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i was just saying the heck with it this guy could be slow playing the queen no he was the value bet 520 pretty good value bet over half million gutsy and for us to get two pair and you have to know your opponent's not gonna bet two aces on the river here [Applause] faraz makes the call not crazy about this call what can your opponent have you can beat that he can bet on the river wow curiosity kills for oz right there pays it off to the chip leader taylor parr as he extends his chip leader there you see the look in frozen's face says it all gosh yeah drew me on a turn i've been saying for years that if there's one tournament i could pick to win it would be this one i'm a bounty this is my hometown if there was a tournament i'd want to win it would be this one san jose california my hometown playing a101 shooting star i love this tournament it would mean a ton to win this event san jose is my hometown so this tournament is always special and i am going to take it down one year i'm out here grinding for a reason and that's to win a wpd title i feel like i've accomplished a lot in the poker world and that's the one thing i haven't done for ron's the wpt player of the year back in season eight also one of two remaining bounties left in this tournament well he's a great guy very stylish ferraro's joker can he do it here tonight the annie's are going up to ten thousand the blinds are thirty and sixty thousand action on for raws quick fold by him 120. there's the other bounty right there sorel mizzy from canada gonna raise it up here with king queen of spade 120 000. into isaac baron who's got a king eight of clubs he's gonna get aggressive with it he raises to 275 jake out taylor out but sorel going nowhere he's made the call so these two guys will compete king queen versus king eight and the flop is a king can deuce and both players of flop kings sorrell has him out kicked surreal checks after three betting it before the flop isaac checks on the flop they go check check seven of diamonds on the turn sorrell must think he's in front right now sorel is in front and he does make the bet 375 but he's going to be called by isaac how can you not call with top payer here got to do it river card four diamonds it does put three diamonds on the board but be a backdoor flush if somebody made him well well sorel going all in with two kings just feels like they're the best hand in fact they are but now if you're in isaac's seat you checked out pear on the flop wow what do you do here tough decision for isaac baron he three bent before the flop the guy called i bet the turn he moved in on the river isaac baron with the decision right now do you make sure rich this is not a guy you want to double up here [Applause] isaac lays it down what a good lay down by him terrell mitzi takes down that pot there's the hublot watch the champion will take home what a great timepiece that is and there's the wpt champions cup and the bread all going to this champion tonight 1.2 million as great as all these players are none of them have won a wpt title action on for us pair of fours for ferraz he says all in sorel and isaac go away now jake bailey former college basketball player and coach looks down at two tens i've had a couple nice game winners in my career and i always wanted to take that last shot i want the burden to be on my shoulders he goes over the top all in taylor out and they're gonna show the hands it's a showdown aloha aloha let's do it there you see jared jeffy rooting his buddy jake baisley on here well it's tens and fours it's highway patrol if faraz doesn't win it'll be over and out for him matt you ready for your line there's matt savage circling the table like a vulture here's the flop the flop's not good for for us 7-3 deuce take a five ball so much potential ferraz needs help needs to catch a four to take the lead or two runners to make it straight otherwise he'll be our fifth place finisher five four my greedy i just wanted time you know what a surf no swatch you know how to serve do i look like i know how to serve crowd on its feet here comes the turn so now he gets some more rounds made for tv a lot about ten outs let's go hey hey it's on the river you know an ace a six or a four now is what ferraris needs to stay alive looks cool calm and collected let's go to the river will ferraz stick around it is a jack so just like that for us jacket is going to be out in fifth place jake bailey the former basketball player not only makes the shot he gets an and one for knocking out a bounty get this too it's 2500 for the bounty it's just so much more than just the cash and the prize well cash money at the table to make you look like a boss it's bounty it's ego it's all about that that's fine take it out man all right farrah's always a gentleman though gives the t-shirt thank you did you guys make it legit is it 25 i didn't count well ferraris jacka one of the classic players season eight wpt player of the year gonna take home 216 000. let's go hear his story froze not really what you were looking for tonight how disappointed are you uh i mean i'm disappointed that i didn't win didn't go further but at the same time i'm happy with my play when do you think we'll see you uh take one of these down um you know i'm not gonna stop playing these anytime soon so hopefully at another event this season all right i'm sure we'll see you back with for us jacques out in fifth place it's the final four going after the title when the bay 101 shooting star continues tonight's episode is sponsored by ublo the official watch of the world poker tour [Music] hey everyone i'm jeannie and i'm kat and we're here at bay 101 where the fans are gathering to watch let's go see what they have to say about poker and club wpt and where are you from i'm from san jose i'm from toronto canada do you watch often uh yes all the time a fan we like garrett greer and i love joe sarock someone has a crush true true have you ever heard of club wpt i have all right do you play on it not yet you should go on club wpt.com because it's free to play and we give away a hundred thousand dollars in cash and prizes every month you can actually win your way into the tournament by going on club wpt and playing oh perfect you can even play against me now what do you think about that i don't know if i can beat you rare i'm gonna go um club wpt and win i'm gonna go on club wpt and win i'm gonna go on club wpt and win i'm gonna go on club wpt and i'm gonna win with 100 000 where the cash and prizes up for grabs every month isn't it time you got in the game yourself visit club wpt.com and play unlimited poker for fun and for free all right we're back here on the world poker tour at the bay 101 shooting star the chip leader right now taylor parr 8.5 million youngest guy at the table is doing it right now action on the chip leader taylor parr looks down at ace deuce offsuit that's good enough to raise gonna make it 120 000 to go sorrell out isaac not going to play and now jake baisley looks down at a queen nine he's got money in there he will make this call defending out of the big blind and a good defense it looks like so far as it comes jack 9-6 jake making two nines and chicks taylor checks right behind him turn card taylor picks up deuces there taylor well aware that those kind of middling cards could possibly help his opponent jake betts on the turn here with the two nines but taylor's gonna make the call with the two deuces 150 000. okay and the river card is an ace deuce oh man that gives taylor two pair aces of deuces how good is taylor running at this final table ace on the river to give him the best hand jake is going to check and here comes taylor 420 000 jake saying to himself with this guy really cold on the turn with just ace high i'm gonna pay him off my two nines but he's not gonna like the result he knows he was out drawn on the river there not a good feeling yep yep no apology though by taylor that is poker that's the way you do it taylor extends the chip lead very cool comma collected peels right off huh just peels right off i know you like that 420 uh yeah i think it was logical man it was a very logical bet all right we're going to felt sorel with a quick fold now isaac with king queen and he will move it to 135 to go jake basie looking down at pocket kings because he's picked up pocket kings draftkings will put one thousand dollars into his draftkings account he has re-raised tailors out isaac calling good luck kings versus king queen and the flop is 4-4 deuce no help for isaac jake will come out with a bet swinging away at 3 25. i think it's making the call with king queen i know he's got the queen of hearts working back to our flush but maybe he's just calling to float here his opponent ever checks he's going to bet he the club's on the turn 600 and jake is gonna continue to pound away six hundred thousand with the kings [Applause] and if you're isaac do you get the memo yes you do well isaac gives it up jake bailey taking down that pot so the former hoopster liking that one there you see the chip lead of taylor parr 9.1 million in ships isaac baron in second with 5 million jake baisley in third was 4.4 million sorel mitzi the canadian down to 2.5 right back at it we go it's going to be on jake picking up k9 man just won the last part so gonna raise this one makes it 120 000 to go taylor parr with a queen five oh look at this event i know he's the chip leader i know he's on the button he's got position i know he's aggressive i guess you add all those up and you just three bet on the button with the queen five off suit into this short stack sorrel who has a king queen that's a rail with the best hand but been raised and re-raised in front of him but look at this sorella's gonna four bet here with the king queen and it's the best hand isaac out jake out now just an incredible feel by sorrell in my opinion it's like he could read both his players and their weakness taylor can't play just four bet with that hand to take it down well done by cyril this episode of the world poker tour is sponsored in part by draftkings if you like poker and sports then you're gonna love daily fantasy sports at draftkings go to draftkings.com enter promo code wpt and start playing today [Music] i don't know what it is in the water here in san jose but the fans here are more excited than any place in the world that i've traveled to and i've been all over europe australia you name it and uh this place right here in san jose they just look to poker and poker professionals in a unique way and i think a lot of that has to do with the effort that bay 101 has made oh rebuy oh it's so close rebuy the bay 101 is tons of fun coming in as a bounty it creates a totally new dynamic they do a really great job of rolling out the red carpet for the players all right come on in daniel posing with fans yeah welcome back the world poker tour four players remain and mike i remember when you were not only a bounty but you made the final table here well i did that was a lot of fun we've got one bounty left in this tournament that's cerrell mitzi from canada but taylor parr our chip leader right now with 8.8 million isaac barron with about five million in second jake bazel in third four point two and sorrell has now crossed the three million chip mark don't count him out action on isaac quick fold by him and jake baisley 120. he's going to make it 120 to go with the jack 10. and he's on the button raising it up sorel going to defend out of the small blind got one of those little seductive hands four or five of spades let's see if he gets lucky with it now flop is queen three do sorrel with the open end straight draw he's gonna check comes the continuation bet by jake sure surely's gonna play will he check raise here nope just gonna call just hoping to hit the magic card he's straight can he do it no king of hearts well that gives jake an opening straight draw sorel is checked so both players drawn to an opening straight won the low straight one the high straight right now jake has the best hand with jack high but because he's got that draw he's firing another bullet 375 000. make it tougher to draw that baby straight now so jake applying more pressure and sorel doesn't want to take the risk doesn't want to gamble by the way this guy is a big gambler in real life loves the action i've basically dedicated my entire life to playing poker that's all i've been doing the last 10 years i went to the army reserves when i was 16 and i did learn discipline but unfortunately as soon as i left most of that went out the window i've been very blessed in that i've had a lot of really big scores through my poker career but i've also had a very hard time keeping that money i'm really hoping i could have a big result here so i could prove to myself that i can hold on to money and that um you know i'm not just this raging degenerate well sorrell certainly with another big chance to make a nice score tonight over 1.2 million goes to the winner here he looks down at ace five offsuit he's going to raise it up here makes it 130 000 to go isaac out jake now with a pair of sixes he will make this call taylor gonna take a rest let these two compete for it ace five versus pair sixes flop comes king five deuce rainbow sorrells flop middle pair with top kicker jake is checked and sorel and he is gonna bet yeah 140 bet yeah but jake hasn't beat with two sixes and he's gonna make the call and we are going to the turn and another five hits that makes three of a kind for sorrell what a card now he's hoping his opponent's got a king in his hand so he'll keep playing with him jake is checked so we're not gonna fire yet again check 375 000 at the point where jake knows they can only beat a bluff but he thinks the sixes might be good he has made the call river card is a three of hearts changes nothing again jake checks the sixes sorrell now what's the right increment so you get your sucker to call 7.25 pretty hefty bet will that be the number because it's such a big bet jake has that look in his eye or behind the sunglasses i should say that maybe the guy's bluffing nope he's gone out but jake gives it up and it turns out it's a good lay down sorel mitzi taking on that pot and climbing up the chip leaderboard northern california is home to some of the best and brightest poker players in the game and now a new rising star is hard at work on the felt putting her new business plan into action i am a go-getter if i decide to do something i'm at it one hundred percent go bigger perfect i opened six yogurt shops in northern california that was a huge just like learning experience for me with that i was able to sell and earn some money and i just decided all right get right in jump into poker and give it a full-time shot and here i am i'm excited let's do this i think that i'm a risk taker and business is a risk and so is poker you definitely have your downfalls and you just have to keep a positive attitude and build yourself back up you can never be 100 happy unless you win it but i am super proud of myself that i made it this far i haven't won that title yet but i'm going to i know i'm going to pure monster sound you have to hear it to believe it [Music] get yours today at monsterproducts.com wpt enter code wpt25 to get your special discount we are right across the street from the bay 101 and the girls are going to play and we've got mike sexton out here i'll tell you i got worn out walking across the street to get here we're gonna hear a little music out of the monster superstar speakers they're fantastic okay we're about to play some basketball we're playing physical out here today [Music] well it was an absolute miracle no one got hurt but you were pretty good mike well thank you vance but we know you're the real player of the group but how about the girls jeannie and kat they played very tough very competitive they were terrific okay the enemies are ten thousand blinds up to forty and eighty thousand here we go action on taylor parr yeah chip later looks down at two fours i'm gonna raise it under the gun here 160 000 to go into sorel sorel this time has just a jack eight of clubs he's got a three bet on the button with this hand against the chip leader 380 000. isaac out and jake now with the pretty ace queen 880 wow he's gonna re-pop what good timing by him 880 000 by jake baisley here taylor mucking the fours very quickly sorrell going away so a good play there by jake the hoops are in stroke right now vince yeah he was a college ball player great competitor jake baisley now lives in cincinnati ohio isaac baron you're looking out there also well known for his three-point shooting maybe those guys should get out on the court and settle this quick fold by isaac jake won't play now taylor just about three a very strong ace ten of diamonds that's the battle of the blinds here and here's the race 200 000 to go sorrell with h3 he is going to make this call he knows taylor could button raise with any two cards so it calls him with the ace high here and the flop is a 9910 that's beautiful for taylor he flops two tens with ace kicker and he's reaching out for betting chips 215 000 sorrell of course knows this guy would make a continuation bet with any two cards so he's going to call him with the ace high and if taylor didn't hit you might think sorrell is hanging around with mid cards like that deuce of spades on the turn and there's the pummeling though of taylor saying you're not gonna get off cheap no free cards sorel has to go away so many times you call somebody on the flop just thinking they're continuing betting but when they bet again on the turn you rethink that strategy up to 15 000 blinds 50 100. action on the canadian sorel former army man now he dedicates his life to poker he's got a nice hand he's 10 of spades and he's got about 18 big blinds here flowing and he's going all in with him isaac behind him with a pair of fours has folded now jake again with the ace queen just four better than a minute ago to 880 with ace queen that worked for him there you go he's going all in here taylor ejects they turn it up sorrell in the deficit here jake baisley out in front with the kicker ace queen versus ace ten tens are feeling real hot right now anyone full of time [Music] tournament life on the line he's the last bounty left in this tournament no one out of ten no one had one spade any queens between five all right i'll take that sarel gets up on his feet let's go baby the superstar rail burns loving this moment here at bay 101 a little sweat let's do a little sweat i agree give me the sweat don't do the queen 4-4 that's just looking to