Episode 11 - Travis Jonas

Travis Jonas is probably one of the most entertaining guests we've had on the show.  He was a professional dealer and poker player before and after the Moneymaker era.  Travis has stories of dealing some of the biggest games in Vegas, including Pros such as Johnny Chan, TJ Cloutier, Phil Hellmuth, and Phil Ivey.  When he was getting started in his career he was backed by Phil Ivey.  Travis won a bracelet in the 2001 Dealers Event in Limit Holdem.  He also tells an awesome story of how he took $100 to the craps tables in Vegas and turned it into $68,000 over the weekend!  We really enjoyed this interview and we know you will too.   Intro: Welcome, results from Steve and Mike's Sunday Online grind. Strategy hands one from Steve and one from Mike.   Welcome Travis: The LA Tournament - Travis KJ Travis' start in poker, TJ Cloutier, Minh the Master, 2/4 Limit - 3/6 Limit, Panguingue (PAN), starting as a dealer, dealing for Tony Deeb, Johnny Chan and Frank Henderson, $200,000 pots, winning a bracelet in 2001, Winning a prop bet with Phil Hellmuth and being interviewed by him 2 years later, being backed by Phil Ivey for tournaments and super satelites, watching Phil Ivey play stud for 1 1/2 months at the Commerce Casino, 2004 best weekend in Vegas of his gambling career - turning $100 into $68,000 in a weekend, investments in stocks, winning a degen bet with Layne Flack, and one last strategy hand - pocket sevens in late position.   Steve's HH:  2/3 NL UTG 3 (300) Villain EP 3 MP1 3 MP2 3 (300) Hero As5s CO 3 SB 3 BB 3 Flop (21) Ac 4c 7s SB ck BB ck UTG ck Villain 17 MP1 fold MP2 fold Hero 17 SB and BB fold Turn (55) Jh Villain 25 Hero 25 River (105) 7c Villain 25 Hero 25 Villain shows AKo   Mike HH:  5/5/10 (1460) Hero UTG AxKd 40 folds around to Villain in the straddle 40 Flop (90) Ax Td 7x rainbow Villain ck Hero 60 Villain 60 Turn (210) 8d Villain ck Hero ck River (210) 5d Villain ck Hero 200 Villain shoves for 1160 more.  Pot is 1770 and it's 1160 for Mike to call. Hero calls and Villain shows 89o for a pair of eights.   Steve HH:  2/3 NL (300) Villain UTG 3 MP 3 (300) Hero CO 7c7s calls 3 SB 3 BB 3 Flop (15) 2d 2h Jc SB ck BB ck UTG ck MP ck Hero 12 SB, BB fold Villain UTG calls 12 MP folds Turn (34) 4d Villain ck Hero 35 Villain 35 River (104) 3c Villain 30 Hero 30 Villain shows 99   Thank you for listening.  Hope you enjoyed the show.  Have a great week and we will be on next week interviewing Steve's Mom.   Twitter Facebook Blog [email protected]