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Timestamps:

00:29Patrick’s brief poker backstory. 

02:15How he became a Party Poker sponsored pro. 

05:00Some background on his recent tweets regarding the current state of online poker.  Is the current quarantine-induced boom actually destined to lead to a massive crash?

11:45Jamie’s thoughts on burnout related to the current perpetual output of “special” series from top poker sites.  Patrick’s thoughts on the same, and the efforts Party Poker is making to curb the issue by scaling back the number of events they offer during COVID quarantine.

14:12Jamie’s thoughts on shortsightedness as an historic and continuous issue in the poker community. 

14:45Patrick’s inclination toward starting a poker players union or committee of sorts to protect the interests of the community as a whole.

18:48Thoughts on the potential difficulty of organizing players due to exploitative tendencies within the community.

21:08How a union could potentially enforce grievances and influence the community at large.

25:03Thoughts on how modern-day poker site ambassadors are more in touch with the community than they have been historically, and how that community connection could contribute to the benefit of a players union.  How he tries to bring attention to positive elements of sites he is not an ambassador for, and his hope that other ambassadors do the same.

29:27His thoughts on potentially grinding less in favour of becoming more involved behind the scenes.

30:48How some sites are already seeing significant downturns in comparison to the initial upturns at the beginning of quarantine.

32:16Why sites would be motivated to cooperate with a union and avoid retaliation against union actions.

34:31Jamie’s history with organizing players in New Jersey.

35:17The circumstances surrounding PokerStars' removal of Supernova Elite.  How comparatively small and unorganized the online community was at that time, and the lack of competition between sites.

37:56His love for dogs, and how they’re completely oblivious to what’s going on in your life, and consequently love you the same regardless of whether you’re winning or losing, fat or fit, rich or broke, etc.

42:14Final thoughts.  Wrapping up.