John Curry on underground poker scene in New York

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   CONNECT:  Subscribe to this channel: https://bit.ly/runchuks-yt Subscribe to newsletter: https://www.runchukspodcast.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/RunchuksP Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/runchukspoker Coaching: https://bit.ly/bts-coaching   PODCAST INFO: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2XlvTro Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2ECWIAF YouTube playlist: https://bit.ly/podcast-yt   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