
Jennifer Shahade
Writer at Freelance
3x National Chess Champ, @PokerStars pro, author and host of the GRID https://t.co/NfDJpvUCiy Inquiries: [email protected] Views my own
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2 days ago |
jenshahade.substack.com | Jennifer Shahade
Last month, Nate Silver wrote a post on how “shockingly” bad ChatGPT is at poker, which he also discussed on the Risky Business podcast with Maria Konnikova. A lot of you might guess that any AI, even a large language model like ChatGPT is a lot better at chess than poker. After all, the top chess computers have dominated against the best human players for nearly three decades now.
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1 week ago |
thepokergrid.com | Jennifer Shahade
PokerStars ambassador and Ontario crusher Arlie Shaban enters the GRID to discuss a hand from his first major online victory, the Hot 22. Holding 34 offsuit, he hit two pair on the flop? and was yearning for all that money to go in. Would his growing twitch crowd get one of Arlie’s epic celebrations? After the hand, Jen and Arlie discuss how to treat poker as a business, Big Brother inspired tips on how to nail a job interview, and extreme challenges.
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2 weeks ago |
jenshahade.substack.com | Jennifer Shahade
Fischer Random Chess, now widely known as Freestyle Chess is seeing the rapid surge in popularity that Bobby Fischer hoped for when he invented the variant in 1996 “to keep chess going.” One of my favorite things about Freestyle Chess is the miniatures. Shuffling the pieces on the back row creates unusual patterns, which leads to more short games.
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1 month ago |
thepokergrid.com | Jennifer Shahade
Eddy Goldman, founder of Chess Ninja London, poker pro and musician enters the GRID with seven-deuce suited. Eddy has had a very storied life, from a jail cell in Singapore, to streamed games at the Hippodrome. Eddy talks to us about a hand he played in April 2025 at the Irish Open cash games. With a bonus bounty at stake, Eddy was thrilled to turn trip deuces…only to get some bad news when his opponent showed.
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1 month ago |
thepokergrid.com | Jennifer Shahade
Jennifer welcomes poker dealer and writer Jeffrey San Gabriel on the GRID to talk about dealing a famous hand at the 2024 World Series of Poker Main Event. The fateful four-bet hand featured Will Berry (in the hijack) and Adrian Mateos (on the button). Jeffrey dealt a flop of Q♦️4♦️ 2♣️ and Berry bet 425,000 into a pot of 1.36 Million chips. Mateos called. The turn was the 10 of spades and Berry bet 1.3 Million into 2.2 Million. After a little thought, Mateos folded.
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