Few things
1) Terrance, in response to your "playing poker stars while on a submarine comment"- if you've figured out how to send signals of any sort through hundreds of feet of water, then quit your day job and sell that technology to the highest bidder. When we are up in comms the data rate is laughable anyways- think dial up rate and take the under.
2)Any word on the play money invitational? I know it can take a while to get through the Pokerstars management, just wondering if they shot it down already for some legal reason.
3) Started listening to the "Gambler's Edge" Podcast. The first time I heard the intro, I burst out laughing when the mentioned that one host was a member of the "Blackjack hall of fame", and one was a member of the "Video Poker Hall of fame". I looked it up and they are real.
Unfortunately, there is no craps hall of fame, but I feel like Tron would be shoe in to get inducted based on his performance in the World Series of Dice (Chappelle Show-
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/jwy71h...e---uncensored)
Adam, you have to admit that despite its drawbacks, the poker hall of fame has more merit that the Video Poker or Blackjack. I mean WTF really qualifies you for making significant contributions to a game that the house has an edge. And they're not inducting people that did awesome degen stuff like, play 6 hands of $100 blackjack for 12 hours, or 4 days straight of video poker.
The Blackjack hall of famers don't even put up real pictures of themselves because they don't want the casinos to know who they are since they count cards. I just envision their induction ceremonies being a bunch of people standing around with paper bags over their heads.
If Black Jack and Video Poker have a hall of fame, I think its time we create our own "Poker Podcasting Hall of Fame". Too late this year to develop this idea but I think we could turn this into a hilarious annual "gala" in Vegas during the WSOP.
Figure we can make a mock poker or even two plus two centered award show to go along with the "inductions" with such crowd pleasing subjective categories as
1) Best online graph (positive and negative)
2) Best level
3) Troll of the year
4) worst dressed poker player
5) Biggest tournament fail
6) Poker player most likely not to be playing in 3 years
7) The Ryan Reiss award for biggest overstatement of ones own poker ability
Plenty of other possibilities
This could also be a time to announce the winners of the annual "Girls of (insert thread)" - And "Guy of That's what she said thread"- if they do that.
Venue- divey hotel reception room. Think of throwing a crappy wedding reception and that's a baseline to start.
I'll gladly spearhead this initiative with the hope of doing the first one next summer. Since the annual two plus two party seems to have fizzled out, this can provide somewhat of a replacement. We can have a "founding meeting" in the near future online or in person (I'll be in vegas 25-28 JUN). To hash out some details and assign responsibilities.
A kickstarter campaign might be a good way to raise start-up funds to defer costs of admission but we could probably get some sponsorship (patio furniture companies will sponsor anything)