Steven Costa

Just took down the BIG10 on @ACR_POKER. Beat out 902 players and it felt great to win a tournament again because I haven’t played many over the last few years. Hopefully this is the first of many more going forward!

@ScottBunn Bro, haters gonna tell you to keep studying, but all I see is you getting it in good or flipping over and over and losing most of the time. I admire your resilience to keep going!

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@TheJeffBoski Feel like ATo is the cusp hand so definitely calling off AJo. Maybe 77 or 88+ A9s or ATs+ KQs+, and prob folding KQo?

🚨 Results 🚨

🃏 Hand of the Day 🃏 Final 4 players of the $21 PKO Hyper Tied for shortest stack, do we call it off with Alan Jackson?

@Nick_Verd @WSOP I don’t understand all the complaints around MLR. If you think it’s such a big edge then just MLR yourself. I know plenty of pros that join on time and plenty that MLR. They all know the pros and cons of both. Stop worrying about it and do what you prefer. 🤷‍♂️

The players have adjusted, @wsop. We don’t want 300BB deep starting stacks. We don’t want 10BB max LR. If you build a structure that way, 10%+ of field will max, and early levels are waste of time. No tourneys should start 200+ BB deep. Too long.

@tombos21 I have a good one for you, what about a tournament that is $150 to enter and you get 40k chips with an optional $100 Add-On, for 100,000 chips at the end of registration? Would it ever make sense to NOT take the optional add on in this scenario?

You're max late registering a poker tournament: - You can choose to pay one buy-in for one starting stack. - Or half a buy-in for half a starting stack. - Or two buy-ins for two starting stacks. - Or N buy-ins for N starting stacks. Which option maximizes your return on investment%? I think most players would buy the monster stack if they could afford it. But without knowing anything about the tournament, I can tell you that the highest ICM return% is to take the smallest allowed starting stack.

@TheJeffBoski I might be too nitty in this spot but I was thinking around J9s, maybe T9s? J6s seems a bit too loose? 🤷‍♂️

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🃏 Hand of the Day 🃏 Final 3 of the $8.80 7.5k What is the worst hand you would shove here?

Especially when day 3 happens to be 5 days later from the first day 1 flight. It’s pretty hard to expect recreational players to set aside an entire week for one $500 event (referring to colossus), let alone being able to set multiple weeks aside for Monster Stack and Millionaire maker type events.

@JDPC27 It’s not the max late reg really and stuff. It’s events taking literally a week+ from day1 to end. Also how hard it is now to be “done” with an event you have to make day3

think all these day 2s, day 2 max late regs and stuff finally pissed the recreational player off or they are cutting down on spending in general cuz it appears like numbers in many wsop events down 20 to 30 percent or is it just me? look at milly maker 2025 vs 2026 for example.

@Avabelly__ This is rage bait and so many are falling for it. 😂

So apparently I’m the bad guy for saying this, but here we go… My neighbor was outside mowing his lawn completely shirtless in the middle of the afternoon, right in a residential neighborhood where families, kids, and neighbors are constantly walking by. And before everyone jumps in with “it’s his property” or “it’s hot outside,” I get it. But when did basic standards and common decency become such a controversial topic? This isn’t the beach. It isn’t a pool. It isn’t a gym. It’s a neighborhood. Is throwing on a T-shirt really asking too much? Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I was raised to believe that when you live around other people, you show at least a little awareness of the community around you. Nobody is saying he needs to wear a suit to mow the grass, but come on. Some neighbors laughed and said I was overreacting. Others agreed that certain things just don’t really belong in a family neighborhood. So I’m genuinely curious — am I being unreasonable here? Or have we just completely lowered the bar for what people consider appropriate in public now? See less

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@TheJeffBoski I used to wait till the action was on me to look, but the issue I had was when I got a cusp hand that I needed to figure out how I was going to approach it I would kinda freeze up. By looking right away I can formulate what I’m going to do before the action gets to me.

I agree 💯. Look at your hand immediately or you are guilty of slowing down the game

@phil_hellmuth @PhillipHellmuth @WSOP Why aren’t you bankrolling your son if you are so confident in him, that’s what I don’t understand? 🤷‍♂️

My bet w “Mark Up Police” @PhillipHellmuth posted at 1.1 mark up for @WSOP Main Event, I told him to charge 1.4! I believe it is a great deal for customers The haters: 😡🤬 Me: “Bet your money” Bet on! $14,000 max risk for me $10M max risk for them Phillip plays NLH 300 days per year and is a professional poker player Also, the “Mark Up Police” owe me an apology! They attacked me, THEN I made @StakeKings customers $200,000 of profit selling action to them!! #POSITIVITY

@ScottBunn @WSOP Bro, are you trolling? I honestly don’t know if this is a troll or not. 🤷‍♂️

I love the @WSOP app. This is one of the reasons why. The data you can collect is nice.

@TOMCHEI770 @scott_seiver @RealKidPoker The issue is 1.4 is NOT a fair price so idk how you call that “normal business.” If Phil had any faith in his son why doesn’t he bankroll him himself? That’s the real question.

@scott_seiver @RealKidPoker It's an unfair comparison, Daniel makes money from YouTube views and advertising. To that end having people sweat his action means more people consistently watching and he'll make more money Phil is doing normal business (for his son) and he thinks 1.4 is a fair price.

For almost 20 years @RealKidPoker has given pieces of his World Series action at face value to fans of his, dating back to his old forum days. Phil Hellmuth tried to charge his fans 40% markup on his son’s tournament when he could easily take it himself if he wanted. I know which path I respect and find truly ambassadorial.

Day two of the $300k GTD @SPPokr our AK couldn’t get there against AT and JJ. Did get a pay jump that I didn’t even realize though. 😂

Busted Day 3 of the @WSOP Colossus earlier today so decided to max late register the daily duster event. We are hand for hand, got about avg stack around 165k. Over $41k up top.

@panz1111 @themouthmatusow Lolololol, now that’s some funny shit.

@themouthmatusow They do it in the $200 daily’s around town too…

All the high roller people should be ashamed of themselves for the covering their mouth bs I literally have 2 players at my senior table who raise and put their hoodies in front of their mouths! #sad #wsop2026

Bagged 885k in Day 2C colossus @wsop was up to 1.5 million and lost KK<AQ for over 1.2 million chip pot 😞. All good tho back Monday for day 3. #WSOP

Finally got up to 1,000,000 in the @wsop colossus Flight 2C. Was up to 800k then down to 450k but now peaking at a milly.

Stone bubble of @WSOP colossus and we have a guy jam A3o for 12 bigs from +2 and he gets called by 5d2d on BTN. 😂 the A3o held. #WSOP 🤪

Bagged 183k last night in @wsop Colossus day 1C. Up to 400k on the bubble day 2C. LFG! #WSOP