This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew interview our newest RECing Crew member Chris “Fox” Wallace! Chris is a professional poker player, author, and poker coach. While primarily a cash game player, he also has over a million dollars in tournament earnings including winning the $10,000 buy-in HORSE World Championship at the World Series Of Poker for more than half a million dollars. He has also made days five and six in the WSOP Main Event. Fox has created video content for more than a dozen poker training sites, coached some of the best players in the world, and written three books on the game.
We talk about shifting from a recreational to pro mindset, the effects of being ‘feared’ at the table, common ‘tells’ that players are less-experienced in masking (and how to exploit them). Fox shares some GREAT tips about how to extrapolate meaningful information from incomplete data sets, and how you can use that information to make good assumptions about different player types at your table and to play optimally against them.
We play Stake/Study/Stack with Shaun Deeb, Brian Devonshire and Michael Mizrachi, we Close The Action with our speed round, and we give away a free prize at the end for folks in the YouTube chat. Join us LIVE on YouTube next Monday at 7:30 ET for free to ask our guests questions in real time, and you can win too!
Learn more about Fox at his RECing Crew page at https://rec.poker/fox/ and you can find most of his coaching information, and a bargain on his training content, at patreon.com/CheckItDown and watch him play live at http://twitch.tv/foxplayspoker . To schedule a coaching session, contact Fox at [email protected].
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Timestamps
| 05:45 | Getting to know more about Chris “Fox” Wallace |
| 15:27 | Chris as a musician, a player, and a writer |
| 17:57 | Chris on people’s common misconceptions in poker |
| 24:21 | Deciding to play more for money: what people have to do differently |
| 31:18 | Actions and appearance that tell someone a player is less-experienced |
| 37:49 | Chris: Do secret interviews; go talk to some people out there in the world |
| 46:19 | How to hone interview skills and calibrate assumptions |
| 48:24 | Getting out of the mindset of feeling under threat |
| 51:31 | Stake, Study, or Stack |
| 01:48:43 | John: Home Game Result updates |
