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Merry Christmas, gang! Every year something goes wrong and we miss an episode in our usual production schedule, and this year was no different. Episode 619 was lost in real time, so we are putting a little gift under the tree for you this week to make up for it - welcome to episode 619 version 2! This week, Jim Reid leads the RecPoker RECing Crew through two hands he played recently in the World Poker Tour series at the Wynn hotel in Las Vegas. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses calling versus 3-betting, meta-game, player pool tendencies, bluff-targeting, bet sizing, playing against capped ranges, and more! Come sign up for a free account at https://rec.poker/ today and you can post a question of your own in the forum or our discord channel for the panel to review! Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Join the Discord group here: https://discord.gg/9aYSMCCfpv Help us out: https://rec.poker/support Find more info on our sponso

Merry Christmas Eve, RecPoker Peeps! For your gift this year, we hope you enjoy episode SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY! Wow, that’s no lump of coal! This week, Jim Reid leads the RecPoker RECing Crew through a hand by Joe Millay (emtape) about a hand he played in our home game club where his value hand turned to dust on the river. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses stack sizes and SPR, geometric betting, ranging your opponent, some general rules when considering bluffcatching, and more! Come sign up for a free account at https://rec.poker/ today to post a question of your own in the forum or our discord channel for the panel to review! Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunityJoin the Discord group here: https://discord.gg/9aYSMCCfpv Help us out: https://rec.poker/support Find more info on our sponsors at:https://RunAces.com Explore our socials and more: https://linktr.ee/therecpokercommunity RecPoker is a vibrant and encouraging poker lear

This week, Jim Reid and John Somsky are joined by some exciting guests to kick off a year of Mixed Games podcast episodes, featuring the “Mixed Game of the Month” in our free home game club! This month, we are practicing No Limit 5-Card Draw - and the first practice game is tomorrow night! John and Jim start with a basic explainer about the mechanics of the game, and then we are joined by several mixed game enthusiasts and experts to give our audience some advice and tips on how to get the most out of each game we feature. If you are curious about how to play No-Limit 5-Card Draw, then this is the episode for you! And if you are more of a holdem player and don't really get into mixed games, we heartily recommend that you give them a try - maybe you’ll feel more comfortable about dipping a toe in once you’ve heard from our panel about how to avoid some beginner’s mistakes. Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Join the Discord group here: https://discord.gg/9aYSMCCfpv Help us out:

This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew interview JP McCann from the Irish Poker Open! JP shares some details about his own love of poker, what led him and Paul O’Reilly to revive the IPO, the importance of the player experience, why it is crucial to hire the best staff, some stories about things going very right and very wrong, the fun times at at the Craic Den, and a lot more! We also play Stake/Study Stack with Andy Black, Dara O’Kearney and Padraig Parkinson and we Close The Action with our speed round! Plus of course we raffle away a free prize at the end for folks in the YouTube chat, to help support a local food bank. Join us LIVE on YouTube next Monday at 7:30 ET for free to ask our guests questions in real time, and you can win too! JP is active on Twitter as https://x.com/MccannJP The Irish Poker Open 2025 details: https://irishpokeropen.com/ Read Jim’s article about the 2024 IPO: https://www.poker.org/latest-news/making-money-friends-and-memories-the-recs-irish-poker-open-experience-aW4

This week, Rob Washam leads the RecPoker RECing Crew through a forum post by Bug920 about a live cash game hand they played with deep stacks holding QTs on the button. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses preflop ranges, calling vs. 3-betting, internal biases, playing value hands, player tendencies, what factors to consider in the moment of decision, and more! Come sign up for a free account at https://rec.poker/ today to see all the great comments and replies – and you can post a question of your own in the forum or discord for the panel to review! Link: https://rec.poker/forums/discussion/what-to-do/ Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Join the Discord group here: https://discord.gg/9aYSMCCfpv Help us out: https://rec.poker/support Find more info on our sponsors at: https://RunAces.com Explore our socials and more: https://linktr.ee/therecpokercommunity RecPoker is a vibrant and encouraging poker learning community. We ar

