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By Karaoke Phil

The WSOP Main Event has played down to the final three - Pius Heinz, Ben Lamb and Martin Staszko - who will return this evening (11/08) to crown the championship.  As the Vikings were on bye, I forsook football and spent virtually all of Sunday following the live action.  Here are some comments and thoughts.....

I liked the coverage and commentary.  Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Hellmuth provided some insightful commentary on hands - especially without seeing the hole cards (until after a flop or preflop folds). 

I don't think I liked the 15 minute delay.  We had nearly live coverage with that 15-minute delay for "the integrity of the game."   I think 30 minutes or an hour would be better.  For a standard viewer, a delay of 30 minutes or an hour is still "live", but it does a better job of maintaining play integrity.  With 15 minutes you may only have a delay of 4 or 5 hands.  That is too close to real time for my comfort. It seemed that each player had supports in the stands receiving info on the televised but time-delayed hands.   Czech Martin Staszko seemed to use the dinner break as scout report time and really adjusted his play accordingly - particularly against German Pius Heinz.  Who knows what other on-the-fly adjustments players like Ben Lamb made that changed the completion and tenor of the game.   A slightly longer delay still maintains the "live" aspect, but puts more hands between "that great bluff he made" and actually knowing about it which I think may well have altered the complexion of the play.

Now, having said the above - it seems like only Staszko adjusted his play - particularly against Heinz who was playing the ultra aggression card.  That it continued to work for him is a pity - I personally don't care for him.  Speaking of Staszko - there's a guy near and dear to my hear.  Esfandiari gave him props several times for his play during the coverage.  At one point when 4-handed Phil Hellmuth noted that Staszko's play works very well at 8 or 9 handed, but that he needed to pick up the pace and agresssion.  I think I like Martin Staszko's play because it reminds me of my own style.  And, his being Czech doesn't hurt at all.

I'm looking forward to tonight's coverage and hope that it's payback time for the Munich Agreement of 1938.  Look it up if you don't know your history and you'll find out who I'm looking at in the final two and who should win!!

Your own CPL Poker Podcast team of Mark Cardenas and Phil Fuehrer, with assistance from CPL Historian Mark Wittig will be on hand at Running Aces on Saturday, October 29 for the Free Poker Network's Minnesota State "Poker Pro" Championship.

We'll begin broadcasting at 7:30 pm central interviewing FPN folks and players and covering the action from two tables to the final winners.  You'll see the flops with live commentary!! 

We'll be broadcasting off of our Ustream.tv Channel or you should be able to watch below as well.  Create a free ustream.tv account and interact with us during the show!!

Watch the show below when we go LIVE!


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Episode 115
Released 10-16-2011
(54:01)
Listen now by cliking the MORE below, the BLUBRRY on the right, or the MEDIA PLAYER on the lower right.

Episode 115 of the CPL Poker Podcast has the following segments:

--CPL News
--CPL Hand of the Week
--CPL MN Music Segment featuring: More Than Lights

Enjoy!

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It's 11:59 pm tonight - that's the deadline to nominate your CPL Poker Podcast in the Best Produced and Sports categories for the 2011 Podcast Awards.

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There's still time to buy a piece of Karaoke Phil.  He's offering two packages:

A: 2 Midwest Poker Classic and 4 Fall Poker Classic Tournaments

NLHE Ironman Freeroll, Spread Limit OH8, 2 OH8 and 2 Mix Limit NLHE/OH8 tournaments

$15 for each 1% of action purchased

B:  2 Midwest Poker Classic and 3 WSOP Circuit Tournaments

NLHE Ironman Freeroll, Spread Limit OH8, HORSE tournament and (update) 1NLHE, & 1 OH8 

tournament.

$20 for each 1% of action purchased (WSOP piece of the action at 1.2%)

Both Package A and B have 11% booked up - with 5% to 10% "considering" on each package.  That leaves room in each for those interested.

Click here for the original post - otherwise to buy a piece of Phil - email us at cplpodcast@gmail.com .  If you have questions - post a comment!!

The 7th Annual Podcast Awards open their nomination period on Sept. 15th.  You'll have until Sept. 30 to cast a nomination vote in a host of categories.  You can only post a single vote and we hope you will consider the CPL Poker Podcast for both the "Sports" and "Best Produced" categories!!

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The August stats are complete for Tuesday's Free Poker Network (FPN) at Erick's Bar in St. Paul and our own Karaoke Phil both took down the month and took the overall season II lead.

It was "Wacky Wednesday" at the Running Aces poker room and I took advantage of it being Spread Limit OH8 night to practice for next month's Midwest Poker Classic.  As part of our "Suck Out" staking series I am offering two separate backing packages (see the post below) and I wanted to get some practice in.  I haven't played Omaha since "Black Friday" and have never played it as spread limit.  Since this format will be in place at next month's MPC I wanted to check it out. 

In his first online attempt for Free Poker Network's "Poker Pro" promotion, Karaoke Phil has qualified for their 9/1 online championship.