Poker Stories: Nacho Barbero
Poker Stories24 Mar 2023

Poker Stories: Nacho Barbero

Jose Ignacio "Nacho" Barbero was a top-ranked, world-traveling card player long before he ever found poker. The Argentinian discovered the game Magic: The Gathering as a teen, and he was soon leading the national team in global competitions.

After six years as a Magic pro, Barbero made the switch to poker. He broke out in 2010, scoring two of his three Latin American Poker Tour victories along with a win in the EPT London high roller for nearly $900,000. In the years since, he has continued to put up consistent results, while also competing in some of the biggest cash games around.

The last year has been incredibly profitable for Barbero on the felt. In the summer, he won his first gold WSOP bracelet and $587,000. Then in February, he finished fourth at the PokerStars Players Championship for a career-best $1.55 million. After a win and a runner-up showing at the Triton Vietnam series for $1.06 million, and a win in the PokerGO PLO series, Barbero now sits in first place in the 2023 Card Player Player of the Year race.

Highlights from this interview include soccer distractions, the collapse of the Argentinian economy, getting saved by Magic, living in France, having his own sports card, losing big his first online session, winning his first live tournament, getting a poker sponsorship, live reads, a crypto disaster, the comeback begins, a huge final table mistake, catching a very important flight, winning a $500,000 pot from a billionaire, teaching Pokemon, and losing a bitcoin at the UFC.

Episoder(160)

Poker Stories: Jeff Boski

Poker Stories: Jeff Boski

Jeff Sluzinski, a content creator and pro better known to his viewers as Jeff Boski, was one of the pioneer poker vloggers on YouTube. In the last six years, the ACR Poker ambassador has built a sizab...

8 Nov 20231h 19min

Poker Stories: Jesse Lonis

Poker Stories: Jesse Lonis

It took less than four years for Jesse Lonis to climb from $200 tournaments to competing in high rollers with the best players in the world. The New York native kickstarted his career with a World Pok...

11 Okt 202358min

Poker Stories: Daniel Weinman

Poker Stories: Daniel Weinman

Daniel Weinman topped the biggest World Series of Poker main event field in history, outlasting more than 10,000 entrants. Incredibly, he almost didn't play in the event and had to be convinced by fri...

28 Sep 20231h 5min

Poker Stories: Shaun Deeb

Poker Stories: Shaun Deeb

Shaun Deeb was just 16 when he fell in love with poker, hosting tournaments at his home in New York. It wasn't long before he was focusing more on cards than school, and Deeb found himself quickly ris...

1 Sep 20231h 17min

Poker Stories: Mike Gorodinsky

Poker Stories: Mike Gorodinsky

Mike Gorodinsky is a three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, who is coming off a summer where he took down the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. championship for $422,747. The Russian-born pro, who was rai...

11 Aug 20231h 6min

Poker Stories: Stephen Song

Poker Stories: Stephen Song

Stephen Song has been tearing up the tournament circuit for the last few years. The New York-born, Connecticut-raised Song was a childhood chess prodigy who found poker while in college, ultimately ma...

1 Mar 20231h 14min

Poker Stories: Lara Eisenberg

Poker Stories: Lara Eisenberg

Dr. Lara Eisenberg is not a professional poker player, but you wouldn't know it by looking at her results. She has already scored a WSOP Circuit ring, and a World Series of Poker bracelet, taking down...

13 Feb 20231h 3min

Populært innen Fritid

rss-spartsklubben
lydartikler-fra-aftenposten
mil-etter-mil-en-podcast-om-bil
nerdelandslaget
level-backup
interiorradet
jegerpodden
jakt-og-fiskepodden
livet-pa-veien-med-jan-erik-larssen
podme-bio-3
rss-jegerpodden
kaffeskal-med-hollund-krogh
rss-var-forste-kaffe
menn-uten-midje-kan-ogsa-lese
fjellsportpodden
0-100-med-broom-mats-og-remi
villmarksliv
rss-hestenes-klan
hagespiren-podcast
rss-rad-crew-podcast