have to admit, it would be pretty funny just imagining RFB just running up to you and being like "YOU DARE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE PODCAST!!!!!" and then kicking you in the nuts and running off

Wait - isn't that standard operating protocol?

sorry didnt mean to be harsh with my comments, wasnt my intention

Not taken that way - and in the end, it's nobody's problem but my own if I get butt-hurt over the TPE podcast's strategy segment not living up to my own expectations.  As I said, I was just expressing my opinion, which can be taken or left, and so long as RFB doesn't kick me in the balls if he ever meets me, I'll be fine.

Benny, I'm neither too good to be listening to the podcast nor did I misunderstood some of the subtleties of the hand (which is a nice way of saying that I'm too bad to fully appreciate it).  I simply thought that hero's line showed a fairly glaring lack of fundamentals and while listening to Andrew Brokos leakbust a fundamentally flawed line may be good because of his thoroughness and his ability to cogently organize his thoughts, it doesn't make a discussion of the hand very interesting.   The TPE boys said that they pulled this hand out of the mailbag the very morning of recording - that doesn't sound like an indication of a thoughtful selection process as much as an "oh shit, we have to do a freaking podcast tonight and need a hand!" moment.  I could be wrong - you know, that's just, like, my opinion, man.

yeah fair point, i guess we all butcher hands from time to time, and i think this could stimulate more discussion than andrew saying how well this guy played, as RFB mentioned. 

sorry didnt mean to be harsh with my comments, wasnt my intention

It may not have suited you but it's definitely not for a lack of selection prep.  We looked about 10 hands, including some of the most popular hands on the forum in the last month or so.  We selected this one because it represents a common situation for our listeners in that it was a lower stakes live game with pretty generic/bad opponents.  We did have a second hand ready, so perhaps that would have been better for our higher level listeners, but this unexpectedly took an hour and we had to cut short.

I love the TPE podcast, and love the Thinking Poker podcast, and found this to be incredibly disappointing because of the poor choice of the hand used in the strategy discussion.  You don't get a world renowned chef on your program and ask him how to make mashed potatoes.  Sure, you'll get valuable information presented well (as you did in your talk with Andrew), but in the end you're still just getting a bunch of mashed spuds.  With all due respect to the podcast listener who submitted the hand, when you have as great a mind as Andrew on your show for an interactive strategy discussion, I think you can get more utility for your listeners by talking about a much more interesting hand.

wow, i think you are being pretty harsh here. and if you think this is such a simple hand, then maybe you are either too good to be listening to the podcast, or you misunderstood some of the subtleties of the hand. 

i, for one, loved the podcast and i thought the hand was interesting enough – sure there have been more interesting ones in the past, but i think sometimes people get into the habit of every hand they analyse being a super tough spot, where even though it might be for a big pot, it happens so infrequently that it doesnt hurt our expectation much. 

and then they have glaring fundamental errors which are missed because they are always talking about having to fold a full house or somesuch. not saying you are one of these people, just that you shouldnt dismiss "simple" hands like you seem to have done here