The Rec Poker Podcast

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by "Weeee" who is having trouble staying motivated to hit his volume goals. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses goal setting, asking why we play poker, following our natural strengths with game selection, making time for hobbies in a busy life, and more! Come sign up for a free account at re...

This week, Jim Reid and the panel interview Chad Holloway, a poker media personality and one of the key folks at PokerNews. Chad talks about coming into the industry, how he built a name for himself, the rigorous standards that are required by professional journalism, and how that differs from most content creators. We also talk about having fun at work, what it's like to report on a scandal, and...

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by Chris Jones about a study he's doing on blind vs blind play. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses player pool tendencies, stack sizes, limping ranges, postflop betting lines, and more! Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today to see all the great comments and replies – and you ca...

This is the first week we are broadcasting the show live on YouTube! So of course our first live guest, longtime friend of the show Chris "Fox" Wallace, gave us a sweat by showing up a little later in the interview to keep us on our toes! We go over some new additions to RecPoker Nation, outline some exciting plans for the summer, and then spend some time talking to Fox about a host of topics, fro...

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by Taylor Maas about a situation where a live read might become relevant. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses when live reds and tells are most valuable, how to spot them, what they mean, and more! Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today to see all the great comments and replies –...

Professional poker play, author, and RECing Crew member Dara O'Kearney is a long time friend of the show and a monthly contributor to our rec.poker Premium training materials! He's back this month to talk about Final Table strategy, how to study ICM, what tips recreational players need to hear to make better decisions, and some plans for more live poker coming up. Dara is active on Twitter as @dar...

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by Rob Washam about holding 88 in the small blind and facing some aggressive action. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses pre-flop betting patterns, player types, HUD stats, the value of aggression, and more! Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today to see all the great comments and...

This week, Jim Reid and the panel interview Mike Patrick, who is back on the show to talk about what he is working on these days - reporting for PokerNews in Las Vegas and Prague, preparing for another stint at the World Series of Poker, his love of mixed games, some new regulations for online poker where he lives in Ontario, Canada, and he also shares some candid thoughts about the state of live...

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by John Crowell about the different levels of poker strategy that are exposed with every new lesson. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses GTO principles, what it means to range an opponent, when balance is warranted, when to play your hand and when to play your range, and more! Come sign up f...

This week, Jim Reid and the panel interview with Sky Matsuhashi about his life in poker, how he finds time to get everything done each day, the kinds of games he likes to play, how to study in a way that suits your own brain, and they even find some time to talk about ICM and Final Table considerations! Sky is active on Twitter as @smartpokerstudy and you can also find his videos on YouTube under...

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by Jack about betting for protection, and how it relates to betting for value or as a bluff. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses common terminology, value betting, denying equity, realizing equity, value targeting, bluff targeting, and more! Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today...

Evan "Gripsed" Jarvis has been sharing his knowledge of poker with recreational poker players for a long time, and this week he joins the panel to talk about his life in poker, and what he loves about the game. Evan recalls getting his feet wet in the business of poker, some different strategies you might employ in cash games vs. tournaments, what it's like to write a poker book, where he likes to...

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by Stoyvind about a live hand where a player acting in front makes a 'misclick' when betting, and Stoyvind is unsure how to interpret that when deciding whether to shove or not with AQ. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses angle shooting, live vs. online play, the benefits of suited vs unsuit...

Greg Clem returns to the show to interview another member of the panel, and this time it's Jim's turn in the hot seat! Jim talks about how games have shaped his life, how teaching is the best way to learn, some personal highs and lows, and how his study of philosophy has helped him in poker as well as in life. You can find out more about Jim by going to https://rec.poker/jimreid Jim is also active...

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through ANOTHER post by the one and only "Website Mark" Praschan! While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses busted draws - what to look for when considering that third barrel, what kinds of foes to use it against, what kind of sizing you might choose, and how important it is to 'tell a story' with your betting pattern...

Kyna England was one of the first players to join Poker Power, which is a phenomenal organization that is spreading their love of poker to women around the world. In 2021 she won the MSPT Player of the Year with an impressive tournament run, and we talk about that experience and what life has been like since. We also discuss how to study, tips for beginner players, how Kyna plans her tournament sc...

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by "Website Mark" Praschan about a spot where he felt like he had a lot of equity in the hand - but also felt way behind and was facing a large bet. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses stack sizes, raise sizes, villain types, blockers, position, and more! Come sign up for a free account at r...

Jake Hershfield is the founder of unshuffled.io which is a free online poker platform offering short weekly poker challenges for real prizes! Jake talks to the panel about what drew him to poker in the first place, the challenges of building a free social poker platform, what makes mixed games more fun, how to win prizes for free, and some exciting collaborations with RecPoker coming up involving...

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by Rob about a hand where he holds JJ in late position and faces some tricky spots postflop. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses raise sizes, postflop betting lines, exploiting different players, solvers vs. actual humans, and more! Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today to see a...

In this special edition of the podcast, we interview Kevin Mathers LIVE on YouTube on the day the WSOP releases their schedule for this year! We take questions from the panel and the guests in the chat, and cover a range of topics from a day in the life of KevMath to the logistics of the new venues. Plus the gang reviews the schedule event by event, and we announce a new contest: Everyone who sign...

Ryan Laplante is the founder of Learn Pro Poker and a great friend of the show for many years. He joins Chris Jones to talk about living in Vegas and the live poker scene there these days, chasing Blake Bohn on the all-time Minnesota money list, combating Real Time Assistance in the world of online poker, ICM studies at LPP with RECing Crew member Dara O'Kearney, and they even get into a strategy...

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by "Ep1ct3tu5" about a tricky spot where a nitty player open shoves 18 big blinds and we look down at AK offsuit. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses tournament stages, shoving and calling ranges, player types, and more! Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today to see all the great...

This week Jim Reid and the panel interview Karina Karagaeva, the CEO of Mindset Design, about how plugging leaks in your mental game can be profitable in all areas of your life - on and off the felt! Whether it's issues you know about - tilt, losing focus, apathy - or leaks you might not even know you have, like poor goal setting or session prep, the solutions might be closer than you think! Karin...

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by John Crowell about playing your hand vs. playing your range, and other concepts similar to that idea. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses range betting, range analysis, equity denial, value betting, why to play your hand against some players and your range against other players, (and what...

Robbie Strazynski is the founder of cardplayerlifestyle.com and is heavily involved in a number of different aspects of the poker world, from The Orbit podcast, to CardsChat, to his mixed game festival at the Westgate in 2021. This week, Robbie talks to the panel about his love of mixed games, home games, and finding ways to talk about poker as often as possible! Robbie is active on Twitter as @ca...