Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome to a new episode of the Poker
Go Podcast. My name is Donni Peters and I'm flying
solo today to bring you a conversation that I recently
had with Jeremy Osmas. Jeremy, of course needs little introduction.
He's been a guest on this podcast before, but it's
always good to chat with him and to catch up.
I especially wanted to do so coming off of the
big summer that Jeremy had with twenty two dobasipy cashes,
seven final tables and more than three point four million
dollars on. Some of the topics that we hit on were,
of course, his World Series of Poker. We hit on
selling tournament action with Jeremy often does, and he has
some action now up on poker steak dot com for
the Super High Roller Series and Super High Roller Bowl
that is taking place in Cyprus. So if you want
a piece of Jeremy, I would go check that out
at poker steak dot com. We also hit on the
Hall of Fame and then we talked about the Olympian
in Jeremy's family. Hope you guys enjoy here's the interview.
All right, Welcome to the show. Jeremy Osmas. As many
of our listeners know, this isn't the first time that
you and I have spoken, but it's always it's always
good to catch up see how things are going. Thank
you for joining, sir.
Speaker 2: Sure, of course, glad to be here.
Speaker 1: So it's been a month, I think pretty much exactly
since the Divisip has ended. That's the biggest, most jam packed,
possibly grueling time of the year for a tournament player.
What has life been like since the Divissip? Have you
been playing poker at all?
Speaker 2: I played an online session on a Sunday last Sunday,
and I believe that is the only poker I've played since.
So what is it the fourteenth or something? And I
finished up around the twenty second. I took a little
trip to Colorado, been doing fair amount of coaching and
just kind of preparing for this upcoming trip of mine.
It's to Cyprus, getting back into the workouts and the
routine at home, and just spend time with the family.
So not a lot of poker. Is that?
Speaker 1: Is that coaching that you mentioned? Is that you coaching
others or others coaching you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Me coaching others. Yeah, I'm doing more and more
of that these days, Yeah, demands kind of picked up,
so I've kind of started to enjoy it and kind
of from my you know, gotten a good routine with that.
So I like that.
Speaker 1: Do you find it helps your poker game, your poker mind?
Speaker 2: It does. I mean, essentially, you're you're helping someone. You
get to see them grow. That's cool. You you know,
my rate is pretty good money, so that's cool. And
also I'm just looking at sins or talking about poker
and even ideas I have and things like that and
just kind of reinforcing them over and over. So, you know,
depending on the level of student you have, if it's
a high level sent especially, you're kind of just like
studying while you help them too. So it's pretty pretty
efficient use of time basically.
Speaker 1: So coming off the WSP, I think you had twenty
two cashes, seven final tables, which tied the record. You
cash for more than I think it was three point
four million dollars. You were in contention for Player of
the Year. Was a pretty hotly contested battle, most notably
against Scott sever who ultimately went on to win it,
but there was others, you know, in the race pretty close.
You didn't come away from the summer with a bracelet,
though you didn't get Player of the Year. Of course,
how does Jeremy Osmas rate his summer?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean really, I look at it like the
dollars perspective. It's not all about winning the bracelets. And
fortunately for me, I've been ran really well in the
last few years and I've won, you know, five in
the last prior three years to this year, so I'm
kind of okay with my bracelet count these days. And
you know, you always want to win one, and I've
always wanted to win Player of the Year. It is
hard to do without a win. It really is. Like
if you look at the formula, it's just very top heavy.
You almost just have to have a win to be
competing in there. Without a win even was pretty cool,
pretty crazy. I think they improved the formula quite a
bit by making it you know, your top ten results
only because I don't feel like it should be about
who's ever going to play, you know, multiple tables at
once at the World Series and count all the online events.
I feel like the online bracelets shouldn't even count personally,
So I think they've made it. They took a step
in the right direction kind of making that that better,
and I kind of learn about some new techniques if
you're really trying to play the year and a lot
of them, I'm not really down there because you just
kind of burn a lot of money. So certain people
so indeed want most specifically, he goes really out of
his way to do crazy things like not play the
main event or something like that. You know, if he's
on the running for Player the Year, because it's actually
bad for your EV of winning Player the Year, so
and you know you're kind of focus. You give up
dollary V in return for EV and winning Player of
the Year basically. So it's fun. It was great to
be in the race this year. I'm not willing to
go to all the extremes that would make me the
most likely to win it in the future, but anytime
I start off pot at the World Series more than
the first few weeks, I'll just stay at the Worlds.
