The Runchuks Podcast is dedicated to exploring the path of success for people who have reached the top both within and surrounding the poker industry. Each episode provides a fascinating insight into the mind of someone who has excelled in poker, business or life. Runchuks brings specialized knowledge to his role as the host. He has been a professional poker player for the past 13 years and can be found in high-stakes PLO cash games around the world and on major online poker sites.
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Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
John Curry is quite familiar with the underground poker scene in New York and Philadelphia. We talked about how those games are organized, how they are run, and what kind of risks everybody’s taking. John shares some crazy personal anecdotes from the time when he was involved in that business, like the story about armed robbery in the game he was running. Expect plenty of fun facts and degen stories.
John is the author of We Run Bad. The story is set right after the housing market crash in the US. There are some really good anecdotes from the underground poker scene, some great characters. It’s dark, it’s funny and I really enjoyed it. I think most poker players would like this book, so check it out here https://amzn.to/3cEzxox
Follow John on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/curry_writer
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OUTLINE:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:19 How John Curry got into writing
00:05:32 The casinos came to town
00:09:30 Moving to New York and sleeping on a couch for one year
00:11:18 The three generations of New York poker games
00:18:53 The gun incident
00:29:33 Running the first home game
00:38:19 Playing in your own game
00:40:14 New York
00:43:30 Why do people play in the underground games?
00:49:27 Casino legislation
00:53:28 The craziest thing that happened while running a home game
01:07:55 The stolen gun
01:18:38 New York home game raids
01:23:51 Home game rake
01:29:33 Rigged games
01:36:45 A word for nits
01:41:10 John Curry
01:44:40 Publishing the book
01:52:43 Self-publishing books
01:57:12 The thing with art
02:03:30 Process of writing a book
02:04:51 "We Run Bad"
02:10:05 Oh, what a loser
02:12:10 Give it a try
02:15:11 Movies
02:22:12 The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind
02:23:44 It's all about how it's written and how it is sold
02:30:03 GameStop short squeeze wave
02:55:07 Ponzi scheme
02:56:52 We Run Bad on Amazon
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