Man I'd love to have a monthly review every month but fml I'm so busy. OK so here it goes.

In April I went to Vegas on my one weekend off of the month which is when I usually get in 20-35 mtts. So I only got in 70 mtts online and 5 mtts live. I don't count the live mtts I played in Vegas since no way was I rolled for 4 of the 5 mtts I played. Of the 70 mtts online I started out on my 2nd session with high hopes but after winning a $8.80 with 142 runners I ran JJ into AA at a ftp $75/18k ft to bust 8th which paid a measley $324 and $535 when first in the 18k was somewhere in the neighborhood of 5k. After that session everything went downhill and I finished with a monthly profit of $190 which is pretty disappointing.

May was similar to April as my first session saw me get deep in 3 mtts where the combined prizepools were somewhere close to 120k. My only ft of the 3 saw me bust ATs<A8o aipf for a 70bb+ pot vs a spastic retard for a crappy 8th place finish. I'm not gonna lie this sort've put me on tilt as I see friends suck out, win flips, or just plain have their hands hold at fts. This never happens to me. Finishing 8th in the ftp $26/28k was brutal as the only guy that had a bit of a clue was the guy who knocked me out. Granted most $26 fts are going to be soft but this was softer then normal and getting busted by an idiot where I pretty much was guaranteed a top 3 hurts. I sucked it up played well but every session I played since I keep getting outdrawn or getting coolered. So based on my runbad after 94 mtts I managed to finish with a loss of $1547.

I got moved to a shift where I can't just randomly decide that on any given day I can put in a mtt session. So I'm going to try and grind 50nl fr when I can't play mtts. At the moment I've played around 800 hands and things haven't went that well and I'm down around $25. God I hope things turn around I'm tired of getting fucked at every ft that has a prizepool of at least 15k.

Poker Podcast Guide 3rd Edition

In the world of Poker podcasts not many that stick around for long. Some have poker pros that are essentially losing money by staying away from the tables and while others aren’t worth the time and commitment as most are probably not making anyone a lot of money. I’m a part time online MTT grinder, this is where I spend most of my time when I’m home from work either studying or playing. I am biased toward good poker strategy pod casts. Funny that my favorite pod cast is more of a news, gossip, interview pod cast. If there is terrible poker strategy advice that takes up a major part of the pod cast it’s not going to be ranked all that high. I was going to have a top 10 but I feel only 7 are of quality and there is a huge drop off after the top 7. My top 7 list comprises of current pod casts. At the bottom like before I’ll list the one’s that didn’t make the top 7 as well as some pod casts that were good but no longer have new episodes. If you are a beginner pod casts like Killer Poker Anaylsis and RoundersRadio are definitely worth a listen but are worthless to more experienced players.

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1) Two Plus Two Pokercast - Hosted by Adam Schwartz and Mike Johnson. Adam is/was a mid/high stakes online player and really knows his stuff, Mike has a fulltime job and plays the part of the casual player. Both guys keep up on gossip and what happens on the 2p2 forum. I love that the hosts are intelligent and have nice chemistry, there's nothing worse then hosts that talk over each other or have seconds of silence or awkward conversation's where the hosts aren't on the same page. The show in a nutshell is a mix of gossip, forum static, hand advice, and poker player interviews.

Cons: There aren't enough shows only one per week


2) Deuce Plays - Hosted by Bart Hanson. Bart is a mid stakes live nlhe player and plo online player, he previously commentated on "Live at the Bike" and was a host for "Pokerroad Radio." This show is very low gossip and focuses almost entirely on cash game play. Every week there is a guest cash game player that talks over some hands with Bart.

Cons: If you want to call this a con, The content is so good I don't like listening to it unless I can give the show my complete attention because there is so much good content in the podcast

3) Cash Plays - Hosted by Jeremiah Smith. Smith has experience in the 5/10 and 10/20 nlhe live cash games. This is essentially the same thing as Deuce Plays, like Bart, Smith knows what he’s talking about and asks great questions.

Cons: Same as Deuce Plays

4) Mediocre Poker - Hosted by Eric Bickel and Bret Oliverio who are Djs for a morning radio show in Washington D.C. Both guys are amateur players much like me they are passionate about poker but don’t pretend to be experts. This is how a poker pod cast without a pro on it should be done. Little if any hand anaylsis, professional hosts, good audio quality, great guests, and awesome interviews. Ante Up is the exact opposite of this show, with 2 players who know much less about poker but take up half their show with poker analysis that is just terrible.

Cons: You’re not going to get the greatest poker strategy but the pod cast is so fun and full of energy and that’s what makes it so great.


5) The Bernard Lee Poker Show - Hosted by Bernard Lee who is a circuit pro from what I gather, his claim to fame is making it deep in a wsop me. This like most podcasts is news then an interview. There is a lot of great strategy as Bernard knows what he’s talking about and gets great guests. The show really gives the listener a great idea about what life is like on the tournament circuit.