This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew interview Lupe Soto about her life as a pioneer in the women’s poker movement! Lupe shares about her love of mixed games, what it feels like to get busted by Jim (sorry, Lupe), how far the poker world has come since she started advocating for women in the game, the importance of giving back, her new women’s tournament festival in Las Vegas alongside the World Poker Tour later this month, some players she really respects, suggestions for some next steps the poker industry should take, and a lot more! We also play Stake/Study Stack with Rebecca Scales, Tatiana Fox, and Linda Johnson and we Close The Action with our speed round! Plus of course we raffle away a free prize at the end for folks in the YouTube chat, to help support a local food bank. Join us LIVE on YouTube next Monday at 7:30 ET for free to ask our guests questions in real time, and you can win too! Support Joe’s RecPoker Charity Auction: https://givebutter.com/c/RecPokerFB/auction Lupe is active o

This week, Rob Washam leads the RecPoker RECing Crew through a hand played by Chris Jones in ‘The Loncar’ an online tournament hosted on ACR. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel calling versus raising, bet sizing, player tendencies, ICM factors, relative hand strength, value targeting, and more! Come sign up for a free account at https://rec.poker/ today to see all the great comments and replies – and you can post a question of your own in the forum for the panel to review! Link: https://discord.com/channels/608505737454288896/1270506293077217301/threads/1300524489431318639 Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Join the Discord group here: https://discord.gg/9aYSMCCfpv Help us out: https://rec.poker/support Find more info on our sponsors at: https://RunAces.com Explore our socials and more: https://linktr.ee/therecpokercommunity RecPoker is a vibrant and encouraging poker learning community. We are committed to learning the game, but

This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew interview longtime player, pro, and industry professional Rob Perelman! Sometimes, when you are sitting at the poker table, good things happen when you start asking your neighbours about whether or not a hotdog is a sandwich: Jim and Rob met over the summer playing at the same table in a WSOP event, one conversation led to another and here we are! Rob brings a lot of stories from his various roles and experiences in the poker world, and shares some of his favourites with the gang, PLUS we dive into some Bomb Pot strategy, some tips for recs, and Joe Kulas also has a really cool offer for poker fans around the world to support a local food bank and win some AWESOME prizes in his silent auction coming up next month! We also play Stake/Study Stack with Matt Savage, Jack Effel, and a 100-year-old-Binions-dealer and we Close The Action with our speed round! Plus of course we raffle away a free prize at the end for folks in the YouTube chat, to help support a local

This week, Jim Reid leads the RecPoker RECing Crew through a conversation between Chris Jones and Taylor Maas about some strategic adjustments Taylor has been making recently which have allowed him to have an extremely successful month on the felt, While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses how and when to deviate from GTO, how to analyze the errors your foes are making, some common exploits you can adapt to recreational fields, the importance of PAYING ATTENTION AT THE TABLE (not just to showdown hands!) and a lot more. Come sign up for a free account at https://rec.poker/ today and you can post a question of your own in the forum for the panel to review! Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Join the Discord group here: https://discord.gg/9aYSMCCfpv Help us out: https://rec.poker/support Find more info on our sponsors at: https://RunAces.com Explore our socials and more: https://linktr.ee/therecpokercommunity RecPoker is a vibrant

This week Rob Washam and the RecPoker RECing Crew interview Christin Maschmann! Although there are some audio connection issues throughout the interview, this is a fun one. Christin has worn many hats over the years within the poker industry, and shares several stories about some of the roles she has played. Whether it is advocating for the experience of players in live events, helping to evaluate the caliber of floor staff, her experience of writing a book about her travels, her Hendenmob flag collection, creating and co-ordinating promotional material and events, meeting Jim in Vegas, her struggles with Multiple Sclerosis, her favourite mixed games, and what it’s like to travel the world without a home, Christin brings a refreshing perspective to the life of an industry grinder! We also play Stake/Study Stack with Feder Holz, Christoff Vogelsang, and Karei Ademir and we Close The Action with our speed round! Plus of course we raffle away a free prize at the end for folks in the YouTube chat, to help supp

