January 13, 2023

Ep 447 - Chats: Jaime Staples on Streaming, Fun, Tips for Recs, and More!

1 hour 2 minutes

This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew panel interview popular streamer Jaime Staples! Jaime talks about his life as a twitch streamer, and how he knew immediately when he first tried it that he had found something special. Jaime shares some stories about growing up in Alberta and discovering poker, what he still loves about the game, the importance of bet sizing, the consequences of taking pots multi-way, how he used to study, and he even shares some big-picture tips for recreational players like us!

Plus of course we give away a free prize at the end for folks in the YouTube chat. Join us on YouTube next Monday at 7:30 ET for free to ask our guests questions in real time, and you can win too!

Follow Jamie's stream at https://www.twitch.tv/pokerstaples

Jaime is active on Twitter as https://twitter.com/jaimestaples

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:

03:24 Welcome & Introduction

07:42 Introduction to Jaime Staples

08:11 What Jaime still loves about poker

10:50 Jaime talks about his hometown and what makes him attracted to poker

13:35 Jaime on the idea of streaming

15:24 Does having a session while streaming improve the game?

17:41 Jaime thought he had used all the sources to get better at poker

21:11 Jaime on Limping and Multiway: The Importance of Avoiding Multi-Way

24:18 How important is it to have set bet sizes in mind?

35:01 The state of the game, and online poker's future path

44:45 A low-hanging fruit tip for recreational players

56:01 John: Home Game Result updates

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