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CRAZY Stories Winning $573,876 with Mark Checkwicz! · WiseKracks

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  Speaker 1: Hey, guys, Bill Krackenberger, John Orlando over here at the
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  Speaker 1: World Series of Poker. We're getting heavy here. Looks like
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  Speaker 1: we're uh we're up to event forty nine already.
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  Speaker 2: So it's crazy half way?
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  Speaker 1: Is that halfway?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Of course we know what's your what's your next plan? Here?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Next before I attack you? What's your next play?
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  Speaker 2: Next plan? I'm coming off of a deep run yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, John had a deep run, but he did
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  Speaker 1: last night, was texting me many time. Yeah, John won
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money. That's today finally, I'm really happy.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's not a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: Three dollars, so that's considered.
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  Speaker 2: That's you know, uh, even on the on the day. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So Don John had a deep run in the thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine dollars tournament. Yeah, yeah, they John, So you played
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  Speaker 1: a two fifty. That's the daily tournament here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. But they have been really meaty. I mean there was.
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  Speaker 3: Like fifteen hundred, sixteen hundred entries. Yesterday was the largest
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  Speaker 3: field they've had. The second largest was the one Tyson
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  Speaker 3: ran really deep in like maybe a week or two ago.
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  Speaker 1: The final table.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he came in eighth. Wow, Yeah, he came in
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  Speaker 2: eighth for like thirty five hundred and thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Six it was forty nine hundred.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was almost five.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it was almost five k okay, sorry almost five ks.
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  Speaker 1: Don't want to give your credit for anything. It's some
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  Speaker 1: poker players.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that tournament. I don't know how my
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  Speaker 1: what my feeling is? My feeling is this? You don't
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  Speaker 1: know what the rake is? Still?
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  Speaker 2: Probably No, That's why I text you last night. Read
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  Speaker 2: the text.
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  Speaker 1: But come on, dollars for two hundred and fifty dollars,
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  Speaker 1: you can read a text.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to read your text.
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  Speaker 1: No, but like the rake is probably October twenty percent.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you know, so.
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  Speaker 1: They're probably taking over fifty bucks for and they call
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  Speaker 1: this not only here, by the way, it's everywhere. Someone
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  Speaker 1: just hold me to burg Got in Atlantic City. I
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  Speaker 1: actually spoke to the poker room manager. I should say
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  Speaker 1: my friend spoke to the poker room manager. That manager
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  Speaker 1: there for years. He said, we always had ten percent takeout,
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  Speaker 1: and now it's fifteen percent takeout and there's I think
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  Speaker 1: it's sixteen percent and five percent of the staff and dealers.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know what that means. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: What that means, like, in other words, the dealers have
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  Speaker 1: no problem. Is the staff? Are you tipping the floor
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  Speaker 1: people out of the money? And I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 1: talk about the world Ship every poker tournament, I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about the Bergatta, I'm talking about Aria, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: cazars everywhere you go. I don't. I don't, But then again,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: What the cares tipping them.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's probably just if it covers the cost
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  Speaker 3: of them.
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine people get so much per day. Let's
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  Speaker 1: say they get two hundred and fifty dollars a day,
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  Speaker 1: so they get two fifty a day. Now do they
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  Speaker 1: get extra money on top of air because of the
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  Speaker 1: tournaments or but that just go to absorb their two
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  Speaker 1: fifty a day. It's probably goes then I think, guess
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  Speaker 1: you get more money bill.
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  Speaker 2: But that's like say you're gonna say.
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  Speaker 1: Staff, give it the give it, give them extra money
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  Speaker 1: on top of their set, But I think it.
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  Speaker 2: Goes to fund the staff.
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  Speaker 3: That's like saying, well, out of the one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: twenty nine dollars they watch for the the bone and Ribbi,
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  Speaker 3: they wont one hundred and twenty nine bucks where's my
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  Speaker 3: one twenty nine going?
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  Speaker 2: Who cares you getting a steak?
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  Speaker 1: Right right?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is the steak I know I have listened
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  Speaker 1: to me. I'm all for tipping the dealers, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I know you're you're super generous.
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  Speaker 1: Tip the dealers. Yeah, they put up a lot of
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  Speaker 1: abuse from people. There's a lot of people from different
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  Speaker 1: parts of the countries and parts of the world that
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  Speaker 1: don't tip. So that's their customs. They're not being rude
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  Speaker 1: or mean, that's just what they're used to. I have
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  Speaker 1: no problem with taking out money for the dealers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: My problem is when at the end of the tournament
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  Speaker 1: when they ask for more, when you go to this
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  Speaker 1: cash and windows, would you like to leaving?
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  Speaker 3: And I never even considered that until you brought that
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  Speaker 3: that piece up.
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  Speaker 1: I have no problem with you even giving more to
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  Speaker 1: the dealers and staff for sure. Just let me know though, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: so I got this, but this is going.
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  Speaker 2: To be extra for that, I agree persolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather know who my dealers were who I liked. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: give them gift cards.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I love that you do that.
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  Speaker 1: I like to give them gift card. I do that
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  Speaker 1: for Christmas time. For dealers in the casino last night.
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  Speaker 3: Last night, I sent your screenshot. I was chip leader
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  Speaker 3: there for for a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you said, okay, go get them.
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  Speaker 1: Like a couple hundred people left.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, like usual. Yeah yeah, and you go, okay,
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  Speaker 3: go get them. I go in the money, but we
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  Speaker 3: want the forty K. Tonight, you said that is so
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  Speaker 3: sick that a two hundred and fifty dollars tournament has
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  Speaker 3: a forty k top prize.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, see why the rake doesn't matter?
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  Speaker 1: And you know it's a lot of money for two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty. Yeah, but you could see the obstacles.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened late, I fell asleep and
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  Speaker 1: you came in sixty at that Yeah, twenty So you
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  Speaker 1: got nine hundred and twenty three dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now.
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  Speaker 1: The real number for the tournament's ten years ago. You
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  Speaker 1: might have got eighteen hundred.
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  Speaker 2: No, I understand that because the.
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  Speaker 1: Rake is down double then what it was. You know. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so you have to work a lot harder to get
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  Speaker 1: any serious money.
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  Speaker 3: But where else are you going to find a daily
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  Speaker 3: tournament that gets sixteen hundred people in it?
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  Speaker 1: Only yesterday there was sixteen hundred people in.
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  Speaker 2: A fifteen correct. And you know why because the wsop's
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  Speaker 2: in town.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you have Venetian, right, you have the win.
