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**The Poker Grid**

The Grid is a 169 episode poker hand scavenger hunt hosted by chess champion and PokerStars pro Jennifer Shahade. Jen interviews poker players about dramatic hands they’ve played, aiming to fill out all 169 possible starting poker hands, from the worst, seven-deuce offsuit to the best, pocket aces.

Latest Episodes:

**The Grid 026 ft. Dan Dvoress – Ace-Five Suited** Jan 09, 2020
Show notes

Dan Dvoress enters the GRID to discuss a hand from a Triton High Roller where Dan flopped quads and got a surprising amount of action.
Dvoress is a Canadian pro with over 15 million dollars in live poker earnings. Just before recording this pod, Dan notched his highest ever live score, for 4 Million Dollars at the 250K buyin Super High Roller Bowl in the Bahamas. Before his live success, Dan was best known as a Run It Once coach and high stakes online pro, where he battled in various formats from cash to hyper sit n gos.

Dan also talks about why he loves poker so much, the #1 mistake poker pros make when using solvers, and why ace-five suited really is the “Magic” Hand.
Jennifer takes some audience questions, including those from fellow pros Sam Grafton, Max Silver and Timothy Adams, who ask Dan about a wide range of topics from becoming the best possible cyborg to archery to nicknames.

You can follow **Dan on instagram** and twitter **@DDvoress**. Photo by Neil Stoddart
Now that Dan has discussed ace-five suited, there are 143 combos remaining on **thepokergrid.com**.

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**The Grid 025 ft. Ben Yu – Jack-Eight Suited** Dec 31, 2019
Show notes

Three-time World Series of Poker Champion Ben Yu enters the GRID to talk about a pivotal hand in his life and career. He was up against Jonathan Little at his first WSOP final table in the 2010 Limit Hold Em Shootout. Yu, who held jack-eight suited, had tough decisions that were complicated by ICM, shallow stacks and the gravity of the stakes for Ben. Prior to the summer, Ben had found himself in a deep hole- he was broke and depressed. He explains to Jennifer how he slowly climbed out of his situation, and how his second place finish in the fateful event paved the way for a successful career, where he now has over seven million dollars in live earnings and three bracelets.

Yu also talks about what strategic adjustments were the hardest for him when stepping up into high rollers, why it annoys him when people take shots at bankroll management, and how everyone is either a “spewmonkey or a coward” if steeped in enough pressure. Ben also reveals his biggest passion and why he doesn’t tweet very often anymore **@Benyupoker.**

Now that Ben has covered jack-eight suited, there are 144 combos remaining on **thepokergrid.com**

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The Grid 023 ft. Andrew Lichtenberger – seven-four offsuit Dec 03, 2019

Show notes

Andrew Lichtenberger better known as “Lucky Chewy” enters the poker GRID to talk about a dramatic hand with seven-four offsuit against Viktor “Isildur1” Blom. Held at the 2013 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Andrew and Viktor played a huge four-bet pot in which Andrew faced a tough flop decision.

Andrew has over 10 million in live earnings and is both a World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker champion. A proponent of yoga and meditation, he is the author of Yoga of Poker: High Stakes Journey to Freedom and a coach at LearnWPT.

Jennifer asks Andrew about how he combines his interest in hard to quantify elements like intuition and even telepathy with his passion for game theory. They also touch on whether you can have love and empathy with your opponents while also trying to exploit their mistakes.

Andrew reveals how his eidetic memory helps him at the tables and peels back the curtain on his highly visual thought process. He describes has a 169 cell GRID in his head as he narrows down ranges throughout a hand.

You can find him on his blog and twitter feed.

Now that luckychewy has covered seven-four offsuit, there are 146 hands remaining on thepokergrid.com.

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