If you think about the last three guests - jrb, Hawrilenko, and Fatal1ty, and the style of interviews then the glass half full view is that there's something for everyone. The flip side is that it's unlikely that everyone is going to be mad keen on all three, given how different they are. I don't think that's a problem. (#teamHawrilenko).

As an aside, I tried to subscribe to a feed for Life After Poker on my android, and failed. Tbh, it's probably because I suck at technology.

does anyone have a link to the John Duthie tournament win where he bluffed his way to victory?

It's been mentioned a bunch of times over the years on the podcast but I've never seen it anywhere

It looks like the key words are Isle of Man Poker Millions 2000 John Duthie.

I see the final hand, can't find the whole broadcast.

Life after poker was awesome Tchan! It's always good to hear two cerebral guys talk about life. I'll be subscribing.

Adam....Tks for keeping the pokercast going! Keep up the good work. Hold on to Terrence if possible.

FYP

Haven't gotten to the interviews yet, but I want to say that I like TChan. He's interesting, good at poker, and his voice is not annoying (neither is your, Adam ). You also have good chemistry. Hope he comes back.

The learning mindset stuff was great. Enjoyed the discussion of theories of marriage. Definitely finding TC podcasts to hear the whole thing. They mentioned that the PC part was an edit. Anyone know if there is a contiguous rest of interview to fast forward to or if the part we heard was chunks of the whole thing, so we'll have to listen to the parts from the pokercast again?

Good show, i have to say i dont miss MJ, i dont care about tourneyresults or the canucks/handegg so that part of the show i dont miss.
Have the feeling that Adam's topics are less superficial (?) and have more depth.
Sometimes not but more often very interesting. Less fluff and loudness, more content.

Also thumbs up for more diverse guests, just like the 14 year old kungfu-teacher.
Ask yourself, what can i learn.
After JRB (which was a hilarious candid interview) its refreshing not to constantly rehash the same questions to other guests, but have some guests from different fields. Might not be your cup of tea, but he.

Keep up the good work

A few answers to "where does Gus's money come from" when discussing him being close to 20 million down "lifetime" (in HighStakesDB tracking) :

-First of all, the 20 million down in online poker is misleading based on what HighStakesDB has tracked and when. Gus won millions in FLO8 on FTP before HSDB tracked that game, and won 3 million in Mixed HA in December 2008 which wasn't added to the database (HighstakesDB released the month's Mixed HA results on their forum, but didn't start adding results to the database/profiles until January 2009)

-He co-owned Pokerchamps with Tony G and Erik Sagstrom ("Erik123") which was sold to Betfair in 2005. Based on what it was sold for and assuming a 3-way split, that'd be about $5 million for Gus

-Live tournaments

-Gus has been ranked a top Backgammon player (http://www.flintbg.com/giants.html) for a long time. Back in 2010 he blinded out of a 25k High Roller at EPT Monte Carlo to win 2 million Euros off a rich Russian in a game of backgammon in the casino lobby. Who knows what other kinds of games his profile has gotten him with rich backgammon fish.

-Sponsorship with FTP during the years that was insanely lucrative

-Possibly/probably up lifetime in nosebleed live cash given how much easier the games he can/could've gotten into during the poker boom years were

Sad I missed Steve D at vip live

On the contrary, I think you're just a person adapting to a new role and discovering what content you like to create. The last several shows, I've found very interesting, because they're all so different as we listen to you go through this process. The first show with Marco, with all the US legislative talk, felt like a Marco-led show. It was all in his wheelhouse and you played the color commentary role. In the Hollywood show, you clearly took the lead and it was very, very entertaining. It's just something you'll continue to work through.

Terrance is probably now front of my list for new co-host. Joe Tall was good, but your rapport with Terrance makes for a really comfortable show. And plus, Joe sounds like he has a full time work right now, and Terrance is by his own admission, looking for his next gig. The stars seem aligned there.

TChan, I liked your interview segment, but as others have commented, at times it got a bit esoteric. Granted, you were talking to a guy pursuing a PhD in Psychology, but maybe the interviews could be more focused on the process of how these folks got away from a poker centric life. They could be the poker equivalent of the Brian Koppleman "The Moment" podcasts. "Take me through your mindset and thoughts as you decided, I need to go do this other thing". Matt was a guy who sounded like he walked away from a $200/hr winrate on the promise of something better... What was going through his head as he did that? Was there any self-doubt? I would have liked to hear more of him exploring that.

