From Rounders to Founders: The Art & Justin Story
You can learn a lot about business sitting at a poker table. But you'll learn even more sitting at Table 1.
That's where Art Parmann and Justin Young turned a high-stakes poker game inside the Aria into something bigger. What started as a private $100/$100 No-Limit home for whales and wild stories became a media brand, a podcast, and a movement. Today, The Table 1 Podcast isn't just about hands played. It's about how to play life.
Art's the builder. A Vegas entrepreneur obsessed with finding edges, from mapping slot machines to launching apps that help other game runners build their own empires. Justin's the grinder. A former engineer turned poker pro with over $6.7M in live earnings and two decades of experience navigating variance like a CEO. Together, they've built something that mirrors the startup world more than the poker world: a business built on community, content, and calculated risk.
When most players were just trying to survive the swings, these two were thinking bigger.
They didn't just play the game. They built the ecosystem, turning poker from a hustle into a business.
The same instincts that make great founders—resilience, obsession, adaptability, storytelling—are the ones they used to grow Table 1. They took the chaos of the felt and packaged it into a brand that now attracts everyone from WPT champions to tech founders. One week they're talking to John Andress about using AI to catch cheaters. The next, they're laughing with Chino Rheem about life on the edge. It's poker meets psychology meets business meets "what's next?"
And at Rounders to Founders, they're bringing that same energy live.
Art and Justin will record a special live episode of The Table 1 Podcast with a surprise guest joining them on stage.
Expect real talk, untold stories, and the kind of behind-the-curtain conversations that make poker players and entrepreneurs lean in a little closer.
Because Rounders to Founders isn't about motivational clichés. It's about what happens when people like Art and Justin take that same killer instinct that wins pots and use it to build companies, communities, and careers.
They've proven that the poker table isn't a dead end. It's a launchpad.
A masterclass in risk.
A crash course in human behavior.
And a testing ground for what separates a gambler from a founder.
So when you see Art and Justin take the stage, know this. They're not just talking about poker.
They're talking about the business of risk, the art of reinvention, and what it really takes to go from playing for money to building something that prints it.
From Rounders to Founders.
Because the real high stakes aren't at the table anymore. They're in what you build next.