Like this year, I didn't go. It's hard to lead ever,
so I would guess that thing, you know, parison horseshoe
the entire seme. It was fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I wanted to hit on like specifically
that you know, I watched I believe it was your
WSP preparation video over on Weren't Once and you you
talked in that there was a line where you said,
my main focus is to make money. Maybe I can
win Player of the Year and that'd be cool, but
it's really just about maximizing profits.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I bring that up because you also mentioned, you know,
the possibility of jumping from from venue to venue, playing
wherever you might find value or you know, chase dollars
and that sort of thing. Like, at what point this
summer do you say, Okay, I have a shot at
Player of the Year, I'm doing very well at the
w SP. I'm just gonna stay here and like kind
of really battle for this thing.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the first two or three weeks there
weren't a lot of things, Like what really pulls me
away from the WSP is the big events at the
Win for example, I'm not running around and playing like
a feteen hundred at the Venetian or the wind But
it's more like some big buy in like they had
some twenty five k's, some that huge WPT things like that.
I'm willing to the Aria has a big thirty five hundred,
which I did play, so a lot of those didn't
take place in the first two or three weeks I
think of those summer, and then I kind of had
my you know, it did take Maybe my first little
run wasn't until about two and a half three week mark.
I think maybe two weeks I forget. But anyways, I
had that, so it's a good start. But then immediately
I just was fteing every tournament I played almost you know,
I just had like urm after tournament where I just
was going deep and deep and deep. So and then
I'm right up there in the leaderboard, you know. So
at that point, you know, the ARIA had like some
ten k's no limit and some ten K plows, and
you know they're not like rate value or anything, but
I do like the price point. I do like to
play TGT events, so I do sneak over there sometimes.
But this year I was like, Okay, I guess I
need to really like play all the ten K mix,
which sometimes I play. Sometimes I don't even some small mix,
you know, like generally I don't play the fifty mix.
It's just kind of a big time commitment and there's
so many big no limit and PLO tournaments. But at
a certain point, I will kind of start to play
those if I'm like really up there, because if you
win one, that does a lot to help your chances.
Speaker 1: You mentioned there, you know, the how you started running
kind of really hot, you know, making all these different
final tables. Obviously, tournament poker is very streaky on both sides.
You know, you can go long period of time without
cashing anything or making a final table or winning. On
the other side, you know, people can get really hot,
really fast and really start to rack up the results.
When you are doing very well and you are you know,
making deep runs making final tables like you were, what
does that do for your confidence level? And how do
you like kind of keep that confidence in check because
a lot of people, they know call it up till
you know, they kind of get ahead of themselves and
that can throw them off their game, even if they
are running pretty.
Speaker 2: Hot, right. I think, you know, my level of experience
at this point in my career helps me with that
issue a lot, especially now I only play tournaments. The
ups are bigger and the downs are bigger, so I've
always been pretty even keeled with it, but being a
tournament full time turnament really tests to you know, resolve,
because especially playing how Irons, they'll just go on six figure,
seven figure down swings kind of semi regularly. The trick is,
you know, to keep your game as as solid as
you can keep it in those times. And I think
I can do that and you don't want to change
your play like, oh, maybe I'm not doing this and
that correctly, or you know, things like that. And for me,
like I've done it so long, I like to zoom out.
I can look at a graph I have or something
of my poker career the last five years, and I
can just see the success that it's had, you know,
and that just instilled, you know, through all those periods
of ups and downs, I'm pretty solid playing the same
and when I can kind of look at a long
term result like that and kind of just use it
as a little bit of stability and support and some
positivity to say, you know, it will turn around if
I'm in a big down swing, or yeah, if I'm
winning a lot, that doesn't give you an excuses to
start playing bad. So I think I have that part
down pretty good. And I think a lot of it
apps to do with just long term being a long
term winner in appropriate.
Speaker 1: You play second in the one hundred k high Roller.