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  Speaker 1: They're all having daily tournaments, right, and they're bringing these
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  Speaker 1: people in.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: How does it on a Monday? How are you have
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  Speaker 1: sixteen hundred there? Sixteen hundred there? It's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And that's been my point.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I say I'll die on the hill is
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  Speaker 3: because all of that, even around town, even if they're
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  Speaker 3: getting charging a less less of a rake at Venetian
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  Speaker 3: or Encore or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't even know if they are, because again
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  Speaker 2: I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but they it only charges like eight percent, ten percent?
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  Speaker 2: I think you know now. Now I will say this.
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  Speaker 2: I I had a good talk with a guy the
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  Speaker 2: other day about the rake.
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  Speaker 3: He's a poker pro, and I said, when I say
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  Speaker 3: the rake doesn't matter in your local casino, yes it does.
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  Speaker 2: That's different. That is different speaking.
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  Speaker 3: But I was speaking of just here at WSP. Would
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  Speaker 3: I say, who cares? Who cares?
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  Speaker 2: Because where are you gonna get a field of twenty
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  Speaker 2: thousand people? Where are you gonna get a field of
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  Speaker 2: fifteen hundred daily?
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  Speaker 1: John said this the Wall actually has Yeah, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of bricks out.
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  Speaker 2: Of the wall.
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  Speaker 1: Because they're sixteen, sixteen hundred people on a Monday.
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  Speaker 2: It's insane, you know, And you're bringing and.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know, you have to answer this. The
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  Speaker 1: quality of the players playing two fifty is not someone
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  Speaker 1: that's playing a two thousand dollars torrent.
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  Speaker 2: I would think you're one hundred percent right.
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  Speaker 1: Why John's in it, That's why he makes it. He
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  Speaker 1: actually cares this once in a while.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, fish where the fish are?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? So I have a question. I have a question
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  Speaker 1: for your genius. Yeah, what's your next plans? Here? What
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  Speaker 1: are you doing with all this money except for lighting
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  Speaker 1: it on?
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  Speaker 2: All this money?
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  Speaker 3: Uh so we're gonna gonna jump in the Daily again today.
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  Speaker 3: I have to leave tomorrow to go to a wedding.
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  Speaker 3: Pine size Warrior sister. Vanessa's sisters getting married.
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  Speaker 1: Go to weddings and funerals.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, So the wedding's on Thursday. I come back
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  Speaker 3: on Friday. I'll jump in the fifteen hundred A millionaire maker.
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  Speaker 3: The million Maker has several day ones. I don't even
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  Speaker 3: I think there's there's.
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  Speaker 2: A flight that I can do either Friday, Saturday, Sunday fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: Why why why do you ask?
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  Speaker 4: We are five?
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  Speaker 2: Were you wanting a piece? Is that?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm wanting to book more on that beat. Matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people, thank you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: Said if they want they loved them, they want to
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  Speaker 1: get in the ten dollars ten dollars, yeah, one hundred yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: ten Yeah. It's ten dollars for one hundred thousand.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So anything else you want to put towards that,
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  Speaker 1: it's tax free for.
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  Speaker 2: You, right right.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I'll play the millionaire maker. Oh oh, you
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  Speaker 3: know what, I'm not going to announce it yet. I
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  Speaker 3: have a new Tag Team partner this year. Oh wow,
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  Speaker 3: a minute, I'll say it. Okay, the new Tag Team partner.
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  Speaker 3: So it's been Jeff Madison for the last three years.
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  Speaker 1: He's been playing so good in these tournaments.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, Madison's been my partner, or I've been
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  Speaker 3: his partner, I should say, for the last three years.
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  Speaker 1: Sick and tired of it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He I see him the other day. He's playing in
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  Speaker 3: a ten k whatever. He's playing over here, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: I said, I made a joke. I said, hey, you
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  Speaker 3: want me to do you want me to tag in?
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  Speaker 2: And he goes, oh, by the.
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  Speaker 3: Way, uh, I'm going to go in a different direction
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  Speaker 3: this day. In the tag team, he's going with Mike Holtz,
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  Speaker 3: who just won another bracelet he went a week ago.
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  Speaker 2: I said, Okay, I get it. That's cool.
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  Speaker 3: I understand, you know, I said, but let me tell
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  Speaker 3: you a little story, jeff Jeffrey, you know, let me
• 8:27
  Speaker 3: tell you a story. Let me remind you of a story.
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  Speaker 3: There's a baseball player named Bryce Harper.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you've heard of Bryce Harper. Future Hall of Famer
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  Speaker 2: for sure, right, would you agree? I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you remember.
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  Speaker 3: He played for the Washington Nationals and he wasn't happy
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  Speaker 3: there because they just they came up short, right, So
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  Speaker 3: he decides he wants he wants to go somewhere else,
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  Speaker 3: So he goes to the Phillies.
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  Speaker 2: You know. The year that Harper went to the Phillies.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what happened? Bill?
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  Speaker 1: They won the World Series?
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  Speaker 2: Who won the Washington Nationals?
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  Speaker 3: The team Bryce Harper left and abandoned ended up going
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  Speaker 3: on to win the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm just.
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  Speaker 1: Saying, Bryce Harper is your partner. No, I really did know, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, Bryce Harper is my partner.
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  Speaker 3: But my point is Madsen has hopped He's jump ship,
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  Speaker 3: which I makes me in perfect position to win the
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  Speaker 3: tag team with my new partner, which is Tyson White
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  Speaker 3: aka fat Don Draper from from bet Sports.
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  Speaker 2: Yes you did. Yeah, so we're going to.
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  Speaker 1: Be how much is that?
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  Speaker 2: It's a thousand dollars entry and now you use play separately.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're tag in and out whenever you want the rule.
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  Speaker 3: It's a really cool section.
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  Speaker 1: Play more than you. I'll just tell you right now.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just saying, come on, come on, come on, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 3: I know, yeah, So you can be fun.
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  Speaker 1: You got your fifteen hundred dollars thing. When you get
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  Speaker 1: back now, yeah, you're gonna be in a wedding, you'll
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  Speaker 1: be drinking, partying, broad so everything. Now you're gonna be
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: able to come back and you'll be you'll be all right, physical,
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  Speaker 1: drink financial.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, of course, I'm a machine.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good, and you'll be able to get right off,
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  Speaker 1: right in.
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  Speaker 3: Jump right in, fresh from the airport, from the runway,
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  Speaker 3: straight to the wsop the vlog.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, having a blast, My.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, who loved you going in a little bit different directions.
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  Speaker 1: No what Yeah, no, they loved you, they love the vlog,
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  Speaker 1: but going in a little bit different direction. They were
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  Speaker 1: they want they want to see more poker. They said,
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  Speaker 1: you were doing I'm not caught up. I'm two days
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  Speaker 1: about three Okay, I guess they didn't. You were questioning
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  Speaker 1: people about ten thousand.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so uh the boys, Yeah, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if you want to you want.
