Chasing Poker Greatness

On this week's episode Coach Brad and Jon break down a couple hands from one of Jon's recent $5/$10 online sessions. Jon's first hand presents a tough multi-way situation on the flop where Jon has an overpair and the action goes bet and raise in front of him. If you're a regular Tactical Tuesday listener then you'll probably be able to guess Jon's second hand for the show, yep, more KQ offsuit. St...

Today’s guest on CPG has over $12 million in online MTT cashes, sports 35k+ followers on Twitch (And is such a poker legend he had hundreds of viewers on day 1), and is a Natural8 Ambassador the always brilliant Bryan Paris. When you listen to Bryan talk, without knowing his background, you might be fooled. He may seem humble, modest, and easy-going but on the green felt the man is a stone-cold ki...

On today’s show, we break the thermometer and watch the mercury spill out all over your brand new Crocs (What a waste of mercury) as I am very pleased to welcome back the one and only human in the world who can say they’re my boss, the great Jonathan Little. Strap into your seat because today’s conversation is going to cover playing poker, teaching poker, learning poker, and learning from poker. J...

Coach Brad describes the five courses (including one that's free!) that are currently being offered at Chasing Poker Greatness. Tune in to learn what sets CPG courses apart from every other piece of training content on the market and how these courses can take your game to the next level. New CPG Cash Game Courses! Preflop Bootcamp: https://bit.ly/Preflop-Bootcamp Fish in a Barrel: http://bit.ly/f...

Yoooo, welcome my friend to another episode of the “Chasing Poker Greatness” podcast! This is your host, the founder of Chasing Poker Greatness, Brad Wilson. Today’s guest is one I am SUPER pumped to welcome back onto CPG, the always thoughtful and articulate author of Poker Satellite Strategy & PKO Poker Strategy… the Co-Host of the award winning poker podcast “The Chip Race”... none other than D...

Welcome back my fine feathered friend to another episode of the “Chasing Poker Greatness” podcast. I’m your host, founder of Chasing Poker Greatness, Brad Wilson. Today the one and only Carlos Welch is back for the third time on CPG and I couldn’t be more thrilled! Don’t tell Andrew Brokos over at the Thinking Poker podcast but I’m secretly dreaming Carlos will reach out to me about being a regula...

On today's episode, Coach Brad and Jon review two 3bet pots from Jon's recent 2kNL shot take where Jon arrives at the river with bluff catchers and has to decide whether to call off the rest of his stack. 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: https://bit.ly/2OkN8Yt

Today’s guest is one I’m very excited to finally welcome back onto CPG. He’s an award-winning co-host of one of the most popular and revered poker podcasts “The Chip Race” (Along with past CPG guest Dara O’ Kearney), the cheery, exuberant, and (sometimes) controversial Irishman, David Lappin. David spent seven years in college studying Arts, Philosophy and Screenwriting - obviously laying the foun...

In today’s episode, I have the great pleasure of welcoming back Ignition poker sponsored streamer & one half of the PokerCoaching.com study stream dynamic duo Shaundle “Crazysixes” Pruitt. Shaundle’s a long-time and accomplished MTT wizard who exudes confidence and has every reason to do so. He’s just one of those dudes who consistently does things the right way. Whether it’s managing his volume b...

On this week's episode, Coach Brad and Jon break down two more hands where Jon had KQo and found himself in tough spots postflop. Don't miss these two hands where over $4,000 finds its way into the pot both times! 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: https://bit.ly/2OkN8Yt

Today’s guest on the show is the always contemplative and thoughtful “Master of Live Poker Tells” Zach Elwood. Zach is a former professional poker player, podcaster, and author, who has also doubled as a Poker Tells consultant for two WSOP Main Event final table players. His books, “Reading Poker Tells ”, “Verbal Poker Tells”, and “Exploiting Poker Tells” have been called “invaluable”, “transforma...

On today's show, I have the pleasure of welcoming back one of the OG CPG guests, the always thoughtful, genuine, and incredibly hard-working Lyle Bateman. Lyle is a former contributing editor at Poker News Canada who’s a self-professed computer streaming geek who quite recently snagged a streaming sponsorship deal with Unibet Poker. He and I are about to dive deep on his new gig at Poker Fuse and...

