PGT Venetian Las Vegas Classic Review, Poker Masters Preview

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. His name
is Tim Duckworth, and we have breaking breaking news. Maybe
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's gotta be like Tim pounce right.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Ten. You think it's more? Don't they tell you, like
how much it wasts?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah? I guess I could look it up. Yeah, definitely
look it up.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's for sure more than ten. It has to be
all right. It is Thursday, September eighteenth. Apologies if this
does go out a little bit later than that date.
I just said, I know it is busy season for
our producer, Rich Ryan, but we did want to record
this before Poker Masters happens. It's not much later than
we had planned, much later than we had planned, and

(01:19):
that is my fault. But for good reason, I want
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So I will be in there for the Poger Masters,
a million dollar showcase. Snuck in there with one big
blind all thanks to mister Jared Jaffey folding to me
at one point. I didn't look. I didn't look, so

(01:40):
I don't know. I never looked when when I get
a walk So yeah, I just I never looked, So
I didn't look. So I don't know if I would
have called or not. Maybe I would have, maybe I
wouldn't have. But anyway, I got in there, got my
five K seats, Nine people got seats. One gentleman got
two K. So we are in the dance. On this
episode though it is nine to forty two PM, we

(02:02):
are going to talk about the PGT Venetian Las Vegas Classic,
an event name in which I think Remco got wrong
twenty five times while doing commentary, the PGT Classic at Venetian,
the PGT Las Vegas Classic at Venetian PGT Venetian PGT
Los Vegas, Like all over the police Sgt. He definitely

(02:25):
always said PGT something he might have said Venetian Classic. Well,
he was all over the map with the name all
over it. I want to talk about these Borgata payouts
that came out there. You know, there was some some
buzz on social media about that. We'll talk about that.
We'll get into a little Poker Master's preview. Tim's got
two code words for the for the podcast giveaway for
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(05:27):
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p g T Venetian Loss Vegas Classic. I want this

(05:48):
event to become a thing because I want it just
to be called the Classic, and like I want people
when they say, like, I'm playing the Classic, they just know,
like right.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
But the Classic is like use quite a lot of
places though, Yeah, that's the class.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
That's fine, Okay, that's fine. I think of the movie
Uh Side Out. Believe it was in the early nineties maybe,
but it was a movie where this guy went to
work for his uncle. He ends up trying to serve
this other guy who's like a beach bum who's been
running from stuff. They end up becoming friends. They get
entered into a volleyball tournament, and I believe they play.

(06:25):
The tournament that they play in is called the Classic.
I believe it is. We missed a bit with the
PGT Bounty Blitz, but I think we hit with the
PGT Venetian.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
And don't think the Manning Blitz was that terrible. We
knew it was. It was capped how good it could be.
I think it was fine. I think it was fun.
If we put it back on the schedule next season,
we're just find a bit classic.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
It is called the Classic Classic, Yeah, the gold Quervo Classic. Yeah,
I mean it's great. So the the PGT Venian Los
Phigas Classic was part of Venetian's Deep Stack Extravaganza series
as part of this entire month of poker that they're
doing over there. They got an MSPT event as part
of it. They got a whole bunch of other stuff

(07:07):
that they're doing at Venetian. But the PGT Venetian Las
Vegas Classic had a main event thirty three hundred dollars
by million dollar guarantee, and then it also had three
high rollers fifty three hundred dollars buy in each for
those All four of those events were PGT qualifying events.
First up was the main event million dollar guarantee, but

(07:27):
that was surpassed with more than one point twenty five
million in the prize pool. Didn't seem like much of
a sweat, although it's always a swim. I mean, once
I saw the Day one A numbers were eighty eight entries. Yeah,
you know, I thought that it was pretty good and
then obviously it built from there and it got over it.
But it also wasn't one of those ones where, you know,

(07:50):
it ended up with two point five million in the
prize pool and I'm looking at you saying like, well,
why didn't we have a bigger guarantee? So I don't
know this sort of price point is it's tricky in
Las Vegas. I think it's tricky in ad Venetian specifically
as well. I mean they don't have a lot of
this stuff. They have that big WPT in the summer

(08:10):
and that now they have this and then everything else
is like eleven hundred and sixteen hundred for their big stuff, right,
So you know, I think that Tommy LaRosa, the director
of co operations over there, would agree that, you know,
this was a little bit of a step outside of
their comfort zone. But it did come through four hundred
and eighteen entries one point twenty five to four million
in the prize pool. The winner, Daniel Lee, took it

(08:33):
down for two hundred and fifty k I think a
pretty good uh first place prize all things considered, thirty
three hundred dollars buy and he defeated Lily Coletto, the
firecracker herself, Lily Coletto, and trust me, she plays quite
a firecrackery. I mean she has some wild hands. Yeah,
like she just she plays just straight forward power poker,

(08:57):
just just goes for it. And it was good. Doug
lay Lee, yes, that Doug Lee. Doug Lee from I
Believe two plus two fame back in the day, finished third.
Doug Lee want a satellite into that event, finished third
for one hundred and twenty k. He won a satellite
into this pogram Masters showcase. Just now as offin He's
just a satellite king. We had Daniel Marcus finishing fourth,

(09:19):
We had Ryan Lang finishing in fifth, Santiego Santiago, Montes
and sixth and Jeremy Osmas and seven. Now, Jeremy Osmas
came into the final table with a big chip lead.
He had four point four to eight million I believe
was the number, and the next closest had around two
point five. I think. Yeah. He ran a big bluff

(09:43):
like maybe the fifth hand or something against Daniel Lee.
It went open from Jeremy with jacktan suited three bet
from Daniel Lee from one of the blinds. They were
they were very very deep at this this fire final table. Everywhere,
so Jeremy calls in position seems totally it came Queen high.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
It went.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Check bet call from Daniel He check called turn turn
what I don't even know what the turn was. Then
check that call again and then the river was a
king and I went check all in and ace king
for Daniel Lee and he thought about it for a
while and called. I think there was a I think
Jeremy made a comment like right after the hand saying

(10:29):
that he it was a bad river card for him
to bluff. I agree, I did not think he should
bluff that river card. But I think he also felt like, well,
I have Jack High, let's go for it. Not that
I'm going to be here, you know, questioning Jeremy Osmas's play,
because the guy is absolutely incredible. But I did think
that that was, you know, not needed to go for

