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Pete Clarke and poker coach and author Sky Matsuhashi have very different approaches to coaching poker but do they have more in common than you'd think?
Legendary poker podcaster, coach and high-stakes PLO player Runchuks Poker discusses the skills he's learned that are transferrable between poker and other parts of life.
Cash game streamer and long-term poker professional Weazel comes onto the show to give his views on what makes good poker education in the modern day.
Up and coming poker YouTuber and streamer Nick Eastwood shares his insights on how to create content for micro-stakes poker players before diving into some analysis of a wild hand he played at 16NL ZOOM.
Poker Scientist creator and 200 Zoom Grinder Samy Baem comes on the show to talk high stakes cash hands with Pete. Hands come from the Triton Poker Cash Game where elite players like LlinusLlove and TrueTeller battle old school warriors like Tony G.
Run it Once pro and high stakes poker player Henry Lister shares his thoughts on how GTO and exploitative play are related before going into how poker has made him the best version of himself.
Renowned cash game streamer Gazzy B talks about his experiences climbing the stakes and what he learned along the way.
Beloved recurrent guest and high-stakes player Backgammon Guy aka Tuvya Felt returns fresh from crushing the 25/50 PLO scene. Find out why 2020 was the best year of his career and life.
Legendary 500 ZOOM streamer GingePoker shares his insights on what it takes to succeed in the modern climate and recounts some high-stakes Macau cash game stories for you entertainment.
Poker comedian and Vegas 5/10 regular Marle Cordeiro joins Pete for some healthy ranting about pet peeves at the poker table as well as discussion about Marle's poker playing and video creating careers.
Pete and his student, Will, tackle the big mental game roadblock that has been holding back Will's poker progress.
Are poker courses worth it? What's the best way to learn? Do you need solvers to study? Pete and fellow Run it Once coach - Andreas Frohli discuss the dos and don'ts of improving your game.
Pete interviews high stakes PLO pro and chess master Cory Mikesell on how to become the best version of yourself in order to succeed at the highest level.
Pete welcomes fellow runitonce coach Owen Shiels onto the show to talk about the challenges of playing online tournaments for a living. Discussion involves coping with massive variance; balancing the tourney grind with family life; coaching weaker players; and being humble enough to get coached by stronger ones.
In this Episode, Pete's long-term student interviews him about his career choices, weaknesses as a poker player, and more.
Is it acceptable to talk politics at the poker table? Let's ask a 5/10 live pro who does it whenever he can.
2,000 hands into the high stakes heads-up match, Pete and his student Shaun discuss both the strategic and practical aspects of the battle thus far.
Pete interviews former backgammon pro turned poker pro, Tuvya, about his journey rising to the top of the live 2/5 Vegas world while battling bipolar disorder and marrying PIO Solver.
Pete teams up with his associate coaches Simon and Akshar to talk about the brand new specialised coaching service the three of them have launched.
Poker Therapy is now available! Pete and long serving student Simon discuss the new book as well as the steps Simon has taken recently in his own mental game.
Pete quotes and explains a section of his new book, Poker Therapy, which deals with survival instincts hampering poker decision making.
Pete interviews semi-professional tournament player Jules about topics such as mental game struggles, staking deals, and how to balance poker with another profession.
Pete resumes his exploration into the game theory of button vs big blind with a look at a very wet flop.
Pete interviews poker author Michael Matteo about his book, which is aimed at brand new online poker players. The discussion is very much about the struggles of writing about poker and how to go about teaching newer players.
Pete invites new player and streamer Alexandra onto the show to get the perspective of a beginner female player in a male dominated game.
Pete interviews Adam - a keen poker player and poker software developer - about his new training software and his outlook on the game.
In this purely strategic segment, Pete breaks down a dry king-high flop in a Button vs. Big Blind situation using a poker solver and takes you through each player's strategy step by step.
In this strategy episode, Pete discusses the most common ways that students abuse the notion of blockers and clarifies when and how they should be used to improve your game.
Pete, invites poker player Justin onto the show and takes 12 random questions from Justin's study group.
Pete explains the main idea behind his new Mental Game book, which he expects to release in a few months' time and gives out some advice for understanding why we struggle to adapt to the realm of poker.
Pete interviews one of his students, who is a successful lawyer, about how his competitve spirit and determination to win actually hurt his chances in poker and what mental game coaching has been needed to make progress.
Pete introduces his new free miniature course on 3-Betting while explaining what constitutes a sucessful approach to 3-Betting in the modern day.
Pete interviews one of his more successful students from the last few months of coaching. The discussion features what has gone right to make Nick's poker journey so seemingly painless. Learn how Nick transformed his game through coaching and what lessons he learned along the way.
