About this episode
Your correspondent offers a prescription for the recent controversy surrounding Jonathan Tamayo's victory in the Main Event of the World Series of Poker. He then discusses potential cheating in online poker and -- ugh -- public live poker games, and finds parallels between what's happening now and descriptions of the early days of poker in James McManus' "Cowboys Full." Then, he reviews a profitable but sloppy session of $5/$10 NLHE. FORUM DISCUSSION : CLICK HERE 0:20 What can be done to address bad optics and a potentially unfair competitive environment in the World Series of Poker Main Event, and in live poker more broadly Will Jaffe's tweet: Alan Keating's tweet: Apestyles on the Thinking Poker Podcast: "Recent reports out of Paris ...": Only Friends podcast episode on the alleged live poker cheating ring: 14:43 $5/$10 NLHE session 15:05 AA on K76r 16:00 KK all-in preflop 16:38 QJo on Q72xdd 18:58 QJhh KJ5hcc6x5x 21:08 KQo (both black cards) on KK5xdd6hh4hhh 23:48 JThh on 422hhx5xKx 25:55 AA all-in preflop 26:41 A9ss K87sxx5dd https://x.com/dankness3/status/1814048970588516497 https://x.com/Mister_Keating/status/1814042058601963714 https://www.thinkingpoker.net/2024/07/episode-445-jonathan-apestyles-van-fleet/ https://www.yahoo.com/news/french-police-catch-casino-fraudsters-175413515.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3SGBrQAdto&list=PLbgxMeaShh5X6MNis_76anP2JAAmoA2Ld&index=1 http://twitter.com/thirdwalking http://crushlivepoker.com