Category: Podcast
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Episode 5 – A New Beginning: Tournament Game Master Basics
In this episode, I restart my podcasts with a series covering the basics of running a game tournament. I realized that only a handful of people know how to organize and run a board game tournament. We learned by apprenticing and osmosis, but that is not an effective way to spread competitive play. I asked…
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Episode 4 – Puerto Rico the Beginning
In this episode, I start a series on playing Puerto Rico and I interview Andy Latto, an incredibly good player and a nice guy to play with. I’ll present what I think every Puerto Rico player should understand right after they learn the rules. This episode is a strategic overview. I’m sure plenty of folks…
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Episode 3 – Just Enough Math & Meet the Other Sheas!
In this episode I attempt to cover enough probability to help you make better decisions in games, without giving you so much that you fall asleep behind the wheel and drive into a ditch. I interview the gamingest family that I have met, and they are Sheas (no relation, spelled differently, really). I met them…
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Episode 2 – Be Ready to Play Better
In this episode, I concentrate on what you can do to play better that has nothing to do with the games or their rules. There is an interview with Rob Kircher. Rob is the Board Game Room Director at Total Confusion. He is also a very competitive player and a great game teacher. [display_podcast]
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Episode 1 – Introduction
Finally the 1st episode is complete. Aside from an introduction, there are the first rules of learning to play competitively, and an interview with Richard J. Shay plus information on Total Confusion, my favorite small convention with tournaments, from its Board Game Room Director, Rob Kircher, and my pal Joel Feldman. I have to improve…