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Dave's Poker Corner is a Patreon podcast that covers David Chen's journey into the world of poker.

In this edition, David and Joy talk about some of David's recent steps towards becoming a better poker player. Plus: David shares some anecdotes from the local poker room.

PATRONS: You can get this audio in your podcast app by going to patreon.com/davechen, going to the "My Membership" section, and copying and pasting the RSS link to your podcast app.

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Song Notes by David Pots

Dave you may answer this later in the episode - but capturing here (while fresh) for content ideas re: your future poker episodes. Would love a specific example of the type (and fidelity) of notable hands you’re memorizing. Pocket cards, easy - but I’m guessing this also gets into the world of the flop/turn/river, and you deducing what cards your opponents may have? Actually the tale you told from your Vegas stint (about pocket aces losing to 9 7 on the river or whatever) perhaps addresses this. But again just as someone (me) who’s played maybe 15-30 sessions of Texas holdem in my life - super curious to hear examples of what you’re talking about. Just bc from how you describe things so far I find myself thinking “man Dave is sharp what else is there for him to learn!”

Carole Mariani

I love Dave’s poker corner! And also Daves’ poker corner. I don’t know much about poker but I get very emotionally invested in the stories of each hand and the characters at the tables!

David Chen

Stuff that needs to be memorized: how many players in the hand, what posiiton each player is in, what my cards are, how much any bettor bets, size of pot, then the five cards that come on the board and finally any showdowns that occur

Del Nakamura

I simply remember my favorite things: when joy says deez nuts, when Dave says 'I could never pretend to be incompetent', and 'drunky drunk'. And then I don't feel so bad.

Will Malone

Another fascinating insight into your journey Dave, love it. Do you approach cash games differently to tournaments? Are you looser in a tournament by necessity due to the time factor. Also, was really surprised the $1/3 games have pots that big but the blinds are still relatively small. Is there a correlation between blind sizes and opening bets?

David Chen

Yes bigger blinds almost always means bigger pots. And tournament play requires just a few tweaks