Ep 631 - Chats: Barry Carter and Dara O’Kearney Stop The Presses!

The Rec Poker Podcast

This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew interview long-time friend of the show and RECing Crew member Dara O’Kearny and his fantastic perennial co-writer Barry Carter! This dynamic duo shares some exiting news about their new video platform for training materials, what makes creating videos different from writing books, things they don’t love about their jobs, the strategic difference between bounty tournaments and progressive knockouts, and a lot more!

We also play Stake/Study Stack with Barney Boatman, David Lappin adn Andy Black and we Close The Action with our speed round! Plus of course we raffle away a free prize at the end for folks in the YouTube chat, to help support a local food bank. Join us LIVE on YouTube next Monday at 7:30 ET for free to ask our guests questions in real time, and you can win too!

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We also go over this week's home game results and discuss these topics:

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Timestamps:

06:02 Barry in his own realm in the poker world

09:53 The transition into new platform from written book

17:21 Dara’s philosophy: try and teach students be self coaching

21:10 Approach to different types of game

26:59 How students absorb different contents

32:06 Barry on his writing process

37:59 Dara on pushing everybody to optimally performing

44:50 Dara talks about his wonderful wardrobe in poker

51:07 Things to consider when hiring a poker coach

53:45 One thing makes the job feel like a grind

01:08:37 Home Game Result updates

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