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unfortunately my co-host Tracy Alaway is out this week and it's especially unfortunate because we're going to be discussing one of Tracy's favorite topics and that is poker.

And of course, as longtime listeners know know that's kind of a joke because it is not one of

Tracy's favorite topics. It's one of my favorite topics and she always reluctantly agrees to do these episodes on this subject.

Nonetheless, she would have actually wanted to make this one.

It just didn't work scheduling wise,

because today we are not only speaking to one of the most

successful poker players of all time and in fact by one measure the most successful

poker player of all time. The guest today got his start, not by playing poker, but by playing a game that Tracy herself is really interested in, genuinely, which is not poker so without further ado I want to bring in our

guest today and talk about how he became successful how he got his start in the game

Brin Kenny thank you very much for joining us.

It feels, yeah, great to be here.

You are by one ranking the number one most winningest tournament poker player of all time

there's this database called the Hendon Mob it tracks tournament winnings and

you're number one on there right? Yeah which is pretty cool I mean actually for a long time I

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