The Chip Race David K Lappin & Dara O'Kearney

For our Season 22 finale, David and Dara are joined by 6-time WSOP bracelet winner Shaun Deeb and Pokerstars customer engagement manager Willie Elliot. For strategy, Norwegian poker champion Monica Vaka breaks down a hand she played en route to that famous victory. Donna Morton stops by to discuss the Malta Poker Festival Spring edition and more. Plus, Barry Carter takes a look at this week’s news!

This week, we are partly on location at the Malta Poker Festival and partly back at our desks.

After firing ‘a sea of bullets’ into various events at the MPF - Spring Edition, we look back on what was a brilliantly run event helmed by the inimitable Ivonne Montealegre.

Our guest Franke von Zweigbergk big-timed us so we did our best to plug the upcoming UNIBET sponsored Festival Series stops in Rozvadov, Malta and Bratislava without him.

We also discuss a WSOP rule about texting at the table, ACR’s decision to sit out some poker bots midway through The Venom, Dominik Nitsche’s phenomenal victory in that tournament and the recent Irish Poker Tour Monster event.

Before signing off, we remind everyone about the 2nd CHIP RACE SERIES being held on Unibet Poker this week, boasting a €200,000 guarantee and almost €10K in added prizes!

This week, Dara and David are joined by comedian, podcaster and EPT commentator Joe Stapleton. They welcome 888 ambassador and streamer Aaron Barone. For strategy, they breakdown a hand of Dara’s from the FPS Paris. Liam Gannon stops by to talk about poker reporting and more. Plus, our resident newsman and meme-lord Barry Carter takes a deep dive into the latest stories.

This week, we are locked in with popular Irish young gun Thomas Murphy.

The lads review the Irish Open, mostly heaping praise on the organisers but also suggesting a couple of improvements for next year.

New never before seen footage is released of David’s award-winning Karaoke performance with some remarking that it was an Easter miracle to see a Shane MacGowan seemingly resurrected!

Two controversial rulings are discussed, one from late in the Irish Open featuring Aidan Quinlan and the other involving a card-marking Italian player at the Battle of Malta.

The trio discuss the decision to ban stables taken by GGPoker Russian skin PokerOK, which segues into a more general discussion on the need for winning players as part of poker’s unique selling point.

Finally, the upcoming CHIP RACE SERIES on Unibet Poker is announced - an 8-day, 26 tournament €200,000 guaranteed festival from May 5th-12th with €8000 added in extra prizes plus copies of Dara’s books.

On the week when ‘The Chip Race’ turned 9 years old, we are joined by ACR ambassador and the 2003 WSOP Main Event champion Chris Moneymaker. We’ve got ipoker’s network manager Baard Dahl. For strategy, reigning Irish Open champion David Docherty breaks down a hand he played against Tom Kitt on his way to that famous victory. Michael Dwyer stops by to discuss the crossover between poker and the business world. Plus, Barry Carter is at the news desk!

This week, we are locked in with the fabulous and talented Caitlin Comeskey!

The show kicks off with ‘streaky’ Dara explaining that he didn’t run naked through the Bonnington last week but rather he cashed an incredible 9 tournaments in a row.

Global Poker Awards darling Caitlin delivers a reality check on what we should expect from poker’s annual industry awards. She also helps us get to grip with what our expectations should be for ‘instant media’.

Dara reviews the Dublin Poker Festival, Caitlin reviews the RunGood Series and David previews the upcoming live events that UNIBET are sponsoring.

There’s some poker study tips and Caitlin sits on the fence about the upcoming Tice/Becker challenge. Plenty of laughs too in this episode as Caitlin explains how she tried to be a Jackass and the lads argue over who gets more sea-sick!