(10:51):
it there, but you know, he did, and it bit him.
He tumbled down the leaderboard. He didn't quite fall to
a short sack, but kind of shortly thereafter things didn't
really work for him. He became the shortstack and then
was ultimately eliminated in seventh place for thirty five thousand dollars.
Clearly not the result he wanted, right.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Of course not Nah, he was a little disappointed, but hey,
we can say that elimination led to some future success.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah, at which will hit on, but it is important
for Jeremy thirty five PGT points. He's been well off
pace for you know, last season, he was the PGD
Player of the Year. The guy could do no wrong,
absolutely crushed it. In this season, you know, he hasn't
been able to do much right. You know, call at

(11:36):
variance whatever you will. You know, it just hasn't been
working out in Jeremy Osma's favor, and he's been outside
the top forty for much of the entire season. I mean,
maybe he was in there in the beginning, but other
than that, he's been outside the top forty. So any
points that he can garner the better. And I know
he told you that he was skipping Triton Jju to
play the PGT stuff. So you know, it's good to

(11:58):
see him make that run there, Daniel Lee. You know,
he he said after that he's been going through a
little bit of a downswing. You know. He he won
an event I think it was in Manila. It was
like an apt Yeah, he won an event for I
think a little bit more than two hundred and fifty K,

(12:18):
because this became his second largest career score and I
think his first ever live tournament cash was in twenty
twenty four, so relatively new to the live poker scene
or at least not a recognizable face, but he was
able to get this win. I thought he played very
very well both, you know, when we covered him on
day two and then also at this final table, he

(12:39):
seemed like he had good command. You know, he obviously,
you know, was the beneficiary of that big bluff from
Jeremy Osmas and was able to pick that off. But
from there, you know, I think he controlled things quite well.
And yeah, we'll see what's to come for Daniel Lee.
I don't really know if he's going to fire all
of Poker Masters. I would expect him to play the

(12:59):
showcase because it's a similar event, you know, multiply.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
He made it sound like he was he's up from
San Francisco, so he made it sound like he was
going to go home.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
First and for a couple of days come back.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
So we'll see tomorrow. Maybe he hops in the studio
kind of told him a little bit about it. He's
never been in here, so it'd be good to see
not just him, but a lot of those players have
played the Venetian event come over here, you know. But yeah,
we'll see for the showcase what happens.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, I'm very much looking forward to the showcase, which
we'll talk about a little bit later.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Before you move on the high rolls, I want to
talk about numbers real quick. You mentioned four engren eighteen
entrance first time. You know, we touched on this last
episode that you know, for this price point thirty three
hundred dollars, the Venetian was doing a rake discount of
two hundred dollars if you are on time. We have
seen the success of that here in the studio, and
we wanted to see how it kind of works in
the midstakes. Of those four hundred and eighteen entrants, just

(13:54):
slightly more than half were unique, two hundred and fifteen
unique entrants. We had one hundred and eighty six time
across all three flights. That's two hundred and thirty too late,
you know, that fifty to fifty split. We never really
see in these kind of events for us anyway, So
I think that says that, you know, this field, and
you know, you can probably experience talk from your experience,

(14:15):
but field was although full of PGT players, there was
a lot of new faces in there, a lot of
players that were only in for one board that had
satellited and we gave I think we awarded somewhere about
twenty five satellite seats for this one, so I think
that was.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
It was seven, nine, ten, twenty six.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
So that was good. It was good that we saw
a lot of new faces, fresh faces.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
And those satellites were two C guarantees, so well passed
was going.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
To see guarantee milestone satellites and but yeah, I think
that I think this.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Was within those milestone It was a milestone.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah, very successful. A lot of our players were missing,
whether they were at trying J Drew, whether they were
Adam Hendrick's wedding had a couple people just out of town.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
You know, it was like seven people in Adam Hendricks's wedding.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
People just skipping because they were going to play you know,
the showcase. So that's fine.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
One thing that I want to mention about the field
and the numbers was that I thought that price point
we would get a few more of the guys that
I play with around town. Yeah, you know that they
will play like in eleven hundred and sixteen hundred stuff
like that. I thought they would just kind of make
the jump to play the thirty three hundred. You know,

(15:26):
I'm not going to name any names, but there was
you know, there was a handful of players that I
thought we would get. Some of them did play the satellites,
but then ultimately didn't play the event. Some of them
played the satellites want to see, but then didn't play
anymore other than that bullet. So I just thought that
that was interesting, and you know, because I thought us
lowering our normal price point. You know here in Vegas,
we haven't done anything lower than a five k, right,

(15:47):
We've obviously done the stuff in Texas. But I thought
thirty three hundred, you know, I know it's a step up,
like a thirty three hundred is you know, more than
double a sixteen hundred dollars buying. It's triple with eleven
hundred dollar buying like it is is jump up, but
you know, sell some action, you know, do that sort
of thing like you know, take a shot whatever. Like
So I was a little bit surprised with that, but continue.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
No, I think with everything how it played out, it
was very successful. There is a world where we could
definitely run this back. Like you said, you want this
to become maybe a staple on the tournament calendar here
in Vegas. I think there is definitely a spot for it.
And already looking into next year, I smell that, hey,

(16:31):
could we see a PLO version of this? We've seen
our successful PLO is, we have our PLO series in March.
Could this be could we do this there? You know,
like a thirty three hundred multi fight PLO kind of
championship then leads into our PGT PLO series. So that's
what I'm kind of thinking about. You know, me and

(16:51):
Tommy have chatted a little bit about, Hey, what's next
on the partnership. So yeah, I think there's an appetite
for them, appetite for us, and yeah, only in all,
I thought it was a great a great main event
and even the high role is that we're going to
touch on with much better than I expected.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Actually quickly on the main event stuff, I thought, I
thought the field is pretty tough on a hole. I
thought Day one A was incredibly tough. I when did
I play one B played one B.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah, one be.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
But just looking around the field on Day one A,
I thought it was very, very very tough. Yeah, I
mean that's I think that speaks to the climate in Vegas,
and you know, meaning I don't think a lot of
people like outside of the big WPT stuff, the WSOP
of course, and really everything in the summer, it's just
hard at that price point in Vegas. It's just it's

