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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.
Brad Owen found poker whereas in highschool, studying the sport by finding out poker software program his dad introduced house from work. He continued to play all through faculty and at the same time as he earned his masters diploma in accounting, however a nine-to-five job was by no means within the playing cards for the Santa Rosa, California native.
Owen in the end gave up his day job as a CPA to maneuver to Las Vegas and check out his hand at skilled poker. He spent years grinding away anonymously on the money sport tables, however wished a means he may share his journey along with his family and friends again house. Taking a cue from his good pal Andrew Neeme, Owen began his personal YouTube channel, vlogging his poker periods for all to see.
A bit over 5 years later, Owen has turn out to be one of the fashionable vloggers on YouTube. The 34-year-old has racked up greater than 600,000 subscribers, which places him alongside Daniel Negreanu as essentially the most watched poker channels on-line in the present day. In 2019, he gained Poker Personality of the Year on the Global Poker Awards, and this yr, he added the Best Vlogger award to his mantel.
When he’s not filming his play, Owen stays busy with Meet-Up Games (MUGs) that happen everywhere in the nation, together with his very personal poker site. Owen not too long ago grew to become a minority proprietor of The Lodge Card Club House close to Austin, Texas together with Doug Polk and the aforementioned Neeme. Owen can be the latest model ambassador for the World Poker Tour and will probably be showing at varied occasions all through the season.
Highlights from this interview embrace flipping rundown card rooms with dad, studying poker from a CD-ROM, fundamental occasion nightmares, virtually deleting his first video, inventing nicknames for fingers, how the vlog impacts play, shopping for a poker site, being poker’s Jim Halpert, rocking out as ‘Central Idea,’ being an inactive CPA, having sleep envy, avoiding sharks in open water, telling dad jokes, and the karma of cleansing up the on line casino car parking zone.
Catch up on previous episodes that includes notables corresponding to Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Jennifer Harman, Patrik Antonius, Justin Bonomo, Antonio Esfandiari, Nick Schulman, Fedor Holz, Barry Greenstein, Dan Smith, Scotty Nguyen, Mike Sexton, Maria Ho and lots of extra. If you want what you hear, be sure to subscribe to get the most recent episodes routinely when they’re launched.
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