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This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by @Chappo Troy Chapman about a preflop spot facing a shortstack shove. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses a shortstack shoving range, the factors we should consider when looking to isolate, and what kind of hands make good candidates for that! Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today to see all the great notes and details and replies - and you can post a question of your own in the forum for the panel to review! Link: https://rec.poker/forums/discussion/how-light-is-too-light-to-iso-here/

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This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by our own @FiveByFive Chris Jones and we are joined by the newest member of the RECing Crew, @PetVet Kim Kilroy! While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses the theory of overbets both preflop and postflop, the kinds of hands that might belong in some overbet ranges, and looks at an example hand Chris played recently. Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today to see all the great notes and details and replies - and you can post a question of your own in the forum for the panel to review! Link: https://rec.poker/forums/discussion/massive-overbet-shoves/

Tommy Angelo is a poker player, poker coach, and author of several books including Painless Poker, Elements of Poker, and Waiting for Straighters. He is also busy making videos including a YouTube Series called PokerWords on the Tommy Angelo channel. His latest effort is a 3 part series called "On Position." We chat about parts 1 and 2, which have been released, talking about Act Last Percentage and folding to 3-bets from behind. The third part will be released April 1 focusing on folding the small blind in limped pots. Tommy also talks about his recent experience doing live poker commentary. He graced us with some harmonica playing to start the episode and shared his perspective on his perfect day, which was quite inspiring. Connect with Tommy at TommyAngelo.com

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by @Gloves1010 - Collin Anderson, one of the hosts of the RECies Primetime Awards Show! Collin joins us for this episode, and while battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses every possible decision on every street of a hand where Gloves flops a set at the final table and has to make a tough river decision! There are some very interesting rabbit-holes in this one - come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today to see all the great notes and details and replies and you can post a question of your own in the forum for the panel to review! Link: https://rec.poker/forums/discussion/interesting-hand-from-the-final-table-of-a-1500-player-acr-tourney/

Once a month a Premium member goes one-on-one with a member of the RECing Crew to break down a hand, talk strategy, or discuss how to otherwise get the most out of their poker experience! Email jim@rec.poker if there's a member of the RECing Crew that YOU'D like to connect with, and we'll try to match you up! In this episode, we join Jim and Troy in the REC Room to talk about game selection, study materials, having a plan for success, and how to exploit foes. As always, the video version of this podcast will be more informative than the audio version so sign up for a free Community account at rec.poker to watch the video versions of all our podcasts - and a lot more!

Jonathan Little was a student at the University of West Florida studying psychology when he began playing poker with friends. As his interest in poker grew, it led him to study many books on poker. After earning an initial bankroll of $35,000 online over a six-month period, he decided to drop out of college and play poker professionally. He has become a well-known player, author, coach, and ambassador of the game, creating and leading pokercoaching.com. Jonathan is a great friend of RecPoker and we continue to be excited about our future together

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by @Jamin96 who is following up on an earlier episode about playing in bigger tournaments than he is used to. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses deepstack play, deciding how many "streets of value" your hand is worth, and overvalueing one pair hands! Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today and post a question in the forum for the panel to review! Link: https://rec.poker/forums/discussion/blowout-series-followup/

The February seminar for RecPoker members was all about board texture. In this podcast we highlight a couple pieces of the seminar including a paradigm shift from wet/dry to a grid combining dynamic/statis and favorable/unfavorable. We also spend time discussing it's relation to next months seminar on betting patterns. The crew also shares the big announcement about partnership with Learn Pro Poker, the identy of the next book study, and the start of MaREC Madness!

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by @Rabman50 about a tournament hand where he shoves the flop with top pair top kicker and a sweet redraw. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel talks about 3betting ranges preflop, the sizes available in and out of position, and how to get the most money in the pot - without ensuring that your opponenet has the nuts! Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today and post a question in the forum for the panel to review! Link: https://rec.poker/forums/discussion/mtt-standard-play/

Poker legend Maria Ho joins RecPoker to talk about her worlds of playing poker, commentating poker, and doing reality TV. Maria shares a bit about growing up in a conservative Chinese family and how that impacted college and how she approached getting into poker.

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through another forum post by @Chappo about getting heads up in the home hame and picking up equity on the turn - and how to play it! While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses heads-up play, suited connectors as 3-bet candidates, and how you can 'contort' your opponnts range with different bet sizes! Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today and post a question in the forum for the panel to review! Link: https://rec.poker/forums/discussion/heads-up-for-all-the-money-in-the-home-game/

Star Valdez is a fun poker industry personality who also enjoys writing. In this episode we chat about her poker journey and the poker worlds in and around Biloxi, Mississippi.

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by our own @FiveByFive! While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel looks at five different types of hands we might find ourselves with in the big blind when we see a monotone flop and it checks through to the turn. Which will we lead with, which play better as checks, and which of those will call a bet and which should we be shoving with? Lots of great questions and even a couple of answers! Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today and post a question in the forum for the panel to review! Link: https://rec.poker/forums/discussion/theory-question-on-a-monotone-board/

Once a month a Premium member goes one-on-one with a member of the RECing Crew to break down a hand, talk strategy, or discuss how to otherwise get the most out of their poker experience! Email jim@rec.poker if there's a member of the RECing Crew that YOU'D like to connect with, and we'll try to match you up! In this episode, we come back to part two of Jim and Matt in the REC Room, looking at the RecPoker HUD and reviewing some hands in PokerTracker4. We talk about HUDs at the beginning so the video version of this podcast will be more informative than the audio version - Sign up for a free Community account at rec.poker to watch the video versions of all our podcasts - and a lot more!

Ryan Laplante joins us from his training site Learn Pro Poker to talk about playing live again in the pandemic era, what kind of tells he looks for in villains, and we go over a hand where Ryan soul-reads a foe to make a killer river call!

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by @Jamin96 about taking a shot in a big-time tournament. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel talks about selling action, prepping for a tournament, adjustents to your play, and more! Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today and post a question in the forum for the panel to review! Link: https://rec.poker/forums/discussion/blowout-package-winner/

The January seminar for RecPoker members was all about tells and reads. In this podcast we highlight a couple pieces of the seminar which included conversations with Zach Elwood and reviewing video from a recreational charity tournament as well as an MSPT Final Table.

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by @Chappo about holding TT in a live tournament with a tough field. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses tournament selection, expressing your skill edge, and some lessons from the recent Book Study about injecting aggression into your game! Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today and post a question in the forum for the panel to review! Link: https://rec.poker/forums/discussion/heads-up-for-all-the-money-in-the-home-game/

Duncan Palamourdas specializes in the mathematics of poker and poker education. His poker classes at UCLA always fill up early and have long waiting lists. He is also an author at Upswing Poker, Poker News, Card Player and Winning Network. Despite his impressive academic credentials, Duncan’s popularity is a product of his love for simple language and metaphors. Profitable poker play essentially revolves around correct risk/reward optimization. This is a complex topic and Duncan’s great strength is that he explains it in simple terms without resorting to technical jargon. He is the author of “Why Alex beats Bobbie at Poker: Developing a Fundamentally Sound Approach to Poker”. You can connect with Duncan on Twitter at @askthemathdr or through his website askthemathdr.com