I went on Joe Ingram’s podcast to talk about Fantasy Sports, Poker, and Give The Poker World a Quick Introduction to Steemit
Joe Ingram is a professional poker player best known for having played over 400,000 hands in a single month and over 50,000 hands in one session. He won large propbets based on the amount of volume he put in, and used his winnings to transition from mass multi-tabling over to playing high stakes poker and won over $500,000 in the first 6 months of 2012 playing cash games. He specializes in Pot Limit Omaha and has been playing mid to high stakes for about 5 years now. His other interests include basketball, travel, and partying -- he is a prolific partier and has done so across many continents:
A few years ago, Joe decided to start a podcast where he has conversations with some of the best poker players in the world. Usually the conversations (not interviews!) last between 1.5-2 hours. My favorite one was with BIll Perkins, a hedge fund manager and poker enthusiast that had brilliant life advice and insight.
There’s a large overlap between poker and fantasy sports, so Joe decided to do a daily fantasy sports week of podcasting. On Monday he had the #1 ranked DFS player Saahil Sud on, and on Tuesday I hopped in to chat.
Since Joe and I are friends we chatted for a little over 3.5 hours. It’s a long listen, I don’t expect anyone to sit through the whole thing. We talked about general DFS advice, what the DFS sites should do differently, controversy and backlash that I’ve dealt with from working closely with other professionals, lots of poker talk mixed in, and managed to work in a little bit of a plug for steemit.
Nowadays, many poker sites allow deposits and withdrawals through bitcoin. Joe has been using the bitcoin withdrawals so I used it to segue over to a discussion about steemit.
We start discussing cryptocurrencies around the 1 hour 39 minute mark.
Once you make it past my short hamfisted description of Ethereum, I tell Joe about steemit and it’s amazing disruptive idea.
If you do plan on listening to the whole podcast, I suggest doing it on youtube at 1.5x-2x speed so you don’t have to listen to me for over 3.5 hours :)
So far I’ve managed to convince roughly 20-25 friends to make steemit accounts: I ran two bitcoin giveaways where I handed out .7 bitcoins to people who joined the site, but unfortunately none stayed and continued participating in the platform.
But Joe has such a large following in the poker community —for instance he has 12000 twitter followers, including some of the best and most influential players in the world — that I’m sure once we manage to get Joe on the site that he will bring an influx of users from a underrepresented community.
edit: 3 users already let me know they made it over here from the podcast:
https://steemit.com/@elpablopino
https://steemit.com/@ltm
https://steemit.com/@bowzur
I’m going to give all of the SBD rewards that this blog earns to Joe and will convince him to create an account and start sharing not only the content he produces with steemit, but share the idea of steemit with his significant following in the poker world.
Jesus how long was the session? Its game dependent obv, but to get there in 10 hours you'd have be playing what like 50 tables at once?
Or i guess you could like 20 table for a full 24 hours.
either one though its kind of nuts.
I believe he played 20-24 tables which should equate to roughly 1250 hands an hour. So i think the session lasted 40 hours lol
Can't even imagine. Back when i first started out on party, i used to 16 table and i felt like my brain was ready to leak out of my nose after 8 hours or so (and this was during an era when it was correct to fold many more hands than it would be in the current environment)
EDIT: Oh, chicagojoey. I vaugely remember who he is from 2p2, though i think he became notable after i was already losing interest in poker.
I used to 30 table 180s for about a year when I was first grinding seriously. Only 5-6 hour sessions but boy did that get my brain cooking!
I started posting here because of the pod. And you didnt even have to bribe me! Thank you for the introduction and continued succes to you.
Sending this to you and other fans of the podcast.
I hounded Joe a bit yesterday to create an account but he's pretty fucking busy this week. I'm going to be away for Labor Day weekend until Monday, so shoot him a message on twitter telling him to join steemit. Need the public push to get him on board. Plus I need a place to send these SBD!
I am thrilled to see another topic covered here. I love hold'em. Play as often as I can with my friends... which is not often enough. Used to play online all the time but I live in the U.S. so that is pretty tough now.
You can still play online via Bovada, but they are transitioning to Ignition Casino at the end of this month. They got bitcoin deposits / cash outs ect. Great software too
Listened to the whole podcast, definitely lots of GTO life strategy in there. You guys covered an array of interesting topics - great listen!
I've been hounding Joe for a week to no avail. Hopefully some of you guys can get on him to join, but I want to send him the $67.52 in SBD here rather than off site.
Leaving this as a note here to send him the money whenever he joins, but I feel annoying unsuccessfully telling him every day to make an account.
Great podcast to watch!
Come on Joe, get steeming! I think that handing out bitcoins to your friends to join the site is less incentive than personally having to put in their own stake, easier to give up someone else's investment than your own perhaps?
You are 100% right. I did this when I first joined and it was a bad idea. I figured doing a giveaway to 20-30 people from the same place would maybe jumpstart the creation of a tiny poker community here, but it wasn't the right way to go. Going to try to convince people one at a time now instead and have them join and start creating content rather than pay them to come.
IMO, the real answer to this is to just reward topical content... say something like "I'm giving away $1000 over the next week/month/whatever for good original steemit articles about poker"
Thanks for letting us know about this sick site on Joey's podcast :D. Its a super GTO idea of getting him on here and posting his Interviews with legends regularly. That will surely grow the community quickly. Maybe they will add subreddit type of thing on here and steemit.com/poker can be the best one haha
Sending this to you and other fans of the podcast.
I hounded Joe a bit yesterday to create an account but he's pretty fucking busy this week. I'm going to be away for Labor Day weekend until Monday, so shoot him a message on twitter telling him to join steemit. Need the public push to get him on board. Plus I need a place to send these SBD!
Joined because of the podcast :) going to be posting in the poker section soon.
Sending this to you and other fans of the podcast.
I hounded Joe a bit yesterday to create an account but he's pretty fucking busy this week. I'm going to be away for Labor Day weekend until Monday, so shoot him a message on twitter telling him to join steemit. Need the public push to get him on board. Plus I need a place to send these SBD!
Yeah I would like to get the poker and DFS community going on here I like the site a lot. I will be posting my poker story sometime this week and hopefully some poker content.
Man I love Joey Ingram papi. Lets get the plo revolution happening!
I love poker!
Now a lot of good players. The time when you can catch big fish gone, so I stopped to play online.
Now I only play with friends for fun!
Nice to see such professionals here.
^ beat -- the guy in the picture above is playing 2-7
And?
I was playing hold'em no limit. Poker combines all kinds of games, so I'll leave it here if you do not mind
Not sure you got the joke, which was an ironic comment about the picture you posted.
Oh, this was a joke. Sorry that is not understood at once :)