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“Every Day is Great...When You’ve Been in a Cage”
High Stakes Vegas. In Your Inbox.
Episode #93 – Brian Green: From Prison to Poker Glory

If you’re new around here, every week we sift through the degen streets. Looking for that perfect person to sit across from and ask “What got you into this messed up life with us?”
🧨 This Week’s Headliner
“Every day is great...when you’ve been in a cage.”
Meet Brian Green – the bracelet winner with a rap sheet. On this week’s episode, he opens up about:
Playing poker at age 7 at his great-grandpa’s funeral
Becoming a weed dealer at 11
Running dice games out of a garage at 12
Doing 6 years in max security prison by 18
Final tabling the $1M One Drop and winning a WSOP bracelet
Losing $174K in 3 minutes and laughing about it
And why A9 is both his nemesis and his savior
This episode is raw, funny, emotional, and wild — like if Rounders and Blow had a baby and it entered the Main.
But before we start, wouldn’t it be great to enjoy this episode while stacking tokens (and chips) over at Phenom Poker? Come on…
🎰 Play Where We Play
✅ You’ve got two options:
Live the dream. Come play with us at Table 1 in Vegas.
Stack online. Play on Phenom Poker and get a 200% deposit bonus.
Brian’s on there. We’re on there.
You could be next. Earn while you learn baby.
✋ Hand of the Week
Jacks vs A9o for $5 million.
You already know how it ends.
But if you want to hear the only poker hand Brian still has nightmares about, he tells it in full — and yeah, it's that hand vs Fedor Holz.
💬 Quote of the Week
“Let’s gamble. F* it.”**
— Brian Green, explaining Queen-Ten suited
🔥 Heat of the Week
🎰 The best feeling in the world is gambling and winning. The second best feeling? Gambling and losing.

If you like your poker content high-stakes, hilarious, and a little broken — this one’s for you.
See you next week,
— Art & Justin
🃏 @artparmann & @justinyoung07
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Cheers,
Art and Justin

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