2+2 PokerCast

This week on the Pokercast: The guys are back together in Vancouver for a special episode. Your e-mails and voicemails have been piling up for a couple of weeks and there are some great ones, there are some awesome ones! We get through as many of them as we can. We also get into some news including: Jason Mercier gets grilled on ESPN, The November 9 ICM, Phil Hellmuth to appear in a TV show and more. We also run ...

This week on the Pokercast: A long form interview with Daniel Negreanu. We're switching up the format a bit and will bring you the mail and other good stuff later this week, but to hold you over we got Dnegs on the line for an hour. Daniel talks with us about a bunch of subjects including: His WSOP, The Main Event/November 9 the big game at Bellagio, stories from back in the day, The Invite only €1M One Drop, Politics, ...

Four ounce gloves. Five minute rounds. Punches, kicks, elbows, and knees to everywhere on the opponent's body save the groin, back of the head, and spine. This is what Olivier and JC, two complete novices to the sport of mixed martial arts, have agreed to after six months of training, with a $270000 wager on the line. In Part 5, those six months come to fruition. The poker players turned fighters enter the cage on an April night in Las ...

This week on the Pokercast: The November 9 is set, and we have the familiar voice of Lon McEachern to talk about how the main event was from the spectator and media perspective this year around. To start, Terrence is road tripping while Adam and Ross are in the studio and we talk about Terrence’s travels and the end of his world series before getting into the news. In ICYMI this week, November (and October) 9 news, player profiles and ...

This week on the Pokercast: Danielle “dmoongirl” Andersen joins us to talk about the very unique experience she had in the main event. First off Terrence talks about his last week at the series and his main event and Ross and Adam recap a bit more of their trip to the podcasting conference in Chicago. This week in ICYMI: Another WSOP is almost over, and we talk about the One Drop, Teams Event and other notable bracelets of the last ...

For decades, Las Vegas has been home to the world’s biggest biggest prize fights. But tonight there are no world champions fighting in Sin City. Instead, two complete beginners put up a combined $270000 to duke it out in a MMA gym located five miles off the Las Vegas Strip. It’s fight day for JC and Olivier, and the big-money bettors start to filter in to witness the spectacle in person. We go behind the scenes inside both locker rooms ...

This week on the Pokercast: We’ve got a double dose of bracelet winners from 2016, One of them is playing everything and the other only played one tournament. First, Adam and Ross are in Chicago at Podcast Movement and loving Uber Pool while Terrence is still in Vegas with updates from the WSOP. This week in the news: Lots of great stories from the World Series, big names winning more tournaments while unknowns play insane hands to take down their ...

This week on the Pokercast, we had to miss last week but we are back with a vengeance. It’s the last week before #Prexit and we’ve got all your WSOP and poker world news. Adam updates us on what he’s been dealing with while Terrence has some revelations about tournament poker. In the news this week: There have been a ton of bracelets awarded at the series since our last show and we run through the important stories from the ...

This week on the Pokercast: The poker news (and gossip) keeps flowing in steadily from Vegas and we’re here like a mother bird to chew it up and regurgitate it back to you. Terrence is down there with a recap of his week on the felt and we get into this week’s winners and stories from the Rio. Aside from the bracelet winners some of the big stories this week include the Jason Mercier & Vanessa Selbst bracelet bet gone ...

This week on the Pokercast: The WSOP is upon us once again, Andrew Barber, a poker pro with an economics background gives us an accurate representation of the tournament staking world. First, Terrence is down where the action is while Adam is home, Terrence gives us a trip report of the WSOP so far and Ross has a quick report from his trip to New York. This week in ICYMI: News from the first week of the WSOP including winners, ...

This week on the Pokercast: We’ve got three interviews! To start, we’re all in separate locations but link together to bring you that Pokercast goodness. Adam’s back home from the Matt Savage Invitational with stories of golf degeneracy, Terrence is in Washington flying in helicopters and sparring with UFC champions and Ross is at home losing money in his boxers. This week in the news: Adam follows up on the J. Moscow Poker Night In America allegations, The WSOP kicked ...

This week on the Pokercast: It has been a controversial week in poker, and with Adam away hustling his friends at golf Dan O’Brien joins a slightly under the weather Terrence to co host the show! We kick things off catching up with what Dan about what he’s been up to, his new restaurant and podcast that are in the works. This week in the news: SCOOP has finished and we break down the winners of the main events and ...

This week on the Pokercast: The boys are all back together under one roof for another fun show! Adam has been on some adventures recently and fills us in on some of the tales while Terrence has been making some runs in SCOOP. This week in ICYMI: Howard Lederer posted an apology on Daniel Negreanu’s blog and the guys review it. SCOOP updates, Billy Walters indicted, Amaya financial reports, the Taj Poker room to return and more. Mike “goleafsgoeh” Leah, ...

It’s 24 hours until fight time. The bets have start pouring in from the poker community and are coming in nearly equally on both sides. One fighter starts to see the fight as “50/50”, while the other thinks he’s a big favourite. The coaches from both sides have arrived in Las Vegas and are feeling good about their fighters — so good that it’s almost implausible. We check in with both fighters to see how they are doing mentally and ...

This week on the Pokercast: With the WSOP weeks away, we get some veterans of the summer in Vegas to give us some pointers on how to get the most value out of your time there. Firstly: Be careful what kind of math you do on planes, Pokercast WSOP fantasy updates and a traffic court update from Adam. We also induct a new member to the IPWOF. This week in the news: SCOOP 2016 is in full swing, Super High ...

This week on the Pokercast: With a ton of tournaments in SCOOP and the WSOP around the corner we talk some tournament strategy with a guy who’s got a couple bracelets and knows his stuff, Rep Porter. To kick things off we talk Pokercast WSOP Fantasy, Leicester and All in or Knocked out Ep 2. We then induct a new member of the Internet Pokers Wall of Fame and get into the news. This week in ICYMI: EPT Grand Final, ...

As Olivier and JC approach fight day, we take a look back the early days of their poker careers and exactly how they became the high-stakes pros they are today. Both men start feeling the physical and psychological strains of the training camp. Finally, JC drops a serious allegation, and tempers flare as things start to get personal. Music is by Murphy Chops https://soundcloud.com/murphychops (Featured guests: Olivier Busquet, JC Alvarado)

This week on the Pokercast: Brian Rast joins us to talk about his ridiculous biking bet vs Dan Bilzerian on next to no notice. First: The crew is all back under one roof! Plus Terrence and Ross are back from their trip to Vegas with some updates on what they’ve been working on. This week in ICYMI: Dan Cates talks about a $20M pot involving Tom Dwan, EPT Grand Final, Pokerstars NJ SCOOP, A new WSOP Press Release and more. ...

In the premiere episode of All In Or Knocked Out, we meet professional poker players Olivier Busquet and JC Alvarado. Olivier and JC became the talk of the poker world in late 2015 when the two agreed to a high-stakes bet not on the felt, but rather in the mixed martial arts cage. Neither man had any formal experience in MMA, but that didn’t stop them from putting up a staggering $270000 to see who would come out on top. ...

This week on the Pokercast: We are joined by an in studio guest and established poker player Gavin Griffin. To start, Terrence gives us a Cook Islands trip report plus Ross and Terrence are cooking something up. We have some updates on the Pokercast WSOP Fantasy league and then we talk to Gavin. Gavin chats with us about being a poker player and a dad, the live poker scene in so cal and many other anecdotes from his lengthy career ...