The Gold Card Podcast

Episode 67 - The Power of Friendship   Recorded on: July 22nd, 2020   The Gold Card Podcast is brought to you by  The Esports Department ! Get the analysis, projections, and tools used by the pros for League of Legends, DotA2, and CounterStrike: Global Offensive betting and DFS.   The GCP crew discuss the playoff picture for each major region in detail, a few small news topics, and the weekend sla...

  Episode 66 - Jactroll, Destiny, and Tahm Kench walk into a bar...   Recorded on: July 15th, 2020   The Gold Card Podcast is brought to you by The Esports Department ! Get the analysis, projections, and tools used by the pros for League of Legends and CounterStrike: Global Offensive betting and DFS.   The GCP crew discuss the return of the LEC and our thoughts heading into the second half. They a...

  Episode 65 - The Tree not the forest   Recorded on: July 8th, 2020   The Gold Card Podcast is brought to you by The Esports Department ! Get the analysis, projections, and tools used by the pros for League of Legends and CounterStrike: Global Offensive betting and DFS.   The full squad is back in action to discuss the LCK, LPL, and LCS while the LEC is on break. Other topics include TheShy, Fnat...

  Episode 64 - Le Dunk de la Mort   Recorded on: July 1st, 2020   The Gold Card Podcast is brought to you by The Esports Department ! Get the analysis, projections, and tools used by the pros for League of Legends and CounterStrike: Global Offensive betting and DFS.   A three man crew goes over the full weekend slate, our top 5 teams in the world (currently) rankings, some news, and some big pictu...

  Episode 63 - There is no Hope   Recorded on: June 24th, 2020   The Gold Card Podcast is brought to you by The Esports Department ! Get the analysis, projections, and tools used by the pros for League of Legends and CounterStrike: Global Offensive betting and DFS.        Intro   0:01:45 - LCS Weekend Slate   0:41:10 - LEC Weekend Slate   1:17:20 - LPL Weekend Slate   1:36:24 - LCK Weekend Slate  ...

  Episode 62 - Bringing ignite to a smite fight   Recorded on: June 15th, 2020   The Gold Card Podcast is brought to you by The Esports Department ! Get the analysis, projections, and tools used by the pros for League of Legends and CounterStrike: Global Offensive betting and DFS.   The Gold Card crew always brings the correct summoner spells to the show unlike ... well, we talk about it.    The L...

  Episode 61 - LEC/LCS Previews and the Executive Vice President    Recorded on: June 10th, 2020   The gang goes over our big picture takes on the LEC and LCS before diving into the weekend slate which includes a full extra day of LEC on Sunday! A lot of games to get to and the LCK hasn't even started yet!     Intro   0:02:10 - News: Immortals roster announcement   0:04:40 - LEC Big Picture Though...

  Episode 60 - Pouring one out for Uzi   Recorded on: June 3rd, 2020     Vince's router's power went out during the middle of this recording due to tornados in the area but only for a few minutes and since he does the recording it got a little choppy at the beginning and the end. I edited it in a way that should feel pretty natural besides the obvious cut. EVEN THROUGH TORNADOS WE BRING THE FREE C...

  Episode 59 - Upper Management Material   Recorded on: May 28th, 2020   John, Josh, and Vince are all going to be putting out content for our new project over at The Esports Department.com which will be launching this coming week! We're very excited about it and have put a ton of work into preparing our own project!  Josh, Chris, John, and Vince break down our teams for the hypothetical "World Cu...

  Episode 58 - The Gold Card Podcast "World Cup" and Mid Season Cup   Recorded on: May 20th, 2020   John, Josh, and Vince are all going to be writing for our new project over at The Esports Department.com which will be launching this coming week! We're very excited about it and have put a ton of work into preparing our own project!  Josh, Chris, John, and Vince break down our teams for the hypothe...

  Episode 57 - The Puki Style Cast   Recorded on: May 13th, 2020   Just a heads up, some of the audio file got corrupted so there's a really weird segment where I had to splice in a few things around the hour mark for about a minute. Apologies but it should mostly make sense!   The triumphant return of Kalvin just in time for... well, not a lot going on. John, Vince, Josh, and Kalvin discuss some...

  Episode 556 - The CEO of League of Legends   Recorded on: May 6th, 2020   Chris, John, Josh, and Vince recap the LPL finals, discuss a few news pieces, answer a listener question, and then we give our All-Gold Card teams for each league!   Don't forget to rate, subscribe, and leave a review. Vince will read every single review left on iTunes on the cast! If it's good, or at least entertaining, w...

