying to at least become more familiar with modern concepts, but confronting the fact

that I'm kind of bad is painful. My plan is to come out the first weekend fire a few bullets in the million dollar bounty, possibly the Sunday Deep Stack. Here's my question. Should I grind hard on the study because I have ten plus years of experience and used to be solid and I can get over this hump, or should I keep the study light except the fact that I that any improvement to my Roy will be negligible and just embrace my new found role as the fish. Do never embrace that your new found role

as the fish. First of all, you're probably not as much of a fish as you might think, and you might even be overestimating a lot of theseusp fields. I understand going into the USIP and thinking this is the World Series of Poker, like this is the super Bowl of Poker, right, so everyone's gonna be good. Right, No, people are coming out there, they're taking shots, they're firing, they're from home games, they're heroes, all this sort of stuff, Like, you're gonna get a lot of

players that aren't that good. Okay, it's just how it is. You know, the average player is more of just an average player. Yeah, you know. They're not out there grinding a salver like a Jason Coon or a Stephen Chidwick like that. That's just and then they're not as experienced and been in the game for twenty five thirty years like a Dan and La Grani River for helmet, Like that's just not what you're going to see on average.

So I think you'll be fine. That said, I don't think you should become complacent, and I think you should study because it does help you. You can learn some modern concepts. You know, you don't have to get to the point where you're an expert using pile Solver, you're an expert using gto Wizard. Shout out to gto Wizzard the sponsor, you know,

but you can get some concepts down. You can understand how things work because at times you're going to run into better players, as you would anywhere, not just at the world serios of poker, whether it's your home game, whether it's a you know, a weekly tournament, your local casino, whether it's a cash game, whatever, maybe you're going to run into better players at time, and it's good to know how they're thinking, understand the concepts,

and then be able to apply them. So I would, you know, kind of do what you're doing now where you're juggling your real life. Sounds like you're a family man. You got eleventh month old at home. You know, I'm kind of similar. I'm trying to play a lot of poker, but I got a two year old at home, like you know,

it's it's kind of tricky. You're trying to juggle a lot of things right, um, but take some time as much as you can to work on your game, because studying does help, and I wouldn't become complacent with it and be like, you know, I can't learn this, because you can learn it, you know. And if you go into everything with an open mind, even even though you've been playing for a long time, it might be easy to say, hmmm, no, I know how to play

this game. Like this is how it is. No, Like it sounds like you're already very much have an open mind because you want to become familiar with modern concepts. As you said, well, you know, take time. It only takes half hour an hour a day to kind of do that, and then that'll all build up over time. It'll snowball and next thing you know, you'll be at a WSP final table and probably winning a bracelet. That's how it is. What's up? I'm thinking the complete other way.

I say, embrace, you'll role as a fish an idiot, have some fun, just enjoy yourself. You can have some fun. No one's saying not have fun. But you know, it sounds like Michael cares about his game. And if he does care about out his game, don't give up on if head he's playing the million dollars bounty in the Sunday Deep Sack. Michael, my advice is to you is it's a ba C. It's

like riding a bike. It's gonna be pretty basic. You don't have to worry about Jason Coon on your left and Steven should we on you right. Just just play straight up. You do fun and enjoy yourself. Yeah, but you should don't put the pressure on. You should still, you know, brush up on some modern concepts. I was bad. You know what I would do. You know what I would do? Become a subscriber to poker, go watch some of the final tables. That way, It's kind

of like two things. It's entertainment because you're watching poker, right, and you're also learning from some of the best players in the world. You're not just like diving into a solver, you know, diving into a study course and it feels like homework, you know, So you can do that as well. All right. Uh, Matt Foist said, I'm stoked you are starting out the daily podcast for the series. Heck, yeah, we are. We're stoked as well. I will be going to Vegas for to play

in the Mystery Millions Bounty terament. This thing is gonna be huge. I mean, it's gonna have to play. It's absolutely main. He's gonna be playing on Saturday, June third. Can't freaking wait, says Matt. My question is around parking. He's staying at Paris. He has a Caesar's Reward credit card, which to his understanding allows him to get free parking because it

did last year. But he says there's a problem. Last time when he checked out of Paris using the kiosk and no line, it automatically charged him for the parking than he had to go wait in the long line to check out in person and get reimbursed with the parking. Do we know a better way to do this? Am I supposed to do something prior to checking out? Before I let you answer, because I certainly think you're more well versed

in this than I am. I would say, when you check in, tell them this, like, yes, say I have a credit card. Can I check out via the express checkout via the kiosk and not get built because this is what happened last time. Just be upfront with it and whatever they might tell you, like no, you have to check out in person, but I don't know what they're gonna tell you, but I would say

it at the beginning, not wait till the end. By the way you've you've wrote this question, I'm wondering if you upgraded you'll actual season rewards card, because I think getting the season Reward credit card gives you an automatic upgrade, but you still have to physically go upgrade your season reward card, and

that's where you may have the issue with the parking. So my suggestion will be do that first, leave the garage, come back in with your Diamond status or whatever if it is the seven Stars or whatever it ends up being, and then you should have no issues. But yeah, you know, clear up the headache. Maybe you just have to wait in line again. It kind of sucks, but I'd rather wait in line for thirty minutes and

have to pay an exorbitant parking bill. Definitely. Sean Isquay rode in for those out of towners coming to the WSP for only a few days and staring staying at or near the strip without a car, what are your recommendations for and you list three things pre event breakfast slash lunch, dinner, break spot, and post bust out spot to wind down. He also said, if you can, please also let us know which spots to avoid for all three. My spot to avoid for three is a poker kitchen. Yep, always

a spot a second. Um, so that's what I would avoid, um pre event breakfast slash lunch spot. So breakfast slash lunch. I would do the pool cafe at the Blagio. And it's not only because and it's not only because my wife is the general manager over over there. You had some of the food last year. I walked my house all the way across. I think I walked ten thousand steps there and ten thousand steps back. But it was very good. It's good. Yeah, yeah, it's very good.

