Episodes
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Rob Yong (Casino Owner/High Stakes Poker Player)
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
High stakes poker player, casino owner, and Partypoker partner Rob Yong joins me again on the Poker Life podcast today to talk about the state of the online poker world, where to look for opportunity in the poker world, his adventures at the very highest stakes cash games in the world, his adventures at the high stakes tournaments on PartyPoker, the upcoming World Poker Tour Championships on PartyPoker and more. It will be a fun show
0:01 Joey shout-outs his plans for his next future poker content 1:05 Joey introduces Rob Young and they start talking about what's been going on with Rob's life and history how he got into the poker business 5:24 Joey and Rob talk about MTT suggestions that Rob shared on his twitter how to better the MTT experience for the regs and recs 16:20 Joey and Rob talk about the WSOP and how to make it more authentic experience 23:20 Joey and Rob talk about the competition between the poker clients like PartyPoker, Pokerstars, GGPoker 34:12 Joey and Rob talk about possible plans for PartyPoker in America and their competitors plans and business strats 43:55 Joey and Rob talk about the possible future for poker with bitcoin and innovations and how poker should grow 57:25 Joey and Rob talk about PokerBros and how the app functions, poker regulations and Rob's accomplishments n the poker industry 1:14:15 Joey and Rob talk about Jungleman and Bill Perkins cheating incident and why it is bad for the poker community 1:24:25 Joey and Rob talk about GGPoker uncapped rake games and why rake should be reasonable and beatable 1:32:15 Joey and Rob talk about PartyPoker and GVC regulations, rules and other poker problems around regulations 1:44:55 Joey and Rob answer twitter/chat questions and they talk about the BBJ $350k incident, the poker industry risks/rewards/models/series/practices 2:17:35 Joey and Rob talk about stables and how they function, game assistance, ACR intentions, rating poker companies from best to worst for the poker players 2:31:33 Joey and Rob talk about why poker companies should do right about poker players and not exploiting them 2:38:00 Joey and Rob do shout-outs, answer more questions and pick giveaway winner for the $1k 5mil GTD WPT
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Phil Galfond Talks WINNING GALFOND CHALLENGE!!
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Phil Galfond talks coming back from $900,000 down to win the Galfond Challenge with less than 100 hands
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Phil Galfond Talks $900,000 Comeback!
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Phil Galfond is doing the Galfond Challenge right now and came back from being down $900,000 a few weeks ago to take a brief lead in today's session against Veni Vedi. They are playing a 25,000 hand challenge and are about 20,000 hands in so far. We talked more about the challenge.
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Mike Mcdonald aka Timex joins me on the podcast. Mike operates the betting website Poker Sharers which allows you to bet on players for poker tournaments and cash games. Mike has been actively following the current pandemic taking place and was one of the first people to list odds to bet against the WSOP taking place. This should be a great conversation.
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Great Conversation W/ Rob Yong (High Stakes/PartyPoker)
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Rob Yong joins me again on the podcast today. Rob is a regular high stakes poker player in some of the biggest games around the world - I did commentary on his week for Poker After Dark in December that had JRB and Rick Solomon playing. It was wild. He is also one of the powers that be over at Party Poker and doing his part to try to provide a great place for poker players around the world to play. Rob recently closed down his poker room in the UK and we will talk about that + his recent high roller poker series in Sochi, Russia that was derailed because of the pandemic.
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Doug Polk Says GOODBYE TO POKER & Fires Parting Shots...
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Bill Perkins (CoronaVirus, Markets, GTO Wisdom)
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
This was a great conversation related to the CoronaVirus, how to think about it, the markets, its impact on poker/world and much more. Love having Bill on, he is a fucking legend.
Monday Mar 02, 2020
Ultimate Vegas Experience Giveaway + New PLO Course
Monday Mar 02, 2020
Monday Mar 02, 2020
The new Upswing Poker PLO Mastery course is out now: http://bit.ly/UpswingPLOCourse… If you sign up this week you get the Live PLO Dominance course as well. Will be choosing at least one person who signs up through my link for an Ultimate Vegas Experience during this years WSOP. Dylan & Chris have been working on this course for the past 6 months. Chris is one of the top PLO players on http://WSOP.com & has a VERY solver based style. Dylan plays live/online high stakes here in Vegas and is one of the best teachers that I've worked with.
