Podcast Episodes

PZ103: Persistence, Real and Fake, with Nate Serisky

T.S. Eliot famously stated that “there is no method but intelligence” when asked about his craft. Poker is like this, too, so when a savvy player doesn’t make it work, the postmortem is always intere…

Published on 3 hours ago

PZ102: Jason Su Wants to Unmisreg You

Jason Su, mental game and performance coach for an increasing number of poker players, returns to the Zoo. While poker is a game (not “just” a game), there is something a touch more serious in this v…

Published on 7 months ago

PZ101: Sara O’Connor Does Things

It’s early in the back nine for the Poker Zoo podcast, so it’s time to focus on what we want to accomplish. I have a fitting guest today in Sara O’Connor, a mid-Atlantic player and writer who has gat…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

PZ100: Poker as Social Good, with ChipXtractor

For our milestone episode, I talk with old friend Steve “ChipXtractor” Catterson. I met Steve through the defunct Red Chip Poker forum, and we have been more or less in touch since.

Steve and I go ov…

Published on 9 months, 1 week ago

PZ99: Jambasket FAQs, GPIs, MTTs, & LOLs

As we roll into 2025 it’s well worth checking in with Zoo member Jason Burge, aka Jambasket. He’s a tough online winner in the active Michigan online games but is also a hidden superhero on Twitter (…

Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago

PZ98: Behind the Facade of Poker Education

The five things you need to do to win in 2025. The roadmap to poker success in 2024. Three tips for crushing poker in 2023.

They do it all day, every month, every year, but what if we turn them on th…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

PZ97: Relax, Greg Porter is Not a Poker Pro

We are happy to close our best year of interviews with Poker Zoo stalwart Greg Porter. We not only cover his swingy year in the games but address the many interesting things that happened in 2024 pok…

Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago

PZ96: Cloud Yells Back at Norman Chad

Merry Christmas from the Poker Zoo! To celebrate, we bring on (depending on your point of view) gadfly or pest Norman Chad. Mr. Chad is indisputably one of the true co-pilots of poker commentary and …

Published on 1 year ago

PZ95: Greg Vail, Split Pot Expert

This year we have focused on very broad issues in poker, both in poker theory and in its statistics, but today we are going to get very specific. Scoop! is a series of detailed books focused on one g…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

PZ94: Brent Jenkins is That Guy

The straddle is a third blind added to the traditional two blind structure of hold’em and other related games. It’s not always a neutral proposition. The extra blind can help stimulate action or inhi…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago