#99 Poker Podcast available to Download

November 28, 2011

This week we review the previous shows allocated last week and read out a listeners report on his allocated show. The news that we discuss includes the launch of Bubble Protection which Pokergob is promoting and the latest news from around the poker world including the news that Switch Poker now accept Bitcoins as a [...]

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#98 Poker Podcast available to Download

November 21, 2011

Slade, Mal and Gareth host yet again bringing you the latest poker news from our crazy world! This week we discuss our favourite love songs for wooing that special someone as I still plan to give a girl a CD in the hope she agrees to go out with me!
We also discuss the latest poker [...]

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Picking your route in online poker

November 21, 2011

If you want to play poker for a living or as a serious second income then you need to go down several distinct paths. The multi-tabling path is one chosen by many and is effective if your game has reached a plateau. When you are playing 16 tables and seeing 1200 hands per hour then [...]

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How long can we keep this up for?

November 16, 2011

I was having an interesting discussion on the Hendon Mob forum the other day regarding the longevity of online poker players and it is indeed alarming for everyone connected with the game in a playing capacity just how much tougher the game is becoming. However I do feel that there are millions of people who [...]

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#97 Poker Show available to Download

November 14, 2011

This week we have Slade for the whole show. We discuss the WSOP final table and whether the time delay was sufficient. We praise UK poker player Sam Trickett, who has dominated in 2011 and also discuss the legality and skill of poker in the USA comparing it against Horse Racing and other betting games. [...]

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Looking at game theory in NLHE

November 12, 2011

The concept of using theory from other games and sports is very powerful in areas like poker because there is a massive amount of overlap. But once you spot these connections then poker and the playing of poker at all levels suddenly becomes a whole lot clearer. A couple of years ago I managed to [...]

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#96 Poker Radio Podcast available to Download

November 7, 2011

Sorry for the lack of show last week. My mother was unwell and this caused a bit of a stir at itsawinner towers, enough where I had to ring the LinuxGDog and regrettably miss a show. It’s a rare occasion where a show must be missed, but thankfully all seems to be well now.
This [...]

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Just Getting the Strategy Right

October 31, 2011

Being a very keen reader of material that includes financial trading then I see countless differences between these fields and poker. These days I multi-table at levels like NL100 which I think is a decent level but not a great level. So I try to make my strategy slightly different at no limit Texas Hold’em [...]

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#95 Poker Show available to Download

October 24, 2011

Slade and Mal do the show in LinuxGDog1666’s absence. Slade tells us about his big win in Las Vegas recently and reviews his new Xbox360. Mal updates everyone on his latest news both poker and non-poker related and also comments on which of his current PS3 games he is selling on eBay. Gareth would have [...]

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Ken Uston: “Breaking Vegas: Blackjack Man”

October 23, 2011

I love documentaries about gambling and about the characters that lived some of the crazy anecdotes we hear about. Ken Uston was one of these characters. Whilst the following documentary is dramatised you can get the gist of the story quite easily and it is very interesting.
Watch each video in turn to get the [...]

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What are your chances?

October 23, 2011

As someone who has been a very keen student of game theory over the past ten years then it is clear how certain fields and games interact with each other. When you have games where the strategy for playing flawlessly is all too easily reached then the game dies as a money earner. Let us [...]

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Deep Stacked or Short Stacked?

October 19, 2011

Some years ago when I first started playing poker online for a living then limit hold’em was my main game of choice. It was amazing at the time because the software wasn’t even around to multi-table and there was certainly no such thing as sign up bonuses and the ones that were around were not [...]

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#94 Poker Show available to Download

October 17, 2011

Topics covered this week is the Merge Network re-opening to US players, a quick look at the WSOPE, we discuss the story of a British poker player jailed for threatening online poker staff and we feature music from Pick Up The Gun and Toronto Sun. This show lasts around one hour.

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Tom Dwan Keeps It Real in Cannes

October 15, 2011

Tom Dwan gave an interesting interview in Cannes, courteousy of our friends at Pokertube.

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#93 Poker Show available to Download

October 10, 2011

In this show we start off slowly and build up more momentum as we go. This is probably due to me worrying about a potential slither of glass in my foot after trodding on a bit of glass over the weekend,but after the first track from Down The Machine I slapped myself about and came [...]

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