Ep 651 - Chats: Sky Matshuhashi: Facing 3-bets and Making SMART Goals

This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew welcome back Sky Matsuhashi to talk about goal-setting for 2025, reviewing our goals from last year, how to play against 3-bets, and a lot more! They discuss what qualities a good goal has that a bad goal does not, and how we can use our time best to achieve our dreams. Sky also offers some really helpful tips on how to play optimally when facing a 3-bet, and what kinds of hands you want to continue with.

We also play Stake/Study Stack with Alex Fitzgerald, Nathan Williams, and Barry Carter, 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:

06:51 Sky shares about his success over the years

07:53 Smart goal: one of the most effective ways to achieve dreams

10:40 Helpful structure to get most out of time

13:31 How to not stress on things that didn’t get done

16:00 How to not get stressed on things that didn’t get done

19:29 Playing 100,000 hands in a year

24:48 Factors to consider when facing 3-Bets

33:34 Hand qualities that are good for 4-betting, calling, or folding

40:11 Sky on set over set

45:33 John Somsky setting goal in 2025k

51:04 The Poker Forge holiday deal

01:06:59 Home Game Result updates

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