Final Table #84: The Big Game’s Joe Stapleton

Final Table #84: The Big Game’s Joe Stapleton

This week on the Final Table radio show, I was in the Harrah’s St. Louis Poker Room while Dennis Phillips checked in from Las Vegas for a very full show. With the World Championship Of Online Poker underway, we discussed whether online tournaments are getting harder to beat, as live tournaments are. We also talked […]

Final Table #83: November Niner Matt Jarvis

Final Table #83: November Niner Matt Jarvis

This week on the Final Table radio show, Dennis Phillips and I were in the Harrah’s St. Louis Poker Room to talk about his experience in the Canadian Poker Open in Calgary and a tournament at the Hollywood Casino outside of Cincinnati. We also discussed the heated feud between the Poker Players Alliance and the […]

Final Table #82: Phil Gordon

Final Table #82: Phil Gordon

This week on the Final Table radio show, while I was in St. Louis, Dennis Phillips checked in from the Canadian Poker Open in Calgary. The Main Event, which he’s playing today, is a $5,000 buy-in heads-up tournament, so we discussed strategy for facing an opponent one-on-one — from raising regularly on the button to […]

Final Table #81: Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi

Final Table #81: Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi

This week on the Final Table radio show, Dennis Phillips and I talked with Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, who not only won the $50,000 Player’s Championship (his first bracelet) to start the 2010 World Series Of Poker, but finished it by outlasting 7,310 other players in the Main Event to become one of this year’s […]

Final Table #80: November Niner Jason Senti

Final Table #80: November Niner Jason Senti

This week on the Final Table radio show, Dennis Phillips and I talked with Jason Senti, the short stack of this year’s WSOP Main Event November Nine. We talked about how he played to stay alive when there ten players left, including folding a big over-pair that he’s sure he’ll be mocked for when it […]

Final Table #79:  Gavin Smith

Final Table #79: Gavin Smith

This week on the Final Table radio show, Dennis Phillips and I talked about the online poker legislation (HR2267) that passed Barney Frank’s banking committee in the House last week, from what the bill says to its chances of becoming law in the next year. Then we had an extended conversation with veteran poker pro […]