Chasing Poker Greatness

Today’s guest on CPG is a high stakes cash game beast with over $2 million in live MTT cashes, and one of my personal favorite humans in the poker world, Jesse Yaginuma. You may recall Jesse being mentioned in a story recent CPG guest Justin Saliba told about the $5,500 High Roller Online WSOP Freezout event where in a very strange twist of fate 3 out of the 10 or so guys in a group chat managed t...

On this week’s episode, Coach Brad reviews two hands where Jon found himself on the river twice with nothing but a bluff catcher. Find out whether Coach Brad thinks Jon should have called or folded! To learn more about the Free Nuffle promotion, visit: https://chasingpokergreatness.com/free-nuffle-promotion New CPG Cash Game Courses! Preflop Bootcamp: https://bit.ly/Preflop-Bootcamp Fish in a Barr...

From driving taxis for a living to obsessively research & betting on the ponies (and winning!), Peter Bermingham's time on this earth has been very well lived. And about one year ago Peter stumbled into Greatness Village, randomly hopped into a Poker Power Hour, and the rest, as they say, is history. In Peter's one year spent in Greatness Village (The CPG Private Slack community) he's missed ONE P...

Today’s return guest on CPG is the author of “A Girl’s Guide to Poker”, the always brilliant and engaging Amanda Botfeld. Despite her book tour being on ice because of a global pandemic, Amanda hasn’t been sitting around resting on her laurels. Not only has she been studying and growing as a poker player, she’s also been creating and teaching a college level poker course for the next generation of...

Today’s guest on CPG is Tom Wheaton who is the founder of Faded Spade (The official playing card of the World Poker Tour) and the poker marketing and talent agency Above the Felt (Where he’s put together a top shelf roster of poker players including 4x WPT champion Darren Elias, the founder of SolveForWhy and longtime friend of CPG Matt Berkey, WSOP Champ Chris Moneymaker, and poker pro & WSOP com...

On this week's episode, Coach Brad and Jon break down two hands from the high stakes games on Live At The Bike! and Hustler Casino Live. To learn more about the Free Nuffle promotion, visit: https://chasingpokergreatness.com/free-nuffle-promotion New CPG Cash Game Courses! Preflop Bootcamp: https://bit.ly/Preflop-Bootcamp Fish in a Barrel: http://bit.ly/fish-in-a-barrel Neutralize Flop Leads: http...

Today’s guest on CPG is longtime online and live cash game crusher Igor Ioffe. Like many, many world-class cash game players around the world, Igor Ioffe has flown under the radar in the poker worl d for a couple of decades. These are the types of guests I absolutely LOVE having on CPG because they’re human beings after my own heart. All they wanna do is compete at a high level on the tables, maxi...

Today’s guest on Chasing Poker Greatness is a prominent Youtuber, Twitch Streamer, poker player, thinker, and dreamer Pamela “Pamsi” Balzano. Pamela’s path to CPG comes by way of referral from Brazilian poker superstar Felipe “Mojave” Ramos and, I gotta say, the man’s suggestion was on point. Pamela may not currently be on your radar and that’s because the bulk of her content creation and poker jo...

A few episodes ago I (Coach Brad) told Jon that I wasn’t a fan of some of his hands where he decided to turn pairs into bluffs (see the Tactical Tuesday that aired on August 10, 2021). Jon, as he usually does, took my advice to heart and has now decided to start bluffing with hands that make me EVEN MORE uncomfortable. Find out how Jon’s crazy river adventures turn out this time and whether I appr...

Today’s guest on CPG is the winner of the 2015 $10k WSOP H.O.R.S.E. event, the brilliant Andrew Barber. If there’s one way to sum up Andrew Barber, it’s this: The man’s a stud. In life, there’s one trait I value in human beings above all others: The ability to admit when their previous opinion, no matter how strongly believed, is wrong. This changing of opinion may stem from new information or a r...

Today’s guest on the podcast is Santiago Garcia Mansilla who’s a poker author, lover of the game, and longtime media member. If you’ve been listening to CPG for the past year you may recall a Twitter tournament I ran called #PokerGOAT that went a little sideways heading to the finish line. I woke up one beautiful morning with DMs from Erik Seidel (Which under almost any other circumstances would h...

Last Thursday, during a live streamed cash game session, Coach Brad fired up a couple tables of 1kNL and was coincidently placed at a few of the same tables occupied by Jon. Unbeknownst to both student and coach, they battled each other in the anonymous games of Ignition, only realizing that they had played each other during a hand review session days later. Hit play to find out who came out on to...

