The Poker Life and HSPLO Podcasts

In this thrilling Poker Live Podcast episode, dive deep into the fascinating world of high-stakes poker with popular YouTuber and poker player, Brad Owen. Gain insight into Brad's journey, from the allure of poker's high stakes to becoming a successful ambassador for the game. Enjoy his candid discussion on the upcoming addition to his family and how he's managing the responsibilities of being a poker player, a content creator, and a soon-to-be father. Discover the thrill and challenges of playing against poker giants such as Jason Koon and Ike Haxton, whilst also navigating the world of content creation. Listen in as Brad reveals his excitement about fatherhood, his dedication towards his fans, and his quest to improve as a poker player. Get inspired with anecdotes from his experience working with world-class players, and strategies learnt through coaching sessions. Explore the transformative power of AI on content creation, the pressures of engaging a live audience, and the intricate balance needed between authenticity and strategy. This episode is a valuable showcase of the intersection between high-stakes poker, content creation, personal growth, and the fascinating vision for poker in Las Vegas. Tune in to deepen your understanding of the relationship between modern technological tools and innovative content creation. Experience the excitement of high-stakes games through Brad's eyes, as he breaks down playing live in front of thousands of viewers. Reflect on the various challenges of balancing career and personal life, embracing business opportunities in the poker world, and maintaining player-focused environments in poker rooms. Learn about valuable industry insights, such as the evolving trends of 'bankroll challenges' and branding collaborations. A must-listen for poker enthusiasts interested in the personal lives, business ventures, and visions of poker professionals. From detailed discussions, genuine insights, captivating anecdotes, and deep personal reflections, this episode offers a comprehensive insider's perspective into the dynamic Vegas poker scene. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 1:00 High Stakes Battles 9:00 $50k Final Table (Koon, Haxton, Bonomo, Foxen) 12:35 Goals/Training/Tools Used 24:00 Worried about AI? 34:00 High Stakes Live Streams 43:00 Celebrity Poker Tour 47:10 Balancing Family Life 49:48 Investing/Lodge 54:00 Brad Fan Story 58:26 WPT Voyage 1:02:00 What's it like working with WPT? 1:05:00 Partnerships in Poker 1:10:00 Future of Vegas poker streams/games 1:21:00 Joey's Current Goals 1:24:00 Brad's 1,000,000 Sub Goal

In this highly-anticipated return episode of the Poker Life Podcast, host Joey Ingram welcomes the legendary high-stakes poker player and entrepreneur, Douglas K Polk. Known as the "supreme leader," Polk's expertise in poker, life, and love shines through as the two discuss poker strategies, personal anecdotes, and the latest updates on Polk's ventures, including his successful card room in Texas. With engaging conversations and insights, this episode is a must-listen for all poker enthusiasts and fans of the game. 00:00:00 - Back in Action 00:01:39 - The Supreme Leader Returns 00:02:28 - The Legion's Longing 00:05:35 - Building the Empire: The Lodge 00:10:12 - The Evolution of the Supreme Leader 00:15:18 - The Philosophy Behind Upswing Poker 00:20:31 - The Future of Poker Training 00:25:26 - The Lodge's Streaming Success 00:30:08 - The Bike's Production Puzzle 00:35:44 - Anticipation for the Million Dollar Game 00:40:52 - Rampage's Rollercoaster Journey 00:50:50 - State of Online Poker (ACR/GG Poker) 01:06:28 - Mike Postle Re-emergence 01:11:30 - Mike Postle Challenge 01:15:40 - Doug's Lodge Poker Play 01:22:47 - Poker Tracking Sites 01:29:20 - What Is Joey Up To? 01:31:10 - Celebrity Poker Tour 01:35:50 - Doug's Approach To Drama 01:40:36 - Lodge | Sands Corp Collab? 01:43:05 - Berkey/Negreanu Take 01:44:45 - Poker Awards 2024 01:45:40 - Charity Poker 01:47:50 - Navigating Partnership Opportunities 01:58:40 - Garrett Adelstein 02:12:27 - WPT vs WSOP Battle

One of the greatest poker players of all time, Phil Ivey, joins me today as my Poker Life podcast returns to YouTube!! I've been doing my podcast since 2014 and Phil Ivey has been one of the most requested guests. Happy to be able to bring the fans this episode, sit back and enjoy :)

