Month: July 2020

The Grid 042 ft. Joe McKeehen– Queen-Ten Offsuit

July 26, 2020 Jennifer Shahade 00:44:39

Three-time WSOP Champion Joe McKeehen steps into the GRID to talk about a hand from the World Poker Tour final table at Rolling Thunder in 2018. The 2015 World Series of Poker Champion rivered the nuts with queen-ten offsuit, in a riveting hand that captured the imagination of the poker world. 

The flop was Ace of hearts, five of hearts and a seven of spades. Joe explains why he decided to float with queen ten, even lacking a flush draw or a backdoor. The offsuit jack on the turn gave Joe a gutshot, so he bet when checked to. He rivered the stone nuts with a black king.  When Joe’s opponent, Ian Steinman tanked to Joe’s jam on the river, Joe explained to Jennifer he thought Ian was contemplating an excellent fold with ace-king. Instead, his opponent folded a hand that was even far stronger- pocket kings.    

Joe goes into depth on how a fold like that can influence table dynamics, and why hero plays like that are a major component of the poker dream. They also discuss Doug Polk’s video recap of the hand, titled, “The #1 Mistake Poker Players Make.”

Joe has over 16 million dollars in live event cashes. In addition to his 2015 WSOP win for over 7 million, he also won a bracelet in the 2017 10K Limit Hold Em Championship for over 300K. Joe added a third in between the recording and publication of this interview, with a win in the $3200 NLHE High Roller for over 350K. He’s a coach with Chip Leader Coaching.  

Now that Joe has covered queen-ten offsuit, there are 127 hands left on thepokergrid.com

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The Grid 041 ft. Soheb Porbandarwala – Queen-Deuce Offsuit

July 15, 2020 Jennifer Shahade 44:52

This week we welcome Soheb Porbandarwala to the GRID. The 30-year-old poker pro has been successful in both live and online poker, winning millions of dollars and five WSOP circuit rings. He came on the GRID to talk about a quite legendary hand with Queen-deuce offsuit, that took place at a WSOP circuit event in Atlantic City in 2018. 

After getting to the bottom of how Soheb may have played the hand even better, he and Jen move on to topics such as super late entry, changing his youngest’s diaper while multi-tabling, and what he was going to do for work when he nearly quit poker. 

Soheb caps off his GRID interview with memories from another memorable score- while playing in an ACR MTT heads-up for six figures, he disconnected while holding a flush. His opponent, the Brazilian streamer “nelebo10” decided to sit out rather than steal his blinds and coast to a W. The karma seems to only continue for the Brazilian streamer who just final tabled a PokerStars Stadium Series event for over 50K. 

You can find Soheb’s results on HendonMob and follow him at @spewheb on twitter.

Now that queen-deuce offsuit has been covered on thepokergrid.com, there are 128 combos remaining.

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The Grid 040 ft. Kenneth “K.L.” Cleeton – on Jack-Seven Suited

July 3, 2020 Jennifer Shahade 45:24

Poker professional K. L Cleeton aka “highhands89” steps into the GRID to talk about a hand from the 2017 World Series of Poker with jack-seven suited. Cleeton got into the $10,000 buyin event via a video contest hosted by Daniel Negreanu. The crucial hand, which took place on day three of the WSOP saw Cleeton defending a raise from the big blind versus an open from top professional Harrison Gimbel. As the board double paired, K.L Cleeton kept a keen eye on what he could represent as he aimed to fulfill one of his goals for the event: bluffing a pro. In part due to this hand, Cleeton reached another goal and dream of many: cashing the Main.  

After an in-depth discussion on the hand, Cleeton explains how card-rooms and live events could make their tournaments more accommodating to players with disabilities. Spoiler alert: No ten handed play! They also talk about Cleeton’s poker training tool Range Trainer PRO and his work as manager of Learn Pro Poker.

Follow Cleeton on highhands89 on twitter.

Now that K.L Cleeton has covered jack-seven suited, there are 129 combos left on thepokergrid.com.

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