On this episode of DD Radio’s “The Cold Call Show” Ari Engel joins us in studio for the entire fun filled episode. We disect a Michael Clemente scammer phone call, and are joined via cell phone by SUNKIMSTONE and she gives her side of the scam. We get Menachum’s latest NFL picks, and the “Stump the Schoenfeld” progressive rolls over to $20 next week!
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Full Tilt Poker is about to be sold…can it be? Mark and Matt take a look at the latest to come out of the site, as well as taking a look at how Pokerstars and UB are doing. Also, the two look at the Poker Hall of Fame inductees and speculate on who has a shot next year.
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Mark and Matt have a lot to discuss on this week's show, so much so that they couldn't do it alone. After discussing the latest Full Tilt and AGCC news, Scarlet Robinson joins the program to talk about the US Congressional Subcommittee meeting, and then things are rounded out with tournament results from various WSOP events.
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On This episode of DonkDown Radio we try (and fail) to call Michael Clemente, known scammer – but we tell the story of his scamming a local Orleans dealer for $1k. WORLD PREMIER OF BRETT “GET CRUNK” RICHEY’S BEN LAMB RAP. We talk with Eric Crain, recent 4th place finisher at some tourney in Hammond. Menachum drops us a parlay that pays $1 for every $2 wagered, and we talk about black men eating pussy with the Iceman. Goldfarb, Karina Jett, HORSE wars, Pokerati Dan + MOAR!
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Today on the show Dan Bilzerian and Joe Tehan check in with our hosts Adam Schoenfeld, Brandon “Drexel” Gerson and Micon. We catch Goldfarb on a losing streak, Menachum has yet another Jewish holiday and couldn’t make it, Micon fucked up Drexel’s computer so the first few segments were fucked in true DD style. Second half is pretty solid, Dan Bilzerian owns a Barrett .50 Cal. We’re coming back strong next week!
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Mark and Matt are talking WSOPE results on this week's Rabbit Hunt, as both the players and the structures make headlines. Then we catch up on the latest legal news around poker as well as take a look at how things are going for the poker industry six months after Black Friday.
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Many of our lives changed five years ago today, as George W. Bush signed the Port Security Act into law.
At the time, many wondered if this marked the end of online poker, which had been booming at a rate that woulda had virtually the entire planet + Jupiter playing by now. Ironically, what was supposed to be a death knell for online poker would actually be what made several of my friends and colleagues (temporarily) rich … and the principals of Full Tilt and PokerStars and Ultimate Bet (momentarily, in the scheme of things) extremely powerful.
Let’s have a little flashback, shall we … to slightly more innocent-til-proven-guilty times … commemorating this uber-significant day in poker history:
On this episode of the Cold Call Show, Adam Schoenfeld and Brandon Gerson join Bryan Micon for some clean snappage. We kept the segments moving with Karina Jett, Allen Kessler, Melanie Weisner, and other assorted Jews. John Gumption tries to get the skinny on the MGM tourney series, and Menachum is unreachable. DraftDay.com rap-ad is dropped and instantly goes platinum.
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Mark and Matt are finally talking about more than just Full Tilt this week with stories from around the poker legal landscape. They also discuss the Poker Hall of Fame nominees as well as the WSOP-E prelims.
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LAS VEGAS–This week J Todd travels to the Global Gaming Expo. In his exclusive video interview with Andre Wilsenach, the CEO of Alderney Gambling Control Commission, Mr Wilsenach clearly points the blame at Full Tilt Poker for their ‘deceptive’ reporting and business practices. However, this leaves many to wonder if the AGCC really believes they are free of blame in this situation, and how “regulation” will change in the evolving online gambling and poker industry.
After hearing AGA and Big Casino big dogs barking up a big game about coming federal poker legislation, Mike went to a G2E session offering an almost opposite perspective on the “inevitable” future of fully legalized online poker in the US.
Attorney Tony Cabot moderated a debate between I. Nelson Rose and Martin Owens, two venerable internet gaming counselmen who’ve been following the legalities of internet poker (worldwide) since long before the DOJ knew the names Isai Scheinberg, Ray Bitar, et al.
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Rose took the strongest position that the federal iPoker legislation stirring up so much excitement is going nowhere … at least not before we see state-by-state legalization … kinda like what happened in the Washington DC, only less sketchy and corrupt?
It’s all about the money, Rose and Owens say. Supposedly horse racing — with maybe a little Powerball lottery mixed in for liquidity’s sake– is where we’ll find the model for the intrastate internet poker … 7-year timeline for laws to populate across the continent … Keep your eye on Iowa as the dark horse in this race.
On another thrilling episode of DonkDown Radio’s “The Cold Call Show” we talk with Andrew Wiggins, part of the ownership that is DraftDay.com – a new online fantasy site. We also check in with Crazier Mike, and actually briefly connect him to the real Crazy Mike. Amanda Musumeci, sports picks with Menachum, and moar!
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Have a listen to the premiere episode of Pokerati “all up in” @G2EVegas. Still workshopping the title … but come along for the ride as I find a sucker friend and colleague to fill me in on what’s been going on at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas.
In this first episode, Mike, aka Lavigne in Austin aka @AustinML, discusses a session titled:
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It featured Frank Fahrenkopf from the AGA, Caesars’ DC powerhouse Jan Jones (the former mayor of Las Vegas is recipient of this year’s lifetime achievement award), a lobbyist for companies looking to do business with licensed casinos, and a guy representing Native American interests. Here why they all seem convinced that intrastate online poker is going nowhere, but interstate online poker is right around the corner.
Some of you probably remember Mike Lavigne. He’s not much of a player (lol), but the former Texas state director of the PPA and fellow co-founder of the Texas Poker PAC, has been part of Pokerati since way-back. And with my government and public relations cronie in town for G2E … well, it made me think we needed a cheap knock-off of Tao of Pokerati, obv — not just to keep me posted, but to let the busy people out there doing real work get a taste of the wonk-fest and sales orgy going on at the Sands Convention Center this week.
G2E is arguably the biggest annual confab of gaming industry brainpower in the world … and though some may find it hard to get interested in a Las Vegas convention that doesn’t even include a poker tournament … what goes on here will be affecting your poker (and overall casino) experience in the future whether you like it or not.
Full Tilt makes all the headlines once again on this week's Rabbit Hunt, as Mark and Matt try to dicipher the latest news. The AGCC decided to revoke FTP's license, but is a buyer finally ready to purchase the beleaguered site? Find out about this and more on this week's Rabbit Hunt!
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Check it out, blast from the past … just 2.5 years ago today, only some 30 months ago, Kevmath was reporting on this newfangled medium emerging in poker called “Twitter”. It was a global chip-count texting machine, this Twitter, and it was catching on way bigger than our version here at Pokerati (called CSR, Citizen Stack Reporter, ahead of its time, obv since abandoned).
I’d say in some ways yes … but in other ways no, it’s just changed how many do their jobs. But Twitter’s still got a ways to go before the #hashtag officially usurps the adjective, and I still haven’t seen the concept really work for anyone who’s tried to possess it … so there’s gotta be a reason @KevMath has more Klout than the rest of us.
