The Rec Poker Podcast

Latest Episodes:

Ep 641 - Christin Maschmann: The Life of a Poker Nomad Nov 22, 2024

Show notes

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 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 Christin on socials:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niceandsunny/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@niceandsunny

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NiceAndSunny

We also go over this week's home game results and discuss these topics:

How to help us out - https://rec.poker/support/

Home Games - https://rec.poker/homegame/

Go Premium! - https://rec.poker/premium/

Timestamps:

02:52 Christin defines her own role in the poker world

03:32What does the QA manager at a poker event look like?

06:03 Venues following the TDA rules just like WASOP

09:06 The most common complaint from poker players

10:14 Christin on what she loves and hates about her job

11:51 What Christin love and hates about her job

12:50 Living a nomad lifestyle

16:11 Christin talks about her book

20:40 How Multiple Sclerosis affect Christin’s her game

28:05 Favorite poker variant

30:29 Finding accommodations during tournaments

51:55 Home Game Result updates

Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity

Join the Discord group here: https://discord.gg/9aYSMCCfpv

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 our priority is building healthy relationships where we can not only grow in the game, but grow in our enjoyment of life. The free membership website at rec.poker is awesome, but it's just a tool to help us build that community. You can join for FREE, giving you access to the groups, forums, and other member benefits. If you want to enjoy the premium content, or become part of the RECing Crew, those options are available and you can get your first month for only $5 using the code RECPOKER. Music by Peter Troolin, ptroolin@gmail.com

Ep 640 - Forums: 8 Game Mix Nov 19, 2024

Show notes

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 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 our priority is building healthy relationships where we can not only grow in the game, but grow in our enjoyment of life. The free membership website at rec.poker is awesome, but it's just a tool to help us build that community. You can join for FREE, giving you access to the groups, forums, and other member benefits. If you want to enjoy the premium content, or become part of the RECing Crew, those options are available and you can get $10 off your first payment using the code RECPOKER. Music by Peter Troolin, ptroolin@gmail.com

Ep 639 - Chats: Seth Moeller is Making Poker Funny Again! Nov 15, 2024

Show notes

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: https://www.tiktok.com/@sethypoker?lang=en

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sethymoe

We also go over this week's home game results and discuss these topics:

How to help us out - https://rec.poker/support/

Home Games - https://rec.poker/homegame/

Go Premium! - https://rec.poker/premium/

Timestamps:

03:12 Seth defines his role in the poker world

04:42 How Seth got into poker

07:21 Seth: comedy has been always my niche

08:56 Making a living with playing and producing content

14:52 False assumptions Seth had about the poker community

17:17 False assumptions about the poker community

21:58 Seth shares what he does to improve his game

27:51 Making poker a job: does it take the shine of it?

29:54 Balancing poker and life

34:09 What makes a good short form content in the poker world

40:07 Seth on the code word

51:09 Home Game Result updates

Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity

Join the Discord group here: https://discord.gg/9aYSMCCfpv

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https://RunAces.com

Explore our socials and more: https://linktr.ee/therecpokercommunity

Ep 638 - Forums: Is it ALWAYS a Set? (Fripper) Nov 12, 2024

Show notes

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/therecpokercommunity

Ep 637 - Chats: David Lappin Goes Runner Runner Nov 08, 2024

Show notes

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/support/

Home Games - https://rec.poker/homegame/

Go Premium! - https://rec.poker/premium/

Timestamps:

04:55 Home Game Result updates

11:34 David talks about his journey to Runner Runner poker

26:17 How David prepare when playing at a big event

29:46 When in Vegas: just sleeping in poker

31:23 Planning and make time to have fun when in a big event

35:13 David's audition phase for the Runner Runner

42:02 Latest in David’s world

46:53 What David Lappin does for fun

49:11 Considering the future: David's perception of success

52:43 Logistics of staking as an international player

55:49 Deciding how much to sell in staking

Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity

Join the Discord group here: https://discord.gg/9aYSMCCfpv

Find more info on our sponsors at:

https://RunAces.com

Explore our socials and more: https://linktr.ee/therecpokercommunity

Ep 636 - Forums: Navigating Multiple Factors (Marcel) Nov 05, 2024

Show notes

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

Ep 635 - Chats: LoriAnn Persigner joins the RECing Crew! Nov 01, 2024

Show notes

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 guests questions in real time, and you can win too!

LoriAnn is active on Twitter as https://x.com/LoAnPer66

We also go over this week's home game results and discuss these topics:

How to help us out - https://rec.poker/support/

Home Games - https://rec.poker/homegame/

Go Premium! - https://rec.poker/premium/

Timestamps:

03:34 LoriAnn’s role in the poker world

05:51 LoriAnn’s relationship to poker after moving to Las Vegas

13:43 How being liked by people impacts LoriAnn’s poker

21:03 LoriAnn’s on how her husband supports her

25:32 Approach to the game and adjusting to the players

34:07 LoriAnn's approach to the game

38:31 Daily tournament recommendations

44:56 LoriAnn on feeling comfortable and safe

56:53 LoriAnn's experience moving to Vegas

01:16:32 Home Game Result updates

Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity

Join the Discord group here: https://discord.gg/9aYSMCCfpv

Find more info on our sponsors at:

https://RunAces.com

Explore our socials and more: https://linktr.ee/therecpokercommunity

Ep 634 - Forums: Exploiting Ranges Part 2 (Mark Zhang) Oct 29, 2024

Show notes

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://rec.poker/support

Find more info on our sponsors at:

https://RunAces.com

Explore our socials and more: https://linktr.ee/therecpokercommunity

Ep 633 - Chats: Veronica Brill Pulls Back the Curtain Oct 25, 2024

Show notes

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, um…hot under the collar…talking about how we as a community deserve to ask better of ourselves and each other when it comes to making the poker world a better, more comfortable place - and maybe even a place with fewer assholes in it.

We also play Stake/Study Stack with Shaun Deeb, David Tuchman and Faraz Jaka 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!

Veronica is active on Twitter and Instagram at https://x.com/Angry_Polak

We also go over this week's home game results and discuss these topics:

How to help us out - https://rec.poker/support/

Home Games - https://rec.poker/homegame/

Go Premium! - https://rec.poker/premium/

Timestamps:

04:28 Veronica shares about her current role in the poker world

06:33 Veronica on allegations about Nick Vertucci

24:45 Poker problem or human problem?

27:32 Stepping in front of anger

31:39 It’s not possible to be selective in poker

42:35 Help make voices heard as a poker community

47:17 Stopping bad behavior instead of moving people to other tables

55:07 When the whales are the a***h**

59:08 Veronica’s favorite and strangest interview

1:14:27 Home Game Result updates

Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity

Join the Discord group here: https://discord.gg/9aYSMCCfpv

Find more info on our sponsors at:

https://RunAces.com

Explore our socials and more: https://linktr.ee/therecpokercommunity

Ep 632 - Forums: Exploiting Ranges Part 1 (Mark Zhang) Oct 22, 2024

Show notes

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.poker/support

Find more info on our sponsors at:

https://RunAces.com

Explore our socials and more: https://linktr.ee/therecpokercommunity