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 herself about even in chips with her opponent Abbas Pasha. With effective stacks around six million at 75K/150K blinds, Abbas opened the button to 300K. Jules three-bet to a million chips with Q10from the big blind, and saw a flop of 953 . She continued for one million and Abbas called. The turn brought the 8. With around pot behind, Jules shoved with her flush draw and gutter, for one of the biggest pots of her life. With dozens of friends and supporters cheering, Jules recounts what the big heads-up battle meant to her, and why it was such a perfect poker moment, even though she ended as runner-up.

Beyond her success at the poker tables, Jules is a former ballerina and a runner, and one of the most personable players on the tour. She shares how she’s found success in various areas, from taking up running later in life, to making friends everywhere she goes. They also talk about the upcoming NAPT in Las Vegas.

Now that Jules has discussed Queen-Ten suited, there are 81 hands remaining on the GRID. Browse other hands and see what’s left at: https://thepokergrid.com/episode-finder/

Mentioned on the Show:

Run Good Gear

Jules on Instagram

NAPT Las Vegas, November 3-12

Jen’s Summer Festival win

Yanjaa Wintersoul

Thinking Sideways (support the pod with a pre-order!)

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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 to play with pros like Caitlin Comeskey, Christina “Baby Shark” Gollins and Tiffany Michelle as well as Veronica herself.

Facing Kasey “PokerMomma” Lyn Mills and Veronica Brill, Claudia found herself in a three-pot with pocket kings. And the news kept getting better and better when a king and two deuces hit the flop. Watch the hand here:

Claudia and Jen discuss the hand, and then move on to a deep dive into Salinas’ work as a lawyer at the Innocence Center to help free the innocent and the wrongfully incarcerated. Claudia also talks about her upcoming poker charity tournament All in for Justice on October 2nd, which also happens to be International Wrongful Conviction Day.

Now that Claudia has discussed pocket kings, 83 hands remain on the poker GRID. Also see poker dealer Jeffrey San Gabriel discuss kings here. Browse other hands and see what’s left at: https://thepokergrid.com/episode-finder/

Links Mentioned

Claudia’s Instagram account

Innocence Center Website

All-in-for Justice October 2nd Charity Event in Jamul Casino near San Diego

American Autopsy (book by Dr. Michael Baden)

2024 Innocence Project Gala that Jennifer attended as a guest of Linda Kenney Baden

Previous GRID episode with Matt Matros

Innocence Center Board member and exonoree Amanda Knox on Joe Rogan

The book Invisible Gorilla

Cheyanne Ivey of Ivey Solutions planning for the Innocence Project gala with Claudia Salinas

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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 of in future heads-up tournaments. He also explains why mid-stack can be the trickiest stack size, and in fact even more complex than the deep stack game.

Rabichow is hot off the release of his course, The Heads Up Edge: A Tactical Guide to Winning Tournaments: Dominate the Endgame. (You can use the code GRID for 20% off the course, which presents a five-hour crash course in heads-up theory and exploits.)

In round three of the 25K event, Kevin found himself facing high stakes pro Artur Martirosyan, a three-time WSOP bracelet winner with over 26 million dollars in cashes.

The hand was played in the very first level, so they had starting stacks (600K) at the 1K/2.5K blind level.

Kevin opens 65o on the button, and Artur calls.

FLOP [632r] Pot= 12k

Artur check calls Kevin’s 8K bet.

TURN: [4t] Pot=28k

Check check

RIVER: [7x] Pot=28K

Artur checks, Kevin bets 21K, only to get checkraised to 132K. In the episode, Kevin goes into depth about his thought process, his post-hand analysis and his impression’s of Artur’s heads-up game.

Now that Kevin Rabichow has discussed Six-Five Offsuit there are 84 hands remaining on the Poker Grid. Browse other hands at: https://thepokergrid.com/episode-finder/

Related Links:

Kevin’s new course: (USE code GRID for 20% off)

Jennifer’s upcoming book Thinking Sideways

Kevin’s previous appearance on the GRID

Kevin’s website

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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 at once as hotjenny314. In the hand against Moneymaker, Katie held only Five-Three Offsuit, but she was hungry for a bounty.

After discussing the hand, Katie generously shares two of her own poems, including Ten-Deuce Offsuit Rain, a tribute to Doyle Brunson. They also talk about what poetry and poker have in common, besides starting with the same two letters. For example, Katie points out that in ICM and in poetry word choice, the fewer chips or words you have, the more each increases in value. They also talk about how success in poker or poetry requires you become resilient to rejection.

Katie is an editor at the poetry magazine Rattle and co-hosts the Poetry Space podcast. Find her at https://linktr.ee/katie_dozier.

Dozier was a member of the poker playing quartet the Grindettes. You can also listen to Jamie Kerstetter and Katie Stone on previous episodes of the GRID.

Now that Katie Dozier has discussed Five-Three Offsuit there are 85 hands remaining on the Poker Grid. Browse other hands at: https://thepokergrid.com/episode-finder/

Also mentioned on the pod

Katie Stone

Jennifer’s upcoming book, Thinking Sideways:

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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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