Best Dara O Kearney Podcasts (2023)

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Tactical Tuesday #154: The Number 1 Toughest Decision(s) in 3-Bet Pots (Online Cash Poker) 30:25

7h ago30:25

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Yes, the title of this week's Tactical Tuesday poker strategy show contains an intentional misnomer. And that is because, in all of poker's 3-bet pots, there is not a single "Number 1" toughest spot -- there are multiple spots that are equally tough, and many of them are frequent occurrences, as poker pro Jon Chai has arrived to tell us. Welcome to…

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Tactical Tuesday #153: So You Flopped A Set... Now What?? (Fast Fold 500NL Poker) 41:57

23h ago41:57

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It's easy to flop sets in No Limit Texas Holdem Poker when your name is Jon Chai. All you have to do is buy into a Fast Fold 500NL game and the virtual chips drop from the sky into your stack. None of the above is factually accurate, but in the rare instance that you do flop a set in No Limit Texas Holdem, the next two cards to come can have a pret…

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Tactical Tuesday #152: Playing 3-Bet Pots in No Limit Texas Holdem Poker (Online Cash Game Poker) 37:21

11d ago37:21

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So we've got a good starting hand preflop. Something like Ace Jack suited or the sexy Ace King suited. Worthy of a 3-bet, no doubt, but it's still not a pair. We play our hand the best we can, but what happens when a 3-bet pot becomes a 3-bet problem? The first step toward solving a problem is admitting you have one. While poker pro Jon Chai is sti…

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Tactical Tuesday #151: To Raise Or Not To Raise... That Is The Poker Question (Epic Value Strategy) 37:11

21d ago37:11

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So you're playing No Limit Texas Holdem and your "one time" finally happens. For the first time in the last 48 months of grinding, you flop a set. You've already booked an AirBnB during peak season in Valuetown. But then the turn and river come out, shifting those pesky equities and changing the nuts out on us when we were so cozy and warm on the f…

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Tactical Tuesday #150: The Poker Coach Becomes the Poker Student... Brad Back in the No Limit Streets 35:24

25d ago35:24

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Tryouts for the CPG Wolves CFP are OPEN for a limited time (a few more days)! Just listen to the episode for more details! Genghis Wilson has been on the sidelines for the past few years... scheming, teaching, plotting, planning, mentoring, philosophizing, and a few other mental activities aimed at cultivating the CPG Wolves team and building cours…

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Tactical Tuesday #149: Tales From The Cufoff! Bet Sizing in 3-Bet Pots with Value & Spooky Bluffs 30:23

29d ago30:23

30:23

Want a free poker course from CPG? Just scroll down below to get it! It's a special Halloween episode of Tactical Tuesday, for which Coach Brad has spent weeks developing the unofficial title of the episode... TALES FROM THE CUTOFF *spooky organ music*. These river spots are so scary that we don't even need any costumes or Halloween graphical overl…

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Tactical Tuesday #148: More Tough River Spots at Higher Stakes Online Poker (No Limit Texas Holdem) 33:13

1M ago33:13

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Want a free poker course from CPG? Just scroll down below to get it! They say most of your money is saved preflop. Or maybe we just made that up. But where is most of the money made? Well, naturally that's going to be in the spots where the pots are largest and the leverage is larger-est. We're talking about the old man river, friends. How do we ge…

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Tactical Tuesday #147: Breaking Down Community Hands on the PokerCoaching.com YouTube Channel! 59:11

2M ago59:11

59:11

As you may have learned from our announcement in the CPG online community, Greatness Village (free to join at greatnessvillage.com!), Coach Brad & Jon Chai took the show on the digital road this week, all the way over to the PokerCoaching.com YouTube channel! In anticipation of the PokerCoaching.com 6-Max Cash course that Brad has contributed to, t…

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Tactical Tuesday #146: How to Play Pocket Aces in No Limit Texas Holdem Poker (The "Tricky" Way) 36:29

2M ago36:29

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Want a free poker course from CPG? Just scroll down below to get it! Alright, now that we've gotten all of that boring, responsible, winrate-determining preflop nonsense out of the way last week, it's time to give the people what they want: I'm tallking about SEXY ACES, baby! Three times in one show! *RIC FLAIR WOOOOOO!.wav* But we didn't come here…

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Tactical Tuesday #145: A Preflop Poker Masterclass... Okay, It's Only 3 Hands But Still Pure Gold 28:24

2M ago28:24

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Want a free poker course from CPG? Just scroll down below to get it! Normally each Tuesday, our poker boys focus on hands with a lot of postflop fireworks across all three streets, since those naturally make for the most interesting discussions on Tactical Tuesday. But all this time, they've basically been lying to you and your family about one sim…

