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From dealing cards at 19 to winning a WPT and two WSOP bracelets.

Episode 106: Tyler Patterson

In this episode of The Table 1 Podcast, Justin Young (https://x.com/justinyoung07) and Art Parmann (https://x.com/artparmann) sit down with Tyler Patterson — one of the most respected live tournament pros in poker — to unpack a career built on patience, discipline, and long-term thinking.

Tyler shares how he quit college after discovering poker, transitioned from card dealer to full-time player, and built an 18-year backing relationship that helped him survive downswings, avoid burnout, and eventually win at the highest levels of the game.

We cover:

• How Tyler went from $4,000 bankrolls to $575,000 tournament scores
• Why long-term backing relationships matter (and how they actually work)
• Winning a WSOP bracelet in 2014, a WPT title, and a second WSOP bracelet in 2025
• The realities of live poker vs online poker
• Navigating poker during COVID — including chopping a major event mid-pandemic
• Moving to Barbados for two years and learning online poker from scratch
• Prop bets, golf gambling, and life with Matt Affleck & Matt Savage
• Why patience beats talent in poker careers
• What it takes to stay relevant in poker at 40+

This is a real poker career story — no shortcuts, no fake hype, just years of grinding, smart decisions, and staying in the game long enough for the wins to come.

If you’re a poker player, tournament grinder, or just love behind-the-scenes stories from the poker world, this one’s for you.

Show Notes
00:00 Golf Beginnings To Poker
09:29 Dealing to Poker Tournaments
18:52 Sticking with a Backer
24:33 Accidentally Learning PLO8 & Winning a Bracelet
34:20 WPTs and Live Stream Nerves
44:49 Winning Bestbet Jacksonville
50:07 Prop Bets!
1:03:51 Some Golf Partying
1:07:58 Making an FT When COVID Happened
1:14:47 Barbados?!
1:21:24 2025 & WSOP Bracelet #2
1:27:53 The FUTURE!

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Tristan “Cre8ive” Wade has lived three poker careers in one lifetime—online beast, live crusher, coach, and somehow the guy who once took a swing at Sorel Mizzi in Cannes before Jack Effel broke it up.

This episode is a wild ride from start to finish, covering everything from:

• 🎮 Competitive gaming beginnings — Atari, Blockbuster tournaments, Rainbow Six, Halo, and the home-poker site era that led him into the streets of Orlando.
• 💻 Hacking → Marketing → Poker bankroll — including spamming AOL with bots, rare 3-letter screen names, and building a five-figure bankroll before stepping onto a poker site.
• 🃏 College life + live poker — Carnival Cruise tournaments, Orlando home games, and beating up on retirees while staying the nicest kid in the room.
• 🧠 Becoming “Cre8ive” — psychology degree, finding the poker obsession, and balancing online volume with live growth.
• 🔥 Black Friday → Breakthrough year (2011)
  How he battled out of $125k makeup, won a DeepStacks event, then binked $99k in his WSOP run… only for an unexpected hero to step in.
• 💥 The Sam Cohen Free-Roll Story
  Maybe the greatest staking story we’ve ever heard:
  “If I’m up $10k when the 10k 6-max starts… I’ll put you in.”
  No contract. No terms. Just: “We’ll figure it out.”
  Tristan ran fourth for $292,000. What Sam and her dad decided to give him? You’re not ready.
• 🥊 The Sorel Mizzi incident
  Drunk in Cannes.
  A bottle in hand.
  An almost-fight stopped by Jack Effel himself.
  (Tristan went on to win his WSOP Europe bracelet the next day.)
• 🎙 Where he is now
  – PokerCoaching.com instructor
  – Private coach at Cre8iveCoaching.com
  – Venetian / PokerGO commentator
  – Still grinding, still studying, still hunting the next big score.

If you love real poker stories — the ones from the trenches — this one is a top-tier Table 1 classic.

Show Notes:

• 00:00 Welcome Cre8ive!
• 02:44 Background in Gaming
• 09:20 Turning to Sports & College
• 16:20 AIM Spamming Life
• 25:24 Dropping Hacking for Stacking
• 29:37 Social Networking & Competitor’s Mindset
• 34:51 College to Poker
• 44:38 Poker Demons & Strategy
• 51:01 Life After Black Friday & Deep WSOP Runs
• 1:07:22 The Sorel Mizzi Story
• 1:18:45 The Future & Coaching!

Tristan's Links:
Poker Coaching & Newsletter - https://cre8ivecoaching.com/
https://www.pokercoaching.com
https://www.x.com/tristancre8ive
https://www.instagram.com/tristancre8ive

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Episode 104: Katie Lindsay

Katie Lindsay walked into the studio and immediately delivered one of the most effortlessly entertaining episodes we’ve ever recorded.