get his name matched on this champions cup must suck out here to do it is a king ten eight he gets better than that he hits tens after dominating his opponent a moment ago jake now has to outdraw his opponent needs a queen or a jack bartender jake looking a little punchy after that flop but things can change on the turn and now there's four spades as well which means jake must catch a jack or queen that's not a spade to win this pot i like that kind [Applause] he thinks it's a good one i like his mentality takes two of jake's outs away from him okay now jake a huge underdog on the river card let's see what appears at the nine of diamonds sorel will double up after all going in with the worst coming out with the best four players remain at the bay 101 lots of celebration and partying we're coming back for more on the world poker tour [Music] bay 101 continues here four-handed poker jake bailey emotionally drained just look at him at the table in his posture and she'd been in a strong second chip position with three players left and his ace queen beat the a's ten now he's gotta bounce back from four players left big jump and prize money right now next guy gets 310 000 but third place 461 000 second place 704 000 the winner of course gets over 1.2 million so the difference between fourth and first place is 900 000. that is a big big big jump and as we know anything can happen in a shorthand poker game including a pair of nines for isaac that's what he's got let's see what he does yeah he'll make a 200 000 total jake now with queen nine of clubs will not play that taylor a big chip leader with a king jack oh wow he's gonna re-raise 5 15 total sorrell out much got almost half the chips in play with four players left and three bets adhere to 515 000. all in it's four million yeah isaac not backing down moving all in with the two nines yeah taylor can't take that heat isaac will win well isaac is learning how to play this taylor park he raised to just come over the top of him take the pot back away from him well it helps when you have a pair of nines too to do it so it's gonna work for him right there action back on taylor let's take a look at his card see queen eight well he's relentless vince most people will just throw this hand right away under the gun taylor gonna raise it to two hundred thousand serel behind him with just a four deuce yeah most players would throw this away too especially after got raised in front of him 460. but zarella's got a three bet here with the four dudes he is going to take a shot with absolute zip and pip well he knows taylor lost the last pot he knows the three bets light and raises light so he's just gonna three bet him here even though he's just got a four deuce everyone has to fold nice play by sorel the canadian knows he sucked out to stay alive and a lot of times you say to yourself you know if i get lucky like that this could be my night i'm gonna take it down it's not just luck it's making it happen we have four deuces and you take a pot like that that is playing poker okay to the action this time he's got a suited connector eight on the clubs that kind of hand you'd like to see a flop with he's gonna raise it up to 200 000 here isaac barron from menlo park california a local here he's got king 10 and he's going to raise folks just look at the hands these people are three betting with time and time again at this final table king jack off suits four deuce offsuits king tens jake and taylor go out and sorelle's gonna call we're gonna go to the flop it's a queen 10 deuce well sorel's got a gut shot straight draw back door flush draw he's going to check isaac with tens just over 1.1 million in the pot isaac gonna bet 375 000. into sorrell inside straight draw oh now when your opponent calls you with this kind of board you think they either have a straight draw or queens with a weak kicker maybe two tens also well sorrell could not connect five of spades on the turn so he's got nothing he checks again but isaac's going to slow down and check as well going to the river seven of spades that's a great card for isaac there because there was no straight possibility after that flop there you go check check surel just waves the white flag by not betting on the river just says you take this pot and isaac happy to take it now isaac baron came to this final table as the chip leader nothing much has gone right for him but maybe winning that pot will put a little pep in his step again there are 100 000 reasons to love club wpt.com because as a club wpt vip you get the chance to win a share of 100 000 in cash and prizes every month club wpt.com never lose a dime playing poker guaranteed there are many ways to play a hand and perhaps even more ways to dissect it standing by is tony dunst ready to break it down in the raw deal [Music] tonight our final table is comprised of five of the best young players in the game the only amateur to make the final table was ravi sundar who was eliminated at the end of the last episode when he was caught bluffing for his entire stack he tried to make a move to win that pot they just got picked off by a top row and while his bluff didn't work watching ravi play made me wonder if you're the least experienced player at the table is the best strategy to stay out of the fray or shoot back at the professionals let's break it down after watching ravi's hand against taylor parr it's clear he believes in shooting back taylor raises the cutoff with 5-8 and ravi called on the button with ace 8 a hand that most professionals would opt to raise or fold sorel mizzy made the call in the big blind and the players went three way to a jack 6'5 flop taylor bet out with bottom pair and ravi made another loose call with ace high and no draw sorel actually had the best hand and overcalled the flop with his top pair every player checked when the six paired on the turn leading to a five on the river which put two pair on the board sorrell checked for a third time and taylor made a bet with his full house just seconds later ravi announced all in sorel quickly folded and taylor was left with a nauseating decision man although i wasn't a fan of how ravi played the early streets his river bluff is pretty interesting it's a credible line to take with sixes full and taylor knows that ravi is loose enough pre-flop that he can call with many hands that contain a six he's crazy and crazy means you you can always win i think what really prevented ravi from winning this hand was his stack size if he had another half million to start the hand i think he's his all-in probably wins the pot oh man instead taylor was getting such a great price with his hand that he eventually made the call all right i call jason so let's revisit our original question should ravi be shooting back at the pros absolutely because if you're always tight at tough tables your opponents will know better than to pay off your bets ravi's bluff might not have worked this time but if you're making bets that give pros this reaction i think you're bluffing then you're giving yourself a chance to win we definitely have a lot of heart man complaining bro well robbie did show a lot of heart there but the top pro taylor parr picked him off like a cherry on a tree thought he was bluffing and he was but i'll tell you something i missed that robbie with a spectacular player takes all kinds of risks you just love action junkies ah he was great jake baisley now has an a6 and he's they're not going to play it taylor with jack 10 he's the chip leader and he will certainly play this on the button in position with chips aggressive player going to raise it 200 000. sorrell out and now isaac baron with a k9 sometimes you hate to call raiders with king nine offsuits out of position against chip leaders but against extremely aggressive players like a taylor parr is when he's got chips you just have to make a stand sometimes or they will just push you all around flop is a queen queen three isaac gonna check and tail apart now nothing on that flop he doesn't care 180 is bet gonna make the continuation bet but what a call here by isaac just calling with king high knows taylor could be raising with any two cards continuing with any two calls him with king ein hits a king on a turn to take the lead now there is three spades out there now this also gives taylor an open-ended straight draw yeah most people once they made that draw will be happy just to get it but taylor is going to bed again yeah 450. the call by isaac so taylor now knows he's got something here's the river card six of clubs isaac's gonna check taylor wisely checking behind him isaac baron having some heart there now isaac going to win the part with two kings oh there's isaac's mom in the audience very excited for him isaac loves sports has a special talent for three pointers in basketball he says mike i'd be interesting to see him and jake get on the court and shoot it out wouldn't it jake baisley of course played division two basketball as a basketball coach but isaac says i've got a knack for shooting threes we can shoot a little bit if you like back to the game taylor this time with an ace nine of clubs he's got over 8.4 million in chips he's going to raise this to 200 000 sorrell awful looking 9-6 the last time sorrell was on the button a three-bet with a four-deuce he won the pot with that here he's gonna three bet with a nine six off suit he is a madman makes it 450 to go with a 9-6 i've got gotta love this and isaac goes out now it's on come on jake bailey and he goes all in with ace jack an all in four bet with ace jack you just don't see it very often that is knowing your opponents raise light and three bet light taylor has to go out and sorrell with an awful hand he releases that as well what action we are seeing what aggressiveness beautifully done and with that we conclude our second hour of coverage from the bay 101 casino in san jose california be sure to join us next time when we will crown a champion in the thrilling conclusion of the bay 101 shooting star for mike sexton vince van patten tony dunst matt savage the royal flash girls and everyone at the world poker tour i'm lynne gilmartin see you next time on the wpt i don't understand what this is the world poker tour is sponsored by club wpt.com never lose a dime playing poker guaranteed there will be a champion at the bay 101 shooting star tonight [Music] feel like a million bucks made for tv tonight in san jose california poco destiny is written in the stars hi everyone and welcome to wpt's coverage of the bay 101 shooting star i'm lynne gilmartin now this has been an exciting final table and we are so close to crowning a champion as the remaining players take aim at the 1.2 million dollar first place prize joining me to call the action are two stars in my book mike sexton and vince van patten well then what we're hoping for is an epic conclusion to this fantastic tournament four players left fighting it out for this title the three chip leaders came in they're still in first second third chip position have been a reversal though taylor parr is now the chip leader but vince we have one shooting star left let's not forget him the canadian sorel mitzi he is very exciting and i'll tell you some of these are four highly regarded players that have made a ton of money in the game of poker battling for this great championship thanks gentlemen play is about to start back up so let's check the chip counts and get down to the table well there you see the squirrel chip count taylor par out in front 7.8 million isaac farin in second with six point one jake bailey with three point nine sorel mizzy with three point two million in the win it's gonna take home over 1.2 million second place seven hundred thousand and the andes are gonna start at 15 000 blinds are 50 and 100 let's go to the fell tail of par with a pair of fours yeah taylor the chip leader has the two fours going to raise it makes it 200 000 to go the canadian sorel mitzi goes out and now isaac baron isaac's a local he's 27 years old what a tough player and look he's getting those plaques out wow 550 000 he's betting those yellow plaques worth a hundred thousand each purple chips are 25 000 reds are 5 000. jake baisley goes away and now taylor will make this call and he's got the small pair he's looking to fly before we might bust this guy pair of fours versus king nine of clubs here we go [Applause] and the flop is an ace ten six of clubs it's all clubs fantastic for isaac baron flopping the nuts the stone cold nuts as we say and checks him he does that because he knows this guy's very aggressive in my bed here and taylor doing just that he is gonna bet the two fours 480 000. do you raise or just call here it's the okey dokey call as you like to say vince oh you never touch a raise there when you have the nuts show tunes going off in his head let's go to the turn and now the queen of clubs comes off so this gives taylor a flush as well but not like isaac's who's got the best hand possible isaac's going to try to trap again he checks taylor two wise for that checks last card coming up yeah jack of diamonds comes off and kaizek should lead out here no he's going to check again but even if the guy had a straight he's going to check here with four clubs on the board vance yeah they both check that's good he's going to win the main part he might have got paid off eddie bet because taylor did have a club by making that nut flush isaac baron has retaken the chip lead in this four-handed battle he left some money on the table right there though for sure but let's go right back down to it it's on sorel from canada and sorel is 28 years old he has k9 of diamonds and he will raise makes it 200 000 to go isaac going out over to jake baisley who looks down at ace 9 on the button won the last pot and he will pop it to 3 30 total taylor out and jake will take that win just like that take it when you can what an aggressive bunch of players we have here talented the ant is going up to 20 000 blinds are 60 120 at this point action on jake paisley then seemingly every pot is three bet or four bet before the flop by these guys they're all very aggressive players jake going out now taylor with the queen nine of clubs he makes it 240 sorel out and now isaac with a jack ten and he's going to make the call out of the big blind this is isaac's 12 wpt cash first bottle table impressive here tonight the flop is a 10-8-6 so he has hit tens isaac with top pair has checked by the two chip leaders at the table the two youngest players at the table fighting it out here taylor with a two-way straight draw is gonna bet 285 000. a quick call by isaac with top pair turn card deuce isaac checks top pair and with the two-way straight draw taylor fires 555 000 at him [Applause] and again isaac is making the call with the top pair down to the river we go is taylor gonna hit no ace comes off and there's three diamonds out there and again isaac checks taylor power's going for a three-barrel bluff here vince wow 1 million 250. he bet on the semi bluff on the flop in the turn and now on the river it's the stone buff what a nice call this would be by isaac but what a bet by taylor i mean it's just tough to put 1.2 million in there on two tens in this spot when the guy has raised before the flop at the flop at the turn but the river boom boom boom your hand decreases every time he bets and isaac is going to lay this down taylor parr is relentless in his aggression and it pays off for him there well those are two former online poker players of the year who went at it there all four of these guys cut their teeth in online poker they are tough starting out online definitely gave me a tremendous advantage in live poker because i got the fundamentals down which i think is very important when i'm playing my best i'm like not really even thinking you know i'm just kind of reacting it's like almost like just second nature i've seen so many more hands than anyone who started playing live and just being in these positions time after time is going to make you a better player when you play a live tournament you're playing one tournament a week online you're playing 20 to 30 a day that's why i'm not surprised by this group making the final table well i'm not surprised either they're all very talented players they all got their start online they switched over to live poker and all of them doing very very well winner's going to take home a whopping 1.2 million back down to the money pit we go action on isaac baron and he will quickly fold his hand over to jake baisley on the button with junkie fold so it's a battle of the blinds here taylor parr and the small blind looks down at pocket kings now when you pick up two kings at a wpt final table you get one thousand dollars in your draftkings accounts courtesy of draftkings taylor raises to 300 000 but sorel with jack 10 of spades quickly makes the call and here's the fluff queen 10-5 so sorel picks up a piece of that that could hurt him there comes a continuation bet with the two kings by taylor 255 yeah but sorel going nowhere after flapping a pair of tens he's gonna make the call go into the turn let's see if anything crazy happens no just a deuce of hearts not gonna be any let up in pressure with two diamonds out there two hearts and two cards straight taylor putting in a strong 625 nothing fancy just wants to bulldoze his hand and he's done so good lay down there by sorel against an extremely aggressive player like taylor tough to get away from second pair sometimes but sorrell did it wisely there there's taylor's parents well you just don't know what the river card was gonna be so moving on i know jake looks down at his tent pretty good hand in a forehanded poker game 240. and he's going to raise it makes it 240 000 to go into taylor who has a nice little pair pair of fives in case you're wondering how to play small payers if you watch taylor park just three bet with him he's doing it thousand yes and now cyril mitzi with an ace jack says all in isaac out a four bet all in with an ace jack offsuit second or third time we've seen that play at this final table tonight this is knowing your opponents could lay down by jake may raise light and three bet light so sarel just moving all in with the ace jack but he's getting looked up here by taylor with the two fives so we have a race and surreal mizzy's tournament life is on the line here must win this part to stay alive taylor definitely priced in to make that call makes the call and we are racing it's in the pot it's in the pot oh i like that he puts his bounty badge out there that's not showing a lot of confidence in winning this race sorel 28 years old a big action