Table 1 Podcast

Jen Harman woke up from a kidney transplant. Her husband told her Andy Beal was back in town. “Are we in?” Ten days earlier, she’d been playing the billionaire while in kidney failure. She says she won and lost $6 million in 20 minutes. Now she was recovering in a hospital bed—with a piece of the next game. Jen joins Art Parmann and Justin Young to take us inside the Corporation: the group of poke...

Limon's boss caught him playing online poker at work. He told him to choose: the job or the cards. Then Limon showed him how much he'd been winning. The boss changed his mind. Now Limon could play in his office—as long as he taught him how. Unfortunately, the boss turned out to be a world-class tilt monkey. The keyboards didn't stand a chance. Abe “Limon” joins Art Parmann and Justin Young for the...

Owen Messere quit university twice. His parents were happier the second time. The first time, he was studying maths at a campus he hadn't realized he'd signed up for. He discovered the mistake while booking his train. Seven and a half hours from London. Surprise. An acid trip, a long conversation with a mate, and a decision: he was going home. He tried again. Philosophy at Warwick. Better friends....

Sean McCormack started dealing poker at a dog track. Somehow, he ended up dancing with J.Lo at her house. We may have picked the wrong side of the table. This week, “The Poker Boss” joins Art and Justin for the story of a guy who wanted to play poker for a living—and found a different way to make it in Vegas. He leaves Florida with about $1,000 and two suitcases. His first table dealing at Bellagi...

Mike Holtz thought “Napster” was just a guy in his World of Warcraft group. It was the guy who created Napster. They’d been playing together for years. Mike had no idea. At 17, he was traveling to gaming tournaments with him—with his mom’s permission. Poker was something they played between dungeon raids. Then the gaming circuit lost its funding. What followed wasn’t exactly a straight line to the...

Phil Hellmuth wanted bracelet No. 18. Darren Rabinowitz wanted him to call it off on the turn. He was dying to say, “If you call, it’s all over, baby.” Instead, he kept his mouth shut and let Phil make the decision. Darren got the bracelet. Not bad for a guy whose plan was to spend one month in Vegas, then move back in with his parents and find a job. That was in 2012. His girlfriend had dumped hi...

What is Table 1 Vegas? Learn more here: https://table1.vegas Noah Schwartz had a $125K Wall Street job offer waiting. Then one Sunday changed the math. He wired $1,000 through Western Union, sat down in a PokerStars $1K, and about 12 hours later had $580,000. So yeah. Morgan Stanley got told to kick rocks. But Noah’s story starts way before the score. Miami Beach. Baseball. A lefty arm that was su...

Ana Marquez once sold a fake Chanel purse for $400. Why? Because she needed a bankroll. Back in business. 25NL, here she comes. That is a pretty perfect Ana Marquez origin story. Ana grew up in Málaga, Spain, came to America for school, studied history and economics at American University, and somehow ended up writing her thesis on poker. Not playing poker. Writing about poker. Then she found the...

Garrett Adelstein doesn’t have hobbies. He has obsessions. Poker. Money. Chess. Fitness. Survivor. Writing. Whatever it is, Garrett doesn’t dabble. He disappears into it. That obsession made him one of the most feared cash-game players in the world. It also nearly broke him. Everyone knows Jack-Four. Everyone has an opinion. But this episode is not just about one hand. It’s about the kind of perso...

Get Justin's Crush Live Poker 6-Pack Course On PokerCoaching.com Andy Stacks built his name in the biggest cash games in LA. Then he decided to become a tournament fish. Which sounds insane. Because before the vlogs… before the GG deal… before Live at the Bike turned him into one of the most recognizable cash-game players in poker… Andy was just another kid who found poker at the perfect time. Bor...

She was rated 1400 for years. In a family of champions. Her father, a chess champion. Her brother, 2200 and climbing. And Jennifer,stuck — while people talked behind her back about why the kid in the family ofgeniuses couldn't play. Then, at 14, it clicked.1400 to 2200 inside two years. One of the youngest female masters in thecountry. Two US championships. And in the middle of that run, she w...

Ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-eight dollars. That's what the conversion said. Michael Gagliano had never had a six-figure score. Every friend he had did. He'd been playing for years — good enough that everyone knew the name, never quite good enough to break through. Then he gets fifth in a WPT in Prague. Aces into queens. Paid out in euros. He's standing in the payout line. Plugs t...

Poker was never the plan. Marc Goone wanted to rap. That was the dream. Music. Studios. Videos. A real shot at making it. Poker was just the thing on the side. Until life got louder. Selling weed. Getting robbed at gunpoint. Trying to figure out who he was. Moving to LA with $7,500.Taking poker seriously because, at some point, the “backup plan” starts looking a lot more real than the dream. Then...

Ben Heath was supposed to do something sensible. Finance. Teaching. Something with math. Something that made his parents feel normal. Instead, he played $3.50 sit-n-gos. A lot of them. Ben grew up in Brighton, England, playing chess, strategy games, and tiny family card games for one-cent coins. Then he went to Warwick, studied math, and started making a little money online during university. Not...

Everyone wanted to talk about the laptop. Jonathan Tamayo wanted to talk about mahjong. Because before the 2024 WSOP Main Event title, the $10,000,000 score, and the most debated rail in poker, Tamayo was a kid in Houston playing games with his grandparents, getting bankroll money from his grandpa, trying to figure out PartyPoker, and learning the hard way like everyone else. He had the early onli...

Kenny Hallaert has lived almost every version of a poker life. Player. Tournament director. Casino marketer. Festival builder. PokerStars live events advisor. WSOP November Niner. Before the $1.4M score…before the Main Event final table…before he was helping shape live poker festivals around the world…Kenny was an electrician in Belgium who found poker through an online banner in 2004.Then a socce...

Esther “E-Tay” Taylor did not take the normal road to poker. She was born in South Korea, found as a baby, adopted into a strict Christian family in Portland, and raised with two older brothers who made sure she was tough enough for whatever came next. Game nights. Sports. Church five days a week. A real job at Wells Fargo. A future in private banking. Then poker showed up. At first, they weren’t...

TJ Reid Joins Art Parmann (https://x.com/ArtParmann) and Justin Young (https://x.com/Justinyoung07) on this week's episode of the Table 1 Podcast! We peel back the curtain on this incredible journey from vows of poverty as a Jehova's Witness to pokerORG reporter, to Final Tabling one of the biggest tournaments of the year in the Bahamas at WSOP with $10,000,000 for the winner. Show Notes00...

Jeff Gross on the pod!

Francis Anderson quit running the day his little brother beat him. Poker was different. That one stuck. Francis grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, in a competitive family. Road races on the weekends. Soccer. School. A normal path. Then college happened. University of Albany. Accounting major. Study room poker games. $5 and $10 buy-ins. And then Jamie Gold won the 2006 WSOP Main Event. For a lot of...

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Come Play Poker with us online & Get a 150% Deposit Bonus up to $3K!Sign up here: https://play.phenompoker.com/register... OR...Come play with us in Las Vegas at Table 1! ( https://table1.vegas )---Mike Noori's poker career started with a crime. Well...sort of. At 16 years old he was sneaking into casinos, waiting for security guards to look the other way before sprinting into poker rooms....

Before Wayne Chiang was helping shape the future of poker content at the WSOP… he was one of the best StarCraft players in the world. Not “pretty good.” World Champion. Back when esports barely existed… before Twitch… before streaming… before anyone thought playing video games could become a career… Wayne was already there. Grinding real-time strategy games. Writing battle reports by hand because...

Come Play Poker with us online & Get a 150% Deposit Bonus up to $3K! Sign up here OR... Come play with us in Las Vegas at Table 1! https://table1.vegas Matt Savage almost changed poker history. Seriously. One ruling… one sentence… and the most famous hand of the poker boom might’ve played out completely differently. But that’s only a tiny piece of Matt’s story. Because before poker had standar...

Play with us on Phenom Poker! https://play.phenompoker.com/register?r=Table1 Play with us in Vegas on Table 1: https://table1.vegas This week we're joined by Allen "The Chainsaw" Kessler. Most poker stories have some common thread. For Allen, that thread is curiosity. Whether that be the mechanics of a card game or a video poker machine, or even your basic slot machine, Allen's played — and beaten...