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2010 WSOP

Episode 28: World Matt Savage Tour - One of the bigger non-WSOP stories this week involved Matt Savage, who was just named Executive Tour Director of the WPT. Michalski does an amazing job kissing up to Matt in this episode.
Episode 29: Massage Girls Rubbing Massage Girls with Benjo - Pauly followed Benjo into the Poker Kitchen and noticed a couple of massage girls sitting two tables away. One of them was working on the forearm and elbow of the other.
Episode 30: Sats, Lammers, and Deep Stacks - Michalski and Pauly hang out in front of the Pavilion and discuss satellites and the introduction of a daily (non-bracelet) deep stack tournament at the Rio. They also discuss how Change100 got in trouble by security for trying to sell one of her lammers.
Episode 31: Chair Thief with Benjo - Pauly quizzes Benjo about what had been driving him nuts during the first three weeks of the WSOP. They discuss drunken railbirds stealing chairs, fruit salads belonging to the media, foul-smelling players, and "hourly restrictions" on updates.
Episode 32: Pre-PPA - Michalski tells Pauly about his upcoming dinner with the state directors of the PPA. Pauly pretends to be mildly impressed, while Michalski is more eager to eat seafood than talk politics.
Episode 33: Post-PPA - Michalski debriefs Pauly after his free swordfish dinner at Buzio's courtesy of the PPA. Based on what Michalski described, Pauly compares the batch of online poker lobbyists and politicos to The Bad News Bears.
Episode 34: Podcast About a Podcast About a Podcast - Here's a little something that you might have to consult Charlie Kaufman to help decipher this fugue. Michalski gives Pauly props for his stint on the 2+2 Pokercast last week. Meanwhile, Pauly suggests that 2+2 moderator Kevin Mathers is not an actual human being, but rather a piece of artificial intelligence created by Bill Chen.
Episode 35: French Man Kissing with Benjo - There's a real s'affrontent going on in the $10k heads-up, with Bertrand Grospellier, arguably the #1 player in France right now, battling Benjo's pal Lucovic Lacay, currently the top contender capable of dethroning him. All the excitement has the French guys on the rail madly...kissing? Benjo breaks down the questionable nature of these public displays of Euro-affection.
Episode 36: Touching Tom Senior with Benjo - DonkeyBomber's going deep in the Seniors event, but did Dan ruin his chances for a bracelet in "the oxygen" event) with some inappropriate touching? Player superstitions aside, there's some real concern about Toothless Bob, who was going into this event as the Team Pokerati favorite but may or may not have shown up to play.
Episode 37: Benjo Busting with Benjo - After weeks of watching poker, Benjo can't resist the urge to play and signs up for the $100 11 pm "brogdig" tournament. We learn first that Benjo is actually a very weak player. And then we learn he's been doing some undercover reporting at the cash tables, where he learns that the Rio occasionally has an overaggressive rake.
Episode 38: Jerry Buss's iPhone with Benjo - When LA Lakers owner Jerry Buss comes to Las Vegas to celebrate his National Championship by playing the $10k HORSE, he needs a little juice for his iPhone, which Benjo graciously supplies. He doesn't try to hawk it though, instead seeing a long-term plan complete with courtside tickets and the digits of multiple barely legal vixens.
Episode 39 - Hellmuth's Non-Hold'em Final Table - Dan happens to wander into the Rio at the exact time Phil Hellmuth advanced to the final table of the PLO/8 event. Pauly and Dan head up to the Beef Jerky lounge to get a better look at the Hellmuthian circus.
Episode 40 - Gavin Smith's Ass Crack - Pauly and Dan saunter into the Pavilion Ballroom, where they rarely hang out. During the recording of this particular episode, they're ambushed by a couple of the entities from Wicked Chops Poker. At some point, a discussion about a masseuse working on Gavin Smith's upper ass region breaks out.
Episode 41 - DonkamentBomber - Dan and Pauly keep a bird eye's view on DonkeyBomber's run during Day 2 of a donkament. They also chat about another Pokerati player -- Toothless Bob -- who was AWOL for a while at the WSOP. Dan was pleased that he was still alive after his brief disappearance.
Episode 42 - Bad Beat Bar... WTF? - Dan and Pauly hang out in the somewhat Bad Beat Bar and chat about the pros and cons of that particular (sparsely populated) spillover area in the Rio's convention center. At some point, their conversation veers off into a story about Benjo and seven Mexicans.
If you'd like to listen to more episodes of your favorite and fastest poker podcast (broadcasting live from the WSOP), then you should visit the Tao of Pokerati archives.

