The Poker Show Live

The much anticipated return of the legendary The Poker Show, sponsored by Boylepoker.com and hosted by Jesse May and Padraig Parkinson, did not disappoint expectant listeners this week with the first three shows providing several ‘soon-to-be-classic’ interviews, controversial comments, some live censorship, and a Phil Hellmuth world exclusive.

“I’ve agreed to attend sensitivity training at Jeffrey Pollock’s demand,” announced Phil Hellmuth at the end of his 20 minute interview on Monday, referring to the upcoming World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. “Scotty [Nguyen] and I have agreed to attend… while they train their crews and their floor people for three hours.”

When asked if he thought that was going to be enough time, he replied deadpan, “No”.

Elsewhere The Poker Show team did a hilariously memorable interview with Jeff Duvall on how he won a £15,000 pot in London’s Victoria casino the previous evening, a cheeky Roland De Wolfe gave listeners his unlikely top five players for this year’s WSOP, and a possibly inebriated Rory Liffey was cut off one minute into his interview due to controversial and expletive-riddled comments, only to ring back, abuse the presenters and hang up on them.

This segment will be edited from the podcast of the show but could appear on YouTube in the near future.

On top of the spur-of-the-moment censorship of Liffey, the show has created controversy online, spilling over into poker forums, with accusations from some posters about presenter Padraig Parkinson’s poker skills causing some virtual gasps.

Guests on the first three shows read like a who’s who of poker with Dan Harrington, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Laak, Rory Liffey, Liam Flood, ‘Mad’ Marty Wilson, Kara Scott, Donnacha O’Dea, Barny Boatman, James Dempsey and the Shrewdies on Tour, Black Belt graders (Including PokerPlayer’s own Nick Wright), Paul ‘Dr. Pauly’ Maguire, John Duthie and Kirsty Thompson from the EPT.

After losing $ 2 million in the preceding two days, Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan, who was due to appear on the show, was unavailable but the show is confident it will get hold of him for a chat soon.

Fans who missed the show can listen again at http://thepokershowlive.com/listenagain.htm.

The all-new radio show sees SKY TV presenter Matt Broughton join the experienced broadcast team on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. at www.thepokershowlive.com where they will discuss, debate, and decipher the technicolour world of live and online poker with a series of special guests, contributors and phone-in questions and commentary from members of the poker playing public.

Boylepoker pro, Padraig Parkinson, who co-hosted the original ground-breaking Poker Show from Las Vegas several years ago, said, “After a few technical hitches we really got into our stride quickly and I remembered just how much fun this could be. I have a feeling this is either all going to end in tears or we will have created a monster. Either way, I’m going to love it.”

Paul Spillane, head of poker at Boylepoker, said, “I was a big fan of the original show and jumped at the chance of sponsoring the new radio version. I have to say I am not disappointed and think this is going to be even better than the TV version. I’m still quietly laughing at some of the things that went on in the first three shows.”

Poker players are actively encouraged to get involved in each show. Players can add The Poker Show to Skype or, for MSN users: thepokershow@live.co.uk. The presenters can then chat to participants before or during the show, live on air.

They can also email comments or contact details to chat@thepokershowlive.com.