The Chip Race

This week, Ian Simpson is locked in and breaking out his old blackboard for the first episode of 2021.

Joining our hosts Dara and David, Ian weighs in on this year's farcical WSOP Main Event rebooted. Ahead of the upcoming Unibet PKO Series, the trio of ambassadors give their thoughts on why this format is so popular. The lads then talk about celebrity signings as part of a poker marketing strategy.

The conversation turns to the ongoing high profile Heads-Up matches as David sings a hilariously re-worded rendition of 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'. Former school-teacher Ian gives a lesson on the different Covid vaccines. Finally, the lads give their new year's resolutions, paving the way for Dara to introduce his first 'Lock-In' strategy nugget!

This week, Neil Channing is locked in and doling out the Christmas cheer on a special holiday season episode.

Joining our hosts Dara and David, Neil explains why poker’s premiere raconteur doesn’t have a podcast of his own. He reminisces about Christmases past when he used to play poker with the other Vic regulars and tells the lads a hilarious story about some bohemian shoplifting.

Dara and David remember some of their own Christmas parties from back when they had ‘The Firm’ stable. Dara takes the piss out of David’s inappropriately arty gifts that he used to buy the lads that they staked and there’s a tale about a drunken late night marathon walk home.

The lads also reflect on how poker has changed down the years before wrapping up with some thoughts on what a strange year 2020 has been.

For our last show of 2020, we have put together one of our all time greatest episodes, starring WSOP commentating legend Norman Chad and featuring Part 2 of our in depth interview with heads-up maestro Olivier Busquet. We’ve got high level strategy from a million pound tournament with one of the games great players Sam Greenwood. There's a 2020 round-up with our good pal, Pokernews Editor-in-Chief Will Shillibier. Plus, we have news and results from last weekend’s Unibet Open with Ian Simpson!

Buckle up for our Season 14 curtain raiser as David and Dara are joined by heads-up Adonis Olivier Busquet and Twitch streaming hustler Gillian Epp. There's also a strategy segment from Unibet Open champion Padraig ‘Smidge’ O’Neill, a discussion on reading people with author and podcaster Zachary Elwood and news from Ian Simpson.

This week, Matt Berkey is locked in and dishing out some excellent advice and thoughtful takes on the hot topics in poker.

Joining our hosts Dara and David, Matt weighs in on the bizarre decision by WSOP to hold an online/live hybrid Main Event in December, despite the raging pandemic. The conversation then switches to the recent squabble between Polk and Dnegs over manually note-taking during their heads-up match and Bill Perkins tweets on the subject. After that, there is a broad discussion on competition in poker against the backdrop of betting company mergers.

David asks Matt about his role in helping Landon Tice win the MSPT Main Event which morphs into a broader chat on mindset coaching which in turn morphs into a chat on coaching in general. Dara gives his insights on a GTO Vs Exploit approach to the game. The conversation finishes off with a call-back to the previous show when the lads analysed the polling data and betting markets ahead of the US election. This time, they look at the strange anomaly of people still betting on Trump despite the election being called in Biden's favour.

⚠️ We apologise for the intermittent sound quality issues in the first half of this interview.

For our Season 13 Finale, we have assembled a barnstorming mix of poker notables. High-Stakes Pro, Chip Leader Coaching founder and Galfond challenger, we welcome the great and good Chance Kornuth. We also sit down with online SNG specialist turned cash game beast Bertey ‘bigstealer’ Bailey. Joining us to analyse a key hand from his Venom chop is the ever popular Marty Mathis. We chat to the newly crowned Unibet Poker IPO champion Ciaran ‘Underraiser’ Cooney. There’s also a news round-up with Ian Simpson.

This week Bryan Paris is locked in and dishing out some strong opinions with our hosts Dara O’Kearney and David Lappin.

On this episode, the lads discuss the use of VPNs, the upcoming grudge match between Doug Polk and Daniel Negreanu and the growth in popularity and marketing potential of these types of heads-up duels. The conversation then segues to that other upcoming grudge match between Joe Biden and Donald Trump before ending with a discussion on 'Lockdown' poker and what the sites can do to better manage the ecosystem during a likely Winter boom.

The lads are back from hiatus with a BANG! Perhaps the toughest 4-person SNG they have assembled to date, they are joined by high-stakes mixed-game beast Melissa Burr, Unibet Open, WSOP and 2-time UKIPT champion Max Silver, WSOP champion and Run It Once Elite Coach Daniel Dvoress and UKIPT and MILLIONS champion Ludo Geilich. There is also news and results from the recent Unibet Open and IPO, both played on Unibet Poker.

On this week's show, the lads are locked in and figuring out all the issues in poker with highroller Dominik Nitsche.

In a wide-ranging discussion, the trio tackle the latest development in PostleWorld, before having their 'mettle' tested by the Midway Poker Tour Scandal. The conversation then moves to the hot topic of RTAs, a subject in which Dominik has particular interest as they segue to an exclusive about the latest features on the DTO app. There's just enough time to have a chuckle about the Phil Galfond inspired series of tweets on the greatness of Phil Hellmuth.

Oh, and there's a shameless plug for the upcoming Unibet Open Online, which Dara and David promise will be the best value €1K tourney of 2020.

This week, Tom 'Jabracada' Hall is locked in and dishing out some strong opinions on RTAs and the ongoing Mike Postle saga. The lads also discuss Charlie's Godwin's extraordinary parlay, bankroll management and the prospect of an Autumn of Overlay, before things are brought to a sudden end because David fears that Tom is moving in on his and Dara's turf as a Unibet Ambassador.