Year-End Awards for 2025

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Brazilian Star, the freak Prussure Man. He wins Super High ROLLERBLE ten, Super High Rollable X. Every time I see super high Rollable X, I know the Roman numeral xes for ten, but I always put like x's when I in my documents after like fill in text later, so I'm like, oh am I forgetting to put something in there. But then I'm like, no, this is number ten. So Super High roll Role X twenty three entries. Jaosamou wins it. It was a freeze out. It was one hundred k

buy in. He wins one point one million dollars. Another seven figure score for Jaosamau this year, which might be hard to realize because he has his Henden Mob hidden, but you can dig through some of the various platforms out there. We know the PGT stuff that he's done. Obviously WSAP stuff is out there as well, so you know, we'll kind of talk about his year in a second. But I mean this, the final table was epic. That the heads up match was insane. I was glued to

the damn thing five hours against Jason Kuhn. I mean it was. If you guys haven't seen this, go find it on PokerGO dot com. You can find it on the poker Goro YouTube channel. I would highly encourage you to watch it. One it was. It was highly entertaining. You know, the hands and the action, the chips are flying, it was good stuff. The heads up match itself was it was a clinic by both players. You know, they were both of them are are very good in the

theory side of things, the solver side of things. They understand all that, especially Jason Kuhn, who is arguably the best in the world at that. But then they also both understand how to deviate, when to exploit, and it was simply a masterpiece by both sides. You know, you had Kuhn who started out with a lead and then he stretched that up to I think it was about seven or eight to one. Early on, Samau gets all in.

He's all in and at risk three different times in this heads up match, and each time he's crushed by Kuhn, but somehow pulls it out. You know. The first one is he's got Queen nine to Kuhn's King nine. He finds a queen on the river. You know. Then you know, Samala gets into the lead, but by a little bit, but then Kuhn takes it back. Kuhn gets back up to seven to one. Then it's Samow King five versus Kuon's King Queen. But no, you know, no worries because

Samow just makes quad fives. No big deal there. And then it's Samow the ace five versus the pocket tens of Kuhn, and an ace hits on the turn and that puts theou up four to one in chips, and then eventually he closed it out from there. He finally had the best of it when the money went in. He had pocket eights, Coon had pocket fives, and Kuhn could not come from behind. But I mean, Samow, I thought,

played great. You know, It's it's kind of hard because you watch the heads up match and and you know, as I outlined in some of those big hands there, you're kind of thinking, like, man, this guy's just getting lucky and lucky and lucky. And yeah, I mean he was. But that's not to take away from as well as Samo played, because he played great as well. You know, and for Kun, you know, one of the best players ever.

It was great to really see him. I mean, maybe not great is the best way to describe it, but I don't know. I enjoyed seeing him have to go through that adversity and like constantly fight back and constantly

get knocked down. And not that he wasn't you know, getting unlucky, because he certainly was, but just just constantly having to fight for that and keep his composure and continue to try and you know, make the best decision at every point when a lot of lesser players, you know, might have just kind of spiraled out of control, you know, just just being like, man, I can't beat this guy. I'm starting to go on tilt with all this losing that I'm doing. What the heck is happening? You lose composure,

all that sort of stuff. But not Jason Kuhn. He was locked in every single hand, as was Jaosamau. And then and then right afterwards, you know, Josamau said, you know, I got really lucky, but both played great. The heads up match was one for the ages. If if you guys again haven't seen it, I would I highly encourage you to go find it. The total payouts, Jaosama out first place one point one million. As I mentioned, Kuhn

got six hundred and fifty k for second place. Sam Soverll finished in third for three hundred and fifty k. He came into the day the final day as the chip leader with five players remaining, then finished third for three, which was good enough to put him at the top of the PGT leaderboard. So he's now the front runner for the PGT Player of the Year race, which Tim and I will get into a little bit more when

we talk about the PGT Last Chance. And then you had Nick Shulman cashing in fourth place for two hundred k. As I mentioned five returns for the final day, Japan's June Ubara he bubbled first. He ran kings into Samsoverrol's aces that got him crippled the three Big Linds. Then he ultimately lost out to Jau Samau to burst on the bubble. But Obara played well in himself, I mean, just a cooler there with the kings into the aces that ultimately you know, caused his collapse, but left with

the smile on his face. Seems like a great guy. So I'm excited to see him kind of in that PGT atmosphere more so going forward now for you, sir, mister commissioner, Yes, I mean talk to me about this event. I mean, first of all, let's just talk about Jousamao, Like, what's your thoughts on him? The year he's having on the PGT. You know, I think people forget that he finished third in the Super High Rollable PLO like he's

he's crushing. And again, I think it's hard to because you go to look jousonmou up and you know you're gonna land on HND and MOB and he has his results hidden, right, so it's hard to be like, oh, like what, you know, what's he doing? What's happening all that sort of stuff. Like you see a lot of stuff out there right now with like Jesse Loan has won thirteen million dollars or whatever it was this year. Jesse Loanison who not Puns were battling for GPI Player

of the Year. But when it comes to Samal you can't find anything. So you know, just talk to me a little bit about his year and that sort of thing.

health getting in shape, getting nice and healthy? You know, he's probably doing it for his you know, family and his kids and stuff, but hey, it's it's you know, it's leading to some pretty impressive poker results. So that's, uh, you know, that's something to kind of just be aware of. But yeah, he's having a great year. He plays ninety percent of our events. He plays mix, plays p low,

plays all the no limit. Uh. He's also just one of the nicest guys on the tour, just like just like he's head up upon a Jason Kuhn.

