Occupy Poker

Jon is taking a break from the live poker circuit to work on a project until the WSOP, JC tracked down fellow member of #TeamBrown Faraz Jaka for a little occupation.

Another awesome Occupy episode due to our incredible guest Terrance Chan. We finally get to talk about a lot of things including JC's grappling debut in Vegas last summer and some interested dietary choices JC and Terrance have made recently. Supplementary links from this ep: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_yEyIV6jXg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mEjooM1PuI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRFfrOhPFog http://www.bulletproofexec.com/coffee/ http://www.bulletproofexec.com/author/daveasprey/

He's one of the greatest poker players of all time and we got him to sit down with us for some classic Occupy Poker. Enjoy!

We finally got Bigtime Steve on the show, and for the first time ever, the Karate Jon story.

We're back with the first of many episodes of OccupyPoker that will be recorded during the 2013 PCA. Our first night guest was Adam Levy, made famous by his deep run in the 2010 main event. We appreciate everyone waiting patiently for the last 2 months but hope this will be the first of many episodes to rekindle your love of occupy! Oh, and we still want our fucking money back!!! FU DOJ

Epic ball dropping on our part, the plan was to put out lots of episodes during the Cannes/San Remo trip but many exciting things happened including JC flying to london on 4 hours notice to play a 100k high roller, Jon winning a bracelet despite facing the "greatest performance in wsop history" and a variety of other deep runs by the 2 of us. The result is this Episode where we discuss the almost surreal 3 weeks in Europe on our last night before heading home. Music And Life - Alan Watts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4 Brandon Cantu's Hellmuth impersonation - http://www.pokernews.com/video/wsope-2012-brandon-cantu-shares-his-mind-7232.htm

After a longer than anticipated break we bring you a new episode with our sincerest apologies for making you wait so long. In this episode we try to catch up with all the insanity that has taken place since JC and Jon left Vegas. Topics include the Howard Lederer "interview", an attempted return to poker by Annie Duke after a 3 month disappearance, and Jon's scuffle with the certifiably insane Matt Marafioti at the Legends of Poker WPT last month.

Fresh off his Million Dollar score in the EPT Barcelona Super High Roller JC and special guest host Mike "Maddog" Watson filling in for Jon we bring you another awesome Occupy Poker experience. We hope this makes up for the long wait between episodes and will be back on a more consistent release schedule soon with the European Tour back up and running. Enjoy!!!

This weeks episode of Occupy Poker was made during the last hours of the 2012 WSOP as we prepared to skip town with the complete burnout that comes with 2 months in a hotel and playing 30+ events. Unfortunately everyone else had already skipped town and Steve O'Dwyer is still too big time to sit down with us so this will be one of our rare "guest free" episodes. This is the last episode of Occupy Poker from our summer test run, we'll soon be bringing you all new episodes with new guests and awesome topics. The Methuselah Foundation - A favorite of our good friend Justin Bonomo, a foundation dedicated to extending human lifespan and ending disease as we know it Russian 'Immortality Project' called Avatar - Russian research project offers 'immortality' to billionaires - by transplanting their brains into robot bodies TSA Checkpoints have a failure rate of 70%+ Youtube : Evacuated Tube Technology - One of JC's Favorite future technologies Youtube : Quantum Levitation - Fascinating video showing the wonders of science Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld - Comedians in Cars getting Coffee Wikipedia : Depressive Realism - The concept that mildly depressed people see the world more clearly Book of Mormon - Tour Dates - Don't miss them when they come to your city, we can practically guarantee you've never seen something this funny in your life Beth Shaks "Million dollar shoe collection" - JC is a huge Beth Shak fan Dan Shak blows up the world gold market Stripperweb.com - "Twoplustwo for strippers", Check out the Hustle Hut!

