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Poker Stories: Bill Perkins
Poker Stories - August 31, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsBill Perkins is a hedge fund manager and entrepreneur, focusing on venture capital and energy markets. In his spare time, he's also a film producer. But to those of us in the poker world, Perkins is a high-stakes poker regular who has also been the catalyst for some of the more outlandish prop b...
Poker Stories: Daniel Dvoress
Poker Stories - August 17, 2020 03:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsDaniel Dvoress sits in fifth place on Canada's all-time earnings list, despite the fact that he only started concentrating on live tournaments in the last five years. Dvoress was born in Russia, but emigrated with his family to Toronto where he was raised. He picked up poker while in high school...
Poker Stories: Mark Gregorich
Poker Stories - August 04, 2020 22:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsMark Gregorich has been making his living in high-limit cash games since the mid-'90s, but before that he followed in his parents footsteps, working as a high school teacher. When budget cuts cost him his job, he decided to make the move to Las Vegas, where he has been grinding ever since. Gr...
Poker Stories: Jennifer Harman
Poker Stories - July 20, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsJennifer Harman is one of the most prolific card players in history, having competed for higher stakes than nearly anyone else in poker. The Reno-native used to play cards around the family dinner table, before becoming hooked on poker while working her way through college. After moving to Los A...
Poker Stories: Kahle Burns
Poker Stories - July 08, 2020 03:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsKahle Burns has been playing poker professionally for more than a decade, grinding his way from play chips online to some of the biggest cash games spread in both Las Vegas and Macau. The Geelong, Australia native started focusing more on live tournaments in 2016, however, and the result has bee...
Poker Stories: Houston Curtis
Poker Stories - June 22, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsYou won't find the name Houston Curtis on any poker leaderboards, but for a brief period of time during the height of the boom, he was among the biggest winners in the game. Curtis made his way to Los Angeles by way of Illinois, hoping to make it in the music business. He transitioned to TV prod...
Poker Stories: Kenny Hallaert
Poker Stories - June 08, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsKenny Hallaert is one of Belgium's top poker pros, having won more than $4.2 million in live tournaments, along with another $6.5 million online playing under the name 'SpaceyFCB.' The 38-year-old recently won his third SCOOP online title, and has four World Series of Poker final table appearanc...
Poker Stories: Jesse Martin
Poker Stories - May 26, 2020 15:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsJesse Martin is a highly-respected poker pro and sports gambler from Massachusetts. Although he started out as a cash game player and has always competed in high-stakes mixed games, Martin has also done quite well on the tournament circuit, racking up more than $3.2 million. He has also won mill...
Poker Stories: Danny Tang
Poker Stories - May 11, 2020 03:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsDanny Tang was first introduced to poker by his older brother back in Wales, and dreamed of one day sitting head-to-head with the likes of Phil Ivey or Tom Dwan. Less than a decade later, Tang is now hopping from high roller-to-high roller stop on private jets with the very same Ivey and Dwan. T...
Poker Stories: Quarantine Special With Barry Greenstein and Daniel Negreanu
Poker Stories - April 28, 2020 00:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsIn this special episode of Poker Stories, we revisit two of our most popular early guests to catch up on what's happened in their lives over the last three years. Barry Greenstein appeared on the podcast back in November of 2017. The Poker Hall of Fame inductee and two-time World Poker Tour c...
Poker Stories: Quarantine Special With Jason Koon, Nick Schulman, and Bryn Kenney
Poker Stories - April 14, 2020 01:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsIn this special episode of Poker Stories, we revisit three of our most popular early guests to catch up on what's happened in their lives over the last three years. Jason Koon was first featured on the podcast in December of 2016. At the time, the West Virginia native was coming off of his be...
Poker Stories: Garry Gates
Poker Stories - March 30, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsGarry Gates has worn many hats in the poker industry. After moving to Las Vegas from his native Titusville, Pennsylvania, Gates attempted to play professionally, with limited success. A chance encounter at the World Series of Poker, however, gave Gates an opening into the media side of the poker...
Poker Stories: Tyler Patterson
Poker Stories - March 16, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsTyler Patterson found poker before the boom, and worked in the industry as a dealer for a few years before making the switch to professional player. The Washington-native has split his time between cash games and tournaments, but has still managed to rack up more than $2.6 million in earnings on...
Poker Stories: Faraz Jaka
Poker Stories - March 02, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsFaraz Jaka is a former World Poker Tour Player of the Year, and has more than $6.8 million in career live tournament earnings, to go along with another $4.3 million won online. The 34-year-old from San Jose, California has several notable final-table finishes on his poker resume, including runne...
Poker Stories: David Tuchman
Poker Stories - February 17, 2020 04:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsDavid Tuchman has one of poker's most well-known voices, having been in the commentator's booth for some of the biggest tournaments and cash games ever filmed. The New York-native got his start with Live At The Bike!, and then later Full Tilt's Million Dollar Cash Game. While living in London an...