So just an absolute banner year for JAOSAMOU believe he had some success down in Brazil during their Super high Roller series that they had I think in November, maybe end of October, I forget exactly, but around that time. So you know, Jao's just on fire right now and looking ahead. You know, not to jump ahead too much here, but you know, entering the PGT Championship, he's got to be somebody that we consider, you know, could go on

to win the event. You know, we're talking about him as the PGT Championship winner.

time nine was a bit wonky. I guess I'll just describe it as you know, kind of craming it in there. Right before Christmas, you know, Poker News wrote about the event in a paragraph within a greater article that was about entries being down in Las Vegas during December, and this one not that the entries were necessarily down in super high level because it was twenty four last year it was twenty three this year. But when you equate

the buy in right before. It's been three hundred k when it's been in the studio minus the first year back in twenty fifteen. Well, it wasn't in the studio, it was in the conference area or whatever. But that was a five hundred k buy But you would figure that, Okay, if you take the price point and you chop it it down to one third of the price point, shouldn't

you get close to three x the entries? You know? So, I mean, how do you like, what's your thoughts there or what would you tell the people or whatever?

so close to Christmas. Obviously, when you have such a buying, a buying of this magnetaria, it really you can't compare to five hundred dollars bayans thousand dollars buy ins, you know, the ten k main event that they're kind of discussing in the article. There's reasons this wasn't you know, a massive hit. And I would say, you know, a massive hit for this would have had to be in fifty sixty entries at a minimum. It was just kind of

not the not the best time. We heard from players that they were skipping it that would normally be locks to play this if you put it in a random Wednesday in September. So yeah, timing was a big thing with this, especially after, you know, coming up on the back of WSB Paradise and the you know WPT Wins series where there was players that would plan to play

this that were in events still at the win. So yeah, all in all, I'm not really using, you know, any of these data points of the twenty three entries as an indication for for any like future hundred k's or high stakes kind of tournaments are running. I think the biggest variable here it was was just timing wise and what else it was up against.

come I can't find anyone with Isaac Hackson. Oh he didn't cash like Jason Kuhn had one cash you know, and like for someone like Jason Kuhn, who is for sure down there firing all the biggest buy and stuff, you know, he has like one cash for I think it was two hundred, two hundred and fifty k or something, I'm like, well, that's like that's one entry, like in

a tournament. So you know, you're even like I was looking up Sean Deep like he didn't do anything yeah down there, Like you know, it's just people just got freaking buried. You know. Seth Davis put his results out on social media every single day. I mean he lost like one point two or one point five million or whatever the heck the number came to. But you know,

people just got annihilated in the Bahamas. So I can't imagine that you would want to then hop on a flight come to Vegas right before Christmas and you know, light another one hunter km fire if that's how things are going for you at that current time in poker, so it's it's difficult.

he was one that will kind of set out. There's a few names that you know, we don't hear too much on on the PGT you know that travel Play Trent that kind of reached out to me and expressed why they were not coming. And the biggest reason is, you know, they're going to play whatever it is, several million dollars of buyings in the Bahamas, and then is it really worth them on the eve of Christmas, you know, flying to Vegas for one event because at the end

of the day, that's all it was. Because a lot of the big stuff at Win had already was like finishing or had already finished. So they were essentially, you know, coming just for one event. It wasn't really you know worth it for them, and a lot of these factors just you know, when you're talking of small fields, you know, we have twenty three entries. That's two you know, two, three, four people that couldn't make it because of just some

other thing. Well, there's a big difference between you know, twenty three entries and twenty seven percentage wise when you have these small fields. So it doesn't matter every every entry, you know, matters in these high stakes tournaments when you're talking like the ten k win main event. You know, if one guy, you know, you didn't play this year, I didn't play this year, that's not really going to

matter at the end of the day. Two entries for two trees out of you know, potentially sub thirty player field is a big difference.

do you see it fitting in next season? Like if you could just if you could pick the best time independent of everything else, Like where would you stick this?

You know, now we're satisfying what these players have requested, like travel for a week, but get you know, I think Nick Pechangelo has told me in person like yeah, we want to come and put millions of dollars of buyings in in a short time, so it's worth it. So doing one hundred k plow, doing the three hundred k super Hierolli ball, or maybe it was one hundred k plus some other high sex no limit events around October where there was no overlap with competing events, you know,

we would have got really big numbers. Now heading into next year, I would say this is coming up a bit of a failure, you know, even with the you know, even with all the variables we've discussed, it's you know, people are going to forget about that. When we announced this, say hyperthetly we're going to do it in May, people are just going to instinctively go. I don't think twenty three entries. That sucks with not you know, figuring out

the variables, even though we know those. So personally, I think it's not on my radar at all to put on next year. I don't have any interest in doing it, and that's because of that. But also, you know, with all the taxes, you know, we've heard, I've heard directly from players that you know, what their limit is this year buy and why So I don't think this fits

on the schedule. Obviously, there's people with more power than me at the company that may just say we're doing it December twenty second, and then it's on December twenty second. So but at this stage I'm not planning to do it again. We're just going to have to see how the year goes and kind of figure it out. Look may look if things change. You know, there's some stuff that came out the last few days about the taxes.

I just kind of did a tweet about it. But maybe things change even further, maybe we get an overruling year and we're back to normal. We don't really know, so yeah, I'll have to configure it. And you know, I think we're probably won't discuss it on this part or for a little while, but you know, you and you and may have discussed a kind of different idea for a highest stakes kind of buying event that I think will have a lot more legs than this will.

So I'd rather be putting my energy into to that event and making that be the one, the Al Marqui event for the season.

a viewer, I still love this event. I don't care if it gets sixteen players or you know, one hundred and sixty. I think it's still worth it to see the best of the best, you know, big buying tournament players play an extended event over three days in a really really good structure. I really like the freeze out format this year, you know, I think that that is something that like really tickles my fancy, Like I just

I love that. Like that's why I was so glued to this heads up match between Samo and Kuhn, Like it was just freaking incredible poker. Like so from a viewer, I would say like, yeah, you know, it's a bit of a bummer that, you know, you don't get thirty forty fifty sixty entries in this thing, right, But I still think it's elite poker at the highest level, a lot on the line, and that's what I want to see. I want to see the I want to see the best players trying to make the best decisions they can

in the highest pressure moments. And that's to me what super high rollabile prise events. Now, I also love things like like Triton, but I do think that Triton gets a little bit faster at the end in a lot of this, Like those events are pretty quick at the end of the day. And I get it, you know, you're catering to more VIPs and all that sort of stuff. Like I totally understand it. But but this is, like,

you know, I don't know. This to me is like the the best, most prestigious like Super high Roller title out there. And yeah, it's taken some hits in terms of field size recently, and it's it's not the best to do it in the United States. It's just difficult. But yeah, so I don't know. I would I would hope it doesn't go away, but I get that if it has to, you know, kind of go on a hiatus for a year or so as we kind of figure out what the heck is going to happen with everything,

you know, gauge, the player pool, et cetera. But I do love the event. You know, I personally think that Super high Roll will should go to five hundred k. You know, I don't I don't exactly know how I that's what I want to happen and then I'll like figure out the how later. But I don't know. I feel like the bigger the buy in, the better as

opposed to going the other way, you know. So, but I do look, if we super high rollable mixed games at one hundred k priceman, I do like having Super Bowl PLO at one hundred k price point, and then I think the super high rollerball you know itself would I would be trying to kick that thing up the other.

some interesting ideas. So if we were to say, if you force my hands, say let's schedule it next year, regardless of what you think, I'd obviously talk to them again see what they want to do, because they may obviously not care too much about the taxes, and then I would look to do how we kind of had originally planned where we had it following the hundred k PLO.

