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Jason Koon

@JasonKoon

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Spent five years in college to work three weeks and quit. Now I play poker. Triton Tournament Series Ambassador.

Joined November 2009
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
2 years
Just kidding.
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
2 years
There need to be higher-stakes repercussions for people who are continually caught cheating at online poker; It is in the best interest of the entire poker community. In my opinion, the major live-tournament stops should share a blacklist of online poker's worst cheaters.
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
2 years
Let’s do it. See you this summer!
@pokerman6620
James Brady
2 years
It has been a long time goal of mine to go to the WSOP. My disability makes such a trip not a simple undertaking. @JasonKoon is soon picking someone to play with him in the Tag Team event. Retweet this if you think he should pick me. ( @Liv_Boeree is sadly already partnered)
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
2 years
1/6 a thread. Here is why the @phil_hellmuth 3b and call off with Q4o wasn’t as bad as it looks.
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
2 years
Play thousands of hours and study thousands more. Overcome tough competition. Beat the rake. Don’t get cheated. Don’t get stiffed. Pay all your taxes and never get a refund on losing years. Seems easy enough.
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
2 years
Woot
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
2 years
I know it's been said a thousand times but we need giant chip stacks in the main event. In every other tourney, color us up as much as you want, but in the main you gotta have mountains of chips! @WSOP
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Jason Koon
2 years
It would be cool to play a tourney where each player is given a "run it twice" chip they get to use one time they are all-in at any point. I'm sure there are lots of angles I haven't thought of, but if there was a way to implement it honestly, it could be interesting. Thoughts?
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I never know how much longer this poker thing will go on; A lot longer, maybe not? I don't know if it was having kids or just getting older, but I feel these moments fleeting past and am much more present when I play. I observe the crew I've been competing against for so long.
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@JasonKoon
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3 months
GGPoker and I have gone our separate ways. I wish them continued success. @GGPoker
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Jason Koon
2 years
The Great Bambino @philivey
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
2 years
4th Triton Title! Lets Gooooooo
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Jason Koon
1 year
Wealth giving people the time and security to work on themselves is a blessing I was completely oblivious to until I could afford it. Many people don't have their shit together because they've been too busy trying to figure out how to make ends meet.
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Jason Koon
1 year
Thanks to @PokerGO for putting on the PGT Championship.
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Jason Koon
2 years
😂
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
2 years
One thing that becomes more obvious as the years keep burning by is that we only get a finite amount of time with one another. I’m lucky to be surrounded by people I love and can’t wait to take on 2022 with them. Happy New Year, may we all prioritize the loved ones in our lives!
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Jason Koon
2 years
Who wants to be my tag-team partner at this year's @WSOP ? I'll put up all the money but whatever money we win we have to donate to @DoubleUpDrive .
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Jason Koon
2 years
The legend @phil_hellmuth and I will be playing each other in a $800,000 buy-in heads up match!
@PokerGO
PokerGO
2 years
Jason Koon ( @JasonKoon ) has been selected to challenge Phil Hellmuth ( @phil_hellmuth ) but Phil has told us he will no longer play on the originally scheduled date. Unfortunately, HSD3 Round 5, scheduled for broadcast on Aug 22, is postponed.
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Jason Koon
2 years
There are so many situations in poker (the one area I am an expert) where I would say I was 99% certain about a situation being correct or incorrect, just to find out I was way off. It feels like there is a personal lesson to be learned here.
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
2 years
My first year at the @WSOP I past @ikepoker in the hallway. He had no idea who I was; I nervously asked him if he would play me on a heads up poker arcade for no money and he happily agreed. Completely made my summer.
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Jason Koon
1 year
Dan is a good guy. We have differing opinions on table etiquette, that’s all. My timing was bad, tensions were high. The guy doesn’t deserve any grief, please be kind.
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Jason Koon
2 years
Mainly me talking to myself again here... Don't embrace programmed bad habits as being a part of who you are. If you handle things poorly, it's on you to fix them. You owe it to yourself and to the others you care about around you.
