The Rec Poker Podcast

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Ep 353- Forums: AK in the UK Feb 22, 2022

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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 comments 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/hand-analysis-help-overthinking/ Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Find more info on our sponsors at: https://RunAces.com https://WebsiteAMP.com 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.

Ep 352 - Chats: Karina Karagaeva on mindset, mental game, and poker in life! Feb 15, 2022

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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! Karina talks about her professional path to mindset coaching, the tools and systems that she uses to set people up for success, and other fascinating aspects of how people can motivate themselves to learn. You can find out more about Karina and Mindset Design at their website: http://mindset.design/#become-pro Karina is active on Twitter as @karinamindset 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/ Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Find more info on our sponsors at: https://RunAces.com https://WebsiteAMP.com 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.

Ep 351 - Forums: Playing Your Range or Your Hand? Feb 11, 2022

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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 that really means) and more! Come sign up for a free account at 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://rec.poker/forums/discussion/range-betting-value-betting-pot-odds-and-equity-denial/ Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Find more info on our sponsors at: https://RunAces.com https://WebsiteAMP.com 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.

Ep 350 - Chats: Robbie Strazynski on a life of loving poker!! Feb 08, 2022

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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 @cardplayerlife 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/ Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Find more info on our sponsors at: https://RunAces.com https://WebsiteAMP.com 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.

Ep 349- Forums: QQ vs. the World Feb 04, 2022

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This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by Chris Jones about a hand where he opened QQ from early position, got called by half the table, and got put in a tough spot on a dry board. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses how the number of players in the hand affects your c-betting frequencies, the ranges that pros like to call with, common post-flop betting line leaks, and more! Come sign up for a free account at 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://rec.poker/forums/discussion/venom-hand-qq-yeah-and-then-everyone-and-their-uncle-flats-ugh/ Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Find more info on our sponsors at: https://RunAces.com https://WebsiteAMP.com 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.

Ep 348 - Chats: Joe Stapleton and Josh Wilson on Comedy and NFTs! Feb 01, 2022

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(Explicit language used) If you love poker you already know podcast host and commentator Joe Stapleton, who returns to the show to talk about comedy, commentating, and how various aspects of his professional career have been affected by the events of the last two years. We also get to meet Josh Wilson from CryptoHoldem, who talks to the panel about the different parts of cryptocurrencies and NFTs that seem to attract the poker-playing community. You can learn more about Josh and his live no limit texas holdem NFT community (where holders can win a trip to the WSOP!) here: Discord https://discord.gg/m8H3A8yTvm Twitter https://twitter.com/cryptoholdemnft Web https://cryptoholdemnft.com/ Joe Stapleton is also active on Twitter @stapes 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/ Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Find more info on our sponsors at: https://RunAces.com https://WebsiteAMP.com 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.

Ep 347- Forums: Flopped Trips Multiway Jan 28, 2022

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This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by Keith about flopping trips and taking an aggressive line multiway. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses betting lines, checking ranges, relative hand strength, bluffing combos, and more! Come sign up for a free account at 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://rec.poker/forums/discussion/outkicked-trips/ Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Find more info on our sponsors at: https://RunAces.com https://WebsiteAMP.com 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.

Ep 346 - Chats: RecPoker Year in Review! Jan 25, 2022

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This week the gang looks back on 2021 at RecPoker, John shares some amazing feats and stats from the home games, Rob talks about some prizes and plans for the Book Study, Mark takes listeners behind the curtain of the website a bit, and the panel looks forward to everything that 2022 has in store. Whether it was Steve singing in the Strip, our Farid Jattin training course, the WSOP RecPoker house, the live event Road Trips - even in an otherwise difficult year, there was so much to love about 2021! Hope to see more of you all in 2022, RecPoker Nation! 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/ Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Find more info on our sponsors at: https://RunAces.com https://WebsiteAMP.com 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.

Ep 345 - Forums: Weak TP OOP Jan 21, 2022

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This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by Flynny about a tricky spot at a final table. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses hand ranges, villain types, live vs. online players, blocker bets, and more! Come sign up for a free account at 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://rec.poker/forums/discussion/weak-top-pair-oop-with-icm-considerations/ Standard Additional Description for RecPoker: Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Find more info on our sponsors at: https://RunAces.com https://WebsiteAMP.com 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.

Ep 344 - Forums: Calling with AK (@7high11) Jan 17, 2022

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This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by 7high11 about finding spots to get it in preflop with AK. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses stack sizes, shoving ranges, calculating equity, ICM factors, and more! Come sign up for a free account at 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://rec.poker/forums/discussion/how-many-bb-are-too-many-to-call-with-ak/

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