I think that's a nice synergy of events, and you could mix in some kind of mid to higher buyings in there to really centivize, you know, the Europeans just to come travel. You know, instead of giving them one event, right, which is the Super roller Ball, we're giving them the Super roller Bowl, one hundred k plow, the Super Higher Rollabule, say one hundred k no limit. Maybe there's a couple of twenty fives and fifties sprinkled in on those other days.

So yeah, you can come for the week and get a million dollars and buy ins in and actually make it worth your time. So yeah, gun to the head, That's what I would do next year. But we just really have to see, obviously how the landscape shakes out, you know, what how our schedule is like where we could put this, how is you know, the Trent schedule. You know, we've got obviously WPT doing some new stuff this this year. So yeah, we have to kind of wait and see. But hey, maybe we can get it

back on the schedule. Maybe we won't, so kind of have to play the waiting game.

super nice guy as well. He won Super High Rollable PLO in October, so not too long ago for him. And then here you have Jiao Samau winning Super High rollerbl in December to close out the calendar year, not the PGT year, because we still got to roll in to twenty twenty six, which we're going to do next here on the podcast as we swing things over to the PGT Last Chance Series. As the name suggests, as Tim and I have talked about in the past, this is the last chance to get into the PGT Million

Dollar Championship. The PGT Last Chance Series takes place January fifth through tenth at the Pokero Studio. There are six ten thousand dollars buying events. They're ten thousand, five hundred dollars buying. If you register on time, you get a four hundred dollars discount, so it's only one hundred dollars rake, which is pretty awesome. Players are allowed unlimited entries, so buckle up. I guess it's gonna be blasting time in

this thing. And then and then Tim wenton, did did something a little wacky crazy, I mean good, you know, in a good way. But last year three dream seats were given out based on the series leaderboard to people to get into the PGT million dollars Championship. This year he went up to to five. We might just go out, all right, cool, So I guess let's hit on that first, because that's kind of the coolest thing about this. You know, this season's Last Chance Series has that increase from three

to five Dream seats being offered. So what's the motivation behind that change? What have players been saying out there? I know you're talking to everyone and you know who's going to be coming in blasted.

free roll. Now that may not sound good, but what that means that it does create a lot of extra value in this tournament for both the players. Like, for example, you may just decide to rock up fire, some bullets run good, and you're in the free roll. But then you think about the TJ. Reid, Well, he's pretty close anyway, so like, yeah, I mean he's coming off a.

I'm gonna get in there. I'm going to try and I'm either going to try and win a dream c via the leaderboard or I'm going to try and get the points to the.

this run good in this week. Pick up some cash's, knock out the Michael Duex, the Sean Deebs, the Richard grecos that that may not be coming, and get into the top forty and then obviously in the middle of the list, the middle of the top forty. Every position you move up on the leaderboard, you gain five bbs for your starting stack in the million dollar three roll,

So there's ev for there. So really this series is perfect for everyone, doesn't matter where you are on the leaderboard, unless unless you're someone like a Michael Msrahi, who I have chatted to. He's got these three cashes, he's locked into fourth. He could you know, maybe he drops the fifth, sixth, seventh, day two no's, but otherwise he's see him pretty sweet. He could just take that one more week off rock

up for the championships. So either way, unless you're Michael Msrahi, there's a pretty decent amount of value for anyone that wants to come play PGT Last Chance.

I mean there's a lot on the line here. And as you and I have witnessed in the last couple of years, and most specifically last year during the Last Chance Series, I mean there is there are fewer sweats for a series like the Last Chance It's it's awesome in the studio. So you know, you got the players fighting for the top forty positions. You got players maneuvering

to get more chips in there. You know, you got some players that might just come out just as a little bit of a warm up, you know for the championship, you know, instead of coming in cold if they've had you know, two three weeks off between you know, whatever they were doing before the holidays and coming into the championship. So there's that, you know, you obviously have the dream seats aspect of things, and that's going to be a big fight. So this is going to be a pretty

exciting series. I'm pretty pumped see how it all plays out. I'm curious ultimately, you know, how many people come and play, you know, I'm always curious for our series, how many people come and play, you know. But I guess we'll wait and see and then Yeah.

eighty entrance per tournament, I think that's good. But I don't think this will be And I don't think we can use the data from this unless it's severely bad, like fifty entrants as you know, data points for the rest of the season because of all the added value here, you know, alongside the dream seats, the point chase, and the free roll, there's just so much on offer in this event. So uh yeah, I hope we get it.

I hope we get a good turnout. Obviously, there's a lot of big names you know that I kind of touched on that are on the fringes that will definitely be you know, wanting to be a part of the million dollar free roll. So I think we're going to see, you know, it also changes some of the way people play.

Like if you remember last year, you know, the main event champion Jonathan Tomay, I just needed one more cash and like there were some spots I just remember, like, you know, he's facing it all in, but they're close to the money and he's making like very results, you know, orientated folds, and I think there's a lot of that for some people, you know, where now there's ICM implications just making the money, just cashing making that next pay

jump is you know, you may leap you know, two, three, four, five, six spots on the leaderboard with if you can just make a six thousand dollars paye jump. So yeah, it's it's a very There's a lot of interesting dynamics with PGT Last Chance, and that's why it is a pretty fun series kind of to be a yeah.

sides are going to go on. I mean we're guessing, right, I mean, this year is this year's the riskiest of them all, just because again of that tax thing and what we're hearing from some of the players how they might back off plane and whatever. So it's going to be interesting to see how that happens, right, So I mean we'll see. I mean, hopefully it turns out to be awesome, but again, I mean, you just you never know at the end of the day.

to get in. But you are hot. He just won the Venetian the other day for seventy one or seventy two k something like that. He bagged the day one a Chipley last night from the next Venetian tournament. I mean, this guy is as hot as they come. Let's go Jeremy Becker. He also said, Max firing, Max firing, Jay Becks, let's go. So I'm in there for Jeremy freakin Becker. Let's go, baby.

top forty. So they come and they play the first one to three events, maybe maybe they can get some some stuff going, they get some points, then they're in the thick of it for the dream Seat Race, and then boom, they're playing the whole series. So that's why I'm drafting ODB. Plus he's my guy. Let's freaking good.

the Bahamas. For those PGT qualifying events as part of WSP Paradise, there are some other players either in the top forty or right around the top forty who would need to hit the three cash marks. So maybe they'll be out there trying to get it during the PGT Last Chance series. Maybe they just pass on it. It was all so then in that case, you would do like what Tim just said with Victor Blam, you remove them, You bump everyone up a slot, and that's how things go.