NEW PLO Launchpad training course: http://bit.ly/PLOLaunchpad​ (Dylan on the show Weds to discuss) DOUG POLK AKA THE SUPREME LEADER AKA DOUGLAS K POLK AKA DEBATABLY THE BEST HUNL PLAYER IN THE WORLD AKA THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND is BACK on the Poker Life podcast today. We are talking all about the epic HU challenge vs Daniel Negreanu and how Doug came out victorious for $1,200,000. Doug has spent the last 3 months battling Daniel at a $200/$400 high stakes HU battle. Doug was the big favorite coming into the match and the pressure was on him to deliver a victory vs Daniel. The match was pretty anti-climactic in terms of who would win as Doug was the odds on favorite to win and wasn't in much danger of losing. At one point later in the match, Daniel had a massive near $400,000 victory over the course of a few hours that forced Doug to rethink his strategy. Doug came out using a limping strategy which caused Daniel to start tanking which caused a major controversy as Phil Galfond needed to step in to mediate the dispute. In the end, Doug came out with the victory in the match and in the side bets worth millions of dollars. Today we discuss more on it! NEW GTO NEWSLETTER: https://joeingram1.substack.com/​ REDLINE KING MERCH (PRE-OFFICIAL RELEASE): https://teespring.com/stores/red-line...​

MY PODCAST HAS RETURNED!!! Sorry about taking so much time off from the podcast, have been focusing on the Daniel vs Doug event the past few months!!! Wanted to try to crush that! My podcast will be returning with a mix of poker and non-poker world people I find interesting and want to learn more about! POMP YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCevXpeL8cNyAnww-NqJ4m2w My guest today is Anthony Pompliano aka THE POMP. I started following him earlier this year during the LOCKDOWN when I was researching the history of money, currency and the federal reserve! Pomp is a massive BITCOIN advocate like many people in the poker world have been for quite some time - his Twitter is filled with Bitcoin related content and he has over 500k followers on that platform. He brings a nice mix of value - knowledge, humor, hype, family, positivity. Pomp also puts out a new podcast just about every single day and has turned that into one of the most popular podcast in his world. He has a wide variety of guests on from all different parts of the finance, content, investing, and business world. I'm very excited and interested to learn more about his background and how he came to be in this position that he is in now!

(Timestamps below) Ryan Depaulo is back after we had some technical issues our last time around!!! Ryan recently won a WSOP.com bracelet for $160,000 playing from a parking lot of a Whole Foods (he is known for doing random type of things like this.) Ryan is a poker player here on YouTube who makes VLOGS and plays online poker. Ryan has a very hardcore fanbase who enjoy following his degenerate adventures around the USA as he plays poker and gamblers on other types of games. His girlfriend and friends are often apart of the adventure as well. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Guest introduction, skateboarding while playing a WSOP event, software glitches while playing final table 15:21 Going pro, punting, GTO in poker, RDP relationship with his gf and poker, RDP vlogging career progress 30:42 RDP broadway job, parkour running joke, the degen lifestyle, lifestyle change for the better 57:35 Answering chat questions, ACR problems/improvements, ghosting in poker, changes in poker popularity between MTT/cashgames 1:30:22 Marketing in poker, security issues in poker, interacting with chat, Doug Polk story 1:49:36 Doug Polk confrontation story, Dnegs marketing strats, RDP future goals and more

Making his debut on the Poker Life podcast today is fellow poker YouTuber Ryan Depaulo. Ryan has been making videos here on YouTube for a couple years now specializing in the VLOG format where he travels around to different casinos to degen it up in all different ways. His videos are hilarious and his fans love him. He just took down a WSOP Bracelet and $160,000 in a fucking Whole Foods parking lot in New Jersey. Excited to have him on.

Adam Pliska is the World Poker Tour President and he joins me today on the Poker Life Podcast. Adam has been with the WPT since 2002 (That is a LONG time) graduate of University of Southern California’s Film School and University of California Berkeley’s Law School, Boalt Hall, Adam has been with the World Poker Tour since 2003. As President, Adam oversees the entire WPT, from live events to online services to the televised broadcasts, and was named the American Poker Awards Industry Person of the Year for 2014. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:06 Guest introduction and how he became and why he is the current WPT president 9:35 WPT events complications because of Covid19, how WPT runs as a business 27:11 Positive changes in the poker world, poker content and its evolution 38:05 Systems about how to become expert at anything, how to balance your life around systems that improve it 47:05 Poker and traveling around the world with WPT, WPT organization management quality, poker companies and their business strategies and more

Issac Haxton aka Hollywood Haxton is back on the Poker Life Podcast today. Ike is one of the top all around poker players in the entire world. He regularly plays the highest stakes cash games and tournaments around the world.

