DeucesCracked was a

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instruction website business and an

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for the discussion of poker strategy. DeucesCracked offers a fee-based service that provides access to their catalogue of poker instructional videos.

History

Prior to founding DeucesCracked, Jay Rosenkrantz established a personal coaching company ''3bet.net''. Jay, alongside industry competitor and

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professional Taylor Caby, featured in a

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Video Network documentary that explored the world of online poker-coaching as an emerging business in 2007. The DeucesCracked brand was founded in January 2007 with Rob Cole, Joe Tall, Chris Vitch, Chuck Danielsson, and Jay Rosenkrantz as the executive officers. Training videos were produced in 8-part series, and each series was part of a video season. Video series cover a variety of poker games, including,

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, 2-7 Triple Draw,

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, Stud 8-or-Better and Razz. It has also produced material covering H.O.R.S.E., 8-game and 7-game mix. On 9 July 2009, DeucesCracked hosted a fund-raising

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competition and auction, raising money for the Lili Claire Foundation. The event was hosted at

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and raised over $20,000. In January 2010, DeucesCracked presented the ''Aussie Millions Academy''. The series of live seminars covered several game variants and followed the

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tournament schedule. In August 2015, DeucesCracked.com was acquired by iGaming affiliate FourCubed LLC.Tightpoker.com: FourCubed Acquires Poker Training Service DeucesCracked
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Video producers

Jay Rosenkrantz is a minor celebrity from the

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series ''2 Months 2 Million''. In November 2009, Jay's co-star and poker professional Dani Stern joined Deucescracked as an executive producer after leaving a rival training site, ''PokerSavvyPlus''. Vanessa Selbst, a WSOP bracelet holder, was formerly an executive producer for the site. Other bracelet winning content producers include John Beauprez and Vincent Van Der Fluit

Video Content

In 2010 the users of DeucesCracked nominated the video series ''Eightfold Path to Poker Enlightenment'' with

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and Wayne Lively as the Best Overall Series. In 2009, DeucesCracked produced the podcast ''DeucePlays'' which was hosted by

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. The show included strategy discussion and an interview with a prominent member of the poker community; several members of the site have featured as guests, as have other notable players including

, Matt Flynn, Terrence Chan,

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, Justin Smith,

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Cole South Cole South (born 1987) is an American professional poker player, author, and entrepreneur from Washington, DC. South is best known for his play online, though he has also made television appearances on ''Poker After Dark'' in season 5 of the sho ...

Phil Galfond Phil Galfond (born January 16, 1985) is an American professional poker player. Galfond won three World Series of Poker bracelets, in the $5,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha with rebuys event in 2008, the $10,000 no-limit 2-7 single draw championship ...

, David Peat and

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. Until December 2008, Bart hosted ''PokerRoad Radio'' at PokerRoad.com, but was replaced by

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. After completing its run, DeucePlays was replaced by the Live Poker Edge and Small Stakes Edge podcasts.

References

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External links

Official site
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