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It’s that time of year again–we’re rolling out our annual Wicked Chops Awards.
We can’t believe we’ve never given this award before–so to kick off this year–we’re starting with Best Poker Rapper.
And we’re going to let you vote on it.
We’re going with prolificness of nominees. One-time wonders won’t be included. Vote for your choices in the embedded poll below, and we’ll announce the winner at the end of the week.
Your nominees: Prahlad Friedman (samples), Brett Ritchie (samples), Jeff Madsen (samples), and SrslySirius (samples).
The latest ep of This Week in Poker is up. Watch above or on YouTube here, or download/subscribe on iTunes.
Our first show of 2011 was a packed one. Joining us in the studio was newly signed Team UB pro Prahlad Friedman, who addresses whether he sold out by signing with the poker site that once stole millions from him, the response to his signing from Daniel Negreanu and who else he’d like to see on Team UB.
Later in the show Vanessa Selbst, joined us live from the PCA to talk about being named Wicked Chops Poker Player of the Year and answer viewer questions. And finally, Forbes writer Nathan Vardi skyped in to talk about the seizure of online funds by the Feds in Washington state.
All that plus Jess Welman delivers the Poker Headlines for the week.
Prahlad Friedman will take your questions on today's This Week in Poker.
After taking a holiday break, we’re back with a new This Week in Poker on Tuesday at 7pm ET/4pm PT.
Joining us in studio is Prahlad Friedman. He’ll take all of your questions regarding his new deal with UB.
Also, joining us via Skype from the PCA is our Wicked Chops Player of the Year Vanessa Selbst, as well as the Forbes scribe covering Washington state payment processor seizures, Nathan Vardi.
All of that, plus poker headlines with Jess Welman.
Log in live at 7pm ET / 4pm PT here. And vote for TWiP as Favorite Web-Based Poker Show here.
In the meantime, listen to our latest podcast with Phil Hellmuth‘s agent Brian Balsbaugh on the Poker Brat’s future here.
In a shocking/totally not shocking bit of news–Prahlad Friedman has announced that he’s joined Team UB today.
Word of a pending Prahlad partnership began leaking last week right after Phil Hellmuth and Annie Dukeannounced their departures from UB. Those rumors were more or less confirmed as a Prahlad Friedman UB bio page and promotion were put up and quickly yanked from the UB website.
Prahlad made it official today though in the above video announcement.
We think it’s a great move by UB. While some security and transparency issues have popped up over the past year, the company has now effectively shed its old ownership and image over the past few months. Prahlad, who was the biggest victim of the UltimateBet super-user scandal, has always maintained he was treated fairly by the company in getting cheated money refunded. So if there is one personality that could effectively and officially move UB into a new era, he’d be a logical choice to do so.
We’re sure more news/interviews around this will come up throughout the day. We expect to have Prahlad on This Week in Poker next Tuesday as well.
Yesterday’s episode of This Week In Poker is now up on YouTube here and our TWI page here.
Our guest yesterday was poker pro, rapper, hooper Prahlad Friedman. One of the original nosebleed-stakes online players who got cleaned out by Russ Hamilton and others, Friedman discusses the Ultimatebet super-user scandal, the 2010 WSOP Main Event, his Poker Is Fun rap, breaking Steve Nash’s 60-second free throw record and more.
Also fresh off her 8th place finish in the Detox Poker event at the Hard Rock, the Tina Fey of Poker Jess Welman joins us for “Poker Headlines with Jess.”
The show does start with a few technical glitches, expect it to be all smoothed-out next week when WPT host Kimberly Lansing joins us in the studio. Also, sorry we weren’t able to get to the Joe Navarro segment this week. Expect to see it in an upcoming show. If there are any videos or pros you’d like to see Joe breakdown on our show, let us know via Twitter at @twi_poker or simply tweet it with hashtag #twipkr.
Show notes for episode #9 of This Week In Poker:
Start – Co-host Brian steps away from his usual spot in the corner to sit in for Chops who joined us from Vegas via Skype this week.
15:46 – 17:59 – Interview with Prahlad Friedman begins with him sharing how he decides which WPT and WSOP events to play.
18:00 – 20:29 – One of the original nosebleed online players, Prahlad talks about the stakes he used to play online then discusses the UltimateBet super-user scandal.
20:30 – 21:49 – Prahlad shares how he learned his aggressive style from Huck Seed.
21:50 – 23:35 - We ask Prahlad if he suspected he was being cheated when he got cleaned out by unknown players after dominating online cash games for so long. He then shares how the losing streak affected his play.
23:36 – 24:22 – Prahlad explains why he was happy when news of the UltimateBet super-user scandal broke.
24:23 – 28:28 – Prahlad talks about the refund process with Ultimatebet, how he was surprised he actually got his money back and whether that amount accurately reflects how much he was cheated.
28:29 – 29:40 – We ask Prahlad what he would say to Russ Hamilton if he saw him face-to-face and whether he’s met him in the past.
29:41 – 32:54 – He talks about still playing on UB despite being cheated and how he wished other sites refunded money when players were cheated.
32:55 – 37:44 – A viewer asks about a controversial hand Prahlad played during Day 2 of the 2010 WSOP Main Event in which a player called the clock on him.
37:52 – 39:12 - Prahlad is asked by Kevmath whether more people ask him about his freestyle rapping or his confrontation with Jeffrey Lisandro at the 2006 WSOP Main Event.
41:49 – 48:06 – Prahlad talks about breaking Steve Nash’s 60-second free throw record and what other hoops records he may shoot for next. He also explains why he didn’t play college ball because of “politics.” And we learn what a geoduck is.
48:07 – 49:05 – Prahlad on Lebron James going to Miami.
49:06 - 51:59 – On the Tournament of Champions and the voting process, not wanting to be signed by a poker site and promoting himself on Twitter.
52:00 – 53:59 – Prahlad talks about his appearance on the Big Game show on FOX.
54:00 – 56:59 – We set up the Joe Navarro piece in which the poker tells expert breaks down some of Durrrr’s poker tells. However, we’re unable to connect with Joe via Skype so we talk about ChatRoulette instead.
57:00 – 58:54 – We wrap up our interview with Prahlad.
Just getting Part II of our podcast up. No poker here. 100% discussing and debating The Walking Dead. We’re joined by an esteemed panel, including Jason Newitt, Dave “F-Train” Behr, Jeff Holsey, and Entities Chops and Colin. If you were a fan of the show, you’ll like the debate. We discuss problems with the show, [...]
We recorded a two-parter podcast yesterday. Part I is now live and discusses The Rise and Fall of Ray Bitar WCi feature with its author, Dave “F-Train” Behr. In it, F-Train details the interview process for the feature, as well some conclusions that could be drawn about the man who helped make Full Tilt Poker the [...]
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