Hello!

Jen Shahade here, the host of the podcast/poker hand scavenger hunt the GRID.

Thanks to Mason for giving us the opportunity to start a thread here.

The concept of our pod is that we do one interview for each of 169 hands on the GRID.

https://thepokergrid.com/

We've recorded 46 episodes, and some of our popular ones include: Nick Schulman, Liv Boeree, Peter Svidler, Bill Chen and Darren Elias. A lot of two plus two history popped up in my interview with my brother Greg "Curtains" Shahade, who threw us way back to early days of this forum and theory vs. feel debates.
https://thepokergrid.com/2019/06/13/...e-nine-suited/

We also just started adding YouTube videos for select episodes, including Bill Perkins.



Welcome your feedback for hands and guests! You can find the pod on all the usual channels, including Apple and Spotify.

Hi Everyone:

Let's welcome The Grid Podcast with Jennifer Shahade. My understanding is that Jennifer does things a little different from some of the other poker podcasts and that's it's also a very good show.

Best wishes,
Mason

All you need to know is, "Once a combo is taken...it's GONE!"

I love this podcast, seriously. Jen, you're a great host. Great interviews, stories, and poker strategy. Favs so far have to be Kerstetter's story with aces and Nick Shulman's epic story playing in the NY homegame.

What's the name of the theme song, Jen, and why did you pick it? It gets in my head every episode.

How many years do you think it will take to finish this thing?

enjoyed the perkins one. keep it going

Yay!!! This is so great because Jen’s pods are so dense with the good stuff, this thread will be so awesome to discuss all the great guests! I especially loved the episodes with Dvoress and Soheb!

Thank you! And for mentioning Jamie's episode, another personal fave:

https://thepokergrid.com/2019/05/20/...rstetter-aces/

The song is "Gotta Switch it On" by Grace Mesa.



I think it's gonna take about four more years to finish. Possibly we'll try something different to finish it off, like a live meet-up with prizes for winning specific hands.

Really enjoyed the Greg Shahade one here: https://thepokergrid.com/2019/06/13/...e-nine-suited/

Reminds me of the good old days on twoplustwo, back when "curtains" wasn't banned because he got hacked.

Hey Jen, definitely gonna check this out, I hadn't seen it before. One thing I noticed is that your HTML is a little wonky in the first post, so you can't click the link (at least on Firefox your href is pointing to <b>...</b> for some reason ).

Thanks! Two of my faves as well!

https://thepokergrid.com/2020/01/09/...e-five-suited/

https://thepokergrid.com/2020/07/15/...deuce-offsuit/

Thanks for letting me know!

Here's the link: https://thepokergrid.com/

It's also on all the major podcast networks now and we've started uploading most episodes to YouTube.

Look forward to hearing what you think! Lots of favorite episodes are listed above.

Episode 45 with Fintan "EasywithAces" Hand is now up on https://thepokergrid.com/ and all our usual platforms! He talks about two pivotal hands at Final Tables in the Irish Open and SCOOP respectively, both with ace-ten offsuit. We get into advice for poker streamers in a saturated market, why he's gotten so into chess and his work on ICM.



https://thepokergrid.com/2020/08/28/...e-ten-offsuit/

Here's what the GRID looks like after 45 episodes.

Hey Jen, yeah I found the link all good. I really liked the Bill Perkins episode, fun guy.

Oh man, was your password 1.e4d5! again?

In that episode we also talked about Tom Dwan-Greg Shahade chess match for 50K+, which also came up in my poker inspired chess lesson with Fintan.

New episode is live with Michael Acevedo. This may be my all time favorite so far as ties into my original impetus for creating the podcast. Michael doesn't talk about his own hand, but a HH with eight-deuce off that changed his life. He was invited as a special one-time guest to a study group which included Apestyles, Stevie Chidwick and Elio Fox. His instinctual response to a high stakes turbo SNG hand ended up netting him a permanent invite to the group.

Listen here: https://thepokergrid.com/2020/09/10/...deuce-offsuit/

Or on YouTube:



Next up: Kelly Minkin and Lee Davy. Who else should I have on?

Had a really fun episode with Kelly Minkin on a fun hand with king-eight offsuit at the World Series of Poker.



I watched this hand live and was inspired. Really enjoyed her thoughts on how she uses poker thinking in her law practice, and how deeply embedded her confidence is.

https://thepokergrid.com/2020/09/25/...eight-offsuit/

I love this podcast, just came across it a few months ago. I'm curious about the book Peter Svidler mentioned in episode 15 (I know, nearly a year ago) ... at 43:20, he mentions the "umbrage book"? For the life of me I cannot understand what book he mentions.

https://thepokergrid.com/2019/08/24/...n-of-diamonds/

Thanks for any help with that.

I believe that Svidler is saying "the Andrew Brokos book" which would, I imagine, be the one called "Playing Optimal Poker", although there is also a sequel now. Brokos also has a poker podcast calling "Thinking Poker" which isn't half bad!

Thank you sir!

Jen are you continuing this podcast? Would love to see you complete the journey.