I think it was right around one point nine million dollars,
But you did it playing in arguably the most electric
final table atmosphere of the entire DIVISIPY. I would almost
equate it to you were the away team going to
play a playoff game in the home team's arena with
all the fans and supporters that big unique Chris Unican
had on his side. Like what was that experience like?
And have you ever experienced anything like that in poker?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was an amazing final table, like the runouts,
the people there, the rail was insane. Yeah you said it, well,
like I was kind of the out of town team,
but that I never have a big rail, I mean,
so I'm used to that. This rail was kind of
you know, they weren't out of out of line or anything,
but they were very very loud. Had a pretty loud
one the year before at the World Series two some
Europe who it was, but this one was that times
five or ten. So yeah, it was fun. You know,
I like Pony. It was all his people and like
I said, they weren't getting out of line or anything.
So it does hurt a little more I guess whenever
they catch that river card on you and the crowd,
this erupts, you know, things like that. But but yeah,
that was a very memorable final table. You know, I
did final table main in twenty twelve, so that was
probably that. You know, the stage can't really get me
bigger incther than that, and I still remember that very well,
and even just leading up to the final table, the
experience like nothing else, making that final nine of the
main event. So I've kind of you know, I've had
at this point a lot of big finl tables, so
I'm just always ready, you know, to play. The pressure
doesn't get to me much. It's kind of hot up there,
as one of my biggest complaints. I'm kind of hot.
But I think I you know, performed well and I'm
pretty used to it at this point.
Speaker 1: You mentioned, you know, how you don't have normally have
big final table rails yourself. I mean, how come and
it's not just you? You see it a lot in like
the high Rollers scene specifically. I mean you mentioned the
WSP Main Event final table You're run back in twenty twelve,
and that's kind of expected, you know, going into that
final table. You know, there's going to be a lot
of supporters there for everyone else. But I always thought
it was a little bit weird maybe for lack of
a better word, that like one hundred K high Roller,
for example, is supposedly the best players in the world,
or if not, they're very popular players and people should
be wanting to support them, Yet there's not often big
rails other than like you know, might what we saw
for you know, Heunikin. But I mean, why is that?
Speaker 2: I think it could be due to the fact that,
you know, a lot of the guys at the highest level,
they're not in this stage of their life where they
maybe party a lot or go out a lot. A
lot of my friends and just a lot of guys
that poko they're they're having families now, so they're in
a more kind of docile stage in their life. I
feel like, where so a lot of their friends aren't
these rowdy friends that are drinking all the time and
things like that. Also a lot of their friends and
in my case also are poker players and they're playing
poker all summer. Also, I don't know, maybe a lot
of the people that regularly succeed at the highest limits
are are just a little more. I don't know, quiet
and things like that. I think that's the thing, Like,
if I look at the people you know at poker Go,
it's not a lot of like wild people. You know,
they're they've got their lifestyled in and optimized, and they're
not they're not loud voice for celebrating and celebracious people celebrations.
That word out.
Speaker 1: He just made it up in his mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I don't know. I think all those kind
of reasons combined just kind of add up to something
like that, because because it's true. You know, if I'm around,
I'll go support a friend of mine at a final table,
but generally I'm playing or something like that. You know,
it's or I have a tournament the next day and
I'm not I'm not going to go on the rail
and drink a bunch of beers. You know. That was
kind of a perfect storm. Hoooney. He's got a lot
of friends. He has huge parties at his house, you know,
for the Fourth of July. He's always talking about and
things like that. And uh, and I know a lot
of our guys, you know, I like the guys, so
it's cool to see. But yeah, I've just never really
had that outside of like, you know, the main event
things like that. My wife came down a couple of
times this summer for me last year with my brother
in law, and some friends will drop by, like Eric
bald One and things like that, but he's on break
of a tournament something, you know, to to that effect,
so it's just kind of different.
Speaker 1: I guess, just a flashback quickly now to twelve years
ago WSP Main Event final table. You end up cashing
for a little bit more than two million dollars. What
did you imagine your career would look like afterwards and
how does it compare to what it actually became if
you can like somehow go back any time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good question. I didn't really know. I mean I
there weren't you know, there wasn't a big high stake
scene back then. So it was without a doubt life
changing money for me at the time. And I just
had two young children at that time, you know, one
month old and two and almost two year olds, So
I kind of realized is that that just kind of
helped this out with things like you know, just the
expenses of a young family and things like that, and
I knew I was more rolled to play bigger events
and stuff if I need be. But you know how
many hundred k's were there back then, Like there were questions.
