First of all thanks for doing this show. It’s the only thing that gets me through work everyday. How about getting Prahlad on the show. I’m sure this has been suggested but if not I thought I would throw it in there.

AJ Benza and/or Vanessa Rousso (the only 2 non-Euro requests I'm likely to make)

On the same show? Perhaps with a boxing match to follow?

that is pokerroad's territory, not 2+2's. Sorry mate! Why dont you just come out to Commerce and drool on her in person? Its much more effective.

She's a regular at the commerce? One more reason to make a visit there! She is very pretty!

unfortunately this is a standard policy across the industry, its not specific to FullTilt. I doubt that exposing the issue will gain any sympathy, I think your best option is to leave FullTilt if you feel that you can get a better deal elsewhere, or stay at FTP if you feel that your inability to receive the same level of service that other players who have rakeback can be overlooked. FTP probably won't change their policy on this matter until the industry changes as a whole. Of course the exception to this policy is PokerStars, they have never allowed rakeback, as a side effect of this decision there is no concerns over situations such as the one described in that thread.

semi-regular, her father plays in the 40/80 limit hold'em games with me sometimes.

Durrr! that'd be interesting.

already did durrrr! Check the archives for the show, its not one of our best, Tom was at dinner at the time.

Its time for Phil Ivey

I've mentioned this before, but I think if you could get INTERNET POKERS/ Dog Is Head on that would be quite interesting - from his videos he sounds like a very gifted and articulate person, kinda like the Clayton Newman interview (which was excellent)

I love watching durrrr on HSP and PAD but he is usually a lame interview as never wants to say anything regarding poker and isn't a big story teller either. BTW, Neil Channing (sp?) rocked.

Perhaps if the durrr vs Antonius challenge ever completes you might bring him on to talk about it.

*grunch*

Gabe Kaplan, please. Seriously. That would make for some good radio, imo.

+1 this is a great idea

That's not really a reasonable argument. I mean how can you just say let's ignore something that is clearly unfair for new players and produces multi-accounting, just because it is "standard policy". Look at it from the following extreme (not directly comparable) perspective: online poker is still (semi-)illegal. It is "standard policy" in many states/countries, so you simply accept that and don't care... There is an open debate about legalizing online poker so why not have one on policies and contracts in the poker industry?

You really have to have a firm grasp of how poker sites recruit players to understand their policy on Rakeback.

Without going into a long dissertation on the subject, if FTP allowed players to change their revenue model at will, they would alienate the people that control the influx of new accounts.

They can't afford that to happen, obviously. Marketing affiliates have the upper hand and it doesn't appear that will change anytime in the near future.

You could do a segment where you talk about the subtleties of the current situation.

FWIW, when I started playing real money, I had learned just enough about rakeback to know that I'd rather just sign up at PokerStars and worry about the rakeback thing later. A couple years later and I have not played a real money hand at a competing site.

Nobody asks them for allowing players to change the revenue model at will. I just don't think it would be too hard to implement/add a clause to the contracts that says that after, say one year (or even two years), a player could decide to change his affiliate. That is not much to ask for in my opinion and would basically solve the problem of being tied to an affiliate "lifetime" that does not provide rakeback.

I don't feel anything major in the new player recruiting process needs to be changed but lifetime contracts in such a fast-changing online poker world seem rather nonsensical. Summary: The revenue model can work, it just needs a bit of tweaking.

I fully agree. Although it might be a bit technical, I think many listeners (even those who already play poker for a long time online!!) could benefit from a discussion and learn something.

What happened to "Story Time"? I loved that.

Overall, fellas--grat job on the pokercast. Totally addicted.

I think they said they had 4 Neil Channing storytimes coming up in future episodes.

Layne Flack on not getting high fived by erick lindgren at WSOP. After a few drinks and a couple of white lines LDO

agreed re: Phil,


Also try to get Mike Matusow on again to discuss his new book, i know you had him arranged...

Guests I'd most like to hear on the podcast are...

1. Ivey
2. Jason Strasser
3. Doyle
4. Lisandro
5. Prahlad

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