Steve Albini is — depending on your taste for drums that sound like they're smashing your eardrums — a very good record producer. He's also a very good poker player, as evidenced by the fact that this past weekend, he took home his second World Series of Poker gold bracelet.
On Saturday (June 18), Albini beat out 773 other players in the $1,500 USD H.O.R.S.E. event and raked in a massive prize of $196,089 USD. In an interview with WSOP.com following his win, Albini said:
Everything in my life comes in pieces, in parts. Poker is one part of my life. So when I'm playing poker, I try to commit to it. I try to take it seriously. I try to make sure I devote the attention to it that it deserves as an occupation. But it's only part of my year. I only play tournaments at the World Series of Poker. I play cash games informally in Chicago. It's a part of my livelihood, but it's not my profession.
Albini first won a gold bracelet back in 2018, when he took home $105,629 USD after besting 310 players in Seven Card Stud. Albini won his 2018 bracelet wearing a Cocaine Piss T-shirt, and this year he optioned a Jack O' Nuts shirt, tweeting that the band "bring me luck."
"The first one felt like a fluke. This one also felt like a fluke. I was all-in a million times in this tournament," he told WSOP.com. "In the Stud tournament, the bracelet that I won in 2018, I was never all-in in that tournament. I was never short of chips. But it still felt like I kind of fluked it because I beat a table full of really great players that I didn't expect to beat. This time it felt like a fluke because I was so short on chips so often, and I kept getting all in, and I kept surviving."
In 2019, Poker Central released the short film Albini Cashes In, which followed the journey to his 2018 win.
On Saturday (June 18), Albini beat out 773 other players in the $1,500 USD H.O.R.S.E. event and raked in a massive prize of $196,089 USD. In an interview with WSOP.com following his win, Albini said:
Everything in my life comes in pieces, in parts. Poker is one part of my life. So when I'm playing poker, I try to commit to it. I try to take it seriously. I try to make sure I devote the attention to it that it deserves as an occupation. But it's only part of my year. I only play tournaments at the World Series of Poker. I play cash games informally in Chicago. It's a part of my livelihood, but it's not my profession.
Albini first won a gold bracelet back in 2018, when he took home $105,629 USD after besting 310 players in Seven Card Stud. Albini won his 2018 bracelet wearing a Cocaine Piss T-shirt, and this year he optioned a Jack O' Nuts shirt, tweeting that the band "bring me luck."
"The first one felt like a fluke. This one also felt like a fluke. I was all-in a million times in this tournament," he told WSOP.com. "In the Stud tournament, the bracelet that I won in 2018, I was never all-in in that tournament. I was never short of chips. But it still felt like I kind of fluked it because I beat a table full of really great players that I didn't expect to beat. This time it felt like a fluke because I was so short on chips so often, and I kept getting all in, and I kept surviving."
In 2019, Poker Central released the short film Albini Cashes In, which followed the journey to his 2018 win.
