This is The Labor.

Welcome to Money Talks.

This is David Meltzer.

I am so excited to be here with our first guest, Jason Coons, with OTIA, one team, international

agency, and one of the best professional poker players in the world.

Welcome to Money Talks, Jason.

David, thank you so much for having me on.

I really appreciate it, man.

You know, you have ventured into so many different things, but the two things that I want to talk

about because money is such a prominent issue is one, collectibles and two, playing poker.

And for some reason, so many people that are in the collectible business, whether it be

gold, silver, coins, stamps, cards, NFTs, whatever it may be, they seem also to be poker

players.

What is the commonality between either strategy or timing of playing poker and collectibles?

So I think there's a couple of different things we could talk about one.

I mean, there's obviously the, in business, obviously, you want to make money, but there's

also the feeling of winning in a deal.

So I think that kind of cross references into poker.

Everybody wants to win, but, you know, some people hit a certain level in poker where

they don't need the money anymore, but they still enjoy the rush of winning and there's

the reading people, which plays back into business.

Like when you're negotiating a deal, a lot of that comes down into your reading of the

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