By lakong on November 21st, 2006 (more posts by author)

I really enjoy listening to the Circuit radio broadcast. I listen to it via podcasts. You go to the itunes music store and download the broadcasts to your PC and then sync with your ipod. They are free. The show is hosted by a young guy named Scott Huff and two poker pros -- Gavin Smith and Joe Sebok. Joe is Barry Greenstein's son. These guys have really good chemistry and it's a lot of fun to listen to them discuss hands, tournament strategy, the latest poker news and basically have a good time while talking poker.

Gavin and Joe are very loose aggressive players and they have both had good tournament success. Gavin was the WPT player of the year last year and Joe is fairly new to tournament poker but has had some really impressive results in the short time he's played. Listening to them discuss their aggressive style is pretty interesting and has helped open my eyes to the benefits of playing a more aggressive style. Gavin is a big advocate of playing small pots. He likes to call raises in position with both good and so-so hands and then put people to the test with raises and even calls PF. His thought process is that he can freeze the pf raiser by calling post flop and then moving in for the kill with a raise if the PF raiser blinks and slows down. It makes a lot of sense and has worked well for him. Give the broadcasts a try. I think you'll really enjoy them.