33rd Place Like a Boss

Ducky and Donnie recap an explosive Day 7 of the World Series of Poker Main Event, taking a look at the remaining 24 players and putting a bow on the Will Kassouf show.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Poker Go A Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. His
name is Tim Duckworth. It is one twenty am on Sunday,
July thirteenth. We just wrapped up Day seven of the
twenty twenty five World Series of Poker Main event. Speaking

(00:32):
of twenty five, they are down to twenty five players
in this thing. Is that right? That's not right? No, okay,
then they're down lower than that. What are they down to?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
I thought I saw twenty four, But of course the
clock is gone.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Of course the clock is gone. You gotta go to
the next day. That's how it works.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm just going to count the There, you got three
open seats.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Count the hip counts. There, you go twenty four. So
I was wrong. I stand corrected. Twenty four players left
three tables of eight. Let's go, baby. They should play
eight handed. They get to like day six of this tournament.
That's what it should be. That's my opinion on that.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I don't like it.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, because you're knit and you'd probably rather have this
play ten handed. Okay, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Nine handed poker is ridiculous, fans.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
This is all I like nine handed for this Azie millions,
that was six handed. Let's keep it wbt A playing
the first of all.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Okay, hold on, I know we're supposed to talk about
it was from man, but we got to talk about
this for a second. No, this, that's ridiculous. All tournaments
these days should be trying to go eight handed as
soon as humanly possible. They should try and start handed.
If they can't do that because of space, they should
be eight handed, NonStop. Okay, with increased rank, then why
would it be okay with increased rake. They've already increased
pay for more deals. They've already increased the rake. Okay,

(01:44):
is already increased. Okay, So if that's the case, you
say they got to pay more dealers, well, then you
just do it later on in the event. So the
hit is not that bad. It creates a better product overall.
It creates a better product for the players, It creates
a better product for all viewers out there, because eight
handed poker is simply the better. All right, let's get
to the main event. Baby, there are twenty four players left.

(02:04):
Tim's got the chip counts, so we're gonna go over
those in a second. Of course, we're gonna touch on
everything else that's going around here at Horseshoe and Paris.
But as far as it's concerned for Tim and I,
we really don't leave Horseshoe once we get to this
point in this event.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
There's another casino.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah there is, I mean there is it. Well, if
you ask them one of our qualifiers, Nicknack Castro, you
have to go outside, down the streets and crazy come back.
No shout out to Nick Nick Castro, love you. I mean,
it didn't mean to shoot that shot there, but I did.
Any Kenny Hallett Chip Leader.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
I put him in table old.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Oh my god, that's how picture this guy's outrage.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
And I was literally about to start like counting and
ordering until you threw it to me because I thought
we're gonna have a little bit more time. But yes,
he is the chip way to sixty one million on
the dot. He is a head of looks like Brexton Dunaway,
same table bioworks common fifty one point one million, thirteen chips.
Looks like we have Muhammad Perrati fifty.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Point one said, didn't I say look out for PARTI
a couple of days ago, and I played with him
I said, this guy is gonna make a run one
thousand percent. He was very very, very very good. And
then we also said in an interview today with the WSP,
he said, I'm rich. I'm rich, not about the money,
really love. I don't know if it was like I

(03:26):
don't know if it was like he meant to say
something else, but that's how, just how he said it,
because there's a little bit of a language barrier for him,
but it was still funny to hear him tell dre Orne.
He goes, I'm rich, No big deal.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
So PARATEI your boy has uh fifty point one million.
The next fourth in chips, big drop Adam Hendrik's thirty
nine point five million, and then another decent drop thirty
three point nine million for Luca Bojovi. So three kind
of you know, obviously Kenny is is Kenny at the top.

(03:56):
Then this, you know, Braxton and Muhammad right there fifty million,
and there's a big job to Adam Hendrix another job.
So there's some separation amongst the top five. And I
would say probably the most scariest thing is we look
at table one, the feature table to end the night
kind of we mentioned Braxton, we mentioned Kenny Hallett both
at the same table. Adam Hendricks also there with that

(04:18):
thirty nine million plus you got Daniel Ishan twenty eight million,
your Dai Hung Lee twenty five million. You got Ltara
Guerrera eighteen million, you got Anthony Greig twenty two million.
Not only do you have maybe the best players in
the tournament, you know, like both for you know what
people who are people are rooting for people with the
most you know, the most famous of all the players.

(04:40):
They're all at the one table, and they will have
all the chips. We could have like a two hundred
million chip leader. There is a world where that could
possibly happen in this table.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, and this this is kind of the juncture of
the tournament where we start to see I'll say, anywhere
from like one to three players really separate themselves from
the pack. I get the sense, you know, just kind
of thinking back without actually going through everything that we
see that sort of every year, you kind of get
the haves and the have nots. People really do start
to excel and really put some distance between some of

(05:09):
the other stacks. And then you know, some of those
middle and shorter stacks, they're kind of like trying to
just maneuver their way somehow to one get pay jumps
to make the final table, right, And but that sort
of playing style doesn't necessarily lead to chip accumulation. So
you have the big stacks really accumulating, and you have
those shorter and middle stacks just kind of trying to
hang around. So then that creates this gap. So of

(05:31):
course we'll see how this plays out, you know, going
into the final table, but it is going to be interesting.
Another interesting points I believe, and you can correct me
if I'm wrong, is no redraw. I believe they told
the players up there, same seats.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
You know what's funny is that you've been put around
Parker quite a long time, right, too long? You know,
there is no regil once you get to three tables,
and if it feels under one hundred, it's not until
the two tables. There is a TV that asked me
that question, is that Ragiel right? I'm like one that yes,
And then I had.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well, I think it's just people that just assume end
of day. End of day equals redraw, Like, I think
that's just what they assume.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
And then a deal a dealer asked me, I'm like right,
you a dealer, So, uh no, they're no redraw. These
are the three tables. There will be a redraw at
eighteen players. Now, I'm going to assume that our production
team they're going to probably just do the same features.
You know that that table one is very good, you
know the Kenny Hallett, d Young Lee, Miss Rah he

(06:30):
I forgot to even mention miss Rohilettaro Guerrero. Well we're
gonna go with Hendricks and Greg. That's the best feature
table we have had all summer. So I assume that
stays up there. I think two will stay at two,
Three will stay at three until we get down to
that final eighteen before.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
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(07:07):
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(08:11):
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(08:33):
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dot com. All right, So let's go through a little
bit more deeper on like who's left in the field.
Obviously we touched on Kenny Hallard. He is the chip leader,

(08:54):
the Belgian. He kind of lives in two parts of
the industry. He's like half player, half industry person who
does some tournament directing. He does the big SPACEYFCB spreadsheet,
which is obviously a thing every single year that you know,
lays out It's a Google doc, I believe, and it
lays out all the different tournaments around Las Vegas, so

(09:15):
you can take a look at that. Kenny had an
epic run to the main event final table in twenty
sixteen when he finished in sixth place for around one
point five million dollars, and it's very much shaping up
like he's going to make it back to Poker's Pinnacle,
back to the WSB Main Event final table. If he's
able to ride out this chip lead, I would guess
he's a heavy favorite to do so it's going to