I believe there was, like, yeah, the World Series had
one in like two thousand and thirteen, fourteen fifteen. I
played a few of those hundred k's that they would
have off and on, but they really it just wasn't
a common thing, and so I guess I thought I
would just kind of keep playing my Bologgio game. I
kind of think, I I don't think I thought it
would affect a lot as far as like what I
would be playing, because I was playing at ten twenty
and ten twenty forty at Bologgio. That was kind of
the biggest game every day. You know. One thing I
thought it could me to me playing more Mix and
maybe playing them a big Mix game eventually. And I
did play more Mix, not the big big one, but
lower Mix played some of that. So that kind of
put me on that trajectory a little more. I guess
Outside of that, not a lot. I was never a
guy who was dying to take on the toughest players
and the biggest stakes. And you know, someone like Jason
Koon's a guy who that's that's what he wants, and
he wants to play the best and beat the best,
and he's a very driven focus and he wants to
co be the highest levels of things. I've never really
been like that. I just want to kind of make
a living, enjoy poker, and I'm always improving and things
like that. And he's rubbed off on me a little
bit to kind of play higher stakes, to push myself
a little more, which is he's a really good influence.
So but yeah, back then, it's just pokers have a lot.
You know, it has changed a lot since then.
Speaker 1: You mentioned how you, you know, predominantly play tournaments these days.
Are you aware that that that fifth place run in
twenty twelve is your only main event cash?
Speaker 2: I am aware.
Speaker 1: Okay, my next question, why haven't you been able to
cash anymore?
Speaker 2: It's funny I complain about people all the time and
they tell me to shut up. I don't know what
the problem is, Like I say, I say, I looked
up out of him in the name. I have to
patch it one time out of probably eighteen nineteen times
now since two thousand and six, maybe one time, and
it's arguably the easiest tournaments of cash. So yeah, it's
kind of wild. But Scott Seaver has cashed zero or one.
I forget I thought it was zero, but maybe this
maybe he told me he did cash it one time
now and he's played it probably I would say more
than me. He's a great player, So you know, who knows.
I don't know. I just can't. I just can't cash.
It's just it's just a weird varian thing in my opinion.
Speaker 1: You know, well, I mean you should play bigger where
they respect your raises.
Speaker 2: Probably, that's yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you do you think you approach it
any differently than other tournaments? You know, I mean it's
obviously a ten k buying yes, but the main event
kind of doesn't really play like your normal ten k
that you see so often. It plays like, I don't know,
probably closer to a fifteen hundred in a lot of ways,
depending on your table draw.
Speaker 2: Right, So yeah, I approach it differently than I would
I roll an aria. You know, you have more time,
you have more chips. Yeah, it's a freeze out, so
all those things come into play. And I have a
lot of experience in large field like soft tournaments and
have been successful, you know, even the summer. Just like
a lot of my runs, or a few of them
were you know, one was a shootout of fifteen hundred
shootout and other one of the twenty five hundred No Limit,
a couple of my final tables. So so yeah, definitely
adjust to the different types of players that you run across,
some of the weaker players is a big part of it.
Speaker 1: I think, how much time these days do you work
on your game off the felt not playing?
Speaker 2: Oh well, I mentioned the coaching that I do, and
I'm able to do that because I've worked on my
game a lot. You know, I feel pretty sharp overall,
make less mistakes all the time than if I look back,
you know for the previous few years or months, and
I'm just my what I what I strive to do
is just always improved. So I still I still am
working on There's always more to learn and more depth
to go into in different areas and and things like that.
And you know, there's new software out there that's amazing
and always improving. So yeah, I still definitely work on things.
Speaker 1: What's an area of your game that you feel needs
the most work.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sound like GTO. It's it's so hard to
just crush the gto though and just hit every spot
like impossible, So try to minimize the mistakes when you're
playing a good player, and then I think I do
a good job of kind of throwing that out the
window when I'm facing different types of opponents. I think
ICM Final tables getting close to the money that was
something that years ago I didn't think about much or
care about because I was a cash game player. So
that was kind of one of my bigger hurdles is
just not torching big EV spots at final tables that
I used to do probably, And also that's just kind
of a you know, I feel like the ICM sims
aren't perfect, and I feel like there's a lot of
room for debate right now about maybe what is the
actual right place because what they can do is somewhat
limited and doesn't take everything into account obviously, which solvers
done at all, but at you know, definitely don't because
there's a lot of variables going on in the final table.
