I'm not sure how old Bunner is, but I assumed he was doing a nod to that as well. It was always a hiss/whisper type of delivery.

really?

Never heard of it. I'm in the UK though.....

What ever happened to the controversy with Casey Jarzabek where he lied/tweeted about his bust out hand in a live MTT?
I thought the consensus was that he scammed his backers by being dishonest about his play and bust out hand.
Thoughts?
I remember Adam commenting on it during a prior podcast when that event occurred. Why didn't you guys grill him about this?

Are you thinking of Owais Ahmed?

Not 100% sure and couldn't find the previous podcast but I thought Casey was involved somehow or at the table maybe?
Apologies if I am incorrect.

Two of this week's guests talked about it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqrERwnbrBQ about 4:40 in.

Casey said it was the hand he lost most of his chips on not the actual bust out hand and that he wasn't backed for the event.

<edit - based on the interview, it's probably best you didn't bring it up again 7 months later>

This episode of "Five Thoughts" also mentioned it (see #3):

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2012/0...oker-12742.htm

The explanation in this report is similar to what's in the video: the hand in question (losing QQ to AA) was the hand that crippled him, so it's the key hand he reported on Twitter.

One of the best first posts in online forum history.

Casey got into that here last summer.

Hi y'all!

Great interview with Marco.

Although I do take offense when Mike called Casey Jarzabek a good looking guy. Maybe you are into the grossly overweight guys? #fatfetish? I think he had a heart attack a couple years ago due to his obesity.

Thanks for the link Marco. It cleared up that controversy.

1) I would totally play on Bunner Poker (given a decent rakeback deal).

2) I have to confess to being a FullTilt.net play money grinder. I took the starting chips (I don't remember if it was 1K or 5K) and played 10/20 10-game to grind it up to 20K. Then I started playing 5/10 NL 2-7 TD and 5/10 Rush PLO8 in addition to 10-game.

Why? 1) You can't play 10-game in a real cardroom at the limits I have a bankroll for, and I love mixed games. 2) It's the closest thing to real online poker besides the subscription-based things like Club WPT. In my experience, at least in the limit games, roughly 2/3 to 75% of people are taking it seriously, even if they're playing badly. There's not as much capping every street as you would expect if you've ever played other play chip poker on Yahoo Games or something like that, and you actually do have fold equity. FFS, there's more fold equity in some of these games than you have in the $8/$16 LHE at Commerce!

In the NL 2-7 TD, I've found more of the types of people who are just shoving every hand. So I just wait for a pat ten or better and stack them.

I would be a little worried that these 50/50 lotto's are rigged. It would be pretty easy for the guy picking the ticket to already have one in his hand when he reaches in. That's how the ticketmaster lotto's are rigged for the ticket scalpers.

:}

Great show as always guys.

If Agent Marco were to interview Alan Boston, would the interview ever end?

Hallo Govnah! Makes me smile every time I watch.

Great ep guys, thanks.

First time I have seen the Govnah video, man he was on something!

Great listen as always.

Weeks later, I know, but a followup to the play chip grinder situation:

I saw a deal going down on an FTP play chip table I was observing in which someone was agreeing to buy play chips for real $$$. This prompted a Google search in which I found a friggin' website that sells play chips for $9 per million (2+2 rules don't allow me to link to it, right?). But seriously, although I may be a little sick for grinding play chips, how sick do you have to be to actually pay for them? Well, I guess people pay for **** on Zynga Poker or whatever, so I guess it's not that different....

what is this governor video with phil laak they're talking about with marco?

Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zqquuUgRg0