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Tactical Tuesday #144: It's a Trap! How to Avoid Poker Traps & When to Spring Your Own (No Limit Texas Holdem) 43:49

2M ago43:49

43:49

Want a free poker course from CPG? Just scroll down below to get it! Sometimes poker is not as easy as just putting chips in the middle and hoping people call when you have a better hand. It's in these unique situations that we must get creative to get value. Enter: TRAP STRATEGY 2023 with Jon Chai. But there are two sides to the trap coin. One mus…

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Tactical Tuesday #143: When To Play For Your Entire Stack in No Limit Texas Holdem (Must Have Spades) 30:51

2M ago30:51

30:51

Want a free poker course from CPG? Just scroll down below to get it! When deciding what area of poker study you should focus on, it's never a bad idea to prioritize the situations in which all of the money is at risk. And so poker pro Jon Chai has brought a measly 2 hands for the evaluation and hopefully... approval? of poker coach Brad Wilson. Do …

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Tactical Tuesday #142: Difficult Spots In 4-Bet Pots (How To Navigate Low Frequency, High Impact Situations In NL Texas Holdem Poker) 43:47

3M ago43:47

43:47

When something happens at such a low frequency, how are you supposed to get better at it when you don’t get many reps in the situation? The boys are back to illuminate the infrequent, yet crazy important world of 4-Bet Pots. It has a massive impact to your winrate, so listen up! Jon has brought 4 hands with or without incident (no spoilers) for Coa…

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Tactical Tuesday #141: Jon Goes Whale Hunting! When To Adjust Your Poker Strategy 31:50

3M ago31:50

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It doesn't happen often, but when it does, you best be ready for it with your sharpest harpoon in hand. We're talking about WHALE HUNTING. The kind of whale that cares more about killing their boredom than preserving their big blinds. They didn't sign on to fold, people, so let's give them 'em action! But what happens when a sea of Ahabs all spot t…

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Tactical Tuesday #140: Trapping With Pocket Aces & Kings (Guaranteed To Never Backfire) Not a Guarantee 37:12

3M ago37:12

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Aces and Kings are pretty easy to play preflop... right? Just rip it in and hope villain has something to stack off with. But wait... what does villain do with their bluffs and light 3-bets then? Oh right, they just fold and you never get their stack. Jon's come a long way since pre-COVID and always 5-bet jamming Aces preflop, and he's added some p…

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Tactical Tuesday #139: "What's The Best Way To Get All The Money In?" High SPR Value Betting in Poker 43:29

3M ago43:29

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We've done value betting episodes before, but his one is a bit different. This week we examine the spots where you have thick value on the river, but there's just one problem... the SPR is pretty high and it's difficult to see how you can pile it all in and get called. So what's the best way to get all the money in and get maximum value when you ha…

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Tactical Tuesday #138 - The Bet/Fold & Raise/Fold Poker Instruction Manual (YMMV) 44:39

4M ago44:39

44:39

The pain train is right on schedule this week, as Jon digs... not very deep in the database to find a few hands that illuminate an important topic in poker: how to bet/fold and raise/fold. It's not a difficult concept to understand... you think you can take down the pot with a bet or a raise, but, if the villain should somehow not fall for our lies…

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Tactical Tuesday #137: Equity Calculation in No Limit Texas Holdem Poker (They Did The Math) 36:49

4M ago36:49

36:49

One of our more interesting and instructive episodes in recent memory pertained to equity calculation and range construction when facing all-ins. If you're a poker player struggling with the mathematical side of things, this episode is for you! To everyone else, don't worry -- if you're only here for degenerate flush draws and high card floats I'm …

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Tactical Tuesday #136: How To Play For Max Value When Out Of Position In No Limit Texas Holdem 34:16

4M ago34:16

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Position is everything in Poker, also known by its full, formal name: No Limit Texas Hold Them. But when you're playing the game at a positional disadvantage, it can be hard to extract full value in spots where you have good hands. What hands should you check and trap? What situations call for an overbet to hope to get bluffcaught? These questions …

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Tactical Tuesday #135: How to Play Multiway Pots vs. Fish in Poker (Rule 1: Don't Call Them Fish) 34:19

4M ago34:19

34:19

Tactical Tuesday is cleaning up its "bad boy" image this week and we're trying to come up with newer, more respectful ways to refer to unstudied, instinctual poker players who are not as good at poker as Jon Chai. I said "trying" to come up with newer terms, correct? Because while we tried, we failed. They just do so many fishy things! There's no b…

