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What is The Table 1 Podcast... A podcast where we talk poker, gambling, and all manner of life experiences on and off the felt. Sometimes we have famous guests on who do it with us. Join us for a laugh or three!

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 1 hr 24 min
Latest: 12 Oct 2026
Language: English

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12 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 29 minNew

He Got So Good at Poker They Thought He Was a Bot | Prodigy Tells All!

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. A degree he actually enjoyed. Then he won a £10 poker tournament. Soon, Owen was spending around 70 hours a week playing and studying. Christmas revision became hours poring over poker simulations.…

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5 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 45 min
Poker Took Him From a Dog Track to J.Lo’s House & Getting FaceTime Calls From Kevin Hart!
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 Bellagio? Bobby’s Room. $4,000/$8,000. Doyle Brunson. Chip Reese. Pretty much everybody whose picture is on the wall. No pressure, kid. Doyle has to put a hand on his arm and tell him to slow down. Years…
28 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 20 min
From 30 Days Behind Bars To Poker MONSTER | Mike Holtz Tells ALL
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 WSOP. Selling weed. Thirty days in jail. A hotel front-desk job. Then an invitation to a $300 home game with the wealthiest business owners in town. His boss warned him: these guys were sharks.…
21 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 24 min
Phil Hellmuth Wanted Bracelet #18. Darren Rabinowitz Said No.
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 him. She lived in the apartment next door. She already had a new boyfriend. And his job at Bank of America wasn’t giving him much reason to stick around. So he quit, found a free room in a UNLV…
14 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 20 min
One Sunday Tournament Made Wall Street Look Stupid. Noah Schwartz Tells All!
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 supposed to be his future. His dad getting sick. An elbow injury. An air mattress on a childhood friend’s floor. A security guard job where another guard would clock him in while Noah hid in the back…
5 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 27 min
She Was Spain’s #1 Poker Player…Then PokerStars Dropped Her. Ana Marquez Shares Her Story
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 underground Maryland games. Then Borgata. Then online poker. Then the Maryland crew. Then PCA. Then Black Friday. Then PokerStars. Then 888. Then ACR. Then Triton. And somewhere in the middle of all…
29 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 28 min
He Went From Poker’s Golden Boy To Public Enemy #1 Overnight. Garrett Adelstein Tells ALL!
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 person who could grind his way from Tucson home games to nosebleed LA cash, build a reputation as poker’s golden boy, become one of the most watched players in the livestream era, and then watch public…
22 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 19 min
He Was Famous For Cash Games. Now He’s Starting Over. Andy Stacks Tells All!
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. Born in Taiwan. Raised in the Bay Area. Back to Taiwan as a teenager. Then LA. A friend showed him the Moneymaker boom on a giant old CRT TV, taught him the game, and Andy started playing $5 home…
16 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 15 min
Her Mom Was A Chemistry Professor…And A Bookie. Jennifer Shahade Shares Her Story!
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 won a beautiful game against a much strongerplayer — and found a note waiting on her board the next round."Jennifer, it is not nice to cheat with help from friends."She won that one anyway. She was on a…
7 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 22 min
He Chased A Six-Figure Score For Years. Then He Missed It By $2.
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 the number into XE.com. $99,998. Two dollars. That's the story of most of his career. Always close. Never the guy. He was a hockey goalie who quit one day because video games were more interesting.…
2 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
Poker Was Never The Plan...But He Needed A Way Out
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 everything changed.Marc went from music to poker…from low stakes to private games…from trying to make it as a player to building one of the most interesting poker education brands in the game.In this episode of…
26 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 24 min
He Lost Half His Net Worth…Then Became A Super High Roller! Ben Heath Tells All!
