Antonio 0:11 Underdog poker. Welcome to underdog poker web series. I'm tone. I'm Lars, and this is the intro to underdog

Lars 0:19 poker. So tell him recently you started a brand, yes, underdog poker. Yep. You have a very mean, angry looking dog. He

Unknown Speaker 0:31 is very tilted.

Antonio 0:33 He's on life, just like you. So tell me about man's best friend, yeah, yeah, yeah, mini me, yeah. Same thing. So tell me about it. Underdog. What's the what's the concept, what's the theme? Okay,

Speaker 1 0:45 so coming in, obviously you are when you're new to something, and you set yourself a lot of goals and accolades, you have to, did I mess that up? Is that a

Unknown Speaker 0:55 real word, accolades? Accolades?

Antonio 0:57 It's not a word, is it? You might have, you might just have a better vocabulary, whatever. All right, we're gonna, we're gonna go to the viewers on that one and see if that's actually never heard of someone say you have accolades. One of us is gonna look stupid, yeah,

Speaker 1 1:11 accolades is definitely a word, yeah, if I made that up, I made that

Antonio 1:14 up. Oh yeah. Well, we're gonna fact check. There we go. Yeah. Okay. Anyways, underdog poker, it's like a resume.

Speaker 1 1:20 It's like the things you have done in life. It's accolades. We're gonna we're gonna search on that one.

Unknown Speaker 1:26 Anyways, underdog poker concept, right?

Speaker 1 1:29 So, okay, here we go. When you start, you have a lot of goals you want to achieve and you make. You have dreams you want to fulfill, and you know, naturally, no one believes in you. When you start something that's very unique. I can imagine a lot of focal players, families, friends, like, don't do that. A lot of naysayers and yeah, you're an underdog.

Antonio 1:49 Okay, so basically, the little guy, yeah, the little guy,

Speaker 1 1:53 the dreamers, the people that they dream way bigger than everybody else. Okay, I understand

Unknown Speaker 1:58 the concept.

Antonio 2:01 So you recently got some new merchandise in, dude, the hats came in today, so they don't look like this anymore.

Speaker 1 2:08 These are the demos for everybody that has not been up to date on that the final products have been mailed in. Pre orders did sell out in like five days. If you purchased something, thank you so much. And if you missed it, because it's sold out, we have more pre orders coming in in two weeks, two weeks, 14 days. Wow. Also,

Unknown Speaker 2:32 so how are you getting this merch out to people?

Speaker 1 2:36 Mostly, if they're local, I'm doing the delivery style. We have a couple of meetups lined up, like at New Hampshire poker rooms, and then obviously, my home casino can't name it. We don't want to get anyone in trouble.

Antonio 2:53 So, yeah, let me get this right. So you're hand delivering a lot of this stuff, yeah, so you're really starting from ground.

Unknown Speaker 3:00 We're underdog in this.

Unknown Speaker 3:02 That's me. That's it,

Antonio 3:04 all right. Well, at least sees reality of the brand, right? Absolutely, man. All right. So is it just you on the team? So

Speaker 1 3:11 the team is me, my best friend, Richie, of 10 plus years, we both started this dream together, and this is like a journey. This whole podcast is like my open diary to poker, okay? And, um, who else? Who else is on the team? You are the newest member. The technician. Doesn't know what accolades means. I'm

Unknown Speaker 3:30 gonna look so dumb, if that's what I really hope.

Speaker 1 3:35 It's my whole college degree, right? Yes. So by the way, my mom said, I swear too much on these things, so hopefully I don't do you do

Antonio 3:43 I sometimes. I know you do sometimes. But you know, one

Speaker 1 3:48 thing I learned in college, besides the word accolades, is that my teacher said to me, there's no such thing as a bad word, only bad intentions. So when I say, Fuck, how you and how you take a bad

Antonio 3:59 word. You're not really helping your point by just saying it

Unknown Speaker 4:04 over whatever. Yeah,

Antonio 4:06 it's fine. They know who tone is. They speak tone. Okay, so merch, you got your team going podcast, I'm on the team, I guess. Thank God. Podcast, right? We had some different ideas for it, because I'm the producer and and audio and visual engineer, Yep, I've been driving kind of where the show's going now. It's a little more entertaining,

Unknown Speaker 4:32 just it's on my resume, or, actually,

Speaker 1 4:35 yeah, well, you're lucky. I don't have requirements of vocabulary. You wouldn't be fired.

Antonio 4:41 Okay? So next up, you got a couple poker events coming up. Yeah,

Speaker 1 4:46 we got a this weekend. We're going to Resort World. They have a tournament. Mohegan has a tournament in a couple weeks. And then we got Borgata series in January. Yeah, and people that bought so. People usually want to invest in poker players. When they play tournaments, they want, you know, the life sweat. They gotta feed their inner degeneracy. That's gotta be a word. And see, right? Yeah, that's probably something. And so we do. So people have have asked me, you sell, and I usually don't sell, but I thought it'd be a cool kind of like a thank you. Is doing 20% of the Borgata series. No markup,

Antonio 5:23 way. Man, so quick question, yes, markup is a word. Yeah, no, I understand might be two words. Do you people actually buy it? Of course, the 20% yes, and you of me, yes,

Unknown Speaker 5:37 you have no idea. Man, um,

Unknown Speaker 5:40 okay, well, comes with a

Speaker 1 5:42 free lighter. You really light that money on fire? No,

Antonio 5:48 you got the merch, you got the journey, you got the podcast, you got the brand, you got the logo, obviously, polka, baby, the team, right? Handsome team. So we'll be following along right. I hope everybody checks back in for the first episode, going to be posted soon today, hopefully. Thank you guys. We'll see thank you guys.

Unknown Speaker 6:07 Tone loves you all. Underdog poker. You.

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