It's outside. You get some fresh air. There is you know, there is a roof on it, but it is outside, so you know, you get some fresh air. It's a short walk from the Horseshoe. UM. I like hecks over at um uh Paris Um. I've eaten brunch there a few times. I like that spot as well. Um, if you can make it over to Cosmo if you're in that area. Ach slut is a spot that everyone loves. Everyone loves you. Got a friend in town visiting. His girlfriend was here. I said, you got to go

to egg slot. He did. He went. Now, the line will be long, okay, but it moves pretty quickly, so don't get deterred. Okay. But that's another good spot to go as well. So that would be like my you know, pre event breakfast slash lunch spots. Let me give my versions those ones. Here's a sneaky tip. We should have mentioned it in one of the questions earlier. Ten minutes from Paris is plane of Hollywood, and you know what they have there. They have a Chick

fil A. Now a lot of people know that. Yeah, a lot of people are big fans of Chick fil A. So maybe the breakfast spot is the Chick fil A breakfast because it's actually not horrible compared to another to other fast food outlet breakfasts. So that's a good you know, pre event breakfast spot. For dinner. You know, I'm a I kind of like

going to the food court at the Horseshoe getting a little SOB sandwich. When he says food court, it's downstairs, you have to take like the stairs at the escalator downstairs, right, it's pretty much right next to if you see the entrance to the Jack Binion Steakhouse, which is new. Um, kind of like if you're looking at it, kind of look left a little bit, you'll see like it goes down. That's where you go. That's what he's talking about. He's not referring to the poker kitchen. So the

reason I like, obviously subway is whatever you can. There's other options there. I just said subway because that's an easy choice for me. But it's quiet. There's not many people down there. I feel like people don't know about and I can just relax, you know, you can just you know, check your arcade down there, right, Maybe that could be a diner, a mini golf. There's a minigolf down there. Sounds like a good dinner. Bak spot. Yeah, but um, when are we talking post

bust outs. I'm a big fan, and I know you are a big fan. A little bit of All you can Eat sushi? Well, yeah, of course, so I'm gonna put my all you can Eat Sushi spot. It's sushi Spring Mountain and Decata. You're blowing up our spot. Fine, Look we we blew up Uma and then it went south. I fear we might be doing this and south. I fear we might be doing the

same. So hopefully, hopefully we gave you um a lot of options there overall, as we talked about earlier, there's a lot of options around, mostly on the paraside for food that you can find that you can go hang out. So that's what we would do. Yeah, Henry Conrad, I've never been to the USP, but would love to come in the next few years as I'm coming from England and would be playing smaller buying events. What

sort of schedule would you recommend? You can pretty much pick any weekend and you're gonna get a good chunk of stuff to play, like a Thursday through a Monday trip, that sort of stuff. There's you know, most coming from England, don't you want to come for a little longer than a week Well, I don't know. I don't know what the schedule is, but it sounds like, you know, he's he would want to target the best

time period for like some smaller buying events. If he's coming for like a longer period of time and he can do it, then I would say probably start your trip for with either the like the Monster Stack or the Millionaire Maker, and then lead into that weekend you can play some of the smaller stuff throughout the weekend as well. So that's kind of what I would do,

you know, if I was coming in and listen. Also, I've always I always think now that like that kind of that weekend like right before or that that week or weekend right before the Doubs Beamin events, UM has the mini main events, has some other stuff going on. Then, UM that's obviously when the live satellites will pick up. You know. So yeah you

might you know you're saying you're gonna play the smaller buyans. You might not play the Doubs be main event, but maybe you play a five hundred dollars mega, a one thousand dollars mega, and then you get into the main event. You know. Yeah, so that that's um, that's what I would target. But pretty much any weekend. Um, it sounds like this opening weekend now with this mystery millions up front, if they keep it that way going forward, UM, sounds like a weekend you really can't miss.

So maybe that's another weekend that you target, But UM, I think pretty much any weekend. Like there was a guy on a Twitter space the other day that I was on with keV Math and you know he was. He was saying that he hoped um that the schedule came out earlier because his work, he had to lock in his time off much earlier than Like, when the schedule comes out in January February, they're not going to release the schedule

in September. Like that's just not gonna happen. There's too many moving parts, you know. Whatever that said, What I suggested was, I said, you can pretty much book any weekend blind from June to to you know, July tenth, right, and you're gonna get good stuff, Like you know you're gonna have like the Millionaire Maker, the Monster Stack is gonna fall

somewhere in one of those things that you can find. You're gonna have all these deep stack events now that you know there's fifteen hundred, no limits, etc. Like you're gonna find stuff if you just blindly book a weekend, you know, from a Friday through a Sunday, you're gonna find stuff at the lower price point to play. Sp has done a really good job in recent years of catering to the lower buying players, So you will find stuff every single weekend out there. So that's what I would do. You got

anything to add no, okay, moving on. These next three questions all grouped together. So Rolando Quinonas writes, if players prereg and pay online for an event through Bravo, is your stack in play immediately or do you receive a full starting stack? Steve Pollen wrote what will the rules be for whether stacks will be in play if you register before the start of a tournament?

Dave Ritchie David Richie wrote in when you pre register, are your chips in play at the start of the event or will you arrive asking about the mystery million specifically, so, chips I believe will be in play from the start, and I checked with some people out there to verify that this would be true, and everyone seems to believe that, yes, chips will be in

play from the start. There is a likelihood that in the multi flight events, because things are so big and crazy, that stacks don't go out until you sit down. But if you pre register, is very likely that your chips will be in there from the start. So you should show up on time ready to go, or if you show up a little bit late, you should you know, be aware that your chips will probably be blinded or

antied out a little bit, So just consider that overall. If you're coming out, I know, you know David Richie here asked specifically about the Mystery Millions, which is one of the very early events in the series. If you're going out for a little bit of later event and this is something that's a concern to you, you can probably pay attention to the chatter online on social media, and you know you'll get a sense of like what's happening throughout

because you know there is a lot of moving parts. There are adjustments that made on the fly. But I would plan that your chips will be in the play from the start if your pre register, So if your event starts at noon, if your event starts at eleven, be there at eleven or noon. You know, I told one about our mutual friends was asking these exact questions. I was like, if you're going to be there on time,

just register the not before. If you're not sure if you're going to be there on time, just wait, wait, you know, make sure your fast tracks lad it up and you can do it when you get there, just so you don't run this risk or have you know, a couple hundred or a couple of thousand, even chips blinded off, so kind of have a feel of how you're gonna pro the event you're gonna play, if you're gonna if you know you're gonna be there on time, you know,

register the night before and make sure you're there a couple of minutes earlier. I think that's the easiest way. Yep, Scott Evans, Is David Tuckman going to be providing live stream commentary? I'm not sure, to be honest, I don't even know who's providing the last We are not part of the cool kids to be told who's commentating except for the ones that you're commentating. UM, I'm going to assume most likely, but I actually don't know.

