Episode 5 - 2012 MAIN EVENT Champ and Player Of The Year Greg Merson

Cracking Aces

Barstool Sports

Sports, Leisure, Games

4.6 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week on Cracking Aces we are joined by the 2012 Main Event champion and Player of the Year, Greg Merson. He talks about coming back from 2.5 bbs to win the Main Event, his most memorable hand of all time, playing high stakes in Macau, his thoughts on the current live and online landscapes, and much more. It's a great hour of insight from a high stakes crusher, enjoy!

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0:00.0	What's up,
0:02.0	listeners? You can find every episode on Apple Podcast, Spotify,
0:06.0	and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon music.
0:11.0	I was in Vegas.
0:12.0	How long were we in Vegas for? I went out for the big 50 on
0:15.9	Saturday morning and then I came back on like Thursday or Friday something like that and then this last Tuesday. That's when I went to the OAR show in New York City and ended up in North Carolina on Wednesday
0:30.7	What time did you guys leave to go down?
0:33.8	I think like 2 a.m. and I woke up at like 9 a.m. in North Carolina.
0:37.5	Did you actually sleep on the bus?
0:38.9	Yeah, in a bunk on the bus.
0:40.8	And then I woke up in a panic.
0:42.2	You know when you wake up in a bed that's
0:43.7	not yours and you're like where am I what happened last night imagine being
0:47.9	moving like on wheels like in a dark bunk where am I am waking up and seeing
0:55.0	Mark Robears next to you?
0:57.0	I just wasn't in New York City and I wasn't on my way to work.
1:02.0	So how did you get get did you fly home? So I ended up staying
1:07.5	Wednesday in Raleigh, North Carolina, because we my band had a show last night in Raleigh. I we did our show last night in Raleigh got
1:15.4	back on the bus drove to Atlanta overnight and I flew out of Atlanta this morning
1:20.1	back I didn't know that yeah Yeah, yeah. So I just I lived on a tour bus for three days, two and a half days.
1:27.0	That's really cool actually.
1:28.0	Yeah, I would recommend. It was fun. It was cool.
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