The second thing is that people need to opt in to play the championship. So what Tim is saying there with Victor Blom, Tim's been doing all this outreach. He's being the commissioner that we need. He's talking to all the players. Hey, you know, if you qualify in the top forty, are you going to play? Because what we don't want to happen. What the point of this is you don't want me. Let's say I'm in the Let's say I'm tenth right and I'm in I'm in the free row, I have my three cashes, I have enough

points whatever, but then I just don't show up. Well that then we just we want forty people in the free row. Okay, So if you're not going to show up, fine, just tell us and we'll give the seat to somebody else, Okay, the next person on the leader ward. That's how this is gonna work, because we ultimately want forty people from the leaderboard in the free row. Right, So that's that's how this works. So you have to confirm with the commissioner that you are going to play and opt in.

Then you have to have those three cashes and enough points. So so that's that's that all right. So you took Jim Calliby and Sewan Winter, I'm get taking I just thought of someone I forget all. I'm taking John Reared in Good One. Yeah, and I'm taking Chino ring okay, because I think Sheino's gonna be out.

steal it in the eleventh hour. I think last year the person who top leaderboard had more than six hundred points from this series alone, So it's very doable, you know, it's very doable, especially if if what Tim is thinking, if we get a really good attendance at this series and there's gonna be more points up for grabs. So you know, Gino's a performer, you know, so he's gonn to get out there and get it done. All right, sir. Last pick for you.

I mean that's gonna be fun to sweat. And for some reason, you know, for whatever coincidence there may be, like these leaderboard sweats for us have always broke pretty well in terms of giving us max entertainment. You know, remember the Poo series. You had Fox and play in that Bounty tournament getting heads up again, and then Lonus was at the twenty five K final table just folding, like you know, you had that stuff happening. So I

think we're gonna get a pretty good sweat here. So I like the chance that China reim, you know, kind of like it'd be hilarious if Gino like won the first event and it's like, oh, here we go.

this award. But you know, I just again, I see the way that the audience reacts when when Martin Cabrell is out there, so love him or hate him, you know, people are going to They're they're paying to see this movie. They're paying with their time to see the streaming. You know, the antics, the table talk, the casino Royal not like that all that sort of stuff from Martin Cabrell. Right now, another person who's kind of in the same vein Will Cassof. I could not in my right mind put him anywhere

near this award. He's not getting it. I personally feel like Martin Cabrell is way more palatable than Will Casoof. Plus Martin's like he's he's really I mean he's he's been a name, right, Martin Cabrell has been a name, right, and he's drawn buzz and eyeballs before, but he picked up a ton of team this summer and he's really like harnessed that that success and tried to do it. Like he's also appeared on a lot of like Hustler

Casino Live. He's on Venetian Poker Live. You know, he's out there getting it, getting his h his time in, and he's he's even like in the booth for WS to be Paradise, like just crazy stuff. And he had a lot of success. Like I got to kind of bake that in as well. So main character award, you got Alex Keating, Alan Keating. Excuse me, I have Martin Cabrell all right. The next one, the correct Breakout Player

of the Year. And yes, I am petty because I feel like the people who voted on the Global Poker Awards Breakout Player of the Year got this wrong pretty much every single year. So we're gonna list the correct Breakout Player of the Year. Okay, I'm uh, I'm gonna opt out of this, so go ahead. No I haven't, I haven't. I always struggle with this one.

bluse surge as whatever? You know? He won the two bracelets at the World Series, he won the twenty five UK No Limit, he won the fifteen hundred's the start eight and then he you know, he has some other deep runs and some other things. He's head, I think a runner up in Paradise. To me, that you know, like we no one knew this guy, right, you know he did have obviously have a Hindu man before that that goes just goes way back, but like you couldn't

have picked this guy out of a lineup. And then he comes to the World Series, gets a dozen cashers, two bracelets into completely polarizing events. To me, that that was I would say would be a breakout the World Series. And then pulling up his hindon right now, yeah, he went obviously went back to Europe and just collected cash as that every ept stuff there is, even wins and final tables. And then, like I said, that runner up

in Paradise. So you know, there's probably someone better out there, but off the top of my head, I feel like he is, you know, a pretty decent candidate for Breakout Player of the Year.

it during the summer on the streams. And the reason why I I ultimately ruled him out as compared to the player that I ended up selecting was because looking at the twenty twenty four for Jerry Off, he has a second place finish in an FPS main event at EPT Paris for almost three n K or over three dr k. He won at that same series a twenty two hundred dollars event for one hundred and fifty K, so it was, you know, he I think he had like seven hundred and fifty K and earnings that that

year before, So not that those things would would register him as as like his breakout year, but I just said, I just thought that that year, compared to who I picked their twenty twenty four, his year was a bit better. So it's more of a breakout in my side of things. But I understand totally what you're saying. And the two bracelets I think is awesome, you know, and one of them was in that that twenty five K that was

freaking enormous. So yeah, I went with listen, this is this is one of your guys, sir, This is a PGT guy.

point seven million. Right before that, he won the thirty five hundred dollars bet MGM Championship for seven hundred and seventy seven thousand dollars, So he had that, He had a He won that Borgada event. Remember they did that weird thing in Jim like like that sort of thing. He did that, and that was in January, you know, so that was in the year. I mean, this guy

absolutely freaking blew up. He won a poker Master's event too later on, and like, I mean, this guy came out of nowhere blew up in a twenty twenty five. So my winner is win Ley. It's a good breakout player of the year. Yeah for twenty twenty five. As far as I'm concerned. The way I do it is listen to the I go to the All Time Sorry, I go to the yearly Money List, clicking on people, and I say, okay, like if I click on this person, have they done anything before this year? Is the answer?