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Tactical Tuesday #134: River Raise Sizing in Texas Holdem ("No Limit LITERALLY Means No Limit!") 39:40

5M ago39:40

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Jon is back this week with hands from the poker database (4, which is always nice), and unsurprisingly, many of them contain river raises. While he would obviously love to jam all-in at all times, upon analysis, he does at least admit that there is a subtle art to choosing the right river sizing to get the desired result. Coach Brad is ready for th…

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#133 Tactical Tuesday: How To Play Small Pocket Pairs In Poker... Multiway (What Could Go Wrong?) 38:55

5M ago38:55

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Fresh off of playing large pots with pocket nines, Jon has learned the error of his ways and returns this week to play even larger pots with... pocket fours?? And... he's doing it mUlTiWaY?? AND!! IN LIVE BOMB POTS!!??? Looks like we're going off the rails on this fours-ey train for Tactical Tuesday 133. Let's see how much money Jon... wins? As a r…

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#132 Tactical Tuesday: How To Play Pocket Nines In No Limit Texas Holdem Poker (An Attempt Was Made) 31:31

5M ago31:31

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Middle pocket pairs are somewhat of an imperfect science in the never-frustrating game of No Limit Texas Holdem. Pocket Nines are specifically right on that borderline of a great starting hand preflop, but... how them nines look after all 5 community cards come out? Jon's back this week with just such situations for our collective poker study -- th…

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#131 Tactical Tuesday: Flush Draw Fetish Confessions: How to Play Flush Draws and Avoid Rock Bottom 41:04

5M ago41:04

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The first step toward solving a problem is admitting that you have one. We don't know when it got out of control, or why we didn't stage an intervention sooner, but Jon and his flush draw fetish have finally reached a breaking point. We've since taken away the keys to his Ignition (account) and forced him to seek help for this addiction. Please hel…

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#130 Tactical Tuesday: The Big Slick Bible: How To (And How Not To) Play Ace King in Cash Game Poker 42:56

5M ago42:56

42:56

"Ace King is just a drawing hand" they said... but WTF does that even mean? And try telling that to a Fish. Jon is back this week, desperately pleading with Coach Brad to help him off the ledge as he finds himself playing for stacks with everyone's favorite Ace High hand. Should he have folded preflop? Should he call down when things go sideways? A…

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#129 Tactical Tuesday: Tom Dwan vs. Doug Polk in the Hustler Casino Live Million Dollar Game 39:45

6M ago39:45

39:45

In celebration of the launch of CPG's Live Cash Preflop Bootcamp, Tactical Tuesday is all about live cash poker this week... Decidedly high stakes live cash poker... for (in Dr. Evil's voice) one MILLION dollars. Hustler Casino Live played host to quite the hand recently, featuring live cash poker legends Tom Dwan and Doug Polk. Having played a lit…

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#128 Tactical Tuesday: Bluffcatching For Stacks in Online Cash Game Poker ("It DOES Matter!" - Brad) 38:53

6M ago38:53

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We've finally found an offramp from value betting month here at Chasing Poker Greatness, but is it possible that Jon's only transitioning to bluffcatching mode because it's an even thinner way to battle for stacks in the online cash poker streets? With 3 hands to review, does Coach Brad go 3/3 in disagreeing with Jon's decisions to bluff catch for …

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#127 Tactical Tuesday: Jon's Newest Secret Weapon: The Bet, Check, Bet Value Betting Line 26:37

6M ago26:37

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Yes, it's another episode on theme for value betting month at CPG. But this time it's with a twist -- Jon's been in the lab digging deeper into the data... mixing chemicals in beakers and doing things with Bunson burners and he's emerged from these possibly unethical experiments with the discovery of a new weapon for his arsenal that he's been irre…

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#126 Tactical Tuesday: Go Thin to Win! More Thin Value Betting Strategy to Add to Your Poker Game 38:06

6M ago38:06

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In what is becoming quite the theme / cry-for-help lately, Jon has returned with... Jack Deuce suited (?) to find out if he is still addicted to value betting too thinly. Obviously the answer is yes, but to what degree? What sizing should he find on the river on equity-shifting runouts? Coach Brad intervenes to make sense of it all as Tactical Tues…

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#125 Tactical Tuesday: Performing Poker Punt Postmortems with GTO Wizard (Thin Value Betting) 46:39

