The original segment that ran on TV was about 10 minutes long, but I haven’t been able to find it online anywhere — 8 minutes is as close as I could get.

Here’s the direct link to watch it on the web:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/podcasts/ac360/site/2009/11/03/cooper.podcast.monday.cnn

And if you want to access the podcast in iTunes, this link will open up iTunes and take you to Anderson Cooper’s page — you want to choose the episode dated 11/02/09:

http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F%252Fax.itunes.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewPodcast%253Fid%253D251316716

And also Kevin, I wasn’t mentioned in the article because contractually by CBS, I was not allowed to do AC 360 unless CNN agreed not to publicize my appearance on their show since it was the day after Tiffany and I’s elimination for The Amazing Race and we aren’t allowed to do other press normally outside of for the show this week but they made an exception since this was CNN. But thank you for pointing that out.

Maria

I am kinda laughing on the inside at the overall irrelevance (to this topic) of BJ’s Guide to Women in Poker, though. But hey, now it’s knowledge she can take with her for future appearances. I’m sure one item will come up some day.

As you’d expect, Maria didn’t get quite as much face time as the women who do this kind of thing professionally (Suze Orman & Dee Dee Myers), or the one who was sitting in the studio with Anderson Cooper (the neurologist). It’s also worth noting that Dee Dee Myers and the neurologist have both recently written books on this topic. Anderson Cooper is recorded from either New York or Washington, D.C., and Maria seemed to be the only one via satellite from LA — and the only one with the awkward few-second delay from cross-country satellite linkups.

Having said all that, I think Maria did a fine job. She was strong and assertive, and I think represented female poker players well within the context of the discussion. (And as I expected, my list of background facts provided nothing but peace of mind for Maria as she was preparing for the show.)

(No, I never read the book, or the play, or whatever it was. I didn’t even see Steve Martin in “Roxanne.” Anyone got a problem with that?)

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/search-all.php

For Daniel Negreanu’s post, he got his data from the WPT’s own website, WorldPokerTour.com. He compiled all the players with 30+ tournaments from the “WPT Tournaments Played” leaderboard, and then divided their total WPT earnings by the number of tournaments they entered.

http://worldpokertour.com/StatsAndTools/Landing.aspx

Some of my data also came from World Series emails sent out by Nolan Dalla. Nolan routinely includes interesting facts with his end-of-event emails that are sent out to the media. (Some of which were reprinted here at Pokerati, if I remember correctly.)

http://worldpokertour.com/StatsAndTools/Landing.aspx will lead you in the right direction.

Maria knew what the topic was going to be, and she wanted to make sure she had a clear understanding of the background and the facts ahead of time — even if they were never mentioned on the program.

Keep in mind that this list wasn’t originally written for general consumption. It’s just a list of items in broad categories that Maria could browse and scroll through whenever she had some downtime before her appearance. If I were writing this as an article or a blog post for Pokerati, it would be considerably different than what you see here.

NOTE: I simplified the stats as much as possible to make it easier to remember and easier to repeat, so the original version didn’t include exact numbers for prizes and field sizes like this version does. (I tried to correct those items with exact numbers before passing this along to Dan.)

One thing I forgot to update was the first item, where it’s estimated that 3% of major tournament fields are female. Whenever I’ve seen an actual count (some of which I’ve done myself), the percentage has almost always been between 2.5% and 3.5%.