Jennifer Shahade invites Wey “CRAIBaby” Xie to the GRID. A high stakes online player who has battled and won with the best players in the World, Wey Xie talks about a pivotal hand he played with Ace-Queen offsuit on PokerStars.

150 big blinds deep in 1K NL, The hijack opened to 2.7x and Wey Xie called in the big blind with the Ace of Hearts and the Queen of Clubs. The flop came 6d7h9h. After Wey Xie checked, the original raiser bet $18.59, about 1/3 of the pot, and true to his online name, CRAIBaby put in a check raise to $88.73. The hijack flatted the raise to see the four of hearts on the turn. Wey Xie continued to aggress with a bet of $70 into $236. The villain raised to 223, and CRAIbaby put in the three-bet for $527. This left a 75% pot sized bet on the river. An offsuit jack came leaving him one big question: To jam or not to jam?

After unraveling his river decision, Wey Xie explains why he dropped out of a promising six figure starting salary job to become a professional poker player. Jennifer and Wey Xie also talk about theories of effective poker study, and what he thinks most people get wrong in their approach to the game, explaining what he means when he said, “the Beauty of the game is invisible if you don’t fully understand poker.”

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