Making $3 Million/Year with Pro Poker Player Jared Bleznick

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jared Bleznick is a pro poker player who dropped out of college to play online in 2007. He started with $1000, and ended up making $100,000 in his first year. Eventually, he transitioned into playing live tournaments like the World Series of Poker.

In his prime, he made $3 million dollars per year! Now, he just plays poker for fun and runs a successful sports card business, Blez Sports Cards, with his brothers.

Jared knows what it’s like to win big and lose big at the game of poker. In this episode, he dives into the most money he’s ever won and lost in a hand, how he handles big losses, what he spends money on, and more.

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0:00.0	When I lose it hits me for like the first six eight hours and then I'm just I'm over it
0:06.2	Honestly every time I have a bad experience in poker I appreciate the good things in life and I reflect on that and then it kind of makes me realize I'm just
0:15.8	lucky to be where I am.
0:20.0	What is up you beautiful bastards?
0:21.0	It is your boy Electroly, aka
0:22.6	Rabbi Cantloose, aka Noah Kagan. And did his episode I talked to a pro poker
0:26.4	player. His name is Jared Blesnick. Now Jared dropped out of college when he was
0:29.5	18 years old to become a poker pro. His mom actually also has a strong gambling background, not gambling
0:34.3	problem and she supported this choice. But his dad, like most other parents, hated it. He started with just
0:38.5	$1,000 as a college dropout and made over a hundred thousand dollars in his first year.
0:43.0	His strategy, if you buy his course, no, just kidding, was to play small until he could play big and it paid off.
0:48.0	In his prime he made three million dollars a year.
0:51.0	Now he just plays poker for fun, but he runs a very successful sports card business.
0:54.8	So you can check it out on YouTube, that's BLEZ sports cards, and their website, The
0:59.4	BLEZ BLEZ.com. If you've ever wanted to learn about what it's like to win big and lose big while playing poker,
1:04.6	you're going to love this episode. In this conversation, learn these three things.
1:07.9	One, how Jared coped with losing $300,000 in one hand?
1:11.6	Ouch.
1:13.0	Two, the biggest mistakes he made in his 20s?
1:14.0	Three, which celebrities actually have good poker games.
1:17.0	You're going to enjoy those three things,
1:18.0	plus a bunch of more ear nuggets along the way.
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