Ep. 124 Memories of Thor Hansen with Mike Sexton

This week on the Poker Central Podcast, Remko flies solo and is joined by Mike Sexton to talk about the passing of poker legend Thor Hansen. In addition to that, Remko runs down the major news items of this past week.

• 1:06 – The sad news of the passing of Thor Hansen at age 71.
• 6:06 – An interview with Mike Sexton of Hansen’s passing, including stories and memories of the Norwegian Godfather of Poker.
• 19:47 – The exciting announcement of the first 34 players that have been confirmed for Super High Roller Bowl V, December 17-19 at the PokerGO Studio.
• 22:50 – The Super High Roller Cash Game is back featuring Gus Hansen and Dan ‘Jungleman’ Cates.
• 24:33 – Teasing the lineup for Friday Night Poker on Stadium’s Facebook Watch page on December 7^th.
• 25:30 – The biggest guarantee in online poker history was smashed by partypoker this past week, we run down the payouts and laud them for drawing more than 4,000 players for this $5,000 event.
• 31:52 – Phil Hellmuth was victorious in a tennis prop bet!
• 33:26 – Dan Smith’s charity drive is back for a fifth straight year after raising $4.5 million in 2017! More here if you want to participate.