I think he is on some um, but don't hold us to that, Scott, because you know, we're living in a different world than the production team a lot of times, and we're not you know, in all those conversations. Yeah, exactly. Jeff Linton wrote, what's the bounty range for event number three? That is the Mystery Millions event? Obviously they have the million dollars top bounty prize, but is the balltom going to be a thousand? Which is the buying twenty five hundred or something else. Um, so

yeah, probably twenty five, it would be. They would be the It would probably be a mean cash right, surely. I mean I have no idea too, Yeah, I mean yeah, I don't know. I mean, I'm would they go as low as five hundred, like, would they do that? I don't, I don't know. You know, that's going to depend on I can't remember what they did last year. I didn't really follow that one that much. But they're they're I mean, the bounties are

all over the place. I mean they're from whatever the lowest is. Let's say it's a thousand, let's say it's two thousand, whatever it might be.

But then you know, there's five thousand, there's ten thousand, there's you know, twenty five thousand, and fifty thousand, like I don't know exactly how many they're gonna do in between whatever, like kind of that next highest is and then the um the million up top, you know, but there's a ton and the lower ones there's obviously more volume of them available, Like there might be twenty twenty five K bounties available, you know, all

that sort of stuff. So there's there's a whole bunch of different tiers, and I believe, you know, going back to a tim of sint earlier about the iPads, I think when you do it on the iPad, if you get one of the really low ones, it just shows it on the screen. It just shows like, Okay, you want two thousand dollars, but if you have like a bigger one, it gives you. It shows you like a chest and then you have to go to the treasure chest and

actually draw. So if you get if you play this, you pull a bounty, you tap the iPad or do whatever you gotta do, and it shows you like that treasure chest or whatever they're doing this year, you know you're gonna get like minimum whatever it is, like minimum twenty five k, minimum ten k, like you know you're gonna get You're like, okay, like I'm gonna get a good chunk of money here because I gotta go to the bin and pull. And the only people that go to the bin and

pull are bigger prizes. And then they also have a shot at the million, right, Like you're never gonna pull the million on the iPad, at least if they did it like they did last year. Right, So so yeah, that's that's our talk there on the Bounty Ranges, and war Woods said, will THESP main event have more satellites this year? I mean,

yeah, I think so. They had. They had their main event Mania Weekend that they qualified I believe over one hundred, probably around one hundred and fifty people for that gig poker slash CLUBGG is putting in six hundred people. They're gonna have satellites running at THESP this year. At the Lives, they have a whole bunch of megas that lead into THESP man events. They obviously

have the stuff that happens online. It's already started online for the WSP dot com satellites here in the States. I don't think I've seen the announcement for the twenty five seats scramble, but they did it last year, so I'm assuming they're gonna do it again this year. So yeah. I would also say that they're not running the sitting goes, the single table sitting goes, which would tell me that they're kind of clearing space to possibly have more satellites.

And honestly, if the UBASC is making as big of a push as it is to break the field size record from two thousand and six, then they should have more satellites, right, Like that would only make sense. What can Like they've basically gone out and all but guaranteed that this is going to be a record year, right. You know, everyone's confident in it.

I'm confident in it. Tim is confident in it. If you listen to our episode yesterday, you know Daniel Lagron you is confident and everyone is confident that we are seeing a record WSP maniment field size in twenty twenty three.

So if you're gonna do that, and you're gonna be like, this is gonna be the record year, and you're gonna say it so often and promote it like it's going to happen, then you're probably gonna do your damnedest to have as many satellites and get as many people qualify into this thing. So yes, I think that there will be a crap ton of satellites. I would stay tuned top on Twitter, follow kevmathwsip dot com, all that

sort of stuff, so that you are aware of what is happening. Andrew Venette said, could you walk listeners through the process of taking notes at the table where he says, obviously you're both very accomplished at live reporting and detail the hands you play, so it would be great to hear about how you go about doing that. Andrew said, I personally find it hard to take notes on the previous hand while still trying to follow the action of the current

one, So any advice you have would be a huge help. Go ahead. Wait, is he s talking from a playing perspective or I think he's basically saying that because we have the experience on live reporters, it probably helps us a lot when we're doing it when we're also playing. So do we have an advice for anyone out there? I am not as good as Donald, so I didn't take any notes, but I have a very decent memory when it comes to hand recognition. I know some people will have a terrible

and they can't remember any part of the hand. I can kind of remember the whole thing, So I don't actually take any notes. So I just want to put that before you give us an actual, real reason that will help him. I mean, practice makes perfect. Like we've reported on thousands, millions of hand I don't even know how many over the years, like, so it just comes with that repetition, It comes with being able to

do it right. So I use the notes on the notes app on my iPhone and I just plug the hands in, you know, And I will sometimes see other players doing the same thing. Um, I do it a certain way. I do it kind of very much like I would write a hand if I was live reporting. Yeah, but but you don't have to do like that. You could just write, you know, like so, Like you could write like so and so raised I call blah blah blah whatever

you know. And and sometimes it might just be like you might just want to take down a couple of like quick notes that later on jog your memory for exactly what happened. Like it might be hard to just remember something cold much later on if you're driving home and you're like, oh, I wish

