Poker Stories Podcast: Poker’s First Triple Crown Winner Gavin Griffin

Poker Stories is a long-form audio podcast collection that options informal interviews with among the sport’s finest gamers and personalities. Each episode highlights a widely known member of the poker world and dives deep into their favourite tales each on and off the felt.

Gavin Griffin was one of many unique younger stars of the poker growth, turning into the then-youngest World Series of Poker bracelet winner in historical past on the age of twenty-two on the 2004 summer time collection. The Darien, Illinois native earned $270,420 for taking down the $3,000 pot-limit maintain’em occasion. He busted Phil Hellmuth on the closing desk, which prompted the Poker Brat to utter the now notorious line of, “If there weren’t luck involved, I guess I’d win every one.”

A couple of years later, Griffin made the journey to Monte Carlo for the EPT Grand Final Championship and took it down for $2,429,103. In 2008, he received the World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Open for an additional $1,401,109. The three marquee match titles made him the primary participant ever to win poker’s Triple Crown, a feat that has since been achieved by solely eight others. In 2012, he almost added a second bracelet, ending runner-up within the $1,500 Omaha eight-or-better occasion. The 39-year-old has greater than $5 million in profession match earnings.

Highlights from this interview embody ‘cleansing’ rain, the connection between Dalmatians and horses, ‘losing’ for a dwelling, leaving TCU for poker, riverboat on line casino dealing, profitable his WSOP bracelet, Hellmuth’s quote, working good whereas being sick, David Pham’s constant lie, the Triple Crown, what you do with a free Harley Davidson, feeling the stress from PokerStars, a $1,000-$2,000 2-7 triple draw sport, aspect bets with Gavin Smith, Mike Sexton’s chuckle, being an ‘equities analyst,’ and disappointing Tobey Maguire followers.

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