Travis Jonas is probably one of the most entertaining guests we've had on the show. He was a professional dealer and poker player before and after the Moneymaker era. Travis has stories of dealing some of the biggest games in Vegas, including Pros such as Johnny Chan, TJ Cloutier, Phil Hellmuth, and Phil Ivey. When he was getting started in his career he was backed by Phil Ivey. Travis won a bracelet in the 2001 Dealers Event in Limit Holdem. He also tells an awesome story of how he took $100 to the craps tables in Vegas and turned it into $68,000 over the weekend! We really enjoyed this interview and we know you will too.
Intro:
Welcome, results from Steve and Mike's Sunday Online grind.
Strategy hands one from Steve and one from Mike.
Welcome Travis:
The LA Tournament - Travis KJ < KT Mike
Travis' start in poker, TJ Cloutier, Minh the Master, 2/4 Limit - 3/6 Limit, Panguingue (PAN), starting as a dealer, dealing for Tony Deeb, Johnny Chan and Frank Henderson, $200,000 pots, winning a bracelet in 2001, Winning a prop bet with Phil Hellmuth and being interviewed by him 2 years later, being backed by Phil Ivey for tournaments and super satelites, watching Phil Ivey play stud for 1 1/2 months at the Commerce Casino, 2004 best weekend in Vegas of his gambling career - turning $100 into $68,000 in a weekend, investments in stocks, winning a degen bet with Layne Flack, and one last strategy hand - pocket sevens in late position.
Steve's HH: 2/3 NL
UTG 3
(300) Villain EP 3
MP1 3
MP2 3
(300) Hero As5s CO 3
SB 3
BB 3
Flop (21) Ac 4c 7s
SB ck BB ck UTG ck
Villain 17
MP1 fold MP2 fold
Hero 17
SB and BB fold
Turn (55) Jh
Villain 25
Hero 25
River (105) 7c
Villain 25
Hero 25
Villain shows AKo
Mike HH: 5/5/10
(1460) Hero UTG AxKd 40
folds around to Villain in the straddle 40
Flop (90) Ax Td 7x rainbow
Villain ck
Hero 60
Villain 60
Turn (210) 8d
Villain ck
Hero ck
River (210) 5d
Villain ck
Hero 200
Villain shoves for 1160 more. Pot is 1770 and it's 1160 for Mike to call.
Hero calls and Villain shows 89o for a pair of eights.
Steve HH: 2/3 NL
(300) Villain UTG 3
MP 3
(300) Hero CO 7c7s calls 3
SB 3
BB 3
Flop (15) 2d 2h Jc
SB ck BB ck UTG ck MP ck
Hero 12
SB, BB fold
Villain UTG calls 12
MP folds
Turn (34) 4d
Villain ck
Hero 35
Villain 35
River (104) 3c
Villain 30
Hero 30
Villain shows 99
Thank you for listening. Hope you enjoyed the show. Have a great week and we will be on next week interviewing Steve's Mom.