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  Speaker 2: To be it, no, screw it? All right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah they had to leave town for a couple of days.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so we had to do what we had
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  Speaker 3: to do.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so you need them to have to stick there?
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, I mean they were just they weren't there
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  Speaker 2: to edit.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you went around and asking Yeah, so we.
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  Speaker 2: Just we had it's like a pre taped segment. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, just asking people. Yeah, what
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  Speaker 2: they would do?
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  Speaker 1: Well, my question is, John, what would you do with this?
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  Speaker 1: If you won the ten million dollars? You probably wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: live too much different you got you know, you got
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  Speaker 1: everything all these.
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  Speaker 3: Probably buy a new house, keep our house but just no, no,
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  Speaker 3: it's our house is great, But I'd upgrade to a
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  Speaker 3: house with like a view of the strip kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Just just take it up a notch, maybe a single
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  Speaker 3: story house, just to prepare for the future.
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  Speaker 2: Right, your buddy's laughing.
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  Speaker 3: You know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, just prepare
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  Speaker 3: for you know, how long can we do stairs?
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  Speaker 2: Right? No, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: And then definitely some cars, and definitely take care of
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  Speaker 3: a lot of friends that are deserving.
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  Speaker 2: You know who you are. You get a little piece too, Bill,
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  Speaker 2: don't worry.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, you do one hundred percent. You do one
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  Speaker 3: hundred percent. Actually, I had people in the comments. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if you sny in those comments, they asked
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  Speaker 3: me to ask you the same question.
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  Speaker 2: You just won the main event ten million, how about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty stupid with money, so people don't know that.
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  Speaker 1: So smart and you know, skill sets of winning things
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  Speaker 1: and holding on the money, and I'm sorry the opposite,
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  Speaker 1: not holding on the money is my downfall as far
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  Speaker 1: as I've done much better at this, but not saying
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  Speaker 1: no to people trying to help, everybody trying to you know,
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  Speaker 1: I would try to do that a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: And thank God for my wife that is smart enough
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of things. But yeah, I'm a fool
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  Speaker 1: of my money. I eat out, I take everyone of dinners,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to do that. I'm not bragging about it.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I like doing that. I like going out, and I
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  Speaker 1: do like enjoying. I like other people enjoying more than me.
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  Speaker 1: I told you, I just I found the shirts on
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  Speaker 1: sale twenty five bucks. I was all pumped, yeah, on myself.
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  Speaker 1: It's really weird, like even the sneakers I have on
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  Speaker 1: I won't spend two hundred dollars on sneakers. And my
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  Speaker 1: wife said, you're buying these. I bought these for you
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  Speaker 1: because they are good for big men. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know the brand name, but they are. They're so soft.
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  Speaker 2: On called the cloud.
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  Speaker 1: I almost said, you're like on a cloud.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, on cloud good.
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  Speaker 1: Oh see yeah, oh see comfy. Huh yeah, they're they're
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  Speaker 1: they're good. There, they are good.
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  Speaker 4: She's right, she's right.
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  Speaker 1: So but as far as I'm not trust me, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not trying to say my mother's Teresa here, but I
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  Speaker 1: have it's not even lent out. I had given out
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  Speaker 1: more money and try to help other people, and and
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: uh and and and done a lot of stupid things,
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  Speaker 1: made a lot of dumb deals for myself in my life.
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  Speaker 1: I would try to gather that and maybe put it
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: in an investment. I'm not a bitcoin guy. I've never
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  Speaker 1: had money to have bitcoin in the past when it
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: was you know, a thousand and two thousand and five
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  Speaker 1: thousand a coin. I've never taken money and invested it somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: so I would definitely be more of an investment type
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  Speaker 1: of guy. Now every year I've been killing futures. I
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  Speaker 1: won like Vanchero was a giant win for.
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  Speaker 2: Me, eighteen to one, right or twenty three to one
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  Speaker 2: to one.
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  Speaker 1: Eighteen the ones? Correct? Yeah, I got down remember fifteen
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  Speaker 1: to one, twelve to one, incredible draftings twice at twelve
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: to one for like five thousand dollars bets they gave
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: me too, So I did I did?
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: You got a big o tany MVP once right, MVP.
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: I wasn't that. How could that have been thirty three
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: to one?
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: You got thirty three to one and thirty to one
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: on that. So when those big futures cashed, Yes, I
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: did buy some I did buy a property, you know,
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: I did. I did buy some things that I have still,
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: thank god. But as far as cash goes, yeah, I'll
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: invest it. I'm already invested. John, you wouldn't believe, you
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: would not believe how much money I invested already already
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: on futures. I mean you could just look at these futures.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: I had these up yesterday.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: Twenty so wow, all of those these.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Are these are these are like giant six figures I
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: invested in. I don't have the money, so it's but
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: it's gone, it's gone. I have like Week one, I
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: have one, two, three, four, five, six, six games. I
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: bet Week one of NFL too over underseason wins. As
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: you could see there, you know, packers under under ten
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: and a half. I bet that like twice around.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: And you haven't expected return.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: On your like, I'll give you another one. I'm giving
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: out ually, don't give out plays on the show. The
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: Patriots I wanted over, so I went down to the
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: South Point. I bet I bet over nine and a
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: half minus fifteen for a max bet, which was a
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: lot five thousand. I bet it again over minus twenty
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: for five thousand. Like that money's gone now, it's all now.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: Now it's out of my life. It's good for six months,
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: eight months. The ROI on them have been ridiculous, much
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: more than any investment I could probably invest in they've
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: been They've been really good over the years. So that
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: stuff I do have, and I always keep that amount
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: of money to I know I'm gonna be able to
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: go and invest in them again. So as far as
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: that goes, my life wouldn't change. I wouldn't get a
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: new car. I'm fine. I have a key electric vehicle.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: I love truck that I absolutely love. I wouldn't be
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: getting a new car. And as far as no, there's
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: no new house.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: I like.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: The place I live in is great. Maybe I get
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: my wife. My wife wants to we're gonna we're going
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: to get a house on the East coast by her parents.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Maybe I will get that a little bit sooner or something.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: As far as living differently, no, I wouldn't be flashy.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: I don't wear no jewelry, uh now, and who am
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I kidd And I would definitely be giving money away
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: helping people. Try not to help gamblers so much because
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: they don't appreciate it and burn up the money. More charitable.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: I'm an animal charity guy as it is now. I
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: give some money away every year animal charities monthly actually,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: and I would maybe step that up a little bit. Yeah,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: and uh Yeah.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: Now, are you ready for the main event grind, Because
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: I'm still working on your sponsor bill. I'm gonna get
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: you a sponsor. You're gonna be playing in the main event,
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: are you Are you ready? Yes, you're ready.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll play.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: So if I find you the sponsor, you are going
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: to play.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Sure, and you can have this whoa.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Whoa whoa whoa.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And by the way, I've only even with the rake.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: You're gonna give up fifty percent to me. Huh.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: I played the main event once and I came in
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy seven.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: So just to you know, I did cash and that
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: was years ago.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Twenty some years ago. I played seniors event last year
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: cash didn't do nothing to shoot. So anyway, that that'll
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: be fun. Yeah, let's you guys hear this right?
