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Oct 28, 2026
Jackson BurkettHOST
Joe Lundin.
Tim McKernanHOST
No, it was me on Poker Stars in 2005 when I was losing thousands of dollars.
Tim McKernanHOST
And I believed in the process.
Tim McKernanHOST
And then recently, Nick Saban and his document, Everything Doug, the first episode, I think is called The Process.
Maria KonnikovaHOST
I write books, magazine pieces, and I write for television and screen and do anything that happens to catch my interest.
Maria KonnikovaHOST
And of course, I love playing poker and being here with the PokerStars team.
James HartiganHOST
So here's the thing.
James HartiganHOST
After that amazing resume, I'm a poker commentator.
Ismail ValiGUEST
So I took those companies to number one, me and the teams and the technology and the brands that we built.
Ismail ValiGUEST
So that's Sporting Bet, Paradise Poker and PokerStars.
Ismail ValiGUEST
PokerStars was my most kind of... a well-known moment.
Ismail ValiGUEST
I took that business to 94% market share internationally.
Ismail ValiGUEST
So I wasn't just, there was a famous quote from me at the time.
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Ismail ValiGUEST
So there's a whole bunch of stuff there that's basically pushing for how people will engage with these products the same way that we saw the use of bots in poker, which hands to play, which hands not to play.
Ismail ValiGUEST
And we were obviously screening for that stuff.
Ismail ValiGUEST
So as operators, we would constantly be looking for what other apps is this person using while they play Paradise Poker or PokerStars.
Brian HooperHOST
Yeah, probably.
Brian HooperHOST
I always think back to poker days where Full Tilt and Party Poker left and then PokerStars didn't.
Brian HooperHOST
When they tried to get legal later on, that was a big talking point.
Brian HooperHOST
They were operating illegally for years and so they can't come back in.
Bric75GUEST
probably.
Bric75GUEST
I always think back to poker days where Full Tilt and Party Poker left and then PokerStars didn't.
Bric75GUEST
When they tried to get legal later on, that was a big talking point.
Bric75GUEST
They were operating illegally for years and so they can't come back in.
Jared BleznickGUEST
Yeah.
Jared BleznickGUEST
So, so most people don't know this, right? But way back in the day on Starz, the biggest game online was 10-20 no limit.
Jared BleznickGUEST
It was a 2K buy-in.
Jared BleznickGUEST
Do you remember the glitch? I don't remember the glitch.
Jared BleznickGUEST
much.
Jared BleznickGUEST
But I started playing online, and I was watching this game, and I just fell in love with it.
Jared BleznickGUEST
Wait, was that 2K coming from PokerStars or from his account? So he's actually making a bigger all-in.
Jared BleznickGUEST
But my point is you can build a stack by just going all-in.
Carlos WelchHOST
Those tournaments are a lot of fun, but they can be very grueling.
Carlos WelchHOST
I mean, it was a format that I pushed for PokerStars to add maybe 10 years ago.
Carlos WelchHOST
Me and a few other people were like, we really just want to be able to play something with a 25k pie and are up every single day we're here.
Carlos WelchHOST
I'm sure people will show up and play them if you put them on the schedule.
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Carlos WelchHOST
And I had signed up while I was in high school using that screen name on Something Awful.
Carlos WelchHOST
So when I signed up, the first time I played online poker was a private tournament that the forum had organized.
Carlos WelchHOST
So I signed up using my screen name from Something Awful on PokerStars.
Carlos WelchHOST
And I've just kind of been stuck with it for the last 22 years.
Justin YoungHOST
Party was free.
Abe LymanGUEST
It was just unreal compared to Starz.
Abe LymanGUEST
Even in 2009 or 2008 when it shut down the Port Security Act, the UIEGA.
Abe LymanGUEST
So I...
Joe ScalesHOST
Tuesday
Elle ScalesHOST
... on Poker Stars, and they were like, "Uh, no, you're too close to a reset."
Joe ScalesHOST
To...
Joe ScalesHOST
Yeah, they were resetting their servers, I think.
Steve RuddockGUEST
So y- it was basically like a one, one operator was getting this.
Steve RuddockGUEST
So some of the other states actually didn't want to, uh, join MSI GA because they were like, "We're kind of picking the winner if we do that." So they, they waited until there were more operators in like PokerStars, which is now FanDuel.
Steve RuddockGUEST
Um, they're not even allowed into that.
Steve RuddockGUEST
There's a tainted asset clause there that prevents them from getting a license as long as they're using PokerStars legacy software.
Steve RuddockGUEST
So there's a lot of d- there's so much that goes into it that, like, we could do probably a three-hour podcast just on-
Scott WilsonHOST
[laughs]
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Steve RuddockGUEST
So I think there's a, there's a lot for, um, Canadian provinces to think about, but probably be very, very slow.
Adam SchwartzHOST
Uh, all right.
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