Poker Stories is a long-form audio podcast collection that options informal interviews with among the sport’s greatest 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.
It took lower than 4 years from Jesse Lonis to climb from $200 tournaments to competing in excessive rollers with the perfect gamers on the planet. The New York native kickstarted his profession with a World Poker Tour closing desk in 2021 on the Lucky Hearts Poker Open after which adopted it up with a deep run within the WSOP principal occasion, taking twenty fifth place general. In 2022, the previous development employee gained a bracelet within the WSOP Online collection, and almost added a second that summer season whereas additionally making two closing tables on the WPT World Championship collection.
But the 28 12 months previous has put collectively his greatest 12 months in 2023. In January he completed third within the $25,000 excessive curler on the Hard Rock in South Florida for $260,000 after which added one other $370,000 with a win on the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. This summer season, he made a last-minute decisino to play within the $50,000 pot-limit Omaha championship and broke by means of for his second bracelet and an enormous payday of $2.3 million. He now has $6 million in profession earnings.
Highlights from this interview embody new births, being the Lonfellow Deeds of his hometown, watching grandma play Full Tilt, working development “like a dog in a cage,” following in Gilly’s footsteps, an extended and brutal keep at Circus Circus, being an old-fashioned participant, ging broke and coming again, the place he retains the bracelets, leaping right into a $50k occasion, massive sports activities bets, J-Lo, CCR, and hen shows.
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