Jennifer brings the radiant Julie Anna Cornelius, known as “LuckyJadeJules”, to the GRID for a long-anticipated appearance. A force of nature on and off the felt, Jules brings a hand from the RunGood Stop in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where she found herself heads-up for a Main Event title. After battling back from a deficit heads-up, Jules found...

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Urgent care physician and poker player Cindy Spier enters the GRID to discuss one of her impressive tournament victories. At the Senior’s Event at a WSOP circuit event in Pompano, Florida, Dr. Spier held Queen Seven Offsuit, once known as the “computer hand.” Three-handed for the ring, she was in the big blind facing a raise from the chip-leader. She three-bet her with queen seven offsuit and continued to play with the type of ruthless aggression which has earned her nine live tournament victories, for an incredible first place rate of over ten percent. In 2025 alone, she has won three WSOP Circuit rings.

After Jennifer and Cindy go over the hand, Cindy gives some insight into her success as a doctor and the decision-making skills and mindset tips she is able to transfer over to the poker table. A member of Jaka Coaching and Pocket Queens, Cindy also talks efficient study tips for busy adults.

Now that Dr. Cindy Spier has ticked off queen-seven offsuit, there are 82 hands remaining on the poker GRID. Browse other hands and see what’s left at: https://thepokergrid.com/episode-finder/

Related Links:

Pocket Queens Study Group

Pocket Queens on Instagram

Jaka Coaching

Cindy’s Hendon Mob 1st places

Jennifer’s upcoming book, Thinking Sideways

Upcoming NAPT in Las Vegas

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Jennifer Shahade welcomes author, poker player, science writer and commentator Alex O’Brien to the GRID. The two break down a hand from Jennifer’s final table at the Women’s Summer Festival, where she held Ten-Eight Offsuit in the big blind. The table had been nine handed for over an hour, and when the button opened, Jennifer made the ambitious call. When the flop came J9A rainbow, she check called a bet with her straight draw. A brick four completed the rainbow and after the action went check check, a deuce on the river came, leaving Jennifer with a choice: give up or bluff with her ten-high?

Alex and Jennifer also revisit a hand that they played together at the tag team event of the WSOP, where they played as the “Write-Offs.” The conversation also touches on Alex O’ Brien’s book, The Truth Detective: Lessons from Poker on Risk, Reward and Imperfect Information, and what it can teach us about the bluff to value ratio in life and in poker.

Now that Jennifer and Alex have discussed ten-eight offsuit, 83 hands remain on the poker GRID. Also see Peter Jetten discuss Ten-Eight here. Browse other hands and see what’s left at: https://thepokergrid.com/episode-finder/

Links mentioned in the show

Alex O Brien’s book the Truth Detective (UK links to her book.)

PokerStars Women’s Summer Festival full replay with comms by James Hartigan, Joe Stapleton and Caitlin Comeskey

Women’s Summer recap by Jennifer on her substack

Hippodrome Live Channel

Alex and Jennifer at the Tag Team Champs

Alex’s hand from the Women’s Winter Festival against Georgina James

Alex O Brien’s article for poker.org with strategy analysis by Dara O’Kearney

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Poker player and Innocence Center lawyer Claudia Salinas enters the GRID to talk about her very first livestreamed hand. Claudia’s friend Veronica Brill called her in as a last-minute replacement for a Ladies Night game at the Commerce casino. While engaged in client calls right up to showtime, Claudia arrived on set a little nervous...

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PokerStars Ambassador Nick Walsh enters the GRID with pocket nines, a dramatic hand that marked the beginning of passion for the Spin & Go format, a three handed turbo poker tournament with randomized prize pools. Nick was in a rush to grab dinner with his then girlfriend, when he decided to play just one more spin. And all of a sudden, he was playing for $150,000.

After discussing the pivotal hand, Jennifer and Nick discuss the strategy and mindset required for spins, and their veiled complexity. They also debate whether most players perform better or worse when they hit a high multiplier, or play for larger stakes than normal.

Now that Nick Walsh has discussed pocket nines there are 83 hands remaining on the Poker Grid. Browse other hands and see what’s left at: https://thepokergrid.com/episode-finder/

Links Discussed in the Show

Nick’s Discord

Spin & Go Championship set for EPT Barcelona

Kevin Rabichow Episode on the GRID

Follow Nick

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Jennifer brings WPT Champion, Triton analyst and renowned coach Kevin Rabichow to the GRID, to discuss a dramatic hand against Artur Martirosyan from this year’s 25K Heads-up WSOP event. A heads-up specialist with over 7 Million Dollars in combined live and online earnings, Kevin reveals his top exploits and what he’d love to see more...

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Jennifer welcomes poet, host, chef, poker author and once mass-multitabler Katie Dozier to the GRID. Dozier brings a hand against Chris Moneymaker from a VIP PokerStars Sit N Go, from Katie’s days of strategizing how to squeak the most value out of her Supernova status. At the time, Katie held court on up to 50 tables...

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Jennifer welcomes the one and only Jon “Apestyles” Van Fleet to the GRID to discuss a recent hand he played with King-Eight Offsuit. A man who stood the test of time in the poker world, Van Fleet is a well known coach, author, streamer and last but not least, a longtime crusher online and live with over 23 million dollars in poker winnings.

The hand in question arose on a busy Sunday grind—Jon was streaming on https://www.twitch.tv/apestylespoker when a fun hand popped up. In the early stages of a 6-max $600 tournament, Apestyles (34300, 56 BB) found himself in the big blind with [8c Ks] facing a 3x raise from the small blind.

FLOP [4h 6c 6d] Pot= 4050

His opponent in the hand, who went by “btcfomo” bet 20% pot, which Apestyles called.

TURN: [Jc] Pot=5670

after which Apestyle called another bet, this time a 30% pot size bet.

RIVER: [4s] = 9138.00

btcfomo bet yet again, but this time only 10% pot.

Apestyles went all in for his remaining 28K.

But was the shove any good? As usual, Apestyles has thoughts.

Perpetually curious about poker and all its theoretical and practical intricacies, Jennifer and Jon speak about his longevity in the game, his upcoming course on systematic studying, and his passion for chess. They also dig into ChatGPT and a funny back and forth Apestyles had with the LLM on analyzing this hand for the GRID.

Follow Jon Apestyles Fleet on twitch, his website and look out for his upcoming course on Apex Poker Systems with Tombos21 from GTO Wizard.

Now that Jon “Apestyles” Van Fleet has discussed King-Eight Offsuit there are 86 hands remaining on the Poker Grid. Also find Kelly Minkin on Episode 47, and browse other hands at: https://thepokergrid.com/episode-finder/

Pod Links:

Episode with Schwibbs

BBZ coaching: https://bbzpoker.com/

Jennifer’s new post on ChatGPT and chess.

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