PokerNews Podcast 489: Jaime and Matt Staples
Hello PN Pod fans! Hope you're having a great week. On this week's episode, Jaime and Matt Staples join Sarah and Brent to talk about the ultimate sweat and their newest prop bet with Bill Perkins. They talk about growing and maintaining their streaming community and what we can expect moving forward.
In other news, ElkY joins partypoker, Muskan Sethi joins PokerStars and Stephen Chidwick becomes the first U.K.-born player to hit No. 1 on the GPI.
Thanks once again to this week's sponsors: Playground Poker Club, hims, Global Poker and eHarmony.
Show Time Stamps
| 0:13 | Intro |
| 0:30 | Preview of this week's guests: Jaime and Matt Staples |
| 0:40 | Mustache updates. Check out the stache for yourself on the video version of this podcast here. |
| 1:45 | Sponsor: Playground Poker Club Don't miss the $10,000,000 Guarantee North American Millions! |
| 3:45 | The WSOP and 888 Player pools are growing with shared liquidity starting May 1. |
| 6:33 | Sponsor: Global Poker |
| 7:26 | WSOP Player of the Year Changes |
| 15:15 | Sponsor: eHarmony Will Brent find love? Will you? Get a free month using the code: PokerNews |
| 18:50 | Teaser: Upcoming bonus episode with Scotty Nguyen |
| 19:44 | Elky joins partypoker |
| 21:35 | Sponsor: hims Get your $5 trial here. |
| 23:42 | Jaime's Twitch channel. Matt's Twitch channel. |
| 24:30 | Interview Segment with Jaime and Matt Staples sponsored by Playground Poker Club. Follow them on Twitter, Jaime and Matt. |
| 25:25 | #ourfirstfourway |
| 25:49 | Jaime and Matt, you just won $150,000 what did you do next? |
| 27:47 | New Bet Alert: Both brothers have a year to get below 10% body fat. |
| 30:09 | How did the weight gain effect Matt? |
| 33:52 | Managing their busy schedules between prop bets, streaming and everything else. |
| 37:23 | Jaime might skip the WSOP in favor of streaming. |
| 40:05 | How did Matt find his way into streaming and what does he think about sharing the streaming space with his brother. |
| 42:04 | Approaching your audience and keeping up with content. |
| 44:44 | Run It Up is the best? Yes. |
| 46:35 | Community growth |
| 49:42 | Interview segment brought to you by our Sponsor: Playground Poker Club Don't miss the $10,000,000 Guarantee North American Millions! |
| 49:55 | Stephen Chidwick takes top spot in the GPI |
| 55:27 | Muskan Sethi Signs with PokerStars |
| 56:59 | Stay tuned for our bonus Scotty Nguyen episode coming soon. |
| 58:22 | Deuces |
| 58:27 | Sponsor: Global Poker |
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