The Poker Coach Who Tells You NOT To Quit Your Job
The Table 1 Podcast
11,180 views
Poker was never the plan.
Marc Goone wanted to rap.
That was the dream.
Music.
Studios.
Videos.
A real shot at making it.
Poker was just the thing on the side.
Until life got louder.
Selling weed.
Getting robbed at gunpoint.
Trying to figure out who he was.
Moving to LA with $7,500.
Taking poker seriously because, at some point, the “backup plan” starts looking a lot more real than the dream.
Then everything changed.
Marc went from music to poker…
from low stakes to private games…
from trying to make it as a player to building one of the most interesting poker education brands in the game.
In this episode of The Table 1 Podcast, Marc joins Art Parmann and Justin Young to talk through the whole ride:
♠️ Growing up in St. Louis
♥️ Chasing music before poker
♦️ Getting robbed at gunpoint
♣️ Moving to LA with $7,500
♠️ Learning how private games really work
♥️ Why most people should NOT quit their job to play poker
♦️ The ceiling of private games
♣️ Building a staking stable
♠️ Why live poker is still deeply human
♥️ Why charts and solvers only get you so far
♦️ Building Hungry Horse into a real poker training business
We also get into:
why the best pros stay private
why live poker is not “solved”
why private games might have saved poker
what most low-stakes players get wrong
how to actually get better at live cash
and why poker advice is usually way too clean for a game this messy.
This one is not just a strategy episode.
It’s a story about reinvention.
The dream didn’t work out the way Marc thought it would.
So he found another way out.
And somehow, that way out became poker.
👇 Drop a comment:
Do you think private games are good or bad for poker?
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00:00 — Intro + Hungry Horse Poker
03:33 — Grandpa, Utopia & First Poker
10:27 — Moving to LA for Music
11:39 — Robbed at Gunpoint
13:24 — Moving to LA With $7.5K
14:40 — “Don’t Quit Your Job”
23:17 — Hitting the Private Game Ceiling
25:54 — Staking Players & Building a Stable
30:47 — Pivoting Into Hungry Horse
47:20 — Why Private Games Matter
1:05:41 — Live Poker Mistakes Pros Make
1:09:41 — The Future of Hungry Horse
Marc’s Links:
Hungry Horse Poker:
https://hungryhorsepoker.com
X- https://x.com/marcgoone
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The Poker Coach Who Tells You NOT To Quit Your Job
The Table 1 Podcast
11,180 views
Poker was never the plan.
Marc Goone wanted to rap.
That was the dream.
Music.
Studios.
Videos.
A real shot at making it.
Poker was just the thing on the side.
Until life got louder.
Selling weed.
Getting robbed at gunpoint.
Trying to figure out who he was.
Moving to LA with $7,500.
Taking poker seriously because, at some point, the “backup plan” starts looking a lot more real than the dream.
Then everything changed.
Marc went from music to poker…
from low stakes to private games…
from trying to make it as a player to building one of the most interesting poker education brands in the game.
In this episode of The Table 1 Podcast, Marc joins Art Parmann and Justin Young to talk through the whole ride:
♠️ Growing up in St. Louis
♥️ Chasing music before poker
♦️ Getting robbed at gunpoint
♣️ Moving to LA with $7,500
♠️ Learning how private games really work
♥️ Why most people should NOT quit their job to play poker
♦️ The ceiling of private games
♣️ Building a staking stable
♠️ Why live poker is still deeply human
♥️ Why charts and solvers only get you so far
♦️ Building Hungry Horse into a real poker training business
We also get into:
why the best pros stay private
why live poker is not “solved”
why private games might have saved poker
what most low-stakes players get wrong
how to actually get better at live cash
and why poker advice is usually way too clean for a game this messy.
This one is not just a strategy episode.
It’s a story about reinvention.
The dream didn’t work out the way Marc thought it would.
So he found another way out.
And somehow, that way out became poker.
👇 Drop a comment:
Do you think private games are good or bad for poker?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
00:00 — Intro + Hungry Horse Poker
03:33 — Grandpa, Utopia & First Poker
10:27 — Moving to LA for Music
11:39 — Robbed at Gunpoint
13:24 — Moving to LA With $7.5K
14:40 — “Don’t Quit Your Job”
23:17 — Hitting the Private Game Ceiling
25:54 — Staking Players & Building a Stable
30:47 — Pivoting Into Hungry Horse
47:20 — Why Private Games Matter
1:05:41 — Live Poker Mistakes Pros Make
1:09:41 — The Future of Hungry Horse
Marc’s Links:
Hungry Horse Poker:
https://hungryhorsepoker.com
X- https://x.com/marcgoone
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
T1 Links
Play with us:
https://table1.vegas
Card Player Magazine:
https://table1.vegas/cardplayer
Follow us:
X - https://x.com/table1vegas
IG - Instagram: table1vegas