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if he gets on here.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, So we have a guy with us today that
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: has won the five thousand dollars seniors event. He has
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: his bracelet. John tried the Gloman already on him. But yeah,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: so we're gonna bring him on right now. And uh
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: and you know you get to meet you get to
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: meet a bracelet winner.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, I'm excited.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Hey, guys, I want to do the Weekly Wager Wires segment.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: This is an interesting one ten dollars to win eleven
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: and eighty two dollars. Now, two of the three legs
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: have cashed. Here Arizona, which they already got, already cashed
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: the NCAA Tournament West Region winner. You've had the New
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: York Knicks to win the East. Big thing for New
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: York here too. Wow, that was a real big congratulation
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: to them, gradulations to the city. Now the last leg
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: here is France to win the World Cup. When the
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: original bet was placed, it was eight to one. Now
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: it's four to one, a little bit less three seventy five.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Let's say it's four to one. So that makes the
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: cash out right now the buyout offer on this ten
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: dollars bet two hundred and twenty nine dollars profit, So
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty nine dollars. If you would have
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: bet the two hundred and thirty nine dollars right now
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: at plus three seventy five, or I'll even say plus
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: four to one. Obviously, that's much less under one thousand
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: dollars compared to the eleven eighty two here, I would
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: say go for it and not sell this right now.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: France is the big favorite here to win the World Cup.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Second choice is like six and a half to one,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: So I would say go with this for now unless
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: you see something you don't like, or maybe the two
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty nine dollars. It is twenty extra bet
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: over twenty extra bet. But I would hold on to
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: this one. This is just one of them over at
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: wagerwire dot com and the wager Wire. All right, guys,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: we're back. I have a story here that's just amazing.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: So this gentleman next to me, Mark Checkwood, said, said
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: something to me on Twitter in May of twenty twenty four.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: He said something in a comment that made me say
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: to him, just the idea ed him and said, so
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: true what you said, sir, Thank you for the nice words.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Have a great night, he said, I always appreciate your content. Bill,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: have a great night. Look to engage in the future.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: And we went back and forth talking a little bit,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: and he said he's coming out. He goes, Hey, Bill,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I'm coming out for a tournament. I said, let's go
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: to breakfast on Monday morning. Well, we can go to breakfast.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: It's a good time for me. Fantastic offer. I never
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I never turned.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Down off of the free fluid.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: But I'm flying out for the Super Seniors WSLP hopefully
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: spin that into the five thousand dollars High Rollers Seniors
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: event last week of June. I'll keep you posted. Hey, Bill,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I made it out to Vegas. Thank you, thankful to
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: take you up on your Monday offer. I'm in day
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: two of the Super Seniors. So now I texted him.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I said, I hope you cashed in the Seniors, but
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I said, where you're staying. You didn't really tell me
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: too much. He goes, Hey, tomorrow, let's go to breakfast.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I said, okay, we'll go to breakfast. We went to
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: breakfast in the morning and he's wearing a bracelet.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: I'm my hero.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: That's a wait a minute, you didn't win. That's an
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: old bracelet or something. He said, nope, I want it.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: So you won the five thousand dollars Super Seniors two
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: years ago, the first inaugural Super Seniors.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: And no, no, no, it was the sea. I rode,
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: I min cast the Super Seniors, and I did I
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: spin it. I spun it into the Seniors, the original
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Seniors high Road.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you min cash. If you didn't, If you
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: didn't min cash, you wouldn't have played in.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: This that is correct.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Wow. So I did a Berry Greenstein too on day one. Man,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: I got it in with aces versus a guy with
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: King ten and King I board. He hits a ten
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: on the turn and I hit the ace on the river.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: And I spun that into like three hundred and sixtieth
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: place or whatever it was.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: And then so you wouldn't have had five hundred and
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: eighty thousand, eighty five seventy four, five hundred and seventy
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: four thousand dollars because of that min cash of course.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the ace on the river, thanks Greenstein, Thank you.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: And when you win that, are they giving you cash?
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Are you taking home cash or you having them? You
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: have them wire.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Telling this story, which is crazy. Okay, you want to
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: give me like three minutes?
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Two? Okay, because take five?
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: All right, you guys take cash. You're crazy.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Listen, wait, why someone's gonna rob you?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: They know you won the bracelet alright, so go ahead,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: you take these gamblers are night, good guys?
