Ep 29 - Matt Savage The King Of The WPT + How To Play Aces
Cracking Aces
Barstool Sports
4.6 • 887 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode we talk to the king of the WPT, the man who makes all the important decisions in tournament poker, Matt Savage. He share an awesome story from Chris Moneymaker's win in 2003 that shaped poker history. We also do lots of strat talk including how to properly play aces. If there is a go-to episode, this one is it, enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, Cracking Ace's listeners? You can find every episode on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Prime |
| 0:07.2 | members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:10.8 | Are you pumped up bro? You're... Welcome to the Cracken Aces Podcast. I am Nate. That is Jake. And it's episode I don't know. |
| 0:41.0 | 28 or 29. I don't know. No or 29 no last week was 28 oh we did two last week right we did |
| 0:47.3 | two very good episodes |
| 0:50.0 | yeah there's that's 29 We are recording this on November 20th, 2019. |
| 0:57.0 | And yeah, thanks to everybody who listened last week, two big episodes. |
| 1:01.0 | We did Daniel Nogranuu and then Jason Somerville. |
| 1:05.0 | Both I thought went really well. |
| 1:07.6 | I wish we didn't talk to Daniel as much about the Player of the Year thing because now nobody even |
| 1:11.7 | cares anymore as it tends to happen |
| 1:14.0 | recycled news yeah I did reach out to Doug Polk I was like you want to come on and |
| 1:18.1 | talk about it and he immediately declined he's like I said but I had to say on |
| 1:21.6 | Twitter okay all right, cool man. |
| 1:23.0 | So yeah, thank you to everyone who listened and uh, |
| 1:28.0 | we also got a bunch of new followers on Twitter and Instagram which was very cool. |
| 1:34.0 | I think a lot of pages are growing. |
| 1:37.0 | Yeah, we got a bump from the Barcelona sports main account on Instagram, |
| 1:41.0 | which always helps a ton. |
| 1:43.0 | And we just, you know, we had a couple things |
| 1:45.2 | go poker viral on Twitter, which always helps out a bunch |
| 1:48.6 | when people smash that retweet. |
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