# He Parties Like A Tourist…And Plays Poker Like A Killer.

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Published: 2026-06-13T18:33:20+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/table-1-podcast/episodes/He-Parties-Like-A-TouristAnd-Plays-Poker-Like-A-Killer-e3ko8bg
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## Resource

Francis Anderson quit running the day his little brother beat him. Poker was different. That one stuck. Francis grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, in a competitive family. Road races on the weekends. Soccer. School. A normal path. Then college happened. University of Albany. Accounting major. Study room poker games. $5 and $10 buy-ins. And then Jamie Gold won the 2006 WSOP Main Event. For a lot of people, Moneymaker was the moment. For Francis? It was Jamie Gold talking people into doing the wrong thing for $12 million. From there, poker got serious fast. He started playing online, driving to Turning Stone, grinding $150 nightlies with a tiny bankroll, and building a network through PocketFives and AOL Instant Messenger. Then he satellited into the Sunday Brawl, got 7th for around $10K, and told his mom he was dropping out of college. As one does. In this episode of The Table 1 Podcast, Francis joins Art Parmann and Justin Young to talk through the full ride: ♠️ Finding poker during the Jamie Gold WSOP era ♥️ Dropping out after a Sunday Brawl score ♦️ Black Friday and the Costa Rica online poker migration ♣️ Grinding with David Peters and seeing elite work ethic up close ♠️ Moving to Vegas with a tiny bankroll ♥️ Getting crushed, going nearly broke, and rebuilding ♦️ Wearing a cowboy hat and mask to disguise himself in the Monster Stack ♣️ Turning a $5K bankroll into a massive WSOP score ♠️ Winning the $800 Independence Day event for $500K ♥️ Becoming Main Event chip leader the next day ♦️ Back-to-back WPT final tables ♣️ Why he still shows up early for $800s and $1Ks This one is a real grinder story. Not overnight success. Not one heater. A decade-plus of moving countries, rebuilding bankrolls, firing bullets, getting better, and showing up again the next day. Sometim…

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