This week, Jim Reid and the panel are joined by some exciting guests to kick off a year of Mixed Games podcast episodes, featuring the “Mixed Game of the Month” in our free home game club! This month, we are practicing 8 Game Mix - and the first practice game is tomorrow night! The panel start with a basic explainer about the mechanics of the game, and then we are joined by several mixed game enthusiasts and experts. Get some advice and tips from Chad McVean, Chris Fox Wallace, Mike Patrick, Norman Chad, Robbie Strazynski, and Shannon Van Den Berg on how to get the most out of each game we feature. If you are curious about how to play 8 Game Mix, then this is the episode for you! And if you are more of a hold'em player and don't really get into mixed games, we heartily recommend that you give them a try - maybe you’ll feel more comfortable about dipping a toe in once you’ve heard from our panel about how to avoid some beginner’s mistakes. Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Join

This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew interview popular poker comedian and video producer Sethy Poker! Seth shares some of his poker origin story, what he loves about making funny poker videos, some lessons he’s learned from his time on the felt, and how he studies to improve as a player. He also talks about the importance of community in poker, treating others with respect, some assumptions about the industry that he was wrong about, and some other players and content creators that he thinks highly of. We also play Stake/Study Stack with Caitlyn Comesky, Casino King and Greg Goes All In, and we Close The Action with our speed round! Plus of course we raffle away a free prize at the end for folks in the YouTube chat, to help support a local food bank. Join us LIVE on YouTube next Monday at 7:30 ET for free to ask our guests questions in real time, and you can win too! Seth is active on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sethypoker Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sethypoker/?hl=en TikTok: htt

This week, Jim Reid leads the RecPoker RECing Crew through a forum post by new Premium member Ben “Fripper” Folger about a hand he played recently where they were facing a lot of strength postflop and decided to find a fold versus a turn shove. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses player types, raise sizes, player pool tendencies, under-bluffed postflop lines, board textures, ICM factors, and a lot more! Come sign up for a free account at https://rec.poker/ today to see all the great comments and replies – and you can post a question of your own in the forum for the panel to review! Link: https://discord.com/channels/608505737454288896/1296103796577144894/1296103796577144894 Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Join the Discord group here: https://discord.gg/9aYSMCCfpv Help us out: https://rec.poker/support Find more info on our sponsors at: https://RunAces.com Explore our socials and more: https://linktr.ee/therecpokercommuni

This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew welcome poker’s greatest villain David Lappin back to the show to talk about his recently winning Poker.Org’s “Runner Runner” competition, and its prize of a gold pass to the North American Poker Tour going on in Vegas this week! They discuss David and Jim’s ongoing ‘rivalry’ in the poker world (can it be a rivalry if one person does all the wining?) rooming together in Las Vegas, how David solved the Runner Runner clues, how he prepares for a large tournament series, the logistics of selling action for events, auditioning for The Big Game on Tour, and more! Plus of course we raffle away a free prize at the end for folks in the YouTube chat, to help support a local food bank. Join us LIVE on YouTube next Monday at 7:30 ET for free to ask our guests questions in real time, and you can win too! David is active on Twitter as https://x.com/dklappin We also go over this week's home game results and discuss these topics: How to help us out - https://rec.poker/suppor

This week, Jim Reid leads the RecPoker RECing Crew through a forum post by Marcel Dusyk about c-bet sizing and how to navigate situations when multiple factors are in play. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses flop textures, player types, general rules, multiway dynamics, how to weigh differetnt factors, and more! Come sign up for a free account at https://rec.poker/ today to see all the great comments and replies – and you can post a question of your own in the forum or our discord for the panel to review! Link: https://discord.com/channels/608505737454288896/1278203000631857264 Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Join the Discord group here: https://discord.gg/9aYSMCCfpv Help us out: https://rec.poker/support Find more info on our sponsors at: https://RunAces.com Explore our socials and more: https://linktr.ee/therecpokercommunity RecPoker is a vibrant and encouraging poker learning community. We are committed to learning t

