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Nick Wright (0:03)

Welcome in What's Driving the Great episode 511 This episode of What's Driving the Great is presented to you by Boost Mobile. Damonza, great to see you. How are you?

Damonza (0:13)

Good to see you. I am amazing.

Nick Wright (0:15)

I am fresh off a weekend in Vegas. Won't spend a ton of time on that. What I will say is this, the last couple of weeks ago, I was in Vegas. It went so well, the New York Post wrote a story about it.

This weekend, I was in Vegas. It went so poorly that at the end of the trip, I got a little note from the host of the casino, like, hey, man, next time you come, stop by the office. We got a little rebate for you. So like, you know, sometimes it goes the other way.

And it's important if I'm going to share my wins with the audience that I share my, you know, not wins. And Friday night at the craps table and then Friday night at the blackjack table, where at the table across from me was Michael Jordan and his crew did not go great. And you know what? Such is life. I know. Yeah, I know better than to be playing the table games. I, like, I've spent a lot of time really honing my craft in poker. That's where I should be. But the siren song of the craps table, you know, lured me in.

Damonza (1:30)

Yeah, Jordan's squad over there. Right, exactly.

Nick Wright (1:33)

And then, like, there is a seat open at Jordan's table. But it's like kind of invite only. And you know, there's a piece of me that's like, oh, you think I can't play on that level? Like, well, watch me play over here. Like, what do you guys bet? I'll do it, and you know what? The variants may be caught up with me. Saturday morning, chase a little on college football. Saturday afternoon, bleary-eyed, walk into a poker game where I just played the worst poker I've played in 10 years. Shout out to Table 1 at Aria for then texting me the next day like, hey, Nicky, seat's still open. I'm like, yeah, I know, fellas, I was failing off. Um, and thank God, thank God, Chiefs Moneyline, Vikings Moneyline, little, such a square Moneyline parlay came in to salvage a bit. Tough weekend, though, but you know what? We move on. It happens. Here is one bright side of the weekend, one quick anecdote, and then we will move on. I've told you guys a bunch on this show. We've talked a lot about my buddy Nick Shulman, the poker player. I told you guys how he won the Triton Main Event in Jeju, Korea, biggest score of his career for $3.9 million about a month ago, and good luck to Nick today as he's playing the Super Eye Roller Bowl 100K PLO. So I think I told you this, Damonza, just real quick, and then we'll get to all the football, but I think the audience will like this, that before last summer, I lent Nick a watch as like a good luck charm, and because he was getting rid of his watch, and so it's kind of the thing poker players do, they like trade off watches, like you wear mine, I wear yours, whatever. The watch that I am giving you when I see you, I had lent to Nick over the summer as good luck charm. He then ends up having a great summer and winning the Triton.

And Triton is brought to you by Jacob and Company, and if you win the Triton main event, they give you a custom one-of-one Jacob the Jeweler Triton Champion watch.

So when I saw Nick on Friday, I had told him like, hey, bring that, the watch I lent you because I'm giving it to my son for his birthday present. So he brings me that back and he's like, hey man, I got something for you.

He's like for a couple months. And so right here is a watch you cannot buy.

It is a Triton. I don't know if you can see, I'm so bad at this, but the logo has the Triton logo on the top and on the back, it says Triton Champion. And so like there's only one of these in the world. He got it for winning the main event in Korea and he's letting me have it for a couple months. So really that part was really cool. Less cool when Friday night for a moment, I was like, if I sell the watch. No, so but you know what? It's fine. And so that was a joke. All right. So there is the Vegas recap.