The Grid 006 ft. Greg Shahade – Ace-Nine suited

Greg Shahade takes listeners on a trip down memory lane as he reviews a hand with his sister, GRID host Jennifer Shahade from a $200 Sit n Go from 2005. In the hand, he made a call with Ace-Nine suited that ignited a furious debate between math and feel players on the two plus two forum, where Greg wrote thousands of posts as “curtains.” Leading the charge against the call was “Gigabet”, while players such as “ZeeJustin” (Justin Bonomo) chimed in on Greg’s side.

Greg also relays the story of a $50,000 chess game he played against Tom Dwan at the World Series of Poker in 2007, the kind of legend that drew many chessplayers to poker.  

Greg is an International Master of chess, and the founder of the PRO Chess League and the US Chess School. He played poker online professionally through the poker boom up until Black Friday, at which point he intensified his chess activities. Find out more on his gregshahade.com and find him @gregshahade on twitter and Instagram.

Now that ace-nine suited has been discussed, 163 hands remain on our GRID.