player needs to get lucky here not going to happen on that flop as a queen three deuce appears surreal needs to catch an acer jack to take the lead or two running diamonds two running cars to make a straight can he do it on the turn no another queen comes out so sorel mitzi the canadian down to his last card needs a suck out otherwise it's back over the border for him here it comes he must catch an ace or a jack to stay alive it's a five of spades no luck for sorel that's gonna do it for canadian sorel mizzy out tonight in fourth place i want that savage cat 25 taylor park collecting the last bounty of the tournament as surrell goes out 2 500 more in cash to his wallet the canadian out in fourth place tonight he could just never really get it going tonight vance yeah a great player hung around but he couldn't quite make the swim at the bay 101 out in fourth place he's over to talk to matt savage savage with a needle interview afterwards he's always needling people tough table out there today what stood in your way uh not winning a coin flip definitely stood in my way um i mean i got lucky earlier and i've been lucky several times uh throughout the tournament sometimes you lose flips and yeah 51 shooting stars you were the last one do you take any pride in that yeah absolutely i mean the shooting stars this year were very talented and to be the last one of all of them is obviously a tremendous accomplishment so i'm happy with that well that ensures he'll be one again next year thanks matt right i appreciate it there's more exciting action up ahead stay tuned you don't want to miss it wpt vip members won over 100 000 worth of vip packages during season 12. this season is set to be an even bigger year for club wpt.com members win your way into an upcoming wpt main event only our club wpt.com the world poker tour is really all about trying to bring more people into the game by getting them to feel comfortable having a good time and that's what poker is about everybody loves the tournament so everybody comes into play so we have the best in the world here where else do you go and you find a bunch of guys asking for autographs with pictures out here i mean i think it's better than the world series here it's more fun people that play one tournament a year play the bay one one shooting star and i think the staff the dealers and everybody here that works at bay one one makes it a place that they want to come back year after year well matt savage is sure right about that players love playing here they get treated great fans love them players just think this is the best tournament of the year for a lot of reasons all right down to three players and the chip leader taylor park quickly folding his hand isaac barron now with a 4-3 has made it 300 000 to go these guys are playing with air but right behind him jake with an a3 will make this call flop king 7-3 with two diamonds well they both got threes and isaac gonna make a 300 000 bet jake with a big kicker and the threes still just bottom pair though but all these guys know anybody raises before the flop is going to continue after the flop whatever comes out there jake will make this call going to the turn and an ace comes out there what a nice card there for jake he now has aces and threes and here comes isaac jumping right into the trap here drawing dead jake's head getting better and better 500 000 and quickly called big trouble here for isaac going down to the river and his seven pairs the board now isaac getting our chips again oh boy glutton for punishment i could snap call if that wasn't a seven a huge bet over a million jake is winced here because he had aces and threes his hand just got worse his opponent would time if he just had an ace in his hand because they both be playing eights and sevens with the king kicker call you got it but it's made the cone is going to win this part [Applause] [Music] there's a quick break in the action so let's check out the current hublot wpt player of the year standings after back to back victories anthony zeno has secured the top spot but two new players have moved up on the leaderboard with his cash here at bay 101 casino once watched garrett gria is now sixth in total points and with his performance here tonight jake baisley has vaulted to third in the standings knocking good pals jarrah jaffe and azo karim down a spot on the leaderboard it's definitely a little bit competitive between everyone and poker i mean it's just natural but i got a group of friends that i travel with mainly aaron massey jared jaffe zo cream and when you're talking to people who've been there before and that's where you get the best information and it's just great to have multiple minds to bounce ideas off of and everyone's pretty supportive in my cast well that's what a lot of touring pros do they travel in groups they live breathe eat sleep poker discuss hands 24 hours a day where's my group i want a group all right back to the action here quick full by jake and now taylor with a queen eight and he's on the button he's gonna raise it up 300 000 to go 700 isaac who has a junk hand 9-3 but he says 700. he just blew off all his money in the last part bluffing at it and here he goes again back-to-back pot isaac taking a shot at this but taylor's not so quick to fold 1.1 what poker we're watching here these guys are not waiting on a hand to bet folks they are going with their gut feelings as to whether or not their opponent has a hand doesn't matter what they have isaac mucks the hand completely discouraged outplayed there by taylor ouch well taylor just said he might be making a move there because he lost the last spot on the bluff trying to get his money back so what do you do you just come over the top of him again taylor with 12.4 million that is big bucks can he close it we're down the stretch here action on taylor queen nine off suit relentless reading through these guys like a pane of glass and he'll make it 240 to go isaac gonna take a break and catch his breath a minute here now jake has picked up age 10 out of the big blind and just calls doesn't re-raise yep disguising the strength of his hand hoping to have things work out on the flop let's take a look and it is a ten nine five so beautiful flopper jake he checks that's a beautiful flop not only because he's got top pair and top kicker because his opponent's got second pair and he's a better 260 and a quick snap call by jake you know with top pair top kicker what a place to be in going to the turn nothing card deuce jake checks again and taylor's putting him on some kind of drawing and you just think the guy's going to raise your back be the flop top payer taylor is betting this for value thinking the two nines are the best hand here 480 000. and again a snap call by jake well it's just a nicely played hand so far by jake hopes nothing crazy happens it doesn't seven of clubs yeah that is a possible straight card so if you've checked all the way with top pair you might do it again here and it goes check check and the 210s are going to take down this pot for jake paisley and taylor a little surprised that his opponent had top pair and top kicker jake playing that unorthodox taking the pot he's got all his friends out here three players are battling beautifully down the stretch here at the bay 101 on the world poker tour [Music] pure monster sound you have to hear it to believe it get yours today at monsterproducts.com wpt enter code wpt25 to get your special discount i'm joined by our club wpt qualifier michael williams who won his way into this tournament by playing on club wpt so michael was playing this wpt event everything that you hoped it would be it was great i was treated like royalty i got to meet some great players you're a lot tougher than i am you're gonna be good i couldn't ask for anything more oh and i heard that you brought someone along who's very special to you yes i brought my wife her name is denise she loves it she loves the game she loves to play and she loved being here it was wonderful it was her dream come true it was my dream and what is your favorite thing about playing on club wpt well my favorite thing is that it's convenient i can play when i want and i can win cash prizes and i'm here because of it i won the tournament that placed me right here right now awesome thanks michael thank you oh man it is great to see a husband and wife sharing a passion for poker with a monthly 100 000 prize pool club wpt.com is the place to play for so many husbands wives friends neighbors and they're all enjoying unlimited risk-free poker and you can too visit clubwpt.com where there's always a game about to start and you never lose a dime guaranteed three players left taylor par out in front with 10.6 million jake paisley in second with 5.9 million and isaac baron in third right now with 4.6 million let's go watch him play action on isaac baron he's got a beautiful hand ace king 240. when he will raise goes to 240. that's the minimum raise jake behind him with a king nine 625. well he's gonna get fancy here makes it 625 taylor out 1.35 there you go make it expensive jake now you can't be liking that hand too much anymore [Applause] now jake gives it up so isaac baron taking down that pot there's his family isaac is a local a top player 27 years old what a shot he has tonight to become a millionaire okay a quick fold by jake mike the annie's are going up to 25 000 blind 75 and 150 taylor called and isaac's going to raise the 450 with nothing and all in quickly makes isaac's bluff go away taylor limped in with the deuces isaac raised it thinking he didn't have much and then he moved hole in taylor did with the two deuces to take down the pot these guys are super aggressive anything can happen they play really fast top-notch poker going on here isaac right now first to actually let's look at his cards jack three of spades can't play that junk vets they play fast in more ways than one and not only fast acting on their hands they're fast when it comes to putting chips in the pot jake with a pretty solid ace nine now he's gonna disguise it just calls and taylor with the detractive king tennis baits also not gonna play it fast flops a seven six three it's shocking almost to me that taylor did not raise before the flop of this hand when his opponent left in but it's just like he knew but he is going to bed here on the flop after his opponent checked but jake quickly makes the call with the ace high turn card is an eight that's the eight of spade gives jake an open end straight draw but it gives taylor a good shot straight throw and a flush draw but one thing we've learned about taylor is he doesn't check drawing hands on the turn he bet them 450. most guys happy to check and get a free card off in this spot jake on wow he is going to push all in he's doing it with ace high and a draw how much oh just several three well it's about three million more you see taylor sort of chastising himself there a little bit slapping his hands aggravated his bet where he's gonna get possibly shut out of this pot he could have taken a free one off today or the what the river is going to be on tv he wants to rabbit hunt can i can i bribe him to show me that means he's not going to call this otherwise he'd see that guard he has laid it down what a play by jake baisley there and of course we can rabbit hunt let's take a look at that whole car to see whether he would have been lucky oh my goodness a seven of spades oh river he had knocked him out we'd have been playing heads up mike good drop horrible outcome tonight's episode is sponsored by you blow the official watch of the world poker tour all in well nama's gonna call him and nominee is gonna be our champion here vince aces and sevens are gonna win this pot he has done it well there you see the former champions of this event the three remaining players would love to add their name to that winners list taylor parr our chip leader actions on taylor and getting out those raising chips it appears yes he'll make it 400 000 to go isaac out and now jake with a 4 3 of diamonds he's going to defend out of the big blind with the suited connectors and the flop is a king queen seven but there's two diamonds that gives jake a four flush he checks it of course gonna make a continuation bet as he does every single time doesn't matter what comes out there whether it hits him or not and here he's betting 225 000. not a big bet into a pot that's got 950 000 in it and jake quickly calls let's see if he can hit a diamond no with the deuce of spades again jake jacks taylor too smart for that he checks as well let's see if a diamond happens down no seven pairs the board well the only possible way jake can win this pot is the bet at it 550. he's doing it right here 550 000 with four high going out on a limb taylor has nothing he has jack high but look at this vince he's getting out raisin chips here he's not going to call the jack eye he's going gonna raise with it well this would be another bold play by him if he should finish it yes he is gonna raise he's just representing he's got three sevens there and he takes down that pot but how about both of these guys bluffing on the river vents wpt champion jared jaffe tells paul volpe to keep it down to a golf clap but someone who is not so quiet is tony dunst ready to give us his thoughts on tonight's play in the raw deal [Music] in the early years of televised poker it seemed like bluffing was always talked about as a battle of egos it's about applying pressure to your opponents bullying them out of pots and becoming the table captain but in reality bluffing is more technical than psychological and making good bluffs means understanding hand ranges and board textures let's break it down it's obvious that taylor parr plays an aggressive game but it's a form of controlled aggression and he's not blindly trying to win every pot and when taylor makes a bluff he picks situations where he has equity and can plausibly have the hands he's representing first there was taylor's triple barrel against isaac barron taylor flopped a straight draw against isaac's top pair and fired both the flop and turn the river brought an ace which completed the backdoor flush draw and taylor fired a third barrel at that point there's several hands he'd bet for value like two pair sets straights and flushes there's not much isaac can do but fold because most of the time he calls in that spot he'll be paying off a better hand then taylor made another river bluff this time against jake baisley taylor bet the flop with air then check behind on a brick turn the river brought another seven which is the least likely pair for jake to call the flop with as it turns out jake has a bust to draw himself but when jake bet the river 550. taylor made a raise designed to represent a seven that's an additional benefit to making these types of plays sometimes you're not even bluffing you're just preventing yourself from getting bluffed so the bluffs the tailor makes are based on the hand range he puts other players on and the way the board runs out not some arbitrary desire to bully his opponents but all that aggression has made him the de facto table captain so he'll just need to lose the hoodie and add a hat well taylor park definitely the table captain so far tonight at this final table there you can see he's well out in front 14.3 million isaac baron 3.7 jake bailey 3.1 the plans are going up to one and two hundred let's take a look at taylor's cards holy mackerel pair of kings and that means another thousand dollars of the draftkings account he's gonna raise the 400 000 to go on well isaac has got an ace high here moving all in jake with ace nine four a little less i just don't think you can call when the guy's raised another guy's moved in he goes out and of course the insta call there by taylor with the real hand the pair of kings you know taylor's just been raising and three betting consistently at this final table with no hands now he's finally picked up two kings isaac in trouble here he had an ace two huh sorry man that's all right i mean it's pretty obvious yeah yeah at least nine taylor pretty big favorite right now isaac squirming in his seat can isaac get lucky not there eight seven four does give him a few more outs though yeah flaps a good shot straight throw any five will give him a straight ace will give him the lead taylor's still out in front there's isaac's mom praying i prefer five brand of the poker gods here she knows her son needs help let's see if he can get it he needs the long shot to come in let's take a peek he got it it does come off pets even though jake folded an ace he found one on the turn to take the lead it's not over isaac not jumping for joy yet he knows the opponent can catch a king to beat him there's taylor's parents down to the river we go and now isaac the big favorite unless something stupid happens but it doesn't three of hearts on the river is it gonna take this one well how ironic is poker vince taylors have been raising and re-raising all night with nothing now he picks up two kings and doubles up his opponent with him we've still got three players left fighting for this title [Music] this episode of the world poker tour is sponsored in part by draftkings if you like poker and sports then you're gonna love daily fantasy sports at draftkings go to draftkings.com enter promo code wpt and start playing today welcome back to the world poker tour we're at the bay 101 three players remain taylor park the chip leader with 9.5 million isaac baron right on his heels oh with 9.3 jake baisley was just 2.3 got to get moving let's go to the felt jake baisley on the short stack picks up ace five of clubs on and he's gonna push all in taylor out and isaac baron with a pair of queens what a time to get him isaac quickly calls of course queen of diamonds ace five versus queens of clubs i'm not going to tell you ahead of us thank you with all the bad luck jake bailey's had so far in these showdown battles maybe he'll get some good luck here he's due can we bring that other dealer in the bad beat dealer let's see what happens but oh there's an ace right like that ace nine three three just a grateful hop for jake jake out flopping isaac jake's saying finally i get a break but it's not over still gotta dodge a queen this would be the ultimate pain for him now if a queen comes up here comes the turn will it be a queen no it's a deuce of diamonds safe for jake and isaac looking completely discouraged to pick up queens at a 300 poke game and be way behind queen river card can it be the miracle queen no it is not deuce of clubs appears to be 23.50 so jake bailey is going to double up to stay alive