(09:36):
take a pretty big demise from him. He did get
away with a fairly decent bluff today. I forget who
exactly it was against trying to look at the chip
Counstan and see if I can find it. But but
Kenny bluffed on the river with Queen high and his
opponent had ace Queen and rivet a pair of aces
in a spot that it seemed like it was just

(09:58):
an obvious check call with your hand with ace Queen,
but the player went with check fold instead. I might
have been Schultz but I was extremely shocked to see
that fold. But that allowed Kenny Howard to get some chips.
Braxton Dunaway second and chips Braxton Donaway one. What did
he win? He won the Monster Stack or the Milli

(10:20):
Maker one of those two.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Before I want to say that, I wish that I
could I interviewed him after he's win. Actually, well, then,
why don't you know because it was like seven years ago.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, but you should know he won the Monster Stack
and it was not seven years ago. It was in
twenty twenty three, which was two years ago. It was
like seven years ago. Yeah, it does feel like seven
years ago, but it was not. Yeah, he won the
fifteen hundred dollars Monster Stack in twenty twenty three for
one million, one hundred and sixty two thousand dollars. So
Braxton Dunaway is not a stranger to the winner circle.

(10:52):
Here at the WSP is up to over forty million
in chips, second in chips behind Kenny Hollard. We got
Muhammet Parate, the Italian. He's the one I played with
on day five. I thought he was very very good.
He wasn't like good in the sense that he was
like in a lot of hands, overly aggressive, he was selective,

(11:15):
he was very calculated, aggressive at the right times, played
some big pots. A couple of times they didn't go
to showdown, so he didn't know if he was bluffing
or not. But a very very very solid player. Chatting
with him at the table, he's one of those guys
where when he's in a hand he looks like a
stone cold, freaking killer. When he's not in hand, he's chatty,
he's smiling, he's a pleasure at the table. Lives in

(11:37):
San Remo, place that I love. Used to go there
for the EPT Mohammed Prati. I would not be surprised
if you see the Italian make the final table and
ultimately win this thing. You heard it here, guys, you
heard it here. I have firsthand knowledge of playing with
this guy, and he's a freaking beast. Okay, really a
freaking beast. I joked about the interview he did with
Drea Renee earlier in the day, which you could find

(12:00):
on the Divisipy Twitter account, but he you know, he
joked about first, he joked that he wasn't in the
main event. He was in the tune or fifty dollars
daily deep stack, which of course is a lie. Then
he joked about you know, being rich. But end of
the day, he did say what a lot of people
feel at this point. It's a dream to get this far,
and it would be a dream to make the final table.
So you know, I'm kind of rooting for Mohammed Pradi.
I feel like he's the last one from that table

(12:22):
that we had and you know, let's go. We were joking,
We were like, well, we can all just you know,
fold to the final table, right, I think we can
just fold around. No, but uh, Prodi's actually making hit
and happen. We got Adam Hendricks, obviously a beast, so

(12:44):
it's funny with Adam Hendricks. He's known as the Iceman,
which I don't exactly know why, unless it has to
do with his roots in Alaska. Probably is there any
chance people think he looks like Valcoma from Top Gun
or is it like some sort of combination of the two?

Speaker 2 (13:01):
You know what, I didn't say it until you mentioned them.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Like, it's very subtle. It's not like it's not like
it doesn't jump off the screen, but it is very subtle. Okay,
So I just wonder if that's the tie. I also
wonder if it's the Anchorage Lastka thing. Well, you and
I know him well enough that we should just ask
him tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
I think what we see online name is like Alaska,
Egypt or something like he guys but like something like that.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Okay, well, because we grew up in Egypt. He did, Yeah,
he did say that the other day. Yeah, I remember that.
But he's crushing it a while.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
We're all, why can we sign Henrick real quick? Because
you know, we are obviously one of our PGT players
regular players, and you kind of mentioned this is a
pretty big spot for him for you know, the PGT
Million Dollar Championship and you know everything that that entires
of being a PGT player. You know, he currently attaint
seventy eight points. You know, we're looking out looking upwards.

(13:54):
If he can win this main event, right, he's gonna
get fifteen hundred and fifty points. That's going to put
him right into second place, right behind Alex Foxon. So
even with obviously that's the dream scenario, but let's say
he you know, bus right now, he is in that
kind of points region of eight hundred points where we

(14:14):
think that will qualify him. Obviously we've got a whole
half of the season left, so there's a big spot
for him for you know, locking up firstly a seed
in the pg tam million dollars Championship, but then being
in a position to firstly build upon your starting chip
stack because you know, chips are waited to lead up
a position, but also you know, potentially being in contention

(14:35):
to win PGT Player of the Year and that fifty
thousand dollars bonus for finishing is the top dog and
the leader one.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
So yeah, I mean, you know, Adam has been around
the game for quite some time. As you mentioned, he's
always in the studio plane. Everything other than the mixed
games he plays in a no limit he plays the PLO.
So seeing someone of his experience, his skill set, you know,
go deep in this event, it's pretty cool to see
and we'll see if he can ultimately break through and

(15:04):
get that win. You know, I would say, given everything
we know of Hendrix, his how good he is at poker,
how well he's playing right now, he certainly seems as
locked in as ever, he's got a pretty big chip
stack to go along with it, I would say he's
probably gonna make the found table you know, I know,
it's like it's one of those things where you seem

(15:25):
like you're so close to making the final table with
twenty four players left. You know, you only got to
get down to the final nine, but it really is
still so far away. I mean, a lot can happen
in a day of poker. You know, Coolers can be had,
bad beats can be dealt out.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
So if you got it, you got it.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, if you got it, you got it. And we're
going to talk about that that guy at some point
today on the podcast.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Are we allowed to Why? Why wouldn't we like we
might get escorted off the premises if we talk.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
No, I don't think we'll get escored off the premises,
but he did get escored off the premises. Just scanning
through the chip counts Tony Greg Greg yet on that
fat table. He's also up there on that feature table.
Tony Greg doesn't play all that often these days, but
looks like he hasn't lost a step. You know. Greg
Merson on the Table one podcast, he said that he

(16:14):
probably believes Tony Greg is just one of the best
minds in poker. He's just one of those guys that
can really understand anything. Lives in Hawaii now doesn't really
have a ton of involvement with the game, but here
he is absolutely crushing it, making a deep run. We
did lose his buddy Greg Merson earlier on the ban. Yeah,

(16:34):
the milkman, who I believe was trying to order milk
right at the start of the day from the server,
which was very weird. I'm sure the server he has
a jug of milk, no, but I don't think he
had the jug of milk with him, so it was
very weird.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
He didn't bring the jug of milk, and he was
eliminated today. Shonder m Greg, you boy.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
It's the same thing with Ronnie Barta. I brought him
hoopoo a the it's the a car protector, but the
hoopoo is the national bird of Israel, okay. And I
brought him this and I talked about with him what
it signifies. Because I'm a big I like the car
protector things, so I brought it to him. He had
a great Day one in the main event. He finished

