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This Week In Poker With Alex Outhred, Brian Rast and Jason Calacanis

by Wicked Chops Entity on 11.3.2010 in Poker News | 1 comment

The latest ep of This Week in Poker is now online. Watch it above, or on YouTube here, or download/subscribe on iTunes. Big thanks to our sponsors StormOnDemand.com, PokerVT.com and Full Tilt Poker’s Doubles Poker Championship on GSN.

Another solid show yesterday as we discussed the 2010 WSOP Main Event Final Table and who of the November NineTM will be Good, Bad or Meh for Poker. Joining us in the studio to break it all down was pro poker instructor Alex Outhred along with his dog Broadway and a table full of ridiculously tasty food from the burger/beer joint he co-owns, Stout.

Joining us via Skype for most of the show was a saucy looking Jess Welman who took a break from the final table action at the WPT Foxwoods to deliver the news and chime in on the November NineTM discussion.

We also debuted a new Poker Strategy Segment with poker pro/Poker VT instructor Brian Rast answering viewer questions, and then, with Jason Calacanis in the studio with us, Rast broke down step-by-step a hand Jason recently played against Abe Mosseri and Doyle Brunson on the Big Game.

Show notes/time-stamps:

0:00 – Cold intro

0:35 – 7:46 – Show starts/intro show. We’re eating burgers.

7:47 – 19:22 - Poker Headlines with Jess – A saucy looking Jess Welman joins us via Skype from Foxwoods to deliver this week’s poker news including the latest from the WPT Foxwoods, WSOP Africa, WSOP Circuit Regional Championship in Hammond, Terrence Chan getting denied entry to the US, the bizarre Illinois online poker lawsuit and more.

19:23 - 28:53 - We handicap the 2010 WSOP Main Event November NineTM with Alex Outhred and Jess Welman

28:54 - 38:33 – Alex, Jess and Entities Colin and Chops declare who they think will be Good, Bad or Meh for Poker.

38:34 – 41:55 – Poker Metaphors Signifying You Have to Act Quickly Round with Alex Outhred.

41:56 - 53:24 – Poker Strategy Segment with Poker VT instructor Brian Rast. Jason Calacanis joins us in the studio and Brian Rast answers viewer submitted questions.

53:25 – Thorough analysis by Brian Rast of a hand Jason Calacanis played on the Big Game against Abe Mosseri and Doyle Brunson. Watch and learn.



Thanks to all who thanked Full Tilt’s Doubles Poker Championship and PokerVT via Twitter for sponsoring This Week In Poker. If you haven’t done so yet, please do by tweeting:

“Thank you @FullTilt_WSOP Doubles Poker on @GSN for supporting @twi_poker #twipkr”

“Thank you @Poker_VT for supporting @twi_poker #twipkr”

Tagged as: alex outhred, Brian Rast, Jason Calacanis, Jess Welman, Poker VT, This Week in Poker

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This Week in Poker with Jason Calacanis, Dan Druff and Durrrr (Ep. 11)

by Wicked Chops Entity on 9.1.2010 in Poker News | 5 comments


Solid show yesterday on TWiP.

Full write-up coming later, but this week’s ep featured entrepreneur and Full Tilt red pro Jason Calacanis discussing his experience on the PokerStars Big Game and some insight on how he’d have handled managing the UltimateBet super-user cheating scandal.

On that note, Calacanis was followed by Todd “Dan Druff” Witteles, who shared his UB thoughts plus discussed his Coolio controversy.

Finally, the show wrapped with Tom Dwan talking about his latest Durrrr Challenge.

All that, plus Jess Welman‘s headline. Watch the above vid for more.

UPDATED:  Show details below:

0:00 – Cold Intro

:58 – 3:27 – Show starts, Jason Calacanis says nice things about This Week In Poker.

3:28 – 4:25 - Word from our Sponsors SkullCandy and MyMixedNuts.com.

4:45 – 15:16 – Poker Headlines with Jess Welman, including the latest with the Durrrr Challenge, poker players petitioning Commerce Casino, updates from the WPT London, EPT Villa-whatever and WSOP-C and the latest on the Sorel Mizzi multi-accounting allegations.

