The Mechanics of Poker Podcast Rene 'TheWakko'

In todays episode we have a chat with high-stakes MTT player Ben Heath. Ben gives us an insight about the mentality one needs to have in order to play super high-rollers. Learn about the road Ben took in order to reach these super high-stakes, and the obstacles he had to overcome to become one of the best MTT players in the world.

In this episode we speak with high stakes cash game crusher Naoufel "Bonk30" Smires in one of his rare public appearances. He shares with us how he uses poker as a path to personal growth, including using meditation and breath work as performance enhancing tools. You will learn how his holistic approach to poker gives him an edge in some of the biggest online games around and how he was able to play a ridiculous 1 million hands at 500NL Zoom in one year when he transitioned to online poker

In this episode we speak with cash game regular and BitB coach George “You-Mad-Br0” Froggatt about his rise through the poker stakes. He shares with us how he finally got himself out of the mid stakes trap, his aversion for risk and lessons he learnt living with and playing against the legends of high stakes cash games.

In this episode, we will chat with long-time high-stakes poker player Matt Berkey. Matt will share his 20-year journey in poker, which found him reflecting on if this is something worth pursuing ten years after having gone broke several times. At some point, he was down $5,000,000 playing 300/600/1200 in Ivey's room while simultaneously dealing with a personal loss. In the pod, he will share with us the mindset and technical abilities he had to develop to turn things around. Enjoy!

In todays podcast Viktor “Enlightq aka Zas” Kudinov walks us through his journey towards poker successer success. He grew up in a hard environment and saw being competitive in sports and games as a way towards a better life. He shares how he uses anger as a competitive driver to put in insane amounts of volume both on the tables and in the lab. This drive also has it’s dark sides as he overdid it and ended up burning out. He then had to redevelop his strategy and refound his motivation for the game and is currently playing the highest stakes in online cash-games and in live MTTs

In this episode we switch to what some people call the great game of Pot-limit Omaha. We will have a chat with Gruffudd "d.apollo777" Jones who is known as one of the best HU PLO cash-game players on the internet. Gruffudd shares his road to the highest stakes and how he has always looked to poke at players first to see if they are really that good instead of putting them on a pedestal before having even played them. With this approach he has left many battles as the winner while others as the person who learned a lot preparing him better for future opposition.