(17:14):
with like one hundred and forty one hundred and sixty
thousand or something like that. He busted on day two
and he left the hoopoo at home. So it's his fault.
It's his fault exactly. He left the hoopoo at home.
I know we got to bring the thing.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
I know when we were like run running date, when
we kept surviving, we were like, I'm doing the same
thing every day.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
You gotta do the same thing every single day. I
don't know how you can't.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Pock the same spot or like, yeah, have a similar.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Routine, park in the same spot, drive the same car.
But at the same time, you know, I don't think
similar things.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
I don't think we both feel like it's this superstitious thing.
To me, I feel like then it's just one less
thing you can kind of blame. That's the way I
see it.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Well, that would tell me that that's superstition. But for me,
it's about routine, like like when I would go in
to play soccer, when I played soccer my whole life,
like I would have basically a pregame routine, like this
is how I would get dressed, and this is how
I would warm up, and this is where I would
put my stuff in my bag to go to the games,
and et cetera. Just because I don't know it just
it just gets you ready. It gets you in that mindset,

(18:16):
you know, and there's obviously a lot of athletes that
do similar things. You know. They they dress a certain way,
they get get ready a certain way, they listen to
certain music, all that sort of stuff. So I did
the same thing. I listened to the Bill Simmons Podcast
every drive on the ride in. You know, I didn't
want to put music on because I at times I
feel like music gets me too amped up to go

(18:36):
play poker, and then I do some movies. I do
some crazy shit when I play. So I just decided,
you know what, let's just let's just chill out Bill
Simmons and Ryan Russulo, you know, for the most part. Yeah,
that's what I go to.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
That's my go to sleep, it's your go to sleep.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
I mean, I really like listening to Bill Simmons. I
don't like to sleep to.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
It, no, like if, like what say, I have trouble sleeping,
so I put it on and shuts my brain off,
like listening to sports, and I fall. I've been getting through,
Like I think last Sunday is Bill Simmons Pod. Since
that last Sunday, Yeah, I listened to five minutes and
then I fall asleep. I wake up the you know,
next day, I just do the same spot. I can't

(19:15):
get I can't finish it. No, I can eventually get
through them. But yeah, I got a sleep pod.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
So we got Tony greg He of course famously had
a piece of Greg Merson. He was backing Greg Merson
when Greg Merson won. So Tony Gregor is going to
go from winning quote unquote in the year that Gregy
won to possibly win actually win an event, which is crazy.
Maxim piece of Enco still in mixed game guy. These

(19:43):
next two guys that we're gonna talk about Max and
piezer Enko and Latar Guera both not hold them guys. Yeah,
Pieza Arenko was a mixed game guy. Guera I had
no idea even played Nolan maan Hold. I honestly thought
Guera was Obviously he plays Pielo and he's freaking incredible.
I thought he might be one of those guys that
like skips the main event type of guy. Yeah, like,

(20:06):
you know, just because like I've honestly never seen him
play anything other than plow you know. Now, he kind
of does give me shades of Mickey Dueck from a
couple of years ago when he ended up finishing third.
Kiki Dock not known as a Nolman Holham guy, known
more as a polo guy. But I would even say
Guera is even more of a plo guy than and
Mickey Dueck is. But still, you know, both doing very

(20:29):
very well. Guera towards kind of the end of the
night to get a double up with Aces. I feel
like pisa Enko is kind of flying under the radar
with his play, Like I haven't really seen a bunch
of big hands from him in the times that I
have been tuning into the broadcast. But every time I check,
he's got more chips than did before, So he's cruising

(20:51):
along quite nicely. Leo Margette's crushing still in there. She
got a double up today with She actually doubled up
through Guera. Believe it was a ten high flop. She
had Jack ten versus the eighth of Guera. So she's
still alive, looking to chase history, looking to be that
first female since Barbara Enry to make the WC main

(21:13):
event file. Say, well, something you know everyone always hopes
for every single year. Every single year, we got somewhat
of a decent shot. But here we are again. We
got Leo Marguetz her second time. It's her second time
being the last woman standing there. Yeah, I didn't. I
just wanted to make sure it wasn't her third time,
but her second time being the lost woman standing. And
to be honest, I remember doing commentary when she played

(21:35):
Day one. She pulled this wild bluff which I think
was a bluff when she got her opponent to full
two pair like I'm pretty sure she she wasn't doing
this with value she had. I believe she had a
pair of ass her opponent had two pair aces and
I think tens, and he ended up folding and she
would have been out if not crippled, if I remember correctly.

(21:56):
It feels like seven years ago Day one. But here
she is right now, going deep. She's kind of right
in the middle of the pack with twenty four players left,
and we'll see if she can make it happen. Obviously
that would be historic if she is able to make
it happen. But you know, as I said before, still
quite a long way to go. But many people are

(22:17):
rooting for Leo Marchette's Michael the Grinder, Miss Rocky. Now
what do you have?

Speaker 2 (22:27):
You have?

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Tim has Brownie's which we're gonna try We might as
well try him, now what we're talking about. Yeah, so
these are first of all, let me talk about Rich
is gonna kill you for this sound? By the way, context,
oh yeah, adds a ton of context. Rich is throwing
his headphones across the fucking room, Michael's hinder, Miss Rocky.
This guy is just an absolute freak of nature. I

(22:50):
have no other way to describe anything about this guy.
He plays like an absolute freaking animal. Like that's how
I would describe it. He's an animal. He's a bull
in a China is like he's he's not a theory guy.
He obviously understands things in poker, but he's very much
a live guy, a field player, exploit. He'll hit you

(23:11):
with table talk at times, like he'll do certainly unorthodox things.
He probably plays way too many hands more than he should.
But like it's just the grinder has the grinder style,
and he gets it done. He's gotten it done four
times in the PPC. We've talked about that this summer
at length. You know, now he's it's looking like he's
gonna make the wsp Man event found table again again.

(23:34):
What year was that? Twenty fifteen was it when he
made the final table, but he also won the PPC
that year was one of those PPC titles. No, I
think it was early in then or well whatever, I mean,
it was one of the years he won his PPC
titles and then he made the final table. He has
a chance to do that feat again. I mean, there
are so many things about this, like the fact that

(23:57):
he won the PPC file table the main event in
the same year, and it is you know what is
this now fifteen players away from doing that again. That
is that is out of control. We're never going to
see that ever in the history of poker ever again. Also,
if he does happen to go on to win this tournament,
we will never ever ever in poker see somebody win

(24:19):
the fifty k and win the main event in the
same year. It's just never gonna happen again. So I
don't know what the heck I'm watching, but this is
just the most insane shit I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
Twenty ten, he won the fifty k PPC a game
for one point five million. That was like one of
that was the one of the opening events of the
World Series. That was different. He finished He followed out
with a sixth place in the stud Championship, an eighth
place in the Limit HoldEm Championships Plural, and then finished
fifth in the main event of two point three million?

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Did he two? Did he win Player of the Year
that year? Who won the main event that year?

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Prank Cassella won. That's what the That's the year he
won the two bracelets.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
And I think I think Grinder like could have won
Player of the Year.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
I think he had to. Wasn't it like win the
main event? The points have changed so much, you know,
so that's but yeah, he Frank Cassella won that one.
But yeah, you want to try these brownies.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
The reason why we're going to try these brownies now
is because if you guys have been watching the broadcast
on Poker Go, you'll see that Grinder will either have
a little pack like this, which is about the size
of a pack of baseball cards, of the all in Brownie,
which is Frankie C the vlogger, his his brownies. He
launched his brownie company, and I guess he got Grinder
to be the ambassador. I don't really know how that

(25:41):
all worked out, but whatever. So Grinder either has like
a couple of these on the table or he's got
a box. Yeah right, So Jared Bleasnik brings sports cards,
Grinder brings all in brownies.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
So I guess first question is maybe the worst packaging
I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
The packaging is quite off. It's like quite awful. I
know exactly what this was going to taste like. It
doesn't have much of a taste. Have you ever gone
to Protein House in Vegas?

