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Helen Ellis is a proud housewise and poker player and the author of the novels Eating the Cheshire Cat and The Turning Book, the short fiction collection American Housewife, and the What I Do All Day Twitter account. Her poker playing was featured in this New York Times article.
Timestamps
0:30 Hello & Welcome
3:47 Strategy
21:46 Helen Ellis
Strategy
1/2 NL
Villain straddles, I raise AdQd to $16 from MP and get 2 callers, Villain raises to $40.
I look at his stack and see what looks like $60ish in red with a $100 bill. I call, other two fold.
Flop AsKc6s (pot $112)
Checks to me and I bet $70. He raises all in and I learn he has two hundred dollar bills and it’s $140 more to me…
Speaking as a relative newbie I just want to say the strategy sections are absolutely fantastic and bear much repeated listening. I’ve gotten so much out of them it made me wince to hear them criticised as too complex. So Thankyou! Hope you nerd on forever.