we still have three players left 2 million 300 such a stupid game it's a great game okay you got seven you got five something yeah i got seven i don't know if i have five and benson back to back hands we saw taylor parr with two kings who's doing a6 now we see isaac baron's two queens lose to an ace five isaac quickly throws away his hand jake just doubling up got a decent king seven of clubs he's got some chips now and he just limps in and calls out of the small blind with king seven of clubs yeah that's never gonna fly against this guy especially when he's got a real hand taylor with the very attractive ace ten of spades so he's gonna raise it 525 total on call jake has pushed in an insta call with ace 10. well jake bailey just fought to get all those chips he could get them all back right here crowd completely silenced here come the first three it is an ace deuce deuce beautiful flop for taylor can you just burn and let's peel jake is going to have to hit two running sevens or two running kings to win this pot nothing else will do for him they could come deuce deuce they would split the pot shaking a whole heap of trouble as we go to fourth street it's a nine of clubs wow that's going to wrap it doesn't matter what the river card is well vince that's going to do it for the former basketball player jake baisley fouls out in third place gonna take home 461 000 he's over to talk to matt savage jake it's super tough final table how intense was that three-handed battle it seemed like it would never end the worst hand just kept winning uh it's just really tough when you're up against two good opponents and just gotta try your hardest what's your take on this heads up battle isaac and taylor two of the best players around i think it could last a while they're pretty deep and they're very knowledgeable so could also end quick though they're pretty aggressive so who knows all right thanks again jeff thank you see who walks away with over a seven-figure payday at the bay 101 shooting star we're coming right back [Music] [Music] [Applause] the heads up battle is about to begin at bay 101 casino between isaac baron and taylor park royal flush girls genie and cat have brought out the money these two are playing for plus a pair of monster 24k headphones and an exquisite ublow watch to be awarded to tonight's champion before play gets started check out the conversation i had with both players isaac how sweet is it to be heads up for wpt title in your own backyard yeah it's amazing i mean i could never have dreamed of it that i've been wanting to do well in this tournament forever and have my friends and family here supporting me it's unbelievable now how are you going to overcome taylor's duplete i mean he's playing really well um i'm gonna have to get some luck but i mean i like my chances all right well good luck all right thank you taylor yourself and isaac seem to have been going at it throughout this entire final table is it any surprise that the two of you are now heads up for me no not really uh coming in especially with the way the chips were there were lots of good players but i thought coming in he was taking myself out of the equation the best player so um i'm not surprised at all as the heads-up battle begins there you see the chip counts of the players taylor power out in front 13.4 million isaac barron with 7.7 million the winner is going to be taking home over 1.2 million here we go action on taylor he's got ace five blinds at one and two hundred yeah he's certainly going to raise with this hand makes it 400 000 to go isaac going to splash around with a 10-6 defending out of the big blind cost him a half a bet and the flop he's 10-3 they both have some of that taylor of course out in front with aces isaac checks taylor makes a continuation bet as he does every time doesn't matter what comes up isaac's gonna stick around and pay him off going to the turn deuce doesn't help isaac he checks again taylor with aces there he's going to slap out wow 800 and isaac not believing i'm going to pay him off at this point isaac in a bit of trouble here river card five of spades now there is a four card possible straight on the board isaac checks again potatoes got aces and fives now and taylor pillaging ahead that's 1 million 250 very hefty and isaac yeah he knows now i can beat the bluff you've seen taylor do it a lot tonight oh but isaac's gonna lay this down yeah turns out to be a good lay down but taylor parr increases his chip lead after making aces up there right back on it 9 10 of hearts it's time for taylor and he is getting the raisin chips out makes it 400 000 to go right behind him isaac with ace nine one million fifty thousand well one million and fifty thousand is the bet now taylor who can afford to make this call and look at a flop does so so over 2 million in the pot age 9 versus 9 10. oh and the flop is a 97 deuce four flush for taylor and nines isaac obviously with a top pair with a bigger kicker isaac gonna make a bet over a million and taylor just calls here going to the turn three of diamonds comes off so isaac out in front still with top pair big kicker isaac 1.65 we'll bet 1 million 650 and a snap call by taylor he doesn't raise even yet i'd have got it all in there if it had been me but taylor parr just calling here going down to the river taylor's behind taylor has to hit a heart or a 10. it is a five of hearts taylor parker's made a flush now you just got to hope that isaac betts seems like he has to to me you're just not going to put your opponent on a flush draw pauline he's gone all in you can't blame him he has to call there's a call taylor parr is going to win you're never getting away from top pair top kicker hufflepuff isaac baron the game man isaac is going to be out in second place taylor parr is our champion what a dramatic finish he's the champion first matt savage talking to our runner-up your deepest run in the wpt 704 000 are you disappointed or satisfied a little bit disappointed but at the same time i'm pretty happy with the results so uh yeah i'm happy with it all right well obviously a great run here let's talk to the bay 101 shooting star champion from el dorado hills california taylor parr yeah taylor you drove it down the middle you didn't make a bogey vincent i thought you played terrific poker outplayed everybody at this final table congratulations tell us how you're feeling right now um like a million bucks uh i feel good like it's greatest poker accomplishment of my life uh beating a bunch of good players makes it that much sweeter well you played sensational no doubt about that in addition to over 1.2 million in cash you're entering the wpt world championship at the end of the season we've also got a pair of customized monster headphones for you that cat's going to present to you you get a beautiful hublot watch that genie will now give you [Music] and one more time let's hear it for the bay 101 shooting star champion taylor parr lynne back to you what an incredible moment for taylor parker the season 13 bay 101 shooting star champion from mike's extend vince van patten tony dunst matt savage the royal flush girls and everyone at the world poker tour i'm lynne gilmartin see you next time on the wpt you bless me on faces in this tournament one year you know i did i didn't know that i don't understand what this is for here the world poker tour is sponsored by club wpt.com never lose a dime playing poker guaranteed welcome to seminole hard rock hotel and casino and the world poker tour [Music] feel like a million bucks i'd better cash oh mike sucks it'll be so disappointed if i don't cash tonight poker heads back down to the sunshine state for the seminal hard rock poker showdown good evening everyone welcome to the world poco tour i'm lynne gilmartin hollywood florida continues to build its reputation as one of poker's top destinations and this week players flocked from far and wide to show their game has no limits and to grab the top prize here at the seminole hard rock hotel and casino allow me to welcome you to hollywood florida in the seminole hard rock poker showdown we want to wish all of you the very best of luck in your quest to make it to the final table okay let's get this party underway dealers let's shuffle up and deal players were excited to get into action on the first of three starting days including two-time wpt champion darren elias you get a lot of people gambling i think knowing they can get back in and a lot of lose fast play big thoughts so it's a lot of fun playing day one and season 13 wants to watch christy annette who made the trip down south to play in this massive event i flew in a couple days early for this event and satellited right in so pretty excited about it whether it was the sunshine the beautiful accommodations or just the ability to re-enter if eliminated the field was in good spirits he hates me because i just finished reading his book and i'm not listening if i can write a book i can't read a book i'm gonna write a book showing the crowd why he's the boss drinks we're on hometown poker pro and season 12 wants to watch danny seward miami oh yeah toasted fellow season 12 wants to watch aaron massey had a rough day but got plenty of encouragement from some fellow pros got in bed twice today you're a great drinker i'm a great drinker according to willie there's always been a lot yeah there's always tomorrow though also making an appearance with last season's seminal hard rock poker showdown champion eric afriate it's been exciting i've been waiting for it for the last month or so getting the little bugs in the stomach but i think i'm ready to defend at the top of the couch was florida-based poker pro barry hutter who ended the day with over 300 000 in chips day 1b got underway with some new faces gracing the field plus some familiar ones including two season 13 best bet bounty scramble finalists corey hochman and jared reinstein who are looking to make another big splash i'm feeling good very good i'm ready we're gonna run deep and make some uh extra money with a massive field there were plenty of recreational players in the mix who proved tough work for some of the pros in the room you guys are winning every hand against the teammates i just don't know what's going on player after player hit the rail with some already thinking about their next bullet i'll see you tomorrow definitely see you tomorrow i might even be early tomorrow having a good night's sleep no drinking tonight good luck for all of you [Music] one player off to a huge start was wpt champion jared jaffe his accumulation of chips took a detour when he went to a nearby urgent care on dinner break but the dedicated poker pro soon returned and was back in action last two days like my sinuses have been bothering me from the plane and i was just like i couldn't even see straight which is probably why i got all these chips uh so i ran and got a quick antibiotic and should be good to go now jarrod jaffe survived in many ways finishing with 191 000 in chips good for seventh on the leaderboard at the top of the chip counts was canadian poker pro ryan rivers with over 226 thousand buying back bullet number four plenty of previously eliminated players took another shot on the final starting day but the field did include some new hopefuls i'm gonna play today benny i don't know about you but yeah you know you got the miami vice look here vince you even haven't shaved you're looking good here you're styling you fit here in miami i get to wear this once a year mike that's it okay local pro and season 13 wants to watch vlad mizeretsky also felt today was his day to take a shot and i know that if i would have busted on thursday or friday i forced myself to play more again and i was like you know what i wanted to vote smarter than enough vince van patten finally decided to join the field and was promptly all in for his tournament life here we go vince was able to chip up throughout the rest of the day and finished with a decent stack of nearly 105 000. got a little lucky and happy to come back tomorrow at the end of the day 570 entrants had registered for the final starting day with 222 players surviving to join the combined field on day two california poker player alex greenblatt finished at the top of the leaderboard with over 267 000 chips yeah some people kind of gave them to me uh ran well played well i feel pretty good got my little peppy drink with me i'll be shipping the beers in a couple hours if i'm still around wish me luck everyone would need a little luck to make it to the end of the day with 554 surviving players of the three day one starting days finally under one roof he's drawing dead today against me this dinosaur right here is a friend of mine so i'll take it easy on him thank you very much and we're ready to have some fun today as play got underway the official numbers were released with a five million dollar prize pool 150 players would make the money with first place taking home one million dollars plus a spot on the coveted wpt champions cup making the cash at the wpt would mean a lot to me it really would uh with mike and tony doing so well i mean i haven't played too many tournaments but i think i'm overdue we gotta gamble gotta get lucky hopefully it's now with the plan for the field to hit the money today there was no shortage of players hitting the rail while others built up monster stacks and the pressure built with fortunes on the horizon i'd better cash oh mike saxon will be so disappointed if i don't cash down to 151 players and on the money bubble past wpt finalist and florida native daryl fish moved all in with pocket tens he was called by bruce snell holding ace king after a safe flop daryl had to dodge an ace or a king to survive but a king fell on the turn to give bruce the lead no help on the river sent daryl home just short of the money good luck 13 years of the world poker tour first cash yes nice going guys with the bubble burst play opened up and the field began to shrink as players hit the rail including season nine ones to watch jason mercier season 12 wpt world champion kevin starman plus two-time wpt champion darren elias who ended his run in 116th place cashing for a record-breaking eighth time in season 13. darren was still in second in the u-blow wpt player of the year race to anthony zeno but still had a chance to catch him with a deep run at the wpt world championship another two-time wpt champion most in sharanya was heading in the right direction after scoring a double knockout when his full house bested the hands of lazaro hernandez and stephen wolanski mohsin would end the day with 860 000 in chips good for 14th on the leaderboard texas native brian greene finished second in chips and at the top of the counts was raj also surviving with a decent stack was vince van patten who was focused on making a deep run day three i'm ready i made the money so mike sexton look for your new partner my friends today like i feel about 90 so that's uh you know like a normal person at about 50 day three was moving day at the seminal hard rock poker showdown with 92 players remaining playing down until just 18 were left three-time wpt finalist dan highmiller had a philosophical approach to the day ahead every day starts a new tournament pretty much so we got a long way to go as the field began to thin out several players emerged with big stacks including local ellie levy poker pro joe ebanks and 22 year old griffin paul just keep fighting trying to get the right reads and play well vince van patten was having a good day despite taking a little ribbing from table mate stephen mccoy oh the cameras aren't him a lot so not a big deal he's not that good territory he's not a good player that'll never get used he's not that good one that won't give you he's been crushing me though that's the truth he's been here he's been beating me in every pot some players who saw the end of their tournament run on day three included wpt champions kevin eister noah schwartz and jared jaffe got short we just had no choice to get it in and didn't win ellie levy scored a double knockout when he hit two pair on the river against scott efron and bruce snell ellie's stack soared to nearly five million on an ace high board vince fan patton shoved all in for nearly 800 000 only to be called by sean schar vince would need to hit a king to stay alive but the nine of hearts on the river ended vince's deep run in 27th place i enjoyed the rollercoaster ride i had a lot of thrills in the last three days it's a lot of fun i made some money i played really well really happy with the way things turned out after an up and down day day two chipotle diraj vora was eliminated in 22nd place at the hands of two-time wpt champion mosin tiranya wpt champ ravi raghavan was the next player out the door at the hands of surging shaun schar when the field reached 18 players play concluded for the night dan highmiller found himself at the bottom of the chip counts with just 500 000 but on the other end of the spectrum the top of the count saw a close battle between griffin paul in second with over 6 million and ellie levy in the chip lead with close to 6.3 million i think that i'm playing very very silently yeah i'm very happy with my moves today the coast is starting to clear as we close in on our final six which player will make their way to the final table find out when we return to the seminal hard rock poker showdown tonight's episode is sponsored by you blow the official watch of the world poker tour [Music] this episode of the world poker tour is sponsored in part by draftkings if you like poker and sports then you're gonna love daily fantasy sports at draftkings go to draftkings.com enter promo code wpt and start playing today welcome back to the seminal hard rock poker showdown where 18 players are still vying for one of the six seats at the wpt final table on a beautiful sunny south florida morning the remaining players gathered in the seminal hard rock ballroom ready for battle day 1b chip leader ryan rivers confidence was high i can't believe i'm going to win a million that's pretty sick chip leader ellie levy continued to dominate early in the day knocking out season 13 lapc seventh place finisher vladimir dobrolovsky in 18th place then two two-time wpt champions saw their days come to an early end cornell simpan in 17th place and most insurance falling in 15th place there's still one more tournament left this season so i think we'll be okay florida player andre crooks began climbing up the chip counts by knocking out two players in a row to send his stack to 6.4 million and although he came into the day as the short stack dan