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Sean Lango, professional musician/poker player and Thinking Poker’s very own audio engineer, joins us to discuss the podcast, playing poker online, playing music online, the best music of the year, and more. In the strategy segment, we discuss studying with a solver.

Sean first appeared on Episode 49, though if you count his music he’s been on the show more than all our other guests combined!

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0:30 hello and welcome39:28 strategy 

Sean Recommends

music recs:1. the beths – jump rope gazers2. waxahatchee – st cloud3. city pop (80s j pop) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP3SmGl-frg – great grinding music4. booker ervin – tex book tenor5. AJ Ghent tv i enjoyed during quarantine:1. pen152. love on the spectrum3. big mouth cartoon/art/creative recs:1. alison zai2. baseball card vandals (that one’s for nate)3. nicole mclaughlin4. hiller goodspeed5. mikey heller6. josh mecouch

SEAN LANGO

Sean Lango is a professional musician and poker player and the audio engineer for the Thinking Poker Podcast. As part of Palmyra, he also performs the show’s intro and outro music.

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Patrick McKenzie, known as “patio11” on Hacker News and elsewhere, is a blogger, consultant, and all-around public intellectual on subjects related to software and business. He’s also, of course, a poker player. We talk to him about playing poker in Japan, mental health challenges, and being a high-output public intellectual.Patrick previously appeared on Episode 209.You can support the show by subscribing to the new Thinking Poker Daily strategy podcast and by shopping at the Nitcast store.Timestamps0:30 Hello and welcome4:16 Strategy24:16 Norman Zadeh StrategyWe are 7-handed and I am in the LJ w/ $315. I open to $7 w/ 78 of spades and get calls from the button and both blinds, all of whom have me covered.The flop is 10c6d2s. Both blinds check. I decide to bet $25 into the $25 pot, and only the button calls, making the pot $74 after rake with $283 in the effective stacks. The turn is Qh. I bet $35, the button thinks for a little while, and calls. The pot is now $144, w/ $248 in the effective stacks.The river is the Ace of spades. Final board 10c6d2sQhAs. I bet $100.

Some people/platforms were having trouble with the MP3 I uploaded yesterday. I haven’t been able to figure out what caused that, but it’s a small enough file I’m going to try releasing the WAV as well and see if that works better.

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Farid Jattin moved from Colombia to Miami to play baseball when he was 10 years old. Following an injury in college, he took his athlete’s mindset to poker, where he has become one of the most successful players on the high roller circuit.Timestamps0:30 hello21:08 interviewStrategyNLHE tournament with antes. HJ, with 42bb, opened to 2.2bb. CO shoved 30bb. Button folds. Hero is SB with87o and exactly 4bb after posting.

Farid Jattin

Farid Jattin is a high stakes tournament and cash game player originally from Colombia. In 2020 he won the A$25K High Roller Aussie Millions tournament and was ranked second in the world on the Global Poker Index.

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In this special, listener-requested episode, Nate and Andrew discuss their favorite books, movies, shows, music, and podcasts (not necessarily poker related).

Card player, political scientist, and all-around great guest Matt Glassman joins for a special episode about using game theory to think about the upcoming presidential election, the Supreme Court, and more.In the strategy segment, Andrew explains why you can lose to a GTO strategy even if though you can’t beat one.0:30 hello and welcome5:07 strategy13:11 matt glassmanMatt first appeared on the show four years ago, on Episode 191, just before the 2016 election.

Matt Glassman

Matt Glassman is an avid card player and a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Government Affairs Institute adept at explaining politics through the lenses of game theory and card strategy.

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Ashley Adams, host of the House of Cards podcast and radio show (Andrew was a guest in 2010!)  and author of the new book Winning Poker in 30 Minutes a Day, returns to the show to discuss poker during Covid, finding underground games in foreign countries, and more.In the strategy segment, Andrew discusses why betting into draws is overrated.Timestamps0:30 – Strategy22:39 – Ashley AdamsLinksPlay Optimal PokerPlay Optimal Poker 2Jane Hitchcock interviewPete HautmanTed Thackrey

Ashley Adams

Ashley Adams is the host of the House of Cards podcast/radio show and the author of Winning Poker in 30 Minutes a Day, Winning No-Limit Hold ‘Em and Winning Seven Card Stud. 

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Carlos Welch and Andrew have a new strategy video available in the Nitcast store, based on Carlos’s specialty: exploiting small stakes tournaments. The two discuss Carlos’s poker and romantic history, the basic principles of exploitative play, and some listener questions.Purchase Exploiting Small Stakes Tournaments:Subscribe to the Thinking Poker newsletterCoaching with CarlosCoaching with Andrew

Carlos Welch

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

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Playing aggressively isn’t just about bluffing more! Nate and Andrew answer listener questions about fold equity and equity denial. Play Optimal Poker 2 is back in the Kindle store!