Posts Tagged ‘Benjo’

August 21, 2008

The Best Rest of Tao of Pokerati

The 2008 World Series has come and gone and will most likely, in a little less than three months, will come again. In the meantime, while cleaning out the computer(s) we’ve come across these “lost” episodes … recorded in the tail days of the main event. But this is everything … there’s no more, OK? At least not for now. So if you’d like to step back into the WSOP for just a few minutes at a time to the vocal stylings of yours truly and Dr. Pauly, by all means, have a listen/download. Some of it actually seems a little extra interesting with the benefit of a month-or-so of hindsight.

For the entire WSOP season click here.

The heretofore unheard old-new episodes, salvaged from the cut-and-pasting room floor:

Episode 30: The Cost of Donuts
Grubby joins the media to talk main event numbers and the price of trendy donuts in today’s oil economy. (3:19)


Episode 31: Scotchy Poker
Dan+scotch early in the WSOP day=talk of Dario Minieri and Isabelle Mercier. (4:02)


Episode 32: French Warfare
Benjo takes over the mic when Dan calls in drunk, and he and Pauly talk more about Isabelle Mercier live from the Day 2 killing fields. (5:14)


Episode 33: New York & Texas
Michele Lewis joins in as Dan and Pauly break down the difference between Texas and New York humor, or at least the difference between Pauly and Dan. (2:40)


Episode 34: Go Team!
Dallas’ Raj Kattamuri is going deep, and Pauly tracks down Dan in the poker kitchen to find out what it takes to be patched up on Team Pokerati. (2:37)


Episode 35: No Wiener
Benjo is not his usual jovial self as the main event comes to a close and he bids farewell to his American friends in the penultimate WSOP episode of Tao of Pokerati. (4:41)


Episode 36: Unhookered
The traditional late-late night poker-blogger farewell binge drinking at the Rio’s Hooker Bar, with guest appearances by Otis and Mean Gene. (3:29)

Posted by DanM at 4:28 pm

July 13, 2008

Tao of Pokerati: Agents, Frenchies, and Polacks (feat. Benjo)

Recorded a couple days ago, as we were nearing the bubble … Benjo dropped by Tao of Pokerati studios to give his opinion on poker agents (they suck the blood out of the poker economy), France’s best WSOP hopes (they’re all gonna make the money), and how bad at poker Polacks are (can’t even win their own tourneys … zee eediotes).

Episode 26: Agents, Frenchies, and Polacks (feat. Benjo)

Posted by DanM at 3:36 pm

July 1, 2008

Tao of Pokerati: The Benjo Minutes

The Daily Show had its Stephen Colbert and Happy Days gave us Mork from Ork. At Tao of Pokerati we’ve got Benjo, the sometimes Angry, sometimes -orny Frenchman. While a little drinky at the Gold Coast, the top blogger in all of Europoker stepped up to the mike for the betterment of American and non-American listeners alike. In these episode add-ons, Benjo reports on what you learn from watching poker on a colleague’s computer; Bellagio tournament chips being used to pay (stupid) hookers; and the under-the-table pressures on a grown-up French schoolboy working the WSOP …

Episode 17.1: Barely Legal

Episode 17.2: Tournament Hooker Chips

Episode 17.3: Le Masturbe

Posted by DanM at 9:00 am

June 22, 2008

Tao of Pokerati: Going Halfsies

Dan and Pauly discuss getting over the WSOP hump, and what kind of pressures build on players, backers, media, and just about anyone else who camps out for the duration — providing a glimpse of what weekend WSOP warriors may be stepping into when they fly in for a $1,500 “Donkament”. (Hi Karridy!)

And a special bonus track this week, with Tao of Pokerati’s favorite Angry Frenchman expounding on the caliber of competition in the 1500s while educating Dan and Pauly on life and language at the non-English-only tables.

Episode 12: Going Halfsies

Episode 12.5: Le Donk (feat. Benjo)

Posted by DanM at 4:32 pm

June 7, 2008

Tao of Benjo

I know lots of you have heard about the game we like to play here in Vegas called “Hooker or Ho?” Really, in this town it’s not always so easy to tell — and in fact, it’s probably the only place where you won’t get insta-slapped for asking a “normal” girl if she’s a prostitute.

Anyhow, there’s a gender-reversed version the ladies can play called “Gay or French?” Keep that in mind as you listen to Benjo the Angry Frenchman and Pauly question my sexuality and/or my WSOP fashion sense.

Episode 2.5: Poker Couture

UPDATE: Leigh in Vegas sends along a pic that provides proof of my ancestry, which is indeed about 1/8th French. Just please don’t tell anybody, OK?

Posted by DanM at 10:05 am

June 3, 2008

Outerscope 1 Arrives at the WSOP

The World Series brings all sorts to the Vegas Valley … including time travelers, apparently, as the kids from Vegetable Soup’s spaceship (circa 1975-79) have shown up behind the bathrooms outside the poker kitchen:

Seriously, weird no?

Benjo on Vegetable Soup
Benjo filling the Outerscope 1 with petrol.


Phil Laak and Jennifer Tilly arriving for the $1,500 Pot Limit Hold’em event.

Posted by DanM at 12:21 am