So just trying to think about things like that, I
think is a big deal, especially playing more you know,
mainly high rollers like I play table so it's a
pretty big deal to get that stuff down.
Speaker 1: Like you obviously play a lot of high rollers, your
extremely experienced. You have the results to back it up.
But are there are there any players out there? When
you know, you sit down at the table, you see
them across from you, and you kind of think to yourself, Okay,
I really need to bring my a game. Or maybe
you get a little bit of a lack of confidence
that might seep into your brain thinking that, Okay, this
guy is clearly better than me. I need to like
really be on it today. Does that does that ever
cross your mind these days?
Speaker 2: Well? I mean my good friend Jason, I know how
good he is. I study with him, We talked poker
a lot. He's just unreal good at every spot. He's
a guy I never want to see at my table.
He's I just think he's, without a doubt, one of
one of the top guys. And I think you know
someone like Childwick keep going throw in there. Those are
all guys, but you don't you know, they're just not
giving up much. They're super studied, they've been playing forever,
very experienced. Live the hotels. You know, they can pick
up tells, understand ic M.
Speaker 1: Well, you're likely to run into some of them when
you head over to Europe. You're going to go play
Super high Roll or Series, Super high Roll or Bowl.
It's Super high Roller bol going to be the biggest
buying you've ever played.
Speaker 2: It will be. Yeah, So I played the two fifty
the last two years at the World Series, and then
this one is three hundreds, so it.
Speaker 1: Will be Are you more nervous or more excited about
playing a buy on that big.
Speaker 2: I don't know, and neither one has really has crossed
my mind that much. I'm just kind of preparing. I'm
sat in the chair for many years and just think
I'll make some good decisions. Hopefully no torches. And yeah,
I'm excited. I've never been to Cyprus. I'm more excited
just for the actual overall trip. You know, it's several tournaments,
pgt runs, great, great tournaments. Never been to Cyprus for
just beautiful There's some PLO tournaments, so I'm just excited
to make the trip. I haven't been out of the
country outside of the Homers. Haven't been. I went to
Madrid Triten one two thousand and two, so it's been
a couple of years. So looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: Do you think we'll see you make more trips like this?
I would say most specifically for Triton stuff. You know,
they have the biggest stuff around the world every time
every year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I you know, I keep saying, like, oh, the
next and I'll go to the next tright, And I've
been saying that for like a year. There's often something
competing in the States in the stakes are much lower,
but it's just close. I don't have to be gone
for two to three weeks. It's just easier. The tournament's softer.
You know, a lot of the big buyings I'm selling,
you know, some action, so I don't have to deal
with that. And a lot of times it's just sometimes
it's just right here in Vegas at poker go at Arias.
So it's hard. If it's hard when there's a series
at aria of ten tournaments to go halfway around the
world and get jet lagged, and why for twenty twenty
twenty five hours? Hey that all those expensive whenever I
could just sleep in my own bed right here. So
it depends. I have been saying, especially the ones in
Asia I'm going to go to. Where did they go?
There was a couple of really Vietnam one was amazing,
which they might not be doing back there. But then
the just the Asian stop ser the amazing when I
hear so, and I've never been to Asia.
Speaker 1: You mentioned, uh, selling Action. You have Action listed on
poker steak dot com for this series. The super higher
level is included in there. So just for the listeners
out there, if you guys want to grab some of
Jeremy's Action poker steak dot com, it's very easy to use.
High lists some stuff on there all the time. It's
it's great why I sell Action in that medium versus
you know, just maybe your poker group or whatever it
may be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's funny how many people came up
to me this summer and said that they've been buying
my Action and I was having a great summer and
they were so stoked about it. So that was actually
really cool to see. Uh So, Yeah, it just makes it.
