Greg Mueller

3-time World Series of Poker Bracelet Winner, ex-pro hockey player, golf rookie/addict

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

Thx Fellas!
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[Vancouver Canucks Alumni @canucksalumni]

Happy birthday Greg Mueller 🥳
#CanucksAlumni

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

Thx Tommer!!

[Dave Tomlinson @HockeyDaveT]

@canucksalumni @GregFBT Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag!
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Have a great day Muells!!

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

Now this man is a soccer LEGEND!

[Swearing Sports News @SwearingSport]

Jürgen Klinsmann: “There were 70,000 people, we were warming up seriously. While ‘Live Is Life’ was playing, Maradona started juggling the ball. We stopped warming up, because there was nothing more we could do except watch him.”

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

@audavidb No different than the cardinals blowing a 18 pt lead vs Tennessee at home with ball when u have them in survivor!! It’s sports.. hockey is a team game built on speed, physicality, heart, coaching, tuffness, and goaltending! Sure there’s lucky bounces But it’s def NOT random!!

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

@TheSkillman @JoshYohe_PGH He will be on that list when he leaves oil country!

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

Hahaha very Clever Will!!
And accurate 😝

[WIll jaffe @dankness3]

Greg “FBT” Mueller after opening twitter today

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

@dankness3 Lololol

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

@arkonikul_ Right on! Ty for sharing that with me :)

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

WOW! What a great read Ash! Thank you for soo many kind words! And although I 100% remember that day at the Bellagio, you are right, I had no idea of truely how big of an impact all of it was on your life! Now, pls win yourself a bracelet that you sooo deserve to win!!

[PokerfaceAsh @pokerface_ash_]

2014… I rolled up to the Bellagio with my entire bank account in cash. At the time, that meant a couple hundred dollars.

I sat down at a $1/$3 game with money I couldn’t afford to lose. But I wanted to play in a Vegas poker room so bad.

Almost immediately, I lost close to half my buy-in.

And then out walks Greg Mueller from Bobby’s Room.

The guy I had watched on Poker After Dark and ESPN. FBT = Full Blown Tilt. The same guy whose words had already changed the way I looked at poker… and he had absolutely no idea.

There I was in a tiny $1/$3 game, watching him walk past after probably playing pots worth more than an average house. I gave him the goofiest, somewhat starstruck smile as he passed by. I texted my friends on the Strip, “OMG, I just saw a poker pro I watch on TV.”

A little while later, he came back around. And then he sat down at my table. Just for fun.

This man had just come from the biggest cash game on the planet and sat down with us, running up a stack like it was nothing, while I was over there stressing about a couple hundred dollars.

We started talking, and I got to tell him how he unknowingly changed my life.

Rewind to 2013. I had just started watching poker, playing on Full Tilt, trying to figure out what the hell this game even was after discovering it at a team bonding night in college. I dusted off a couple hundred dollars on my credit card and lost sleep over it. But I was hooked. I didn’t know anyone in my life who played. I was just fascinated. So I did what so many of us did back then. I watched the WSOP Main Event on ESPN.

That’s when I saw it.

Greg was making a deep run, and they did a segment on him. He talked about retiring from professional hockey and being left with this competitive void. Then he found poker. He talked about how he realized he could outwit, outsmart, and outwork people at the table the same way he had on the ice. How poker gave him back that fire.

And something in me lit up.

Because I was living that EXACT moment.

I had just walked away from being a college athlete and basketball coach. And the hardest part wasn’t the lifestyle shift. It was losing that competitive part of myself. That thing that made me feel most alive. I didn’t know where to put it anymore.

It clicked… poker was not just gambling.
It was a battlefield for the mind.

Where you could outwork your competition. Just like in basketball. I loved that.

From that point on, poker was different to me. Still a tiny fish… but learning to swim.

So there I was a year later, sitting across from Greg at Bellagio, telling him that his ESPN segment had shaped the trajectory of my life.

We ended up talking for hours.

To this day, Greg is a friend, mentor, and one of the biggest inspirations in my journey through this game. And I still do not know if he fully understands that one ESPN segment helped rewire the way I saw my entire future.

So hearing the WSOP Main Event is coming back to ESPN brings all of it flooding back.

The nostalgia.

The DREAM.

Back then, watching the Main on ESPN felt so far away it almost didn’t seem possible. It felt like something that belonged to others. Surely not me.

And now I will be playing my fourth Main Event this summer, after cashing for the first time last year, after building a career and a life around this game that I once thought was just a card game on TV.

How insane is that?

What I love most about poker comes down to competitiveness. It has challenged my biggest insecurities, torn apart my mental walls, and demanded more of me in every element of life, not just at the table.

It’s not a card game. It’s a mind sport. And ESPN putting it back on the biggest stage in sports will create more moments like the one I had watching Greg all those years ago. More lightbulbs going off.

More athletes, competitors, and dreamers like me realizing this game is so much deeper than what it looks like on the surface.

And that’s a beautiful thing.

@wsop

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

@lamapass25 @sekeresandprice @justBlakePrice Always the clueless ones with the loudest voice!!! It’s Mathematically impossible to pick any worse than 3rd this year bud!

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

@ScottieUpshall Great trade for the oil!!! But why on earth would the blues do that other than to give the oilers an Apple for the playoffs !!!

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

@Ben_Desro @FriedgeHNIC Benny, with all due respect….u are Completely clueless about what “we” like to watch.

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

My favorite of ALL time! The voice of the @Canucks A true LEGEND
#RIPJimRobson

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

@audavidb It’s INSANE!!!!! How STUPID can these coaches be??

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

@willybalters @domluszczyszyn @colbycosh Hahahaha! Def something like that! Cause getting a full #99 just won u the pool!

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

@RealKidPoker Excited to take some of that beautiful GG poker cash off u this summer 😉

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

Add a boy Bucky!!! Hard work paying off for one of the good guys!!!!

[Shawn Buchanan @shawnbuchanan1]

Start the year of right with 1 of 1393 in the @GGPoker 525 bounty #notsureif#whap#runninghot

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

@audavidb @ZENofLEN Awesome stuff!!!! Always Loved Seinfeld, but appreciated George’s rant 100 times more just now!!! Thx for sharing fellas!
Have yourselves a
#FellaFriday

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

@audavidb @AdamFriedman119 Which one? He has two?
One crushed the other one got what they deserved!! 😝

[Greg Mueller @GregFBT]

@audavidb Absolutely disgraceful!!! An embarrassment of a coaching display!