This one has EVERYTHING:

• 🔥 Breaking into Brandon Cantu’s house for a nap
• 🔥 Growing up gambling with two older brothers — pool, gin, spades, and Sunday NFL “helmet picks”
• 🔥 Leaving high school early, starting college at 16, and the ambition that shaped her entire life
• 🔥 The LA era: bartending in dive bars, casting for MTV shows, and discovering poker through pure hustle
• 🔥 Cold-calling Men the Master for a PLO interview that actually launched her poker career
• 🔥 How she built “Suited Connections” into one of poker’s first real player agencies
• 🔥 Navigating Black Friday, losing everything overnight, and reinventing herself — again
• 🔥 Meeting Chris Moorman, surviving the chaos of staking, and watching him rebuild from $20 rebuys
• 🔥 Katie’s heater year: WSOP final tables, the Venom run, and becoming the first woman to win a Moneymaker Tour event
• 🔥 The emotional phone call with her dad that went viral
• 🔥 Life in New Orleans, Saints fandom, fashion, confidence, and finally becoming comfortable in front of the camera
• 🔥 Why she believes showing up as yourself — loud outfits, big personality, heels and all — is her real superpower

This episode is funny, honest, surprising, emotional, and full of the best behind-the-scenes intel from someone who has lived every chapter of modern poker.

If you love great stories, behind-the-curtain poker history, and one of the most colorful personalities in the game…

👇 Watch / Listen Now!

Show Notes:

• 00:00 – Early Poker Memories & Reunion with Katie
• 02:00 – Travel, Tournaments & Life Balance
• 04:00 – Poker Legends, Names, and Industry Storytime
• 06:00 – Katie’s Family Origin Story & Childhood Competitiveness
• 10:00 – Academics, Ambition & Leaving for College at 16
• 14:00 – New Orleans, Saints Fandom & Early Adulthood
• 16:00 – LA Life: Bartending, Reality TV & Casting Hustle
• 19:00 – Falling Into Poker Writing & Breaking Into the Industry
• 24:00 – Becoming a Poker Agent & Building Suited Connections
• 32:00 – Black Friday Shock & Reinventing Herself Outside Poker
• 37:00 – Meeting Moorman & Life Inside the Staking World
• 46:00 – Katie’s Poker Career: Rings, Trophies & Confidence
• 54:00 – Signing with ACR & Overcoming Camera Shyness
• 58:00 – Triton Experience, Cashes & The Bahamas Run
• 01:02:00 – Winning the Moneymaker Event & Emotional Moments
• 01:08:00 – Life, Travel, New Orleans Living & What’s Next

Katie's Links:

• Website: https://katielindsay.net/
• Instagram: @katelindsss
• X (Twitter): @katelinds
• Play with Katie on ACR: https://go.wpnaffiliates.com/visit/?bta=17887&brand=americascardroom

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• X (Twitter): @artparmann

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Episode 103: Randy Sadler — aka 3 Coin — walked into the studio and delivered one of the most unexpectedly electric Table 1 episodes we’ve ever filmed.

This one has everything:

• 🔥 The origin story of 3 Coin and how a Dallas cash-game needle turned into a full-blown brand
• 🔥 Growing up around East Texas gambling culture (cigar smoke, poker rooms, and gold coins)
• 🔥 His rise as one of the most entertaining characters in streamed poker
• 🔥 Getting hustled, getting even, and the legendary $5k cruise-ship flip incident
• 🔥 The real story of selling his family’s company for hundreds of millions
• 🔥 Sobriety, second acts, fashion lines, and chasing the million-dollar game
• 🔥 Why he believes poker is the great equalizer — and why he’ll always be a “Joe sitting with the pros”

It’s funny, wild, emotional, and pure 3 Coin energy the entire way through.
If you want stories, lessons, and laugh-so-hard-you-snort moments… this is your episode.

👇 PLAY. THE. TAPE.

Show Notes:

• 00:00 Where did “3Coin” Come From?
• 11:02 Gambling is in the Family & Tournament Play
• 21:00 Making Poker Fun (And Safe)
• 29:00 Why Play Poker?
• 35:48 Cheaters in Gambling
• 41:31 Baccarat With The Asian Ladies
• 44:50 Selling the Family Company for $270 Million
• 53:35 “Running Good” in Business
• 1:01:10 “3Coin” Clothing & Goals
• 1:08:44 Getting Sober & Feeling Good
• 1:10:13 Poker Goals & The Future

3Coin's Links:

• https://3coin.co
• https://www.instagram.com/3.coin
• https://www.youtube.com/@UCWsPRzE5-tBnu3f35VLXb1g

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• SlotMaps – Beat Slots with AI (seriously) https://slotmaps.com
• PokerHQ – Run your home game like a pro: https://pokerhq.io
• https://x.com/artparmann

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This week we sat down with someone who’s doing for funny poker content what we’re trying to do for fun poker games — the one and only Caitlin Comeskey.