I could remember that hand. But if you just write down a couple of things like aces versus kings, he bet seventy on the turn, like you know, you can like put something down like that and then you're like, oh, yeah, I remember, like it was a spot on the turn. I was wondering about his bet sizing like okay, and then that can trigger something. So um, I would say, just practice it, get

get it down. Um, You can even do things like um, watching hands, watch YouTube, watch poker, go whatever it is and watch hands, pause the video and see if you can recall what just happened, you know, Like I do that sometimes when I'm going into do commentary, just so I can kind of get my my juices flowing a little bit to getting that right that right zone for like what's about to happen. Just like you know, an NBA player would take warm up shots before he goes out and

plays a game. Just like you know, an NFL wide receiver is going to be catching some passes or running some routes. You know. Yeah, it might not be total game speed or in a game environment, but you still got to get those reps in, get that muscle memory go, and get that mind memory going, all that sort of stuff. So yeah, I mean, just practice it honestly if you have to. Honestly, some people use pen and paper. Yeah, I mean, I mean, like,

if we're being really honest, I was thos. We mess around a little bit, you know, use the notes app make sure you write down you know them bone stuff obviously, what the blinds, the stacks involved, Um, you know, cards and suits, et cetera. You don't need to write down or this guy blinked a lot, you know, I don't think you need to do that. Yeah, and just yeah, the more details you kind of put in relative to the actual hand um and then you

can revisit later or in a few days. It's all there. It's when you try, and you know, you try and remember little details. Are I think that it was a diamond or a club? I'm not short, so yeah, just take decent notes. We all have iPhones or androids these days with a note app. Just put it in there. You should be fine. Yep, Henry Twoey wrote, where can I find you guys? Or the poker real media stand during the World Series. I mean everywhere rolling

around Tim o'briby wearing some flashy purple jacket or pants. He should I get matching white pants, matching purple pants. O my god, No, probably won't. Donnie's gonna laugh at me. No, We're gonna be everywhere. We'll be in Paris, We'll be at the horse Shoe. You'll find us at the coffee place. We're gonna be on the main stage. We're gonna be on the whole shoot. He's gonna be doing commentary. Yeah, I mean, we're we're gonna be walking around a lot. So if you do

say this, come say hello. Yeah, you know we'll have don't be shy. We love chatting with the fans, we love chatting with the listeners of the Poker Girl podcast. So we'll be rolling around and I'm guessing we're gonna be there every single day, so at some point you will probably see us. Yes, um, if you do want to meet us and you're there, you can always tweet at us, ask us where we are,

what you're doing, that sort of thing. So so yeah, m Ryan Geiss rights, when playing a Saturday ten am fifteen hundred, is it best to make a dinner reservation for about seven fifteen pm. Yes and no. So I looked up on the schedule some of the fifteen hundred dollar buying events that have Saturday start days. We got the Monster Stack Day one B, we got the Millionaire Maker Day one B, we got the Closer Day one B. Those are all going to be absolutely mammoth poker tournaments at the fifteen

hundred dollar price points. The Monster Sacks on Saturday June seventeenth for one B, the Millionaire Maker on Saturday June twenty fourth, and then July fifteenth, also a Saturday, the closer. That's one B for that each of those days. Per the structure sheet Ones dot com, there is a seventy five minute dinner break at approximately seven pm. I would make the dinner reservation for

seven oh five if you can do that. And I would also take the advice that we said earlier, try and get one of your friends to go and get the table. You know, even if you do make a reservation and it's under your name, Ryan, you know, have one of your friends head on over there and grab the table. That way you get there

and you're not waiting extra five to ten minutes. We're all on a time crunch here during the World Series of Poker, you know, we want to allow adequate time to kind of sit down, decompress, eat some food, and not be super rushed and you know, running tune from the different venues on a dinner break. So per thebesp structure sheet, there is a say, any five minute dinner break on those days for those events that I listed at seven pm or approximately seven pm UM, So try and schedule the reservation

for I would say, I would say no later than seven fifteen. For sure. You know you're obviously you're gonna need a little bit of time to go over there. But if you send someone there ahead of time to grab that table to sit down, and then you join right after, that is the best way to go about it. Janet Collins, is Phil Hellmuth going to win the WSP? Finally? Phil's your boy? So you answer this

question, which I don't. I don't really know, Janet, I don't really know what this question means because he's he's won sixteen Brasits and he's won the main event. Let me answer this is a Player of the year. Phil is the He's he's number one on every list. Are you asking is he gonna win a brace It this year? Yeah, of course he is. I can't say no. He's the god, the legend, the best. And you guys, listen to our WSP Predictions episode. You know I'm

fading Phil with this year. So no, he's not gonna win THESP. Finally, as far as I'm concerned, Anne Marie Dissidario Hope, I said your last name correctly, Anne Marie. I'm coming next month for the first time and could use any advice you have especially about thesp cage. I think wiring my money there is my best choice. I mean that depends on I guess your comfort level and how much money you're traveling with, and then your

comfort level with how much money you're traveling with. If you're coming with a thousand bucks and you're comfortable traveling with a thousand bucks in your pocket, I think you're fine to do that. If you're sending over fifty K, I mean, yeah, probably don't put it in your backpack. You might want to wire it on over, like a lot of the higher buying players will

do. As we talked about throughout this podcast and earlier, you can take advantage of the online registration if you head on over to Bravo Poker Live dot com, get yourself set up there, and then once you arrive you'll have to go through that one time verification process over at the Champagne Ballroom at Paris. Larry ingram right, I have been a subscriber from the beginning. I enjoy your covered Thank you, Larry Love It would it be possible to cover

more of the tables, especially in the first few days. It isn't necessary to see their whole cards. Sometimes better not to see them. I think we're gonna be doing some of that this year. Larry Tim kind of hinted on it earlier. We are going to be covering some earlier days before the final table for some select events, So that's going to be out there.

We're doing that for of course, we do it for the w SP main event, right we start coverage on day one, it'll go all the way through to the final table, so you're going to see some stuff there.

