The Poker Life and HSPLO Podcasts

Kelly Winterhalter

My guest today on the Poker Life Podcast is Kelly Winterhalter. Kelly is an entrepreneur who started a company called Ellovi. Kelly started playing poker about two years ago. She recently appeared on Poker Night in America playing $25/50 NL and plays tournaments as well. We shall find out more about how Kelly got into poker, how she started her business, does she play THE GREAT GAME OF PLO, her future in poker and more. #liveGTO

Kevin Martin

Finally, the time has come for me to have Kevin Martin OFFICIALLY ON the Poker Life Podcast. Kevin started playing poker in the last couple of years and has been continuously improving his ability, success and is turning himself into one of the future greats in poker!! (imo :D)

Kevin is a well known twitch streamer who primarily plays MTTs. He is also a Pokerstars sponsored player and once of the nicest guys that I know. I'm very excited to get to know more about him today :)

I WROTE A POKER BOOK!!! Chasing The Dream: The Qualities of a Successful Poker Player! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N4U3V6T

Kevin Twitter:
https://twitter.com/KevinRobMartin

Kevin Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/kevinmartin987

Ryan Fee(Discussing MY NEW POKER BOOK!!!)

I WROTE A POKER BOOK!!! Chasing The Dream: The Qualities of a Successful Poker Player! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N4U3V6T

Ryan Fee is back on the Poker Life podcast today! Ryan contributed to my poker book and we will discuss the qualities that make up a successful poker player :)

Ryan has been crushing it with Upswing Poker lately and THE GREAT GAME of Pot Limit Omaha!!!!!!!!!! LETS FUCKIN GET IT

JNandez87 (Discussing MY NEW POKER BOOK!!!!)

I WROTE A POKER BOOK!!! Chasing The Dream: The Qualities of a Successful Poker Player! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N4U3V6T

JNandez is back on the Poker Life podcast today! Fernando contributed to my poker book and we will discuss the qualities that make up a successful poker player :)

Fernando is the Pot Limit Omaha specialist over on team UpswingPoker and also has a popular Twitch stream playing THE GREAT GAME! He is full of love, wisdom, hope, and harmony.

Doug Polk

Doug Polk is back on the podcast to discuss the 500k scam story aka YayoGate , Dan Bilzerian playing HU and the video Doug made about it, the current Bot challenge the humans are playing, announcing Cate Hall vs Mike Dentale HU, crushing YouTube, Table Talk and more :D

2p2 500k Story
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip-sponsored-online-poker-report/paul-dlugozima-zima421-john-racener-among-group-5-scam-nearly-500-000-a-1648963/

Thanks to David Huber over at Upswing Poker for the timestamps and to stop the people in comments from crying (this is meant as a joke, calm down people crying about this comment about crying) :D

(0:00) Introduction
(3:10) #Yayogate commentary
(15:50) Fake news Charlie Tuna shout-out
(24:10) Doug’s comments on Dan Bilzerian get mainstream distribution
(33:00) Doug’s experiences with ACR
(35:30) Doug reiterates concerns about unenforceable operator rules
(37:30) YouTube Poker is attracting loads of casual fans
(38:32) Doug reveals YouTube channel viewership demographics
(39:30) PokerStars’ marketing efforts interrupted by ‘Dan Polk’ reference
(45:25) Bill Perkins love
(50:20) Poker news versus mainstream news
(51:25) Bot Challenge (Poker Pros vs. Carnegie-Mellon University)
(1:00:00) Big name personalities making a mark on poker?
(1:01:45) Cate Hall vs. Mike Dentale Showdown
(1:07:10) Old-school HU4ROLZ poker challenges
(1:15:30) Recent EPT Prague live stream n00b comments
(1:18:00) Why Doug doesn’t place ads in his videos
(1:19:00) YouTube analytics — graphs are GTO
(1:20:30) More statistics on Doug’s YouTube channel
(1:21:30) Whatever happened to Table Talk?
(1:25:33) Doug’s content is receiving a genuine “pop” on YouTube
(1:26:10) Twitch vs. YouTube + “Rise of the Vlog”
(1:29:28) Cardrooms and poker vloggers
(1:35:10) Thoughts on Twitch Poker potential
(1:38:00) Rekful Twitch streams and high-dollar PLO swongs
(1:39:40) Patented Papi shout-outs
(1:42:00) Upswing Poker content gets some love
(1:42:18) 2017 American Poker Awards
(1:43:55) Fake #RaiseIt campaign in the works?
(1:48:40) Doug shares Phil Hellmuth story
(1:53:20) The art of complaining and its uselessness in poker
(1:55:50) Background story of Doug and Joey’s friendship
(2:01:30) Why you shouldn’t be afraid of failure
(2:02:30) Wrap-up

https://www.upswingpoker.com/doug-polk-joey-ingram-discussion/

Check out my new series PLOker Hands on YouTube!

Me vs Sauce -| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naNSm1XHnO4

$1.3 Million Dollar Pot Online!!!! Patrik Antonious vs Isildur1 -| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uULPzbw735w

Cate Hall

Cate Hall is back on the Poker Life podcast to discuss her upcoming HU challenge with Mike Dentale, her Aussie adventures, quitting #pokertwitter for #politicaltwitter, hair color GTO and more :D 

Buehlero! (GrindNation/Twitch Streamer)

I am joined by my fellow Grind Nation member Henri Buhler aka Buehlero on Pokerstars and on Twitch. Henri is a 20-year-old German who has been playing MTTs for a short period of time and has quickly been seeing results and rising through the ranks of the Twitch Poker world. He might not be well known in poker yet, but I think that with the type of attitude and work ethic he has, his future is looking very bright. I'm happy to have him on the podcast today! 

Timex aka Mike Mcdonald (Announcing Launch of PokerShares)

Iimitless (HSNL Online Cash Pokerstars

Timestamps Below!! Many people say that it is impossible to go from the micro stakes to the highest stakes cash games on Pokerstars in 2017. My guest today Iimitless aka Viktor started playing online poker in 2014 after tearing his ACL multiple times playing handball. He has been able to work his way up to $25/$50 and $50/$100 cash games on Pokerstars and has become one of the top regulars in the game :)

Timestamps!!

1:07 intro
3:58 poker career
17:32 strategy
22:58 battling
29:25 NL power rankings

32:30 back story
36:40 martial arts
40:42 daily approach
44:29 no tilt
48:53 mid stakes vs high stakes
50:55 study habbits
53:43 GTO / Pio
57:20 rakeback
1:09:09 Prague adventures
1:12:09 screen names with ratings
1:14:35 difference nl2k – nl5k
1:22:56 regular in the life
1:38:08 scripts / bots
1:46:39 his brother and poker
2:07:04 site improvements

2:16:12 Iimitless wisdom

aha:

1:24:58 live on your own rules

fun:

1:51:28 the dream machine
2:11:45 Trueteller story

Randy Blumer (Planet Poker Founder)

My guest today is a man named Randy Blumer. Randy founded the FIRST EVER REAL MONEY POKER SITE back in the late 90s called Planet Poker. We will about how the website came to be, what it is like to run an online poker site and much more :D