Welcome back my fine feathered friend to another episode of the “Chasing Poker Greatness” podcast. I’m your host, founder of Chasing Poker Greatness, Brad Wilson. Today the one and only Carlos Welch is back for the third time on CPG and I couldn’t be more thrilled! Don’t tell Andrew Brokos over at the Thinking Poker podcast but I’m secretly dreaming Carlos will reach out to me about being a regular co-host of CPG. He’s just the kind of dude that, once you get to know him, you wanna spend as much...
May 19, 2021•1 hr 32 min
On today's episode, Coach Brad and Jon review two 3bet pots from Jon's recent 2kNL shot take where Jon arrives at the river with bluff catchers and has to decide whether to call off the rest of his stack. New CPG Cash Game Courses! Preflop Bootcamp: https://bit.ly/Preflop-Bootcamp Fish in a Barrel: http://bit.ly/fish-in-a-barrel Neutralize Flop Leads: https://bit.ly/2OkN8Yt...
May 18, 2021•38 min
Today’s guest is one I’m very excited to finally welcome back onto CPG. He’s an award-winning co-host of one of the most popular and revered poker podcasts “The Chip Race” (Along with past CPG guest Dara O’ Kearney), the cheery, exuberant, and (sometimes) controversial Irishman, David Lappin. David spent seven years in college studying Arts, Philosophy and Screenwriting - obviously laying the foundation for a lengthy career poker career. He’s also an ambassador for Unibet Poker, and of course a ...
May 13, 2021•1 hr 27 min
In today’s episode, I have the great pleasure of welcoming back Ignition poker sponsored streamer & one half of the PokerCoaching.com study stream dynamic duo Shaundle “Crazysixes” Pruitt. Shaundle’s a long-time and accomplished MTT wizard who exudes confidence and has every reason to do so. He’s just one of those dudes who consistently does things the right way. Whether it’s managing his volume battling on the green felt or keeping his game sharp through regular dedicated poker study, Shaun...
May 12, 2021•1 hr 15 min
On this week's episode, Coach Brad and Jon break down two more hands where Jon had KQo and found himself in tough spots postflop. Don't miss these two hands where over $4,000 finds its way into the pot both times! New CPG Cash Game Courses! Preflop Bootcamp: https://bit.ly/Preflop-Bootcamp Fish in a Barrel: http://bit.ly/fish-in-a-barrel Neutralize Flop Leads: https://bit.ly/2OkN8Yt...
May 12, 2021•40 min
Today’s guest on the show is the always contemplative and thoughtful “Master of Live Poker Tells” Zach Elwood. Zach is a former professional poker player, podcaster, and author, who has also doubled as a Poker Tells consultant for two WSOP Main Event final table players. His books, “Reading Poker Tells ”, “Verbal Poker Tells”, and “Exploiting Poker Tells” have been called “invaluable”, “transformational”, and “required reading for live poker”. In the same social psychology vein as his poker book...
May 07, 2021•1 hr 13 min
On today's show, I have the pleasure of welcoming back one of the OG CPG guests, the always thoughtful, genuine, and incredibly hard-working Lyle Bateman. Lyle is a former contributing editor at Poker News Canada who’s a self-professed computer streaming geek who quite recently snagged a streaming sponsorship deal with Unibet Poker. He and I are about to dive deep on his new gig at Poker Fuse and Lyle’s thoughts and emotions surrounding his good friend Vanessa Kade’s storybook-like $1.5 million ...
May 05, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Coach Brad finds a multiway flop donk bet on two separate occasions and gets raised BOTH times. On this week's episode, find out how Coach Brad deals with this rare situation and why he decided to lead the flop in the first place. New CPG Cash Game Courses! Preflop Bootcamp: https://bit.ly/Preflop-Bootcamp Fish in a Barrel: http://bit.ly/fish-in-a-barrel Neutralize Flop Leads: https://bit.ly/2OkN8Yt...
May 04, 2021•39 min
Today I am super pumped to welcome back a good friend of CPG, the always thoughtful, articulate, and way too wise for his age Jack Laskey. For Jack, the poker dream all began at a tender age of twelve, yes twelve, when most of us were navigating our way through Middle School and spending our free time playing video games, Jack and his crew had already entered the online poker streets. Today, he’s a founding member of the "Just Hands Podcast", where he and his co-host Mr. James Bilderbeck help th...
Apr 30, 2021•1 hr 11 min
On this week’s Tactical Tuesday, Jon brings in two triple barrel bluffs in 3bet pots with KQ offsuit. Find out whether Coach Brad thinks these were good spots to bluff or if he thinks Jon was doing his best to punt off a couple stacks. New CPG Cash Game Courses! Preflop Bootcamp: https://bit.ly/Preflop-Bootcamp Fish in a Barrel: http://bit.ly/fish-in-a-barrel Neutralize Flop Leads: https://bit.ly/2OkN8Yt...
