I play the pokercast invitational almost every week. I dont use twitter. I hope that the way the password is given out stays the same.

Agreed. We're done with it for a long while now imo

was that song at the th Wizard?

It was at the end of the show.

lol @ MJ's new avy with old location

Well, I'll ask him but I don't think he'll be very keen, he's already got one, you see.

ship.

WAT?

EDIT: oh the moving the gear all around. ICWYDT.

annette was awesome. totally sweet, very good personality. im a fan.

well if that were true i'd say he's going about it the wrong way. you think this is automatically going to make people like him? its the exact opposite. I feel that he does want to help and he actually thinks that he can. However i, like most, am skeptical to say the least. but id say i feel his intentions are probably there.

but regardless, fk ub

Joe Seebok seems in over his head ,I think however much UB is paying him cannot be worth the aggravation and ill will.

Nice pics. Hope you enjoy London!

Yeah i assume he has the right intentions in terms of wanting to uncover it, but he is obviously trying to paint a picture of him being our knight in shining armour.

And I guess he got sick of travelling the circuit as a losing player so the $$$ is obv the driving force

Does Pollack realize that they haven't revealed who the November 9 are on ESPN yet and won't for another 3 weeks?

Another excellent podcast! It makes living without cable t.v. so much easier!

The sebok hate is crzy round here. Yeah, the whole "I want to bring wholeness" to the poker community is quite naive, but I felt his intentions came across as they truly are, genuine. You guys did a great job being civil and getting to the tough questions out there. Keep up the great work.
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Won draw for a mac book at stars party. (I run good)

As I was listening to Annette's interview, I couldn't help but imagine (rather sophomoric, I know):

"How great would it be if you occasionally dropped the 'When you gonna let me tap that?' line on a female guest?"

Their response would definitely give us a better look into what kind of person they really are.

Nice! An air?

I wonder how much of what they are paying Helmuth, Duke and now Sebok is stolen money? I would demand to know what they are being paid. It has to be way more than Tilt or PokerStars. Where are they getting the money? What kind of volume does UB do? Stinks to high hell of corruption.

I'd wager a lot. Wasn't there rumours during WSOP about UB offering roughly 10 times what other sites were for patches? Those may be just that, rumours.

i hope she experiences life outside of poker and the circuit - it's great she's close with helmuth and mizzi, i guess, but what else do they really have in common other than poker?

find some friends your own age, Annette, and go get a mani and pedi from time to time. sitting in your room locked up playing poker 18 hours a day is not much of a life. hopefully she has enough cash now where she can play selectively, although she sounds pretty degenerate to me "it was a sunday and i was bored so i played a 20,000 player tourney.." - what happened to pizza and a movie on a sunday? yawnnnnn.

Joe said something very interesting AND honest during the pokercast, which I think really shows his desire to tell things like he sees it - "professional tournament poker players will be extinct" - he didnt give a time frame but with everything he knows is going down, it's obvious that within 5 years, the WPTs and EPTs, and majority of online poker sites, will fade into oblivion.

Here's my reasoning why:

1. UB/AP aren't the only sites where cheating has occurred - cheating occurs on EACH AND EVERY SITE. Note recent news about bots on FTP
2. There is no way to regulate people chatting via IM, or in the same physical location, and telling each other their hands
3. There is no way to prevent multiple people playing the same account at once, therefore giving them a "two heads are better than one" advantage
4. Most players are losing players - eventually they will get fed up with pouring money into a losing endeavor and will find something more productive to do, or they'll run out of cash
5. The players that do win are sick of the long waiting times to cash out (3 weeks for a check??) when you get your money back instantly playing live, if you actually make money with the high rakes charged by BnM casinos
6. Most markets are saturated in terms of new sign ups - if the poker sites can't keep growing, they will eventually go out of business, bar the top two.
7. The top two will eventually have the law catch up to them and go out of business, or not be able to accept US players - a large chunk of their business, as the feds will keep finding their bank accounts and freezing their funds.
8. The large $10K events already are and will continue to dwindle - it's too expensive to keep traveling round and plonking down $10K (not tax deductible I don't think?) with a 1-300 at best shot of making it into the top 5 payouts. Variance is a bitch no matter how good or lucky you think you are. Fine if you have a company sponsoring you, but even they will expect a result or two now and again, even though we all know how small the odds of winning multiple major tournaments are.
9. The sites will stop pouring money onto players just to wear patches on TV and make stupid TV ads. This is the most costly form of advertising and the LEAST trackable. In any event, the market is already saturated, if you play poker you probably found software through google and downloaded the first couple of rooms, and stuck with those.
10. The government will clamp down on underage gambling, as it did with underage drinking. People will need to send in IDs to prove they are 18 or older in order to get paid. Annette 15s will be a thing of the past.

Just my 2c.

Joe signed with UB so he can get as much money now out of a dying trade as possible, perhaps that shows what a shrewd business man he really is.

Anyone who believes there is NO cheating in any shape or form on other sites, is stupid. Don't play online poker ANYWHERE unless you want to be cheated, or perhaps you are a cheater yourself. Then good luck to you, i hope you can sleep well at night.

Someone a bit paranoid maybe? Your like the guy on FT who tells me the software is rigged to put aces against kings constantly.

That's why Roulette, Baccarat and Craps are extinct now ... lol