highmiller proved tough to eliminate and chipped up to over eight million when he knocked out harvey van deven in twelfth in a monster pot between the two start of day chip leaders griffin paul moved all in on a ten high board and was snap called by ellie levy when the cards were tabled griffin was a huge favorite and only had to dodge a 10 to knock ellie out a seven on the river gave griffin the 10 million chip pot and sent ellie home in 11th place i'm happy listen i'm 75 to sit here in this action for three days think about it four days five days that's the best one down to just 10 players the field was combined to one table mike sexton stopped by to check out the action a lot of guys in my generation that were playing this tournament a lot of them got deep but i'm looking at these final ten i don't see too many old guys left what happened youth continued to prevail as griffin paul knocked out david peter's intent cracking david's pocket aces with ace king offsuit after making trips on the turn then dan highmiller's amazing comeback came to an end when he found himself at the losing end of a race against the surging andre crooks too bad i had bad luck on the end but i had a lot of luck to get that far with one more elimination before the wpt final table was set sean shaw moved his short stack all in and was called by griffin paul shaun's ace 10 dominated griffin's kington but a king on the flop gave griffin the lead which he held onto sending shaun home in seventh place griffin paul would bag the chip lead heading into the final table featuring five other tough players all looking to win their first wpt title before play gets started it's now time to turn to wpt's mike sexton and vince van patten for more insight on this final table now vince first off congratulations on cashing in this tournament now you played with some of these guys how tough was this field well lynn these guys were tougher than a stake at my in-laws barbecues believe you me amazing impeccable poker they played you know i didn't catch many cards really i was playing selective manipulation poker just like my man mike sexton taught me i was doing fine and then in the end i became billy bluff home i bluffed off my chips i should have been there oh we were all written for you well done and mike the stakes are very high tonight with one million dollars going to our champion how do you think this will influence players decisions well then players are always a little nervous when they make a wpt final table their friends and family are watching they want to look good on tv and it's hard not to think about winning a million dollars but after a couple of rounds you know they settle in they focus on the game and they just play poker tonight i think you have to make the chip leaders griffin paul the youngest player at the table at 22 and andre crooks the favorites but as vince said all these guys are tough this should be a good one all right thanks guys and before the players took their seats we grabbed a quick word with chip leader griffin paul i'm a little nervous uh to be honest but once things get going i know uh let's play my game and adjust to the table everyone's a solid player so i'm gonna have to get through a real tough field it's a big big scene out here but i'm just gonna do what i do best and uh hopefully hope it goes my way we'll have to wait and see who will add their name to the wpt champions cup when coverage of the seminal hard rock poker showdown continues pure monster sound you have to hear it to believe it get yours today at monsterproducts.com wpt enter code wpt25 to get your special discount please welcome the royal plus girls tuba and genie [Music] you can't get the adrenaline rush in a cash game like you can in a tournament you're playing for a million dollars and anything can happen to be the champion would be unbelievable the best moment of my life i played so many tournaments and been in this final table situation that i sort of know what to expect from the other players so i'll use that to my advantage whatever way i can ryan rivers making this wpt final table is my biggest accomplishment so far it's kind of like validating the last 10 years of grinding it out it's going to be sick if i win that million walking under the leg of wpt i feel like it was lovely this is my first wpt main event i was like hey you know took a shot you know if other players could do it why can't i brian i've got a little bit of divine intervention going on i think i've just felt like things are coming to me really good the last few days there's just a time that things are going to happen and today feels like my time andre brooks the wpt title is very prestigious i believe this is the the top of the pinnacle and this is where everybody wants to be i don't play for anything else at this stage of the game the money doesn't even matter i just want to win the title [Music] we started with 1476 players we are down to these six griffin paul out in front with over 14 million in ships and that's what they're playing for the winner taking home one million dollars and also a great tan it is beautiful down here in hollywood florida there's the hublot watch the champion will take home what a timepiece all right the annie's at 15 000 blinds are 50 and 100 here we go sean nguyen quick fold by him brian greene from texas also folding as does the local andre crooks and now griffin paul the chip leader he's going to raise with a nothing hand jack for moves it up to 200 000 to go joe e banks out pair threes by ryan rivers ryan rivers from niagara falls canada been a pro for six years makes the call with two threes flop comes ace queen queen no help to either player action on ryan he checks into the chip leader will he make the continuation bet yes he does 200 000 mike ryan going to make the call here going to the turn the jack comes off now this gives griffin the best hand here with queens and jacks but he's gonna check them yeah they both check going to the river and just another jack jack's full for the man that was slopping around griffin paul yeah ryan's gonna check again griffin seems like a bit of a beast when you watch him and you're not seeing what hands he's showing down he's the one you want to worry about it's hard to tell if he's got it or not you know that's that's tough to play against especially he's got all the chips man he's kind of bad as full house here 525 000 into ryan and unfortunately for ryan he's now playing the board he's just going to give it up so the rich get richer griffin paul the 22 year old foe out of calabasas takes down that pot there's his family and friends they flew out from california last night to be here today pretty exciting stuff for a 22 year old all right on to the next hand and these are up to 20 000 blinds are 60 and 120 action on andre crooks he's got ace 10 and he will call now back to griffin our chip leader who's got the suited connectors and i needed clubs you always beware of the limper as they say so he's just gonna call here knock on a three-bet next up joe ebanks 29 years old from ohio won't play that ryan will though with a6 gonna make a button call with the ace high sean when they call him q he's going to make the call of the small blind the big blind said let's go and vince just like that we've got five-way action wow now that's a poker game five guys out of six that's exciting here we go with the flop it's a 10-5 deuce tens for andre crooks with a big kicker and a forefoot for griffin paul now cube's going to check brian checks top pair big kicker makes a bet 310. the question is will the chip leader raising this spot or not remember these are the two chip leaders here in this pot now he just calls ryan out shawn out brian goes away so two-handed now the plot thickens going to the turn and it's a king of spades no club yeah andre thinks his tens are good indeed they are makes a healthier bet this time 575 000 and griffin paul has had enough doesn't want to go for that flush falls a hand andre crooks gonna take this one down andre owns a used car lot west palm beach been in car sales for 10 years an online poker player for 12. he says the money is secondary to winning the title i heard that before don't quite buy it no all right griffin paul now with a quick raise he has ace five he's moved it to 240 but joe ebanks right behind him with a pair of kings and when you get pocket king to the final table in the world poker tour draftkings puts 1 000 into your draftkings account and he has raised it up to 625 full by ryan shawn gets out of his way brian green looks to the h3 won't play that andre also folding so back on our chip leader griffin paul 1.5 oh boy he's going to re-raise it he is going to 1.5 doesn't believe the guy on his left he could get punished here well joe's in third chip position right now but i'm guessing more chips are going in the pot here well you're thinking to yourself is it possible this guy has a pair of aces if so he's just got to pay him off and he's going to go all in yeah it's going all in you just can't give your opponent a flop in this situation especially if he's the chip leader yeah and he is gonna stun griffin paul who invested heavily so joe ebanks taking home that pot we are just getting started here at the seminole hard rock poker showdown stay with us we're coming back for more on the world poker tour [Music] this season the royal caribbean international royal flash bonus awards players who hit a royal flush a cruise trip for two to join wpt on our next cruise go to wpt crews.com poker is a game of both skill and luck and after winning a seat online some wpt qualifier ernest evans showed that he had both this week here in florida i was surprised to survive from day one actually i started with 30 000 and i ended the day at 12 500. there's my huge sack in the bag it goes day two was different from day one i finished with 183 000 chips i bagged chips twice cashing in a wpt event was very exciting for me not only was i able to win some money but i was able to meet some great poker players took a free roll and turned it into some money absolutely thank you the great thing about club wpt is what actually happened to me which is i was able to play and succeed online and that led me to success in a live situation i wouldn't been able to play in a tournament of a buy-in of this size without that opportunity i'm going to try again at club wpt every time you guys run a satellite i'll be playing it that is right ernest went home 12 thousand dollars richer and you know what that could be you just visit club wpt.com and learn how you can win a chance to compete for real cash at a live wpt event well done ernest action's starting back up let's get back down to the table okay and there's the skrill chip count the chip leader at this point griffin paul andre crooks in second joe e banks in third back to the table ancho ebanks from ohio former dishwasher and he's got a nine eight and he will raise with it to 250 to go ryan out and nguyen with a little pair of deuces you like to see a flop because it's a pretty easy hand to play either hit a set or you just abandon ship sean makes that call brian green from texas out andre crooks not gonna call and griffin paul taking a breather goes out as well so we got nine eight versus a pair of deuces let's see the first three well ace king three no help to either player action on joe no see bet by joe here yeah he checks and so does sean going to the turn queen of clubs helps no one and joe checking again so more or less just waving the flag here and now sean's gonna get the chips out saying like old amarillo slim used to say you checking i'm a bettin i stole that line from you 275 000 bits joe has not mucked his hand here vince he's not calling so he's either check raising or abandoning ship and he's going for the check raise he's getting out chips look at this play by joe tell me it ain't so well it is so and the hunter now q is going to go any farther with his hand 850 k total wow joe ebanks the former dishwasher putting him on the spin cycle oh boy that's like hitting him in the head with a dirty plate right there oh beautifully done joe joe got into poker because he read an article about a guy that won 60 000 playing online poker he's a very competitive guy he said i want to try that and he's done phenomenally ever since now these are guys that you think a million dollars is going to mean an awful lot too one was a former dishwasher one was a dealer for two years one worked at chuck e cheese two other guys are in the car business you love it when these kind of guys get to a final table where the money is life-changing all right we got a bunch of folds and now andre crooks will rage with her legitimate hand ace 10. griffin out 260k but joe ebanks with a queen seven of diamonds yeah he's feeling good because he stole that last part so we're gonna play this one these are the guys in second and third chip position here's the flop ace jack three with two diamonds crooks hitting top pair but four flush there for joe e banks let's see some fireworks here joe checks audrey betts 380. i know joe's gonna play the question is do you check raise here nope he's just gonna call with the flush draw yeah just hoping to catch victimize crooks go into the turn can joe hit the diamond not there king of spades you just wonder how much it comes into play when you have a flush draw there that the guy you're playing against has more chips than you well joe checks andre quickly betting again 705 it looks like and now joe e banks the dishwashing man he's getting that raisin chips he check raised on the turn the last hand and won it he's going to try it again here yep he's going to push it total of 1.7 but andre a quick call by andre yeah not going to go anywhere with that well most of the time when a guy check raise you in this hand one pair of aces won't be good joe would love to hit can he get that no king on the river there's the board now what do you do if you're joe you didn't connect you raised on the turn is it white flag time you win that's check check andre crooks are going to win this spot with aces up yup and a lot of guts yeah there's his girlfriend deborah cruz she's been his girlfriend for 13 years they have four kids so when he says the money is secondary to winning the title when you have four kids i'm not so sure about that look at this he has just turned into the chip leader with over 13 million andre crooks he said this is going to validate his whole poker career by making this final table possibly winning the title now he's the chip leader back to the action we go brian green second time in the wpt final table quickly folds andre going out well griffin paul out as well nacho ebanks with the button 240. well not deterred from losing that last pot gonna make a button raise here yep with a nothing hand makes it 2 40 to go ryan goes away only one to beat now is sean nguyen sean's got ace deuce well sean's seen this guy check raise in the turn the last two pots he's played he couldn't beat aces up a minute ago so sean well aware this guy can raise anything he's going to three bet it here 640 thousand yep he's gonna apply pressure to joe back on joe with just a miserable 9 10. what do you do oh wow you're all in what a play by joe ebanks it's a maniac and vince i don't see how sean can possibly call this with ace deuce off suit sometimes you just get outplayed in poker well sean's on the short stack and joe was just putting all the pressure on poor sean and he's got to muck that hand beautifully played by joe e banks we are seeing some poker here joey banks [Music] tossing it up staying at the seminole hard rock it's beautiful rooms are pretty sweet nice pool tournament's great cash rooms amazing we don't get that kind of action back home i like florida love the weather the pool's really nice and relaxing and i'm really pleasantly surprised by council oaks the steakhouse i've ate there twice top notch there seminole hard rock is a great hotel and casino staying here is awesome everything around it's fun there's bars and restaurants the tournament was incredible i would definitely come back well all players will come back to this place vince because it's one of the great casino properties in the world and certainly you and i know about that steakhouse because we go there about every night yeah it's fantastic six players battling for a million dollars here tonight let's go to the felt quick full by griffin and now joe ebanks with a king three of diamonds is going to raise to 250 ryan out and sean with a nothing hand will fold into brian green who looks down at a pair of eights not bad well what do you do with a mid pair well he's gonna make a call out of the small blind and now behind him andre with a pair of dynes he's going to raise the 7.75 joe goes out back on brian from texas well brian trying to figure out now if andre was squeezing and we're just making a raise because he didn't raise if he's really got a big hand but he's gonna call so it's eight versus nines two blinds going at it and the flop is a king seven deuce doesn't change a thing action on brian he's going to check andre he's not much of a checker he's going to bet here 850 000. andre's game to me is um one of the scariest at the table he definitely worries me a little bit and try to steer clear of him unless i have the goods yeah it's just not the kind of hand you want to get too involved in he makes a very good lay down saves a lot of money there sure does audrey crooks going to take home that pot and there's andre's family and friends here to root him on one of the two locals at this table he and q that you're looking at right there both from west palm beach got a house full of friends rooting them on tonight on to this hand a couple folds and now andre gonna get aggressive with king 10 255 to go griffin out and now joe e banks with an attractive ace nine of clubs he's gonna call it out of the small blind ryan looks down that chunk folds so again two of the three top chip leaders fighting it out here flops an ace five four aces for joe ebanks he's got top pair mid kicker he's gonna check yeah they both check going to the turn six of clubs yeah was gonna check again and andre with no hand and no draw he's gonna make a wager here try to pick up this pot 475 000 however joe does have the aces played it slow and just uh yeah okey dokey call going to the river and it's a seven a four straight out there again joe checks scary cards well andre knows the only way you can win this pot most likely is to bet at it you're right try to bluff his name is crooks by the way wow 1.45 million so a healthy wager on the river tough decision now for joe