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 millions.Not nosebleeds.Just enough to avoid getting a job.Then one of his tutors casually mentioned that a few former students had gone into professional poker.That was all it took.Ben finished his degree,…
19 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 43 min
Is Poker Dying? Jonathan Tamayo Talks Poker, DFS, Winning $10,000,000 In The MAIN EVENT
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 online poker growing pains, the college poker games, the PartyPoker bad beat jackpot, the Sunday Million score, the first WSOP summer, the 2009 Main Event heartbreak, Black Friday, daily fantasy,…
12 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 24 min
He's A Main Event BEAST. 2 Final Tables & Deep Runs Galore! Kenny Hallaert Shares His Story.
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 soccer injury forced him indoors.So he played.A lot.Limit Hold’em. Full ring. Online tournaments. Freerolls. Tiny bankroll discipline. The whole old-school grind.But Kenny’s story doesn’t stop at becoming a…
6 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 34 min
She Had No Business Going Pro…And Did It Anyway.
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 even playing with chips.They were playing with dried beans and macaroni.A few years later?E-Tay quit her good job, moved to Vegas with almost no money, learned mixed games online for $26 at a time, took…
27 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 28 min
What Happens When You Grow Up As A Jehova Witness And Turn Into A Gambler? TJ Reid Shares His Story!
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 Notes00:00 Growing Up in Missouri, Religion, and Family Games09:03 Discovering Poker While Living a Double Life12:42 Excommunication, Starting Over, and Leaving the Church25:29 From Service Industry to Live Cash…
21 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 33 min
He Lived With Michael Phelps, Got Paid $500k+ To Get A Tattoo. Jeff Gross on Crushing Poker & Life!
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13 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 8 min
He Parties Like A Tourist…And Plays Poker Like A Killer.
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 people, Moneymaker was the moment. For Francis? It was Jamie Gold talking people into doing the wrong thing for $12 million. From there, poker got serious fast. He started playing online, driving…
6 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 28 min
Linda MotherF*cking Johnson in the House. Buying Cardplayer for the Cruises, WSOP Glory, Co-Founding the TDA, Owning a Piece of Party Poker...and SO MUCH MORE.
Come Play Poker with us online & Get a 150% Deposit Bonus up to $3K!Sign up here: https://play.phenompoker.com/register?r=Table1OR...Come play with us in Las Vegas at Table 1! (https://table1.vegas)---00:00 Cold Open: Fixing Vera Richmond's WSOP Omission00:45 Welcome to Table One & Guest Linda Johnson02:10 Childhood, Military Upbringing & Moving Every 3 Years03:12 Turning 21: Shifting from Blackjack to Poker04:08 Sponsor Break: Phenom Poker04:45 Postal Service Career & Card Games with Coworkers05:33 Early Days of Stud & Razz at Caesars Palace05:49 The 1980 WSOP Ladies Event & Quitting Her…
29 May 2026 · 1 hr 24 min
He Lost $10,000 Trying To Eat McDonald's. Mike Noori Shares His Poker Journey.
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.When that stopped working?He bought a fake ID.Not to be 21.To be 18.Because all he wanted to do was play poker.That obsession took him through:online poker's wild west,college dropout life,massive bankroll…
23 May 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
The WSOP Is Paying Poker Vloggers Up To $40,000. The Man Behind The Program "D22-soso" Tells All 🤑
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 replays didn’t exist yet. Competing against future poker legends, esports pioneers, and internet entrepreneurs before any of them were famous. Then poker happened. And suddenly the same competitive…
17 May 2026 · 1 hr 19 min
Poker Was Chaos Until He Changed The Game.
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 standardized tournament rules… before the TDA… before modern tournament poker became the machine it is today… everything was chaos. Different casinos had different rules. Players argued nonstop. Structures…
10 May 2026 · 1 hr 25 min
He Spends 350 Days Per Year Inside of a Casino (And Wins). Allen Kessler Shares His Journey.
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 — them all. Show Notes: 00:00 Introduction to woodworking 4:15 Who is Allen Kessler? 10:04 Weekend Warrior Mode 15:39 Selling Phone Numbers?! 31:44 Vegas Baby! 40:00 Chain(saw)ing Some Poker…
2 May 2026 · 1 hr 46 min
He Lost Millions…Then Fought His Way Back! Mike Matusow's Poker Journey Is A Wild One