Special note - Our intro song for this episode is Nas - One Mic We're excited to bring you a powerful episode of Occupy Poker with one of our favorite people in the world Ronnie Bardah, we all have a long history going back to our early days cutting our teeth at foxwoods culminating with Ronnie's bracelet win this summer in the 2500$ 6-max Limit hold'em event at this years WSOP. We talk about scumbags in the poker world and dealing with it on a day to day basis, from cheating in satellites at foxwoods to horses stealing from their stakers. Definitely an East Coast episode of Occupy Poker and it just gets better as it goes on as we end very strong! stay tuned all the way to the end for some of the legendary Ronasty beat boxing. Sam Harris- Lying - http://www.samharris.org/lying Ronnie's Rawai Muay Thai highlight video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02quVwom9w Rawai Muay Thai (change your life!) - http://www.rawaimuaythai.com/ HEK vs Frankie Flowers Foxwoods ban/storm - http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/19/high-stakes-pl-nl/i-got-banned-life-foxwoods-tl-dr-372382/ We are currently searching for the Bobby The Bus Big Game Submission video!!

We had an amazing conversation with 2009 10k WSOP HUNL Champion fresh off his 50th place finish in the 2012 WSOP Main Event. We don't really talk a whole lot about poker (as usual) but we cover an amazing series of topics starting with his experience on Jeopardy facing off against the greatest Jeopardy champion of all time Ken Jennings through his experience graduating from law school and passing the bar in Nevada and ending with a myriad of insight on current political issues in the US. Stay tuned til the end for a little taste of next weeks episode with Ronnie 'Ronasty' Bardah Links relevant to this episode: Ken Jennings Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jennings - 74 Straight wins on Jeopardy, 3.1 Million in winnings Ivey discusses an Omaha 8b hand on PokerRoad.com - http://www.pokerroad.com/forums/red-pro-strategy-discussions/621-omaha-eight-better-decision-wsope-horse-event.html Chinese building crazy structures in the desert! - http://www.geekologie.com/2011/11/china-building-massive-mysterious-struct.php The Innocence Project - http://www.innocenceproject.org/ - A great organization dedicated to freeing wrongly convicted Americans (consider donating!) Graham Hancock on the Joe Rogan Experience #142 "The War on Drugs" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk3EBmiURgw Critical Theorist Slavoj Zizek on the Charlie Rose show - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zty9nJYCtQ Doug Stanhope - Before Turning the Gun on Himself - http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/before-turning-gun-on-himself/id500707024 Escape from Camp 14 review on NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/books/escape-from-camp-14-by-blaine-harden.html?pagewanted=all

This week's episode includes one of the hottest players on the planet Dan Smith fresh off winning 3 consecutive 5k tournaments in monte carlo and a 3rd place finish in the WSOP 5k this summer. Oh, and he won the Aussie Millions 100k 6 months ago but that's old news! #Nubs Additional content related to this podcast: 2p2 thread on "top player" ROI : http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/wsop-results-top-players-27-30-roi-1223086/ Jeff Sarwer A Lost Prodigy : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Wgv3rn6A8feature=player_embedded (Part 2 embedded below video) Jeff Sarwer uschess.org interview: http://main.uschess.org/content/view/10007/571/ Chess Boxing: https://www.google.com/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=7sourceid=chromeie=UTF-8q=chess+boxing Biker Bandit "Cranberry kid" (OceanSpray25 on 2p2) : http://www.pokernews.com/news/2011/02/oceanspray25-caught-cranberry-handed-9797.htm **Disclaimer** We made the mistake of leaving change on the table during this episode which was impossible for Dan to resist shuffle at times, sorry! We also had the air on for the first 12 minutes of the show before we realized it and turned it off so the mic picked a bit of that up, sorry x2!

Take a journey with one of the poker worlds greatest legends as we cover a wide range of topics from the Illuminati to the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse to what we've been up to since Black Friday impacted our lives. Here is some reading material related to the podcast for those who want to read up a little more on some of our topics: The hand from JC's bet with ADZ124: http://www.pokerhand.org/?6426653 Olivier Busquet's blog "the value of speaking up" http://olivierbusquet.com/Blog/february-5th-2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal (Really just the most amazing banking scam of all time) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_sanguinis (Right of the Soil or laws related to acquiring citizenship via recent ancestors) http://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Cosmic-Consciousness-Rupert-Sheldrake/dp/0892819774 (Reading recommendation from Chewy)

Check out the first episode ever of #OccupyPoker ! We hope to bring you a better occupy poker experience in the near future