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Jason Koon
2 years
One thing that stands out to me in poker is that as you climb the stakes there is a shift from the best players being overly aggro and taking every pot to the best players being much more defensive and protected. This also stands out to me watching e-sports and boxing.
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Jason Koon
1 year
I really don't get all the hate for this fella's reading list. He's trying to read a book a week, which is pretty damn impressive, regardless of what level you rate them. I can relate to needing to catch up on books people from more educated areas were exposed to when young.
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Sam Greenwood
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@AliceFromQueens I'm a Philistine who doesn't read books and even I know this list is the literary equivalent of having a Scarface poster in your dorm room.
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Jason Koon
2 months
Flopping Royal Flushes over here @tritonpoker Jeju!
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Couldn’t do 1 Nordic 8 months ago!
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
2 years
👋
@PokerGO
PokerGO
2 years
Due to personal reasons, Scott Seiver has withdrawn from his upcoming HSD 3 Round 5 match with Phil Hellmuth ( @phil_hellmuth ). Who wants to step up and challenge Phil Hellmuth? You need $800K and to let us know by Monday, Aug 15 at 3PM PT*.
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1 year
@phil_hellmuth Thanks for the kind words Phil 🤝 Good game my friend.
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1 year
@cuntycakes123 People are free to say whatever they want about me. If I’m out of line, I should be held accountable just like anyone else. My timing for addressing the situation was horrible and something I wish u could take back. It was an issue that had been brewing in me and clearly I should
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Jason Koon
2 years
The legend! 🤠
@TexDolly
Doyle Brunson Legacy
2 years
Good buddy
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Jason Koon
1 year
It isn't a perfect analogy but it feels very similar to gym rats making fun of newcomers trying to better themselves; it just always rubbed me the wrong way. I've seen hundreds of comments of people mocking Lex for this list and the dude is just trying to learn.
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Jason Koon
1 year
The wait is over, today is the day! @PokerGO #HighStakesDuel
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
1 year
@RealKidPoker It isn’t talked about as much but I think the rule also keeps some players from making calls they would otherwise make if they knew they didn’t have to worry about being embarrassed when their hand is flipped over.
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Jason Koon
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@Girafganger7 @JuanMalakastyle personal favorite moment of poker streaming.
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
1 month
There are a lot of reasons why @tritonpoker has been so successful. The main one that stands out to me is all of the players are given a true VIP experience. Our next stop is at one of my favorite poker venues in the world, Maestral Resort in Budva, Montenegro.
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Jason Koon
1 year
I completely agree with Rob here. As tools get better live RTA could get out of hand really quickly. Live operators need to put their heads together and work on policing this now.
@rob_yong_
Rob Yong
1 year
Players using solvers in live MTT at anytime is🤮4 poker Operators & pros make lame excuse “you can’t ban it cause can’t be policed well enuf” The harder to police a rule -the harsher you make the penalty-creates environment of self policing & stops 99% of problem. KTF Rob🚫
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Jason Koon
1 year
@PhilGalfond Don’t forget people were also mocked for betting larger than the pot. Basically if you didn’t bet 66% pot as your only bet in every situation you were a fish. Preset buttons were 66% 75% 85% 🤣
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Jason Koon
2 years
A little different for me. A good % of my best friends are people I’ve met in poker and have been close with for over a decade. Even though we compete against one another, they have always been genuinely happy for me and my success and have picked me up when I needed it most.
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Garrett Adelstein
2 years
@JasonKoon Friendly with everyone, close with almost no one in poker for this reason. The nature of the game itself creates this toxicity despite plenty of well meaning people.
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Jason Koon
2 years
Go Dads!
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Jason Koon
3 months
@PhilGalfond I was playing a game recently and a player said to Bobby Baldwin, “How are you gonna give me a hard time right now when you know I’m at the tail end of a huge downswing.” Bobby then replied “What makes you think it’s the tail end!”
