I just want to take this time to earnestly thank everyone for their support of the show. Before I came on as co-host in Show #330, I was a listener since Show #1, just like many of you guys. I have to thank Adam, MJ, and our dear departed friend James Bunner for blazing the trail for me to spew words about poker into my p-popping headset on a kinda-sorta weeklyish basis. The fact that there were you guys out there listening made it so worthwhile. Any time anyone on this forum, on Twitter, or in person made the effort to let me know they appreciated the show, it felt great.
I'm now old enough that I've been playing poker longer than I haven't playing poker. I may not play professionally/full-time any more, but it is a huge part of me. I was hooked the second I stepped into a run-down smoke-filled 4/8 LHE game in south Vancouver. I met Adam playing in a 1-2 pot-limit dealer's choice in a rat-infested garage. As a teenager, I regularly drove across the border into Washington State to play $40 buy-ins tournaments, because we didn't have them in Vancouver. I moved to Costa Rica to work for a poker startup, and had a front-row seat during the Moneymaker boom. But as good as Stars was to me, I needed to get in on the action and played full-time for 8 years before being coaxed back to the online poker startup thing. When the Ultimate Poker gig ended is fortuitously when Adam stepped in and graciously offered me the co-host job. It seems that no matter what happens, the pokers is in me and it's not going away. This silly five-card game is a part of me, for better or worse, in sickness and health.
Adam and I have talked a lot and it seems apparent that the current incarnation of the Pokercast is just not tenable long-term. But like all egotists, I still enjoy babbling into a microphone and am under the ridiculous impression that people care what I have to think about things. So I don't imagine I'll stop doing that.
I do hope we have the opportunity to make it to #500 and do ...just...one...more. I'd hate if I were a part of ~180 shows and the only thing some random downloader years from now finds was our discussion about n***er vs m*****f***er.
From Vancouver to Kells, thank you all so much for inviting us into your homes, commutes, walks, or where ever you Pokercasted. It was, in the words of the immortal Chainsaw, "nice to be on your show."
Terrence