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Everyone Wanted Daniel Negreanu to Win…He Ended That. Rare Interview With Joe McKeehen!
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- Mar 27, 2026
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Play Poker With the Table 1 Community New players on Phenom Poker can get a 200% deposit bonus up to $2,000. Sign up here: https://play.phenompoker.com/register?r=Table1 OR… come play with us in Las Vegas at Table 1 https://table1.vegas Joe McKeehen didn’t set out to become a poker player. He was just a normal kid from Philly. Played baseball. Played basketball. Wasn’t particularly great at either. Then poker showed up. Not with a big deposit. Not with a secret bankroll. He built it from nothing. Freerolls. Forums. Random people staking him online. No grand master plan. Just clicking buttons and trying to win money. At one point, he was over six figures in makeup playing tournaments with a backer. Still young. Still learning. Still in college. Then things started to turn. He won a major score his senior year of college — about $175,000 . Enough to pay off loans. Enough to believe this might actually work. Then came the summer that changed everything. He had basically bricked the WSOP. No momentum. No heater. Just another grind. Then the Main Event started. Joe says he doesn’t remember much from Day 1 — except leaving to go to the bathroom. By Day 3, he had all the chips. The cards came. People got scared. Everything just worked. Then came the moment everyone remembers. Daniel Negreanu. Cameras everywhere. The whole poker world rooting for the story. They got it in. It was a flip. And Joe won. From there, he ran over the final tables and won the WSOP Main Event. But the story didn’t end there. After the win, people started gunning for him. Pots got bigger. Expectations got louder. And tournament poker kept doing what tournament poker does: You can lose for months. Then the sun shines on you again. In this episode of The Table 1 Podcast, Joe joins Art Parmann and Justin…