I ran into Mustafa last week in the Bronx.
I was walking down the street when I saw him out of the corner of my eye.
He was smoking a blunt and shooting dice in a parking lot.
With a bunch of illegal aliens of course.
You know.
The kind that wouldn't be safe walking the streets of any town in Arizona.
I headed over to the lot to take a closer look at the action.
And to inspect everyone's papers.
Blunt papers that is.
I wanted to make sure everything was in order.
It was.
Welcome to the GDR and East Berlin.
Or the DDR as Dirk Nowitzki would say from his couch while watching the NBA playoffs on TV.
One and done is no fun.
Hell, Dirk could do that playing for the Knicks if he wanted.
Lebron James would look nice in a Knicks uniform.
That's for sure.
So I got high with Mustafa and the aliens.
Then joined in on the action.
We both won a shitload of money shooting dice that day.
The illegals walked off in shame.
Back to work for them.
What else could go wrong?
Not sure.
At least we didn't report them.
As Mustafa would say, "If you sneak in. You're in. Just ask Ben Roethlisberger."
Huh?
Mustafa then compared himself to Antonio Cromartie.
He's got 7 kids in 5 states too.
Where's Shawn Kemp when you need him?
Here's Mustafa's youngest kid "chilling out like a pimp in his ghetto swimming pool."
Time to buy a real pool bro.
I know where the financing is coming from.
But who's going to install it?
Whiskey for the leprechauns!
The bad luck of the Irish is more like it.
Potato famine!!
Here's to all the drunken Irish junkies out there.
Happy St. Patrick's Day!!
Growing Pains actor Andrew Koenig was found dead in Canada.
My favorite episode of Growing Pains was when Mike, Boner and Eddie went to that house party and everyone was doing cocaine in the bathroom.
By the way, I would love to see this guy win a World Series this year.
Afterwards, I want to party with these guys.
Too bad Kirk Cameron became a Jesus Freak.
I wonder if Mike Seaver would get a boner if he saw this pic? I did.
RIP Boner.
Pauly sent me this video of a subway fight.
Some woman gets knocked the fucked out at the 2:50 mark. Gotta love New York.
Check out Dr. Pauly's Tao of Poker 2009 Year in Review Part 1 post as well as his Year End Videos On the Road in 2009.
Have a Happy New Year everyone!!!
Holiday Classic Recap
Apparently playing poker has made me a racist.
Seriously?
I profile, generalize, categorize, stereotype, size you up, make assumptions, etc. You name it, I do it. I make reads then play the odds. Good or bad.
Tiger Woods would be proud.
Really?
No doubt.
With minimal info, you have to outwit the competition any way you can.
This ability is great at the poker tables but not always in real life. It can often lead to some sort of misunderstanding. And it usually does.
It’s become a persistent behavior of mine, part of my everyday life.
Poker has made me a racist.
What should I do?
Besides fading Waffles picks that is.
They say the proof is in the pudding.
Yes, I’ve become a racist.
Or was I always one to begin with?
Elin Woods would not be proud.
Working? Not working?
Nope, not this time.
How’s the rash on your daughter’s pussy?
Definitely not.
Well, not this time anyway.
It’s something completely different as you will see.
There’s nothing too taboo.
I was standing outside the Palazzo sportsbook smoking a cigarette.
There was a blonde chick standing out front handing out discount cards/flyers to passersby. She was working on commission and was doing a piss poor job at getting people to take the free discount cards.
Here's some of the conversation we had . . .
If a group of people walk by, how many take it from you? Barely 1 in 4 I bet.
Yep. And to make matters worse, I’m not too good at this. It’s going to be a long day for sure. Hey, I see someone took your weed smoking spot over there.
That’s OK. I’ll manage.
I don’t know what to do. No one is taking the discount cards from me.
You’re not very good, huh? See those 4 black guys coming, go over to them. I’m 100% sure ALL of them will take it. They like discounts. Especially if it’s being handed out by a pretty white girl like yourself.
“That’s racist,” she says as she sprints over to the 4 black guys to hand them the discount cards.
I responded with, "I’m not a racist. I’m half Chinese, live in New York City and have tons of black friends. Latinos too. Hell, didn’t you say you’re from Oklahoma earlier? Have you even seen a black person before? Before you moved to Las Vegas?"
You have tons of black friends huh? Only a racist would say something like that after being called a racist.
They took it didn’t they? Maybe you should brush up on the triple slap maneuver instead of taking advice from a handsome racist.
Crickets.
Shit, am I a racist?
I like Tiger Woods.
Maybe I should run into the sportsbook and get Mustafa, Dawn Summers and the Rooster to prove to this chick I’m not a racist.
I’m a man of the people damnit, not a racist cracker.
Or am I?
Not sure.
One of my goals in life is to become a crazy dirty old man.
Maybe I should throw in racist pothead too.
Instead I just rolled my eyes, shook my head, put my cigarette out and started to walk back to the sportsbook.
The Archie Bunker walk of shame?
Not really.
There can be only one.
Before I could make my getaway, the blonde chick stopped me to say something.
Mustafa? Dawn Summers? Help!
So what the hell did she want now?
The blonde chick grabbed my arm and quickly whispers to me.
“So do you think those black guys will use the discount cards?"
























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