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Cracking Aces

Ep 79 - Nearly 2 Hours With Jason Koon

Cracking Aces

Barstool Sports

Sports, Leisure, Games

4.6887 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

We talk to mega high stakes poker player for almost 2 hours about everything from grinding up a bankroll, the biggest games he ever played with million dollar swings, Ivey and Dwan stories, how his life has gotten to the point he's at now, the pressure of playing the biggest games in the world, advice to amateurs, and so much more. Jason is possibly the best guest we've ever had on.


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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.

0:10.9

Jason Coon, bit of a ledge. Absolutely. What do you know about him?

0:17.0

I mean, you know, we, we, uh, used to play a lot together back in the back in the full tilt days

0:27.6

black Friday days yeah guys grinded the ranks together yeah I mean it's it's honestly it's his rise to

0:38.0

where he's currently at is incredible. It's incredibly impressive. He's a competitive guy who's had success at every level of poker that he's tested himself at.

0:52.0

Yeah, so people who don't know.

0:54.3

Jason Kuhn plays ultra high stakes poker,

0:56.7

cash games, and tournaments.

0:58.0

He's a regular on the high roller circuit.

1:01.5

I believe he has played in the Macau games. We can ask him

1:04.1

Yeah, oh yeah about those games. I mean he's played in the Triton televised games where it's

1:08.6

been like 2K4K a K. Yes, he's played at every level. I put out on Instagram and Twitter any questions people have for him. A lot of people just want to know like, what are the highest games you've ever played? Like, when when and we can follow that up with like is there any

1:25.4

stakes you don't feel comfortable with uh you know what percentage do you keep of yourself in these high stakes games

1:32.2

if you want to learn more a lot of keep of yourself in these high stakes games.

1:33.2

If you want to learn more, a lot of times he goes on podcast

1:36.2

and he talks about the same stuff, like his childhood,

1:39.0

he had a rough upbringing, you know,

1:41.3

former athlete, he was like a track star turned poker player we don't have to get way

1:45.2

into that stuff I I feel like you know every time they do should we have you guys race

1:50.7

fuck no but I feel like every time they put out like a Spider-Man movie, you always have to watch the same backstory over and over again.

1:59.5

So I don't really want to do that.

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