Kenny Hallaert is one of Belgium's top poker pros, having won more than $4.2 million in live tournaments, along with another $6.5 million online playing under the name 'SpaceyFCB.' The 38-year-old recently won his third SCOOP online title, and has four World Series of Poker final table appearances on his resume, along with four deep runs in the main event. In 2016, he finished sixth for nearly $1.5 million.

Hallaert is currently no. 3 on Belgium's all-time money list, but despite his success, he never gave up his day job. He started his poker journey while working as an electrician, and then later took a marketing job at a local casino. He was tasked with bringing players to the property, and as a result helped to popularize live tournaments in Belgium. Eventually Hallaert took over duties as Tournament Director, and he has since worked EPT events for PokerStars, as well as Unibet.  

Highlights from this interview working as an electrician, playing card games at the bar with mom, Dutch poker, how a football accident made him a better player, bringing tournaments to Belgium, his unusual path to tournament director, why he never gave up his day job, the mental game, Ivey the end boss, a brutal but important bad beat, burning a house down in Monte Carlo, the silver lining of a sixth-place finish, a lottery ticket in the WSOP, finishing the job he signed up for, bathroom stall gaps, double-cooked fries, factory work, the unbeatable Niklas Astedt, three-betting with industrial techno, and getting away with graffiti.

I'm going to be back podcasting today at 6pm est with one of the members of this years World Series of Poker Main Event final table and with a chance to win $8,000,000, which begins this weekend, Kenny Hallaert.

Kenny has been a long time poker player and we will talk about what the journey has been like up until this point. We will also discuss how he still maintains a "normalish" sort of job and if he plans to keep it.

Timestamps 

1:53 poker career 
2:53 tournament director job
53:22 tournament director job
4:40 WSOP 2016 FT
36:31 FT
13:12 William Kassouf
18:42 poker background
41:13 poker ambassadorship
45:21 WSOP spreadsheets
48:49 Belgium – Tomorrowland
1:06:25 WSOP hand charts incident
1:10:11 TD incidents
1:12:46 Kassouf – Black Mirror question
1:18:18 protect your cards ( TD advise)
1:20:32 FT patch deal

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Bernard Lee begins his interviews with each of the 2016 November Niner's by talking with the player who is 4th in chips, Kenny Hallaert of Belgium.  

Bernard Lee begins his interviews with each of the 2016 November Niner's by talking with the player who is 4th in chips, Kenny Hallaert of Belgium.