Yes or no? Okay? And then I like I start ruling people out, like number one is you know, Jesse Lonis is on the Ultime Money List, but obviously on his name, you see that he's done everything in the past year, so he's already like had his breakout, so he's no longer eligible. So then you just find someone like that and then you kind of weigh him against

each other. So you know, that's where I was. But I just felt like so many times you'd get like, I mean, listen and nothing against this guy, but like you get a John Wosnock would be nominated like win and it's like, what are we doing here, Like you know, just because he did that, did it on the biggest stage or like what you know? Like I don't know, So anyway, that's what we got. Win Lay is mine you took Blagieri off, which is a good respectable one

for for coming off with it on the fly. All right, Next award, they can't Miss Event of the Year not named the ws B Main Event, because if we did include the ws being event, that's the one we would just always pick what do you got for this one?

day one. See, I think that threw people off. And then on the plus side, you know, you got a ten million dollar first prize, you got people taking shots in twenty five k buyings, you got players that have qualified via for ten cents on club GG or GG poker. And then the third cool thing about it was, you know,

to be honest, the production is pretty good. You know, you got the two or three feature tables and all that stuff, so kind of all of those things you put them in a melting part kind of makes it, you know, can't miss event of the year. And for me personally, it was one I was you know, I don't watch that much poker outside of our events, but

this was one I had on every day. You know, I think you and me were, you know, we're either texting or something, and it was on on one of our screens and we're saying, check out this hand, Oh my god, did you see that kind of thing? So we were both kind of tuned in as well. And you know, I don't normally do that outside of our events outside of the WSP, So I think that to me shows it was kind of a can't miss event personally.

clear the schedule so I can play. Whatever it is, like, I'm going to try and do it, you know, even with the big money that's up top, the huge guarantee, all that sort of stuff. Like, I don't know, I don't necessarily see myself going to over extend to go to the WSP Paradise Super Main Event. That's not to say it's not an incredible event, and it is, right, but I just feel like I feel like where I am that event is still very hard. So I don't

know if I would ultimately go to do it. I mean maybe that that changes in you know, whatever ten months, eleven months or whatever, But where I sit right now, I just me personally wouldn't over extend to go do it, but I think it's certainly worthy of winning this award, So I don't I'm not saying you made a bad pick or anything like that. I went with the WPT Prime Championship at the win. I mean, as far as I'm concerned, that's the second best event of the year,

like hands down to play. Yeah, I don't even think it's like I don't even think it's I mean, like I think it's WSP main event. It's the WSP Prime Championship.

have no idea what they're gonna do. It doesn't seem like they're going to push their chips in or push more chips in to bet on the WPT World Championship itself, you know, because that's now been two years running without the guarantee. The numbers took a fairly meaningful dive this year. Even though it's still got more than eighteen hundred players, it's still a very good tournament to all that sort

of stuff. Yes, but it just doesn't seem like that's like the focal point, and it does seem like this Prime Championship is a focal point, so I would continue to push in there. It's also a nice break in terms of like you have WSP Paradise doing their thing with the Super Event and then you're on the complete other side of things going with the eleven hundred dollars buy in Prime Championship, and like, to me, this is like this is like the mid major, mid Steaks slash

low stakes tournament of the year by far. Like I think it's awesome, And in terms of like can't miss it, Like I'm blocking out my schedule, I'm planning for max Bullets like all that sort of stuff. So to me, that's the one that that I'm I'm not missing, And

I think it's I think it's an incredible event. I really do, so, Yeah, I think it's I had a good feeling that, you know, if it wasn't both of us picking the Prime Championship, we were probably gonna be like you were probably gonna pick the Superman event and I would pick this. So yeah, we got this one right as well, of course, because it is our awards at the end of the day. The next one, the

yeah Butt Award. This is for the player whose year came with an asterisk that everyone's going to bring up so when they say like, hey, remember so and so in twenty twenty five and then someone was like yeah, but blah blah blah, so we mentioned the player, but we're always gonna say yeah, but with it and you can kind of take that and and you know, put it into whatever meaning you want when you give out this award.

But yeah, Benny Glassar, I think is the year but the easy year butt for me.

he had a great year. And then everyone's gonna be like, yeah, but he's horrible to watch on TV, or yeah, but I can't stand that guy, or yeah but this, yeah but that right, like with with Martin Cabrell. So you know Cabrell had would he win one or two bracelets this year? I think two because he won one in Europe.

butt with him. So so he's my my yeah butt award there. Next up the Iron Chair Award. This is going to the player who simply would not leave, doesn't matter what's going on. This player was in the field and he was battling.

obviously becausof doesn't apply. But I'll let you. I'll let you take that one.

the next tournament? Like that's just how it operates. But because of that, you know, I was looking it up. He had eighty two cashes on the year In twenty twenty five, Pedro Palasio one hundred and fifty six cashes. I mean, this guy is this guy's is Florida's version of Jeremy Becker. I mean every tournament is just a two hundred dollar, one hundred and fifty dollars tournament at Seminal Coconut Creek, just NonStop, eighty dollars tournament, one hundred

dollars tournament. You know, just this whole thing is just wild. Last year he had like one hundred and fifty k in earnings and I'm not sure he played a tournament with a higher buy in the three hundred dollars. It's just non stop in this Oh there's there's a four and dollars one at the WPT at Seminal hard Rock,

but a six hundred dollar one as well. I mean this is just Pedro Palasio shout out to you, sir, Coconut Creek, Florida, just absolutely out there grinding, crushing this other guy too, well, not this guy, this guy who the guy in second place? We had one hundred and thirty year. Yeah, he's all in. Where's he at?

this guy to a deal. It's just outrageous whole thing. South Point Nightly, south Point Nightly, south Point Nightly, south Point. It's just not every once in a while you'll get like the Orleans pops in there or whatever. But yeah, this is wild. So anyway, shout out to the grinders out there, you know, shout out to the grinders out there.

a similar year to the next year. You know, So if you gave me, like basically one name that I could bet on, being like, hey, will they achieve the same sort of success of another elite year, you know, this is the person that I would be better on. So who you got?

I'm going to rule out twenty twenty and twenty twenty one because you know that old you know that old virus thing imagig. But basically last year at eight point eight, twenty twenty three, nine point eight, twenty twenty two, seven million, twenty nineteen, thirteen point five, twenty eighteen, ten, My point is, obviously twelve's a lot more than what you would say he's averages over the last few years. But he is going to continue to travel and play all the trents,

play all the big stuff here. I don't think his playing volume change. So it's definitely very likely that he can replicate the amount of winnings. You know, he's had this year, and he hasn't really won a lot tournament wise compared to you know, some of these other names you name, but you know, he won a super higher roller here at napt he won to try an event, a couple close calls at the World Series, but no

like super marquee wins. So I think he has still a little bit of room to convert a lot of these you know, final Like you look at his results of trying. You know, we got a seventh and eighth, the sixth, the sixth at that stuff. You know, we had that one win, but we had eight first, second, eighth, you know, Paradise, he had a fifth, like his World Series second second or one of those seconds was the Ariahrola, but second he's like right there this year, sorry, last

year without getting that big marquee win. So even though he cashed for you know, twelve million plus, which is a lot compared to the last few years. The fact that he kind of fell short in the big moment shows that I think there is still some room for him to, with that doubt, replicate his results, especially with him, you know, not being a tax paying American.

likely to run it back. Tim has got to.

