Ep 629 - Chats: Craig Savage ‘Schools’ the Crew

This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew interview new RECing Crew member Craig Savage! A teacher by trade, Craig has been a poker player and coach for many years, and is excited to be sharing his experience with our members as one of our RecPoker coaches! Craig shares about what makes teaching easier and harder, what he loves about the competition of poker, the importance of mindset, what it’s like playing on day 6 of the WSOP main event, and a lot more!

We also play Stake/Study Stack with three of craigs coaching clients: Mike Day, Hubie Sacilowski and Gary Rains - 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!

Craig is active on Twitter as https://x.com/XsavageX

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

How to help us out - https://rec.poker/support/

Home Games - https://rec.poker/homegame/

Go Premium! - https://rec.poker/premium/

Timestamps:

03:33 Craig defines his role in the poker world

06:20 Craig shares about his journey into poker

12:24 Craig shares his journey into poker

14:38 Teaching skills translated to poker

22:16 Who RECing Crew members work with?

26:19 Playing poker vs golf

29:00 Transitioning from secondary income to poker pro

40:14 Craig on his new study group Teacher’s Bet

53:54 Craig talks about his first live play experience

01:20:50 Home Game Result updates

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