S1E9: Scott Blumstein |The Deuce of Hearts

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I am a huge poker enthusiast. I like poker much more than I am good at it. That is not true of this episode’s guest, American poker player Scott Blumstein.

Blumstein graduated from Temple University with an accounting degree before becoming a professional poker player.

Last summer, he entered his first World Series of Poker Main Event, along with over 7000 other hopeful players.

Outlasting everyone in a week plus of poker play, Scott Blumstein won the World Series of Poker Main Event, a coveted WSOP bracelet and $8,150,000.

He won in dramatic fashion when the Deuce of Hearts landed on the river (which for you non-poker players was one of only 3 cards that could have won him the event).

In this episode we explore Scott’s story and his views of higher education and how he went from online player to a poker World Champ.

Not surprisingly his favorite card in the deck is now the 2 of Hearts.

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S1E8: Rich Middlemas |My Bromance with Brad Pitt

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Rich Middlemas won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for producing the high school football story UNDEFEATED.

Rich began his career in Hollywood working in the office of the President at MGM Studios working on films such as Legally Blonde, Agent Cody Banks, Barbershop and James Bond film, Die Another Day.

Rich Middlemas graduated from University of Tennessee’s College of Communication and Information with a BS in broadcasting.

In this episode, Rich shares his Oscar experience as we follow the journey from making a little football documentary to getting into SXSW’s film festival, to his bromance with Bratt Pitt at the Oscar nominations luncheon, to going on stage to accept the little gold statute.

We are happy to report Rich’s Oscar is no longer in a paper bag in his cupboard, but you’ll have to ask to find out what place of prominence it now lives.

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