The Poker Zoo Podcast

The Poker Zoo Podcast

The Poker Zoo Podcast, by Dean Martin and me, is nearing 100 episodes. I thought I would drop in some recent highlights here after all these years.

Originally the pod was created to serve the small poker community I founded, and so most of the episodes featured recreational players and aspiring pros, rather than celebrities or known players. There were many exceptions of course, and of late, we've been focusing on important ideas and people in the poker space.

Here's a few episodes students of the game won't want to miss:


Twoplustwo Publishing's own Mason Malmuth comes on the Zoo for the second time, here to talk specifically about his Gambling Theory essays and revised edition book. Mason mentioned he felt this was his finest interview, and the subject material I think is overlooked and important to poker players.


Hungry Horse's Marc Goone is interviewed about his now well known $100 an hour 5/5 NL challenge. We go over how and why he's going to succeed.


Abe comes on again, in between bans, to lay down the law for the umpteenth time. Always fun to hear from him.

There are many other highlight episodes, including interviews with Uri Peleg, Thomas Pinnock, Alvin Lau, Christian Soto and other poker instructors and creators. Today we're releasing a new one with Greg Vail, the Big O and PLO8 expert who is author of the Scoop! series, probably the best body of work on big bet split pot games ever written.

Lastly, Dean, who has done much of the production for us, deserves thanks for helping me bring so much slightly off the beaten track poker content to our listeners.

Thanks, Chris M.

13 October 2024 at 10:15 PM
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I am a new listener to the podcast and I really enjoy it. I listened to the Marc Goone episode when it came out and then went back and listened to several more past episodes. Been keeping up since then. Good stuff!


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To be honest I think it's a little ****ed up that you keep having Alvin Lau on and even listing it as a highlight since he's basically a psycho and a habitual abuser of women and laundering it as "well he's rude to his students sometimes"

It seems like you have no trouble getting decent people on, you don't need to increase the profile of terrible people in poker

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