It makes it fun. And you know, as I've gotten older,
I've gotten more risk averse for sure. And since I've
switched full time tournament to tournaments, I didn't Yeah, so
I used to just play mainly cash and some tournaments
and the cash money is much more steady, and then
when I go play a tournament, I would just take
all of it and be like whatever, it doesn't matter
because I'm just you know, doing fine cash and I
just hardly have losing months. It seemed like tournaments are
just enormously volatile. It's like it's just you can't even
compare the two. So I really just went on so
many massive down swings, but then massive upswings eventually too.
But I just kind of decided I want to, you know,
take a little less risk in a lot of these things.
And so yeah, I just listen more action on there
these days, and like I said, it is kind of fun,
has a social aspect, and I think it's good for poker.
You know, a lot of people are playing in tournaments
say maybe could or couldn't play before, and a lot
of people are listening their action on there, and it's
just kind of less people kind of get in the action,
kind of like if they're watching sports or betting sports
or something like that. Right, But in a lot of
the cases that they find a good horse, they're going
to be making. I mean, you know, i'd like to
think in my case, the markup I put on there.
I think they're probably going to be making money over
the long term, so I think it's going to be
a win win for both parties and poker's Sake's amazing.
They don't charge anything on either side, at least at
this point, so it's pretty pretty cool.
Speaker 1: How do you how do you decide on markup? Does
it take you long to figure it out?
Speaker 2: I kind of just decide what I. I give an
estimate of what I think my ROI will be, and
then I, you know, take some portion off that. So
ideally they get some of the ROI and I get
some of the ROI, and then return I give up
some of the ROI, but in return I get lower variants.
Speaker 1: You've got six bracelets you want? I mean, I don't
even know how many PGT and high roller events and
all that sort of stuff. You've got a circuit ring,
all this sort of stuff. World Poker Tour title. Is
that like something you want to achieve in your career?
Speaker 2: Is that? You know?
Speaker 1: Do you think of it like that way? Like I
have all these titles, but I don't have this one
over here, so maybe I want to go after it
a little bit harder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So WPT and Triton, those would be two great
or an EPT main. The problem is the wpts are
just super hard to win that they only have how
many main events a year because they have a lot
of you know, it's just like the main event, So
you have like ten chances a year, fifteen chances a
year to win any WPT main. I'm much more likely
to win a Triton first, I think, and an APT
would be possible, I guess small like a side of
any PT, but never the you know, a main or
anything like that. So yeah, it'd be cool, but I'm
not going to every WPT just to try to win one,
you know, so it's not It's not that high in
my book. I love the WPT by the way. I
think they are a great brand, one of the best
friends and poker and I've watched them for a really
long time, back when they're on the Travel Channel, just
like the direction that they've gone with the company, and
I think they're just a very respectable.
Speaker 1: I completely agree. I'm a big fan myself. We recently
saw Patrick Antonia's get into the Hall of Fame. You
were on the list of finalists in twenty twenty three,
but not this year. But like big picture, you know,
do you want to get into the Hall of Fame someday?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do. I think it'd be would be cool.
I was kind of taken off guard when I was
suddenly on the list last year because I think a
Hall of famers, I think these older guys and things,
but you know, I'm not so young myself these days,
forty four. But maybe I was a little preemptive to
get on there. But my friend Eric Baldin kind of
just threw it out there on Twitter, and apparently that's
why I didn't get on this year. I don't know
about this nomination process they have, but someone needs to
kind of nominate you publicly. I don't know if like
Twitter is the platform to do that, it's or what.
It doesn't seem that clear to me. So I was
pretty shocked when I wasn't on the list this year
because I thought I would be one of the you know,
possibly get in there. But after Antonius is on there,
I think he is very deserving and should have I
don't know, it's hard to compare you know, the industry
poker people and the poker players, so I don't know
where to go with all that, and Also, I don't
know some of these old school people who are on there,
but I do know that Antonio's is a legend and
to one hundred percent at some point being Hall of Fame.
I mean, he's crushed the highest stakes for a long time.
So I thought it was very well deserved. And it's
cool to see someone who doesn't have a lot of
wsop success because sometimes it feels like the Hall of
Fame is very wsop us friendly. So I thought it
was cool that someone who isn't from that you know
group of people was got the award.
