Ep 659 - Chats: Paul O’Reilly Turns Up The FUN!

This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew interview Paul O’Reilly from the Irish Poker Open! Paul shares some stories about the early days of the Open, what it was like operating it in various phases of it’s recent history, why it’s so different from other poker series, how to make poker FUN on and off the felt, helping out those who need it, how he determines what counts as success for JP and him, and we even break some news live in the show about the streaming schedule for the series!

We also feature a new segment with LoriAnn about her experiences living in Las Vegas, we play Stake/Study Stack with Steve O’Dwyer, David Docherty and JP McCann, and we Close The Action with our speed round! Plus of course we raffle away a free prize at the end for folks in the YouTube chat, to help support a local food bank. Join us LIVE on YouTube next Monday at 7:30 ET for free to ask our guests questions in real time, and you can win too!

Find out more about the Irish Poker Open: https://irishpokeropen.com/

We also go over this week's home game results and discuss these topics:

How to help us out - https://rec.poker/support/

Home Games - https://rec.poker/homegame/

Go Premium! - https://rec.poker/premium/

Timestamps:

14:39 Paul describes his role in the poker world

16:08 Paul shares how his beginning in poker

25:09 Circumstances on why selling the company

28:26 People are selling their seats at the lobby

31:36 The magic behind the poker tournaments

39:32 Irish Poker Open: people’s tournament

45:42 Managing competent professional staff

50:22 Over the years: How Paul measures success

56:19 Paul on streaming the ladies event this year

01:00:07 Paul talks about supporting RecPoker at the event

01:11:41 One thing to change in poker

01:29:17 Home Game updates

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