Month: November 2020

The Grid 050 ft. Faraz Jaka – Queen-Three Offsuit

November 25, 2020 Jennifer Shahade 47:27

Faraz Jaka, a professional poker player with over 11 million dollars in winnings, enters the GRID with a crazy hand with queen-three offsuit. Faraz throws us back to the 2010 North American Poker Tour in Foxwoods, where he played a hand that PokerStars included in their “Greatest” collection.

Matt Glantz opened and Jaka three-bet from the button with queen-three offsuit, a typical play for Faraz in those days. The Small Blind called while Glantz folded. They went heads-up to a flop of Queen of hearts, 5 of diamonds, jack of diamonds. After the flop checked through, the turn brought another jack, and the small blind bet 1/3 pot. Jaka called and they saw an offsuit six on the river, which led to a dramatic series of bets, a tank and an unexpected twist.

A former WPT poker player of the year, Faraz was once nicknamed by CNN “the homeless poker millionaire” for his vagabond lifestyle, hopping from MTT to MTT stop while enjoying the adventure and education of worldwide exploration. He explains how he makes that lifestyle work for him, even offering tips to listeners on how to pack as light he three-bets. 

Faraz makes videos at youtube.com/farazjakapoker and is a coach at pokercoaching.com/faraz. You can find him on twitter and instagram @FarazJaka. 

Now that Faraz has covered queen-three offsuit, there are 119 hands remaining on thepokergrid.com. 

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The Grid 049 ft. Linda Johnson – Six-Deuce Suited

November 2, 2020 Jennifer Shahade 00:50:21

World Poker Hall of Famer Linda Johnson enters the GRID to talk about a hand she played against Antonio Esfandiari at a World Poker Tour event a decade ago in Los Angeles. Linda defended six-deuce of diamonds in the big blind and flopped bottom pair on ten-four-deuce with two hearts and one diamond. As Antonio barelled again and again, a plan came together on the river.

Linda won a WSOP bracelet in 1997 in Razz, becoming the third ever female to win an Open event. She also throws us back to the very first female World champion, Vera Richmond and explained why Vera’s own bracelet victory in 1982 was nearly erased from  history books.

Linda has made a striking number of positive contributions to the game, as publisher of Cardplayer Magazine to her current work running Cardplayer Cruises. She also co-founded the WPT and the Tournament Directors Association (TDA) as well as the charity PokerGives. She touches on all of this in our episode, also revealing the best and worst business decisions she ever made.

Jennifer also reminds Linda of their very first meeting, at a World Series of Poker Ladies Event before Jen took the game as seriously. They also talk about their recent poker play at a fundraiser to support the campaign of Biden/Harris.

You can follow Linda on twitter @FirstLadyPoker and find her companies at https://www.cardplayercruises.com/ and the charity she co-founded http://pokergives.org/

Now that Linda has covered six-deuce suited, there are 120 combos left on https://thepokergrid.com/

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