The Lock-In 79 - Terrance Reid

This week we are locked in with poker player, writer and the Live events manager for Poker Org Terrance Reid. The hot topic of the week is GGPoker and WSOP fudging the guarantees on the upcoming festival in the Bahamas and the lads all weigh in on the scramble for increasingly creative ways to get players to the unpopular Caribbean destination. Dara offers some balance, crediting the operator on some of the positive contributions that they have made to poker but also warns about the historical pitfalls of a greedy approach when in a position of market dominance. The conversation then turns to the two Unibet Poker sponsored festivals taking place in Dublin and Malta next week. David will be grinding the MPF while Dara is looking forward to a ‘David-free’ IPO. Terrance discusses the increasing role that Poker Org is playing in the poker community before switching over to his role as judge of the HUGE CHIP RACE Unibet OpBad Beat Competition. The top 5 are announced with the winner receiving a €2000 Unibet Open Bucharest package. Who will win a poker holiday to the Romanian capital and who will just have another bad beat story?

Episode 79 of the The Chip Race podcast, hosted by David K Lappin & Dara O'Kearney, titled "The Lock-In 79 - Terrance Reid" was published on October 22, 2023 and runs 36 minutes.

October 22, 2023 ·36m · The Chip Race

0:00 / 0:00

Summary

This week we are locked in with poker player, writer and the Live events manager for Poker Org Terrance Reid.The hot topic of the week is GGPoker and WSOP fudging the guarantees on the upcoming festival in the Bahamas and the lads all weigh in on the scramble for increasingly creative ways to get players to the unpopular Caribbean destination. Dara offers some balance, crediting the operator on some of the positive contributions that they have made to poker but also warns about the historical pitfalls of a greedy approach when in a position of market dominance. The conversation then turns to the two Unibet Poker sponsored festivals taking place in Dublin and Malta next week. David will be grinding the MPF while Dara is looking forward to a ‘David-free’ IPO. Terrance discusses the increasing role that Poker Org is playing in the poker community before switching over to his role as judge of the HUGE CHIP RACE Unibet OpBad Beat Competition. The top 5 are announced with the winner receiving a €2000 Unibet Open Bucharest package. Who will win a poker holiday to the Romanian capital and who will just have another bad beat story?

Episode Description

This week we are locked in with poker player, writer and the Live events manager for Poker Org Terrance Reid.

The hot topic of the week is GGPoker and WSOP fudging the guarantees on the upcoming festival in the Bahamas and the lads all weigh in on the scramble for increasingly creative ways to get players to the unpopular Caribbean destination.

Dara offers some balance, crediting the operator on some of the positive contributions that they have made to poker but also warns about the historical pitfalls of a greedy approach when in a position of market dominance.

The conversation then turns to the two Unibet Poker sponsored festivals taking place in Dublin and Malta next week. David will be grinding the MPF while Dara is looking forward to a ‘David-free’ IPO.

Terrance discusses the increasing role that Poker Org is playing in the poker community before switching over to his role as judge of the HUGE CHIP RACE Unibet OpBad Beat Competition. The top 5 are announced with the winner receiving a €2000 Unibet Open Bucharest package.

Who will win a poker holiday to the Romanian capital and who will just have another bad beat story?