Digital Social Hour
How Poker Builds Billion-Dollar Business Connections | Jeff Gross DSH #1125
19 Jan 2025
Discover how poker isn't just a game—it's a gateway to building billion-dollar business connections! 🃏💼 In this episode of the Digital Social Hour, Sean Kelly sits down with poker pro Jeff Gross to uncover jaw-dropping stories from the poker world. From playing cash games with Michael Jordan to insane prop bets like living in a Bellagio bathroom for 60 days and biking from Vegas to LA, this episode is packed with valuable insights and unbelievable moments. 🤯 Learn how poker fosters networking, sharpens strategy, and creates life-changing opportunities. Whether you're a poker fan or curious about its impact beyond the felt, you won’t want to miss this! Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Join the conversation and let us know: What’s the wildest poker story you’ve heard? 🗣️🎙️ #philgalfond #pokerbusinessconnections #livepoker #highstakespoker #pokerstrategy CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:27 - Jeff Gross Influence on Poker 04:59 - Specialized Recruiting Group Insights 05:56 - Tattoo Cost Discussion 09:58 - Best Prop Bet Ever 11:05 - Bill Perkins Overview 12:30 - Jeff's Poker Career Update 12:51 - Tour of Jeff's Miami Studio 13:57 - Jeff's Future Plans in Miami 15:44 - Nathan's Role 15:58 - Would You Rather Scenario 16:59 - Outro APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Jeff Gross https://www.instagram.com/jeffgrosspoker SPONSORS: SPECIALIZED RECRUITING GROUP: https://www.srgpros.com/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/
Full Episode
What's the craziest one you've heard? In the Bellagio, someone had to live in a bathroom of the Bellagio for, it was 30 days. That's a true story. You can look it up. It's a Google YouTube that. There's a video of it. It was on live stream. How did he sleep? Hey, he was in a bathtub. He'd call room service. Wait, there's a bathtub? He was in a bathroom.
Oh, I thought you meant the public one. No, of the Bellagio. That's still disgusting. It's crazy, yeah. All right, guys, we're at Celebrity Poker Tour. We got Jeff Gross here and he's the guy who got me into poker. So it feels like a full circle moment actually right now. It is funny to see you at the Celebrity Poker Tour backdrop and everything. So you're now embracing poker.
You get it. You've played one of these and you like it. Absolutely. I remember going on your show like five years ago and you asked me what I know about poker and I was like pretty much nothing. Now poker and podcasting. You're doing all the fun stuff. Absolutely, man. You got any fun celebrity poker stories?
Oh, yeah. I mean, I've been playing 20 years, so there's definitely some that I can say, some I can't. But I would say I have a lot of great gambling stories as well from prop bets. That's something that's kind of not normal to, I'd say, the outside poker world. So I could give a couple of those. I'll say one celebrity thing, which I've obviously mentioned before, and Michael Phelps.
So I met him at a poker table in 2006, and then we did become roommates. So in 2008 till 15, lived together. He loves poker. Actually, we were here yesterday, and he was doing an event for Ferrari with Global and global poker and he's like a poker addict, right? He just loves it. He loves the game, the competition.
So that was cool to live with him for eight years during sort of the peak of the Olympics and everything that was exciting. And I'd say the other cool, notable celebrity thing would be playing cash game with Michael Jordan at his house. It was in Park City and something I'd never seen before was only hundred dollar bills. So there was no chips.
It was like, you're playing, but do you, but AC and it was like, you know, $2,500 clips, 10 grand wraps, thousand dollar things. And it was literally like, you bet, like I bet 4,000 and you got, you know, you got to count it out and throw the clips. And that was only cash on the table. And that eliminates the credit problem, right? You know, cash, no credit, no problem. That wasn't the case.
You had to pony up cash and sit down and, and, uh, I actually have another story about that in Park City. This Barry Baker, who was the reason we were there. Phil Ivey came once, was in town, and won a poker game. And they let him go to his game. And he went to a... Phil Ivey needed cash. They said, hey, no problem. You can buy in. They let him not have credit at this game.
But he was like, you know what? No, I don't know you. I like to pay and go. He's like, where's the local bank? He went to the bank. He went in. It's Park City. It's Utah. A little bit, you know, mostly white dominant. And they hit the alarm like he was robbing the bank. So... That's a true story. He was on my podcast. A little racist.
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