(17:43):
out of people's comfort zone, right, And then I think
it's a little bit harder for people to make the
jump once they see how tough the field is. So yeah,
I thought it was a little bit tough on Day
one A. The day I played Day one B, it
was tough. I had a good table draw, you know,
I didn't make it through I think twenty three or something,
went through twenty four and I got like thirtieth or

(18:06):
something thirty second, I can't remember. But my table was
pretty good to start for most of the day. But
you know, obviously the best players tend to you know,
go deeper and survive and whatnot. So as things progressed,
it didn't get a little bit tougher. Yes, So I
wonder if that's you know, a little bit of something like.
I just thought we would get more of like the

(18:28):
no insults here with the minor league players to play
this event, and I think that that is something that
we should try and improve upon. Maybe that's enhanced satellite offering.
You know, I thought the satellites that they had were good,
But can we do more of them? You know, can
we do more? Can we get them in there? Can
we do some different stuff? You know, put some bigger
guarantees on them, you know, with the numbers that they

(18:50):
got in those satellites, I think you could safely run
five seat guaranteed satellites and then you know, go from there.
So I was also thinking today when I was playing
this satellite, what about a satellite that's you know, all
satellites seem to be one in ten. Why can't you
do a one in five, like a big a buy
in one and like for this one, like for the
one I just played, that would require spending one thousand dollars.

(19:13):
So I think that's a little too much, right, because
once you get to five hundred dish, which the one
I played was five sixty to the fifty one hundred
dollars tournament, right, five ten goes into the price onol
and whatever. So but like once you expect people to
pay a thousand, that's a little bit dicey. But here
six hundred, yeah, I mean, you know, one five, Maybe
do one of those, like I think that would be cool,
that would work, right.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
I mean I would explore seven and bring it down
to like five hundred, which is sure.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
By the way, that was a great thing about the
event that it was seven handed the whole way through,
Absolutely freaking incredible. I think people had a good time
at Venetian. I think they enjoyed it. I think they
liked the room. I think they you know, I mean
Remko and I have seen it a lot because we
do a lot of the commentary over there. We talked
about it all the time. But just the fact you

(20:00):
can just park at Palazzo, go up the elevator. It
literally says poker room on the elevator button, which is
like unheard of in Vegas that they're actually catering to
catering to a poker room. You get off the elevator
and it's like one hundred yards to the room. It's
right there. I mean, the poker room is away from
the casino. It is in the Palazzo Shops area. I
mean food is good, thereat I mean you have to

(20:20):
pay for it, yes, but I mean obviously you can
use your comps. But the food menu there is really, really,
really good. The streaming room, I think a lot of
people liked as well, you know that element of it.
So yeah, just I think a lot of fun all around.
Just quickly before we touch on these high rollers. We
had John Reordan tenth place. We had Craig Mason twelfth place,

(20:43):
Dustin Ayinatti thirteenth place. Jeremy Becker remains hot sixteenth place.
I do got to touch on Sam Laskuitz. Where did
he bust? Because he got absolutely freaking screwed. He lost
aces to something I don't even remember what, but to queens,

(21:05):
I think to Kathy Liebert, yeah, and then or maybe
that wasn't then, I can't remember. But he lost with aces,
he gets those cracked. Then it was to believe, it
was to King Queen, whatever, it doesn't matter. He lost
with aces, he got him cracked all on pre fub
then blind verse blind, he gets Queen ten versus the

(21:27):
big lines Queens and I can't remember exactly how the
board went. I believe it was Queen ten x turn
ten so philosopher Philas, I mean, just just absolutely sick stuff,
just ridiculous stuff. Kane Calls twenty fifth, Jeff Platt twenty seventh,
Andrew Lichtenberger thirtieth, Josh Aria forty first, Land Entice fifty seconds.

(21:48):
So you know, a lot of big names ran deep
in that event, that main event. Hopefully, you know, we
bring it back next year and it becomes a thing.
I would love to do it again. I would love
to grow on that and grow our partnership with Venetian.
I think it was pretty big hit, a pretty big
success in year one. So and we didn't just spout
the guarantee too much. You know, it was close, yes,
but you know, ultimately not really like worrisome.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
All right.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
High Roller time. There were three high rollers. The first
one got fifty one entries, the second one got sixty
two entries, and then the third one got forty nine entries.
That first one was won by Sam Laskowitz, so he
busted in brutal fashion from the main event hops in
this one. Best vanilla poker player, vanilla tournament poker player
in the world. His nickname is Vanilla. From now on,

(22:33):
he won for eighty and fifty dollars. He beat Aaron
Mesmer in Heads of played. Jim Callapy got third of
Victoria Liftschitz and the money Jonathan little money, Joey Wiseman
in the money. I feel like it's been a while
since we've seen Joey Wiseman in the game on the PGT,
but he's back. Second one, Jeremy Osmas. He goes on
to win it, so redeems himself a little bit after

(22:55):
the seventh place finish in the main event, after coming
in with a big chip lead. And then here I
was reading the updates, I heard he battled Stephen's song
for two hours of Heads of Play. They didn't get
doneuntil like one thirty in the morning. Crazy stuff.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Both back on time registration the next day as true,
tremendous to do.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Ozmas won ninety nine hundred dollars song second, Jim Calliby
third again. Jim Colliby's just crushes. Shannon Shorre got fifth
in this one. Jeremy Becker. Jeremy Becker still hot. So
that's what. So that was five out of six, six
out of seven, seven out of nine of the up
until this point, of the last PGT events and then

(23:34):
he did not cash in the last one. So seven
out of ten in PGT events post WSP for Jeremy
Becker in terms of cat fire, that is on fire.
Like I mean, the bad thing is is that he's
in these events that aren't awarding a lot of points,
so he still got a lot of work to do
for the leaderboard. But you know, it could happen. It

(23:55):
could certainly happen. And then the final one was won
by Craig Mason, who was at my table when I
played on a day one b in the main event,
kind of towards the end of the day, but he
was talking about how he hasn't run up won a
poker tournament in like, I don't know, ten years or
something ridiculous. So here we go. Craig Mason won. He
beat Andrew Lichtenberger in heads up play. Mason took home

(24:16):
eighty five thousand and seven. And for the dollars, what
do you got to say about the high rollers?