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: All right? So so I came out with very very
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: small amount of money, and once I bought into the
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: five K. I had some backers, Okay, it was I
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: literally left myself with like about three hundred bucks and
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: I lasted, you know, the three days. This is a
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: true story. Okay. When I'm when I'm up at the
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: final table, heads up, We're playing for like about an hour.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: It ended up being a couple. I get a water
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: and I tipt on tape. I tipped two bucks. I
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: had zero dollars left in my wallet. Oh my god,
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: I had when I am hoisting this bracelet right here. Uh,
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: I had zero dollars.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, that could be you.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: So I'm a house painter. You didn't tell him I'm
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: a house painter. This is literally you know, like dart
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: and stuff. Right, you can get a water and so
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: this is the this is the greatest, and this story
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: gets gets awesome. You'll never hear anything like it. I've
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: been waiting to tell the story. You have to wonder
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: why you can never put on before. So now I
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: go over here to the payout window and I'm like,
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: you know what, this is my one time just to
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: have like a load of cash. You're telling me, how
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: do you want to do this? So I took my
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: Hi Martha she's the first time she's gonna hear this too.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: I took twenty eight brand in cash, and I took
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: the rest in the check.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's not bad, all right.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: I walked from here down the strip at one am
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: in the morning with twenty eight grand in my pack,
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: looking dour and sour and like miserable, but knowing that
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: I was walking down the strip twenty eight brand. And
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: then I threw it on the bed at Park MGM.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: When I got back, I took some pictures and oh.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: She's gonna put this on you because you're gonna be
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: talking more than me.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: So so yeah, I did the I did the winners,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: the winner's photo, you know, just laid it out on
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: the bed and I got the check there. So I'll
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: tell the Pedro story. I mean, you didn't want to tell.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: It's a great story. So when I was playing the
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Super Seniors, John I Walk, I had befriended the valet
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: at the at Park MGM. He was doing the nomad.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Actually great guy who got stiffed by Tropicana after thirty
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: five years, and we were talking. So Pedro, I said,
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: you know what, I'm walking to the Super Seniors. I'm
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: gonna give you a free one percent free room to
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: the super seniors. Right. Oh, so I've been cash and
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: I give him the twenty bucks and I said, you know, Pedro,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: it's like, you know what, I'm giving you one percent of.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: My senior's high roleatives stop.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: So I gave him one percent the valet there and yeah,
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: after taxes, I handed him forty two hundred bucks.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: We have become friends. And he did he put together
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: in a day. I mean, God, bless this guy man
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: and Norma his wife Norma, they're the greatest. He put
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: together this frame picture of a cookie monster, wrote all
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: this beautiful stuff about how I had helped him at
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: a really tough time in his life. And anyway, the
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: he orders me, I'm I ended. I extended my stay.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: I was really flying out right after breakfast, really extended
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: my stay so I could walk around bragging about this thing.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: You know, this story, and well he doesn't know all
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: of them. The rest of this though, So this gets
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: really good. And I mean when I say really good,
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: this is good. So he orders me a limo to
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: take me to the airport the morning that I'm leaving.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Now it's two days later, just to Mark, you know here,
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: just do this, and I'm like, okay, this is awesome.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: What a guy. So I've got the cash and figuring out,
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: you know how, I'm taking his cash and I got
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: the check and then I'm right ready to go downstairs
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: to the limo. The limbo text me and I'm like, shit,
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: what if I'm going to get like taken down by
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: the limit driver? What did they know? And like, I
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: just like it now, I only got like fifteen seconds.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: They just swirl them through my head. All right, Well
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: the cash, what can I do about? I can't do
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: much about the cash. They're gonna take me for what
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: I had left. I had loan some out, but I
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: still had like about it. Anyway, it doesn't matter. I
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: put the check. I'm like thinking, I got a check
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: for over five hundred K. You know what, I'm gonna
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: put it in a sock and stuff into my luggage.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: So oh my god, No, no, no, I'm not I'm
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: not doing that. They might just like take everything I got.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: I put the check in a sack and I put
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: it in my crotch.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Well they can't steal it.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: What do you do with the check? I don't know, Bill,
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: This is what I'm thinking. You get that?
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: No, I get it. I get it, man, I get it.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Half a million dollars sure, and I got backers and
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: I this is like my one score. So I did
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: I put the check in a socket. I put it
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: in my crotch. It's a it's a through flight back home.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: We stop off one time. Everybody gets off the plane
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: but me. I am the only one flying. They were
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: all going to Florida. I'm the only one flying on
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: breeze back to Bradley. And I asked him can I
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: use the bathroom? And I gotta go? And do I
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: do need to get off? He said, no, no, you
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: can use the bathroom. So I go and I use
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: the bathroom and I and I come back and I
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: fall asleep, you know, And and we we end up
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: in Bradley and I'm back home and my wife greets me.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: We go out to dinner and she said, well, it's like,
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: what did you do with the check? I'm like, oh,
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: for god, it hit me. I had forgotten about it. Okay,
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: So I go, I go into the bathroom and it's
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: gone because the sock is gone gone, And I'm like, well,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: how can it be gone? How can it be gone?
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: What?
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, I'm running through and now I'm I
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: am dying in this bathroom at a ninety nine restaurant
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: back home, and I had to be like white and
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: I still feel it, and it occurred.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: To me to this day.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: You don't, no, No, I know where I went. I
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: went to bathroom in that in that era in airplane lavatory,
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: took my trous down and and the sock did not
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: make it back up, and they just cleaned it out.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Gone to the World Series.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: No no.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: So so now I'm texting my friends, Look, you gotta
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: go find somebody at the at the World Series of Poker.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: You gotta find somebody that that can help me with
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: this whatever. And and they finally they get me a name,
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: and I'm texting this guy and he's not really getting
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: what my problem is. He's not really responding quickly, and
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: I'm pair of this is.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: We need this taking care of it immediately.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: So this, this conversation took way too long. It's like
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: over over a day for him to understand. I need
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: to have another check that was canceled and another one reissued. Finally,
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: all right, they get this done, they cancel it out
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: and and he shows me, okay, we're sending out the
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: new chick sends me a picture, very nice of it,
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: and all right. Now it's like a day later doesn't
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: come in. I'm like, okay, I'm I'm I'm sweating this.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: I gotta pay my backs. And the next day doesn't
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: come in. I'm like, oh my god. So I'm texting
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: this guy again again. He's not responding to right away,
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: and he's like, no, no. He shows me a picture
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: of this was delivered. The delivery driver showed the picture
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh my god, that's not my house.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: Not my house, John house. They delivered it to the
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: wrong house. So now I'm telling my backers. I have
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: to tell him now because they they they rightfully, they
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: want their mind, and I'm telling them what happened. And
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: God knows whether they believe me or didn't believe me,
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: whether they thought I was stiffing them. Because you just
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: never know anybody in the world. I'm sorry, you never.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: You don't even know yourself well. Like so one of
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: them is a ups driver and this was delivered FedEx,
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: but he knows Buddies and FedEx honestly, guy. He he
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: figured out it was delivered to the house on the
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: next street over, next street over. It was addressed the
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: right house. They delivered it and the people there. Now
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: this took like five or six days, like, and my
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: wife had gone on vacation, so I was home, you know,
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: with my son, and and just like panicking is the
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: worst week of my life. I'm telling you, worst worst
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: week of my life. And did you go on? He
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: went he and and he got it. But the greatest
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: part about this is now. But by that time I
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: had called this guy again, and he must be like,
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: come on, man, what's going on? You are you trying
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: to catch three checks? Is that what it is? And
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: and they I had them like wire.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Me the money.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: But the guy found check. Guy, the guy found the check.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: That check got canceled. So I still have that check.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: That's actually kind of cool, He's kind of cool, thank you.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: But I went through a lot to have that as
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: a keepsake.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: I'm taking the cash after all this, I'm taking the
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: cash ten million. I want the whole ten million in
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: cash on the table, man, and we'll deal with the rest.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: And now you said you have backers. Now, why would
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: backers get involved with this with you? How did you
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: get that? How did that happen?