Fedor Holz is my guest today on the Poker Life Podcast. The first time Fedor was on was WAY back in 2014 after winning the WCOOP Main Event. Fedor is back sponsored by GGPoker and will be playing the upcoming WSOP event on their website. We will talk to Fedor about what life has been like back in the high stakes online poker tournament world and see if he considers himself still one of the top players. 0:02 Intro 0:05 Fedor introduction, future guests and plans for the podcast, Fedor acomplishments/plans for the future 2:55 Both of them talking about how they met, their first podcast, where Fedor is living atm what he has been doing and what's going with his return to poker 6:33 Fedor talks why he stopped and started again to play poker, what poker meant to him what he likes and dislikes 11:46 Other revenue streams besides poker why you need them, why Fedor chose to work with GGpoker 20:28 Fedor consluting GGpoker about rake and rakeback related systems, GGpoker what is all about 28:20 Why GGpoker does much better than other sites, the poker player experience and what should change to make it more enjoyable 43:00 Predatory aspect of poker pros and why they ruin the game, how the game should change for the better 57:25 WSOP/MTTS formats discussion, rakeback system structure/rules on GGpoker, shouting out chat after Fedor disconnects 1:22:08 Fedor reconnects after technical problems, GGpoker rakeback system positives/negatives 1:29:01 Sponsors and the value they bring, Fedor talks about being back in poker, studying poker, DTO and what is next 1:38:55 Poker project called "The Academy" focused on MTTs, 500 to 5k challenge discussion, Fedor Twitter phase, discipline in poker and more Show less

High stakes poker player, casino owner, and Partypoker partner Rob Yong joins me again on the Poker Life podcast today to talk about the state of the online poker world, where to look for opportunity in the poker world, his adventures at the very highest stakes cash games in the world, his adventures at the high stakes tournaments on PartyPoker, the upcoming World Poker Tour Championships on PartyPoker and more. It will be a fun show 0:01 Joey shout-outs his plans for his next future poker content 1:05 Joey introduces Rob Young and they start talking about what's been going on with Rob's life and history how he got into the poker business 5:24 Joey and Rob talk about MTT suggestions that Rob shared on his twitter how to better the MTT experience for the regs and recs 16:20 Joey and Rob talk about the WSOP and how to make it more authentic experience 23:20 Joey and Rob talk about the competition between the poker clients like PartyPoker, Pokerstars, GGPoker 34:12 Joey and Rob talk about possible plans for PartyPoker in America and their competitors plans and business strats 43:55 Joey and Rob talk about the possible future for poker with bitcoin and innovations and how poker should grow 57:25 Joey and Rob talk about PokerBros and how the app functions, poker regulations and Rob's accomplishments n the poker industry 1:14:15 Joey and Rob talk about Jungleman and Bill Perkins cheating incident and why it is bad for the poker community 1:24:25 Joey and Rob talk about GGPoker uncapped rake games and why rake should be reasonable and beatable 1:32:15 Joey and Rob talk about PartyPoker and GVC regulations, rules and other poker problems around regulations 1:44:55 Joey and Rob answer twitter/chat questions and they talk about the BBJ $350k incident, the poker industry risks/rewards/models/series/practices 2:17:35 Joey and Rob talk about stables and how they function, game assistance, ACR intentions, rating poker companies from best to worst for the poker players 2:31:33 Joey and Rob talk about why poker companies should do right about poker players and not exploiting them 2:38:00 Joey and Rob do shout-outs, answer more questions and pick giveaway winner for the $1k 5mil GTD WPT

Phil Galfond talks coming back from $900,000 down to win the Galfond Challenge with less than 100 hands

Phil Galfond is doing the Galfond Challenge right now and came back from being down $900,000 a few weeks ago to take a brief lead in today's session against Veni Vedi. They are playing a 25,000 hand challenge and are about 20,000 hands in so far. We talked more about the challenge.

Mike Mcdonald aka Timex joins me on the podcast. Mike operates the betting website Poker Sharers which allows you to bet on players for poker tournaments and cash games. Mike has been actively following the current pandemic taking place and was one of the first people to list odds to bet against the WSOP taking place. This should be a great conversation.