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Better numbers then I thought we were going to get.
We had a lot of non rigs playing, which is great,
so that did help. Look, Venetian don't run these high
rollers often, so the nuances that our players are used
to didn't quite you know, just one is free flowing.
But by the end of it, I think it was okay.
But yeah, I think they were great. The single day
events we got decent numbers, got a lot of fresh faces,

(24:42):
which you know, the players were happy to see. But yeah,
well you know, I think this kind of this kind
of series where you have a main event and then
just a couple of high rollers after it or overlapping
the final few day is kind of a good way
to do it. And I think this is a good
kind of template for whether we take this back to Venetian,
or we take this except somewhere else, or we do
a p low version. I think this kind of short

(25:04):
and sharp and sweet format series is kind of ideal
for these players.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
Well, Venetians definitely got to get it back. I mean
it was it was a great event, it really was.
Structure was really good too. So yeah, all in all,
I'm a fan. Moving on, code word, Oh you want
to do a cord word now right now?

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(25:45):
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hundred and fifty K. I think that's a good number, so.

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Speaker 1 (26:17):
All right, Moving on Borgatta, they had a fifty three
dollars bet MGM Poker Millionaire Championship as part of whatever
series is going on right now. It's called like the
the Big Big or I can't whatever. Yeah. Anyway, so
this event they came out with it, you know, three

(26:38):
million dollar prize will guarantee one million dollar first place
prize guarantee, okay, which seems like on the surface, it's
going to be a little bit awkward.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Right.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
It ends with six hundred and seventy players. So the
prize pools three million, three hundred and fifty thousand, paid
sixty seven spots, which is ten percent, which which seems good.
You know, when you when you when you are baking
in that it's going to be so top heavy, it's
good to pay fewer spots overall. So I like that.
But first place one million, five thousand, which is thirty

(27:10):
percent of the prize pool. Second place four hundred and
two thousand, I mean, is wild terrible, third place two
forty seven, fourth place two oh six one sixty seven,
one thirty one or two seventy five fifty one. So
couple things here. I want to know why first place
is a million and five thousand, not just a million.

(27:33):
So where where did that come from?

Speaker 2 (27:34):
I tweeted out of that at how that triggered my
OCA so badly? And I don't understand what they did
at all. So honecesary. Mat I really don't understand it,
especially since second is six hundred k less. Yeah, give
it to that guy.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
You know, a min cash was more than ten thousand dollars,
which is it was right around double. You know, it
was fifty three hundred dollars for the buying, So if
you want to count, you know where you want to
go fifty three hundred and then they want whether you want
to go five k into the prize pool whatever it
is right on double. I mean, I have another question
there is that it doesn't does a min cash need

(28:09):
to be that much? And I know that you and
I talked about min cash is because you were working
with a Venetian on the min cash for that, So like,
what do you think we don't normally do double?

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Do we? No, we definitely do underdouble.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
And I understand that there's gonna be a lot of
players that they might cash and lose because they might
fire multiple bullets. But then those are the breaks.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
I guess. I think for this format it's I don't know,
I don't know what their player pool is. I know
what our player pools. Like, they want a big first prize,
so we would prefer to make the min cash smaller,
so that first second third there's more money up top. Uh,
if you can tell me the six hundred and seventy
players that playbable Goder or more local grinders, you know,

(28:51):
then maybe the double mincash is probably more on point.
But it's so hard when you're doing this whole million
dollars for first you know, which is thirty percent guaranteed.
That makes it really tough to make a normal kind
of payout. And I think when you set it up
like that, then this is drop pretty late on the schedule.
They you know, they saw a little window without us

(29:14):
running VENETI and they kind of went over the top
of it. You know, if they had more lead up time,
maybe they would have. Maybe they were expecting to get
you know, closer to four and a half million or
something in the prize pool, where a million wouldn't be
you know, too too crazy.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
So but just can't you adjust the payouts so it's
not so insane?

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, but you'd have to take it. You'd have to
drop that men cash to say seventy five hundred ak, yeah,
and then stop building up.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
I was even thinking like the first two brackets, which
I think they did, like the first nine or whatever,
and then then there was like a four or five
and jump like first two brackets just make them the same. Yeah,
something like that.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
You know, that's what the goal is. Like if they're
trying to just like flatten out everything else, then you know,
but with this payouts, you know, you're always going to
get a chop and that's what en up happening.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
That's what ended up happening. Can you look up who won?
I know the person who won chopped with chance corn. Yeah,
I know that, so we need to get the gentleman's name.
But they did. They did end up chopping, which I did.
Kushume me. Yeah, so shout out to Kashumi. They they
did a deal him in chance and then he ended
up winning the trophy, which is pretty bad as trophy.

(30:21):
It is that line. Do they also have the Borgatta
Trophy because I like the Borgota trophy too. It's like
the wind trophy trophies on the trophy is that it's
a replica to the Hotel. The original win trophy was
this before whin Yeah pretty, I'm pretty sure as well.
And that's trophy. I when I was like getting into poker,
I was like I want to win that truck. Ye
on the goal of this, I mean, I'm guessing the

(30:45):
goal is to leverage a million dollar first place prize
for marketing. Yeah, I mean, which is fine, that's okay, okay,
yes and no, yes, it's good in theory. No, it
should not come at at the expense of the player,

(31:06):
like you know, because and ultimately you didn't even get
a million dollar first place prize, so it doesn't matter
because you were never going to get a million dollar
first place prize unless you got five million dollars in
the price bool you just weren't because these guys were
always chopping. Yeah, like you know. So I think that
that gimmicks like this are, for lack of a better term, lazy,

(31:27):
because why wasn't there a bigger guarantee to make a
million dollar first place prize more palatable? Why wasn't there
more satellite or marketing efforts. I mean, you know, when
was this announced? Could it have been announced sooner and
there was more lead up to it to get the field,
you know, just all in all trying to make it
less awkward at the top, because it just makes it
very awkward. So, I mean, I know, I think one

(31:50):
person who had a contrarian take was for oz Joka.
You know, he said, ultimately, if this sort of thing
gets more players like into agree into the event because
it's a million dollar first place prize, then that's a
good thing. I mean, I don't know if it did.
I'm not going to say a field of tournament, a
main event at Borgata that gets six and seventy is

(32:10):
like you know, breaking doors down everything. That's that's a
good turnout.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Like you know, new players are attracted to like million
dollar first prize.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
I mean yeah they might be, but like did did
they have new players in there? How many players were new?

