Ep 565 - Chats: Matt Affleck on Coaching for the Win!

This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew interview pro player and coach Matt Affleck! We talk about the best ways to study, the importance of opportunity cost, tips for recreational players, what Matt loves about playing and coaching poker, different coaching styles for different clients, GTO vs. exploitative play, and a lot more!

We also play Stake/Study Stack with Lexy Gavin, Jordan Drummond and Jonathan Little, and we Close The Action with our speed round. Plus of course we give away a free prize at the end for folks in the YouTube chat. 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!

Matt is available on Twitter as https://twitter.com/mcmattopoker

Check out his coaching at https://rec.poker/go/pokercoaching-com/

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

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Timestamps:

07:28 Matt shares his journey as a poker coach

09:50 Qualities that make a good coach

12:53 Matt: I am 100% theory in my coaching and in my play

16:31 10k bankroll for the WSOP: tournaments to take a shot in

20:18 A realization that winning bracelets doesn’t define skill level in poker

28:10 Teaching a Rec. players vs. Pro players

36:42 Matt talks about the percentage of women in his coaching

46:22 Matt’s take on solvers might produce bad habits

51:37 Are there rankings in the buy-ins field?

56:54 Common mistakes that rec players make

57:22 Shoving is actually lowering your variance

01:07:58 John: Home Game result updates

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