Cons: Sometimes Bernard needs to clear his throat and that gets annoying. But really if this is the worst thing I can think of he’s doing a great job.


6) Wisehand Poker - Hosted by Gary Wise who is a writer for Bluff magazine and ESPN.com. This show centers on usually 2 long interviews with people in the poker world. The interviews are always great and not your typical "how did you get into poker" questions.

Cons: The audio at times can be horrible. Gary is part of another show the Poker Beat and he sounds terrible in that as well.


7) The Poker Beat - Hosted by Scott Huff. Scott has hosted many poker pod casts. This show is essentially Scott feeding questions to a panel of poker media members. It’s pretty good and out of all the poker pod casts that have members talking on the phone this one does the best job of staying away from talking over each other.

Cons: The show is not long enough. Sometimes the audio quality from the guy’s calling in is poor.

The rest in no particular order:

Pumped on Poker - Hosted by Forrest and Wolf. I don't know much about these guys, to the best of my knowledge neither one is a pro. Essentially this is a poker news followed by an interview format.

Cons: The hosts aren't in the same room and often talk over each other or talk over the guest. One of the hosts has a whiney voice that ends in a question which tilts me a bit.

Pocket 5s Podcast - Hosted by David Hubar and Adam Small. This podcast is mostly about online mtts, ldo this is p5s. There is a little bit of poker news followed by one or two interviews usually an online mtt pro.

Cons: The interviews are very short usually 10-20 minutes at most. David Hubar has a dry, boring, monotone, emotionless voice, robotic voice. Every time I listen to this I wonder if he isn’t a robot.


Keep Flopping Aces - Hosted by Lou Kreger. Lou has at least one poker book out there. This is one of the more intelligent podcasts out there. This like most of the others is a news and interview podcast.

Cons: Lou has a horrible habit of talking over his guests including some akward pauses. He’ll often ask a question pause for a bit and when his guest starts to answer he talks over the guest.

ESPN Radio: The Poker Edge - Hosted by Phil Gordon. I think you all know Phil. The show is mostly again news and an interview.

Cons: The show doesn't go online very often. Since the show will often be on a 2 month hiatus it's a bit annoying to listen to poker news that might be 2 weeks old.


Ante Up - Hosted by Scott Long and Chris Cosenza. This show is essentially a news, strategy, and interview show.

Cons: The hosts are donks that have no clue what they're doing and often give advice that is terrible. The show does give you insight on how donks play.

The Tournament Pwnage Hour - Hosted by a mix of instructors on a training website. This pod cast would have been the 8th best pod cast but hasn’t been available on itunes all that regularly for the last month or so. This is essentially like Cash Plays except focused mostly on MTT strategy.

Cons: It’s painfully obvious that whoever is the host doesn’t have much time behind the mic. Sometimes I wish the host would elaborate on some strategy a bit more.

All Strategy - Hosted by Scott Huff, Justin Bonomo, and Daniel Negreanu. This is complete strategy. However they haven’t had a show in soooo long.

Cons: None, love this show sad to see they don’t do the show anymore.

Pokerroad Radio - Hosted by Joe Sebok, Gavin Smith, and whoever they have that rotates in as the main host. This is a news and interview show. With Ali Nejad who I think people either love or hate, I fall in the hate category this show moves near to the bottom of my listening list. With Joe Stapleton or Scott Huff it moves up a bit from the bottom.

Cons: Joe is the one of the least interesting show hosts of all time and Gavin doesn’t even seem to give a shit that he’s on the show and barely utters a grunt. It’s amazing this is the flagship radio show on http://www.pokerroad.com as it’s mostly terrible. The interviews are short and for the most part uninteresting.

Grinder Radio - hosted by some small stakes live nlhe players. This is a bit of news followed by some strategy.

Cons: The strategy is pretty bad. When I hear things like “bet to get them off a draw” or “I bet for information” I generally put these people in the donk category. The hosts are mostly bad nlhe cash players but when compared to the average live 1/2nl 2/5nl these guys are probably the best at the table. Listening to this show makes me really want to start playing live nl cash game.


Killer Poker Analysis - hosted by Tony Guerrero. This show has grown on me a bit. It’s obvious that the host knows what he’s talking about. This is strictly a strategy post.

Cons: The biggest problem is he delves into basic questions that most people that are winning players and have plenty of experience are all ready going to know.

The Circuit and Pokewire pod casts are previous incarnations of the pokerroadradio pod cast and are quite good.


Rounders Radio - hosted by DC, Ace Jones, and ALakeOfFire. This is mostly a beginners strategy pod cast where the same basic questions are asked and answered ad nauseam. These guys seem like they are a notch better then the grinder radio guys but again just basic strategy here folks.

Cons: Listening to donks ask the same question gets tiresome.