Jason Koon claims mainstream poker tournaments treat average players like cattle
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Jason Koon, professional poker player, discusses the quality of player experience at typical poker tournament stops during a special poker episode of The All-In Podcast.
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“Tournaments right now, in my opinion, it's like they're herding, herding cattle into a, like, at a farm. I, in my opinion, like, players are kind of treated like, You guys will do whatever we want you to do, because we know you will, so they just kind of treat the mainstream player pretty bad in tournament stops.”
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