Episode #461 - May 26th, 2017



Live from the Two Plus Two Studios - On this episode of the Pokercast: With Adam out of town at the Savage Invitational we are joined by special guest host Kevin Mathers! KevMath is the community manager at pocket fives, WSOP Twitter Czar, and general expert on the daily happenings of the poker world.

To begin, it is the last chance to join Pokercast WSOP Fantasy league and the guys have their trips planned. We start off with some insight from Kevin on what to look forwards to this year including lower stakes events and the 25k fantasy draft. We are then joined by our friend, Run It Once coach and return guest Ryan Laplante! Ryan gives us a pros view on playing a full schedule and the events he is most excited for and some strategy. Plus we look back on his bracelet win last year and how the field compared in a lower buy in event to a high dollar one.

After Ryan we get into some of the non WSOP talk with SCOOP results including a good one from Terrence, results of the $1k of McDonalds bet, Mike Sexton steps down as WPT announcer and several big name poker players accounts get hacked. Then before we go we have some 140 or Less and Mail. This week you sent us some questions about the show, a dig at Ross and a question from a private game!



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just an FYI because you guys have said this 2 weeks in a row:

The scoring for the WSOP Fantasy League is the WSOP POY points and not the 25k scoring system.

In re the listener with the marathon prop bet, I like his side of it because of the six-hour target. That's a 13:44 mile pace, which is about that of a typical "power walker" (different from those 20K race-walkers, by the way) but slower than even a beginner jogger. Just for grins, here is a list of "celebrity marathoners," which will provide a ballpark of where a six-hour time would rank:

http://websiteforrunners.com/celebrity-marathon-times/

Not saying it's easy, but it's certainly very doable – especially for someone who somewhat recently had military training. I'm certainly rooting for him.

So the benchmark is beating a 56 year old David Lee Roth by about 5 minutes. When you put it in those terms....

Edit: Just listened to that discussion again for the conditions of the bet and when I heard "any time in 2018" I thought it's a lock, assuming you start training now. I know a couple people who started at ground zero with about a year to train and broke 5 hours. These people were not hard core runner before they started training. And as you lose weight it should help with the achiness. Best of luck!

Haha yeah, brings it into focus, doesn't it?

By the way, I was surprised to see Jared Fogel on that list.

Well played.

Mid 50s and started running / weight loss with Adam's GetYourFatAssMoving club a couple of years ago. Last 6 months I've gone from 200 to 155 lb and broke 4hrs for my first marathon in April (by 20 secs). It was pretty easy as breaking PBs every week is very motivating. Have collected heaps of tips if Marathon guy wants to PM me.


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Fun show. Hearing SrslySirius makes me want to show up in Vegas earlier and stay longer.

On the super bounty progressive knockout talk: Having a small bounty starts to become a self fulfilling prophecy as you get further into the tourney and you are the only one without any bounties on your head.

People will simply stay out of your way because why would they risk their chips against someone who is worth nothing when other people have 10x more on their head. It becomes a very strange ICM type situation.

Yeah, that whole conversation was strange. TCHAN kept talking about how the results were a huge fail. Not sure how so, if you entered a bounty only tournament, you're not bothered by some person who lasts longer who made fewer $. As long as the rules are clear and people want to play, not a fail. To make money in that event, survival isn't key and busting people is.

As you say, the cool ICM of a progressive bounty would make risking chips vs a small bounty player interesting. It wouldn't be a normal tournament. As advertised.

Basically your chips are worth different amounts vs. each person in the tourney.