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
2 years
@Ninja I’ll fly you and your brother-in-law to Madrid right now, back your bags and tell the fam you guys will be back in 2 weeks!
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Jason Koon
1 year
Who looked cooler than Johnny Moss?
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Jason Koon
1 year
Phil “The Sandman” Galfond. What could have been if I’d found you at 13?
@PhilGalfond
Phil Galfond
1 year
I’m taking my YouTube channel, and poker training, in an entirely new direction. Watch now: Let’s change some lives!
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Jason Koon
2 years
@Ninja You gotta play a Triton bro.
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Jason Koon
10 months
Congratulations to @notontilt09 an easy guy to root for and deserving Main Event champ!
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Jason Koon
9 months
@PhilGalfond I find rationality a paradox in poker. Understanding variance and what is truly in your control is crucial, but I wholeheartedly believe that you need to have unwavering faith in your abilities to push yourself to the highest levels. Do you think that holding yourself to
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@RobinPoker_ @GGPoker Remember every mistake, but be quick to forgive yourself.
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
2 years
@RealKidPoker @kurt23x @whoisalexjacob @acalabrese39 @RealKidPoker is getting bombarded by fans constantly at the series and it always blows my mind how giving he is with his energy.
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Jason Koon
1 year
@CrownUpGuy @bestindabiz51 @nanonoko @Ali_Nejad It's a function of how polar the sb limp is. The range is TT+ and a bunch of bottom vpip's like T5o,96o,73s etc. Shoving a hand like A2o, K3o blocks traps and unblocks limp-folds. You also don't need as much protection with TT as you think you do bc sb was all-in with big cards.
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The final stop of this season's @tritonpoker series is just a few weeks away. In the player of the year race, it's coming down to the wire; let's finish strong!
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Jason Koon
1 year
@jeremyausmus I love four-color decks, the one argument that has been made to me that makes some sense is that spotting what color the card was becomes twice as powerful.
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Jason Koon
1 year
Saw a funny clip of this pro bowler so I looked up some highlights and it’s just him bowling strikes repeatedly.
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Jason Koon
1 year
@Dweisman13 @RealKidPoker Gratitude for the moment helps me. I realize that I won't be doing this sorta thing forever, and being deep in the grind is exhausting and, at times, not very fun, but when it's all said and done, I'm sure I'll look back and have a deep appreciation for the experiences.
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
1 year
@ToddBrunson I’m so sorry. Rest is peace legend.
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Jason Koon
2 years
@phil_hellmuth I believe whole-heartedly that you thought you were being generous. It's also very difficult in situations like these, when you're in the chair and are trying to come to a fair compromise in a matter of seconds. I had the luxury of thinking about it for as long as I wanted.
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
2 years
@IMATM_1 @phil_hellmuth let me reword my deleted tweet w/ more detail. I feel very strongly that Phil did not angle here. The whole hand was a mess. In the end he offered the guy a 5k buy-out which is a great deal if PH had already called. Since he hadn't, IMO I wouldn't have made the guy pay anything.
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Jason Koon
1 year
I joined PocketFives when I was in college, happy to give the community a sweat. I’m selling 1% at face value, max piece size is 80 bucks.
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PokerStake
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Next week on @PokerGO , @JasonKoon will be trying to end Hellmuth’s reign on top of the Heads up world! Join Team Koon here
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Jason Koon
1 year
@ColeSouth Live mtt had a whole group of "play like they stole it's" the last few years and literally everyone of them stole it.
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
2 years
@berkey11 @helloitslynne @BiancaSparacino I’m with you 100% here Matt. If people need a special day to reflect and think of a list of people they want to send a simple message of gratitude to, that is wonderful.
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Jason Koon
2 years
@Ninja Ok. Book it!
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@JasonKoon
Jason Koon
2 years
@padspoker Doubt anyone loves it more. You have a great attitude towards the game, it’s refreshing!