Pete talks at length about the various ways in which you can have too little or too much variety and how important a concept variety is for the aspiring poker player.
Pete catches up with Dan, one of his first online poker buddies from 2009 and reminisces about the good old days before taking eight questions sent in by Dan's poker study group.
Pete delivers a crash course on how to avoid common mistakes when using a poker solver, while explaining the ideas behind his new exciting GTO solver based poker EMagazine PIO vs. Population.
Pete interveiws his Student Ed, a recent engineering graduate and young professional poker player about his turbulent early career, reasons for his early success, and how variance affects our long-term prospects and attitudes towards the game.
Pete and his student Niall have a deep conversation about the correlations between poker and the geek gaming scene, covering topics from mistakes to the dangers of rule following.
Pete interviews his student Tuvya about his transition from backgammon player to poker player.
Pete interveiws his student and professional poker player Mike about the struggles and rewards of where dreams meet reality.
Peter brings his student Chris on to the show, a high stakes pro from pre Black Friday who is now reemerging and jumping back into the games. The discussion follows Chris's quest to adapt to the modern games and apply his old skills in the new world of GTO planning.
The wait is over. 100 Hands is here. Join author Pete and Editor Karl as they discuss the finished book.
Pete and his student Anthony have a very in depth discussion about two more hands from the upcoming book.
Pete brings his student Jack on to the show and they discuss hands 17 and 56 from 100 Hands. These hands feature a poorly played hand from a student and a complicated reg vs. reg spot in a squeezed pot. The podcast then moves on to other fun topics and extends way past the normal length of the show.
Pete is finally in the end stages of creating his next book and the sequel to The Grinder's Manual. 100 Hands will be available for purchase in a few weeks' time. In this episode, Pete talks you through the ideas and aims behind the book, the skill level, the format, and why he thinks this book will help aspiring poker players tremendously. The wait is almost over!
Pete and his brand new student Laurie discuss two hands from Pete's new book 100 hands, which is due for release in late September.
Pete and Karl have an in depth discussion about site selection, rake, the structure of the poker economy, and finally the uses and dangers of solvers.
Pete brings his student Greg onto the show and they analyse three common spots Greg has chosen where the theme seems to be flopping top pair of Jacks.
Pete kicks off a new series where he brings on a student to discuss pre-prepared hands.
Pete takes a sereis of questions from his student Ben on his own journey through the stakes and what the aspiring player should expect these days in trying to graduate through the limits.
The much awaited return of the Carrot Poker podcast is here. Pete and his Moderator Karl kick off the new season with a detailed review of both a 3-bet and a 4-bet pot posted on the Carrot Corner group.
In the 11th episode of the much loved hands from the corner format Pete goes over two hands from a new forum member concerning facing donk bets when we hold an overpair.
In the latest episode of Hands from The Corner, Pete reviews a spot where Hero flops a set and faces a worsening board texture.
Carroters reviews an interesting spot where Hero holds JJ and must find the best line vs. a passive opponent on a deteriorating board.
Carroters reviews another interesting spot from his student group where Hero faces a small river raise with a strong but not nutted hand.
Carroters does a highly detailed review on a hand posted by one of his students in which we play a multiway pot and face a river overbet.
Pete disects an interesting hand in detail where the question is how to play a nut flush draw in a multi-way pot.
Carroters disects two interesting spots from the Carrot Corner forums. The first concerns how to play marginal hands in multiway limped pots while the second is all about how to analyse whether or not to call huge raises on the turn.
Carroters reviews one hand in very high detail and updates viewers about the now set release date of the kindle version of his book The Grinder's Manual.
Carroters reviews three hands from his private study group, ruthlessly tearing apart the logic of his students where they fail and honoring they're poker might where their logic makes sense.
In Hands From The Corner Pete reviews the hand history analysis posted by his students in his private forum. Today's hands concern themes like range-betting flops and the protection of equity.
Carroters goes over mental game strategies for dealing with one of the most deadly and common types of tilt and the effect it can have on your confidence as a player.
Carroters discusses what he calls 'external variance' in poker, how to recognise it, and how to reduce its adverse effects on your game.
After 15 months of hard work, The Grinder's Manual is fianlly here! Pete roughly runs through the layout of the 540 page textbook and talks about why he considers it an academic poker bible.
Carroters runs through the first few pages of the fourteenth and final chapter of The Grinder's Manual, discussing when to widen your flatting range due to deep stacks and how to reformulate your 3-bet game.
Pete continues his journey through The Grinder's Manual with a look at hand combinations and how they can be applied to better understand our opponents' ranges.
