Poker Stories is a long-form audio podcast sequence that options informal interviews with among the sport’s finest gamers and personalities. Each episode highlights a well known member of the poker world and dives deep into their favourite tales each on and off the felt.
Dylan Weisman spent the pandemic “in the lab,” pouring over numbers that few had ever bothered to have a look at earlier than when it got here to the sport of PLO. While solvers had been in use for years by high-stakes professionals for no-limit maintain’em, pot-limit Omaha had been largely ignored, and Weisman noticed a possibility.
The work has paid off in an enormous means, with greater than $6 million in recorded earnings for the reason that summer time of 2021. Of that, $4.4 million has are available some type of Omaha, placing him at no. 2 on the PLO all-time cash record behind solely Finland’s Eelis Parssinen. The 32-year-old has earned wins on the PokerGO Cup, PGT Kickoff Series, U.S. Poker Open, PGT PLO Series, and PGT Mixed Game Series, in addition to two World Series of Poker bracelets. In March, he chopped the Triton Montenegro $100,000 PLO excessive curler for almost $2 million.
As a results of his stellar 12 months on the circuit, which incorporates 5 titles and 14 remaining tables, the California native now sits simply outdoors the highest 10 within the Card Player Player of the Year race.
Highlights from this interview embrace playing cards with grandma, robotics academy, Dr. GTO can play the harmonica, being the youngest product of Moneymaker growth and playing at 13, jobs for former poker gamers, $15 an hour after busting his roll, gravitating to Galfond, a mannequin of enterprise intelligence, educating in Vietnam, burning out in Chicago results in candles in Los Angeles, this seat shouldn’t be open, six-figure buy-ins, rating PLO gamers, protecting technique secrets and techniques, the distinction between your first and second bracelet, how lengthy solvers really take, heads-up vs. Blez for $200k, a foul beat that despatched him to the bottom, virtually dying in a storage, and a hoodie you could execute nicely within.
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