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Jason Koon
2 years
@DougPolkVids I certainly don’t have the answer for this, but poker is filled with intelligent people who all want safer places to play. Form groups of people from different orgs to get together and examine cases and vote. There would need to be different degrees of penalties per offense.
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Jason Koon
2 years
@briankoppelman What's fascinating about poker is how we are all ignorant of how bad we play because the game is so infinitely complex. When we "played great," we only did so from within our own limitations.
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Jason Koon
2 years
@hubermanlab Hi! Mind helping me with this Q? I eat a lot of salt, almost always healthy things but I go pretty hard as long as it tastes good to me. I live a very clean and train hard + good blood work. I'm worried the high levels of salt could run me down long term? Thanks!
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Jason Koon
2 years
@CrownUpGuy Legend no doubt.
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Jason Koon
2 years
@hubermanlab You can say the same for poker! If you ever want to give it a try I can show you the way. The least I could do with all you’ve done for us. It’s basically impossible to sit at a table without your podcast coming up.
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@GmanPoker @Andrew_Robl @rob_yong_ @PokerVincent @PokerGO @BrokeLivingJRB I didn't even see what the tweet was about, I just love any opportunity to tell Robl I'd back him. My jokes truly are getting worse by the second ever since I had my kid.
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@JonathanDepa @Chris_D_Brewer I appreciate the kind words, Jon.
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Jason Koon
2 years
@strassa2 @bparispoker @DTOPoker Not only are you a nuts underdog in proportional weight but you’re just an equity underdog on this flop. This node just has both players playing pretty passively because top pairs rarely get sucked out on, the way ahead or way behind scenario.
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@WimAnne @Ghilleyyy Looking into all of this.
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Jason Koon
2 years
@Chris_D_Brewer I’m definitely gonna wear mine to play in soon because of this.
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Jason Koon
2 years
@NicsPicks Just isn't true. There is no level of academic accomplishment that guarantees someone will be an elite poker player. If that were the case the world's leading mathematicians, game theorists, etc. would leave their research and teaching gigs that pay 5-6 figs a yr. to come make 7.
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Jason Koon
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@Ghilleyyy @GGPoker Statement on the way soon.
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Jason Koon
2 years
@GGPoker On July 5th we mentioned this. Players are welcome to apply for review, (this does not mean all applications will be accepted). Many players have been banned for 2+ years for infractions like extensive preflop charts, that don’t deserve life. Heavy cheaters are gone for good.
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Jason Koon
2 years
@ikepoker “It gets me to mentally leave this nice person and understand that, ‘Hey, for the next three hours, you got to be someone different in between the lines.’”
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@RealKidPoker @BillyM2k @MariaHo I never use treadmill desks, I’ve tried a few times just couldn’t focus. Getting away from a screen is half the bonus of walking for me anyway.
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Jason Koon
1 year
So so good.
@jeremyausmus
Jeremy Ausmus
1 year
I wrote a poker song
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Jason Koon
2 years
@chriskruk4 @scott_seiver One of the most power motivators but unsustainable and doesn’t serve you. Was my main fuel for 25 years.
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Jason Koon
1 year
I recently got a @prenuvo scan and would highly recommend it.
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Jason Koon
2 years
@jeremyausmus Sounds like you listened to @hubermanlab on booze. He hit us with some hard truths 🥲
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@Girafganger7 Incredible.
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Jason Koon
2 years
@pokerman6620 @mauricehawkins We will get them next time buddy, awesome meeting you!
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2 years
@berkey11 Love it!
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Jason Koon
1 year
@RealKidPoker @poodawgmelissa @hubermanlab give it 10 days. I think you're just feeling caffeine withdrawal because you're so scheduled with it and your body is like wtf.
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Jason Koon
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@ToddWitteles This 100% was not super-using and this case has already been resolved. There are lots of cases of promotion abusers slow chip dumping at micros that makes one person have an astronomical win rate until they are caught.
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Jason Koon
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@SquidPoker He really is one of the best to ever do it.
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