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The Bernard Lee Poker Show (8/11/20): Chad Holloway

By Bernard Lee
August 13, 2020

Chad Holloway

In this episode of The Bernard Lee Poker Show on the Cardplayer Lifestyle Podcast Family, Bernard Lee interviews Pokernews’ Head of Tournament Reporting, North America, Chad Holloway. This past July, Chad was responsible for reporting all 31 bracelet events of the 2020 WSOP Online Series for Pokernews.com and WSOP.com. Spending the entire month of July in Nevada, Chad and his team reported on each event from start to finish.  Chad discussed with Bernard about the unique experience of reporting online poker as opposed to live events and also offers his suggestions of improvements for the future.

0:00Welcome to The Bernard Lee Poker Show as this week’s guest is Pokernews’ Head of Tournament Reporting, North America, Chad Holloway.
0:05The 2020 WSOP Online Series has moved over to GGPoker.com with recent winners including Kristen Bicknell, Eoghan O’ Dea and two-time winner Alex Stasiak.
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5:30Bernard welcomes Pokernews’ Head of Tournament Reporting, North America, Chad Holloway
6:38Chad joins The Bernard Lee Poker Show.
7:25Chad discusses how the postponement of the summer WSOP affected his world.
10:16Chad talks about how the process of reporting the WSOP.com events throughout the month of July.
18:22Chad talks about determining each player’s name was even though they had different screen names.
21:08Chad recalls their unusual sleep schedule during the month and the grind of reporting each event.
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22:46Bernard continues his interview with Pokernews’ Head of Tournament Reporting, North America, Chad Holloway.
25:17Chad discusses some of the memorable stories and statistics that came out of the 2020 WSOP Online Series including recent guests Ron McMillen, Ryan DePaulo and Tony Dunst.
34:54Chad discusses his thoughts about the registration numbers for the 2020 WSOP Online Series.
40:32Chad suggests some improvements to any future WSOP Online Series.
43:22Chad gives his thoughts about poker in the near future.
45:38Chad mentions that Pokernews will cover all WSOP bracelet events on GGPoker.com events as well.

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Bernard Lee is a professional poker player who has more than $2.5 million and ten titles since turning pro following his 13th finish in the 2005 WSOP Main Event. Recognized as “the voice of poker in New England” by Cardplayer.com, Lee is known worldwide as a poker media personality having written for ESPN.com, PokerNews, Card […]

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