Episode #108 - February 8th, 2010

Pokercast Episode 108 - Lee Jones, Shaun Deeb & Chiren80

Live from the Two Plus Two Studios - This week on the Two Plus Two Pokercast Mike and Adam track down Cake Poker Card Room Manager Lee Jones to talk about an online incident where the pot was awarded to the player with the second best holding. Also featured on the program is an interview with new Team PokerStars Online pro and YouTube sensation Bachir 'Chiren80' Boumaaza. They ask Chiren80 about his rise to YouTube fame, his new deal with PokerStars and are also serenaded with 'Bling Blang Blaow' by his mother. Aaron Jones aka aejones provides some more great poker strategy about "Taking Breaks" in this weeks Leggo Poker strategy segment. Shaun Deeb chimes in this week for another edition of 'Where in the World is Shaun Deeb'. Discuss this Pokercast on the 2+2 Forums

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Shaun Deeb

Shaun Deeb is an online poker pro from Troy, New York. He launched his online tournament career by turning a $30 initial deposit into over $33,000 in a mere two weeks. Since then, Shaun has become the highest volume online poker player in the world, often multi-tabling 30 tournaments at any one time with over 22,000 tourneys played online to date with an average of 60 tournaments played every Sunday and over 200 tournament wins to date with over 4 million total in online cashes to date. Deeb was captain of the World Cup team in '07 & '08 while achieving the position of year end tournament leaderboard winner on PokerStars. Shaun has the distinction of being the only player to appear twice on the Cardplayer.com Online Player of the Year top ten list. Learn more about Shaun Deeb

Bachir Boumaaza

Bachir 'Chiren80' Boumaaza achieved internet fame through his professional gaming career as the self-proclaimed greatest World of Warcraft player of all time. With some brilliant online youtube marketing he quickly built up his youtube profile subscriptions to over 250,000 and used this exposer to become a member of Team PokerStars Online. Learn more about Bachir Boumaaza

Lee Jones

Lee Jones has been involved in the commercial poker industry for over 20 years, beginning his career as an amateur player at the Garden City and Bay 101 poker clubs in San Jose, California. In 2003, Lee was named poker room manager for PokerStars but has migrated over to the up and coming online poker site Cake Poker. In 1994, he wrote Winning Low Limit Hold’em, still considered a must read for any new Limit Hold'em player. Learn more about Lee Jones