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: Well, so, so I play crazy poker down my local casino.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: You know, I go all in blind. That's how I
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: always start off on the cash games. Okay, and my
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: kind of guy, Oh yeah, I am so. So anyway,
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: I go to the regulars have been playing with me
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: MGM screen fields where I play, and these guys have
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: been playing two five with me for like about five
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: or six years and there, and I offered them no markup.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: I said, look, I'm selling fifty. You can have up
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: to ten percent, five hundred bucks no markup, And they
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Joseph w like that. All the regulars who had they
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: didn't think. They didn't understand that it was not going
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: all in blood of course, Okay, right then had a
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: clue that I would not play that way in a tournament,
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: and I got a hind in Bob. At this point, okay,
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: prior to that, I had won probably four out of
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: the last ten tournaments that I played. Two of them
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: had like many runners, three digit runners, and two of
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: them were local like six or seven. But I got
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: a hand in mine. It's right there, like first and
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: seconds in these local tournaments and no, they're not interested.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Wouldn't you agree though, that even though of course you're
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: not going to go all in blind in the in
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: the high Rollers Senior, but just having that as part
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: of your makeup is why you're able to win an
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: event like that, because you need that fearlessness in a
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: tournament exactly exactly, so literally, I talked about this on
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: the way in in the car today to hear I
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: talked about this on camera on the vlog you're gonna see.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: I love it. It's just the truth. So there's a
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: lot of intuition tournament poker. I tell people all the time.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: I was born naturally left handed. My dad was a teacher.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: He made me write here I did, my arm could
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: rest on the rest on the desk. But I am
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: a natural tournament player. I am a I forced my
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: cash game play like it is so different. But I
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: always mean buy cash games always and literally I grind
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: it down to a nub. I don't add on. I
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: don't care if it's not to you know, ten bucks,
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: twenty bucks, whatever. I will try to spin that up
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: and I have multiple times. But it made me a
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: way better tournament player, way better because now Okay, if
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: I'm down to to out of two to five table,
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: I can. I'm just gonna be patient. I'm a wait
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: for that spot where I can actually put the forty
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: in and get the best value for it. And there
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: are ways you just learned that you would never learn
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: if you're constantly max buying cash glows, if you're constantly
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: pulling out of your pocket, which is nothing you can
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: do in tournament play. You cannot pull out of your pocket, right,
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: he said, every chip is precious.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: John pulls out of his pocket.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: He knows what I mean.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Truthfully, the so fore handed you'll love this too. Fore Handed,
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: I had the chip lead, but there was one guy
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: that was really pretty close to me. He was a
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: small blind. This end button was a short stack, and
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: I'm under the gun and the dealer shuffling. I raised
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: under the gun blind forehanded at the final table.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: Okay, I love it. And so now because I know, okay,
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: if the short stack moves in and it's an opportunity
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: for him, if he's got you know something, I'm just
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: calling him and I'm going for the knockout. This is
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: a huge page hub and and he folds small blind
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: set second and chips to me pretty close. Like I said,
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: he raises, Okay, I think we were at three hundred thousand.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: Maybe he makes it a million, right fold. And now
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: I look at my cars, John, I.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Got ace cap, Oh my god, And it's impossible to
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: see that coming.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: They never buy it.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: And none of these guys have ever faced anything like
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: this before. They're just you know, I'm dressed up as
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Cookie Monster. I got a little I showed the kids
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: here and you know I'll show you after. And for
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: the whole three days, I buffaloed these people into believing
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: that I was just some some schmuck having fun wreck
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: and and I'm much more than that.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Where the Cookie Monster name come from? The cookie? Where'd
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: that come from?
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: The So that's a whole. Do we have three more minutes?
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: No?
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: Anyway?
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: No, we went shop. I have a son with down syndrome.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: My wife and I are shopping in Sears and he
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: sees this Cookie Monster customs about eight years old, and
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: he wants it and like, well, it's actually for adults.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: And it's like Andrew, you know it's not for you,
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: So we go downstairs. I cannot believe this to this day.
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: I think this is right before Sears went under. We
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: go into the kids sex they got nothing with Cookie
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: Monster on it. How is it even possible?
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Huh.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: So he's crying and my wife said, all right, we
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: got to take him out, and like, so we go
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: out to the car. Wait a minute, I'm going back in.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: I buy the Cookie Monster thing. I put it on
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: and appease my son thrilled. It's got a beanie on
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: it with ice and so anyway, I wore it around
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: the house for a couple of years and and stuff.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: You know, one day I said to my wife, and
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: I go down to Foxwoods every Saturday, so you know
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: what I'm gonna do. I'm wearing a Cookie Monster costume
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: down with Foxwoods.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: And you are not.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: And like my wife knows as soon as she says
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: you are not, I am too. So so I put
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: it on underneath the coat. It's the wintertime, and I
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: got the beanie in my coat pocket. I'm I'm gonna
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: wait for the right hand. It's gonna be perfect. Right.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: So we're into this two five game about about an
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: hour and then I got pocket eight's I raised. Somebody
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: re raises me, and it's back to me. And I
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: just flat and I'm feeling it. This is the one
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: I got pocket eighths. The plot comes Ace three to two, right,
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: eight three to two, rather eight three to two. I got,
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: I got the nuts. So he checks, I bet and
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: he flats right Ace on a turn, just like I need. Guys,
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: clearly got ace king. Now he bets. I'm like, this
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: is the moment. This is it. So I take off
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: the coat and I got a bunch of people right now.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: I got a build, big cookie manster, googly eyes on this,
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: this shirt I put on the beanie, I go me
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: all in guns me snaps me with this that the
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: base wow, and the table erupted, and everybody from around
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: they just all came over to see what it was
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: the first day. That is true, I won out as
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: a man.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: That's incredible.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: Talk about I became the cookie, that's all they called me.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: So I just wore it every single You.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Did an interview that I listened to on non with
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: him to.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: Show you that the After Gambling.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: After Gambling podcast, you did episode one hundred. This is
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: before you want to race it. It is, yeah, And
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: I actually enjoyed listening today. I listened to it yesterday
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: and it's a little long, but we're not trying to
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: go too.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: Long, like no, no, but however, I do.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a really good podcast. You talked
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: about being a gambler and how it has affected you
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: throughout your life when you were younger, just like all
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: of us, we've all I was a djen as a kid.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: John Stilly still a djen now.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: No, I am too, Yeah, honestly I am. I mean,
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: it's just what it is. I don't think you can
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: be a successful gambler without being a djen. But it
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: is the it is the being a better gamble thing
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: that my friend and Jamie Salzburg and I have like
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: really focused in on, and it attracted the tension of
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: Harvard's Division on Addiction. We've done multiple podcasts for them.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: They're doing a training series for counselors using our content.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: But I talked about you know, I've had my truck
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: repossessed twice and true story, one of the times that
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: it was repossessed, I called up my friend, I said, hey,
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: can you help me? We got gotta go pick up
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: my truck. We went over there. I you know, I
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: dug up the money, I took out a cashier bands
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: and a credit card, and I went and I paid
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: it off, and the two of us went down to
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: Mohicans and to play poker that day.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: But you've had stories.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: And that is why I want to be transparent about
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: this stuff, because that kind of stuff is not the
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: whole story. This happened at sixty two. Yes, I have
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: gambled since I was it on everything, everything. I was
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: a semi pro bowler, used to travel all around New
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: England when I was eighteen years old. I'm betting twenty
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: five bucks a game. I'm bowling in nineteen eighty Wow,
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: I mean big money.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: And it's like, but that made me tough too. And
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: and the other thing. My parents taught me to play poker.