Today’s guest on CPG has racked up over $15 million in live and online MTT cashes, is the former #1 online multi-table poker tournament player in the world, and co-founded the wildly successful BitB staking group… the one and only Patrick “Pads” Leonard. To go along with all of those lofty poker accolades, Pads also owns a soccer team (Which he’ll tell you all about in our conversation) and, in hi...

Today’s guest on CPG is a living legend in the poker and sports betting world who is a treasure trove of amazing, amazing stories… The one and only Steve “The Bald Eagle” Zolotow. Steve’s path to CPG was pretty unique. I was doing my monthly webinar for Poker Coaching when I got a question from “Stephen Zolotow”... whose name I totally butchered because my brain was way too slow in making the conn...

Today's episode features hand breakdowns of two hands posted in Greatness Village. Hand #1 was submitted by Coach Thomas, the other resident coach in GV. Hand #2 was submitted by Charlie, a GV member who regularly plays in the biggest streamed games in Texas. If you would also like one of your hands analyzed on Tactical Tuesday, join the Chasing Poker Greatness community today! To learn more about...

Today’s guest on CPG is one of the most prolific CPG guests and, of course, one of my personal favorites, the always incredible Carlos Welch. And because I know Carlos is so great, today’s show is a very special one indeed because the man has recently claimed some brand-spanking-new hardware: He scooped Event 8 in the 2021 WSOP Online poker series for $124k and claimed his first WSOP gold bracelet...

Today’s guest on CPG is Justin Saliba, who just took down the $5,300 High Roller WSOP online event for a tidy little $253k as well as a gold bracelet. Justin first came onto my radar less than a year ago as my PokerCoaching.com liaison and I’d love to tell you I knew all about his immense poker talent straight away, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. As a matter of fact we barely even di...

On this week's episode, Coach Brad and Jon will be providing an overview of the non-technical skills necessary to compete at a high level. These are the skills that CPG's Elites work to improve on a daily basis and comprise of the core blocks of the Elites program. To learn more about the Free Nuffle promotion, visit: https://chasingpokergreatness.com/free-nuffle-promotion New CPG Cash Game Course...

Today’s guest on Chasing Poker Greatness is an elite cash game combatant who’s also a world-class poker coach, Patrick Howard. Pat is the younger brother of Poker Detox founder and one of my personal favorite CPG guests of all-time, Nick Howard. In my personal opinion, Poker Detox is the gold standard of staking groups. The way they’ve been able to scale and effectively/efficiently coach up pretty...

Felipe “Mojave” Ramos is one of the biggest names and brightest stars in the world of poker. He’s a GG Poker ambassador with $2.6 million in lifetime live MTT cashes. And in his native Brazil, he’s a poker megastar who’s constantly striving to give back to both his country and his community. You’re probably getting sick of hearing me say this basically every week but, the reality is, the poker wor...

On this week's episode Coach Brad and Jon break down two hands from $5/$10 online where Jon decided to turn a pair (or pairs) into bluffs. Is it ever good to turn pairs into bluffs? If yes, what would be an appropriate situation? Press play to find out Coach Brad's thoughts on these questions! To learn more about the Free Nuffle promotion, visit: https://chasingpokergreatness.com/free-nuffle-promo...

Today’s guest on CPG is the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker, Poker Satellite Strategy, and PKO Poker Strategy… the always witty and hilarious Barry Carter. Not only has Barry co-authored three revered books in the poker space, he also runs popular blog PokerMediaPro.com and, in his day job, is the chief editor at PokerStrategy.com. Barry’s dry sense of humor and thoughtful observations about...

Today’s guest on CPG is an MTT animal, beloved Twitch streamer, enthusiastic teacher, newsman for the award-winning poker podcast The Chip Race, and sponsored Unibet pro Ian Simpson. Ian’s poker career began about 10 years ago in a whirlwind of success that put him at a career crossroads. And it was unlike most career crossroads in the world of poker because Ian absolutely loved his career as a te...

On this week's episode, Coach Brad and Jon analyze two hands that Brad played where he decided to slow play pocket aces and pocket kings preflop. Coach Brad explains when and why he thinks its more profitable to slow play these monster pocket pairs rather than try to get all the money in before the flop. To learn more about the Free Nuffle promotion, visit: https://chasingpokergreatness.com/free-n...

Today’s guest on CPG is a longtime professional poker player, comedian, and the host of the Tournament Poker Edge podcast Clayton Fletcher. Clayton’s path to CPG was a little different from most folks. One of my all-time favorite guests Anton Wigg reached out to me directly and said, basically: “If you don’t have Clayton Fletcher on your show in the near future then you’re dumber than a dummy.” Al...