Episode #440 - November 30th, 2016

Live from the Two Plus Two Studios - On this episode of the Pokercast: We have two unexpected guests! To begin Terrence has returned from bloodsport in Macau after getting hit in the face a bit he gives us a trip report. We’ve also got the answer to the riddle from last week and a few other topics before we get into the news. This week in ICYMI: Brian Hastings retires, a writer from Pokernews is fired after writing a disparaging article about poker pros, Dwayne Wade links up with Stars and Baazov makes (or makes up) another bid to make Stars private again.
Our first guest this week isn’t a poker pro, he’s not even in the poker industry. He’s an attorney from LA named Eric Bensamochan who e-mailed the show a while ago with a recreational players view on the WSOP and Adam invited him to join us to talk about what we can do to improve the WSOP and poker for the rec player. Eric also has a story about sitting in on Jamie Golds bankruptcy case. Right after Eric we get a call from a previous caller “Hons” from Aus! Hons regales us with his biggest degenerate story from back in the day. We answer an email about why Limit Hold’em players are the worst and get into some of the best poker tweets in 140 or less. We wrap things up with some of Ross’ hands and a tale of potentially one of the largest $1/2 PLO pots ever.

Music - Bumper music provided by: soundcloud.com/murphychops, Hons - Degen

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here for the silver medal

trey

Missed the podium again !

Dwyane*

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Eric was a great guest. Really good to hear the perspective of a rec player at the WSOP.
We do need new poker celebs, but without all the old non-WSOP poker shows, we won't really be able to build them up.
Of course, not showing the opening days of the ME or any other side events doesn't help either.

Great show! Eric was the nuts. Proves the axiom that the best guests are the most engaging and well-spoken, not necessarily high-end poker players.

PeteBlow wasted an opportunity to post "Chapter 7"

Solid show. Sometimes an episode without polarizing content is comforting, like a warm blanket on a cold day. But who knows what next week's news will bring.

How am I supposed to know that Jesus can play hoops as well as he plays football? It was the first game, and you hid info that I moved the line to 11.5 after I saw the warmups and noted that some Freshman who is 6-6 plays for God's team.

In any event, noted. Jesus always covers....

I haven't finished the episode yet (about 15 minutes to go), but I believe this is the first Pokercast in months that had no mention of Kassouf.

Finally.

🙏👍

Just for this, Ross will swap out the "number nine" from "Revolution 9" and replace it with Will saying "nine" for the mail bag.

Speaking of which, has anyone written out a summary of where all the different numbered drops come from? For example, I laugh every time at number seven, even if it means Ross won't use this:

Speaking of Jesus; you guys planning on doing a Secret Santa this year? If so, count me in!