Discussion of home games!
Get a panel together of casual and serious hosts, home-game hoppers, and mid-stakes private-game grinders.
Topics can include: Structures, house rules, etiquette, profitability, environement, social aspects, legal aspects, crazy stories, tournament vs. cash, recruitment, game maintenance, networking, private games vs. casinos, designated dealers, cheating, conflict resolution, special strategy, tipping/rake, unusual agreements, etc.
This would be totally different, and totally interesting to anyone who regularly plays in home games, which should be a decent number of us. Furthermore, these types of topics lend themselves very easily to a podcast-style discussion.
And home games are a very important component of the poker economy-- it is often the gateway to online or B&M.
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Originally Posted by RydenStoompala
Adam:
The best tv poker is High Stakes and anyone from that gig would be nice, but in the real world of cash games someone like Gabe Thaylor or another person who is genuinely big in the cash game world would be a welcome break from the internet phenoms, many of whom are not very interesting people or very good outside of the online world.
Listen to the interview on Pokerroad Cash Plays. His comments on the history of hold'em are interesting, however his strategy discussion is uninformative (though sometimes entertaining). He seems to be more of a "feel"-based player, and those types simply can't communicate their "feel" to us.
If the goal is to get a live cash player, forget the Bobby's Room types -- we've heard enough from them. A discussion with an articulate 5/10 grinder would be awesome. That would be fresh news and ideas from the front-lines of poker pro-dom.