This week Jim Reid and the panel interview Matt Matros, poker player and author of several books on the subject. RecPoker conducted a Book Study on his primer The Game Plan last year, and we are excited to get into the details of Matt’s latest book entitled The Poker Brain. The group also discusses the process of writing, what Matt enjoys about poker, what surprised him about his research for the book, and a lot more! After the interview, the gang recaps some more details about the RecPoker Weekend at Running Aces and Jim’s run in the WSOP Main Event including some thoughts on the unique dynamic at play in that very special tournament and how it affects the ranges players will use both to 3-bet, and also to continue against 3-bets from other players.
Matt is active on Twitter as @Matt_Matros
We also go over this week’s home game results and discuss these topics:
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Time Stamps
03:10 | Welcome & Introduction |
06:05 | Introduction to Matt Matros |
06:56 | How are The Game Plan and The Poker Brain different? |
09:25 | Matt shares how long it took him to finish The Poker Brain |
11:12 | Matt: The Poker Brain is geared mostly for tournament players |
13:08 | Matt used Solvers to gather ideas and build optimal strategies |
21:04 | How does Matt think of himself in the poker world? |
22:45 | Matt prefers playing live |
24:48 | Teaser to some key stats when Matt plays online |
26:35 | John: from a writing style perspective, are the two books similar? |
33:51 | John: Home Game Results |