Speaker 2 (26:06):
I have not.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Okay, they have these protein browners, these exact same things. Yeah,
I could eat forty of these.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
You could eat forty of these, sure, I could even
even finish one. It's just like they're so good, dry
and pasty and not much flavor.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, but I'm a weirdo. My friends call me a
serial killer, so I kind of like these. No, it's
not that dry.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Come on, maybe bad one not dry, but like I
can taste. I feel like I can taste the flour. No,
I don't think. So. I eat a lot of protein
bars and a lot of different types. You can have
the rest of mine. It ain't good, sorry, Frankie. Packaging,
terrible taste, terrible macros not bad. The packaging is two

(26:53):
seventy calories.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
The packaging is the worst thing about this, it's it's
not even remot close if.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
You're getting one to one on protein and packaging is
so big, like mad people will pick up things based
on packaging.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
No one's gonna pick this up. I'm sorry, Frankie, Like
you got to switch up, You got to switch with
the packaging on that. But I do like the product.
I'm a fan of the product.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Slide mine over to you. There you you have them
more So.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
I heard on the broadcast Jared Minghini mm hmm, was
on the US snowboard team. Is that true?

Speaker 2 (27:35):
You had a bitter idea than me thinking of access
to the bio sheets.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
So I wonder if this is him?

Speaker 2 (27:39):
So I was born and raised in West Virginia, grew
up in the slips of Snowshoe Mountain Resorts seventy moved
to Tahoe with his brother Bobby better riding and training
as well, have more opportunities to progress in the spot. So, okay,
does does he look like this guy? Someone else?

Speaker 1 (27:56):
We'll fact checked out.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
You know what? I'm following Jared Man, Jeanie Snowboll, Snoper, outdoors, poker,
travel Tahoe, followed by twenty one people. I follow and
the first two of Ben lad Loo China Raims. So
they're like, yeah, that's probably him.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
That works for me.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
That's good enough.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
I just devoured your brownie. I told you I could
et forty of those.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
You are syracle mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Rich is gonna be like, don't eat on the podcast on.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
You got mad at you for sniffing, because I'm not
the one sniffing. You're the one that's been sniffing in
the last few days, So Rich, you might get mad.
You can get mad at him for sniff and you
get mad at me for opening the packet, but you
get mad at both of us.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
We'll snacking full of Chris Dombrowski, an og online guy.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
I believe he used to live in Connecticut but now
lives in Florida. He's still in mm hmm. So yeah.
I mean, at this point, even though there's a lot
of names on here that we might not recognize, you know,
or faces that we might now recognize. And I'm sure
if you and I don't recognize people, there are plenty

(29:02):
of viewers. There are plenty of listeners out there that
also don't recognize people. I think when you get to
this point in the WSP Main Event, you have to
have some sort of chops, Like you can't just be
completely fing around out there. I mean, you know, like
it's just like the cream rises that that's just how
it is, and exactly everyone left has some sort of game.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Like I don't think I, like you said, has some chops, yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
I mean, like, and it's not it's not that everyone left.
Also it doesn't go the other way, like not everyone
left is also a world beater, right, But they're all
they're all very good, very solid poker players. They're also
whatever they are on like a regular day playing poker.
I would say that there are probably a few notches

(29:48):
up because when you get deep in a tournament probably
is most especially the WSP Main Event, when you're going
to to day eight, like your confidence of it just
has to be through the I when I was making
the run, like every day, I felt more confident, more confident,
more confident. I knew in the back of my mind,
yes I'm not the best player in the field, okay,
but that doesn't matter. I can only be the best

(30:11):
version of myself that I can be every single day.
So like, if these players are feeling that same sort
of way and being on this ride and now going
to day eight, they have to just feel supremely confident
and everything that they're doing is kind of working. So
that that makes you a better player overall if you're
able to have that belief in yourself. So I'm sure
they also have a lot of you know, support around them,

(30:32):
a lot of people motivating them, all that sort of stuff.
So you know, everyone is has game. Yes, there's going
to be mistakes made, of course, I mean, it happens,
it's poker, But overall everyone is very tough, very competitive.
So I'm really looking forward to, you know, the final
couple of days here, especially making the final table. I

(30:53):
think that this is my favorite day that I've seen
an event. I think I've said this before, is the
day they make the final table. I think that it's
my favorite day that WM and men because that's when
like the the in a weird, sick, painful way, that's
when the dreams are ultimately shattered. Like you know, I
mean like for nine people they're going to like go

(31:14):
on to this other thing, you know, make a million dollars.
That's the dream, make the final table now, independent of
whether they win. It's like you have, like one dream
is like make that event found table, and then like
obviously the ultimate dream is to win it. But here
it's the last day before you make it, so like
you're so close, the heartbreak is going to be real.
I'm sure if you're watching on poker, you're gonna be

(31:35):
able to feel through the screen. It's got both things.
It's got the absolute pinnacle of feeling great that you
reached the wsmana and found table, and then on the
other side it's got just absolute sheer devastation that you
were so close. It was right there. You could almost
freaking touch the bracelet, you could almost touch the ten

(31:55):
million dollars, but you ultimately fell short. I don't know.
I just like that theater of it all, And this,
to me is the day when when the theater is
the biggest. Now I think that w main Event Final
Tables is its own kind of different thing. It's a
different little beast that I love as well. But I
don't know. It's always been this day for me, and

(32:15):
it's it's just so crazy now. I will say that
I do absolutely hate that they go ten handed. I
know you probably love that. You'd probably want him to
go twelve handed, but going ten handed, I think it's
still silly.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Wow, I like you, they don't need to five and
five is balanced, obviously, but it's it's the history of
the thing. That's why they do it that way. And
I'm okay with that one. That is the only time
I like. I honestly like ten handed. No, it's ridiculous. Yeah,
it's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
All right, let's get into some of these eliminations that
we lost today. They can They came in with what
was it, fifty seven players remaining fifty seven, so we
went from fifty seven down to twenty four. Ben Jackson
was the first player to bust.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
No, it was fifty nine.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
No, it's citty seven.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
It was fifty seven. Last Yeah, fifty nine is yet.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
I don't know. I'm gonna go with I'm just gonna
know because we lost Munir tayu Yah. That's right. Ben
Jackson was the first to go. We lost Greg Merson
in fifty second place. He did get a pay jump
up to two hundred K, So that's gonna buy a
lot of milk for the milkman. Yeah. Mitchell Heinem, the

(33:21):
player who busted me busted in forty ninth place. He
lost a big flip. Believe he had queen No, I
believe he had queens versus Ace King, or it was
the other way around. Either way he was on. He
was on the losing ends of a queens versus Ace
king flip. However it went, he ended up busting, and
no he did not deserve. He ended up busting in
forty ninth place. Leon Sterm who I honestly thought was