Poker Stories: Steve Albini
Poker Stories - February 03, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsSteve Albini is regarded as one of the top recording engineers in the world, and has been creating music with his bands Big Black, Rapeman, and Shellac, since 1981. As the owner of Electrical Audio in Chicago, Albini has produced thousands of albums and has worked with numerous notable acts such...
Poker Stories: Eric Rodawig
Poker Stories - January 20, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsEric Rodawig is considered to be a semi-professional poker player, having regularly maintained a day job, but he has managed to put together the poker resume of a solid pro despite a limited schedule on the tournament circuit. The 34-year-old Nebraska resident, who recently appeared on PokerGo's...
Poker Stories: Antonio Esfandiari
Poker Stories - January 06, 2020 04:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsAntonio Esfandiari stole the attention of the poker world with his breakthrough victory in the 2004 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic main event, and he kept it by showing off his skills as a high-stakes prop gambler while keeping everyone else at the table entertained with his gregarious pers...
Poker Stories: Kitty Kuo
Poker Stories - December 23, 2019 04:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsKitty Kuo has always had gambling in her blood, taking weekend trips to Las Vegas for long blackjack sessions while studying at the University of Southern California. Although she ultimately got her master's degree in electrical engineering, it was poker that she chose to pursue as a profession....
Poker Stories: Dan Shak
Poker Stories - December 09, 2019 04:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsDan Shak is not a professional poker player, but his tournament resume and travel schedule would lead you to believe otherwise. The 60-year-old New Jersey-native has spent the majority of his working time working as a hedge fund manager and commodities trader, and although he's been successful i...
Poker Stories: Julien Martini
Poker Stories - November 25, 2019 04:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsJulien Martini is just 27 and has only been grinding the tournament circuit for a few years, but during that stretch he has been red hot, winning more than $4.5 million. It's enough to already place him in France's all-time tournament earnings top 10. Nearly $3 million of those cashes came in Ja...
Poker Stories: Jamie Gold
Poker Stories - November 11, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsJamie Gold was just a teenager when he got started in the entertainment business, and was the youngest talent agent in Hollywood when he broke in, landing clients such as James Gandolfini, Jimmy Fallon, Felicity Huffman, Jeffrey Wright, and Donnie Wahlberg. After getting burned out by being cons...
Poker Stories: Vince Van Patten
Poker Stories - October 28, 2019 03:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsVince Van Patten is a man of many talents. The son of legendary actor Dick Van Patten got his start as a child, appearing in numerous commercials, as well as TV shows and movies such as Bonanza, Baywatch, The Six Million Dollar Man, Hell Night, and The Break. Despite being introduced to gambling...
Poker Stories: Dylan Linde
Poker Stories - October 14, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsDylan Linde didn't find poker until he was 23, instead focusing on competitive video games and Magic: The Gathering during his youth. The Coeur D'Alene, Idaho native began taking poker more seriously after seeing the wins put up by his friend and fellow poker pro Kevin MacPhee. Linde has become...
Poker Stories: Mike Matusow
Poker Stories - September 30, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsMike Matusow was born in Los Angeles, but has spent the majority of his 51 years in Las Vegas. His autobiography, Check Raising The Devil, chronicles his time playing video poker before he was taught hold'em in the late '80s and shifted his focus to poker. In 1998, Matusow backed Scotty Nguyen t...
Poker Stories: Randy Ohel
Poker Stories - September 16, 2019 04:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsRandy Ohel spends most of his working time grinding high-stakes cash games at Bellagio in Las Vegas, but the 34-year-old mixed-games specialist from Coral Springs, Florida does concentrate on tournaments during the annual World Series of Poker. In the last seven years, Ohel has done quite well a...
Poker Stories: Ali Nejad
Poker Stories - September 02, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsAli Nejad is one of poker's most experienced television personalities, having lent his talents to productions such as the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, The Poker Parlor, The Ultimate Poker Challenge, The Pro-Am Equalizer, and Poker After Dark. He has also done commentary for a majori...
Poker Stories: Joao Vieira
Poker Stories - August 19, 2019 03:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsJoao Vieira is only 29 years old and missed the entirety of the poker boom, but that hasn't stopped him from climbing to the top of Portugal's all-time money list both live and online. The Madeira-native is one of the top five online tournament winners ever, with more than $13 million in cashes....
Poker Stories: Jackie Glazier
Poker Stories - August 05, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsJackie Glazier grew up playing cards with her grandparents, but didn't find poker until well after fellow Australian Joe Hachem had won the World Series of Poker main event. The Melbourne-native grew up with a passion for sports and earned her degree in education, but ultimately felt lost as to ...
Poker Stories: Steffen Sontheimer
Poker Stories - July 22, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsSteffen Sontheimer recorded his first cash in the summer of 2015, and it wasn't until a year later that he started competing regularly in the high roller events. But despite his limited time on the felt, the 28-year-old already has more than $13.5 million in live tournament earnings, which is cu...
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