Floppy lost. Bryce Yackey we all know from the fifty k PPC against josh Aria took that horrendous beat in what Douce seven triple draw. So this is the Connor Yacky. It is the most memorable beat of the year. I'll let you go fests I have now this one's I might get a little pushback here, but I'm going with it, okay. Jared Blesnik Romayne Lequay aces versus nines in a the six bet pot in the WSP main event when look

flop the nine. The thing is is like the money didn't get into the turn and Laquay had freaking quakes like, but still, this was a beat. The way that this hand played out, there is no way that Loque should ever have bucking nines here, yet he did in an absolutely wild hand left Jared Blesnick freaking stunned. Like it just just crazy shit in this one. So it was aces versus nines. I believe it was maybe button or

cut off for Blessnick and big blind for Luquay. It was raised, re raised, re rais, reraise, reraised, call nine five three or nine five six or something on the flop they ended up getting the money on the turn when it's another nine. So yeah, to me, that that was that was the most memorable beat of the year. Plus with the way Jared acted afterwards where he was like walking around like just totally stunned. Yeah.

one million dollars. First, I know it's not really a bad beat, but how do we not put the the Benny Glasa Eric wasses in hand.

people that I've talked to, it was with purpose. Okay, like they had some beef going back whatever, Okay, I get it. But like I mean, come on, I mean come on, like this was ouch. I mean, I you know, come on. So yeah, that was that was something and

if you watched. He later appeared on Venetian Poker Live and they started talking about it, and he said God slow rolled him like basically that like because of the past stuff that they might have had, which I thinks them back to the summer, that it was like the poker gods giving it back to him, giving it back to Benny Glauser. So therefore God slow rolled him like oh, I mean okay, like I mean, this was this was absurd. Like I I felt so bad when I watched that happen. Yeah,

I mean, how could you not feel so bad? I was like holy shit, I mean like really on that stage in that moment, like okay, you want to do it like level two, I mean okay, like I get it. I would probably say that it would probably not have been that bad, like if it was a stone bubble and you did it to him, because you know, yeah,

I understand, like it's a stone bubble. It hurts, and it's like a difference of you know, zero or fifty K or maybe seventy five K if you had the bonuses or whatever, like I get it, but like this was the final table bubble or whatever. That was holy shit, man, like what good? God? Like, Yeah, it's like if somebody told if you were to tell me that you were gonna if you were planning to do this, I'd be like,

that's fucking hilarious. Don't you dare fucking do that. You know, it's one of those things.

happened in that year? So what is who is the face of the Year for twenty twenty five?

match for one of them. You know, you could say, hey, this was that was a pretty big defining moment that's kind of carried through the year. And when I say carried through, we see a lot of you know, if you're in the in the X streets, the Twitter streets, you see a lot of you know, we'd still say a little beef between both sides. It's fantastic, to be honest, sitting.

it's also like not with this goal. It's with the goal of like covering their events and getting that sort of content out there.

I don't know. I don't see how taking that sort of strategy then translates to conversions for your website.

is that's like interesting to me? Yeah, I mean that Prime Championship again, it's it's the second best event to play in the world. I highly encourage everyone to play it. It's easier to play than the main event because it's one tenth to buy in. That event is freaking sick. It's awesome, Okay, But like that's the best event, in my opinion, out of that series. When shouldn't it be the WPT World Championship.

Outside of that, really nothing. My cash games are nearly purely or mixed, and it's just more for fun and so we're playing small stakes. So yeah, I'm not at all focused on any cash games anymore. So overall one basically ten point three K. I don't really track my online results like you do. I did win five hundred bucks on Club WPT, dumped about eight hundred dollars on WSP chasing those one hundred and sixty dollars main event flips.

Anyone goes looks at my shark shark scope, you'll see a massive decline from those because my average buying is like eight dollars on WSP so they were my results. I played probably more than I thought, mainly because I started the year. I ended twenty twenty four decently and I kind of started the year pretty good. And then obviously the main event cash was kind of gave me that freedom to play a little bit more than I thought. As for my twenty twenty five goals, I had, What did I have? I had?

for five digits. Obviously, when you catch the may and that's you know, five digits cash a five digits in the calendar. Last time I did that was twenty thirteen. Took obviously quite a few years off when I was working and stuff, But yeah, so I achieved all my goals. I was pretty kind of happy, you know, happy about.

Average buy in fifty nine cashes, which is only sixteen points sixty seven percent. That's pretty shitty. Total cashes there sixteen four hundred so negative on the online tournament front negative seven six d and twenty So overall, I finished up twenty thousand and eighty two dollars decent year. I mean, I'm happy with it. So yeah, my goals were to just fix shit and continue to improve my game, fix things to get better. I definitely achieved that. I got

a lot better. I fixed a lot of stuff. I studied harder than I ever had in that same vein, I had a lot of things I still need to work on, and I've still cost myself in some big spots, most recently in the WPT Prime Championship when I fucked it up royally at the end, so I need to improve that. I also said that I wanted to win a trophy MTT, so like a ring of bracelet, you know whatever, a Venetian Lion, the wind trophy, et cetera.