ebanks but vance if you're sitting in joe's seat you're saying what would this guy bent with unless he had a straight specifically so in joe's mind he's either got a straight or he's got nothing he makes the call oh beautiful and he makes it exactly correct joe ebanks that is why he's not washing dishes anymore brilliantly done excellent read but you can't follow crooks on that play either vance he tried to win it by betting six players going after this title we're coming back for more action here on the world poker tour stay with us club wpt.com vip members get more than just a chance to win cash and prizes the club savers guide program saves vip members big money at places they already shop and visit play big save big win big at clubwptt.com we're back with more poker action from the sunshine state griffin paul from calabasas california the chip leader with 13-5 well eventually we've got three halves and three have-nots basically this final table three guys have a lot of chips three short stacks gonna be interesting to see the dynamics and how this plays out to the felt we go brian green very crafty player from texas quickly folds his hand andre crooks also going out you know over to griffin paul she's got two fives the empties raise it to 240. joe out and now onto ryan rivers no he will not play yeah over to sean nguyen known as q i wonder if he's a pool player events that's why they call him q i don't know that makes sense came from vietnam at age eight and now he's a professional poker player a local and he's got seven five of clubs he will make this call yeah i'm gonna defend out of the big blind with this suited hand so verifies versus seven five of the flop is an ace queen six so q has flopped a flush draw on checks griffin who raised pre-flop is gonna make a sea bed a continuation bed here 275 into queue who's got the four flush 2172 you have the nerve well it goes all in and it's going to win him the pot so nice check raise all in bet by sean nguyen to take down that pot yup he's a local plays in all the cash games quite a following here q nicely done [Music] my friend think i'm beasty and free of this i'm not being there to be friend with anybody i'm not scared to put my chips in if i think on my head i don't mind putting it in on a bluff if i feel like i'm in the spot that where people are trying to outplay me and i will calm down or fight back at them i'll play them i'm just going to play my game and hopefully i pick up some hand and double triple up and win this tournament and get a title a lot of great poker players with the last name win we got one here tonight sean nguyen was just a cash game player this is first ever wpt event here he's at the final table fighting it out for the title and check raising all in with seven high there and the blinds are going up to 75 150 mike with a 25 000 annie action on griffin paul got king queen of diamonds and he will raise the 300 000 to go joe ebanks out now ryan rivers former poker dealer he's got a queen ten of spades he's looking over at the button and the two blinds to see if they look interested in playing and then he moves all in with the queen tennis spade oh canada well he's on the short stack at this table and makes a move right here well i still got some chips to do it everybody folding only one to compete with is griffin paul who has chips has a pretty good king queen of diamonds do you want to put another 2.2 million in the pot here with king i he does not he lays it down so a nice hole in bet there by ryan rivers ryan 32 year old from niagara falls canada been a poker pro for six years it was a dealer for two years before that okay on to the next hand quick fold by griffin joe e banks now with a jack ten he's got guts he'll make a raise 300 000 to go ryan out mr q with an ace three oh wow he is going to push all in wow what aggressiveness brian out andre's out he knows joe ebanks is just an aggressive player could be raised with any two cards it's close one he says it's close with a jack 10 off suit most players would just jettison that hand immediately instead of thinking about putting another 1.7 million in there the former dishwasher well he is gambling here he certainly is wow what a call by joe interesting play he has given q a big chance to double up in a big way q win must win this pot to stay alive otherwise he'll be our sixth place finisher he is the local rep at this final table will he stay alive here we go with the flop it is a nice one for q as he hits a pair of threes comes seven three deuce joe looking for a jack or a 10 to take the lead or two runners to make a straight another three that's going to do it q shoots his arms up he has joe drawing dead with one to go q is going to double up here bats and the crowd roars wow what excitement here at the seminole hard rock casino and they are rocking and rolling in the house tonight for their man cue [Music] with shaw's double up we end our first hour of coverage from florida make sure you join us next time for more poker action from the seminal hard rock poker showdown for mike sexton vince van patten tony dunst the royal flush girls and everyone at the world poker tour i'm lynne gilmartin see you next time on the wpt i don't understand what this is for here the world poker tour is sponsored by club wpt.com never lose a dime playing poker guaranteed welcome to seminole hard rock hotel and casino and the world poker tour [Music] feel like a million bucks [Applause] waves of cash are hitting the shore in hollywood florida hi everyone welcome to the seminole hard rock hotel and casino i'm lynne gilmartin at this point play has been sharper than a stingray by the beach and it's only going to get more fierce as we inch closer to crowning the lone survivor in this poker showdown for more on tonight's play let's turn it over to our very own mike sexton and vince van patten guys what are your thoughts on this final table well then we're seeing some action-packed exciting poker here tonight at the hard rock but no surprise in chip counts the three guys that came to the final table in first second and third chip position are still in first second and third chip position griffin paul is leading andre crooks in second place and joe ebanks in third place yeah but mike how about this guy sean wayne they call him q he's never played in any big buy tournaments yet he hasn't made a whole lot of cash he's just plays local he has a ton of friends and we have six players left tonight and we're near the everglades nobody's in the swamp quite yet but it could happen soon the hunt for the seminole hard rock poker showdown title is set to continue so let's check the chip counts and get down to the action well there we see the skrill chip count griffin paul out in front 13.5 million andre crooks in second place there you see what they're playing for the winner tonight taking home one million dollars yeah big money at stake here tonight along with that they get the beautiful new blow watch what a timepiece that is blind's at 75 150 aunties are 25. let's go to the felt joe e banks quick full ryan rivers now with a pair of fives he's going to shove all in well he's got the short stack only got a little over 11 big blinds and he ships it sean not gonna play ace nine brian green out over to andre crooks with a pair of fours he will play griffin out as well so ryan rivers taking down that putt he's a 32 year old poker pro in niagara falls canada been approved for six years was a former poker dealer two years before that there you see his friends in the house rooting him on tonight okay on to the next one sean nguyen they call him q folds brian green from texas out into andre crooks with a six seven of spades going to raise the 350 griffin out joe e banks with an ace five will make the call and ryan with a king jack also gonna speculate getting a good price to call here so he makes it three-way action flop comes ace queen deuce joe out in front with two aces ryan with the gut shot straight draw they both check and andre with no hand to no draw the guy doing the betting 525 thousand continuation joe makes the call with the aces ryan out turn carter three of spades and they both check river card ten of clubs it tells me andre crooks just giving up this pot waving the flag by checking on the turn they both check and smartly done he'd have been called down no doubt about it joe ebanks the 29 year old pro from kent ohio taking down that pot mike as you know the wpt is constantly on the move so let's take a moment here to give a shout out to our latest winners on the world poker tour now since we last saw our viewers at the bay 101 shooting star we added two more names to the wpt champions cup and one of those was our sixth place finisher at bay 101 ravi sundar who made his second wpt final table just days later at wpt rolling thunder to earn his own spot on the wpt champions cup and more than a quarter million dollars at the thunder valley casino resort and the glory didn't stop there though mike as we crowned another wpt champion and this time it was in austria at the montecino poker club where constantinos nanos earned his spot in wpt history after taking down the title and 150 000 euros for his victory at wpt vienna we also held three wpt national events first wpt montenegro at the splendid hotel and spa and then we traveled to italy in the casino de venezia for wpt national venice and it was down to south africa and the emperor's palace hotel casino where wesley weakened earned the w and nearly 75 000 for his victory at wpt national johannesburg we also held two wpt deep stacks events one in mississippi at the i.p biloxi hotel and casino and another right here in florida at the best bet in jacksonville where george wolf took down the title and pocketed almost 85 000 dollars for his win congratulations to all of our wpt winners and for those of you sweating the action at home stop dreaming about it and get out here and play just log on to wpt.com for a complete schedule of upcoming events but for now let's get back to the action here at the seminole hard rock well six players left fighting it out for the million dollar first place prize action's gonna be on brian green from decatur texas he's going to raise it up here with an ace 10 off suit makes it 300 000 to go insta call by andre crooks behind him with ace five fold it around to john winn he makes the call out of the big blind with the queen five of diamonds so three-way action [Applause] for the flop is a jack 9-4 andre giving it up he checks as well going to the turn it's a jack of diamonds this gives q a flush draw he's got the worst hand of the three but he's the one doing the betting 500 000. and they're folding so a nice bet by q on the turn there to take down that pot he's a local from west palm beach just a cash game player though this is first ever wpt event here he is at the final table he's happy to go lucky came from vietnam at age eight he is shining here tonight let's go back to this hand joe ebanks looks down at a queen six of hearts and he is aggressive he will raise the 350 to go the canadian behind him won't play and now q with an eight six of clubs also folding into brian greene who is going to go all in with an ace nine of hearts ryan one of the two short stacks at this table moves all in with the ace nine and andre out griffin the chip leader not playing so back on joe ebanks the former dishwasher i'm sure joe can make the call here with the queen six i might have to take another shot at you not at you but just in general yeah we've seen him calling this spot when a guy moved all in for 1.7 million when he had jack 10 off suit maybe he'll learn this lesson and he opted to lay it down yep wise is up so brian green from decatur texas he owns an auto financing company has for 15 years second time at the wpt final table he is talented the way the risk factor between my business and poker correlate it's almost identical i saved fifty thousand dollars up i had the perfect plan to start this car business i went to my banker tried to get him to to match he basically laughed me out of the building i had to risk everything i had and if i didn't make it i was going to fall flat on my face but i risked it and you know it worked out for me poker is the same idea if you don't take that risk you can't win a million dollars [Music] well this brian believes he can do anything he puts his mind to three years ago this guy weighed over 300 pounds he said i'm gonna get in shape obviously he's done that i see him in the gym every day working out hard good guy what an opportunity here tonight but let's go back down to it action on ryan rivers from canada and ryan this time with a king eight of clubs he is on the short stack and he's gonna shove all in yeah he's only got ten big blinds so you might as well move it in here sean and brian out andre out griffin our chip leader won't play we want to beat his joe e banks he's got ace eight and it cost him another 1.3 million to call yeah i call and he's going to make the good call well as his opponent dominated he just thought ryan could be a bit of a desperado being on a short stack that was the case the ace high the best hand pretty bad man that's bad shape to be in yeah it sucks well the canadian the family man poker professional now in a lot of trouble his wife is expecting twins he would love to stick around and make more money here but he's in dire straits at this point i'm feeling this one let's see if he gets lucky here's the flop it's a ten eight three no good for the canadian well he's flopped two eights but that doesn't help him he's gonna have to catch a king or two running clubs to win this part the dishwasher club putting the canadian on spin cycle kenny dry them off and the five of diamonds on the turn all right if the man from niagara falls around rivers doesn't get some help here vance he's going over the falls in a barrel out in sixth place that is right niagara falls slowly i turn step by step inch by inch can i survive [Music] that deuce comes off that's going to do it for the lone canadian at the table ryan rivers out tonight in sixth place ryan rivers going to take home 217 000 back to the falls he goes we're down to five let's go see what ryan has to say it was pretty good it was fun i was pretty much crippled first couple rounds bled out and then you know didn't really catch any cards um and unfortunately dominated there with the ace 8 so yeah what can you do it just wasn't in the cards for ryan rivers who is out in sixth place we'll be right back with more from the seminal hard rock poker showdown on the wpt pure monster sound you have to hear it to believe it [Music] get yours today at monsterproducts.com wpt enter code wpt25 to get your special discount we're back with more poker action from the seminole hard rock hotel and casino we're having fun we have five players going after a million dollars here tonight that's the first place prize back down to the felt we go action on brian green quick fold by him andre crooks out our chip leader griffin also folding and now joe ebanks looks down at an eight five and he is going to get aggressive with it yep we're gonna raise out of the small blind with the eight five of clubs 375 000. sean winn with a jack six he's gonna make the call out of the big blind he's got position jack six versus eight five the flop is a nine five three three so a good flop there for joe he takes the lead with two fives and checks puzzled by that check q checks right behind him and now hits a jack on the turn to take the lead action on joe again he checks and q local cash game player going to make a bet bet in 400 and because he didn't bet on the flop he's got a problem as to what to do on the turn whether guys bluff or not he doesn't know he calls with the two fives and now he is behind going to the river card it is a seven action on joe he checks [Applause] and again q is going to bet this time 650 000 q i played with a lot i think he's a tight aggressive player but i also saw him make some big calls and every time he was right i don't think hugh is uh afraid he likes to call people when he thinks they're blocking him well joe has made the call here he's going to kick himself when this hand is over he knows if he'd bet the flop he'd probably won this pot and then he paid off a bet on the turn and the river to compound his problems but the crowd goes crazy as q takes down the pot oh man this is fun this is exciting q the local has a swamp people going crazy here oh vance every time he wins a pot they go q q q q you remember when the frenchman was at the final table we were going poop with the axe one of the most fun nights we've had this could top that who knows before it's over oh boy cocktail all right moving on to andre quick full by him griffin paul is going to fold now it's over to joe ebanks and he is going to get aggressive with just a 10-7 makes it 300 000 to go sean goes out brian green has picked up a pair of tens he's going to push it all in yeah 2.4 million all in and a quick fold by joe ebanks yeah brian green going to win the pot yay clap clap clap poker is a very social game as you do know and with a vip membership at club wpt.com you can play and chat against a variety of competitors and if you win a seat to a live tournament you might get to put a face to that screen name can i pop one of these off and put my name up here nice hat yeah i like yours too i'd like to have two of them my wife could use one you want to play for it sure let's play for hats oh it's a race that's a there you go there's that what do you like about club wpt i like to watch some of the videos on club wpt because as a new player first time in a live tournament they actually helped me learn some things about the professional players for me it's you know it just allows me to play poker at any time that i have available and of course you want a package like this i know it's been amazing hasn't it unbelievable time oh humble just incredible oh hi did you win something else i did i i want a hat just for you hand it over babe you can have matching hats all right now i don't mind losing so much it looks so much better on her face learn how you can compete for a share of one hundred thousand dollars in cash and prizes every month play on club wpt.com and never lose a dime playing poker guaranteed griffin paul from calabasas california the chip leader he's only 22. five players left fighting it out for a million dollars first place prize vince it could have been you at this final table great performance by you you finished at the third table in this tournament you had a shot to be there yeah thank you thank you it was fun it didn't happen