(33:44):
gonna make the final two tables for sure, like I was,
just like, it's it's heating up for Leon. We obviously
know how good he is. He looks lock the a
f in so but ultimately he falls in forty eighth place.
Another high roller, guy Thomas Eschien forty seventh place. All
those places there taking home two hundred K. We lost

(34:04):
Johann Schumacher in forty third. We lost Nick Papeo in
forty second. Papio made a crazy good call with King
nine against Eric Afriat went on the river in a
hit and clubs came in. Papeo did not have any
clubs had a para nines on the turn. I believe
with his King nine called it off. Afriat just had

(34:28):
high cards and that was a six six sick double up.
But then later on Papio did a bust in forty
second place. We lost Chad Power, another player that I
thought was gonna make the final table. To be honest,
I just just watching Chad Power. He looked he looked
like Final Table. If Final Table was a player at

(34:48):
the table, he looked like that. He was also constantly
chipping up all that sort of stuff. So I was like,
you know what, this just feels like it's his year.
And then we got to get to thirty third place
because we got to talk about Will Kasoof show nonsense,
well circus. I don't even I don't even know where
to start with me.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
You wouldn't even hear by that whole.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
I was at home. I was one nursing a fucking
migraine that was killing me too, trying to get caught
up on some different sort of work that I had
to do for social media and emails and all that
sort of stuff. But I was watching the coverage. I
was very much glued into social media and the coverage
for the entire Will cassoof debacle. I think it's safe
to call it a debacle. I mean, but you tell

(35:30):
me what was like, kind of walk me through the
day being here on.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
The floor to be honest with you.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Yeah, dude, be as honest as possible. Come on, this
is the podcast. If anything, you know, we are honest
to the listeners.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
I loved it.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Oh my god, I loved it.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
I loved it. Was causing so much hate all day.
He's been doing it all aholl event, but today it
really kind of magnified. You know, he was on a
ten second shot clock yesterday didn't start that way, but
closing a bit of a rock as he was, you know,
antagonizing other players. We get down to four tables, I

(36:06):
think even from five tables. He was up on the feature.
All his tables had all the table mats had the
little ear plugs in. You know, everyone might have saw
that clip Adam Hendrix handing out ear plugs to everyone.
But the biggest incident was he was I don't know
if this is true, because it's quiet. I believe he
caught Dennis Jones a monkey, which is this guy's pretty strong.

(36:28):
It's not really a curse word, but it's it's not
a good thing to call someone a monkey anyway. So
that's how he got.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
He's actually a staff member who's the tournament. Yes, I mean,
so he got can disagree with the guy, yes, but
you know, abusing him verbally is for sure crossing law.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
So he got a one round penalty and Dennis Jones
the top dog for the day. He knew he knew
that Wilkersouf was going to just go stand behind the
table and continue his show. So he had insecurity to
escort him out of the room basically, so he did that.

(37:08):
He went, took a little while. He came back and
he was maybe a hand away from playing. Everyone with
a camera was filming him, and he gave them. He
cut you know WWE promo like he was about to
you know, crash the championship match. So got back in immediately.

(37:30):
It was back. It was all back on. I sat
there with my phone. I was with Marios, with Dennis Jones,
small blind folds. I clicked the timer. He was in
the big bine first hand clicked the timer, you know,
counting down, counting down, like somebody raised, someone raised, foled.
When it got to him, I saw the timer thirty seconds,
said look at his can ninety seconds to fold, you know,

(37:50):
players calling clock, And it was just kind of Yeah.
It was just okay, here we go again, Here we
go again. I think that was the first hand, the
next hand, and the same thing we had we had.
I believe it was Kenny Hallett that opened right. They
bust at him. He was in a small blind with
fucker seven's and ninety seconds moved all in. Kenny called him.

(38:14):
You know, I think it was a King five, right,
King five suit versus sevens. There may have been some
people cheering for a seven. There was a lot of
other people cheering for everything, not a seven, because you
know what it was. It was. It was entertaining to me.
It was a bit of you know, I wasn't really experiencing.
I was not Adam Hendrick.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Can you often go on YouTube and just like watch
train wreck videos? Yes, exactly, So that's why you love it.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
I mean, but the reason Look, I don't want Walkerstift
to win, but like I knew that if he stayed in,
more chance of things going viral, We're gonna get more
clicks on poker go, Like I was singing with that
kind of thing. Anyway, he buss let's we'll just skip
through heat bus king on the turn. He needed a
queen on the river to chop for a seven. I
may or may I've been cheering for a seven or

(39:01):
queendom come a lot of cheers from media members and
the audience. You know, maybe some chance started some I mean.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
You heard the chance on the broadcast. A chance? No, no, hey, goodbye.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
So he if you're watching, he busts, he doesn't leave
his seat.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
No, he kept it.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
He kept it up. Finally, I don't know, three four
minutes say they finally got him, just off the set
and he's cutting more promos with random meat. Not even
our meat, he just random media outlets. He walks ten
to twenty feet down down to the three tables down.
Everyone is there watching, cameras are out. We start trying

(39:42):
to interview with Natalie Body from Pokago. You're mister Cassuf,
I'm Natalie gom my microphone here. She asked one question,
she asked two questions. Eighteen and a half minutes they
were talking.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
Well. One response was fourteen minutes, yeah it was, and
then that I would have walked away. Personally, if I
was interviewing him, I would have said, listen, sir, I
gotta go. I can't do that.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
The producers were saying that it would be funny if
Jeff went over and grabbed the mic and did a
switch because Natalie was so tired. I was like, yes,
that doesn't mean actually, but yeah, eighteen minutes with Natalie,
then he spent time with or he spent time with
other people, so I wasn't leaving. Kind of came back
and then that's when kind of the big kerfuffle sided happening.
Is basically escorted him to the payouts to collect his

(40:29):
payout and basically barred him from playing any more WSP events.
Might not sound like a big deal, but that's seven events,
you know, remaining in the series. But you know, he's
he's been a menace and you know, a right way
to put it, he's been a menace to poker players, which,
to be honest, I'm okay with that side of things.
He's trying to get under people's skins.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
Well okay, but it's the staff that I yeah, I agree,
But also like some of the menacing stuff, he can't
he can't go as far like when he was calling
them bitches. Yes, can't go that.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
He can't go that far because he would call them
bitches and then someone would complain and then he would
get upset at that and you can't And a lot.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Of what he did from from what I saw. Again,
I wasn't here, but I was watching the broadcast. I
mean a lot of what he did, I felt like
as a viewer he brought on himself. M like he
was constantly tanking, constantly taking time and constantly trying to
play the victim card, but also doing things that would

(41:28):
make other people actually be the victims and then trying
to play the victim card after. It was a whole
It was a whole freaking mess from the start, Like
right when the day started, it was like he had
a clock on him. Right at the beginning, he was
arguing with the tournament staff. Marshall was Jack Effel came down.

(41:49):
You didn't mention that part. Jack Effel came down at
one point literally told him it's on the broadcast, told
him to shut up at one point, like shut up,
you're done.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
I'm seeing a live tweet right now that says yes,
William Kasof is still at the horsestree talking to anyone
that will listen. He's at the old the kind of
the Hookah Bod near the van Stake I.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Mean this, this guy is just simply incredible.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
Yeah. The stuff I was okay with is, you know,
I like some of the speech play that if I
got it, you don't have it. But if you if
you have it and I don't have it, then I'm
in trouble. But I've got it, And if you've got it,
then it's a cooler. Like some of that stuff I'm
okay with. That's yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
But he would he would take it, and he would
he would go very close, if not over the line
to like talking about the contents of your hand, which
is not allowed. Like he would say this and that
and whatever, and like there was one time when he
he played a hand against Kenny Hollard. He had queen
jack and then the next hand, this is on the broadcast.
The next hand, I think he has queen ten and

(42:44):
he's tanking preflopp and he gets the clock called on
him because he was annoyed that he lost the last
hand against Kenny Hollard because he flopped the best hand,
but Kenny Hollerd river to king. I think Kenny had
king ten and he ends up rivering the hand and
winning the pot. So then Kazoove was on tilt he's
complained that, and then he's the next hand. He's tanky,
he's hanging with Queen ten. They get the clock called
on him bos the floorman comes over and issues the clock.

(43:07):
His hand gets dead or he folds or whatever, and
then then he's like, I had to sit. He said,
I had a very similar hand to what I just
had on the last one. He says that out loud,
so everyone knows. It's like in that rain, It's like
it's like, well, what are we doing here? I feel
like since it was it was twenty sixteen, because it

(43:29):
was the same year when Kenny Holler got sixth plays.
That's when Kasoof got what's seventeenth I think that year, yeah,
but that was the same year. That's when he broke
into the scene with the whole nine high Lucker boss thing.
He had the big thing with Griffin Banger at the
feature table. We showed that clip again on the broadcast.
You can find it on YouTube if you want to
look that up. When Gryffin Benger told to check his privilege.

(43:53):
I mean, that was that was out of control. It's
just not about the poker, like he makes it about
himself in a way. That's just again, it's not about
the poker. It's about the antics. It's about the fucking
penalties that he gets, it's about all the backlash. It's
it's it's the whole thing. And through it all he
tries to play this victim card that is just so unappealing.

(44:15):
It's it's not even funny. And you know, once again
he goes deep. He finishes thirty third, which you know,
if you're if you're talking, you're being a character. We've
we've had plenty of those in poker, right, we have
not had anyone go so far, at least in my opinion,
has to cross the line like he does with the
I mean, he gets repeated penalties. He got two, if

(44:35):
not three penalties today. Excessive tanking, like just outrageous, egregious tanking,
NonStop table talk, like he doesn't even talk to just
your table. He talks to other terriorties. It's just wild.
So I mean, I think, I think when he talks
about like when he hints at the contents of his
hand or your his opponent's hand, like that's kind of

(44:56):
skirting the rules and really walking this fine line. He's
extremely disrespectful to his opponents. He's extremely disrespectful to the staff,
like outrageously disrespectful to the staff. It's freaking wild. It's
just crazy how he acts. And I got the feeling
today watching the broadcast that I thought he was trying

(45:20):
to get disqualified. But I thought he was trying to
get disqualified in a way that he like he could
he could argue that it wasn't warranted for him to
get decued. That's what I thought he was trying to do. Like,
I thought he was trying to push button so much, yeah,
that they would finally just snap the staff and be
like you're ef and gone, and then he would turn

(45:41):
around and like sue them or something. That's what I
felt like. He was trying to get to the point,
which if you got to go that far, that is
too far over the line, dude, Like you need to
just like bring this back to earth. Okay. I mean,
it's just it's just crazy.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
It was.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
It was disruptive, you know. I think that I know
that there was a lot of people you mentioned, like
the viewership and that sort of stuff. I mean, there
was certainly a lot of people you saw in the chats,
you see people responding on social media. You see it
when there's clips posted like whatever. Like a lot of
people love watching the Guy. Yeah, but kind of, like

(46:16):
I said to you, it's not necessarily that you love
the guy. You just love watching the train wreck. Yes,
like that's what you want to watch. It's like when
you know, Americans came up watching Jerry Springer, you just
turned it on to watch the train wreck that was
on your TV. You're just watching this for a train
wreck and you're seeing where like when this train is
flying so fast down the tracks, ramming through everything in

(46:39):
its way, and you're just waiting for it to like
finally hit the wall and explode. Yeah, like that's what
you're waiting for. So that's why you're watching. So it's
not like you actually enjoy that. You just you're watching
it because you're watching a train wreck happen in real life. Right,
it's reality TV, and the train wreck is the main character,
or at least he made himself the main character, and
that's that's unfortunate. So you know, that's kind of where

(47:01):
I'm at with it. And I think one of the
easy parallels that people can try and draw is Willksoof
to Martin Cabrell, And that's another thing. You know, Now,
we talked about Cabrell earlier and many times, you know,
because he's been a focal point of this summer of
the WSP. But like to me, what Martin Cabrell does

(47:23):
is certainly much more entertaining, and he doesn't get nearly
as close to the line that Will Casoof does, like
I think Will Kazoof not only gets close to the line,
crosses it. Martin Cabrell. He's intense, you know, he's theatrical
with all of his sort of stuff. But I still
think it's well within the bounds of the game for
the most part. And I think a lot of people
would probably agree with that. Now, there's gonna be people

(47:44):
that don't like that stuff that Cabrell brings, they don't
like the energy with it. I would certainly say that
what Cabrell does is not disrespectful to the staff the
way that Will ksoof is.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Not to that level. But he is a little disrespectful too.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
I mean, Will Kazoof is like out of control staff.
I think it's why I think, you.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
Know, a lot of people have asked me, and I've
asked other people, would you prefer who would you prefer
to play with I. The tanking bothers me the most.
With Kassouf, the stuff that Cobrell does that doesn't bother
me as much. So I'd rather play with Corbrel than Cassouf.
And the tanking and the constant talking is just next level.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
I mean, I'm not even sure I can just like
fully explain it and put it into words. But I
know what I see. I know what I've saw all summer,
and my gut tells me that what Kasoof has done
is way too far. What Corbel has done is probably
as far as we should let anyone go. But cassoof
is just like he's just way out of control. And

(48:45):
it just got worse and worse and worse and worse.
Like it was just like again, you were just watching
this train wreck. You just kept watching it, and you
kept watching, you kept watching, and you're just like, when
is it ultimately gonna just happen? You know, when is
this train wreck gonna actually happen?

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Like?