Speaker 2 (32:25):
What attracts me is obviously a big prize for because
that means it's you know, more chance I can make
some money. I would rather if you were trying to
attract new players, you might want to say, you know what,
we're going to pay twenty percent and you're going to
get a double min cash. It's going to be worth
double buying. Now that would attract you know, if that's
going to deter the pros and attract everyone else, you know,

(32:47):
you got to think of it that way. And this
this is more a pro heavy you know, yeah, like
endeavor and if that's what they want, that's fine, but
you know, I disagree quite heavily there with for us.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah, I mean, I just thought it was interesting that
they that they did this. I mean, and you you
pretty much know, I think in today's poker landscape, when
you come out and you say this is a three
million dollar guaranteed event has a million dollar first place prize,
like we all kind of like, well, that's going to
be awkward, Like you just know ahead of time right now,
unless their projection said one thing, and you know, those
projections didn't come through. Okay, I get it, but you know,

(33:22):
I don't think you necessarily need to do you know,
kind of crazy stuff like this that makes it awkward
in the end. Right So you know, it is what
it is. But that happened, and we'll see, I mean,
we'll see if it continues. I don't know if it'll continue,
but we'll see. I would like to forg Out a
Poker to be back, like be a big player again,

(33:44):
you know, not that it's not a big player, but
like you know, back to.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Like what it was.

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(35:16):
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Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Why should I care? Because I care? That's not That's
what it because we care.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
We care. Look, we've seen a big influx in popularity
for that five K opening event we started doing, so
I thought, how can we make this even bigger, how
can we make it better? Let's try this multifly, Let's
do something a little different. We never done this year
on the studio. We've never done a big guarantee for
an opening event like this, So, you know, we kind
of workshops some ideas. Felt like this. This worked really well.

(36:04):
This showcase idea two flies play down of the money
come back on day two, play down the final table.
We see a lot of new faces that play the
five K buy ins in the studio and then never
play anything else even if they cash. So our goal,
all right, let's get a really really big opening event.
Let's hope some people win some big money and move on.

(36:24):
But also new for this as well is a second
five K, So we're doing a second five K after that,
and then we lead into like the normal series of tens,
fifteens and the twenty five K finale. And for those
if you're listening, you've been here, you've seen the studio.
We've got a completely different setup. We've never done this
for a no limit hold of major such as the Pokemonasters.

(36:45):
But there's no final table feature table there in the middle,
which is fourteen tables, fourteen tables there. We got one table.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Here, fifteen. I just can't believe it. Well this is
the fifteen oh okay, but in there because.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
We not only do we want we expect a big field,
we don't want any ultimates. So fourteen tables out there.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
There were nine satellite winners today, yep, so you know
those players are in there. There's one there's another satellite
tomorrow night. Yeah, it doesn't have five seats guarantee as
two seats guarantee, but still and then there's you know,
there's another you know winner from it, the OCTOPI Poker
Masters giveaway. So we're going to have ten people already
in there for sure.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, and Nick Sewan was the first player to register.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
He was randomly today. Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
But yeah, we're trying something different and we think it'll
be successful. Obviously, putting in guarantee is always scary, even
if it's the data says we should be fine. But
I'm looking forward to it. I'm hoping it brings in
some new faces. I'm hoping some people from Venetian come over.
Obviously great success in the satellite tonight with nine seats. Yeah,
it's just something different. Let's see how it goes. Throwing

(37:53):
the new trophies. You know, we're trying to appeal to
what we think is is the right I buying level
here in Vegas, especially with our players, and giving out
regulars new people to play against, but giving you know,
people such as you a chance to take a shot,
you know, and play up a little bit and play

(38:14):
in the studio and get to experience. What you know,
you've watched on TV, you know over the last few years,
et cetera.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
I will be taking a shot. I was going to
be taking a shot anyway, but then I won the seat.
But now you have a rebot as backup. I thought
about that and I doubt it. Okay, but you know
it was good to squeak in into the satellite with
one big got in there, you know again, shout out charity.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
First PGT event in the studio, right.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
This is my first PGT event in the studio. I
have played in the studio before. I've actually had good
results in the studio. Two final tables, right, that is correct.
I was going to say I've played three events and
finished me actually actually looked at uthing. I've definitely finished
in the final table.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
The charity event, NFT event. You probably played the wrong good,
probably played the run good and I it's at least
three events.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
I cashed the run good. I don't know if I
I don't know if I made the fund table.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
I don't think you did.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
I foul tabled the NFT event. Yeah, I got knit
rolled that. That was ridiculous, first hand, right, first hand
the found table. H Yeah, first or second of the
final table, something.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Like that charity event. The one Tilly won is the
one good not on here. Did you cash in the
wrong good one? Then maybe you didn't cash. I mean
maybe twenty two Maybe.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
I didn't cash.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
I cash in the Poker Go Employee free roll, the
twenty dollars the way when we played that poker Employee
free roll.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
No, I don't remember that. What year was this this
stupid run good thing. Not that it's stupid that I
can't find it as stupid.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
It was not on your pay It was not on
your hand, and that means you didn't cash.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
I could have sworn I cashed. I mean maybe it
was the NFT thing that I catched. Yeah, I may.
I definitely catch the NFT thing. I definitely cashed the
One Step Closer Foundation charity poker tournament. I think Jennifer
Tilly took me out in the end. That would be great. Mainly,
I just want to challenge myself in this one. I
kind of feel like if I do commentary on these

(40:18):
events in these players, I have to be able to
back it up. That was like my motivation to play.
So I was like, you know what, I'll play this one.
You know, I always kind of told myself, maybe I'll
play the opening event, the five k of like one
of the majors Masters USPO or Cup. What always turned
me off was that, well, one, I could never play
the satellites, like scheduling reasons. I just couldn't play. So

(40:40):
not that I couldn't like you know, sell action and
get in anyway, but the fact that they were just
like the single day turbo ish tournaments. I was like,
you know, whatever, but this one, you know, not that
it is a little bit of a faster structure, yes,
but you know multi flight like there's going to be
you know, it's not going to be full of just
the PGT players like it's there's going to be a
bunch of others in there. So I think I'll be

(41:01):
all right.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Who I ask you a question, I ask your questions.
Who do you want to not see at your table?

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Not see at my table because they're too good?

