…or whenever you do your holiday shopping, please use the Thinking Poker affiliate link for your Amazon purchases. It’s a quick, free, and easy way to help Nate and me earn a little extra scratch from the podcast. If you’re shopping outside of the US, we’ve got you covered with … Read full post
The second e-book in the Thinking Poker Diaries series is now available at www.nitcast.com or in the Amazon Kindle Store! It follows the same format as the first book, combining a trip report from the 2007 WSOP Main Event with present-day essays considering strategy topics that come up in … Read full post
The second volume of the Thinking Poker Diaries, which will focus on the 2007 WSOP Main Event, drops on Friday. If you still haven’t read Volume One, now is your chance. Now through Sunday, it’s available for just $0.99 at www.nitcast.com!
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Matt Sienkiewicz is an assistant professor of communications and international relations at Boston College. He’s also a film buff and a poker fan. Matt puts Andrew’s knowledge of Foucault to the test with his analysis of key scenes from Rounders as … Read full post
This question actually comes from the Tournament Poker Edge forums, but I decided to answer it here as it references the Thinking Poker Premium Podcasts.
Q: In episode three, at around the 10 minute mark, you describe how open raise sizes should be a function of the pot size, … Read full post
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Dara O’Kearney went pro somewhat later in life than your average grinder, but his background in bridge, chess, backgammon, and most recently ultramarathoning made him a natural. He’s also a natural raconteur and an excellent writer. We talk about his unconventional background, … Read full post
The World Poker Tour has been kind to our podcast guests this week. Faraz Jaka won the WPT South Africa High Roller over one million rand (about $100,000), and Ryan van Sanford won the Bounty Scramble in Jacksonville for $421,068 (plus some bounties, presumably)! Ryan’s achievement is even more impressive … Read full post
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Jim Greer, founder of Kongregate, is an avid poker player. Now he’s using game theory to combat “dark money” in American politics through CounterPAC, an organization that threatens to outspend candidates who accept anonymous donations. He joins the show to … Read full post
Episode 101 of the podcast is coming this week, hopefully tonight. It may be a bit delayed, but it will be out soon.
In the meantime, you need to check out this great article from Carlos Welch, where he talks about cruising Las Vegas with some folks that regular … Read full post
My latest Two Plus Two article, Lessons From the Felt, is a deviation from the norm. Instead of explaining something to do with poker strategy, I talk about some things I learned from poker that helped me in the difficult task of finding an apartment in San Francisco:
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We came close a few times, but we managed to make it through one hundred episodes without ever losing an entire interview to any combination of technical difficulties and user error. Shane Schleger, the guest on our first and fifty-first shows, was kind enough to grace us with his time … Read full post
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