Welcome everybody to that Poked Poker podcast, episode 137, January 29, 2023, I mean, host, A Schwartz, alongside the best producer in the business.

I don't care what the awards nominations say. It's Roscoe P. Coltrane, Roscoe.

Well, you have one way of describing it. I have another.

Good. Good to see. Terence Chan, how are you, T? I'm great. I'm happy to have the proper producer back, so I don't have to panic about this, even if you've got this weird fish eye lens going. I don't know what's that. What's the deal with that? We're trying to get more of your face in a shot. It's happening, Ross. I don't know. It's the angle. And Daniel Legrano in Las Vegas. Daniel, how are you? I'm doing good. Just started a diet three days ago. We'll be dieting until the World Series of poker so that I can get fat again. Good all yo-yo diet. Yes, I love it. It's fun for me. What's going on? You in the gym working out? Yeah, no, I started eating better again and getting back in the gym. It's been a bit, you know, had the mold issue and just was kind of sloppy to the holidays. But I'm not traveling. I missed out on this whole big grand world tour of all these high roller events, Vietnam, Paris and Bahamas and all over the place. I'm staying home. I'm going to play the poker go events. We've got the mixed game series coming up February 4th to 11th. That'll be a lot of fun. A PLO series in the U.S. poker open. So when I'm home, it's a lot easier, as everyone, you know, I can imagine, like when you're trying to cook yourself and all those things, it's easier to get back in shape. We just got through some poker go events and you finished third at one of the events

and passed 50 million in lifetime earnings.

I noticed that.

You're in third place.

And I was wondering how important this.

Obviously, you know, these are skewed.

I think Justin is eight or nine million ahead of you because, you know, all the Triton events and the

different stuff that, you know, you got to travel around the world for, big buy-ins that you maybe don't get in as much as they do. Is that all-time money list thing important to you at all? I mean, it was at a time. Obviously, like, honestly, I've been playing 30 years. Most of my career, I was number one, right?

Before buying started to happen where you regularly see like 100K, been playing 30 years most of my career I was number one right before

buying started to happen where you regularly see like 100k one million dollar buy ins like if

you excluded for example you know all the 25k and above's or wherever I'm I'm comfortably ahead I would

say in that but yeah it's just a question of inflation right so as buyings get bigger it becomes

more of a

recency thing. You know, you look at guys like T.J. Clucay and Miami John Serudo. Like, they had great tournament resumes, but they did it at a time when they were just smaller Bions, right? Carlos Mortensen's another one who would be, you know, near the tops in terms of ROI of any player. and that's impressive.

But the list itself,

I think it's just fun

for like media types

to talk about.

But in terms of ROI of any player. And that's impressive. But the list itself, I think it's just fun for like media types to talk about. But in terms of like assigning any meaning to it, it's really silly. Right. Like, I mean, I think we can all agree. It like means absolutely nothing in terms of anything. It's just like a cool thing to know. Like, oh, this person's cash for the most. Cool. What does it mean past that? Does it mean anything? No. I bet Hendon Mob would know, because they know the buy-in of every tournament and they know how much everybody cash for an event tournament, they would probably know the all-time number of buy-ins won by a person. And I wonder what that list looks like. That's interesting a lot of work probably. Yeah, because you just divide divide you've divide the price by the by the buy end and you can see how many total buyins won you know i'm sure guys like you know you mentioned carlos more than obviously like phil helped me it would be very close to the top of that list i'm sure because you won a ton of buy ins play ton of volume but that would be an interesting one too it doesn't but again none of this proves anything. It's just a different way of measuring something that is immeurable, which is who has the best

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