Speaker 2 (41:10):
And be who do you want to see at your
table because not because they're bad, but because you want
to play, like you know, you maybe not idolized might
be the wrong word, but you want to play against them.
What you want to test yourself against that person.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
I mean I don't want to see Andrew Moreno. Okay,
I think he's like the best at this price point. Like,
but they're all like I can literally name any of them, Like,
they're all really really good. The thing is is like
like a Shannon Shore, who I think is also incredible, right,
the thing is, maybe maybe this is just a you know,
mental leap that I need to make. But I play.

(41:46):
I've played a lot with Shannon Shore around town, so
I'm comfortable with that, you know, not that I haven't
played sometimes with Andrew Moreno. I just I've talked a
lot of poker with him, and I know how good
he is, and I've watched how good he is, and
he's super aggressive. I mean in the Venetian event and
drowsed Upchenko gave me fucking fits the whole goddamn day.

(42:07):
He was really really good. He did really unorthodox things.
It was such a headache to try and figure out
he feel. It felt like he beat me in every
pot that we played. So like I don't want him
at the table either. I mean, yeah, I mean I
played once with Nick. I mean, Nick's incredible. The guys
who I don't like, the players, not that I don't

(42:29):
like playing with them. The players that give me the
toughest go of it are players who are very good
and super aggressive because and not only aggressive, but like
kind of loose too, Like they can just be in
there with like anything at any like at any time.
But again and they're just like Agro and you you

(42:49):
kind of have no idea where they're ever at, and
it's just it's just very tough. Whatever whatever happens happens.
You know. I'm happy to happy to be in the field.
I was gonna play anyway whether or not I won
the satellite, but it's still good to bank the satellite.
And uh yeah, we'll see what happens anyway.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
Ten events, two five k's six No five ten k's,
two fifteens and a twenty five ten events, so ten events.
It sounds like player the wins the most PGT points
in those ten events is going to win the real jacket,
not this fifteen pounds.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
I saw it out somewhere.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
I put it out there. It's on display near the
cashier along with one of the trophies, so people like
it's the first thing they see when they register. I
want people to see this new trope and be like,
you know what, I got to get me one of those.
So yeah, I think it's going to be a really
great series. Obviously there's going to be a little bit
of overlap from Trying and JJ that's finishing up right now,
so people, you know, some of those heroes probably come

(43:44):
in mid series. But either way, looking forward to the showcase,
looking forward to a strong showing in that because you know,
if we can really you know, it's not smash the guarantee,
but if we can get through the guarantee pretty comfortably
without a sweat, it feels like we can. Definitely this
can be the template for the next mages, you know, public, Yeah,
we can do this again, USPO, we can do this again.

(44:05):
This can be kind of the formation to how we
build the build these series. So I definitely need to
it to be successful. And like I said, I always
want to say new people in here, because that will
stop continue to build out, you know, build out, play
a base.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
Yeah, I'm listening. I'm very much looking forward to it.
I think it's going to be a great event. Hopefully
I just run like the freaking sun and don't think
about a damn thing. That's always the best, of course,
speaking of Poker Masters, we gotta do the PGT fantasy.
I am kicking your ass. I have four and thirty
three points right now you have one hundred. But we

(44:40):
got a long way to go. Remember it's for the
entire rest of the season, so like anything can happen.
Anything can happen. And this this is the series where
like you could have a thousand points by the end
and like just take over the teams. Right now, I
have Jeremy Osmas, Jeremy Becker, Nick Shulman, Michael Wang, and
Sam Laskowitz. You have Alex Fox and Chino him Sam

(45:03):
so overall, John Riordan and Michael Burke. In the last
ad drop, I dropped Adam Hendrix and picked up Sam Laskowitz.
Great job by me. You dropped Jesse Lonis and picked
up Michael Burke. Not a bad job by you because
he got some points. Yeah, he did get some points.
So Tim and I drafted five players each. Then we

(45:24):
have some weird kind of rules where after every series
we must drop a player and we must add a player.
That must happen. And then for example, if I were
to drop Nick Shulman, okay, Tim can't pick up Nick Shulman, right,
that person is we can.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Trade a player.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
No, I'm getting to all the rules. So that's the
first rule. The second rule is that you and I
then freeze two players on our team. Right, So let's
say I can freeze Jeremy Austins and Jeremy Becker like,
which has to do with the next part where you
have the option to then switch one of your players
with one of my other two players. The person who

(46:01):
was added after the drop is not eligible for this.
Last time, you choose not to switch a player, and
then I picked. I took Jeremy Allison's from your team,
which was a really good steal for me. Okay, so
I locked last time, you locked first. I locked first
last time, So you locked first this time? No, sorry,
we don't add drop first first. I did it first

(46:23):
last time. I dropped Adam HENDRICKX. So you got to
drop someone. And by the way, Hendrix and Jesse Lowns
are not back in the pool back.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
Yeah, I'm gonna drop. This hurts me. But Alex Foxon, Wow,
he just got two playing too busy playing.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
Match.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
He might not come back. So I think, you know,
like I said, he's a try and he's probably gonna
miss a few events.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
So I do recall that I heard Kristen talking about
going to this event and this was I want to say,
during the summer maybe, but she said that they booked
a one way ticket. They might go to Japan after
all that, yeah, exactly, So you know, I have no
idea if they're going to come back or not. But
I recall her saying that, you know, they they were

(47:11):
going to go to Triton, and they did book a
one way ticket and then they'll just figure.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
It out from there.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
So not a bad drop by you. I'm going to drop,
and I gotta drop Michael Wang.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
You should have dropped him last time.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
But you know why I dropped him last time, and
I was, I was, I was right in dropping him
last time, and I was right with exactly why I
dropped him because I thought there was a greater chance
that Michael Wayne could come back. Then there was a
chance of Adam Hendricks skipping his wedding or something to
play in an event. Adam Hendricks did not show up
at all, so there was still a chance that Michael
Wang said the heck with Triton, I'm coming back to

(47:45):
the States, And I mean he didn't, which is fine. Second,
I think in the half and hour, yeah, I mean
he's he's crushing. But like the thing with Michael Wang
is like what if he was having a horrible Triton
Jju trip. He's like, you know what, I'm done, I'm
coming back. So that was my idea there, but it
doesn't matter. I'm I'm dropping him. Okay, So do you
want to do the freeze first or the pick up?
The pick up, I'm going to pick up the guy.