Pete and his student Elliot chat about the differences between 25NL and 50NL and then talk about forming balanced startegies to help Elliot adjust to his new stake of 50NL.
Pete continues his voyage through his upcoming book The Grinder's Manual and goes over a section from Chapter 12 on bluffing the turn and river. Today's snippet is about delayed c-betting.
Pete interviews his former student and now successful live player, coach and podcast maker Zach Resnick about the differecnes between the live and online poker worlds and Zack's new podcast – Just Hands Poker.
Pete takes another 10 previously unseen poker related questions from one of his students.
Pete continues his preview of The Grinder's Manual by going through the two part procedure used in making good decisions in end of action spots.
In the first episode of a new series Carroters takes a bunch of unseen questions from his student Steve about various aspects of the game.
Carroters outlines a very important difference that will set up the foundation of our thought process for the following two episodes, in which we'll be looking at facing bets in a vareity of situations.
Carroters continues the overview of his new poker book, moving on to considering your own range and what long-term c-bet startegy is best with it in a variety of different situations.
In seasonal sprit, Pete takes an interlude from his theoretical series to shed some light on the common mistakes made in forming new year resoliutions for succeeding in poker. He gives some examples of common awful resolutions and then explains how to form ones that are actually likely to help.
Pete moves onto the most primary skill to master post-flop: making non-value c-bets for fold equity. He gives a detailed outline of the six factors that are relevant in making these decisions.
Carroters runs through the procedure he uses in his book to assess whether an ISO raise is likely to be +EV and, if not, whether limping behind is feasible.
Pete takes a break from his theoretical series to welcome friend and student Joe onto the show for a recap of the 2 weeks they spent in NJ working on Joe's game, drinking beer and hitting up a variety of different poker games on the East Coast of America.
In the second installment of the series, Pete goes over the maths behind judging target fold equity for a pre-flop steal and discusses the factors that help us assess whether we meet this target.
The start of a new set of podcasts which priovde tasters of Carroters' in progress poker book. Each lesson features some sample material from the book and the series follows the book's structure route moving from chapter to chapter.
Carroters explains the time and place for balance and then launches into the many opportunities for spotting imbalacnes and reacting to them that so many players miss.
Pete talks about the importacne of keeping the EV of every option as a central part of your poker thought process and how to avoid the trap of becoming deatched from EV.
Carroters and his student Kevin talk about trasnitioning from online to live poker. They tell some amusing live poker stories and finish up with an in depth analysis of two hands from Kevin's most recent session.
Carroters quizes Elliot with random hands he's never seen before and gives him 30 seconds to give an answer. This work is used to bridge the gap between out of game understanding and in game decision making.
Carroters goes over 5 techniques he teaches his students that can be used to bridge the gap between out of game understanding and in-game application.
Carroters goes through a non-exhaustive list of 5 of the most crucial mistakes that most of the 10NL population makes that are usually fixed by the time players ascend to 100NL.
Carroters brings his student Jon onto the show to talk about the live poker trip he's currently on as well as how to use meditation to strengthen your mental game.
Carroters brings coach RegiTime onto the show and interviews him about his unique take on what it takes to succeed in today's game, mainly discussing site sslection.
Carroters makes the first installment of what will now be a regular segment: Curing The Spots You Hate. In these segments Carroters will be going over a spot commonly found to be uncomfortable by his students and explaining how to solve the situation logically and find the best play. This week, the spot in question is how to play AK having 3-bet and then missed the flop.
Carroters interviews his student and girlfriend Petulie about her poker jounrey and why there are so few female online poker players in the community.
A 35 minute lecture on the basics of GTO poker, what this term means both literally and practically in NLHE, when to apply it and when to deviate away from it and to what extent. This episode aims to clear up much of the common confusion about this way of thinking about the game.
Carroters interviews his student Karl about five of the biggest pitfalls he's encountered in learning poker and the steps he's taking to overcome them.
Carroters interviews his student Elliot about the work they've done on his red line as well as his mental game. Folding less in some spots and more in others is the secret to red line success.
Carroters interviews his student Omar about various aspects of his poker journey including overcoming roadblocks and exploiting the 10NL Zoom population.
In this episode Carroters brings his student Matt onto the show and goes through the mental game work they've being doing together and the mental game plan Matt has been following. Aspiring poker players may relate to many of the issues he's battling his way through and benefit from the approaches taken to resolve them.
In this introductory episode to Carrot Poker podcasts, Carroters introduces himself with some fun anecdotes from the early stages of his poker development and the lessons these have taught him about finding the right balance in four key areas of poker learning