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: They never let me win. I like that, never let
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: me win, man. Yeah, And so I don't let I
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: don't know, I don't check it down. I don't take
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: it easy on anybody. We are playing the hand. And
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: and if I win, I am enjoying myself. I'm gonna
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: celebrate massive pot. I won, you know whatever, I I like, Yes,
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: and I did it in the final table too, man,
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: I enjoyed myself. That that whole thing the acting like
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: you've been there before. No, I was never there before,
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: and I was going to enjoy myself and I made
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: sure everybody at that table enjoyed themselves too.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: It's awesome, But.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: What about when you were younger than and like you
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: said some of the things, I like what you said
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: about gambling, like how you started, It's just like how
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: I started. Our parents taking us to My dad took
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: me to a racetrack. My dad took me to Mamma's
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: park and my dad, you know, they gambled on the weekends.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: They gambled on the weekends. Their men played.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: Cards, home games, women all women played.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: All the women played cards. And now they thought it
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: was it was harmless, but it could have an impact
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: on you when you're a child, and then you have
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: that brain that's absorbed like a sponge, and you say, well,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: if it's okay for them to gamble, my dad to
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: go to the race.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: SOO, this is the one thing I want to focus
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: in on. Okay, parents, grandparents, whatever, you should never be
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: giving kids free bets. And and I think their guilt
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: got them. You know, they're taking an eleven year old
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: to a track. Oh you know, Mark, here here's a dollar,
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: pick a thing you could. All you can do is win.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: You can never lose to point, and this is like
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: the biggest problem. That and the lottery thing. I know
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: we're gonna agree on this. Giving out lottery tickets disgusting.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: I agree. This is so everyone does it. We used
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: to do it.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: Dude.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: You found to give you.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: A ticket that is a gift. I give you a
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: ticket that is yours. You win a million dollars, that
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: is your million dollars. But now it gets complicated. Doesn't
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: know you don't owe me a damn dime.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Man, I gave you that, right.
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: That is yours, but it's not how it.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: Works, right, I'm off if you don't, right, Yeah.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: And it's like no, no, that is so complicated. But
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: people don't think about the complications. Sure, but my uncle
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: was the patriarch of gambling in my family, but he
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: gambled as an escape. My uncle was at Pearl Harbor
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: at nineteen years old, and I can't even imagine. My
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: other uncle drove a tank in the Battle of the Bulge. Wow,
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: this is serious trauma that you escape from the kids
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: your age, you know, twenty one whatever, it is like,
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry you don't have the kind of trauma that
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: you need to be betting all the time on your
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: phone as an escape. For now. It is a whole
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: different thing. And and getting into a program, a race
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: program was what my uncle needed, and it caused him
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: a lot of stories. It's a horse track pro a
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: horse race program, seeing the past results and stuff like that.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like the form, yeah yeah, yeah.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: And he's very smart. He was a very smart guy.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: And a true story. He got in trouble with the mob.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: He lost so much money to bookies. My mother was
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: his wife's sister and my dad was his brother, so
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: siblings married each other, right. My uncle went to my
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: father for money, and he went to my mother for
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: money to pay the same debt because he wanted to
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: cut it in half for both of them. Forty years later,
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: we're at the table. My uncle had already passed. I
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: was a sudden. They're telling the story one my father's
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: told a story about how my uncle came to him
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: one time, and my mother's like, wait a minute, and
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: they they tied notes together. It was the same time,
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: and they had me the one ever knew. They both
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: kept that secret. Wow, And it's the secrets of gambling
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: that I just want to expose. I wish more people
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: understood how devastating the whole trail is down. Yeah, you know,
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: and and it's not it's not this. This is great,
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: But you know, I've missed Morgan. This right happened at
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: sixty two. Yeah, I've missed mortgage payments, tapped into my
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: wife's credit.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I had a banker at twenty one. There
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: you go, bankruptcy. I was a little DJ and gambler.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Even though I knew the skill sets of card counting
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: and stuff. I still love going to the racetracks and stuff. Yeah,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: someone shook me and I showed me the right way,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: and I had to make money on you know, spo.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: Full accountability here. I am a profitable pope. But that
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: doesn't change that. Okay, if I've made money and then
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: I spent it and then I lose, I didn't plan
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: to lose, So you can talk to me about bank
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: roll all forever. Like, give me a break. Okay, give
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: me a break, because what do I want to do?
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: Bankroll money away? So to leave it there so I
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: can lose it later, That will never make sense to me,
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: To go off for a little bit different than your mom.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Didn't you tell your mom? I love this advice too, Mom.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Don't buy the kids lottery tickets. Person, don't buy the
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: kids lottery tickets. Don't let them pick numbers for you.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Keno numbers, John, I'll tell you his first gambling was
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: lounge in the restaurants. Some numbers on Keno. And that's
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: just it's it's you think it's a harmless thing.
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: And I don't blame her.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: That rush when you picked it, right.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: I told you number twenty three.
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: You know you never feel the pain of it, and
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: you never forget the rush. Yeah, I had a dollar
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: given to me, Yeah, one four to seven. I still
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: remember the numbers to this.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: Had a horse track, yeah, or dog track? Yeah, one
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: four seven, nailed to trifecta. I'm twelve years old. I
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: hit it for in nineteen seventy four. I did it
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: for one hundred and forty dollars.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: That's the end of that. You remember the horses names
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: and everything.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: I remember Skyline's rocket, gebraltar and wreaking habit.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do. How nine years old years old get
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: that twelve years old racetrack? I like something you said
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: in the car though you said that's true about gamblers today.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: A lot of people that are gambling just don't want
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: to work.
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: That's your word, I word true.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they just don't want to work. They I can
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: win a gambling and not knowing what the house edges.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: Just not sustainable because not.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: Knowing what the house edges are whatever craps blackjack, roulette
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: and just say I don't want to work. This is
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: an easier way for me to make money.
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: I think that's especially true of poker players.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay, yeah, I agree, all right, yeah destiny.
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you feel you feel like you can build
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: an edge and you can. So what how many? How
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: many players do you think? What percentage are profitable enough
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: to actually live a life that would also include healthcare,
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: taking care of your teeth, you know, simply?
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: I would say less than five percent?
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: Wow, I mean I'm guessing, but I can't imagine that
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: it's better than that, right, it can't be better than that.