Speaker 1: This story, I guess a little bit different than you
know you're possibly wanting to get into the Hall of Fame,
is you know, how how would you want people to
remember the poker career of Jeremy Osmas, you know, let's
say forty years down the road when things are all
said and done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good question. First and foremost, like a lot of winning, right,
That's that's my main goal in poker, but also going
about it ethically always, you know, being composed and never
having big big bones. I thick people and fights them
all over Twitter and things like that. Not the way
I'd like to be remembered. So I do a pretty
good job of saying out of all that. So, yeah,
just kind of controversy for you. Just a guy who
came in and got along with people and was enjoyable
to be around, and joined the company of the tablemates
and just had a long, successful career.
Speaker 1: You recently shared a story on Twitter about your cousin's daughter,
Emily Osmas, being the youngest member of the US Olympic
water polo team. She's only eighteen years old, but she
made it to the world's biggest stage and competed at
the Olympics. I'm sure there's probably some close friends, some
family members of yours that might look at you kind
of in a similar light because you're the big poker
player on a lot of the biggest stages, playing for
tons of money. But now you're like on the other
side watching Emily compete for an Olympic medal. Possibly, I mean,
what was that experience like watching her go through it
all and doing so at such a young age.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so cool, man, I was I've just
been so beyond excited for like, my kids play sports,
and it's it's there's nothing better than watching your kids
play sports. But this is my cousin who grew up
next to me for a number of years and I'm
close with lives in California now and his Yeah, both
of his kids are just like elite water polo players
fool right, And they both went to USC but they
could have gone anywhere they wanted to believe anything like that.
And and the daughter, who's the younger the two, is
just a complete phenom and and made it into the Olympics.
So we were sure to watch every game and learned
a lot about water polo and it was really really
cool to go watch and learn about it. We watched
the game of Theirs when they came to Vegas a
few years back, and so, yeah, it was fun. I
was texting a lot with my cousin who was there
watching and fom on TV and the stands and things
like that. So hopefully if she's she took her first
year off of college just to train for the Olympics
and they take thirteen people and she didn't know, you know,
she's kind of she's the youngest, so she didn't know
if she's like, maybe gonna make it, maybe not. They
cut the team down from sixteen to thirteen. I think,
so she trains for like almost an entire year and
skips her first year of college, and then she maybe
doesn't even doesn't know until like a month before, three
weeks before the Olympics if she makes the team or not.
It was pretty insane. That's why I can't Yeah, I
can't imagine how stressful that's going to be for the parents. Anyways,
if she continues on this path of water pool of dominance.
I believe the twenty twenty eight Olympics are in la
and we will definitely be going out there and watching her.
We wanted to go this year, but we just we
couldn't make it happen obligation, other things going on. But
then super stoked that she is still at the top
like this to go watch her and been to it
in the Olympics anywhere, so that'd be a lot of.
Speaker 1: Fun, awesome. Well that's all I have for you, sir.
I appreciate you taking the time and wish you the
best of luck over in Europe and joy Cyprus. I've
been there one time myself, not to this specific property
that you're going to. I went to a different merit property,
but it was awesome a lot of fun there, So
Hope you have a good time, hope you win a
boatload of money, and maybe we'll get a winner's interview
after it's all said and done.
Speaker 2: Sweet, Yes, let's do that.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, Bun, all right, everyone that was
Jeremy Osmas can't thank Jeremy enough for taking the time
to chat about a variety of topics. And maybe, just
maybe you'll be hearing him back on this podcast sooner
rather than later if he can find himself to the
winner circle over in Cyprus, and then maybe we'll be
able to grab him for a winners interview. As a reminder,
the Super High Roller Series and Super High Roller Bowl
that Jeremy is off plane that is streaming on poker gro.
Several events are being broadcast, including the Big and Bad
three hundred thousand dollars buy in Super High Roller Bowl.
You guys can watch the Super High Roller Bowl on
poker Go August twenty third through twenty fifth, three straight
days of coverage that's on poker gro On PokerGO dot com.
Commentary by Jeff Platt and Brent Hanks. I'm very excited
for this event. I think it's gonna be massive. I
think it's gonna be huge. Can't wait to see the
play from Cyprus from Merit from the new Onyx Club
that they are debuting over there, and that's gonna do
it for me. That's gonna do it for this episode.
Thanks everyone for tuning in, Take care, and we'll talk
to you next time. Jennie