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:

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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

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