(48:06):
This is the pure gamble. Wait do I want to
do this? I get a look at the list, You're
gonna pure game pure gamble.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
Because I'm so far behind. I know he's he's mentally
feeling good, he's refreshed.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
I don't even know what this means.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
And pick up Louis Spencer.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
Lewis Spencer. I mean, Louis, that's fine. I know you
saw that.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
He was here. I'm gambling, you know, like there's better
picks out there. But like, mentally, I think he's he's
ready to have he's he's primed, ready to have a
big series.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
I'm picking up Andrew Luttenberger.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Oh that was That's how I had as well. On
my lett.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
It's just my team is stacked. Your team is stacked,
all right, Now we got a lock, players lock too,
and then I'll lock to.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
You can't take Louis Spencer, right, and I can't take Luchtenberger. Yeah,
oh automatically loved right. Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna lock Gino
and Soebrle.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Okay, you have, I mean, much bigger problem. I do
have a bigger problem. But I'm gonna lock Jeremy Osmas
and Nick schul Oh leave?

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Should I pick up?

Speaker 1 (49:17):
Now? You can swap?

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Yeah, you can. Now you're not gonna swap. I can't
swap with like Lucky Chew. He's out right.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
You can't stop Lucky Chewi. You can either you can
either give me John Riordan or Michael Burke for either
Jeremy Becker or Sam Laskuwitz. Okay, that's what you can do,
and then I can obviously do vice versa. And then
once you swap, I can't swap back by the way,
like that person's gone.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Ah, this is pretty tough. Why don't you go first?

Speaker 1 (49:49):
Why don't I go first? Jesus?

Speaker 2 (49:53):
Because I don't know if I want to swap.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Buddy, you gotta go first. This is the this is
the rule.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Jordan's gonna play everything, Burke's gonna play everything.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
Beck Yeah, but it's not necessarily if they're gonna play everything,
it's do you think they're gonna do well? You know,
like I mean, maybe you see someone on the other
team that that might do do you think might do
better than the person on your team?

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Beck is running so hot that he's he's something due
to be cold, right, But if I take becka that's
my my other argument. He's running runing intu audio.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
Okay, I mean there's a reason I didn't look well.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Yeah, Yeah, I'm okay rolling out with John Reordan and Burke.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
But if you want to switch, is that your final?

Speaker 2 (50:36):
Yeah? I mean, if you switch, I'm okay to it.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
Yeah, I'm not doing it either. Wow. Keeping with the
same time. All right, So I have Jeremy Osmons, Jeremy Becker,
Nick Schulman, Sam Lasquitz, and Andrew Lichtenberger. You have China Reim,
Sam Several, John Reordan, Michael Burke, and Lewis Spencer.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Got it here we go? Baby? All right?

Speaker 1 (50:56):
Cool, let's wrap it up with a fanly but.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
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Speaker 1 (51:15):
Love it, love it all right, family, pot, I guess
we should play the music. Yeah, it's been a while that.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Who doesn't family.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
You said you had one by the way, and you
were like, I'm not gonna share it because I'm gonna
wait till you go to Disneyland.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
I forgot what it was, but I can think of something.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
Yeah, I mean, listen, I went to Disneyland with the kids.
It was a lot of fun. It was ungodly hot there.
This might this might not be exactly like a family thing.
It might just be more about my life. So whatever,
it's my podcast. I'll do what I want. It was
it was eighty five degrees, but it felt like it

(52:04):
was one hundred and twenty. It was unreal. I did
get the visit with producer Rich Ryan, so shout out
to that. That was fun. He had us over to
his place and cooked us some nice burgers and wings. Credible. Yeah,
I mean, the funny thing is about Disneyland is the
adult people that go like without kids, that are.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Just like big to a fans.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
There was one, there was it was definitely two people,
might have been three. I can't remember. It was three.
So my daughter wanted to meet the princesses. Okay, so
you go to this one thing and you can like
go inside and there's like three. You're like in this
like castle or the house or whatever, and you meet
three of the princesses. Right, she met Anna from Frozen,

(52:48):
she met Cinderella, and she met Sleeping Beauty. Okay, it
was either Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella. But you like you
go and you meet and you can tell you're in
like this room that broken up into threes, and like
there's walls, like you kind of walk into one part.
It's just that that princess, you meet them, you do
photos whatever, you go out to the next one, but

(53:08):
like you go behind a wall, so like there's only
like really one person in the thing at one time,
but like there's there's a tiny bit of a line,
like sometimes you'll be waiting while the person's talking to
the princess whatever. There's this group of women. One of
them is pregnant, and they like want I think it
was sleeping Beauty or Cinderella like to bless the baby,

(53:29):
like put her hand on the belly, like this whole thing.
Then they had her sign a onesie of the of
the baby and they were like they were like when
the baby and go on the real princess, right, buddy,
this was out there. They're like, when the baby's born,
we're gonna come back here and the baby will be
And I'm like, what, like, what are what are we

(53:49):
doing here? I mean, I know, like it's Disneyland. It's
the happiest place on earth. You know, adults tend to
be you know, kids a little bit in there. But
it's like it's kind of weird. Okay, it's kind of
weird the way that some of these people act in Disneyland.
You know. I'm all for, like, I enjoy it. I
like Disney stuff, you know, I'm into it. I obviously

(54:10):
grew up on a lot of Disney stuff, So there's
some nostalgia there.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
My wife loves it as well, you know, but like,
I mean I'll wear a shirt, my wife will wear
a shirt, she'll have the Disney years on, like like
but that's like kind of the extent of it, but
like some people are just like they're a bit over
the top, and I think it's a little bit weird.
My son was petrified of everything. He's two years old.