Speaker 1 (49:03):
And yeah, it was out of control. I think you know,
Cabrell certainly did his fair share of stirring the pot. Casoo,
if you know he is, he's out there just poisoning
the well. Is really what he's doing. I mean, it
was It's just crazy. I'm like, I think Cabrell does
a lot to bother people. I don't ever feel like,

(49:26):
actually anyone is actually gonna punch Cabrell in the face.
I honestly thought somebody might just fucking punch cassoof from
the face. I didn't know if that would be a
staff member or somebody else, but I honestly thought somebody
might just hit the guy. Like it got to that point.
And honestly, I also felt like if somebody does hit him,
I'm not sure anyone's gonna do anything to that person
because he's so outrageous. Yeah, Like I was like, somebody's

(49:47):
just gonna punch this guy, and he probably deserves it.
I mean, so, I don't know. The whole thing was
just was just freaking crazy watching it happen. I don't
know so much about the like the banning, Like I
think it should have happened, but it also doesn't feel
like it's enough, Like you probably could have banned him,
like for all WSP events through twenty twenty five, which

(50:09):
would include Paradise. I mean, I don't even know if
you can you can.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Add to the band I think they just wanted to
like get it off their play for the rest of
the series. They didn't want him to I think the
biggest fear for WSP was him going to cash out,
get his three hundred k whatever it is, and then
just come back in, sit on the rail and continue
the show as an audience over. They didn't want that,
so they basically wanted to get him out of here. Obviously,
there's only a few events left, seven events, I think

(50:33):
it was that doesn't matter much. But you know they
want to ban him in Europe or ban him for Paradise,
they can obviously do that. At least this was basically, hey,
you know, we don't want to We have three more
days of the main event. We don't want to deal
with your shit anymore. Just get collecting money, go home
and go from there. Now. Obviously the biggest issue for
Kasouf is if he does come back in here. Like

(50:55):
the fact was still see him at the Horseshoe. You know,
he was escorted out by Caesar security side.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
But it it did sound like that he was banned
from playing WSP events, which would tell me that maybe
he can still snay up.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
I think he can, but I'm saying if he comes
back here bothers again, like bothers the stuff again, you know,
it could lead to a most stronger punishment through seases,
which would mean, you know, potential banning from Caesar's properties,
which is a bigger thing than being banned from the
World Series. So so so if take money, go home,
leave us line for a while.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Yeah, And obviously he has that the checkered past thing
with the stealing or palming the chips at the roulette table.
You know that led to him getting dropped by his sponsor.
So like, there's a lot of stuff that that involves
Will Kasouf, so you know, it's kind of all wrapped
up into everything. I will also say that, like the

(51:51):
the super poker fan in me kind of hates that
we do have to lean on the Kasoof types to
generate the amount of buzz that has been generated the
past couple of days, at least to the height that
it's been generated. Not that there wouldn't be buzz because
the manav it's the biggest event in the world. There's
gonna be buzz anyway, right, But there was definitely some

(52:14):
gasoline thrown onto the fire with Willkasoof and a lot
more people tuned in. I mean, there was a lot
of people that I follow on social media that I've
never once seen talk about poker, and I just they're
from different areas of life that I'm you know, interested in,
and they were commenting on the Will Casoof stuff. So
like it's reached those thing even like when I was
at home today because my parents are in town, like

(52:34):
my mom is glued to like what's happening, Like my
wife is like commenting, you know, they never watched poker
in their life, Like they're like common you know, it's
like that sort of stuff. But it's like it's like
I wish that like this could just be a highly competitive,
highly strategic game with great personalities and great stories, and
that's the sort of stuff that we could focus on.

(52:56):
But it always seems to fall back on the fact
that we have to focus on the side shows and
the train wrecks in order to get the eyeballs that
we want. So you know that that just kind of stinks,
but that I guess that also speaks to the fact
that like the general person in the world, they want
to watch train wrecks. They want to wake up in
the morning and turn on Jerry Springer, Like they want

(53:18):
to watch all the reality TV shows where everyone's just
a disaster. Yeah, what's the biggest show right now? My
wife watches it Love Island, like fucking train wreck of
a show. I mean, you know, but again, like she
puts it on and then I'm kind of like, oh, like, well,
this is you know, this is just the this is nuts,
like you know, like that sort of stuff like. So,
I mean, I guess that's just how we've been trained

(53:39):
and developed as humans. But yeah, but I will say this,
We've gotten it out of the way, right, We got
the whole train wreck stuff out of the way. Now
it's time for some real serious program as we go
from twenty four down to the final table and then
onward to a ten million dollar winter. So I'm looking
forward to it, right, bits and pieces of the casof
stuff we're entertaining. Until he really did start to cross

(54:00):
the line, and yeah, today it was just it was
a bit much. I mean it was definitely a bit much.
So Yeah, I mean I don't know some of the staff,
the patients that they had with him. I mean, God
blessed him, holy shit, because I'm not sure I would
have had the same patience. I was also like a
lot of the players had a lot of patients. Yeah,

(54:22):
I might have just started yelling at the guy, Like
I mean, I like, at some point, you can only
have so much patience and you're just like you got
to just start going off, you know. And I kind
of was like looking around the field, being like, you know,
who would go to like his table, That would like
miss Rachie Woody, you think miss Rockey, miss Ry doesn't
give a fuck. I know he doesn't give a fuck,
but like, yeah, I mean I I think that too,

(54:42):
because Rocky might actually put him in his place.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
I mean, Eric Affrey, it is probably that classed second.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
Yeah, but he was only on his table for.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
A little They didn't play that much together, bed wah.
I mean Adam Hendrick seemed to have a few choice
for as to him, I went there on that out
of table. He didn't seem to give fuck. Sorry.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
Yeah, I know, the whole thing is just it certainly is.
And even like even Nick Shulman today, you know, because
because Ali brought up to Nick, you know, you've obviously
had your run in with characters like this and kind
of kind of cited the incident where Nick Schulman say
my name. Well no, when he said what's up pussy
to Martin Cabrel right, and Nick basically kind of said, like, listen,

(55:26):
you know sometimes I mean you just end up take
going to blows or whatever, like you know however he
phrased it, but like he was basically saying like, yeah,
you know, I've been in pool halls, I've been at
the poker table, like sometimes that stuff escalates, you know.
So I mean, all things considered, I do think cooler
heads prevailed, maybe not Forksouf himself, but for everyone else

(55:49):
involved in the fact that nothing like really got out
of line, Like there was no like throwing objects or
punches or pushing or whatever. But yeah, so the Will
Kasoof experience, Holy how holy holy hell? All right, so
he went out thirty third, we lost theotran another og

(56:12):
of the game in thirtieth place. We lost Eric Afriott
in twenty nine. Someone's gonna have to explain to me
what the hell happened to Eric Afriott. He had thirty
million chips.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
I'll tell you what happened. It's Eric Afriott. That's say
you named him.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
I watched him full the full house on the broadcast
and I wanted to fucking throw my computer through the
fucking room, like and like, I couldn't exactly tell from
what he was saying if if he knew he had
a full house, or if he thought he had trips
and misread his hand, so like I was very confused.
But he bet the river with a full house, and

(56:48):
he got raised by his opponent, and I believe the
positions were cut off to button and it was king
eight eight nine six, and it went it was King
eight eight and then the nine hearts brought a flush
straw and the six of hearts completed the frust raw
and his opponent I believe had King ten of hearts.
So I had two pair on the flop backed into
a flush. I would say button or sorry, cut off

(57:11):
for his button because the Afriat had eight six full
house that it's very hard for your opponent to have
better full houses there, I would think, I mean, there's
just it just doesn't feel like there's that many combos,
So I don't know, and if Eric Afriad did misread
his hand. Listen, man, it's day seven of the WSP