Hopefully we'll be bouncing around the tournament field when we're doing that, you know, getting some b roll shots, some looking I think Jeff Platt's going to be on the sideline, Natalie Body's going to be on the sideline, So we'll have them hopefully bringing in some additional coverage of all the events, everything that's happening at the World Series Poker. We got Ben Mints this year, who's like kind of a quote unquote live reporter for us, who the heck

knows what he's gonna be doing. We're basically just letting the crazy man Mincy loose. The Destroyer is going to be out there doing whatever he wants content wise. So so yeah, I think our coverage this year is going to be better than it ever has been in terms of providing as much coverage and access to the world ties of poker then you know has been there. So um yeah, I think we're gonna be doing some of that. Dianna Keller wondering how I can get a ticket to be in the gallery to watch.

Just show up, just show up. Yeah, Well, then is tricky the final table. The final table is tricky because thesp main set, the stage around the final table has limited seating. Of course, Okay, last year they had a giant projector screen and some additional seating set out kind of on the outer floor area in the horseshoe, in the in the main ballroom, so there will be that. But this doesn't require a ticket. Like you can show up and you can watch for the majority of the WSP.

You know, Phil Halmath makes the final table and you want to come on down and watch, come on down and watch. That is certainly possible. You know, Just just know that you need to only go in certain areas where you know fans and spectators are allowed to There are security guards around who will sort of usher you in the right direction. Stay out of the way of the cameras of course, don't bother the players while they're playing all of

that good stuff. But this does not involve actually having some sort of ticket that you have to pay for it to come in and watch. You can just come on down, um and walk around the horse you and also Paris and uh see the sights as they say, Jesse Harley, talk to me about the dealers. How long are the shifts? How much are they paid? Are they tipped? Are they union? Do they get to party after the main events? Uh? Any answers or insight would be a real treat.

I don't know. I don't know how much they get paid. Um, well, yeah, I think they announced it that they announced though the rates it's it's it's pretty decent. I'm just wondering if Jesse's a dealer, well trying to be a dealer for the first time. It just sounds like he has some in it, right. Yeah, I don't believe the union. Um, you know, some of them come in from all over the

world. They come you know, so like I don't think there's any way that you could like organize a union or it might just be a headache or whatever. Yeah, there is. I think they pulled, there are pooled tips. I don't know how much they get from tips. Is obviously if you're doing cash games, you get to keep all those tips. Um. Yeah, I don't really know too much about it. Party after the main event, I don't I don't know of like any like dealer party that everyone

goes to. I'm assuming there's probably something. There's probably something, probably get home, yeah exactly. I mean it's been a long seven weeks all that sort of stuff. Um, how long are the shifts, I'd say they're probably right around eight hours. Yeah, you can just sometimes is over time, not often. You can obviously do early outs. Um. So yeah, and then they're all like every down is with thirty minutes. They're in the box and then they kind of get up and move on to the next

table and go from there. And then there's some of the bigger break every some of the bigger ones you'd kind of do back to back downs or even you know, four consecutive downs. Yeah, but I mean I think the devistity like kind of puts that information out there so you know, you can dig around. At least last year they talked about how much they would get

paid per down, all that sort of stuff. Uh, separate question that could get answered together or separate talk about the most memorable meltdown or tantrums from players when they got one outed. I don't know about one outed exactly, but I mean Phil Helmy hasn't meltdown every year. I mean every year there's some sort of tantrum like it is. Yeah, you know, pencil it in right, Yeah, yeah it is. I'm pretty sure we've done a

compilation. I mean the one last year was incredible when he was at the was it the three KSE six Max final table with David Jackson, the Chris unickon on the rail, that whole thing he was freaking out. Security wasn't it was a whole mess. It was. It was crazy. I mean that was that was wild. Obviously there's like older stuff that involves Helmeth. You don't know how to spell poker, the idiot from Northern Europe. You know, he's called people monks on many occasions. Like there's at least one,

if not multiple from phil Helmides every single year. Also last year one of the ones that kind of really sticks out. Remember when the granny through the selfie stick he slammed the selfie I don't know if that was a one hour, but it might have been pretty close. It was like a two hour. Yeah, but yeah, slam the selfie stick that was a whole thing. Was that that caused the whole stir so? So yeah, there's been some there's been some fun and some crazy uh tantrums or meltdowns. I

don't think anything is like gone too far. I mean, obviously people argued that what Daniel did went too far. I disagree, Um, but I you know, I don't think anyone's gone I don't think it was thrown chair like you know, done that like well actually ground throw a chair, Oh, kicked the chair, Oh knocked over a chair? Remember three handed with ozmas Helmouth at the fifty K payload? Yeah yeah, he like kind of

pushed kicked trip back. Yeah, but it wasn't like I'm talking about like picking it up and like chucking it like you know, like borderline, you know, getting into the assault territory is what I'm doing. No, like, none of that sort of sort of stuff happens. Um Our guy Mickey Daft writes in what's the one event not on the schedule that you would want to see on it? I'm sure you have one. I mean, yeah, you have to have one because you installed it during the PGTS games.

That's the one I'm thinking about. I'm just trying to think if there's anything else I've always wanted, like a triple Stud championship. Yeah, maybe it's something we did. I'm the best. Um, maybe it's just a five K five K Triple Stud Championship. That could be I think a popular event. So I love that event, but you can have that one. What I want I want like a five K rebuy, not re entry. I want the rebuy back. I want him to figure it out how to do

it. Remember when they had like the was the one that Phil gelf On one five K PLO rebuy, Yeah when like you know, it had like one hundred entries, but he won like eight hundred k or something insane because it was a bazillion repeople were blasting Like remember the time when Negron you had to like come in sixth place because in that one K rebuy or whatever it was, he had to break even. Like that was his break even for Like, I want to rebuy, like figure it out somehow, Like I

feel like we've I understand why they went away. I get it and and everything transitioned to the re entry stuff. I feel like there's now a place where, you know, we have enough technology these days. I think everyone is as experienced that we could bring back a rebuy at some point rebuy plus

add on, let's go make it happen like an online of it. Yeah, come on, man, like people just a five K people blasting off thirty five K, forty K in the tournament, like, you know, without having to go back to the registration line like all this sort of stuff. Like, Yeah, I agree, I think it'd be great, Like you figure I mean, I think we could figure it out somehow, right, Yeah, we'll figure it out. Um. Andrew Moreno writes in can

we get a Donnie Peter's recommendation four the pizza near the Horseshoe? Uh? Yeah, I got a few spots. I think there's a Sabaro downstairs. Avoid that unless you're Allen Kessler, I would avoid. That's not that horrible. Better. Look it's better than Little Caesars. I mean whatever, they both they're both horrible. Um. So my favorite one would be Naked City Pizza over on Paradise. So I don't think you could walk there, but probably a five minute drive. Um. It was started from two guys from