7M ago46:39

46:39

Welcome friends, enemies, and frienemies, to this week’s episode of Tactical Tuesday, in which we evaluate thin value betti—… actually, no. We’re just punting out here. Come and watch the carnage. But as part of any responsible poker player’s session postmortem, at least we’re finding out just where it all went wrong. And so we turn to GTO Wizard t…

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#124 Tactical Tuesday: Is Online Poker Different Than Live Poker? Yes. Yes It Is. Sanity Check on Tactical Tuesday 124 35:37

7M ago35:37

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Jumping back and forth from dimension to dimension isn’t easy on a man’s mental state. After months in the cushy, money-printing live cash streets of Las Vegas, Jon Chai has foolishly navigated back to the lawless, degenerate, soulless pit of online poker and it’s been... very hard to keep sane in this new harsh reality. And so we’ve called in our …

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#123 Tactical Tuesday: Bluffcatching in Live Cash Poker and a Holdem Bomb Pot Bonus (Gutshot Fail) 39:00

7M ago39:00

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Four liners to a straight... it's the stuff of nightmares when you're the type of insane asylum escapee who calls large river bets from a "reg" with a flopped bottom pair in a 4-Bet pot. Yes, we're talking about poker pro Jon Chai and his epic quest to bluffcatch every villain on God's green earth with the slimmest of holdings. We've got 3 hands th…

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#223 Michael Loncar: Booming and Busting From a Teenager in Tears to an ACR Team Pro 1:24:39

7M ago1:24:39

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The CPG podcast has returned for an interview with ACR Team Pro and Twitch streamer Michael Loncar, and what a story he has to tell. From the humble beginnings of playing on his dad’s online account before the Moneymaker boom, to dropping out of college to play poker full-time and live the cliché of winning at the tables and blowing it all the same…

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#122 Tactical Tuesday: Is This The First Poker Stand-Up Game Strategy Guide Ever?? 45:18

8M ago45:18

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The Stand Up Game... Where did it come from? Why is it a thing? The answers to those questions don’t matter, but the strategy behind playing it sure does. We didn’t aim to release the first Stand Up Game strategy guide, but it’s possible we just did? Jon somehow got himself into a very interesting spot where he was heads up with the last remaining …

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#121 Tactical Tuesday: WTF is a NUFFLE? And Other Poker Strategies vs. Donk Bets (#3 Will Shock You!) 35:24

8M ago35:24

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Donk bets…. A scourge to online poker, and to humanity as a whole. What motivates a Fish and/or Reg to dabble in these dark arts? We’ll, we don’t really know. Frankly we don’t want to know. It’s a market we can do without. But what we do know is the data behind donk bets. You’ve probably heard Coach Brad nag us for years now about NUFFLE, NUTTLE, a…

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#120 Tactical Tuesday: Small Size River Bluffs in Poker... Do They Ever Work? (Don't Try Unless Pro) 36:27

8M ago36:27

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No need to check your audio device for potential defects -- we can confirm that Jon is indeed bluffing... small (?) on the river this week. These spots do exist, we're told, but where are they? And how often does the small size bluff actually get through? Poker pro Jon Chai and Coach Brad Wilson are back this week, and with yet again more than 2 ha…

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#119 Tactical Tuesday: We're 3-Bet Jamming Flops for Fun Out Here (Poker Solver Approves?) 21:30

8M ago21:30

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LEAKED CLASSIFIED WOLF STRATS INCOMING on this episode of Tactical Tuesday, in which Jon has been sweatin' to the Solvers with the CPG Wolves CFP elite to develop a Bet / 3-Bet strategy postflop for when these clown world villains try raising our flop bets. Doing his best to further desensitize the entire poker world to the significance of the all-…

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#50 Philosophical Friday: What does prison life teach us about poker? 1:01:48

8M ago1:01:48

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This week Duncan has the pleasure to have an in depth conversation with our very own Peter Bermingham about his experiences as a correctional officer. What are some facts and misconceptions about prison life and what does it teach us about poker? Tune in until the end for Peter's incredible insight on how to deal with toxic environments and mental …

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#118 Tactical Tuesday: River Raise Redux! Value & Bluff Spots in SIX HANDS from 500 Zoom & 5/10 NL 36:23

9M ago36:23

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Jon continues to slave away in the 500 Zoom mines as part of his CPG Wolves R&D, and he's emerged from those murky depths with triple the amount of our normal haul of hands for review. Sometimes he has a pair, sometimes he doesn't. Sometimes he has thick value, sometimes he has garbage air bluffs. Is this... balance?? [butterflymeme.jpg] Let's see …

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#117 Tactical Tuesday: Hands from 500 Zoom Online Poker & The Biggest Pot of Jon's Poker Career 32:26

