AMA with Joseph Stapes Stapleton

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Are you a poker player turned journalist, or the other way around? How did you end up working EPT?

[Stapes]

Are you a poker player turned journalist, or the other way around? How did you end up working EPT?

I am a never-was comedy writer, turned journalist, turned poker commentator. Poker player was never really part of the equation. The poker industry accidentally ended up feeding the stray dog that is Joe Stapleton and he just never stopped coming back. Whoah. Third person. Big time.

I ended up working on the EPT after Black Friday. I was living high on the hog and enjoying my newfound "career" on television when Black Friday happened. I thought it was all over faster than it had started - and it was for a lot of people - but I was lucky that Stars wanted to keep me and had an opening on the EPT. So if I had to answer your second question in one word, it would be "hunger.'