Jonathan Little was a student at the University of West Florida studying psychology when he began playing poker with friends. As his interest in poker grew, it led him to study many books on poker. After earning an initial bankroll of $35,000 online over a six-month period, he decided to drop out of college and play poker professionally. He has become a well-known player, author, coach, and ambassador of the game, creating and leading pokercoaching.com. Jonathan is a great friend of RecPoker and we continue to be excited about our future together

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by @Jamin96 who is following up on an earlier episode about playing in bigger tournaments than he is used to. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses deepstack play, deciding how many "streets of value" your hand is worth, and overvalueing one pair hands! Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today and post a question in the forum for the panel to review! Link: https://rec.poker/forums/discussion/blowout-series-followup/

The February seminar for RecPoker members was all about board texture. In this podcast we highlight a couple pieces of the seminar including a paradigm shift from wet/dry to a grid combining dynamic/statis and favorable/unfavorable. We also spend time discussing it's relation to next months seminar on betting patterns. The crew also shares the big announcement about partnership with Learn Pro Poker, the identy of the next book study, and the start of MaREC Madness!

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by @Rabman50 about a tournament hand where he shoves the flop with top pair top kicker and a sweet redraw. While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel talks about 3betting ranges preflop, the sizes available in and out of position, and how to get the most money in the pot - without ensuring that your opponenet has the nuts! Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today and post a question in the forum for the panel to review! Link: https://rec.poker/forums/discussion/mtt-standard-play/

Poker legend Maria Ho joins RecPoker to talk about her worlds of playing poker, commentating poker, and doing reality TV. Maria shares a bit about growing up in a conservative Chinese family and how that impacted college and how she approached getting into poker.

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through another forum post by @Chappo about getting heads up in the home hame and picking up equity on the turn - and how to play it! While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel discusses heads-up play, suited connectors as 3-bet candidates, and how you can 'contort' your opponnts range with different bet sizes! Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today and post a question in the forum for the panel to review! Link: https://rec.poker/forums/discussion/heads-up-for-all-the-money-in-the-home-game/

Star Valdez is a fun poker industry personality who also enjoys writing. In this episode we chat about her poker journey and the poker worlds in and around Biloxi, Mississippi.

This week, Jim Reid leads the panel through a forum post by our own @FiveByFive! While battling it out against each other in the nightly home game, the panel looks at five different types of hands we might find ourselves with in the big blind when we see a monotone flop and it checks through to the turn. Which will we lead with, which play better as checks, and which of those will call a bet and which should we be shoving with? Lots of great questions and even a couple of answers! Come sign up for a free account at rec.poker today and post a question in the forum for the panel to review! Link: https://rec.poker/forums/discussion/theory-question-on-a-monotone-board/

Once a month a Premium member goes one-on-one with a member of the RECing Crew to break down a hand, talk strategy, or discuss how to otherwise get the most out of their poker experience! Email [email protected] if there's a member of the RECing Crew that YOU'D like to connect with, and we'll try to match you up! In this episode, we come back to part two of Jim and Matt in the REC Room, looking at the RecPoker HUD and reviewing some hands in PokerTracker4. We talk about HUDs at the beginning so the video version of this podcast will be more informative than the audio version - Sign up for a free Community account at rec.poker to watch the video versions of all our podcasts - and a lot more!

Ryan Laplante joins us from his training site Learn Pro Poker to talk about playing live again in the pandemic era, what kind of tells he looks for in villains, and we go over a hand where Ryan soul-reads a foe to make a killer river call!