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Matt Berkey will relaunch the Only Friends Podcast on Monday, November 9, at 11am PT, according to an interview published by Poker.org. The show has been off the air for more than 18 months.
Berkey says a legal battle involving his company was one of the reasons for the break. He says it was settled over the summer and that he owns the show outright again, so he can restart it on his own terms. He also says nobody has filled the space the podcast left, although he thought someone might.
New episodes will air Monday through Thursday, one day fewer than before, because of Berkey's playing schedule. Landon and Melissa return alongside him. Conrad and Jesse no longer live in Vegas and will join by call-in. Berkey hopes to host Sam Laskowitz and expects Nikki Limo, Brent Hanks and Jeff Platt to appear.
Among the subjects, Berkey lists a superuser scandal similar to Pot Ripper and a bot farm on a couple of overseas poker sites. Those are his claims in the interview. He also wants to revisit stories he feels the industry has forgotten, such as two people the WSOP barred after a chop in a heads-up bracelet match, a case he says drew little beyond chatter on Twitter.
The set is a simpler version of the old Vegas condo. Berkey adds that AI tools will let the team build more graphics and packages than it could as a crew of three.
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