15:17 – 19:59 – Interview with Jason Calacanis begins.

20:00 – 26:34 – Jason talks about his appearance on the Big Game, including one particular hand with Daniel Negreanu, and what other poker shows he may appear on.

26:35 – 31:14 – We ask Jason how he would have handled the UltimateBet super-user scandal if he was running UB right now.

31:15 – 33:30 – Poker Metaphor Signifying You Have To Act Quickly Round with Jason.

33:34 – 53:29 – Interview with Todd “Dan Druff” Witteles about his beef with Joe Sebok over the UltimateBet scandal and the Naked Coolio controversy.

53:30 – Interview with Tom “Durrrr” Dwan. Topics discussed include playing on UB, the Durrrr Challenges with Patrik Antonius and Dan “Jungleman12″ Cates, his WSOP bracelet prop bets and how it doesn’t suck to be a rich, young, online poker player with a hot girlfriend.

Tagged as: Durrrr Challenge, Jason Calacanis, This Week in Poker, Tom 'durrrr' Dwan

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Durrrr, Jason Calacanis and DanDruff on This Week In Poker Today, 4pm PST

by Wicked Chops Entity on 8.31.2010 in Poker News | 2 comments

Durrrr

Durrrr

New episode of This Week in Poker broadcasting live online today at 4pm PT / 7pm ET.

Big show today with Tom “Durrrr”Dwan joining us to talk about his Durrrr Challenges with Patrik Antonius and Daniel “Jungleman12″ Cates, Todd “DanDruff” Witteles Skype-ing in to fire back at Joe Sebok about the UltimateBet scandal, and This Week In co-founder and newly minted Full Tilt Poker red pro Jason Calacanis joins us in the studio to talk about his appearance on Fox’s the Big Game.

And as always, we’ll discuss all of the latest poker news with the Tina Fey of poker Jess Welman.

Go ahead and submit Qs now via Twitter using hashtag #twipkr. You can also ask them live during the show in the Ustream chat box.

Watch at 4pm PT / 7pm ET here.

Tagged as: DanDruff, Durrrr, Jason Calacanis, This Week in Poker

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Wicked Chops Podcast Ep. 7 with Jason Calacanis and Joe Reitman

by Wicked Chops Entity on 7.10.2010 in Poker News | 1 comment

Fortunately we talked to Jason Calacanis before his bust-out of the 2010 WSOP Main Event.

New episode now available of the Wicked Chops Podcast with Joe Reitman and Jason Calacanis.

Good stuff. Jason talks about his prop bet with David Sacks and why CEO’s like him are playing and thriving in poker, and we reveal the biggest secret in the history of poker with Joe. Listen below or download it via iTunes.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Tagged as: 2010 WSOP, Jason Calacanis, joe reitman, Podcast

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Announcing: This Week In Poker

by Wicked Chops Entity on 6.6.2010 in Poker News | 1 comment

The new synergistic poker media property from The Entities, This Week in Poker.

The other day we were sitting around and talking about how we didn’t have enough to do.

“Man, we don’t have enough on our plate,” The Addict said. “Yeah,” Chops continued, “We need to figure out a way to create some new media synergies off some low hanging fruit.” After much contemplating, Snake said, “Fellas, can we get our ducks in a row here, launch a new show about poker–no need to reinvent the wheel after all–and create a first-mover advantage in a disruptive technology ROI actionable items exploit benchmarking touch base facilitate dialouge granular nimble agility synergize!”

“Yeah!” exclaimed Charles, our photographer…/… /… /…

Sooooooo, we decided to team up with the Jason Calacanis/Kevin Pollak team that created the ThisWeekIn.com network and launch This Week In Poker.

TWiPoker is a weekly live stream show (every Tuesday, 1pm) hosted by The Entities. Viewers will have the chance for real-time interaction and interviews with top poker pros, celebs and industry insiders (along with small doses of poker news).

Debuts Tuesday, June 15 at 1p PST…more to come in the coming week…

Read more about ThisWeekIn.com here.

Tagged as: featured, Jason Calacanis, This Week in Poker

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