which you can listen to on your ipod or simply on your computer. It is based out of Vancouver Canada and airs live Sunday nights with the upload on itunes happening a day or two later.The two hosts are both pretty good, with one being a poker pro and the other being a poker junkie. They are funny and have some pretty good shows. They always have a famous poker player/host/or tournament director on with them as a guest and I have learned a fair bit from the show.
Yesterday I was listening to their latest show and the pro, Adam, was talking about something that happened while he was in Vegas last week during the WSOP. He was waiting for a 75-150 omaha game, so to kill some time, he started to play a 5-10 NL game. He bought in for 5K and immediately another existing player to his direct right bought more chips to cover him.
A few hands in Adam is on the button and does something I have never heard before, a 'Mississippi straddle'. Which is posting twice the BB on the button with the small blind to act first and with the option to raise if it is called around. As he posts and the dealer is dealing the cards, his cell phone rings and he picks it up, tells his daughter he will call her back later and hangs up. The dealer finishes dealing and the action goes around with five callers at $20. Adam looks down to see AdKd and makes it another $125 to play. The small blind then makes it another $500, $625 to play. It is folded back to Adam who moves in for 5K. The small blind then calls the floor and says his hand should be declared dead as he was on the phone during the hand. The floor manager asks what happens and after he gets the story says, 'So you waited until he raised you all in to say anything? No thats angle shooting.' He turns to Adam to remind him that phones are not allowed but the bet stands. The guy then folds. Adam then turns to the guy and says 'You should be ashamed of yourself, that is the lowest thing you could have done.' The guy then says 'You're right, and walked away with his chips.' I would have been livid had that happened to me!
Another podcast you may want to listen to is The Circuit by Cardplayer. It is very well done and all the back shows can be downloaded. If you want to listen to some pretty crazy ramblings and also to hear Phil Laak in action, download one of their first shows with Laak and Joe Cassidy as guests. It is from just around Christmas 2005 and is seriously priceless. Laak cannot finish a sentence without starting the next one. His story about the fire in Denmark attests to that very well.
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