(57:32):
main event. There is absolutely, positively no shame in looking
back at your cards the amount of times that I
looked back at my fucking cards before doing stuff. The
deeper I got was unbelievable. You just have to you
have to be sure, you have to be sure.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
Yeah, any time I look back obviously would have made
as deep as you in the main event. But is
when I get shoved don and just just when I'm like,
let's tay about kings or I thought I had kings,
I always just checked, make double check, and then going.
But like if I've raised ice Queen and I see
a flop, like I normally never change.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
I always look at my cards, do my pre flop action.
So if that involves putting chips in the pot, great,
before the deer pulls in, I look at them once
again just to make sure I have everything, and then
I play the handout. And normally I don't go back
to looking at right because I have good memorization. But
if there are spots where like my bust out hand
right when that guy put in the format to nine

(58:29):
hundred thousand, I looked back at my hand. I was like,
I have kings, correct, Okay, yes, I have kings.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Yeah that's what I mean.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
Like, you know, Eric Afria could have looked back and
been like, okay, I have trips, but let me just
make sure, or even you want to look back and
you want to see, like okay, what exactly are my cards?
But exactly are the suits because maybe it interferes in
some sort of blocker effect or you know, whatever it
may be. So I don't know. I find it hard
personally to think that Eric Afriat has experienced, as he

(58:58):
is a poker misread his hand. I just find that
hard to believe. And I think he has made some
other interesting folds at times. He folded two pair when
like a flush came in on the turn, like to
start the day on the future table, which I thought
was an outrageous fold. Maybe he just made a really
tight fold, but I was like, that just seems like

(59:18):
a crazy fold. But anyway, he later lost a big
hand to Parate. I don't think we saw Afriat's card,
but he bet the river and then called a big
rays from Parate and smacked the table. Afterwards, thought we
were gonna get a little Eric Afriot blow up. So
he lost that and then he was short after that
ends up going out. So Eric Afriot, you know, probably

(59:39):
gonna have some time to have some thoughts of what
could have been given the chip leader, given the chips
aack that he had coming into today, and then ultimately
finishing in twenty ninth place, taking home three hundred thousand dollars,
and then we lost kohe Arai out of Japan in
twenty fifth place. He was the final player to bust
on the day, three hundred and sixty dollars for him.

(01:00:00):
Everyone left, All twenty four players are guaranteed three hundred
and sixty K. The next pay jump is not until
the top seventeen. They'll get down to eighteen, two tables
of nine, and then they'll be on a pay jump
from three hundred and sixty k up to four hundred
and fifty K. Millionaires come in at nine. As we
mentioned earlier, they will combine at ten around one table.

(01:00:22):
Everyone in the final ten will be guaranteed seven hundred
and fifty K. But that's that bubble two hundred and
fifty K bubble quarter of a million dollars, And it's
also a bubble off if we'll remember you or not,
because tenth plays we never remember. If you make the
final table, we remember you, so that's always a fun
one there. So that's what's going to be going down
on Sunday, July thirteenth, and of course you can watch

(01:00:45):
it all on PokerGO dot com. All right, let's move
on from the main event.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
All right, what else we got? Three K midstakes continued today,
thirty seven hundred players with nearly thirty eight hundred plar.
That's down to twenty six is Sham Bahler, he's a
chip leader, twelve point five million, brown bowler, Brown Barler. Yeah,
they are playing playing sorry for one point one eight

(01:01:12):
nine million dollars. That's a pretty big day there. You're
going to do this real quick. The triple seven's another
flight for that one. So we're going to kind of
wait till tomorrow. But it looks like hershel Levy is
the overall chip leader. In their eight thousand entrance down
to three hundred and forty eight fifteen hundred part Limonoma
that was won by caspiros Clesias first, wspre Bracelet. He

(01:01:35):
won two hundred and eighty k change, Paul Gannas PGT
Guy he finished fifth, dour Fish six, Tony Sar seventh,
Nacho Barbero eighth, Andres Pachenko ninth. We also had the
Poker Hall of Fame Bownie. That is down to five
players from the one one one five field. Joshua Bolton,

(01:01:56):
chip leader, Rob was was second in chips, David Debonnardi
or Yemendy and Jimmy Kabibi still in playing for three
hundred and eleven K. Three K tours just ended. Sixteen
players remaining, David Prociak chipleader chasing two hundred and seventy
three K, Toby Lewis still in, Annie McLeod, sill In,

(01:02:17):
Ryan Miller, Bradley Jansen, Sillian Hollywood, David stan still in.
That should get to a winner tomorrow and then the
ten K sixty and kicked off today. Let's see how
many we got. We've got four hundred and forty eight
of that. I think there is day two registration, so
that's going to get bigger. Chip leader is Benjamin sh
a lot with five hundred and fifty two K. Mikey

(01:02:38):
mattis our second in chips. Wow, look at key yep So,
Mike Watson fourth in chips. One event that you cannot
find on the Perconese website or really anywhere was the
five K online Noliman hold Them high Roller from WSP
dot com. Jonathan Lettle was at that final table. Melanie
Wisan was at that final table. John Little finished second

(01:03:00):
runner up. He was, you know, obviously in contention to
the second two time race the winner for the summer
both would have been online, so not really much about that.
But yeah, if anished second for one hundred and eighty,
K kind of tell you the winner because I can't
really find any information.

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
It's kind of upsetting, yeah that you know, it's just
it's just how we again, we want to cover these things.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
Yeah, look, unless Perkinese brought an utically kind of got
buried with some of this Cassoe stuff because they have
a lot of I mean, well the Cassoue stuff was
just yeah, they have a lot of stuff today, but
it don't seem to say.

Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
It probably it'll probably be in their recap tomorrow. But yeah,
I do think there could be some better coverage of
the online events, but we've talked about that before.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
Yeah. Fast forwarding to Sunday, July thirtieth, we're nearly done.
We've nearly done thirtieth thirteenth did say thirtieth two events
like an eight hundred and no them hold deep stack
you went jumping there with me. No, okay, three k
partlmit on six mats is kicking off, and then after
that there's just four more more events, so six left.

(01:04:02):
The summer is coming to an end, and that's kind
of what's gone on the Shoe today. I got a
quick community cause I'm trying to pull out the name.
Mostly chout out to our boy Chat Holloway. He gave
us these kind of cool little WSB glasses that we
decided to add to us set.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
So like he gave them to us getting rid of these.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
He want him. I was like, I'll take him. I
was like, I'll put him on the set. You know,
whatever happens with the show going forward, it can become
part of it. So thanks Chad for doing that. As
check him out on the Poconese podcast that was your
old podcast. It was. And I met John from Memphis today,
gave him a hat. Well, little Chat, he was looking
for you. I said, he's not here right now, but

(01:04:45):
he'll he'll be back later. But John from Memphis, thank
you for listening. Had a hat. Fifteen hats left, so
we're here. We three more days. You're in town. Come
grab one from one of us. You got to see
how this yeah, this summer.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
All right, sweet, well, that's going to do it for us.
His name is Tim Duckworth, my name is Donnie Peters.
We will be back to Tim's over Tim's over the Brownies.
We will be back for the next episode. We will
have the w s P main event Final Table set.
We will talk all about it, and then we'll probably
do another episode after that. We'll get into a little
bit more of the preview of said final table because

(01:05:23):
there is there is a day off in between.

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
We should do that one we did last couple of
years where we kind of do a recap of the summer.
We talk about how favorite moments, you know, that kind
of stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
Of course, you know we're gonna for sure get into it.
So that's coming up again. Tim Duckworth, I'm Donny Peters.
We'll talk to you guys next time.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
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