Mike Matusow was one of the best players in the world. And he knew it. But before the bracelets… before the TV cameras… before the meltdowns… He was just a kid in Las Vegas: Getting picked on Selling candy at school Building a race car to find his place Then he discovered gambling. And it hit fast. Video poker turned into addiction. Addiction turned into poker. Poker turned into dominance. Within months, he goes from never playing poker… to sitting with legends like Johnny Moss. To being told by the reigning World Champion: “You’re one of the only ones who knows what’s going on.” That’s how…
25 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 13 min
He Lost Everything Gambling…But Poker Bailed Him Out.
John Borenstein wasn’t supposed to make it in poker. He got kicked out of three high schools. Finished with a GED. And spent his teenage years running around New Jersey doing things that definitely weren’t part of any career plan. Then one night… he ended up in a stolen van. And that’s not even the craziest part. Before he ever played a real tournament, he satellited into a $22 online event… Overslept… Woke up late… And won it for $27,000. In his parents’ basement. From there? He didn’t go pro the normal way. He opened an underground poker club. At 18. We’re talking: Armed robberies Methhead…
18 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 29 min
He Moved to Vegas to Win…and Hated It.
Justin Saliba had $30,000. Sitting on the couch. Watching TV with his dad. By the end of the day… $0. Not one hand. Not one bad beat. Just kept firing… until it was all gone. “I had over 30K… and I hit zero.” That moment could’ve been the end. Instead… it was the start. In this episode of The Table 1 Podcast, Justin Saliba joins Art Parmann and Justin Young to break down one of the most volatile, honest, and fascinating paths in poker. From growing up in Ohio playing neighborhood games… to chasing a professional soccer career… to moving to Vegas with six months to “make millions”… …and…
10 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 24 min
This Poker Pro Ended Up Living A Teenage Boy's Dream Life. Cards. Charity. And A Porn Star GF?!
Matt Stout learned to count with five-card draw. Not math class. Not flash cards. Poker. His older sister taught him the game when he was four years old — which feels either wholesome or deeply irresponsible depending on how you look at it. Either way, it stuck. By high school he was selling weed, playing hockey, and doing just enough in school to stay on the team. By college he’d found poker, gotten busted with a quarter pound, quit hockey, and fallen headfirst into the game. Then everything sped up. A paperwork mistake knocked him out of school. He took what he had left to Atlantic City.…
4 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 35 min
How to Go From Internet Famous, To Actually Making Money...In Poker?! Nikki Limo Shares Her Story
Nikki Limo had millions of views...and was still waitressing. That’s the reality of early YouTube. In this episode, Nikki Limo breaks down what it actually looked like to “make it” online before creators got paid — and how she navigated the weird gap between fame and money. From sketch comedy dominance to poker, commentary, and building a second career from scratch...this is a story about reinvention in public. But the real insight? Most people wait for permission. She just kept answering the call. What you’ll learn: What early YouTube fame actually paid (spoiler: nothing) The “famous but…
27 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 19 min
Everyone Wanted Daniel Negreanu to Win…He Ended That. Rare Interview With Joe McKeehen!
Play Poker With the Table 1 Community New players on Phenom Poker can get a 200% deposit bonus up to $2,000. Sign up here: https://play.phenompoker.com/register?r=Table1 OR… come play with us in Las Vegas at Table 1 https://table1.vegas Joe McKeehen didn’t set out to become a poker player. He was just a normal kid from Philly. Played baseball. Played basketball. Wasn’t particularly great at either. Then poker showed up. Not with a big deposit. Not with a secret bankroll. He built it from nothing. Freerolls. Forums. Random people staking him online. No grand master plan. Just clicking buttons…
21 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 21 min
He Made Millions Playing Poker…Then His Side Hustle Did Even Better
Play Poker With the Table 1 Community New players on Phenom Poker can get a 200% deposit bonus up to $2,000. Sign up here: https://play.phenompoker.com/register?r=Table1 OR… come play with us in Las Vegas at Table 1 https://table1.vegas Taylor Caby didn’t set out to change poker. He set out to get a job. Finance degree. University of Illinois. Do well in school → get hired → make money. That was the plan. Poker was just something on the side. A few home games. $20 buy-ins. Messing around with friends. Then online poker showed up. And the first problem? He couldn’t even deposit. He asked his…

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