Buffalo, New York. It is serving Buffalo New York style pizza. So it's not like, first of all, it's cutting like a square or a rectangle. You can look it up online. It's been on Guy Fieri Show, Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives twice. I believe. Um. It is not like you might look at it and be like, oh, that's Sicilian or whatever, because it's it looks a little bit thicker and it's square, but it's not. It's it's a little bit thinner. It's more

like I guess, more Greek slash Roman than it would be Sicilian. Um, but also like thicker than a New York slice. But it's Buffalo style pizza. UM, cup and char pepperoni. If you get the pepperoni. That's that's my spot. I like it. I'm a bit partial because I grew up in Buffalo, New York till I was fifteen. UM. Shout out Buffalo Hanks, Sprent Hanks as well, UM, my Buffalo guy. So UM, that's one spot that's pretty close. Um. Where it is

on Paradise is really close to the horseshoe. Um, there's Metro Pizza on Covell inside Ellis Island. Metro Pizza has a couple of spots around Las Vegas. Naked City I think has two spots at least around Las Vegas. Um, but Metro Pizza serves up a lot of different style pizzas. Um and it's it's all pretty good. Um. They got a Sicilian on there that is thick. And if you're looking to like, if you're looking for posts, bust out, get into a food coma type of meal, get the

Sicilian from the Metro Pizza. You'll have two pieces and you'll not want to get out of bed for forty eight hours. And then if you can, if you can make it good, pie is my go to pizza in Las Vegas. The only issue is that as it pertains to the Horse Shoe, it's about a fifteen minute drive, twelve to fifteen minutes. It's on main Street, it's downtown. So but you can get there pretty quickly. Um, just either just hop on the highway or you could even probably just drive

down Las Vegas Boulevard. But ten to fifteen minutes or so you can be down there and back. You can, I mean, you can probably get there and back in a dinner break for sure. Like if you have a car, you can go and it's it's not like a high traffic day like a Friday or Saturday evening on the strip. You can head on down. But those would be my spots. We should also probably mention Giodanos whether you love it or hate it, No, I mean I don't. I don't

like it. I don't think it's good. Well I want to mention that. But if you want Chicago deep dish pizza, sure, yes, when you go to Giodanno's, it's it's the first shop in the Grand Bazaar shops. Two spout says, one at the top where you go in and sit down. If you go down the escalators, they have pre like what is

a personal ones ready to go like only like cheese and pepperoni. But if you want to go get a little personal and head off, that's the quickest way outside of Sabaro to get and okay or decent pizza depending who you are. But if you want them, if you want good pizza, Naked City metro pizza or good pie, if you can make it down there, about

fifteen minute drive to main Street downtown. Um No, Robert Goldstein, sobar is never going to be sponsoring this podcast after that, Robert Goldstein writes, will there be shuttles from the Rio or other Caesar's properties to the Horseshoe? If not, where is the nearest free parking rio? No, it's not a Seson property anymore. Um So no, I don't think there are shuttles

anymore. So you can walk from Caesar's. You can walk from well, what was it like, Flamingo yep, Cromwell, Um, his planet, Hollywood's Caesar's anyway, Yes, okay, yeah, yeah, obviously you know, if you're at Paris, you can obviously walk to Horseshoe. If you're

hor at Horseshoe, you can walk to Paris, etc. Um. I think everything is pretty walkable, like the link walkable, Like everything's like walkable within like ten minutes around here, which is that's like one of the big benefits of moving from from the Rio down to the Strip is that there's so

much stuff within walking distance. Before a lot of people out of towners would think I'm going to walk to the Rio and then you're walking three miles across a highway over and overpass in you know, one hundred and seventy degree weather and you're ready to kill yourself, you know so. But down here, yes, I don't think there's um shuttles, but you know, everything is pretty walkable. In terms of free parking, I don't know. I'm trying

to look at me. I'm trying to look at up right now. But I swove that planet Hollywood was free, but I don't that might not be the case anymore. I mean, the only free place I know that's at all close is the Win and that is not close. Yeah, Venetians probably the closest. I mean, can't you do the trick? You get a Caesar's Reward credit card? Like, isn't that the trick? And you're messing

with your credit card and stuff? I mean, okay, but are you really Maybe you're building credit technically, yes, you will abuilding if you don't have bad credit. How horrible can it be to open another credit card with finances? Well? Yeah, if you're fine, then Venetian is I would give. If you parked a Venetian, which is free, has like twelve levels of parking, I would say fifteen minutes you could walk to the horseshoe.

Yeah, you agree, It seems like a trick. It is, but if you really care about the free parking, then yeah, yeah, I mean, yeah, I get it. Um. Eric Emerson, Hey, guys, First of all, love the show. Thank you Eric. My question is I've played poker is a hobby for on twenty years. I study frequently, but my bank roll has only allowed me to play four hundred to fifteen hundred dollars buyings. I've been relatively successful at those levels. This

year I sold enough action to play the event. Well that's pretty sweet.