9M ago32:26

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Be sure to get a free poker course in the description! So Jon's been hard at work in the lab doing 500NL Zoom Play & Explain videos for the CPG Wolves Coaching For Profit poker stable, and he's selected two spicy hands for us to review before we get into the main course, which is a live cash hand he played at pretty high stakes. But he has Aces, so…

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#49 Philosophical Friday: Dr Michael J. Whitman: Poker and Sports Psychology 1:02:01

9M ago1:02:01

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This week Peter and Duncan have the pleasure to talk to clinical and sports psychologist Dr. Micheal J. Whitman who adds incredible insight on a variety of poker and sports related topics such as: competition, disruptive behavior, dealing with downswings/adversity, growth and many others. Dr Michael has been practicing psychotherapy for over 20 yea…

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#116 Tactical Tuesday: How to Find Bluffs in Your Opponent’s Range & When to Invent Some of Your Own 32:33

9M ago32:33

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When you’re in the midst of a bit of a downswing, well, nobody ever got out of it by folding, did they? That’s where Jon’s head is at the week as he tries to pry victory from the jaws of negative variance by considering a big call with a great bluff catcher in one instance, and then deciding to turn yet another pair into a bluff in another. Welcome…

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#48 Philosophical Friday: Martin Harris 1:24:08

9M ago1:24:08

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This week Duncan is joined by Martin Harris (@hardboiledpoker), a fellow academic who writes about popular culture, literature, horror film, and poker. How does poker represent American culture in the best and the worst way possible? What do people often get wrong about poker culture? What makes for a good poker scene in film, and how are dreadful …

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#115 Tactical Tuesday: When To Go For Thin Value In Poker... And When Not To (No Limit Texas Holdem) 21:27

9M ago21:27

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Free poker course details in the description! Jon's back again this week, showing massive dedication calling in from the road with some great teachable spots in thin value betting. But how thin is too thin? As always, Coach Brad brings the sobriety and we reset the clock until next week. Welcome to Tactical Tuesday 115, where we're playing online p…

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#47 Philosophical Friday: Andrew Brokos (part 2) 1:07:38

9M ago1:07:38

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This week Andrew Brokos (@thinkingpoker) is back on the podcast to engage in a conversation with Peter and Duncan on a wide range of topics including his impressive 2nd place finish on ACR's main event that attracted 1600 people. The trio also explores meaningful charity, good intentions in problem solving and exposure to different and potentially …

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#114 Tactical Tuesday: No Limit, No Pair, No F's Given. Calling Bets with High Card in Texas Holdem 26:54

10M ago26:54

26:54

Check the description below for a free poker course! This week's episode is a masterclass in skepticism, as we join Jon amidst his online poker exploits for a pair of hands in which he's faced with bets across multiple streets but fails to connect with the board. "Bluff catching without a pair" is not for the faint of heart, as we'll soon see. So w…

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#46 Philosophical Friday: Poker Technology (with Ben Kushigian) 1:10:21

10M ago1:10:21

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Peter and Duncan are joined by the very articulate Ben Kushigian to discuss all things technology when it comes to poker. What are some limitations and dangers of our current available software and what areas can we hope to get meaningful improvements in the future? Ben (@ben_kushigian) is a computer science PhD candidate at the University of Washi…

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#113 Tactical Tuesday: How to Play Flush Draws & Turning Pairs into Bluffs (Again) (Online Poker) 31:02

10M ago31:02

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For Valentine's Day, we love you so much that we're offering a free poker course in the description below! For this week's poker training, love is in the air, but definitely not the good kind. Welcome to the first episode of Toxic Tuesday, where we've staged an intervention of sorts to make Jon face the hard facts that his love affairs with turning…

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#45 Philosophical Friday: Andrew Brokos 1:20:16

10M ago1:20:16

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This week Peter and Duncan have the pleasure to talk to the great Andrew Brokos (@thinkingpoker) about a variety of topics that range from good faith disagreements all the way to the meaning of life. Andrew is the author of over a dozen books including the highly praised Play Optimal Poker series as well as the most recent Essential Poker Concepts …

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#112 Tactical Tuesday: Using Equilab To Calculate Equity in Poker (We Play A5 Suited Aggressive) 34:24

10M ago34:24

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For your free poker course, just read the description below! For this week's episode, we revisit good 'ol reliable Equilab to drill down on calculation of hand equity in some all-in spots where Jon calls it all off with hands that obviously don't beat all of villain's range. But can he find enough combos in post-hand review using Equilab to feel go…

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