  Episode 55 - A wizard is never late   Recorded on: April 29th, 2020   Vince, John, Chris, and eventually Josh recap LCK finals, LPL playoffs so far, the LCK promotion tournament, and even some EU Masters. After that, they discuss the LPL finals taking place on Saturday morning, a few pieces of news, and then answer a TON of listener questions (thank you!)   We'd like to think the following for t...

  Episode 54 - DGAF Synergy    Recorded on: April 22nd, 2020   Vince, John, and Josh (@RobertsNumber49) talk spend the majority of this mail-bag style show answering listener questions, talking about the Doublelift to TSM news, and then discuss playoff scenarios and matchups in the LPL as well as the LCK Finals.    We'd like to think the following for their questions: @onceharby @JP_IronWolf @ Bos...

  Episode 53 - The FPX Dream Crusher Tour   Recorded on: April 15th, 2020   On the 21st day A.W. (after WeiYan)  the original crew reassembles to talk about the final week of the regular season for the LPL as well as playofffs in LCK, LEC, and LCS.    Don't forget to rate, subscribe, and leave a review. Vince will read every single review left on iTunes on the cast! If it's good, or at least enter...

  Episode 52 - TSM DWG DOM V5 WeiYan   Recorded on: April 8th, 2020   Joshua Roberts ( @RobertsNumber49 ) from Daily Fantasy Insider and The Action Network makes his triumphant return after... just a week to join John, Vince, and Chris for some in depth conversation and recapping of the Western playoffs and the end of the regular season in the Eastern leagues. A handful of fun digressions about pl...

  Episode 51 - Fake news, Western playoffs, and a special guest!   Recorded on: April 1st, 2020   Settle in for a long one as Vince, John, and special guest Joshua Roberts ( @RobertsNumber49 ) from Daily Fantasy Insider talk in great detail about the Western playoff matches as well as the LPL/LCK regular season heading into the final stretch.    Don't forget to rate, subscribe, and leave a review....

  Episode 50 - The Jactroll Adventures   Recorded on: March 24-25th, 2020   Vince, John, Kalvin, and eventually Chris discuss the last week of the regular season in the West as well as the LCK and LPL slates.   Don't forget to rate, subscribe, and leave a review. Vince will read every single review left on iTunes on the cast! If it's good, or at least entertaining, we have some prizes lined up!  ...

  Episode 49 - Bedlam on the Rift   Recorded on: March 18th, 2020    If you're new to the show, WELCOME!   John and Vince, and eventually Chris and Kalvin discuss the explosion of new players into the space of LOL DFS and LOL eSports given the lack of traditional sports at the moment and how exciting a time it is given the circumstances.    The crew discusses a few small news points and then answe...

  Episode 48 - Vitality Prim3   Recorded on: March 11th, 2020     John, Chris, Vince, and eventually Kalvin, who joins us from the office, discuss the full weekend slate in the LPL, LEC, and LCS. With playoffs on the horizon who will be our picks to make it through?   We didn't have lines for the LCS so we made our own on the show!   Don't forget to rate, subscribe, and leave a review. Vince will...

  Episode 47 - Philosophy Class   Recorded on: March 5th, 2020   We had a few longer form discussions on this episode so it ran a bit long even but we wanted to flesh out some concepts so that the groundwork is laid moving forward.   The full crew talks about a few big news topics, Vince divulges his findings from exploring line histories in the four major regions, how everyone should approach the...

  Episode 46 - The Misfits Focus Group   Recorded on: February 26th, 2020     We didn't get any listener reviews guys STEP IT UP!    The full crew talks everything from metagame considerations, to big picture approaches, to initial takes from Vince's line history data, and then discuss the full weekend slate as usual. Some sentimental but true striking life advice close out the cast.   Don't forge...

  Episode 45 - The G2 Troll Cycle   Recorded on: February 19th, 2020     The full Gold Card crew break down the first "full" weekend (still no LPL) of global pro League of Legends action, read some listener reviews as promised, and discuss the upcoming weekends slate for betting and DFS. Talking points included the LPL vs coronavirus, whether or not Spring Split "matters" anymore in the West, why...

  Episode 44 - Season 2 Diamond Ohio Man!   Recorded on: February 11th, 2020   Thanks to all of you we cracked the Top 125 in the Sports/Fantasy category in iTunes! Keep reviewing, downloading, and get your friends to subscribe!    Apologies in advance for some of the audio issues in this episode. Vince was having some issues with his mic muting so a few sections had to be cut up and might feel a...

  Episode 43 - Egregious   Recorded on: February 5th, 2020   Chris, Vince, and John recap the end of the very first Plug Challenge as well as week two in The West and the opening day of the LCK before diving head first into our first (almost) full weekend of the calendar year which includes week three of the LCS and LEC and days three, four, and five of the LCK. Side topics and digressions include...