Ep. 129 – Dolly’s Game ft Doyle Brunson

Brent and Remko dive into the debut of Dolly’s Game with special guest Doyle Brunson! The guys also run through the headlines of the $25,000 PokerStars No Limit Hold’em Players Championship in the Bahamas and a new segment makes its debut: The F*cking Five, an ongoing weekly ranking of the best poker moments from 2019.

• 2:00 – Today’s topics on the podcast.
• 3:25 – Dolly’s Game made its debut on PokerGO with a $400/$800 2-7 No Limit Single Draw game, Brent Hanks shares all the juiciest details and behind the scenes info.
• 5:30 – The interview with Doyle Brunson about Dolly’s Game, the stakes he wants to play, the games, and the players he wants to invite into the PokerGO Studio.
• 17:59 – Recapping the Dolly’s Game action and looking forward at the mixed games that will be featured in the future.
• 21:40 – The PokerStars No Limit Hold’em Players Championship!
• 24:00 – The unfortunate elimination of our very own Sam Simmons just short of the money.
• 26:00 – Recapping the action so far as the biggest $25,000 tournament in history is deep into the money.
• 28:00 – Brent Hanks shares a hilarious story about smoking weed in the Bahamas.
• 31:07 – The Platinum Pass winners, how did they do??
• 34:30 – The biggest fold of the year! Thi Nguyen folds the third nuts versus the absolute nuts of Athanasios Polychronopoulos!
• 37:50 – PokerStars and the UFC have made a deal, how does Brent feel about this?
• 42:15 – Drama Alert! Mike McDonald vs Farid Jattin.
• 45:35 – NEW ON THE SHOW: The F*cking Five! Brent and Remko keep a running tally on the Top 5 poker moments from 2019, replacing two moments on the list every single week.

1. The best fold of the year? Thi Nguyen folds AQ vs the AA of Athanasios Polychronopoulos on a board that showed AQQ.
2. Good Boy Joey Ingram hustles his way into a Platinum Pass worth $30k for the ultimate poker fan Jeremy Hilsercop.
3. Daniel Negreanu and Amanda Leatherman’s romance rekindled leading to their engagement on December 31^st.
4. Justin Bonomo’s 2018 – and taking No. 1 all-time
5. PokerStars giving away 300 Platinum passes and adding $1 million to first place.

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