Rob Yong joins me again on the podcast today. Rob is a regular high stakes poker player in some of the biggest games around the world - I did commentary on his week for Poker After Dark in December that had JRB and Rick Solomon playing. It was wild. He is also one of the powers that be over at Party Poker and doing his part to try to provide a great place for poker players around the world to play. Rob recently closed down his poker room in the UK and we will talk about that + his recent high roller poker series in Sochi, Russia that was derailed because of the pandemic.

This was a great conversation related to the CoronaVirus, how to think about it, the markets, its impact on poker/world and much more. Love having Bill on, he is a fucking legend.

The new Upswing Poker PLO Mastery course is out now: http://bit.ly/UpswingPLOCourse… If you sign up this week you get the Live PLO Dominance course as well. Will be choosing at least one person who signs up through my link for an Ultimate Vegas Experience during this years WSOP. Dylan & Chris have been working on this course for the past 6 months. Chris is one of the top PLO players on http://WSOP.com & has a VERY solver based style. Dylan plays live/online high stakes here in Vegas and is one of the best teachers that I've worked with.

I really enjoyed this one guys. Brad Owen joins me on the Poker Life podcast today. Brad is one of the top YouTube poker vloggers in the world right now with over 180,000 subscribers and millions of views on his videos. Brad has been a professional poker player since 2015 in the Las Vegas area playing $2/$5-$5/$10 on a regular basis. He also host Meet Up Games w/ Andrew Neeme all around the world on a regular basis. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 3:10 How do you feel where your career has gone? 5:10 Poker audience about women 6:50 Dealing with mean comments 10:30 How Brad started & why are vlogs popular 15:05 Hoodie and Hat vs Suit Jacket 19:29 Why I think Brad is successful 20:00 Brad's old career vs playing poker professionally 22:00 Brad's poker career and having to quit 32:00 Are winning players competitive? 32:40 Meet Up Games question 38:00 GTO MANIFESTATION 40:30 Brad & family importance 42:00 Farrah Galfond & Phil Galfond 44:50 VLOG TITLES & WINNING SESSIONS 52:30 How do you handle meeting fans? 56:30 Global Poker Awards 1:00:00 YT poker taking videos down 1:05:00 International MeetUp Games 1:18:00 ACR Talk 1:22:00 Instagram Poker World 1:26:00 Brad's Cat Rap 1:28:40 1st round of shots 1:31:00 Promotional Modeling & My High Stakes 1:39:00 PLO more popular outside of the USA 1:41:50 Future of Poker VLOGS & MeetUpGames 1:45:50 How does it feel to be so viewed? 1:51:00 YouTube Poker Content 1:55:00 Selling candy in middle school 1:58:30 2nd round of SHOTS 2:00:30 Bart Hanson 2:04:40 Doug Polk 2:07:40 Ryan DePaulo vs Doug Polk 2:14:30 Spraggy 2:15:11 Is Spraggy scared of Brad? 2:19:00 Bar Poker Open & Support 2:23:00 Is Twitch better than YouTube 2:36:00 Brad $100k year 2:41:00 Catholic Schools 2:44:50 Car getting broke into 2:50 More shots and chaos

Phil Galfond joins the podcast today to talk being down $900k in Match 1 of the Galfond Challenge against Veni Vedi on Run It Once Poker. We will ask Phil all the questions that so many of you out there want to know about. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 3:30 How does Phil feel about the challenge?? 5:12 Why not end the first match?? 7:30 Will time off make a difference in the results?? 8:30 Does Phil think he has an edge?? 11:53 At what point does Phil quit the match?? 15:24 If I think he is better, I will quit.... 22:52 What has made the match so tough?? (Pattern Recognition) 27:00 Why did Phil choose Veni as first opponent?? 32:50 Has Run It Once Poker traffic grown?? 34:20 Free $10 on RIO Poker now 37:50 When will RIO Poker make money? 39:00 Possible bankroll challenge for myself on RIO Poker 42:20 Do you think Veni is cheating? 47:00 Luke Schwartz comments 51:30 Thoughts being down $400,000 53:00 How has Phil's wife Farah handled challenge? 58:53 Adam Levitan question on God Mode... 59:30 Downswing piece of advice 1:04:40 When will challenge resume? 1:09:00 Dealing with criticism 1:11:30 Does Phil have all his own action?? 1:13:30 When will MTTs be on RIO Poker? 1:18:00 Aussie Matt story 1:21:00 RIO NEW PLO Product Vision