Smart Poker Study Podcast

How do you set yourself up for poker session success? I warm-up with a hand reading exercise and choose a strategy focus for the session.

This article from Alex Fitzgerald and the www.AmericasCardroom.eu poker blog will help you plan your one-pair play on the flop. You flop one pair more than any showdown worthy hand, but they can be tough to play. Alex has some helpful tips for making more money with them and avoiding tough spots.

We do it far too often: button click without knowing why. In this short-form poker podcast episode, I give you a task to complete to kickstart your brain into having a reason every time.

I’m getting back into LIVE poker, and I found a great article from George Mathias and UpswingPoker.com called “Crush Live Poker Games With These 8 Battle-Tested Tactics". George tells us how to crush LIVE players and gives us the reasons why they’re profitable strategies.

I interview Steve Fredlund and we discuss his history, podcast and LIVE tournament poker.

Need to kick the funk to the curb and get to work? Need to brighten that mood and get over that bad poker beat you just took? Dance, baby, dance!

I read a great mindset-related article from Mark Warner and ExceptionalPoker.com called “Seriously Good Losing". Mark discusses the 3 different ways to lose a poker hand, and how we can turn each into a positive learning experience.

What state of mind to you play in that you know you shouldn’t? Me, I’m often tired or distracted. In this quickie episode, I discuss how I’m trying to get beyond this poker leak.

I read the 2nd article in a series of articles on playing draws by Steve Blay and DandBPoker.com called “Playing Draws, Part 2". Steve discusses how we can use showdown value to indicate whether aggressive or passive play is best with our flopped draws.

I answer 3 questions about what beginners MUST consider before entering a pot, how to make better calls and what to do when AK misses the flop.

We have the same reaction every time our AK misses the board or our TT hits an overcard on the flop. We’ve trained these negative emotions into our poker mind, now it’s time to work hard at ingraining new + reactions and habits when things don’t go our way.

Nathan Williams penned a strategy article and made a companion video where he details some mistakes made when one of his readers failed to squeeze preflop. We get to see how this one preflop error snowballs into a terribly played hand.

I discuss my profitable results from playing in the 14th Annual Turkey Shoot tournament.

It’s not the hand you’re dealt, but how you play it. Stop hatin’ on TT, JJ and AQ+.

We’re learning from a new source this week: Tadas Peckaitis and MyPokerCoaching.com. The article is called “Squeeze Play: Top 5 Things to Consider Before Making the Move.” It’s all about one of my favorite plays, the Squeeze play, and what to consider before you pull the trigger on it.