Pokercast Episode 314 - Mike "Goleafsgoeh" Leah, Brooks Haxton and the EPT Grand Final

Live from the Two Plus Two Studios - This week Mike and Adam welcome back Mike Leah to talk about life on the MTT circuit. Mike talks about his approach to the upcoming WSOP as well as his goals for 2014. The guys ask some MTT strategy questions and Mike talks about what it was like to be approached by Team Ivey to be a video coach. Mike and Adam also welcome Brooks Haxton, author and father of Isaac Haxton to talk about his new book about having a son playing high stakes poker for a living. Brooks talks about how Ike got started in strategy-based games and what it's like to have his son taking million dollar swings on a daily basis. The big story of the week is the EPT Grand Final in Monaco and Lee Jones calls in from principality to give us a first-hand report of all the action. Ben "Apocalypse Wow" Conoley stops by to give us an update on the Pokercast forum WSOP fantasy pool and as always the password for the May 4th Pokerstars Invitational for Pokercast listeners is revealed.


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Music Credits - The War On Drugs - Red Eyes(2014), Nick Waterhouse - This Is A Game (2014) Ozomatli - Brighter (2014)

First

meh

Lol, grinding on wednesday and realized it wasn't up yet, had to try and snipe you pope

I was already 30 minutes into it though, so what do I win?

30 minutes less to listen to now?

Turd

When Lee Jones is on the show is always 30mins shorter for me anyway.

You mentioned the German gang swapping pieces, or sharing a bankroll, a couple of episodes ago I think, and I almost mentioned it then, but how dodgy is it for groups of players to have significant swaps, especially in a small field tournament like the high rollers? It strikes me as a recipe for ethical dilemmas, to say the least.

it has been mentioned before that even though they swap or share significant percentages they still play hard against each other.

Igor Kurganov and Philip Gruissem played heads up in a 25k in Australia in 2013 for almost an hour when they were both really shallow. Wouldn't have been suspect at all if they had finished it up in 5 minutes.

I'm with Mike on the Hellmuth v Ivey most known argument.
Even last night on the C4 London EPT coverage Hellmuth was shown for a quarter of the hour long show even though he was on a shortstack and not really relevant to the action.

Duh...someone please explain the 'humorous intro' to me cuz I don't get it.

(and I understand this will not come as a surprise to many of you)

Some Thai guy recently won an APPT event and he had a ridiculously long last name that was hard to pronounce(as many Thai names are). I joked that it's getting harder to do the show with more countries with hard to pronounce names doing well in tourneys. 'First the greeks, now the Thai's...the minute the Sri Lankan's starting winning I'm done...' (Sri Lankan last names are notoriously the longest in the world-15-20 letters sometimes).

The intro joke was a play on that bit while also incorporating the '140 or less' segment we recently started where we read our favorite tweets of the week...hence '140 or more'. It was a triple range merged witty intro. The accidental Gru impersonation was just an awesome bonus.

Yeah, I didn't get it either and I listen to every show and participate very actively in the forums.

Props to Adam and MJ. The NHL playoffs are in full swing and they still manage to knock out another Pokercast. Well done.

Of course its easier when the Canucks aren't playing.

wow, can i trade sd & ds for lj & ph? (j/k)

I think Mike's completely overestimating the general public's poker knowledge. If you take 100 random people I think the number of them who could name any poker player, let alone correctly recall Phil Hellmuth's name, is <5.

Didn't get the intro either, but funny now Mike's explained it.

The most well-known poker player is obviously country dependent. In the UK it definitely wouldn't be Hellmuth or Negreanu. Your average person on the street wouldn't have a clue who they were. Honestly, it would probably be Vicky Coren-Mitchell at the moment, or one of the televised celebs, or even Devilfish even though he hasn't been around much for a while

I simply said hellmuth would get named more than any other player, not that all 100 would be able to name a player.

Yeah I know but I'd be surprised if any of said 100 could name Hellmuth. I agree he's the most famous but 100 laymen wouldn't know his name.

Cleveland won the NFL Championship in 1964 when Dr Frank Ryan dismantled Johnny Unitas and the Colts 27-0.

Agreed - and Annie Duke would still get more mentions in the US...sad but true.

Wha...? Active? 15,000 + posts and 14,000 only say "First...la la la".

Adam mentioned Limon has a podcast, what's it called please so I can check it out, thanks.

That interview with Brooks Haxton is better than ambien. That book is gonna be a barn burner.

http://www.crushlivepoker.com/podcasts

Invitational is up:

T# 904032399