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No Gamble, No Future is an American poker television program that airs on
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, and premiered on August 1, 2022. The original series was announced by PokerGO on July 21, 2022, and provide cash game-focused entertainment with a variety of stakes and players partaking. The show is filmed exclusively in the PokerGO Studio at
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in
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, and is hosted by Brent Hanks and Jeff Platt.


History

''No Gamble, No Future'' began as a video podcast in January 2021 with Hanks and Platt as the hosts. The show aired on Tuesdays across PokerGO's YouTube and Facebook channels and discussed poker, sports, and gambling. Guests included
Phil Hellmuth Phillip Jerome Hellmuth Jr. (born July 16, 1964) is an American professional poker player who has won a record sixteen World Series of Poker bracelets. He is the winner of the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the Main Even ...
,
Daniel Negreanu Daniel Negreanu (; born July 26, 1974) is a Canadian professional poker player who has won six World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and two World Poker Tour (WPT) championship titles. In 2014, independent poker ranking service Global Poker Ind ...
, Nick Schulman,
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,
Antonio Esfandiari Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari ( fa, امیر اسفندیاری; born December 8, 1978 as Amir Esfandiary), is a professional poker player and former professional magician, known for his elaborate chip tricks. Esfandiari was the face of th ...
,
Tom Dwan Thomas Dwan Jr. (born 1986) is an American professional poker player who played online in the highest-stakes No-Limit Texas hold 'em and Pot-Limit Omaha games, primarily on Full Tilt Poker under the screen name "durrrr". Dwan has won prize mone ...
,
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' Ben Mintz, and
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's Nick Wright. While the podcast was on break, ''No Gamble, No Future'' remained a popular PokerGO brand before it evolved into a cash game show to be aired on video streaming service PokerGO. In February 2023, No Gamble, No Future aired ''Cash of the Titans'' that featured a hand between
Patrik Antonius } Patrik Antonius (born 13 December 1980) is a Finnish professional poker player, former tennis player and coach, and model from Vantaa, Finland. He currently resides in Monte Carlo. Antonius was mentored by poker pro Marcel Lüske as a member of ...
and
Eric Persson Eric "Hövdingen" Persson (19 April 1898 – 9 June 1984) was chairman of the Swedish football club Malmö FF between 1937 and 1974. He is commonly regarded as one of the most prominent figures in Swedish football history. Chairman of Malmö FF ...
that totaled $1,978,000 and broke the record for largest pot in U.S. poker stream history.


Episodes


Season 1 (2022)

Season 1 was taped in July 2022 from inside the PokerGO Studio at
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in
Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas (; Spanish for "The Meadows"), often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas ...
. It aired from August 23, 2022 to January 10, 2023. * Week 5 was a $10,000 buy-in sit-n-go.
Maria Ho Maria Ho (born March 6, 1983 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-American poker player and television host/commentator. One of the top ranked female poker players in the world, and a Women in Poker Hall of Fame inductee, she has over $5,000,000 ...
defeated Faizal Khoja and won $50,000.


Season 2 (2023)

Season 2 was taped in November 2022 from inside the PokerGO Studio at
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in
Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas (; Spanish for "The Meadows"), often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas ...
. It aired from March 22 to May 25, 2023. * Season 2 introduced the "Wheel of Pain" that was hosted by Remko Rinkema and would be spun by players when they triggered certain in-game conditions. Punishments included wearing funny outfits, doing push-ups or jumping jacks, and praising
Phil Hellmuth Phillip Jerome Hellmuth Jr. (born July 16, 1964) is an American professional poker player who has won a record sixteen World Series of Poker bracelets. He is the winner of the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the Main Even ...
as the GOAT.


Season 3 (2023)

Season 3 was taped in February 2023 from inside the PokerGO Studio at
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in
Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas (; Spanish for "The Meadows"), often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas ...
. It aired from July 19 to November 22, 2023. In February 2023, No Gamble, No Future premiered ''Cash of the Titans'' that featured
Andrew Robl Andrew Robl (born September 27, 1986), is a former American professional poker player from Okemos, Michigan. Robl admits going broke several times before finding success. As a teenager, Andrew Robl discovered poker by watching ESPN’s coverag ...
,
Eric Persson Eric "Hövdingen" Persson (19 April 1898 – 9 June 1984) was chairman of the Swedish football club Malmö FF between 1937 and 1974. He is commonly regarded as one of the most prominent figures in Swedish football history. Chairman of Malmö FF ...
, Rob Yong, Markus Gonsalves, Matthew Gonzales, and
Patrik Antonius } Patrik Antonius (born 13 December 1980) is a Finnish professional poker player, former tennis player and coach, and model from Vantaa, Finland. He currently resides in Monte Carlo. Antonius was mentored by poker pro Marcel Lüske as a member of ...
. The buy-in was $1,000,000 and stakes began at $500/$500 blinds that escalated every three hours over three days. Each player put $100,000 on the side, and the player that won the most money would win the $600,000 side pot. On the final hand day of filming, there was a $1,978,000 pot between Antonius and Persson that set the record for the biggest pot in U.S. poker stream history. With blinds at $1,000 / $2,000 and a $2,000 big blind ante, Persson raised to $7,000 with and Yong called on the button with . Antonius made it $30,000 from the small blind with and both Persson and Yong called. Antonius bet $40,000 on the flop and Persson raised to $140,000. Yong folded and Antonius reraised to $250,000. Persson called and the turn landed the . Antonius bet $150,000 and Persson moved all-in. Antonius called all-in for $692,000 and had Persson drawing dead as the river fell the . Following the record-breaking pot, there were three pots of $1,657,000, $1,298,000, and $1,269,000 that also amounted to larger than the previous $1,158,000 record pot that was set in December 2022 on Hustler Casino Live.


Season 4 (2024)

Season 4 was taped in August 2023 from inside the PokerGO Studio at
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in
Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas (; Spanish for "The Meadows"), often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas ...
. It aired from November 29, 2023 to March 13, 2024.


Results


Season 1 (2022)


References

{{Reflist Television shows about poker Television shows set in Las Vegas Poker in North America 2022 American television series debuts Poker in Las Vegas