The Official Red Chip Poker Podcast

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When Playing With A Short Deck Is A Positive · S8E20

Short deck #poker is a hold'em variant in which the 2s through 5s are stripped from the deck. The variant has been popular in live high-stakes games for years, but is now

Sep 29
25 min

Playing And Defending Against The UTG Straddle · S8E19

Straddles used to be restricted to a fun element of live play, but an increasing number of online #poker sites have now added them to their tables. This "third blind" has

Sep 15
27 min

A Novel Poker Play: Shoving With A Capped Range · S8E18

When you see big bets over multiple streets from an opponent, what do you conclude? Most studied #poker players would assume they are facing a polarized range, and respon

Sep 1
19 min

Poker Study: The Formations That Matter Most · S8E17

Most #poker players acknowledge that the more you study the better your results become. However, other life commitments mean that, in practice, we have a limited amount o

Aug 18
25 min

Befuddling Your Opponents With Micro Bets · S8E16

Do you tend to use a limited number of bet sizes in your strategy? Such simplified approaches have value, but many #poker players are missing out on profitable spots by r

Aug 4
25 min

The Fundamentals Of Heads-Up Hold'em · S8E15

Many #poker players regard heads-up play as the purest form of the game. You are locked in a duel of wits with a single opponent, constantly trying to outmaneuver them an

Jul 21
30 min

Poker As A Business: Managing Time And Costs · S8E14

If you play #poker to make money, you have more to manage than your bankroll. To get better at the game, you need to study. That takes time and money. Serious students of

Jul 7
29 min

Grinding Poker In A Rec-Friendly Environment · S8E13

Online #poker is a very different beast to twenty years ago. Essentially all poker sites have taken the decision to clip the wings of the professional grinder, ostensibly

Jun 23
28 min

Realistic Expectations For Your Poker Decisions · S8E12

Any #poker session you play can be thought of as a series of decisions. The "correct" decision in any spot, such as whether to bet and how much, in principle has an objec

Jun 9
22 min

Poker Tips From LLMs: How Bad Are They? · S8E11

An increasing number of people rely on ChatGPT summaries to explain complex topics. Is this a good idea if you're looking for tactical and strategic information about #po

May 26
26 min

Live Poker Tells: Reading Your Opponents · S8E10

Hollywood promotes the notion that top players "read" their opponents from their body language, or their unique method of eating Oreo cookies. But do such live tells have

May 12
26 min

Surviving The Variance Of Live Poker · S8E9

The element of luck in #poker means that weak players can having winning sessions and strong ones can go on extended downswings. One can argue that this variance is neces

Apr 28
22 min

Does The Block Bet Have A Place In Modern Poker? · S8E8

The block bet is a play from the pre-solver era of #poker which many players view with suspicion. Making a small bet in the hope of avoiding a much larger one from an opp

Apr 14
19 min

Ranging Analysis: When It Is And Is Not Useful · S8E7

Much of modern #poker strategy revolves around the battle between poker ranges; our own and that of our opponent. But is ranging always the best approach to reaching a de

Mar 31
21 min

Resilience and Optimization: Winning Poker's Mental Game · S8E6

Do you equate the mental game of #poker with tilt avoidance? Then this episode of the podcast will be a huge eye-opener. Sure mental resilience is a critical part of pla

Mar 17
24 min

Maximizing Your Winrate Grinding Poker · S8E5

Maximizing your #poker hourly rate extends well beyond simply playing well. If playing online, for example, how many simultaneous tables gives you your best results? What

Mar 3
25 min

Mixing And Randomization In Modern Poker · S8E4

In the previous episode of the podcast, we discussed how GTO #poker requires mixing. Typical solutions returned by solvers include using multiple bet sizes in a given spo

Feb 17
27 min

GTO Poker: Busting Some Myths · S8E3

Have you heard high-stakes #poker players claiming that they play a GTO strategy? That is a myth that is quickly disproved; the general GTO solution to poker is currently

Feb 3
23 min

How EV Modeling Refines Your Poker Decisions · S8E2

Playing #poker well can be viewed as making the highest-EV decision at every opportunity. In some situations, such as facing an all-in, calculating EV is relatively trivi

Jan 20
26 min

The Dangers Of Using Minimum Defense Frequency · S8E1

In the season premiere of season 8, w34z3l breaks down the concept of minimum defense frequency, with an emphasis on how MDF can lead to inappropriate defense frequencies

Jan 6
23 min

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I was excited to find this podcast and thought it would be a great way to understand some of the strategies behind the game but the host and guests act like the audience should be familiar with all of the poker terms thrown out during the conversation. I mean it might as well be rocket science, I have to Google majority of the terms used just to understand what they’re talking about. I don’t know why nobody else has commented on this. This could be an excellent podcast if you guys could just use layman’s terms. I find myself googling all of these terms. Maybe just dedicate an episode to poker terms for us recreational players.

Stokies82 · Sep 2026

I love the drastic improvements for season 4 focusing on simplifying your overall poker strategy from preflop to postflop. I realize it is not about impressing other people by trying to run people over with K2 suited. It’s about playing a sound fundamental strategy. The free GTO ranges I downloaded felt very tight and boring at first. But after doing my own study, I realize tight is right, especially in a high rake environment from the live games! Highly recommend this podcast for all poker players who want to improve their game quickly.

Willhung328 · Mar 2021

I have thoroughly enjoyed James and Zac on the podcast. There is lots of tips and information given that relate with today’s game. My win rate has certainly gone up thanks to the podcast, YouTube channel and ebooks.

Thomas OToole III · Apr 2020

The most recent episode with Alex was a nice return to the strategy focused content, with some good tactical advice to exploit weak opposition. Hopefully this is a harbinger of the return of quality content.

Jim6273 · Aug 2019

There used to be some very informative episodes of this podcast, but the recent ones have been all fluff and/or just long commercials for Red Chip products. Making a podcast called "C-betting out of position" and having literally no information about c-betting out of position and instead making it a 30 minute advertisement is just so stupid and short sighted. If they keep that up, they'll be advertising to no one because they'll have no subscribers.

Brandon Smith 3263463 · Jul 2019

I’ve never written a podcast review before, but felt I had to raise my voice for this one. The content used to be so helpful and actionable. Now it’s just the stories of random well-known players. Don’t get me wrong, the interviews can be interesting but there’s nothing better than 30 min of straight poker strategy discussion. Maybe you guys could dedicate and episode or two per month to strategy?

Fragger 222 · Jun 2019

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