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Join poker coach Pete Clarke and poker player Melissa for a psychological and philosophical journey through a wide array of poker topics.

  1. 2025-02-19

    Guess Who's Back?

    Pete and Melissa are back for a catch up episode. Topics range from knowing your skill level, to maximising EV in soft live poker games, to Pete's return studying poker seriously in 2025.

    1h 14m

  2. 2024-10-01

    Are We The Universe?

    Pete and Melissa discuss this episode's philosophy book and how it relates to poker: The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts.

    57 min

  3. 2024-09-17

    Does Poker Erode the Soul?

    Poker can subject you to periods of darkness beyond what you are normally forced to confront in real life. Do such periods have a long-term effect on the psyche? Is it true that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger or do we emerge out of every downswing with a bit more of the light sucked out of us?

    1h 3m

  4. 2024-09-10

    Our BEST EVER Episode

    Pete has a proposition for Melissa - a new idea that will change the trajectory of the podcast. Also in today's episode we discuss three ways of strengthening the will covered in Ryan Holiday's book The Obstacle is The Way and how they relate to the poker player.

    1h 3m

  5. 2024-08-22

    Escaping the Toxic Self

    What if tilt is not actually something poker does to us but something we do to ourselves? In this episode we examine poker as a higher order beauty. Its intricacies exist objectively, even in a realm where humans don't. If we can fix our attention on the objective beauty of the game itself and escape the daily churn of how it makes us feel, we can harness curiosity to free ourselves from the gloom of self awareness and reach a flow state where we can play at our best more often.

    57 min

  6. 2024-08-15

    Results Addiction in Poker

    Why is it so difficult for humans NOT to look at their short-term poker results. What are the benefits of getting into better results checking habits? Why the feedback of daily, weekly and monthly graphs isn't really feedback at all...and much more.

    1h 1m

  7. 2024-07-19

    Why We Love Overbetting

    Overbets and why they're such a fundamental part of No Limit Holdem. Why pot and all multiples of pot are arbitrary. Melissa embarks on an INSANE challenge. Discussion of the Kristen Foxen bust out hand and much more.

    1h 12m

  8. 2024-07-12

    Melissa's Meltdown

    Pete and Melissa debate the utility / futility of Range Betting and that mode of thinking before getting into a therapy session where Melissa recounts a recent incident at the poker table where she hit rock bottom in terms of her behaviour and how she's intent on changing her petulant ways.

    1h 17m
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Join poker coach Pete Clarke and poker player Melissa for a psychological and philosophical journey through a wide array of poker topics.

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  • Creator
    Carrot Corner Limited
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    50
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Poker Distilled
  • Show Website
    Poker Distilled