And buckle up… because this episode starts with Art butchering the intro, devolves into a table full of losers from our Venetian takeover, and somehow ends with ketamine stories, burlesque confessions, the Jack-4 sketch that blew her up, and why PokerStars literally called her out of the blue to sign her.

In this episode we get into:

• 🔥 Her viral “Jack-4” moment — how an impulsive Halloween wig run basically changed her life
• 🔥 Playing No Gamble No Future with Stapes & Justin… and saying jokes they couldn’t air
• 🔥 Why she was a theatre-kid-turned-NYU-acting-major-turned-burlesque-host-turned-Texas-poker-DJ
• 🔥 The surprising way she met her husband (shoutout to Colleen 5/10/25)
• 🔥 The early Texas poker boom and what the games were REALLY like back then
• 🔥 Getting signed by PokerStars — and why it didn’t feel real at first
• 🔥 Her thoughts on ladies events, the Santa Claus incident, and why some players desperately need a “vibe check”
• 🔥 Mixed games, Raz pain, Big O chaos, and why everyone in poker is too healthy now
• 🔥 The exact moment she decided to bet on content instead of cash games
• 🔥 What’s next for Caitlin — streaming, comedy, Jersey life, and forcing us into a TikTok dance

We also talk a lot about Vegas self-loathing, Greyhounds, the death of degeneracy in tournament poker, and why Justin keeps ending up at Five Guys after busting events.

If you like poker with personality — not the silent-hoodie GTO Olympics — this one’s for you.

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Step into the world of high-stakes poker and unscripted stories with the latest Table 1 Podcast featuring the legendary Jeff Madsen! Co-hosted by Art Parmann and Justin Young.

• Childhood gaming roots: From Nintendo & Magic: The Gathering to poker prodigy.
• Crushing the WSOP at 21: Record-setting run, youngest bracelet winner, Player of the Year.
• Inside poker culture: Team Full Tilt, highs & lows, prop bets (yes, the jester!), Black Friday.
• Mental game & life: Fame, setbacks, mental health, COVID era, post-divorce resilience.
• Beyond poker: Board games, coaching philosophy, and a live freestyle rap.

If you love poker—or raw, honest stories—this one’s packed with laughs, insight, nostalgia, and inspiration.

• 00:00 Early Gaming Days
• 07:50 The 2006 WSOP
• 18:53 “The Week” & Stealing POY From Phil Hellmuth
• 23:48 Dropping School for Poker
• 32:18 Poker Road & Prop Bets
• 38:13 Freestyle Rap Time?!
• 43:34 Black Friday Fallout
• 50:23 Poker Coaching
• 54:46 Grok vs Phil Galfond for $1,000,000?!
• 58:01 COVID & Conspiracies
• 1:09:51 Recent Success & The Future

• Instagram: @JeffMadsenPoker
• X (Twitter): @JeffMadsenObv
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Before he was behind the mic on the World Poker Tour, Tony was just another online grinder trying to survive. He went from living broke in China with a $2,800 bankroll, to getting banned from Australia, to waking up one morning after Black Friday completely broke — and somehow, turned it all around.

This episode dives into the real story behind the suit:

• 🎙 How Tony went from staking makeup to hair & makeup on the WPT
• 💸 What it feels like to be $300K in makeup — and finally dig out
• 🧳 The insane story of getting banned from Australia
• ♠️ Why “not caring too much” resulted in a breakout 2016

Now he’s one of poker’s most recognizable voices... but the journey there is anything but smooth.

If you love stories about redemption, risk, and what it really takes to make it in poker, this one’s a must-watch.

• 00:00 Drinking and Gambling!
• 05:07 Some NFL Action
• 10:36 Early Hustles & The Varkonyi Effect
• 15:52 Online Poker & Australia Living
• 20:50 Banned From The Country!
• 22:45 Dropping College For Pro Gambling
• 27:27 Back to the USA…Kinda
• 33:05 WSOP Main Event Nostalgia & Justin’s
• 42:51 Black Friday & Backing Deals
• 48:15 “The Raw Deal” WPT Audition Story
• 52:52 WPT Life & The Evolution of Poker
• 58:18 Live Cash Games, DFS & Clearing Makeup
• 1:02:57 Aussie Millions & The Big Year
• 1:11:00 WSOP vs WPT & Getting in the Booth
• 1:18:18 The New WPT
• 1:21:37 Bay 101 & The Future!

