We've asked several times and he's not interested unfortunately.

Rule #76, no excuses, play like a champion . . . .

So a buddy on facebook sent me a link to this "pokerbucketlist.com". Guy in debt sells house/car/etc. for poker adventure to Vegas to fulfill "the list". Live vicariously! Thought it'd make a good segment. I mean...interesting? - check, degen story? - check, canadian? - check.
what more do you need? make it happen!

When is Norm coming back on to do another strategy segment?

It would be fantastic if one of the Leggopoker guys went over some of the hands from the Durrrr v Antonius HU cash game from the Aussie Millions this year. Although brief, it was probably the best televised poker I have ever seen. Bar - none.

Ties into Durrrr challenge?? Accept at higher stakes and we get to see the hole cards.

I feel it is fair to say that the analysis of the recent HSP poker episodes has been a great addition to the show and I (and I'm sure I'm not alone) would love to hear a similar segment for the aussie millions.

Did anyone say Phil Helmuth yet?

havent trolled through this thread completely, so it may have already been suggested, but i would be interested to hear more about The Corporation. I know its not exactly poker news, but it is an event/time that made real poker history. Would be great to hear about it from the people involved. I hear that books on the subject are not particularly good reads so i'd like to hear how it went down, from the players involved

mike and adam one of the better "mainstream" articles on poker a i have read... i would be interested in your comments on it if you get your hands on a copy


The latest New Yorker (Mar 30) has a decent article on Chris Ferguson, his history, game theory, and talk of the UIGEA/FTP and some other poker stuff, a decent read and not a bad essay on the skill argument front in popular reading, recommend picking it up if you get a chance.

"ABSTRACT: THE SPORTING SCENE about online poker and game theory. Game theory was conceptualized by John von Neumann, who published “Theory of Games and Economic Behavior,” in 1944, with Oskar Morgenstern. To diagram certain game-theory problems, von Neumann used hands of poker as examples. Nearly fifty years later, it occurred to an amiable U.C.L.A. graduate student named Chris Ferguson to apply game theory concepts to grand-master poker. Relying on them, in 2000, he became known as the first person to win a prize of more than a million dollars in a poker tournament. Ferguson was born in L.A. in 1963. His father, Tom, taught game theory at U.C.L.A., and he brought home specialized board games and card games and taught them to Chris and his older brother, Marc. At seventeen, Chris began making occasional trips to Las Vegas. From a fifty-two-card deck, 2,598,960 five-card hands are possible. The basis for most poker strategy is a ruthless notion: what can I discern about my opponent’s habits that I can attack? Such an approach is called “maximally exploitive.” It is the way nearly all professionals proceed. While he was still a student, Ferguson decided also to employ a method called “optimal strategy.” It means, when up against an expert opponent, “How do I lose the least?” Mentions Leonard Kleinrock. Since 2000, Ferguson has won more than seven million dollars playing poker, and that’s less, apparently, than what he’s earned as “something like the chairman of the board” of Tiltware, which developed and licensed the software for FullTiltPoker.com, where people play online poker, sometimes against Ferguson and other professionals, for money. According to HR Gambling Capital, the online poker business made about $3.8 billion last year. It’s not clear that any law governs online poker. By remaining open after the Safe Port Act of 2006 was passed, Full Tilt and Ferguson “made the best bet in the history of poker,” according to Steven Lipscomb. Ferguson believes that game theory protects him from making intuitive judgements that might fail or from being distracted by information that’s not necessarily germane. Mentions Andy Bloch. Thousands of men and women are believed to play poker for a living. In the 2008 World Series of Poker, Ferguson played poker ten hours a day for thirty-five days in a row. Describes a tournament held at the Bellagio."

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...fact_wilkinson

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Annie Duke.

Yes, and I said that I seriously doubted that he would accept, becasue the hosts have too much integrity to give him a pass on the UB/AP issues. Same for Annie Duke I suppose.[/I]

Ya, neither interview would likely end well

Isn't that what great entertainment is all about? My post in NVG got deleted. There, I suggested Annie as a Pokercast guest to explain her blowjob technique. My logic was that it would be helpful to many women and benefit many communities.

It might have been already suggested ITT but I just stumbled upon this thread:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29...r-lmao-360859/

This guy (Milesaway558 on Stars) seems to be pretty sick when it comes to grinding small stakes STTs/MTTs. A lot of people in the beginning of the thread thought he had to be a bot (stars support confirmed in an email he was a human later in the thread).
I feel like having him on the show might give a lot of inspiration to people grinding the small stakes tourneys.

Here's the quote from the thread where he explains his extreme grind at the very low stakes (IIRC at stakes of like ~$2):

It appears he has since (thread is from december '08) moved up in stakes, when I looked him up on stars a few minutes ago he was 24-tableing the $16 18-man tourneys.

Please can you get eskimo clark on the show? I think it would be hilarious, especially the "how much you got?" feature.

not a guest, but i know u guys mention threads on 2+2, i wrote a thread about picking up girls in china in OOT, i'm not very good at picking up but alot of people have been reading it (often to call me a rapist!), 90k+ views i think its the #1 viewed thread in OOT!

i listen to the pokercast every week and i'd be thrilled to be the subject of some mockery or what not, plus someone who doesn't suck so bad with women might see my thread and give me some advice!

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34...ournal-389302/

I already suggested that they mention or do a quick interview with you. Mike or Adam responded that they are aware of your thread, so you have that going for you.

Luongo or Burrows.... after they're done winning the cup of course
As I understand they're both fairly avid players.

allen cunningham.

/thread

Does this mean once we have Cunningham on, we don't do any more shows after that?

Any interview after that will just pale in comparison, it's all downhill after that. It's Allen Cunningham!!

I'd buy an Allen Cunningham interview for a dollar.

i had a segment idea.. sorry if this has been suggested before, but i was unwilling to look through the 20ish pages of this thread.

how about a '5 minutes with a 2+2er' segment where you interview a random 2+2 poster and find out their story and what they do. it could probably even be shorter... but would be a fun way to get to know members of the community.

guidelines might be that they have a certain post count or have been members for a couple years.. something like that... or even just a 'get to know a mod' segment.

what do you think?

Ya, I like both of these. It was mentioned earlier in the thread but thanks for bringing it up again.

I like "bad beat story time" with any random poker player.

Benyamine or the Dang Brothers would be an awesome show I think