(54:34):
He no, he went on some. He went He definitely
went on some. Every time he went on the ride,
he like we would go on to like like the
the Cars Won with Mader where like you do in
like this freaking tow truck or whatever and it like
spins you around or whatever and like you sit down.
He'd immediately start screaming, but then like once the ride started,

(54:56):
he got a little bit better. Not that he was
like smiling and loving it, but he was calm. Daughter
loved everything. She was screaming and yelling. There's this, there's that,
there's goofy, there's like all over the place. She loved
the whole thing. She's she's four, so she's just totally
in for it. But yeah, but he like we did
like one of those family breakfasts, you know, where you

(55:16):
can meet the thing and they're all at the restaurant
and whatever, and yeah, my son was like he was
not having it. He would like them from Afar from
like five to ten feet away, but if you tried
to get clothes immediately, screaming, immediately screaming. It wasn't till
the third day that he finally kind of warmed up
to them a little bit. So I just wanted to

(55:37):
know how much you spent, So how much you like, Yeah,
I don't know. I mean we got a deal through Costco. Okay,
we got three day park hopper passes for what I
thought was a good price. We didn't stay at a
Disneyland hotel because we did stay at a Disneyland hotel
the first time we went when my daughter turned two,
and the plan was when she turned two, we were
gonna do it. Then when my son turned to we

(55:59):
were gonna go. Right. They're kind of that old they
can kind of understand things then, you know whatever. And
it was great because when you stay at Disneyland Hotel,
like you're right there, you get early access to the
park for like an hour an hour and a half
before everyone else gets in, So that was awesome. The
prices this time around were fucking outrageous, like out of
like a thousand dollars a night. I was like, this

(56:20):
is the dumbest shit I've ever seen. But the Disney
like the Disneyland hotels, I think there's three of them.
So we didn't stay there. We stayed right across the street.
It was maybe a twelve minute walk from our hotel
into the park. So it was it was great. I
was pleasantly surprised with the prices of the food and
stuff inside Disneyland. Okay, like it wasn't that bad. It was.
It was it was reasonable, you know, I thought, you know,

(56:42):
I'm like great, Like I'm gonna buy a hot dog,
It's gonna cost me thirty five dollars. Like, I mean,
they were they were a little bit expensive, but like
they weren't egregious. And yeah, but what I'll say is
that the food in Disneyland sucks. Okay, absolutely sucks. Like
in Disneyland in California Adventure, it's just bad. Most of
the time. We left the park and went to Downtown
Disney which is right there. They have a lot of

(57:04):
restaurants just just I mean, the prices are similar, but
it's just way better food, way way better food. The
food inside Disneyland and California Adventure is just like it's
just it's like normal theme park food. Like there's chicken fingers,
there's onion rings, there's you know, hot dogs. Like, it's

(57:24):
just not that good. Now, one of the things that
I always love when I go there is I love
to get that giant ass fucking turkey leg that they have.
I love that thing. So I got that. My wife
likes the Dole whip, so she got that. Yeah, But
like most of the stuff, like when you look at
the restaurants, it's like it's just not that attractive and
not that good, and plus you're paying a premium for it.

(57:45):
Not that it's outrageous, but it's like really like it's
it's just not that great, which which surprises me because
Disney takes such pride in these parks and everything is
freaking perfect in the parks. Yet the food is just
very lackluster. To me, It's just it's just not that great.
And I wouldn't mind spending a little bit more if
the food was like the food kind of like was

(58:07):
like something you kind of remembered, but you know, it
is what it is. But we had a lot of fun.
We had great seats for the fucking parade, and we
saw the parade actually twice, which is great because one
night we were the parade goes one way right at
like eight thirty, and then it comes back later on
at night at like ten thirty or something like that,
and we were there super late. So yeah, all in
all was great. It was a really good trip. It

(58:29):
definitely was.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
I remember what my story was, so I got two
real quick. My son is in GATE, which is like
accelerated learning but like NUDS Smoak kids, and they have
a field trip coming out.

Speaker 1 (58:41):
I think they called that when I was in school
because I was in it for one year, and they
called it GT That's what it was called.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
But this is like gift, I guess, gifted and whatever,
Gifted and intelligence whatever. They have a field trip Gifted
and talented some of that. Yeah, they have a field
trip at Disneyland. And I was like, oh, this is good.
He can go, he can enjoy it. I don't have
to spend the enormous amount of money for like all
of us to go.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
And he was like, oh yeah, yeah one day thing.
Yeah yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
So he finds out that we have to take him
to school at like four am because he has to
catch you know, the bus down and then I pick
him up because the bus leaves like midnight pick him
up at four am again, and he's just like, wait,
so I don't get to sleep in And I'm like no,
and he goes, I don't think I want to go,
Like you can sleep on the bus, buddy. He's like, nah,

(59:30):
I'm good. Sound like, well, there goes that idea, So
we'll revisit it. But seems like his mind's pretty made
up on not going because he's going to lose some sleep.
But my family part story is I've been involved in
like a seven month game of tag with him. I
don't know if you do this with your kids or
if anyone else out there does it, Like just like tag,

(59:50):
you're it just that right, And there's always a safe
zone in the house. It used to be just the
white cotch that was the safe zone. So when when
I was it and he was going to get a
drink and I'd come in the lounge room, he'd run
back to the white couch. Now the safe zone has
evolved into like a certain like plushy or like a
different couch or like now he's using downstairs as the

(01:00:13):
safe zone. He's using the pool like in the water.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
Sounds like he's bending the rule in the very least
if not full and cheating.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
Yeah, he's full of cheating. But what it means was
like I've had to like get really creative with like
how I tag him. So there was one time where
he was swimming and the water was the safe sign.
He came out and he's like, where's Dad. Where's Dad?
And they're like, oh, he went upstairs to get changed.
He has got to go to work, so he like
came to like ride with the doores, and I was
like hiding. I had to tag him either way. Every

(01:00:44):
day we're playing tag in this house and like I'm
hoping he gets over it soon because it's so much effort,
so much energy, and same when I jumped him off,
he'll tag me on the way out of the seat.
It's like safe zone school. I'm like, well I can't
even get out, but it doesn't matter. But like, yeah,
monsterous game of tag me and my son right now. Okay,
it's just never ends, Neverens.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
It's just interesting that it's like just ongoing forever.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
Yeah, it's like tomorrow when he wakes up, and when
when I wake up, if it wakes uping for a second,
they'll run to like they'll tag one of them, he'll
tag me and be like safe zone something, and that
would just be it, and then we'll just go like
I've tried to make like we've tried to get rid
of safe zones. We tried to do everything that doesn't work,

(01:01:29):
doesn't work. Tell me if anyone else out there is
experiencing that, cool.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
Well that's gonna do it for us. Friday Poker Masters begin.
Let's freak in and go again. Hopefully I run hot,
but be here every single day. Got a lot of coverage,
plan a lot of live streaming, so be sure to
stay tuned to Poker Grow, to the pokerro YouTube channel,
all that sort of stuff. And uh yeah that's all

(01:01:55):
we got, right, Yeah, all right, cool Mousa's time baby
for Tim Dalkworth. My name is Donny Peters and we
will talk to you guys next time.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
So yeah, night, Channing Express