Your correspondent discusses one of poker's best-known players and the training site he helped found.

0:23 Introduction
4:10 Matt Berkey (T7dd) vs. Jack Laskey (AKo)
12:08 Berkey (KxQh) vs. Chris Konvalinka (J9hh)
18:07 Berkey and "Dead Money"
25:01 Solve for Why's podcast
28:39 Solve for Why's training videos
32:17 Berkey (K9cc) vs. Andrew Lichtenberger (QJo)
37:31 Berkey (QdTx) vs. Christian Soto (JxTd) and Piosolver (warning: a little bit technical!)
47:51 Conclusion

Live poker is shrouded in uncertainty. It often isn't clear what's happening in a given hand, or even who's winning. Your correspondent examines the implications of this uncertainty for two player types that are common in live poker.

0:00 Introduction
1:35 How much we don't know
8:23 The dreamer
11:37 The pied piper (questionable poker coach)
16:28 Live cash game review: A bad day at 5/10/20
23:24 The pied piper, part 2

Your correspondent describes his own experiences playing poker during quarantine.

0:00 Introduction / live poker vs. online poker
4:28 Private online games
13:22 Playing on apps
17:30 Cash games and meritocracies
22:27 A no-limit hold-em fish tries to learn PLO

Your correspondent's initial thoughts on Maria Konnikova's excellent new book "The Biggest Bluff," in which she learns how to play, and succeeds in, live tournament poker.

0:00 Introduction/COVID/podcast plans
3:20 "The Biggest Bluff"

Yale Greenfield joins Third Man Walking to discuss how the coronavirus has affected the poker economy. We discuss online cash games, tournaments, public vs. private games, how games have changed as the quarantine has progressed, and how poker creates FO