but i made some money i'll be back hey a couple folds and now sean win and he's on the button with two sevens he's going to raise it 350 000. trying out andre now with a king queen he's proven to be a tough player event so far this final table and he's got a three bet here with the king queen makes it 750 000 to go now what do you do with two sevens well you just call if you're sean you're gonna see a flop a flop comes ace nine eight no help to anybody action on andre he three bet before the flop so he's gonna make a c bet here 875 000 and vince just tough to go any farther with two sevens with three over cards out there and the guy that three bet you before the flop has bet the flop yeah he's gonna put the pressure on sean sean with just a pair of sevens he cannot play so nicely done by andre crooks the local did he just called there chance already lost that pot instead of won it look at this fence according to the wonder cam a seven came off on the turn yeah would have given cue three crazy things happen on the wpt we're coming right back stay with us this episode of the world poker tour is sponsored in part by draftkings if you like poker and sports then you're going to love daily fantasy sports at draftkings go to draftkings.com enter promo code wpt and start playing today i'm just a sports fanatic in all sports every day i'm in some type of a contest on draftkings i love sports and i love the nba and entered into a seven dollar satellite got a 55 dollar ticket out of that and then from that 55 i got this seat i have been to satellite through draftkings a 50 satellite the biggest difference i think with draftkings is that you get to change your lineups up until the times the game starts which is one big difference from other daily fantasy sites it's just easy their mobile app is easy their system's easy everything about them deposits easy i mean it's just a really good site i've been in fantasy sports for the last 12 years i'm doing 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go now around to griffin paul the chip leader he's got a pair of sixes [Applause] he's getting out raisin chips here yep he is going to make it 8.75 into joe ebanks who has a king jack and he's got the same hand that andre crooks has he is getting out another raise for betting this pot with a king jack off suit here what a play by joe ebanks sean out as is andre and now it's back on griffin with the pair of sixes yeah i just don't know you can stand this kind of heat with two sixes here now griffin paul is a country line dancer and you just wonder if he's gonna do a little boot and scooting boogie here and indeed he is he's going right out of this pot scoots right out joe ebanks takes it right down with a beautiful four bed hand vince we have seen some sterling plays by this guy yeah he's made a mistake or two but i'll tell you he's made a lot of really really good plays at this final table and now the blinds are going up to one and 200 with a 25 000 annie now joe looks down and finds ace queen of diamonds much better than the handy just four bet with makes it 425 to go a couple folds behind him andre's going to make the call here with the ace eight offsuit and griffin ejects two-way action ace 8 versus ace queen and we are a alfamp is queen four deuce with two spades they're full for joe e banks andre checks top pair there for ebanks well continuation bit but this time joe has top pair top kicker 600 000 but andre thinks his ace higher might be good here don't get crazy on us here andre he is he's gonna call it mike now the six of spade comes off now that should set off caution lights i would think to both players since neither have i spayed in their hand i'm just gonna check it and joe he's reaching for bending chips there vince but very dangerous when the guy calls you on the flop and now comes the straight card and the flush card and he's going to put the pressure on 1.2 into andre there's one guy that i can't have here top three and that's mr ebanks he's a very experienced player i play played with him uh back in my online days i know he's a very good quitter plan is to attack him get him out of here attack him right whoa well he is attacking and i mean big time he's drawn completely dead and yet he's raising here to 2.6 million it could be the wrong time this guy has top pair ace kicker but fence if the guy has a straight reflector drone completely dead you always need to put your money in drawn completely dead plus you have to face another possible bet on the river what are you going to do then with one pair and it's going to work andre crooks make it a great play beautifully stealing that pot he lives up to the cook's name well done he is now the chip leader once again we're coming back with more action here on the world poker tour stay with us what if there was a place where over one million dollars in cash prizes and wpt entries were given away every year well there is and it's only a click away join club wpt.com today and win a share of over 1 million dollars every year this game is a very thin line between genius and donkey to get to this point everything in the polka i've learned through pretty much trial and error i try to play different every time if i catch a cue a few hands early and they're like oh that guy's tight i'm loose as i can and after that if i'm loose at first i try to tighten up but i try to play the total opposite of my image i've put hours and hours and hours in tournaments sitting goals and cash games just hands in different situations to get to where i'm at now i love the game i just love the game this is why i'm here well andre crooks been very impressive at this final table tonight vince and he is the current chip leader as you can see with over 13 million in chips yeah all that work has paid off for andre crooks looking good here tonight let's go back down to the table action on sean nguyen yeah he owns a used car a lot andre crooks does says with the money wins here tonight he's going to build up his business well there he goes andre this time with the ace four diamonds going to make it 400 000 ago griffin out and now joe e banks in the big blind with just a jack three of spades but he'll make this call splash around got outplayed a minute ago by andre gonna tangle with him again oh queen jack six so joe e banks out flops andre catches jacks joe checks andre is gonna bet though 475 jill with the two jacks gonna make the call going to the turn board pairs sixes joe's still out in front with jack's up he checks and andre checks andre just hoping his opponent's got a straight draw where he'll now have the best hand four on the river that gives andre a fours jack they both check well the two jacks are going to win this pot [Applause] joe e banks taking down that pot duel extra play video games got in this tournament on a 385 dollar satellite he is getting some good value in this event here at the hard rock started playing poker a few years back after seeing an article that someone won online 60 000 and he hasn't looked back since onto this hand a couple folds well every time griffin paul puts his sweater up on his mouth he plays the pot 200 air raising with the king four spade to 400 000. joe's out but sean has called this with a nine five of diamonds so two-way action here we go queen nine eights the flop q as they say has two nines he checks and griffin going to make a continuation bet with nothing 425. what do you do a second pair here you call if you're cute fourth street is a three of spades that gives a four flush there to griffin paul q thinks there's no apparent help he checks now griffin can bet this a little bit with more ease yeah close to a million 9.75 oh wow nice call again by sean yeah he's got to try to run him down yep he's out front with the nines let's see if they hold up griffin would love to hit his spade and punish but no it's a queen pairs the board griffin has nothing well again sean checks he's got to be feeling good about this hoping that his man doesn't make a bet well griffin fire a third shell that's the question oh wow wow he's going all in he is putting maximum pressure on cue can q make this call it would be brilliant if he did but he knows if he calls and loses the pot he's going to be out in fifth place well this would be the call of the year if sean could make it but no he has to release the hand no just too much pressure vince [Applause] the great players win pots without having the best hand you just saw griffin paul do it there all right action on griffin paul let's take a look at his cards through the draftkings whole cam he's got a jack and another jack two jacks he'll make it four hundred thousand ago rewarded for the great bluff and now you pick up legit hand joe ebanks goes out sean has to be punchy from that folds and now brian green with an ace 10. on a short stack and he's going to push all in he doesn't even have 10 big blinds man so he moves all in with the ace 10 like anybody would griffin paul the 22 year old and a great place to knock out the texan oh boy the country line dancer griffin paul clicking his heels right now just hoping the jacks hold up good luck man brian green second time at a wpt final table experienced poker player in a heap of trouble right now queen seven four no help for brian green it's not over wisely put by the 22 year old with two cards to come brian can't look going to the turn it's a four pairs the board well we are down to the river brian green must catch an ace on the river or he'll be heading back to texas last card coming up will it be the last card for brian has to hit the ace it's not gonna happen five of diamonds back in the saddle for brian green so brian green from decatur texas out tonight in fifth place fans just wasn't meant to be for that is right the texan getting last suit out of here in fifth place gonna take home 269 000. let's go see what he has to say uh disappointment of course um just never really got things going i really only picked up maybe two openers the whole time and even those didn't go my way obviously so i'm just not real good luck tonight it's time to say buenos noches to brian who's out in fifth place but don't go anywhere there's more action from the seminal hard rock right after this [Music] tonight's episode is sponsored by youblo the official watch of the world poker [Music] tour welcome to elbar the elbar is located upon arrival at the heart of the seminole hard rock hotel and casino it's a great place to hang out because it's sophisticated it's it's fun it's elegant there's a great vibe the menu is designed to have something for everybody but in particular your classics that are being rediscovered may i offer you something to drink yes please our most requested drink would probably be the queen's park swizzle people love mojitos we're in south florida you know this little guy here this is a swizzle stick that's the swizzle this is the swizzle and then of course a little bit of bitters then we're going to put another little mint sprig on top there open it up so you're too pretty to drink no definitely enjoy it thank you you're welcome wow there's a lot of love and care at the elbar well vance i know you spend a lot of time at the l bar yourself how many of those drinks do you have it is enjoyable we got it all here but let's go back down to the fell four players battling for this championship quick four by sean and andre's gonna raise with queen jack to 450. [Applause] ebanks gonna make the call with the ace five of spade out of the big blind these two clashing a lot seemingly yeah ace five versus queen jack and the flop is a nine eight six six club nine of diamonds joe checks the gut shot straight draw on backdoor flush draw and andre seemingly always makes the continuation bet doing so here with the queen jack and what a call here by joe with just ace high oh 6 25 andre relentless let's go to the turn it's a 5. there's a possible straight on the board now but it goes check check yeah down to the river seven that gives both guys a straight of course well this is gonna be a split pot if they both check it down three clubs on the board action is on joe ebanks great player former dishwasher he ain't washing dishes today he's too good he understands the situation he knows if he bets here his opponent just can't call him unless he's got at least a 10 in his hand it's gonna make a bet 1.5 million yep he's gonna put the pressure on crooks and bench you just can't call on this spot when the best you can do is split the pot andre going out well done by joe ebanks there understood the situation by betting he wins the whole pot had he checked at best he would have got half of it well you talk about the big names of the game how great they are and they are but there's so many unknown quantities out here like this table boy these guys are playing great poker stealing pots left and right they're doing with no hands it's so impressive back down to the table joe quick fold by him and now sean with king queen he's going to make it 475 000 to go andre with the two ducks he's going to make the call andre griffin with a nothing hand folds his hands so deuces versus king queen let's do it flop is ace king nine andre checks and shawn checks i like this check to control the size of the pot fence you don't get check raised out of it seven comes off andre with just a little deuces he's going to take a bold step make a bet 650 and now you can call with the two kings that's what he's doing going to the river andre feeling uncomfortable there jack on the river changes nothing well two possible straights out there now uh will andre fire again hey yo boys getting the chips ready i'll tell you this guy's got heart no doubt about it there's a bet close to 1.4 million put the pressure on sean that's when you have second pair in this spot there's nothing you can beat but a bluff and don't forget he's on the short stack but he's going to make the call and q is going to win this pot is andre crooks tried to steal another pot he got picked off by the q q ball straight into the rack right there don't go anywhere because tony dunst is breaking down play at tonight's final table the raw deal is coming up when the seminole hard rock poker showdown continues [Music] at the table it can sometimes be hard to distinguish the fish from the sharks so let's leave it to our in-house bass master tony dunst to hook line and sink them in the raw deal [Music] as we've discussed before on the raw deal most of the bluffs you'll make in poker will essentially be semi-bluffs where you have equity to make the best hand we've just seen andre crooks make a pair of low equity bluffs so will he get out alive let's break it down the first hand moves quickly sean nguyen raises from the button with pocket sevens and andre re-raises from the big blind king queen is likely ahead of sean's button range and three betting allows andre to take the lead in the hand so when the flop lands ace nine eight that's exactly what happens when andre bluffs out the sevens with a bet then andre makes an even larger bluff against pro joey banks he starts the hand by calling a raise in the small blind with ace 8 offsuit which is not a good idea the queen 4 deuce flop doesn't help andre but he still check calls a bet from joe the six of spades hits on the turn that completes the only obvious draw on the board after another check joe bets again right and andre check raises just over the minimum admittedly if i were in joe's shoes i'd probably think andre has the nuts too while the play works this time i think that when andre wants to bluff here he should wait until he has a spade in his hand otherwise he'll end up bluffing too frequently with no equity and besides there are few plays that look more daring and sexy than a zero equity bluff if this was the movie version of this final table andre would lean back light one up and ask was it good for you too [Music] well that's all you got to say is andre smoked them with those bluffs so far tonight oh well right now you can see griffin fall from california he's the chip leader 22 years old with 15 million let's go to the felt a quick full by sean now andre crooks i like the button raise with ace high here yeah 475 to go griffin behind him with an ace six of diamonds he's also got the sweatshirt up over his mouth meaning he plays the pot he's called it and joe e banks with it just a king three yeah getting a lot of value here at least in his mind so he's gonna make the call three-way action and we're flopping there comes king nine five two diamonds so just like that joe's jumped out in front but griffin paul has the nut flush draw and he is going to bet 675 000. joe caught kings there yeah got top pair and he makes the call nothing for andre so he gets out of the way going to the turn now a 10 of spade comes off so possible straight out there as well as possible flush in the making yep and griffin's going to slow down and check ebank's not going to play the top pair our diamond on the river pairs the board but that gives a flush to our chip leader now what to bet what amount you want to get paid don't scare them out 1.1 yeah that's a perfect size bed into a pot that's got 2.8 million in it but it's too much joe ebanks just quickly jettisons his hand vince and he had top pair there he checked on the turn folded on the river well done by joe like he could read right through those cards well money saved his money earned and joe ebanks did it there all right on to the next one a quick full by griffin now joe with a legitimate pair of nines and he will raise the 450 right behind him sean with a pretty decent ace 10. it's really decent against an aggressive player like joey banks who raises just about every hand on the button yep he's going to re-raise mike 1.1 andre out back on joe joe is going to four bedded here to 2.15 million now sean's going back over the top all in and snap call by joe both players playing very aggressive on this hand four and five bending it with these hands so six days of play it comes down to a race for q can he win it and stay alive with the dream i've wanted a wpt title and a million bucks [Applause] [Music] big moment here at the seminole hardware casino they're 10 for an a spans in the q section a flop of a lifetime here for q eventually right there's one race i'll remember for a long time [Music] nine still out in front jack 6'3 on the flop oh a little moan out of the q crowd there they are looking for an ace or a 10. [Applause] [Music] everybody on their feet holding their breath for the turn in the river fourth street about to appear and it's a four well we are down to the river q must catch an ace or ten to stay alive in this