Mediocre Poker Radio

New Show Posted with Trex313 and Urindanger

Bret — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:32:21 +0000

This week on Mediocre Poker Radio we interviewed our boys Hac and Di Dang to catch up on everything going on in the world of High Stakes Poker. The guys were nice enough to come down to our radio studio in Fairfax, VA to talk poker for nearly an hour! Check it out in the PODCAST section of this site.

This is the photo (from last years WSOP) that we referenced during the interview.

Brand New Interview with the Dangs!

EB — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:50:11 +0000

Bret and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Hac and Di Dang again this afternoon at our home station 106.7 The Fan. Even though Islidur1 is in the middle of an epic 40 hour session online the guys found time to hang out with your boys and give us an update on what’s going on with them, the high stakes world and their plans this summer. Bret will go through the tape this weekend and have it ready for broadcast Sunday evening. We’ll post it here at MPR as soon as it’s ready. We think you’ll totally enjoy the conversation. Peace.

New Show Posted with Brian Fite

Bret — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:37:47 +0000

Just posted a brand new show in the PODCAST section of this site. Our guest was MTT specialist Brian Fite AKA BFizz11. Brian is crushing the online tournaments and can be found atop the tournament leaderboards. In addition to pulling in 30-50K per month playing, he also teaches the game. Check out his site.

Brian’s house- not bad for a 22 year old.

New Show And More Rush Poker

Bret — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:05:14 +0000

We are back this weekend with a a brand new show and a brand new guest. In fact, we have a bunch of cool guests lined up in the near future that poker fans will love. Once everything is 100% confirmed, I will let you know exactly who will be the show. As always, thanks a ton for supporting MPR.

I can’t stay away from Rush Poker. Once you have been exposed to such quick ACTION, it’s almost impossible to go back to playing the regular tables. On top of that, I was playing live in Atlantic City last weekend (lost 2 BI’s) and it was excruciating. The home game will be even worse. Rush Poker has us all jaded. On the results side, I won a few buy-ins last night so I am back to even at the RP tables. I ran super good and was lucky to hit a few draws. Oh, and AA vs KK helped a bit . The players are still really good and it will definitely be a challenge to squeak out a profit.

Rush Poker

Bret — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:12:29 +0000

I have been playing a ton of Rush Poker lately and I have to say that I love it. Check out the video below if you are not familiar with it. I really do think that this is the future of online poker. The days of playing boring poker are over. I’ve been 4 tabling the rush poker tables, trying to figure out the right way to play the game. After 5 hours or so of playing, I’ve basically broken even. The swings can be brutal and (as always) when things are going well, I feel like Phil Ivey. I’m flopping sets, hitting my nut flush draws, picking up dead money, timing my bluffs perfectly, etc. BUT…..when the game isn’t so easy, I’m waking up with KK against AA, having my set run down by an open-ender, etc. Really can be tough to stomach. Tilting is really easy when you are seeing a new hand instantaneously, while still cringing from the beat.

Here are a few rules I’ve been playing by. Let me know if you guys think I’m missing something or totally off on any of these rules. I’m still trying to learn the best way to beat (or not lose, HA) the rush poker tables.

- Tight is right. When seeing so many hands, it’s impossible to be a loose player and win. Unless you are absurdly talented.

- Position is everything. 3-betting will often take down a pot preflop, knowing your opponent can quickly fold and move on to another hand.

- Just muck marginal hands that can get you in trouble. A hands like KQ seem to only win small pots and lose big ones. Just not worth playing, even in a limped pot.

- Suited connectors are tempting to play, but calling preflop- missing- and folding on the flop can overtime cost you a ton of money. I will play a hand Ax suited if I can see a cheap flop.

- Seeing cheap flops with pairs seem to be the way to win the big pots. Flop a set, and hope to cooler someone’s AA or KK, or hope your opponent is overplaying top pair.

- Don’t go crazy with AK preflop. If you 3-bet and someone shoves, just let it go. They almost always have you crushed.

- AQ and AJ off are trap hands. 20 minutes ago I stacked off with AQ on a Q97 board. Donk had KK

- HOPE that you aren’t on the wrong side of AA vs KK- because it happens ALL the time.

GOOD LUCK! Feel free to share any tips/tricks.

2/9- Back from Miami

Bret — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:59:29 +0000

After being stranded in Miami because of the snow in the Washington, DC area- we are now back! Look out for more pics from the Super Bowl festivities as well as a brand new Mediocre Poker Radio show!!!

Here is a pic I snapped on my cell of Fergie at the Playboy Party. She was fistpumpin’ the night away….

Super Bowl- Radio Row

Bret — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:07:17 +0000

Here are a few pics from our radio row broadcast earlier today. A ton of players (current and former) were all over the place. I spotted Eli Manning, Deion Sanders, Tiki Barber, Matthew Stafford and a bunch more. Here is Marshall Faulk and Eddie George doing the show….

Heading to Miami for the Super Bowl

Bret — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:55:08 +0000

Hey guys, EB and I are heading to Miami tomorrow morning to broadcast from Radio Row. We have a bunch of SICK guests lined for for the morning show (Joe Montana, Marshall Faulk, Eddie George, Benard Hopkins, and more). Radio row is at the Miami Convention Center and is basically the heart of where everything is going on. NFL Network, ESPN, etc are all broadcasting from there. A ton of athletes and celebs swing by to do interviews with all the radio/TV shows. Should be good times….

Since we’ll be doing Super Bowl stuff, we will probably run a Mediocre Poker Radio best-of show featuring an interview or two that you guys might have forgotten about or have not heard. There are actually a ton of interviews that are not posted in the podcast section of this site, so hopefully you will check out the interview that we select. We’ll be back next week with a fresh new show and interview.

We are gonna hit up a few cool parties too, so we should have some good pics to post here later in the week. Personally, I am hoping to snap a pic with The Situation! HA! Not kidding actually….

4 more examples….

EB — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:05:55 +0000

Since some like Tilted Fisher believe very few would would flat call my 4 bet with AA in that spot I found 4 hands in my database in about 5 minutes where it’s happened. These aren’t perfect replications of the previous hand I posted but my point is it’s not that uncommon that AA is flatted pre at the micro stakes.

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Blah blah blah and a Hand

EB — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:50:37 +0000

Big grind today after a few solid days this weekend. Gave everything back as usual. Lost 6 buyins over 4300 hands. My KK ran into AA 3 times tonight. I folded KK one other time tonight too on a 10 hi flop that I’m pretty sure was up against AA as well. Tell me what you think.

He calls my huge 4 bet and then shoves the rest of his stack. I wasn’t willing to lose 200 BBs since we were both deep. I suppose he could have had QQ or JJ but that would have been extremely unusual in that spot. My experience is that is AA 95% of the time. Basically God wanted me to run into AA with KK at least four times tonight IMO. What a monumental waste of my time.

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