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: So why would anybody as a group chase a career? Yeah,
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: less than five percent are going to make it to
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: that level.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: So you didn't tell people got off the story. No
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: one at the table wanted a piece of you. How
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: did you actually sell off fifty yourself?
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: All right? One of a very good sports better, tough,
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: tough guy took ten percent. I made my wife pay
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: for two percent whole.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: She did.
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: I told her, I said, if you want some of this, like,
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: you got to put up the money, mate. So she did.
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: My sister took some. But it was it was a
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: different group than the core group that I had played
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: with the.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: Did you did you feel a different pressure because you
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: had backers?
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: No? Actually it's better for me.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Really.
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: I was never going to put up five km my own.
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's just who I am. You know. The
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: most I've ever put up was in that tournament.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: You know, but you blocked it out while you're playing,
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: like you're not thinking, like, oh if I call this,
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: I like it.
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: And and I really like I'm very good at hand reading,
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: very good at controlling the social game. It's a very
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: un usual skill, you know. I don't study, I don't
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: do solber. I did not look up any of my opponents.
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: I didn't look up their hand in mob. I didn't
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: want to know. I just I made things happened that
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: I wanted to happen.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: And intellectually zych Q was off the charts. But did
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: that help you or you're saying the table reading helped it,
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: because I would think you want to look at who's
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: at your table hand and mom, I think you want
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: to know.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: You don't want to be psyched out right. I wanted
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: to just play.
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: So I'm cookie Monster, and I wanted it to be
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: the dough Show and that was it, you know, like that,
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: and and it was. I mean, if you watched this episode,
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: it's you know, I don't think it's up on polker
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: Go anymore. It's gone. You will see like it is.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: Literally it's my show. I'm being honest.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Let's let's let's get into the going towards the end here.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: I want to know about this. After you won that money,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: did people start asking you to borrow money?
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: So I made that very clear early on, because I
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: really did. From from March on, I told people I
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: was winning this thing and it's like, nobody's asking me
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: for money. I want to be very cool and on
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: one person broke the rules one deal, but I did
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: want to talk about that because gamblers in general see
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: their buddy who won. I think I think the mentality
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: it just like leaks down into like I can tap
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: into other people's fortune. Just give me a stake, put
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: me in, ye do that?
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: Yn't no money, just put me in.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: Put me in.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: And I told you you were gonna win. So I'm
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: entitled the to some because I told you.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: I told you you.
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: No, I don't sew gamblers are not my friends, and
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: I don't believe you can have a gambler as a
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: true friend, because there's just anyway.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: I just say, I never be friends with John.
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: I could never be.
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: How much unsolicited text advice were you getting when you
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: just several stages of the tournament, Like.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: I'm probably not No one knew right or did no
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: one know?
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: He didn't do very much texting rather than okay, some
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: big big jumps when I made the money the whole
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: day one, I didn't text back anything wow, okay, because
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: I told him I would text them when I got
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: knocked out.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: Yep, and.
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: The I had I had a sick run right off
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: the bathroom. So two hundred and fifty big blinds. We
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: got fifty thousand chips. I sit down for hand one.
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: We're foe handed, and it took me four hands to
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: take the guy's chips to my left, all of them,
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty big blinds.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: It's like wow, And it was just when you're going
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: back and you're going back to Now you're gonna go
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: back the house painting. Yeah, don't. I don't. Don't, But
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: don't tell me that you didn't think. Now I'm a
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: poker pro and I gotta start playing tournaments.
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: No, I've only I have only played.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: I think that's rare. I think you're right, though, I
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: think that's rare.
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: So I got my money three days before the main
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: event started, and all all my backers are like, we're
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: going into Maine, right, We're doing it. I'm like, no,
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: I literally said this. I said, I am on cloud
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: nine and I am not coming down from cloud nine
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: to sit my ass in a chair for eight days.
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: I hate you for that, all right, But no, that's
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: a lot of restraint, though. Man, that says a lot
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: about you. Because I'm playing I'm playing the main yeah,
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: and I'm playing the fifty K and I don't not get.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: That yeah either, But.
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: But that I knew that that was life changing money.
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: The percentage that I got was life changing enough for me.
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: I have a sum with down syndrome. My wife and
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: I set up a trust ram with that money.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: That's great.
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: We you know, we paid off we paid off our debt,
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: and we fixed up the house. Honestly and not this
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: is not patting myself on the back, but I'm still
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: driving at twenty sixteen Chevy Silverado, you know. And and
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: it's like, I just made sure we did landscape in
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: her house, put on a new roof. My wife's from coach,
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: small town in Costa Rica. Gambling is not anywhere on
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: her right. This has always been foreign to her and
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: helped her family. You want to talk about that.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: Let me throw ten thousand online poker or five thousands.
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: So the online thing ended for me back even before
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: Black Friday whatever. Yeah, yeah, so I I did it.
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: I took all those bonuses and I was onto my
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: on my computer. So it just finally, it just it
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: started to rot my brain. I would play live poker,
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: and I always enjoyed myself. I'd have the blast, the
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: social part if I figured it out. But it took
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: me years before I realized that I was slamming my
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: my computer down. It's like and not believing what I
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: was seeing. To this day, I will not play because
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: I don't care how any.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Looking ever these cards, why these.
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: Unregulated or even regulated sites, You're being cheated. And and
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: also there the algorithm is juicing the flops to create rape.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: I'll go to my grave believe in it. Really that
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: it's just people will say more of that happens because
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: you're playing more hands. Fine, but no, you can't always
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: have pop set versus versus Matt plus drap.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: Do you play on that?
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: So this is how it was. These flops were all juice, so.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: Like seven six, Yeah, that's exactly what.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: You at the beginning, exactly Paradise Poker started poker Mike Carroll.
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: I started with poker room Mike Carroll. Mike Carrol's my
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: my thing. He is the one. He is the one
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: guy that I that I modeled my poker play after.
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: He would talk about how coming in with the men
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: by just being crazy. Mike.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: Dude, Mike Carroll.
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: There you go. You tell Mike that he he is.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: So long ago. I haven't talked to him in ages alive.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: I don't even know. I'm literally I can't even tell
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: you when I talked to him anyway, fifteen years it. Yeah, yeah,
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: well this has been great.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: I think it's great. Yeah, this was fun, talk about
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: some things and and uh, you still come out once a.
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: Year for this, Okay, so you can tell you this
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: is it. You know, I probably only played about three
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: tournaments back home. I came out last year, I played four,
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: and I played two this year. That's all I played
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: since I won the bracelet. It's crazy.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: But I'm not giving this money back. Good, I'm not
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: doing it.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: Good good good. This is really great, man. This is
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: a pleasure to meet you. It really was.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Right, guys, we'll see you next week. On Wisecracks.