tournament vince if he hits one of those two cars you're gonna hear a scream that they'll be able to recognize from the bahamas [Music] i just have to listen if it's silent i win this crowd is ready to go crazy here comes the river car is it an ace or a 10 that's what q needs nope it's a four joe ebanks wins the race and knocks sean nguyen out of the tournament but beth what an effort by this kid a local guy playing in his first ever big buy-in tournament comes in fourth just terrific sean big effort by him spectacular crowd loved him but right now he was just chopped up and thrown into the everglades gonna take home 323 000. let's go talk to him with my stack i can't just sit back and wait you know so i got to get it in there you know and plus i played to win you know i did the best i could you know i'm happy with what you know fourth place i'm happy with it man i'm gonna play a lot more man whenever you guys come around one of us are going to play with sean wynn out in fourth place we end our second hour of coverage here at the seminole hard rock poker showdown be sure to join us next time when we will brand the wpt champions cup with its newest member until then for mike sexton vince fan pattern tony dunst the royal flush girls and everyone at the world poker tour i'm lynn gilmartin see you next time on the wpt i don't understand what this is for here the world poker tour is sponsored by club wpt.com never lose a dime playing poker guaranteed we're back with more action from hollywood florida and the seminole hard rock poker showdown feel like a million bucks tonight in hollywood florida one of poker's most coveted titles is ready to be claimed hi everyone welcome to the world poker tour i'm lynne gilmartin making it to pogo's biggest stage is a terrific memory but to win it all is a moment of a lifetime here to take us home are the wpt's own mike sexton and vince van patten well then it's been a fun-filled action-packed final table but it's really no great surprise that the three guys fighting it out for the title or the three guys that came to this final table as the chip leaders also the three guys that have been the most aggressive players at this final table current ship leader is joe e banks we've got griffin paul in second place and andre crooks is in third place right now that is right let's talk about andre crooks he's a local what a player he is he likes to steal all these pots he plays with absolutely nothing zip and pip very impressive so far this is a great battle well looks like we are in for a real fight to the finish here at seminole hard rock hotel and casino play is ready to resume so let's check the chip counts and get down to the table there you see the squirrel chip count joe e banks with 18.5 million griffin paul was 16.7 andre crooks with 9 million yeah winner is going to take over first prize of 1 million dollars the annie's are 25 000 blinds are one and 200 here we go joe e banks the former dishwasher with a big hand ace king yeah 29 year old been a poker pro for 10 years he's raised it to 450 full by andre crooks the local and now griffin paul he's got ace jack we always three bet it to 1.1 million ace jack normally a very good hand in a three-handed poker game but not in this situation back on ebanks it's gonna be four bet by him to 2.25 million and now will griffin paul be able to get away from this hand that's the question or will he get himself in big trouble here can you believe i'm holding this it's got a bad feeling so it's oh my god it's ridiculous wow well done by griffin paul vinci lost about the minimum that you can lose with that hand playing 300 poker could lay down by him [Music] and joe ebanks out of ohio takes down that pot he's made about 2.4 in his poker career pretty impressive all right back to the action andre crooks he's 30 years old at a lake worth florida right around here he owns used car lot but i can tell you he's been very impressive with his poker here tonight he's quickly folds his hand and now griffin paul with a 10-7 seeing an opportunity perhaps and yes he's going to raise it to 525. he banks though with an ace five behind him he's going to make the call so the chip leader is going at it yet again and flop nine four deuce joe has a good shot straight throw action on griffin he has nothing yet he's gonna bet a half million yep he's got heart that's what he has benton with 10 high and quickly called by joe [Applause] and now jack comes off and three clubs out there neither player has a club in their hand it's a bit of a scare card griffin does have a gut shot straight draw but no club in his hand he is going to bet this garbage yup he's relentless 925 000 and without a club in your hand hard for joe to go any farther he gives it up but power of aggression winning that pot for griffin paul there very impressive that's right griffin paul used to play a lot of baseball in high school actually he injured himself in college and because of that started playing poker and has done quite well moving on action's going to be right back on griffin first to act he looks down at an ace four of clubs seems to like it makes a raise 400 000 joe ebanks with an ace 10 though he's got a three bet again here this time to 1.2 million andre crooks just watching the show here between these two guys he's just hoping they clash in a really giant pot here soon yeah he gets out of the way now griffin gonna make the call so over 2.6 million in the pot already flop is an eight five four so griffin getting a piece of that with the fours and the nut flush draw that's right well action's on joe though and he checks after three benton pre-flop he checks on the flop griffin is going to bet the two fours and the nut flush draw a little over a million and joe just jettisons his hand so for an aggressive player like joe e banks he just didn't have the vibes on the flop check and then folded and with that pot fence griffin paul back out in front joe ebanks falls to second place but not by much all right on to andre crooks the local well he's just been enjoying the show here so far in this three-handed battle but he's looking to get involved himself even though it's just with a 7-3 it's a button raise 475. griffin going to lay this one down and now joe with ace four of hearts makes this call [Applause] so ace four versus seven three flop is a nine six deuce two clubs and it goes check check now the board pair sixes again joe checks and andre realizes the only way you can win this pot is to bet at it and that's what he's doing 475 000. if you're joe you just couldn't imagine a six could help the guy he didn't bet on the flop now he's betting the turn you've got ace high well andre his name is crooks and he's going to try to steal this one and joe gives it up so it turns out to be a nice bet on the turn there by andre as he takes down that pot learned poker at age eight he just loves the game the competition he says he practices all the time getting better and better but let's get back down to felt griffin paul now with a quick fold joe ebanks with a legitimate pair of nines and he will raise it up makes it 5 50 to go so andre crooks looks down at two kings on the button and courtesy of draftkings he'll get one thousand dollars added to his draftkings account but right now he's looking to do a lot more damage than that he is looking to double up here with these two kings he is gonna three bet it to 1.1 million no ebanks wow he's gonna raise it again vance at 2.3 million little does he know what he's up against andre started this spot with just less than 10 million you know he's going to raise it just a matter of how much here at least i would think he would raise here but let's see those big wired pairs in a 300 poker game art 4.8 few and far between and yes he's going to double it up again so he bets about half his stack here 4.8 million myself [Applause] this e-bank's gonna fall into the trap and he's gonna push all in at a quick call of course and andre crooks in great shape to double up here two kings versus two nines he has his opponent dominated he's about a four to one favorite as the cards lie to win this pile joe ebanks is just thinking to himself cold deck cold deck cold deck that's how it happens i don't think you can get away from the nines the way this has been going and right now joe gonna give back a lot of money this would turn andre into the new chip leader [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] wow just heartbreak for andre crooks right there that is like a dagger in your heart you can't get a man in a better spot in terms of moving all in pre-flop just when you manipulate a man and you think you got them where you want them wow that happens whoa but it's not over andre could suck back out on him let's see if he can not there four of diamonds crowd absolutely stunned we are down to the river and andre crooks must catch a king nothing else we'll do here comes the river [Music] here it is it's not to be for andre 10 comes off that is just really really tough luck for andre crooks got it all in with kings if he wins the potty he's the big chip leader with three left he gets out drawing he's out in third place that's what happened joe ebanks got lucky outdrew him andre crooks our third place finisher that's a lot of pain for andre crooks going to take home 383 000. let's go see what he has to say i really wanted to win bad disappointing getting it in that well and that result but uh give it another goal next time around we have to move on it's just like poker next hand what an impressive run by andre crooks our third place finisher it's now down to joe ebanks and griffin paul to battle it out for the title there's plenty more to come before we name a wpt champion tonight including mike vince and the royal flush girls hitting the courts plus tony dunst will stop in to give us the raw deal when coverage of the seminal hard rock poker showdown continues this episode of the world poker tour is sponsored in part by draftkings if you like poker and sports then you're going to love daily fantasy sports at draftkings go to draftkings.com enter promo code wpt and start playing today head so play is about to begin at the seminal hard rock poker showdown between joe e banks and griffin paul the royal flush girls genie and tuba have brought out the cold hard cash plus a pair of monster 24k headphones and an amazing ublow watch fit for a champion before play gets started see what both players had to say during the break griffin just 22 years old and here you are on poker's biggest stage how does that feel uh it feels amazing um i'm speechless honestly never thought this was possible i know you're going heads up against joe probably the one player at this table you didn't want to uh play against definitely he was uh i mean he's been on my left the entire day and just giving me hell so i haven't enjoyed it but uh i'm heads up so i can't complain it's gonna be a good battle joe you've been at a wpt final table before second chances don't come around too often how's this one gonna be different well this time we're much luckier so hopefully that continues now you are going into heads up with a nice chip lead but you can't be too confident going up against someone like griffin yeah definitely and we're both very deep there's a lot of chips so it's anyone's game well joe's right about that the average chipset in his head's up battlefield about 73 big blinds joe ebanks out in front 26.4 million griffin paul 17.7 million yep in the end he's a 50 000 blinds 153 here we go action on joe he's got 600 just a 10-7 but he's going to make it 600 000 to go that's the minimum raise 600 griffin with a king six now even though the hand doesn't look like much when you're playing heads up you just can't throw away king highs every time your opponent makes a min raise he's made the call and the flop is a he's ten deuce so joe hitting tens goes check check and the 10 comes off on the turn giving joe three tens griffin checks yep and joe is reaching for betting chips [Applause] he's gonna bet 700 000 is all and because he didn't bet on the flop no way griffin is gonna put him on a pair here's gonna probably think his king has the best hand and he's gonna make the call down to the river we go it's a three of hearts and again griffin checks those are 500 000 plaques and looks like he's getting out about seven of those three and a half million into a 2.7 million dollar pot and that's what griffin does not understand why is he over betting so much yep the over bet actually seduces a little bit more because you're saying this guy's over betting he might be bluffing it looks like a bluff the pine only has 2.7 million that they got about 3.5 million oh boy griffin's called it it's the size of that bat that lured him in there event no doubt about it perfectly done griffin paul fell into the hole joe ebanks widens his chip lead i got started playing poker more than 10 years ago i read in a newspaper about some guy winning 60 000 a year online and i said well i was making seven dollars an hour and i was like well if i can make seven dollars an hour clicking a button on my computer i'd rather do that i learned basically any way i could i i read books i watched videos i talked to people but the best way is by playing and and learning from my mistakes ever since i've been a pro people have always told me they want to see me on tv and finally now 10 years later i get a chance it's like a dream i wouldn't trade my job for anything throw away the dish rags now you're a poker pro mike what was your first job well other newspaper and cat in like most kids my first paycheck job was a busboy in the restaurant so i can relate to joe okay joe this time with king six has raised to six hundred thousand griffin paul with an ace three of diamonds just makes the call we're gonna see the flop king king six oh joe has flopped a full house how do you beat that they both check real quickly going to the turn another six well griffin's gotta think he's got the best hand now with two pair and a nice kicker but he checks and joe's gonna bet this time not a big bet just six hundred thousand mrs griffin's gonna call with the ace high and i don't blame him the way the hand's been played i'd call two there down to the river we go it is a jack griffin checks again ouch here come the plaques again this time it's 1.2 million and there you see the anguished look of griffin paul is you're going to be kidding me i got tortured the last hand don't do it to me again he's made the call two pair with a side but it's not good as joe shows him the full house to take down the pot [Applause] the only consolation for griffin paul right now even though he hasn't won a pot is they both started with such deep stacks they still got plenty of chips to fight with joe ebanks now moves over 32 million in chips griffin paul with 11 million actually right back on joe ace five tall just calling and griffin has a pair of sevens though joe limping in on the button with ace high griffin certainly going to raise now with two sevens makes it 925 000 to go the total bet is 9.5 she'll understand there's no way griffin's gonna put him on an ace here so he's hoping to catch an ace on his flop let's see if he does no king jack four well it goes check check on the flop now a nine comes off well again it goes check check both players just happy to check it down six comes off on the river i'm guessing we'll go check check again there's the first check wow 400 000 bit into a 2 million pot that is weird why would you bet ace high here vince griffin griffin paul is going to win this pot with two sevens but in my mind just a strange bet on the river when you could check it down with these high back to the dishes for him after that one not yet don't go away because tony dunst is standing by to give us the raw deal when we return it's that time of the night where tony does to trace the swamp or the muck let's break down some of tonight's hands in this edition of the raw deal youngster griffin paul entered heads-up play facing an uphill climb and he isn't doing himself any favors by making a pair of high card call downs against joey banks who's had the goods both times so were those call downs a reasonable defense against an aggressive player or just an expensive way for griffin to see some cards let's break it down the first hand between the two moved quickly after raising pre-flop joe checked behind the flop with middle pair then trips when another 10 landed on the turn griffin check calls a bet with king high which leads to a three of hearts on the river that changes nothing griffin checks again and joe fires out a large bet of 3.5 million i think that griffin is aware that a bet of this size polarizes joe's range between bluffs and big hands griffin must have thought he was bluffing but if joe wanted to bluff this hand he would have simply bet the flop in the next hand it's joe who's holding king six after raising the button he flops a full house and checks behind the turn brings another six and griffin check calls a bet with ace high and the two pair board and while i liked his turn call i don't like his river call because yet again i think joe would have bet the uncoordinated flop if he was bluffing this hand it's a rough way to start the match for griffin whose chance at a wpt title seems to be quickly slipping away not that you'd ever guess from watching his reactions well certainly a tough start in this heads-up battle for griffin paul but i'm not sure you can be that critical about the last two calls that he's made vince the way the hands were played all right right back down to the money pit action on griffin paul and he is going to look down at a very attractive king jack of clubs and he will raise to 600 000 to go into joe dill with the garfunkel hand here the nine five off suit he's gonna three bet with it vents doesn't matter what a 1.6 million one point is three bets with this garbage hand out of position and now back on griffin well you're in position here with the king jacket close but you're not liking it after getting three bet but you are going to call it and look at the flop all right chunk can versus quality hand nine five versus king jack let's go and the flap is four deuce deuce no help to either player now joe who three bet before the flop certainly going to bet this flop and he does so 1.2 million the flop griffin was looking for at all [Applause] wow 2.8 million with just a king high here this is planned bold and he is going to win the pot so great poker instincts there by griffin paul to take down that pot this young kid has great feel for the

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