Episode #444 - January 4th, 2017

Live from the Two Plus Two Studios - On this episode of the Pokercast: The gang is back together after the holidays and we’ve got a ton of stuff to catch you up on! First off Terrence and Ross had Christmas in the heat while Adams was in the snow, we recap our holidays as well as talk about Terrence being called out on twitter to fight and Adam’s weight loss bet. We are joined first today by Matthew Weiner, Matthew is a former poker pro who picked up that he was able to make money at the game while deployed in Afghanistan. He now runs a successful online business and a new partner of the Pokercast, VapeWild! We talk to him about stories of high stakes games that happened in a war zone and the transition from poker to business. In the news, this week we’ve got the biggest winners and losers online in 2016, Fedor Holz does NOT win the player of the year title, PPC Poker Tour robs a tournament purse and more. Our second guest of the day is Jeremy Menard, Jeremy is a tournament pro and coach at Run It Once, he joins us to talk about how tournament players have gotten tougher and how they are doing so, and some in depth strategies on stepping up your tournament skills, including reviewing your play. Adam includes a classic Degen Story from years ago plus we’ve also got some epic 140 or less, voicemails and e-mails to answer!

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Was the correct version uploaded? I ask because within the first three minutes there are a couple things that you probably intended to cut, like Adam stumbling over the RIO ad or the part where he said "you're going to have to edit this. I forgot the guy's name."

Thanks for the heads up ST, pretty egregious error by me. As T says in the episode sleep deprivation impairs your judgement. I was up very late working (you can see the time of the thread posting) after not a great sleep the night before and missed some of those edits in the beginning. Anyways, hopefully only a select few of you guys got the sloppy version, fixed file up now

Biggest wieners of 2016:

i realy like dis show

I was obviously one of the select few. Don't edit that kind of stuff out - It adds to the show.

For a brief moment, I thought maybe the Mad Men creator played a little poker.

Can't wait for Terrence's degen story. Will the story end with him in the fetal position?

Really enjoyed the strategy segment about ICM. As a struggling player who regularly becomes loss in the vast amount of poker strat out there this is very much appreciated and I hope it's something you continue to do.

Anything in particular you would like us to cover next?

There is a concept that I recently studied again to wrap my brain around it, and I think people get confused about it. It's the difference between having the correct pot odds to call a bet, and having an equity edge to bet or raise with. Some people assume that if you have the odds to call with then you automatically have an equity edge to raise with, but if you do the math that is demonstrably false. I believe situations in which the former is present but not the latter occur most often in multi-way pots in limit games, so maybe people don't care, but it's still useful to understand it I think.

Implied odds please.

Ross/Adam:

Can you guys direct me to the youtube video you spoke of that was a sick degen story? Honestly can't remember the details, but was hoping you could point me in the right direction?

Thanks!