Saturday Feb 22, 2020
Brad Owen (Top Poker YouTube Vlogger)
Saturday Feb 22, 2020
Saturday Feb 22, 2020
I really enjoyed this one guys. Brad Owen joins me on the Poker Life podcast today. Brad is one of the top YouTube poker vloggers in the world right now with over 180,000 subscribers and millions of views on his videos. Brad has been a professional poker player since 2015 in the Las Vegas area playing $2/$5-$5/$10 on a regular basis. He also host Meet Up Games w/ Andrew Neeme all around the world on a regular basis.
TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 3:10 How do you feel where your career has gone? 5:10 Poker audience about women 6:50 Dealing with mean comments 10:30 How Brad started & why are vlogs popular 15:05 Hoodie and Hat vs Suit Jacket 19:29 Why I think Brad is successful 20:00 Brad's old career vs playing poker professionally 22:00 Brad's poker career and having to quit 32:00 Are winning players competitive? 32:40 Meet Up Games question 38:00 GTO MANIFESTATION 40:30 Brad & family importance 42:00 Farrah Galfond & Phil Galfond 44:50 VLOG TITLES & WINNING SESSIONS 52:30 How do you handle meeting fans? 56:30 Global Poker Awards 1:00:00 YT poker taking videos down 1:05:00 International MeetUp Games 1:18:00 ACR Talk 1:22:00 Instagram Poker World 1:26:00 Brad's Cat Rap 1:28:40 1st round of shots 1:31:00 Promotional Modeling & My High Stakes 1:39:00 PLO more popular outside of the USA 1:41:50 Future of Poker VLOGS & MeetUpGames 1:45:50 How does it feel to be so viewed? 1:51:00 YouTube Poker Content 1:55:00 Selling candy in middle school 1:58:30 2nd round of SHOTS 2:00:30 Bart Hanson 2:04:40 Doug Polk 2:07:40 Ryan DePaulo vs Doug Polk 2:14:30 Spraggy 2:15:11 Is Spraggy scared of Brad? 2:19:00 Bar Poker Open & Support 2:23:00 Is Twitch better than YouTube 2:36:00 Brad $100k year 2:41:00 Catholic Schools 2:44:50 Car getting broke into 2:50 More shots and chaos
Thursday Feb 20, 2020
Phil Galfond Talks Challenge & Being Down $900,000
Thursday Feb 20, 2020
Thursday Feb 20, 2020
Phil Galfond joins the podcast today to talk being down $900k in Match 1 of the Galfond Challenge against Veni Vedi on Run It Once Poker. We will ask Phil all the questions that so many of you out there want to know about.
TIMESTAMPS 0:00
3:30 How does Phil feel about the challenge??
5:12 Why not end the first match??
7:30 Will time off make a difference in the results??
8:30 Does Phil think he has an edge??
11:53 At what point does Phil quit the match??
15:24 If I think he is better, I will quit....
22:52 What has made the match so tough?? (Pattern Recognition)
27:00 Why did Phil choose Veni as first opponent??
32:50 Has Run It Once Poker traffic grown??
34:20 Free $10 on RIO Poker now
37:50 When will RIO Poker make money?
39:00 Possible bankroll challenge for myself on RIO Poker
42:20 Do you think Veni is cheating?
47:00 Luke Schwartz comments
51:30 Thoughts being down $400,000
53:00 How has Phil's wife Farah handled challenge?
58:53 Adam Levitan question on God Mode...
59:30 Downswing piece of advice
1:04:40 When will challenge resume?
1:09:00 Dealing with criticism
1:11:30 Does Phil have all his own action??
1:13:30 When will MTTs be on RIO Poker?
1:18:00 Aussie Matt story
1:21:00 RIO NEW PLO Product Vision