Jonathan Bredin is an Australian aspiring professional poker player who won the recent ANZPT Queenstown event. He also has cerebral palsy, which made recording an audio interview with him somewhat complicated. We ended up having a text-chat conversation with him about his career, his recent victory, and how his disability affects his game, for better and for worse. Recent guest Roy Bhasin was kind enough to read Jonathan’s part of the transcript aloud so that we could record it.

We also answer some follow-up questions about the recent PokerSnowie interview and a listener question about calling for a chop.

Timestamps

0:30 Hello and Welcome

6:50 PokerSnowie Follow-Up

26:45 Strategy: “Probably Going to Chop It”

42:15 Interview: Jonathan Bredin via Roy Bhasin

Strategy

Game is $.25/$.50 NLHE with $30 effective stacks. There are several limps, and Hero limps T9o on the Button.

Flop ($3 in pot) T88r. SB bets $2, BB raises to $4, Hero calls, rest fold, SB calls.

Turn ($15 in pot) 8. SB bets $6, BB calls, Hero calls.

River ($33 in pot) A. SB checks, BB shoves $15, Hero folds