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Poker room manager Chris Pavelchik joins Andrew to discuss the logistics of opening a new poker room: hiring, training, marketing, and much more. In the strategy segment, Andrew talks about adapting to high-rake underground games (or really any loose-passive game).

Chris is hiring! https://www.caesars.com/indiana-grand/careers

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Andrew’s new book: https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Poker-Concepts-Andrew-Brokos/dp/B09GJL9JH5

Chris Pavelchik is the poker room manager at the Horseshoe Indianapolis casino.

Andrew delivers a pure strategy episode, answering two questions that get at larger issues about playing overpairs on coordinated flops with deep stacks.

WSOP Home School

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Kathy Liebert, a true legend of the game, shares tales from the pre-Boom tournament circuit (including her stint as a prop player). She and Andrew compare notes on how an old-school pro can best make use of game theory and cutting-edge software.

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Napoleon Hill
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Stephen Covey

Kathy Liebert has been a professional poker player for over 25 years. She has nearly $6.5 million in tournament winnings and a WSOP bracelet from the 2004 $1500 NLHE Shootout event.

Brazilian pro Guilherme “guix2x” Brasiliero joins Andrew to discuss the Brazilian poker scene, staking stables, the contemporary poker software landscape, and much more.

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Rich Dad, Poor Dad
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Guilherme “guix2x” Brasileiro is a professional poker player from Brazil and a coach for CNC Poker and the Cardroom International team.

Carlos Welch is the latest player to win a WSOP bracelet, thanks to a late-night victory in the “Crazy Eights” event on WSOP.com. Just hours after the victory, he shares his excitement and reflects on the path that led him here.

Carlos first appeared on the show eight years ago, on Episode 39. It remains one of my all-time favorite interviews.

Use discount code “Carlos” to get 25% off Exploiting Small Stakes Tournaments, in which Carlos teaches Andrew his best tricks for winning the most from weak opponents.

How To Obliterate Passive Tournaments is Carlos’s exploitive classroom and quiz style course with Alex Fitzgerald. Normally $399, it is currently on sale for $99.

Support the podcast and get daily strategy segments from Nate, Carlos, and Andrew by subscribing to the Thinking Poker Daily patreon.

Carlos Welch is a “professional poker student” and long-time friend of the show. He has a WSOP bracelet from the 2021 “Crazy Eights” online event. Carlos first appeared on Episode 39.

Santiago has been working in the poker media from Argentina since 2009. He writes frequent articles and book reviews for Poker Logia and has provided live coverage of the WSOP Main Event in 2015 and 2019. He is the co-author of Cuentos y Relatos de Poker, the first book of poker short stories in Spanish.

Support the podcast and unlock daily strategy segments at www.patreon.com/thinkingpokerdaily.

Timestamps

00:30 Strategy
19:52 Santiago

Santiago is a writer for Poker Logia, a Spanish-language poker news and information site. He has provided live coverage of tournaments throughout Argentina and at the World Series of Poker and is the co-author of Cuentos y Relatos de Poker.

Professional poker player and former Magic: the Gathering World Champion Uri Peleg talks about game theory, exploitative play, making sense of solvers, frequency mistakes vs fundamental mistakes, showdown vs non-showdown winnings (i.e. red line vs blue line), and more.

You can find Uri’s strategy videos on Guerrilla Poker and YouTube.

Thanks to John the Lawyer for recommending Uri as a guest. John also arranged our epic Dick Carson interview.

We have also interviewed 2009 MTG World Champion Andre Coimbra.

Please support the podcast and unlock daily strategy segments at www.patreon.com/thinkingpokerdaily.

Uri Peleg is a professional poker player and a co-founder and coach at Guerrilla Poker. He has produced strategy videos for Run It Once and PokerStrategy.com and is the 2007 Magic: The Gathering World Champion.

Carlos celebrates the ten-year anniversary of his first WSOP, reflecting on his career and fondly recalling his former fishiness.

Links

Use discount code “Carlos” to get 25% off Exploiting Small Stakes Tournaments, in which Carlos teaches Andrew his best tricks for winning the most from weak opponents.

How To Obliterate Passive Tournaments is Carlos’s exploitive classroom and quiz style course with Alex Fitzgerald. Normally $399, it is currently on sale for $99.

Support the podcast and get daily strategy segments from Nate, Carlos, and Andrew by subscribing to the Thinking Poker Daily patreon.

Timestamps

0:30 hello 
82:24 strategy

Strategy

Carlos Welch is a “professional poker student” and long-time friend of the show. He plays, coaches, and studies poker, lives in a van, and substitute teaches. He first appeared on Episode 39.

Nate Meyvis, in classic Nate Meyvis fashion, offers an extended reflection on what he learned from the various games with which he’s been obsessed over the course of his life, most notably Bridge, Quiz Bowl, Poker, and Hearthstone.

To learn more about Nate’s software engineering services, visit www.natemeyvis.com or www.blackhound.io.

You can support the podcast and get daily strategy segments at www.patreon.com/thinkingpokerdaily.

In this all-strategy episode, Nate and Andrew discuss ICM and Risk Premium in non-hold ’em games, then Andrew talks about bluffing, bluff-catching, and tiny continuation bets.

Episode 115: Ben Yu

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Strategy #1

https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/324Qgb1Ww

Strategy #2

This hand was played in the Sunday $30,000 Re-buy on Chico. Hero is on the button with approximately 20x and the villain is in the BB with 40x. We are at level 14 with 4 levels of late registration remaining.

Everyone folds to Hero who min opens with 8c6c. The BB defends, the pot is now 5.47x, and we see a flop two handed. The flop arrives Ts3d2s and villain checks. Hero continues for 1x.

As played the villain calls, the pot is now 7.47x, and the turn comes Kd. The board is now Ts3d2sKd and villain checks. Hero bets 4x.

The river comes 8d, with the board now Ts3d2sKd8d. Villain now goes into the tank and then makes a donk bet for 15x, effectively putting me all-in.