What advice would you give someone how to best take it all in and get the full experience the world's shoos a poker main event can offer you got feste, I mean, just enjoy it. Yeah, but don't like I think, if you want to experience the main event to the fullest, or you know, even if you're out there and you're taking a shot in your first ever WSP event and it's not the main event, don't get lost in the fact that like, oh my god, I'm playing the event or oh my

god, I'm playing at WSP event, because then it can seem too big than it actually is. Not that THESP is not big, and not that it's not special and prestigious and all of that sort of stuff. But what I'm saying is that you don't want to let yourself get overly anxious, stressed out, emotional, feel like there's too much pressure on you all that sort of stuff. End of the day, you're still playing poker in a poker

tournament. Okay, yes, it's obviously a bit more important. I totally get it, But don't let all that sort of stuff crowd your mind and your judgment. So if you really want to do experience it and have fun with it, you know, try and not get overwhelmed, is what I'm saying. So you know, go into it with the fact that you know, yes, obviously super important, ten thousand dollars buying us to form an event, the absolute pinnacle of poker, the most important vent and poker.

I get it. That said, don't freak out, you know, don't have a panic attack at the table, like come to the terms heading into it that this is great. I'm fortunate enough to have this opportunity. I've had some success in poker, so I feel confident in myself. Overall, there's gonna be a lot of people, you know, that are playing this event for the first time that do get overwhelmed. They do get overcome by

it, and ultimately that does them in in the end. You know, you make you make a deep run, you might get to day four, Day five, and then you freak out because you're like, oh my god, I let it get to me and this is the main event. So don't be like that, you know, so just remember in the back of your mind that you're a good poker player. It sounds like you've obviously had a lot of experience playing for twenty years. That's it's it's it's not that

far detached when you just kind of break it down. Okay, So so don't let it overwhelm you. What do you got? I got nothing to that. Actually, I think you nay out everything there, so you go, okay. Marcus Bell, can you talk about the role of sponsorship and brandy in the WSP summer tournaments. How do sponsorship contribute to the overall experience? If I run deep in the main event, might a sponsor ask me to wear a patch? I think the patch stuff is kind of done.

It might happen, but it's not as much as it once was. It once was, like you made like you made like day five of the main event, you'd have like six people trying to patch you up. I had a friend when we were on day three of the main event in seven be Off at five k by red Bull Red Bull on day three of the WSP main event, where patch he said, no, I was, what are you doing? But yeah, that kind of thing is kind of phase out on two you get to the final table. Um, yeah, it's I

mean there's obviously sponsors in, there's brain and it's all over. You'll see it everywhere. Um, you'll see it on the on the table felt, you'll see it on signage around, You'll see it on the TV screens around the main feature table set, all that sort of stuff. Some of the sponsors also go as as far as to have booths which are mostly over at

Paris and in the big hallway there. Um, you can go over there and get a little bit more of the experience, engage with them, see what they might have to offer from a product standpoint, all that sort of stuff. So some of the people do that. Other people are just there to kind of get like that TV sponsorship or that sort of stuff. So it is it is an element of course as big a as big of an event as the WSP is. You know, it's natural that it has big

sponsors like it does every single year. Um, there's a lot of sponsors that are kind of the same from year to year. Recent years, gig Poker's you know, been top of mind as a sponsor, but then you also get some new ones that come in here and there. So we'll see. We'll see this year. I guess what sort of sponsors are around. But I wouldn't expect, you know, the whole patch thing to happen unless you're making a super super deep run on the main event. That's really you

know, Other than that, it's really not a thing anymore. UM would love to obviously change that and to become a thing again, because then that means more sponsors are interested in in having more exposure and branding and spending more money at the World Series Bok, I get it, But that's just not the landscape these days, Russell Huff. How can I find a satellite to the main events while I am in Vegas, UM, go to Paris and

check out the schedule. Yeah, that see what's being offered. Yeah, closer to the main event, they are going to be doing a lot. I would say, before you come, check out dubas dot com to just see like what could possibly available, what's running or on the timeframe that you're going to be there, all that sort of stuff. Yeah, that's pretty much it. There's gonna be some online there's gonna be the twenty five seat scrambles, there's gonna be Mega satellites on you know, the weeks leading up

to the main event. If we're talking June third, IM not sure what kind of main event satellites they would have live, so I mean they usually have at some point a five hundred Mega, a one kme Mega, and then a two k Mega, so be on the lookout for those. So yeah, and obviously when you if you're looking for a live satellite, live tournament satellite, the best time is in the days leading up to the those main events. You know, if you come June first, you might not

find anything. But if you come, you know, July second, yeah, you're probably gonna find something. Alex Heinie, right, this will be my first planning, planning, planning on firing three bolts in the Gladiator if necessary? Can I register the day before the day one flight? I'm going to play and walk right into a fresh stack, even if I'm a few minutes late. So we touched on this earlier. Yes, you can register the day before or the night before, you could register a week before,

you know, all that sort of stuff. But it also sounds like stacks are going to be in play from the start, So if you show up a few minutes late, you might miss a couple of blinds or aunties. Right, it's not going to crush you if you're like showing up. If the tournament starts at I don't know, eleven o'clock and you show up at eleven o eight, you're not gonna have half your stack go okay, Like you know, you might miss one rotation, so it's not going to be

the end of the world. Also, have either of you played the eight sixteen mixed game at Resorts World. I'm big into non hold the games. I've read things get even deeper than normal Horse Slash eight game mix types. There, what do you got if you played? I haven't played it. Yeah, I played it lots. Yeah, Well there you go. How is it is a good game? Yes, I don't wanna. I would say it's a tough fish game. It's not easy. It's not You're not

gonna be printing money. If you would you say, somebody who likes mixed games, so they're not like a brand new player, they have a mixed game experience. Would you say, yeah, that's the good play, You'll be fine early, you're fine or whatever. Um No, I would actually suggest playing the four eight mixed game at Resorts World. They have they normally kind of running tandem. It's a little bit of a different player when thirty big bets and move up. No, not at all. So yeah,

