Live from Two Plus Two Studios, March 15th 2011 - The feature guest this week on the Two Plus Two PokerCast is PokerStars Team Online Pro Clayton Newman. Clayton comes on the program to talk about his new sponsorship deal with Team Online, his deep run at this year's LA Poker Classic Main Event and some of the antics that took place at last year's Two Plus Two World Series party. Mike and Adam then connect with poker player and casino executive John Strzemp to discuss his runner-up finish at the historic 1997 WSOP Main Event, his work in the casino industry and the way Las Vegas has evolved over the last few decades. Donna Harris, Director of Poker Operations at the Wynn Casino also chimes in to announce the official time and location of this year's Two Plus Two WSOP party and previews the upcoming Wynn Classic. The guys cover some forum static including the fights that went down at Aria involving Shawn “Sheiky” Sheikhan, some controversy involving Prahlad Friedman calling out Isaac Haxton and Justin Bonomo for alleged account sharing and the upcoming Superstar Showdown between Viktor "Isildur1" Blom and Daniel Negreanu. They also provide this week's password for the March 20th Poker Stars VIP Club Invitational for PokerCast listeners.


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yay, listening now! Been waiting for this, spewing my money away on rigged pokersites.

deuce!!

3rd
Never been even close to this

ZOMG early this week. BOO-YAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

5th. Cant listen rite now but will im about 3 hours. For those who have listened already, Where is the party at?

Wow, and I am only halfway through 162. I'm getting behind.

Frurst!

Salfords Lads Club reference!
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=salf...N&hl=en&tab=wl
Enjoy the link

Street view ...
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&...6,0.00101&z=20

Need mp3

Ep 164 Clayton Newman, John Strzemp & Donna Harris

1mintue in and football has been called soccer like 3 times fml!!

still listening though lucky number 13th

I see where this is heading...

LOL. Our new team even calls itself Whitecaps FC. Sorry, all.
http://whitecapsfc.com/

"Swingers" was shot in the Riviera casino.

Double Down!

snippet from last years party featuring Shaun Deeb, 2010 bracelet winner Brendan Taylor and runner-up Ben Yu, Adam Schwartz, Steven 'renodoc' Friedlander, Matt Grapenthien, and my pregnant wife. Clayton was in there somewhere. Don't miss out this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF4GOTIfE0k

I live in Las Vegas. The Sahara has the best cash games and tourneys in all of Vegas! How dare you say no one goes there!

Edit: Oh wait, I've never been to Sahara either

I've played at the Sahara. Once I played in a tourney and after the first dealer rotation our previous dealer was sitting at our table. That was interesting.

Thanks for the shout out.

I also want to thank you guys and JohnnyD for running the league. It really does provide a level of competition far beyond what would be expected for a regular tourney at the same buy-in level and is a lot of fun. I think this league (and 1 or 2 others like it) have made me a little better and let me learn some new games with good competition without having to have bigger buy-ins.

If you are wondering Mike, it would just be evilroy but that is often taken and the default suggestion is often to add 'ca' presumably short for Canada and in my head it is pronounced by spelling out 'c' 'a'.

I guess you are planning on winning a bunch of SCOOP's or something that I'll need to say it again soon.

Better safe than sorry!

I sorta rambled about structures relating to ROI and why being an MTT pro is hard; here's the NoahSD blog I was referring to.

http://www.nsdpoker.com/2011/01/mtt-pros/

You can play 20 tables and be tight solid and not pay attention and crank out an easy 20% ROI, but then you'd have a 20% chance of losing over a 5000 tournament sample. You need either a very clear head to deal with the constant losing, or you need to play less games and bump up that ROI :P

I was actually at the table next door, we played a bunch of pineapple and blind mans bluff. Something like Seven Stud 9 or better Hi Lo half best hand would have been too intimidating.

But when all the tables broke it got down to 1 table of Badugiha and flipping, and thats where I saved my rungood! =D

I got borderline blackout drunk, unregged the main event, slept for a day and a half, regged the main event, and cashed. booyakasha.

I was the empty seat...picked the best hand to sit out...

btw, my last trip to Vegas I stayed the Sahara casino. I played in the daily mtt's they had and played some cash at night.

While at the table it's no diff from any other place really. The casino floor seemed really really small to me. The poker room is more like a poker area.

The casino just screams older vegas and that's what I like about it. The room on the other hand looked like a crime scene. Old grimy TV, bugs crawling on the walls.

I was afraid to plug in my laptop cause the plug was burned out. I slept on top of the covers. The few nights stay had already been paid for by my company. After a few days I was able to check into the Flamingo and I did so with haste.

The game floor had charm, the rooms where a health hazard.