Coach Brad finds a multiway flop donk bet on two separate occasions and gets raised BOTH times. On this week's episode, find out how Coach Brad deals with this rare situation and why he decided to lead the flop in the first place. 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: https://bit.ly/2OkN8...

Today I am super pumped to welcome back a good friend of CPG, the always thoughtful, articulate, and way too wise for his age Jack Laskey. For Jack, the poker dream all began at a tender age of twelve, yes twelve, when most of us were navigating our way through Middle School and spending our free time playing video games, Jack and his crew had already entered the online poker streets. Today, he’s...

On this week’s Tactical Tuesday, Jon brings in two triple barrel bluffs in 3bet pots with KQ offsuit. Find out whether Coach Brad thinks these were good spots to bluff or if he thinks Jon was doing his best to punt off a couple stacks. 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: https://bit.ly/...

Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness has $4.7 Million in live MTT cashes including a $1.9 Million victory at the 2016 Five Diamond Poker Classic, the one and only James Romero. James is a giant in the world of poker and a force at every single table he sits down at. Despite his poker accolades, James lives a low-key, chill lifestyle while finding joy in helping those around him. In today’s...

On today’s episode of the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast my guest today is Michael “Gags30” Gagliano. Gags has been lighting up the poker streets as a professional since the late 2000’s and has been a respected poker coach for almost a decade. Despite experiencing mixed emotions about the whole poker career path deal, Michael settled in and has experienced an extremely successful journey thus far...

Coach Brad is rejoined by Jon this week as Jon provides a recap of his recent trip to Las Vegas to take some shots at the biggest no-limit games running on the strip. Hand 1 Live 8-max 10/20 w/ Big Blind Ante Effective Stack: $8560 PREFLOP: Jon opens AdKc $60 from EP BB 3bet $340, Jon calls $340 FLOP: Jc7d2h ($710) BB bets $260, Jon calls $260 TURN: Jc7d2h 3d ($1230) BB bets $660, Jon calls $660 R...

Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast has made his living in the cash games streets for the past 14 years & has quickly built up a rabid YouTube following of nearly 50,000 human beings as of the release of this episode, Mr. Johnnie “Vibes” Moreno. For Johnny, poker has always been a family affair. His brother Andrew is a high stakes live crusher and his sister-in-law is future CPG H...

Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast is Martin Jacobson who has racked up over $17 million in poker cashes in his live MTT career. Some of his career highlights include: - Winning the 2014 WSOP ME for $10,000,000. Hard to top this one on the highlight reel. - An $800k score at the 2013 $111,111 buy-in One Drop for $807k. - And a $762k runner-up finish at the 2011 EPT Deauville Main...

On this week’s episode Coach Brad answers a handful of questions that his student Jon prepared in anticipation of his return to live cash. 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: https://bit.ly/2OkN8Yt

Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast is the winner of the 2016 $300k buy-in Super High Roller Bowl who has racked up over $21 million in live poker tournament cashes Rainer Kempe. If that sounds like a lot of money and success, that’s because it is. Here are just a few highlights of the 31-year-old’s poker career thus far: A $2 million score for a 3rd place finish in 2018’s Super H...

Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast is professional poker player, YouTube’r, and future New York Times Bestselling Author the multi-dimensional Kristy Arnett. Kristy’s first appearance on Chasing Poker Greatness was packed so full of Greatness Bombs you almost had to listen to it twice so I had very high hopes for this Round 2… And, of course, Kristy knocked it out of the park. In...

On this week's episode of Tactical Tuesday, Coach Brad and Jon discuss two hands where Coach Brad decides to execute one of his least used plays: the hero fold. Listen in to hear Coach Brad's reasoning for folding top pair/top kicker in a 3bet pot and an over-pair with the nut flush draw blind vs. blind. Could either of these massive folds be correct? Stick around to the end of each hand to find o...

Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast is the author of “The Total Poker Manual” Sasha Sutton. Sasha’s path, which you’re about to learn all about, to the world of poker is unlike pretty much anyone I’ve met in the poker world. After spending 3+ decades as an extremely successful creative and financial writer, she made the fated decision to attend a workshop at the age of 55 where sh...