I would suggest playing the four eight. I will also a little a little shout out to our fellow media member Robbie Schozinski. He's doing actually a mixed game festival at Resorts World July second to six. There'll be all kinds of four eight games running. Details still coming, but save those days July second to six, Resourts World. So yeah, don't jump in the A sixteen. There's some very good players they're suggest playing the four eight and you will

have a lot of fun. I think. He also writes what the f is drama haa zero, All right here we are education time mixed game people out there. Dramaha. It's it's the newest game on the streets. It's a split part game. Half the part is draw part and the other half the part is Omaha high. So you're gonna have five cards. You're gonna use two for the Omaha and then the Dramaha part is all different variations. They have Dramaha forty nine, Dramaha Doogie, just Dramaha Hi. In his

question here Alex, Dramaha zero. You're counting the pips in your five cards. When I say pips, you actually don't want any. So a perfect Dramaha zero hand is all paint cards because paints are worth zero in this A ten is you know, ten and ace is one. The other wrinkle with

Dramaha, everyone's gonna be dealt five cards. You're gonna do your betting raising in a deal flop, you're gonna do your betting and raising, and then you're gonna discard up to three cards and then you're gonna continue to turn river. So half the part Omaha Hi, half the part pips in your hand. You want lots of paint cards. Jesus, Okay, I'm glad you tackled that. Mika Sitko World in Will Norman Chad be joining Lawn and Jamie Law McCarron, Jamie Cursor this year. UM, I haven't heard different.

I'm I don't know. I mean who knows. Yeah, we like we touched on before. We unsure of the talent except for what Donnie himself is doing us something we don't really get involved in. We just turn up, we see who's commentary, or we tune in like you guys at home. And a lot of times, you know, because we just have so much going on. Our team is so big, the production team is so big

in its own right, and they're doing their own thing. A lot of times Tim and I will tune in and be like, oh, so and so's on the call today, you know, like that sort of stuff, you know, because um, if there's a lot of moving parts, there's a lot of commentators. So so yeah, UM, last question, we made it. This is what question eight. We've been going. We have been going for way too long. And if you made it to this part of the podcast, thank you, Thank you. M Valentine Vornaku rode in.

When will Boxes at the Cage for Rent be available? I know they usually sell out quick. At the beginning of the series, UM, checking with some sources. I was told they'll be available May thirtieth at nine am. So that's five days from now. It's Thursday. Here, it's a Friday. Um can't can't figure things out. Um, so yeah, told they'll be available May thirtieth, nine am. UM suggested that you pay attention

to dbspi's Twitter account and also keV math. I feel like keV math is always on top of this specific, this specific thing every single year, always talking about the boxes because a lot of people have questions. UM, I would I would pay attention to the Twitter account, which Kevin math is going to be manning again this year, and then also keV mas twitter acount at keV math um for the most up to date information on this. But sounds

like May thirtieth, nine am is when those will be available. And then if that's something that you're interested in, UM, the sooner the better because you know, as Valentine points out, UM, they usually sell out pretty quickly early on. UM. All right, that's it. I don't know how many questions we did total. I'm pretty sure it was more than fifty. But yeah, that was fun. It was a lot of talking. My mouth is very dry. I need at I do not want a soda,

but I'll have some water. I feel like I'm ready to go for the World Series of Poker twenty three. It's gonna be a banger weekend and Monday, so basically three days Tuesday first event. I'm excited. The first poker Go stream Thursday, June first. Okay, get on in there as a poker subscriber. I would also subscribe to the YouTube channel. That way you're you're not missing anything. Okay, we have forty seven consecutive days of

coverage planned for this summer starting June first. We are going forty seven days in a row. Some days we're doing two events. Okay, so we're doing a crap ton of stuff. And again that's gonna be on poker Go on the platform. You have to be a subscriber there. That's where you will watch the dubisp main event. If you need to sign up and you're looking for a discount, guess what I got one for you. Use the promo code dream Pod for thirty dollars off your first year of a new annual

subscription. We are also going to be doing stuff on the PokerGO YouTube channel. I would encourage you all to become a subscriber. You know, not only do what you do our world some of our world streets poker live streams on the pokego YouTube channel, but daily clips, recaps, highlight videos, all this sort of stuff is going on on the PokerGO YouTube channel. So don't miss any of that whole ton of content coming this way. It's gonna

be an amazing summer. I absolutely cannot wait, Tim, absolutely cannot wait. Hold on one more thing before you can ask the question. Monday May twenty nine, approximately six pm, Vegas time, we're live streaming the twenty five K Fantasy Poker Draft on the Pokego YouTube channel, so tune in for that. All right, what's your question? I hope you have some fun plans this weekend, because this is your last weekend for like eight weeks. I don't care. I've already, like I've already said to my wife,

like it's I'm already like it's already. Yeah. This is I'm picking up the kid from school today. Normally I'm the drop off in the morning, wife is the pickup at night. Um, she asked if I could pick up today. I said yes, And that's it. See, in seven and a half weeks, or eight weeks or whatever it is. Um, yep, see you later. My son is But but listen to be honest. And this like might sound insensitive to like my family and whatever, but I don't care. Um nothing if I'm not honest. For me, this

is the best time of the year. And I don't care. I don't care that I have to work fifteen hours a day. Sometimes it's also the most important time. I don't Yeah, I don't care that. I don't care that I don't get that much sleep after work every single day. I'll be there Saturdays and Sundays, you know, July fourth, whatever it is, Like, I love it. I think it. It's amazing. It's so great. I know you feel very much the same way. So happy

to be along for the ride once again. Happy to have all the audience members out there tuning in. Tim and I are gonna aim to do podcasts six days a week. Damn it's a lot. It is a lot. We'll be flexible on that, but we're gonna aim for six days a week doing a lot of the same stuff we've done in the past, where we'll try and grab some winners for any of you. So we'll try and grab some random people we see throughout that might have some interesting stories where we want

to talk about some stuff. You know, we'll try and check in with Daniel la Grand New Shawn Deep brought his weight loss bets. We got Ben Mints this year on the team, as I mentioned earlier, so you know we'll be doing some check ins with him. I'm assuming we can wrangle up Jeff Platt and Brent Hanks at times, like it's gonna be amazing. I can't wait. So I'm looking forward to it. I know Tims as well as I said. And I'm gonna shut up now because we've been going for

way too long and we'll talk to you guys next week. Lee Chain Express Ray to Night on the Chain Express