Apr 27, 2021•28 min
Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness has $4.7 Million in live MTT cashes including a $1.9 Million victory at the 2016 Five Diamond Poker Classic, the one and only James Romero. James is a giant in the world of poker and a force at every single table he sits down at. Despite his poker accolades, James lives a low-key, chill lifestyle while finding joy in helping those around him. In today’s very special Round 2 conversation you’re going to learn: - How Isaac Baron and Mike “Timex” McDonal...
Apr 23, 2021•50 min
On today’s episode of the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast my guest today is Michael “Gags30” Gagliano. Gags has been lighting up the poker streets as a professional since the late 2000’s and has been a respected poker coach for almost a decade. Despite experiencing mixed emotions about the whole poker career path deal, Michael settled in and has experienced an extremely successful journey thus far having cashed for more than $2 million in live tournaments despite battling primarily in the online...
Apr 21, 2021•1 hr 51 min
Coach Brad is rejoined by Jon this week as Jon provides a recap of his recent trip to Las Vegas to take some shots at the biggest no-limit games running on the strip. Hand 1 Live 8-max 10/20 w/ Big Blind Ante Effective Stack: $8560 PREFLOP: Jon opens AdKc $60 from EP BB 3bet $340, Jon calls $340 FLOP: Jc7d2h ($710) BB bets $260, Jon calls $260 TURN: Jc7d2h 3d ($1230) BB bets $660, Jon calls $660 RIVER: Jc7d2d 3d Td ($2550) BB bets $1000, Jon raises to $4300 BB raises all-in, $7300, Jon folds Han...
Apr 20, 2021•30 min
Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast has made his living in the cash games streets for the past 14 years & has quickly built up a rabid YouTube following of nearly 50,000 human beings as of the release of this episode, Mr. Johnnie “Vibes” Moreno. For Johnny, poker has always been a family affair. His brother Andrew is a high stakes live crusher and his sister-in-law is future CPG Hall-of-Greatness member Kristy Arnett-Moreno. But as you’re about to learn, gambling has not alw...
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr 31 min
Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast is Martin Jacobson who has racked up over $17 million in poker cashes in his live MTT career. Some of his career highlights include: - Winning the 2014 WSOP ME for $10,000,000. Hard to top this one on the highlight reel. - An $800k score at the 2013 $111,111 buy-in One Drop for $807k. - And a $762k runner-up finish at the 2011 EPT Deauville Main Event. If you’ll notice, Martin’s WSOP ME victory came AFTER his other two largest scores which mea...
Apr 15, 2021•1 hr 49 min
On this week’s episode Coach Brad answers a handful of questions that his student Jon prepared in anticipation of his return to live cash. New CPG Cash Game Courses! Preflop Bootcamp: https://bit.ly/Preflop-Bootcamp Fish in a Barrel: http://bit.ly/fish-in-a-barrel Neutralize Flop Leads: https://bit.ly/2OkN8Yt
Apr 13, 2021•29 min
Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast is the winner of the 2016 $300k buy-in Super High Roller Bowl who has racked up over $21 million in live poker tournament cashes Rainer Kempe. If that sounds like a lot of money and success, that’s because it is. Here are just a few highlights of the 31-year-old’s poker career thus far: A $2 million score for a 3rd place finish in 2018’s Super High Roller Bowl in Macau. A $900k victory in the 2019 $50k event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventu...
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast is professional poker player, YouTube’r, and future New York Times Bestselling Author the multi-dimensional Kristy Arnett. Kristy’s first appearance on Chasing Poker Greatness was packed so full of Greatness Bombs you almost had to listen to it twice so I had very high hopes for this Round 2… And, of course, Kristy knocked it out of the park. In today’s show with Kristy, she’s going to go deep on all the things she’s been up to since the last ...
Apr 07, 2021•1 hr 18 min
On this week's episode of Tactical Tuesday, Coach Brad and Jon discuss two hands where Coach Brad decides to execute one of his least used plays: the hero fold. Listen in to hear Coach Brad's reasoning for folding top pair/top kicker in a 3bet pot and an over-pair with the nut flush draw blind vs. blind. Could either of these massive folds be correct? Stick around to the end of each hand to find out! New CPG Cash Game Courses! Preflop Bootcamp: https://bit.ly/Preflop-Bootcamp Fish in a Barrel: h...
