{"podcast":{"title":"Table 1 Podcast","slug":"table-1-podcast-6689197","podcast_index_feed_id":6689197,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/eb164a68/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://table1.vegas","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/39341066/39341066-1697248523645-f596c1063a05f.jpg","author":"Table 1 Podcast","episode_count":136,"summary":"What is The Table 1 Podcast... A podcast where we talk poker, gambling, and all manner of life experiences on and off the felt. Sometimes we have famous guests on who do it with us. Join us for a laugh or three!","last_synced_at":"2026-06-28T16:17:12.173496+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/table-1-podcast-6689197"},"episode":{"title":"He Parties Like A Tourist…And Plays Poker Like A Killer.","slug":"he-parties-like-a-tourist-and-plays-poker-like-a-killer","published_at":"2026-06-13T18:33:20+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/table-1-podcast-6689197/he-parties-like-a-tourist-and-plays-poker-like-a-killer","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/table-1-podcast-6689197","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/table-1-podcast/episodes/He-Parties-Like-A-TouristAnd-Plays-Poker-Like-A-Killer-e3ko8bg","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO2364671118.mp3","summary":"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…","meta_description":"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 co…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4070,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/table-1-podcast-6689197/episodes/he-parties-like-a-tourist-and-plays-poker-like-a-killer/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/table-1-podcast-6689197/he-parties-like-a-tourist-and-plays-poker-like-a-killer.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}