Poker Stories is a long-form audio podcast sequence that options informal interviews with among the sport’s greatest 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.
David Sklansky is probably essentially the most prolific poker author ever, and an all-around authority on all issues playing. The writer of titles equivalent to The Theory of Poker, Small Stakes Hold’em, DUCY?, and the newest, Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em: Help Them Give You Their Money, is likely one of the few authors to concurrently maintain three spots on Amazon’s high 100 bestsellers checklist.
The 76-year-old is a three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, and likewise took down the Poker By The Book invitational occasion on the World Poker Tour. When he wasn’t playing for a residing, whether or not it was on poker, sports activities, or blackjack, Sklansky labored as a on line casino advisor. Not solely did he invent the inspiration for Caribbean Stud, however the ‘resident wizard’ famously satisfied Bob Stupak to construct the Stratosphere tower on the Las Vegas Strip.
Highlights from this interview embody being the black sheep in a household of geniuses, the Ivy League poker sport, being an ‘insufferable’ math insurgent, placing pen to paper in 1976, poker idea again to Neumann and Nash, being a GTO deviant, getting barred for card counting, benefiting from unhealthy on line casino math, ‘scheming’ with Bob, altering the Las Vegas Strip skyline, getting a state senator elected however shedding a hard and fast race for mayor, a $30 million caribbean stud loss, difficult Donald Trump to a $1 million board sport, matching JK Rowling, signing autographs for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, proudly owning two distinctive items of WSOP historical past, being the final word third wheel, the $1 million election wager, Sklansky bucks vs. implied odds, avoiding a punch from Floyd Mayweather, and all 5 instances he was held at gunpoint.
Catch up on previous episodes that includes notables equivalent to Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Jennifer Harman, Patrik Antonius, Justin Bonomo, Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Galfond, Nick Schulman, Fedor Holz, Barry Greenstein, Dan Smith, Scotty Nguyen, Mike Sexton, Jean-Robert Bellande, Mike Matusow, Maria Ho, Brad Owen, and plenty of extra. If you want what you hear, be sure to subscribe to get the newest episodes mechanically when they’re launched.
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