Put aside your Phil Collins collection and use your iPod for poker – it’s the future!
Podcasts are, for want of a better description, radio and TV shows that have been packaged up and made available to download for your iPod or preferred MP3 player. And they’re incredibly popular. Go to podcastalley.com and search for ‘poker’ and you’ll get 99 results.
Go to the iTunes store and do the same and you get 150 returns (although weirdly 15 of those are Charles Aznavour songs). Anyway, you get the idea – podcasts are s BIG deal. The only downside is working out which ones are worth a piece of your valuable time. Luckily, we’ve done all the work for you…
On The Rail
PokerPlayer’s very own podcast sees Nick Wealthall dispense advice and interview poker’s top pros
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PokerPlayer magazine’s ver y own contribution to the poker podcast world. On The Rail is only nine episodes old, but has already begun to establish itself as the UK’s best poker podcast . Hosted by PokerPlayer’sNick Wealthall and Sky Poker/EPT presenter Kara Scott , On The Rail is a mix of player inter views, hand and play analysis, and t wo poker enthusiasts talking bollocks.
As well as regular broadcasts from Nick’s front room (one of the most glamorous locations in East London), On The Rail has also beamed from less salubrious places like Las Vegas and the Caribbean, and featured inter views with the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Roland de Wolfe and Poker Million V winner Raj Modha.
A recent episode – number nine – comes direct from the EPT final in Monte Carlo. If you’re already a fan you’ll be pleased to hear that the podcast has now gone monthly, which means you’re never more than a few weeks away from a new fix.
CHECK OUT: Episode 5’s end of 2007 awards ceremony. Jerry Yang does very well. No, really…
Full Tilt Poker
Tips from the pros Listen to feruson, Lederer Et Al critique the game
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If you’ve ever visited the Full Tilt Poker site or are a subscriber to its newslet ters you’ll be familiar with the ‘ Tips from the Pros’ section.
This of fers bite-sized nuggets of useful, practical poker advice from the big names among the Full Tilt roster. The Fill Tilt podcast is a logical extension of that , with the Full Tilt pros joining the broadcast to deliver their best advice, tips and thoughts to you in person.
The likes of Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Rafe Furst and Andy Bloch all step up to the microphone to of fer their strategic thoughts on the game, though – to be brutally frank – it ’s a long way from enter taining.
Another problem is that the great content is undermined by the show’s host , who is lit tle more than a robot programmed to start and end the show, as well as introduce the pro guests and nudge them along in a ‘So what IS an ante, Howard?’ kind of way.
On the upside though, the advice is succinct , on the mark , and more of ten than not well worth listening to.
CHECK OUT: Podcast 9 – Andy Bloch on televised poker.
Tips from The Bear
The bearded one has some bountiful advice…
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Barry Greenstein is an enigma. At first glance he represents the uncle no one knows at family gatherings. Closer inspection reveals him to be one of the sharpest minds in poker and a more- than-decent raconteur.
He’s also a regular on the PokerRoad.com website, which he co-owns with son Joe Sebok . There are a few PokerRoad ‘shows’ you can subscribe to from iTunes, and they ’re all wor th a return bus journey, but the most useful is the set of poker strategies from Greenstein himself.
The bite-sized chunks, delivered in Greenstein’s hypnotic monotone, are easy to digest and cover simple but essential topics like ‘What hands do we play?’, ‘Overcoming variance’ and ‘Position at the table’.
You can’t argue with the source and they ’re fantastic primers for anyone’s game. Plus, if you line all the podcasts up and listen to them back-to-back as you sleep, you’re guaranteed to wake up a new, improved player. Or so we’re told…
CHECK OUT: Lesson 6 – Position at the Table.
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