Apr 06, 2021•28 min
Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast is the author of “The Total Poker Manual” Sasha Sutton. Sasha’s path, which you’re about to learn all about, to the world of poker is unlike pretty much anyone I’ve met in the poker world. After spending 3+ decades as an extremely successful creative and financial writer, she made the fated decision to attend a workshop at the age of 55 where she was introduced to the world of poker. After getting bitten by the wily poker bug initially, a few ...
Apr 02, 2021•1 hr 41 min
Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast is one of my all-time favorite human beings in the poker world Jon “Apestyles” Van Fleet. Besides being one of your favorite podcast hosts' favorite humans in poker, Apestyles is also an absolute legend who has racked up more than $17 Million+ in lifetime online MTT cashes with no signs of slowing down anytime soon. As a matter of fact, since the last time the Great Ape was on Chasing Poker Greatness, he’s began a brand new adventure: Twitch S...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Tactical Tuesday returns this week with a breakdown of two AQ hands that Coach Brad played recently at 5/10NL on Ignition. Coach Brad gets to the river in both hands, yet finds himself with two very different decisions. Should he fire a bluff on the river in a 4bet pot with nothing but AQ high? Should he raise a river bet for value with top pair-top kicker? Find out on today's episode! Hand 1 Hero Hand: AhQd Hero Position:UTG Effective Stack:133 BB Action: PREFLOP: Hero raises to 2.5 BB, BTN rai...
Mar 30, 2021•35 min
Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast is longtime poker professional Shane Schleger. Shane has racked up $1.4 million in tracked live MTT cashes throughout his poker career. Shane’s life as a poker professional has had its fair share of ups and downs (Basically like pretty much every other poker player's life I know) and he has written extensively about his past battles with addiction. And even though we don’t cover that chapter of his life in our conversation, I just wanna state ...
Mar 26, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast is a high stakes mixed-game legend who basically needs no introduction, Eli Elezra. But just because the man doesn’t NEED an introduction doesn’t mean he isn’t gonna get one anyway. Eli has led quite the life on and off the felt, and he’s about to take you way back to the very beginning of his poker career. Starting with his time in the Israeli Army and then traveling through working in a cannery and driving a taxi in a small Alaskan town. Aft...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 38 min
In today's episode of Tactical Tuesday, Jon asks Coach Brad some of his favorite Chasing Poker Greatness questions, including: - Who was the biggest influence in you becoming a poker professional? - What are the stories behind your least favorite & most favorite poker sessions? Coach Brad takes a trip down memory lane that covers missed flights, walking 6 miles to the post office in the dead of winter (uphill both ways), losing most of his money on Earth because of a real estate deal gone aw...
Mar 23, 2021•38 min
Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast is the founder of Faded Spade & Above the Felt Entertainment Tom Wheaton. Tom and I both entered the poker world at about the same time which means Tom has been a cardplayer for a very, very long time. When we got into poker current poker supernova Landon Tice was barely 4-years-old. If that doesn’t make me feel old then I guess nothing will - yeesh. But even though Tom entered poker in 2004, he took a very different career path than your ...
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 21 min
Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast is split pot specialist, author, and poker coach Greg Vail. Greg’s back for a Round 2 because I got so distracted by our amazing first conversation that I forgot to ask him any of the regular CPG questions you’ve come to love and expect like: What is Greg’s regular process for improving his own game? What does Greg think is the most high impact action you can take to improve your game? And breaking down some common poker advice that Greg disag...
Mar 17, 2021•1 hr 25 min
Coach Brad and Jon return for another round of hand breakdowns on this week's Tactical Tuesday. In this episode you'll hear about two hands Jon played recently at $5/$10 6-max cash. Both hands involve tricky monotone flops and both hands result in maximum pain for one of the players involved. Will Jon be the one dishing it out or will he be the one left with nothing but virtual felt in front of him? Find out on today's episode! Hand 1 Hero Hand: AsKs Hero Position:UTG Effective Stack:103 BB Acti...
Mar 16, 2021•40 min
Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast is the brilliant Greatness Bomb dropping Ana Marquez. Ana’s an online MTT soul crushing cyborg, former #1 ranked poker player in Spain, and has amassed $1.8 Million in lifetime live MTT cashes. This CPG episode is especially meaningful to me because it’s a reminder of why I’m going to do my best to continue making these shows forever. When I started out my own poker journey in 2004 it was because the prospect of being a professional poker play...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 32 min
Today’s guest on the Chasing Poker Greatness podcast is the founder of Solve For Why, nose bleed cash game legend, and one of the best souls in the entire poker world Matt Berkey. In case you aren’t up to date on your CPG history, Berkey was guest #1 back way back when CPG launched in late 2019. Since our first conversation I’ve learned Berkey is one of the most honest, generous, and genuine human beings I’ve ever had the pleasure of getting to know and I feel very blessed to call him my friend....
Mar 10, 2021•1 hr 47 min