• https://instagram.com/TonyDunstTV
• https://x.com/TonyDunstTV

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• IG: https://www.instagram.com/worldpokertour/

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In this episode of The Table 1 Podcast, Art Parmann and Justin Young sit down with renowned poker pro Ryan LaPlante for an unfiltered deep dive into the grinder’s life.

Ryan opens up about sneaking online poker sessions as a teen, the “Moneymaker effect,” and how dropping out of college set him on the path to poker stardom. He discusses moving across North America to chase the dream, overcoming challenges growing up gay in a traditional environment, and building community through forums and coaching.

You’ll hear candid insights into tournament swings—odd jobs, finding stable internet, and bankroll variance. Ryan breaks down the backing model, why coaching became both passion and safety net, and why multiple income streams matter for today’s pros.

The conversation gets personal: being an openly gay figure in poker, balancing business ventures and mentorship, and future aspirations beyond the felt. We close with goals for the next chapter, inside stories about his bracelet win, and advice for grinders navigating an ever-changing industry.

• 00:00 – Some Early Podcast Reminiscing & Finding Poker
• 07:52 – Early Bankrolls & Part Time Poker
• 12:30 – Dropping Out of College & Meeting His Future Husband
• 17:07 – Black Friday & WSOP #1
• 22:44 – Five Years of Travel & Coaching
• 27:50 – Staked Life & Spin n Go’s!
• 35:53 – Ryan’s Coaching Style & PLO!
• 40:12 – Grinding Without a Massive Breakout Year
• 43:37 – Consulting With Poker Operators
• 47:47 – Ambassador vs Business Relationships
• 50:15 – The Big Beautiful Tax Bill & Ryan’s Exact ROI Stats!
• 58:06 – The BRACELET! (And its Bittersweet Runout)
• 1:04:11 – Future Goals & Some Business Ventures
• 1:16:35 – Socials & Outro

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Episode 98: Cary Katz

In this episode of The Table 1 Podcast, Art Parmann and Justin Young sit down with poker legend and PokerGO founder Cary Katz — one of the few players who pretty much invented high roller tournaments. Cary opens up about everything from launching a $20 billion student loan empire to accidentally starting the high roller poker boom.

Why he trademarked “Embrace the Tism,” and how he made 75 of his employees millionaires. You’ll hear stories about the origins of PokerGO, backing Bryn Kenney through his insane heater, and the real reason he plays poker today. It’s one of the most candid, funny, and surprisingly heartfelt conversations we’ve ever had at Table 1.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Embrace the -Tism
• 03:29 Cary Kitten & CLC Student Loans
• 17:34 Poker in Vegas!
• 20:08 Backing Brynn Kenny & Moving To Vegas
• 27:21 Poker Central’s Origin Story
• 31:39 The Million Dollar Beat & The TISM
• 36:07 Listen To Your Wife & Copying Good Branding
• 39:05 The Poker Masters & “Feelings” in Poker
• 40:47 Everybody Loves Mori
• 42:00 The WSOP Bracelet & Being Present
• 46:29 Being Mischievous in Poker
• 52:06 The PGT & Super High Roller Bowl Announcement!
• 57:50 The Big Beautiful F*cking Bill
• 1:02:24 The Future & Disneyland!

Cary's Links:
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https://PokerGO.com
https://x.com/CaryKatz

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Art (x.com/artparmann) and Justin (x.com/justinyoung07) sit down with Brock — a sharp mind who left a successful start in finance to chase something far riskier: his love for poker.

From spreadsheets to chip stacks, Brock’s story is one of obsession, resilience, and finding meaning in the game that never stops calling you back. Ride the swings as we talk bankrolls, burnout, and the beautiful chaos of going all in on what you love most.

• 00:00 Early life & finding poker
• 07:37 Obsessions & family
• 09:51 Fleecing the boys for $10k, $10 at a time
• 15:36 From finance to poker
• 29:02 “Lucksacking” Bitcoin
• 36:06 First year as a pro & not understanding rec players
• 46:59 Ali Imsirovic & the breakout year
• 52:55 Move up where they respect your raises
• 54:38 The heater & the passion
• 1:00:21 COVID poker & coaching
• 1:10:56 Recent success & the Darren Elias effect
• 1:15:34 The $50k WSOP run

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