This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew welcome back to the show new Crew member LoriAnn Persinger! As a Las Vegas resident, LoriAnn shares some details about how she chooses what tournaments to play, and what cardrooms she prefers to play in. We also discuss field sizes, prizepool guarantees, structures, re-entry formats and more. Plus LoriAnn shares some stories from working in the poker industry over the years, as well as some entertaining exploits she’s encountered as a player! The group talks about their favourite places to play poker in Vegas, what makes for a fun cardroom, how we can all make the poker world a better place, and what LoriAnn is looking forward to doing with RecPoker. We also play Stake/Study Stack with Jen Shahade, Mario Ho and Jamie Kerstetter and we Close The Action with our speed round! Plus of course we raffle away a free prize at the end for folks in the YouTube chat, to help support a local food bank. Join us LIVE on YouTube next Monday at 7:30 ET for free to ask our gues

This week, Jim Reid leads the RecPoker RECing Crew through Part 2 of a conversation with RECing Crew member Mark Zhang about how we can exploit the poorly-constructed ranges of our opponents. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses the importance of visualizing your entire range to find the counter-intuitive combos of hands you’ll need to continue with on earlier streets in order to be balanced by the end of the hand - and how you can punish the folks you are playing against that don’t! This is more advanced than many of our podcast episodes, so you might want to listen twice and take some notes! Come sign up for a free account at https://rec.poker/ today and you can post a question of your own in the forum or our discord for the panel to review. Link: https://discord.com/channels/608505737454288896/1278203000631857264 Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Join the Discord group here: https://discord.gg/9aYSMCCfpv Help us out: https

This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew welcome back poker player, commentator and host Veronica Brill! Veronica unfortunately had a front-row seat to the terrible situation with Nick Vertucci at Hustler Casino Live and she shares her perspective on how events there unfolded over time, culminating in the public scandal that has broken out over the last few weeks. Veronica, who made a name for herself in the poker community by being at the forefront of the Mike Postle cheating scandal several years ago, shares her perspective on how the HCL situation came about, the warning signs she wishes she had paid more attention to along the way, how the public has reacted to her role, some advice she would share to other folks in the poker industry, how her life as a public figure has been affected by the vitriol and anger of some people in the poker industry since that time, and a lot more. The panel also discusses various problems and solutions available to the poker world as a whole, and Jim gets a little, u

This week, Jim Reid leads the RecPoker RECing Crew through a conversation with RECing Crew member Mark Zhang about how we can exploit the poorly-constructed ranges of our opponents. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses the importance of visualizing your entire range to find the counter-intuitive combos of hands you’ll need to continue with on earlier streets in order to be balanced by the end of the hand - and how you can punish the folks you are playing against that don’t! This is more advanced than many of our podcast episodes, so you might want to listen twice and take some notes! Come sign up for a free account at https://rec.poker/ today and you can post a question of your own in the forum or our discord for the panel to review. Link: https://discord.com/channels/608505737454288896/1278203000631857264 Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Join the Discord group here: https://discord.gg/9aYSMCCfpv Help us out: https://rec.poke

This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew interview long-time friend of the show and RECing Crew member Dara O’Kearny and his fantastic perennial co-writer Barry Carter! This dynamic duo shares some exiting news about their new video platform for training materials, what makes creating videos different from writing books, things they don’t love about their jobs, the strategic difference between bounty tournaments and progressive knockouts, and a lot more! We also play Stake/Study Stack with Barney Boatman, David Lappin adn Andy Black and we Close The Action with our speed round! Plus of course we raffle away a free prize at the end for folks in the YouTube chat, to help support a local food bank. Join us LIVE on YouTube next Monday at 7:30 ET for free to ask our guests questions in real time, and you can win too! Follow Barry https://x.com/Barry_Carter and Dara https://x.com/daraokearney on Twitter and find out more about their awesome new material for poker players here: https://simplifypoker.com/fre