Didn't do that new career best live score. I did achieve that WSTWE Main Events five figure MTT score and a buy and of fifteen hundred dollars or less. I didn't do that. I would have done it had I not fucked up the Prime Championship, but I fucked up

the Prime Championship, so I didn't do that. And then something I realized before we get into our goals for next year, but you know, these are kind of are kind of all results oriented goals other than the first one, which is to fix stuff, and I don't really like that process. So I'm taking a bit of a different approach to my goals going forward. And I guess we'll talk about that next. You can go first and give me your goals for your poker goals for twenty twenty six.

a multi flight event close as I've had. I finished thirteenth in a Venetian three hundred months a stack, so yeah, I really just want to hit try and get to that final table. Now, this guy is probably a little bit more tougher with kind of you know, I probably can achieve it if I do the other one. But I basically want to profit more than thirte four hundred and fifty dollars in one event. The reason that number is because back in twenty eleven, I finished second in

a fifty dollars accumulator for thirteen thousand, five hundred. Now I remember this event pretty specifically. Actually did a heads up deal with my friend. We chopped the money evenly played for the trophy. I kind of remember what the number is doesn't really matter, But on the handed mob, I just want to profit for more than thirteen four point fifty. And then a kind of a non poker playing goal is just I have some poker side projects

we're working on. I just want to put some energy of that make sure we I can kind of like kick them off in a good spot. But yeah, slightly different goals to last year. I would say that the profit one is probably you know, I might miss that one. Hopefully the other two I can kind of tick off the other three. Actually, I'm kinda say I don't really

have big plans to change my kind of volume. I just kind of I think both of us are very very limited to our time, and we kind of have to play according to what our work schedule brings, so

you know, that's always going to dictate what we can play. Like, you know, we have events on the PGT coming up in January that overlaps pretty decent events here in Vegas, so that's kind of a bummer that will miss those, But hey, you know, works more important than poker until we you know, win a couple million dollars.

out better, which makes a lot of sense. So I just put together a bunch of process goals and then hopefully as a result of those processes, if I hit those goals, then then it will lead to results. First, one study on my own for four hundred hours, at least four hundred hours, So I mean, I probably won't study every single day just because I need a break

here and there. But if I were to study every single day this three hundred and sixty five days in the year, it's a little bit over an hour each day, you know, But we'll see how things go. Like yesterday, I studied for three and a half hours, you know, and and hopefully I just stack those and continue to improve on that. If I do study for four hundred hours this year, will be the most I've ever studied by a long shot. So you know, hopefully that leads

to two bigger things. I don't just want to include individual study into my goals. I do want to start working with the poker coach for at least fifty hours over the course of the year. So maybe that's once a week for an hour, you know, whatever it may be.

have a good relationship anyway, We're good friends. We've been friends for a while. But you know, he'll just fucking tell me I'm an idiot, like, which is good because you need to hear that and he's he's coached for a while, so he has like those systems in place, so you know that that's what I'm using right now. Maybe that changes, maybe it doesn't, whatever, it doesn't matter, but either way, I think it's just good to and

maybe it's not a poker coach. Maybe you just set aside time, you know, for those listening out there to talk with friends about stuff, because it's just good to hear an outside perspective on your play and stuff and just not be like, yeah, like I'm doing this, this is what my study says, but like, what am I missing, what's not working whatever. It's always good to get a second set of eyeballs on things to possibly improve. Drill fifty thousand hands on gto Wizard, which is a good amount,

you know, I would like to do that. So it I mean, in a lot of ways, it's basically like playing poker, but you're just not putting up any sort of money and you get that real time feedback. You get to study the spots after, so you know that will I mean, that's going to kind of be rolled into where I say, the study on my own for four hundred hours. Part of that's going to be just

drilling hands and studying those hands. But I still want to be able to put in that volume of hands on gto Wizard and listen, you can you don't have to use eto Wizard. You can use whatever you want. But that's what I do. And then I got to get out there and play, because you know, the best way to get better is to get out there and actually experience it. Put yourself in that arena, try the stuff that you're learning, try new things, all that sort

of stuff. So play fifty live MTTs, which is kind of just play fifty live MTT entries, I think, because each entry is like a new tournament basically, and then play five hundred online MTT entries. I played thirty three live and three hundred and fifty four entries online last year. So I need to uptick that my online play will be very predominantly just on Sundays. Put in a high volume online on Sundays, and then I'll dabble in various stuff around town here in the other stuff. So yeah,

we'll see how I go. And then hopefully, if I can do all this stuff, it leads to good results and it leads to me winning a fucking trophy and having the best year I've had and blah blah blah, all that sort of stuff that comes with it. So yeah, and even if it doesn't, I mean, maybe everything all the time and effort that I put in studying this year and all this work pays dividends in twenty twenty seven. I don't know, you know. So I just got to put in the work and I got to continue to

put in the work. So and I do think it's fun to put in the work. I enjoy it. So yeah, just gonna try try my best see what happens, hopefully not fuck it up like.

no particular order to my list. It's just stuff I've kind of been writing down in a in the notepad on my phone that I would like to see happen. So if you're out there listening and you have any sort of influence on making these things happen, I think you should try and do that because selfishly, I think they're the best ideas, and Tim, you can just tell me if they're good or bad. Okay, okay, you have

no idea what's coming? By the way, Nope, the listeners out there, first thing, bet'am Jim Poker, Can you guys get your ass in Nevada for like, well, let's go. You know, you know, I know we obviously have friends at at MGM at Aria and they've you know, they're saying that it's coming, and we've heard that it's coming. You know, we heard that it was coming at the end of twenty twenty five. You know, it didn't come by the end of twenty twenty five. Is it going

to come by the end of twenty twenty six? Like? Can we make this happen? Especially now with all the interstate pooling that is available? You know, part of it is it seems like the BETEMGM poker online product is pretty awesome from everything that you see out there. They have a lot of qualifiers into the events. You know, that's happening at Borgata, that's happening in Maryland. Even they qualify a lot of people from you know, New Jersey

and wherever into stuff here in Vegas. So having that sort of access to online qualifiers being here in Nevada, I think would be great. Also, I just I want the competition aspect of things. You know, WSP dot com is good, but can we get another person in there to have that competition to give us more options? Right? Like? I just you know, I want Betam Jim Poker to come to Nevada. So let's go. If you guys are listening, can we just make it happen. Number two again, no

particular order here. Dinner breaks they got to go in ninety eight percent of tournaments. They just absolutely have have have to go. See you later. Get rid of these freaking dinner breeks. Okay, if the tournament, if the tournament doesn't have a buy in that is greater than three thousand dollars, you should be disqualified from having dinner breaks. I don't care. Get rid of them.

people out there said ten am. I know, I think Bay one on one does nine am. I I think that shit's a little bit too early. I like, I mean, selfishly speaking, I like a couple hours in the morning to be able to take care of some work stuff, get the kids to school, et cetera, like do that sort of stuff, and then go play. But I also think that like starting at noon, starting at one play until midnight or later is ridiculous as well. So I like eleven am. I think it's a good compromise for everyone.