It's funny, when I was listening to this week's interviews from my perspective (30 yrs old, casual poker player, been listening to poker cast for ~6 years), I thought two concurrent things - 1) "wow. this is amazing." 2) "wow. some people are gonna hate this."

That said, Adam I personally thought this was a great show. I think you know too, that as you stray from the core of your content - i.e. "what's happening in poker" with your interviews - into the fringe of your content like this week's show, you will frequently get a polarized response.

And Matt's story that his jiujitsu teacher told about his teacher's daughter in class was an amazing story and I think very very relevant today, especially with millenials.

finished listening to the episode, enjoyed every segment, fatal1ty's the least

btw ROSS THE PRODUCER HYPE

Hi Adam,

Halfway thru but wanted to clarify...

Estrellas Barcelona paid 15.84% to 1st and 8.44% to 2nd. The final numbers were the result of a four way deal at the Final Table.

Barcelona HR was 295 & 98 (393) as a single re-entry for 10K HR, largest 25K HR was 2014 PCA with 198 and 49 for 247 total. We do 10K's everywhere but PCA and Monaco where they get 25K's.

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

Hi Adam,

Also want to defend Bill Mason from Seminoles. Their event was originally schedule to end a week earlier and based off of that he planned a big family vacation that was bought, paid for and settled for quite a while until the decision was made to move the SHRPO event in late spring. He couldn't move his family vacation and is getting a really bad wrap by multiple outlets about what happened in SHRPO. He also got home the night of the 100K and was on hand talking to all the players at the start of the Live Stream and Day 2 of the 100K and contributed significantly to the resolution.

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

Didn't mind this episode. Felt that the TC interview with Haws went a little long and drifted all over the place (could have been the editing that caused this). FWIW I didn't mind the Fatality interview and though it was a nice change up.

I've always enjoyed the tourney wrap up stuff from MJ but that said i'm not going to stop listening if there's not as much of it.

First, Adam and TC work great together. Love that pairing.

However, the interviews were not my cup of tea. The Matt H. interview was one of the very few in the last years that I just wanted to be over. Too long and unfocused.

I still can't figure out why the gamer guy was even interviewed. It's a poker show, right? If I wanted to hear from a gamer, I'd subscribe to a gaming podcast. IMO, we don't need interviews with people in professions outside poker. What's next, the guy that's on top of the badminton world?

Two out of three shows without MJ have been clunkers. However, I think that they are both related to the guests and not the hosts.

I do like the fact that some of the features have been brought back. Little tidbits like "140 or less" and "bump" don't take much time and are kinda fun.

awsome show, love TC. 2 great guest. listened to it 4 times this. love the direction things are going

When I will be able to enjoy next episode?

Recorded last night, will be up shortly!

Great show guys good chemistry between you to. That's how story time was evolved love that Ivey and believe it was Cassidy golf story.

Great job Adam. You're doing great bud. You and Terrance have good chemistry, at times he tries to take over too much but he's just giving a good effort.

Haven't listened to this weeks episode yet but last weeks was fine. Even the gamer, having a kid with a personality is better than a vanilla interview.

The Hoss_tbf segment was painful. So sophisticated, so intellect, yet sooooo boring. Thank god, I could listen at 3x speed.

Just ask questions that people want to hear, ones that they don't want to answer but eventually will after you get guest settled. It makes the interview more fun, I know Adam you're a Stern fan just like me. You're capable of giving a good interview without causing friction.
"How much are you worth?"
"How much do win a month?"

Then some soft balls
"How do you study to keep from getting rusty?"
"Who are the nicest and douchiest players on tour?"

Just stuff like that.

Your poker podcast is the best one out there.

Being a HUGE counterstrike fan, would love to hear an interview with shaGuar (aka flush_entity).

If someone can say whether or not it's okay for me to link to another podcast, he did another poker podcast and of course talked about his CS career (don't remember a ton about the interview specifically, it was over a year ago)

Thought the Tchan interview was a great change of pace.

Not that I support Annie Duke, but the bit on her "Moth" story seemed like you were just totally trolling her. Maybe I'm underestimating the popularity of the "Moth" Podcast, but it seemed like a total non-mainstream poker story. Despite its obvious tilting of you, it just seemed like a gratuitous "its been a while since I've said how much I hate Annie Duke" segment.

Furthermore, I would like to say that by simply mentioning her in a negative context on the pokercast you have blessed her with pokercast karma (ex. Phil helmuth bashing for years and C.J. Spiller)