It's not that early. You know, you can still stroll in at twelve or one if you want to come a little bit late. So I think eleven am should kind of be across the board. Also sticking in line with the structure sheet sort of stuff here, the close of registration in a poker tournament should be a posted time, not end of level X or beginning of level X,

and it should be posted on the structure sheet. Okay, So for the organizers out there, yourself included, mister commissioner, figure out Okay, we're going to close it at the end of level six, right, figure out what time that is. If everything runs on time, add ten minutes and put it on the structure sheet.

that not everyone can do that. Not everyone is willing to do that, et cetera. But what I will say is that whoever does this first, I believe is going to win, like in terms of like getting bigger fields, being a better place to play, all that sort of stuff, getting the love from the playing community, like if the if the win or the Venetian here in Vegas for their series, or to be like, listen, it's eight handed

from the start. And I understand when you do stuff like the large fields, you know you have to account for more tables, space, dealers, whatever. You know, you can solve that issue. Okay, open some more ballroom space, some more tables, get some more dealers, add an extra starting flight, whatever the heck it is. Figure it out. But the venue that I think makes it more comfortable for players to play at a table, I think is going to win. And I will also say that people might give me, Okay,

I need to open more tables, that's more dealer money whatever. Okay, eight handed goes faster, I think players will then buy in more and you'll make it up at least somewhat in rate. So I think it's fine. So I think the first I think the first venue that does that is going to win. And like be be ahead of everyone else. You know, it's gonna be one of those things where like, yeah, but over here they play eight handed from the start, and that's gonna be like something

that everyone talks about. Like, so that's a change that if if I was an operator, if I was a venue, I would be trying to implement. Okay, another one. Table breaking should be one hundred percent random at all times, all times. And you know what that would do all these people who look at the tournament clock and say, okay, breaking order twenty one, blah blah blah whatever, and then your asses start Yeah we're not on a video for

this podcast, but Tim pointing at himself. Your asses starts stalling.

to another tournament? Like I don't understand.

times it happened. If a live series ever has synchronized breaks that line up with one another, you should be fined. Like it should just not be allowed online. Everything needs to be synchronized fifty five minutes at the hour boom live never synchronized, always staggered always. There's only so much bathroom space, so much hallway space, all this sort of stuff, like we should never ever ever have multiple tournaments going on break at the same time. You should just not.

And if it's if it just so happens that like things end up getting moved, they start late one, they're gonna line up, say hey, guys, by the way, we're gonna play ten minutes into the next level and then we're gonna send you on break so we avoid the other shit. Like, just just make those changes. Okay, that needs to happen, all right, What else I got here?

I got one more? Tournament clocks need to be paused or time needs to be given back during TV and stream all in moments that take up extra time, because that is ridiculous. And this is another argument why final table levels should be hands per level, not time per level. Buddy, some hands take an extra minute and a half to two.

all this time. Yeah, because it's ridiculous, especially when you know when you have streaming before final tables, because then you have one table that's playing on this this it's already slow because people are playing a little bit differently. They're playing a little bit tighter. Maybe they're nervous being on stream. They got to put make sure that they put their cards in the box, like this whole thing right.

Then on top of it, the all ends are taking longer. Yeah, and even if it is just ten seconds longer per hand, you play one hundred hands, like that adds up. So like just add the time back, or pause the clock during the the all in moments or whatever, you know, or just run the damn cards out.

it doesn't matter. But you know, the cash game players want to play fast, they want to move things along whatever. So but in a tournament, like you should totally give time back, like why can't. It's like in soccer when there's all this this time that the referee keeps and at the end of it it's like, okay, there's seven minutes of injury time, Like just add the time back or again, or just make all at the final table. It's hands per level, not time. That's also a very

easy fix. I feel like, so those are my things that I would like to see happen, and I know you're on board for all of them. I know you're gonna put them all on the PGT structure sheets coming up for the next season. You know, I think we're in.

start coloring up. It just creates an unneeded level of stupidity and slowness from everyone. It's like everyone kind of forgets what they're doing immediately. The person who gets the rack like thinks that they have to start coloring up, which is not true because you still got twenty five minutes. Okay. In the case that you do color up, then everyone's just making change for the next twenty minutes of the level,

which is also annoying. Right. Then there's also times where like there's times in like let's say I got a rack, I gotta rack the other day of Venetian I was gonna color up. I put it, I put it behind my back in the chair, and I didn't do anything, and the dealer was like, you need to start coloring up. I'm like, no, there's eighteen minutes in a level. I do not need to start coloring up. And like the guy next to me was like ready to pass me as chips. I'm like, buddy, no, you're about to be

in the big blind. Let's not do this right now. We'll do it, you know, four minutes before the break. I got it. It's fine, Like, but like everyone kind of like gets weird about it and then it ultimately slows everything down. So can we just like somehow fix this. I don't know exactly what to fix it, like, but just fix it. It's really annoying.

I'll just buy them up. I don't really I don't care as much as ODB does or you, but I do think it is it does like when I've seen the amount of times you see you know, a four giver rack guys in a big hand and it just like throws them completely off. I guess that's a little bit on that person for not being out of concentrate as well.

in Ari or other places. Let's just let's just get pokeerrautles is better. Let's just get everyone on Parker out list, or alternatively get their own app like WSP.

you know, it's been. It's just it's just better, it really is, you know, and listen, maybe the whole competition thing that we often talk about, whether it's live operators, online rooms, whatever it is, maybe the competition drives the Bravo product to get better. They have recently updated their app, you know, so maybe they are in terms of like trying to improve it. But yeah, I agree, poker alss right now is is so far ahead that everyone really

just needs to use them. The old gripe that I have against poker Alice, they can use a little a little U I U X like upgrades. You know, it's a little bit kind of old there. And they got to add the last names.

So yeah, I I like it. One thing I do think is a little bit funny with with poker Alice is because you have the the tablet is like built into the table, right, and some people, mainly the one seat in the nine set, can see the tablet and can see the names. Yeah.

Like how about that? How about we all just say like, hey, I'm Donnie Peters, go look me up. No big deal, Like it's like what are we doing here? So anyway, I do agree with you, though, Let's go Poker Outls.

great upgrade. So you know another thing. I don't know if it's out yet. You're obviously seeing something like that right now in your poker outlics at But you know again another like good thing that's that's coming because if I don't have to carry a bunch of cash around all these different venues, I can just press buttons like that's that to me is great? Right, So yeah, another reason why I think that they're ultimately winning.

sometime in the future. So podcast at PokerGO dot com is the email addressed that you can send in any questions and Tim and I will do our best to get to those in an episode in the future. But for now, we will talk to you guys later.