New Season of ‘Chase The Dream’ Docuseries Shows Highs & Lows of Poker

A brand new season of a YouTube docuseries presents a have a look at the highs and lows of match poker by the eyes of a number of grinders on the 2025 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP).

Season 2 of “Chase The Dream,” a Push Fold Manufacturing, premieres Thursday, Sept. 25 on the Rec Poker YouTube channel. It options interviews with Rec Poker members Jim Reid, Dayanna Ciabaton, Mikha Richards, Jay Carrafiello, Brett Kimes, Craig Savage (pictured above), and Rob Gardner.

PokerNews obtained a sneak peek of the brand new season of “Chase The Dream,” which paperwork a sequence of match runs by members of the Rec Poker workforce.

A Take a look at the New Season

The primary episode of the brand new season introduces Craig Savage, a instructor from Dallas, Texas, who got here to Las Vegas to grind a full summer time schedule. That included the $600 Golden Nugget Grand Poker Sequence Championship, the place he ended up in twelfth place for $6,645.

“We battled onerous,” Savage says within the new season. “Most likely laddered greater than most individuals would in that state of affairs. I do not know, every thing’s going fairly properly. I really feel like the massive one’s coming, although. The large one’s coming. We’re simply so shut.”

The episode additionally introduces Dayanna Ciabaton, a poker participant from Florida who speaks about enjoying with longtime poker commentator Norman Chad in an occasion inside PokerGO Studio.

Episode 2 follows Ciabaton’s run within the $1,000 WSOP Girls Championship, the place she obtained to play with Kristen Foxen and eventual Essential Occasion remaining tablist Leo Margets.

“I all the time like reconnecting with so lots of the girls within the poker area,” says Ciabaton. “We all know one another. It is a small group, so once you present as much as an occasion just like the Girls Occasion, you possibly can’t go 5 steps by the Horseshoe with out working into any individual that you already know and attending to catch up. And that is all the time actually enjoyable.”

Later, Ohio’s Mikha Richards is proven making a last-minute resolution to play the 2025 WSOP after retiring from full-time poker in 2024. The journey to Las Vegas resulted in a deep run within the $300 WSOP Gladiators of Poker, punctuated by an enormous bluff she made on a four-flush board.

The primary episodes of Season 2 construct round Savage’s run within the $500 WSOP Freezeout, which noticed him get heads-up for a bracelet and six-figure payday towards Nevada’s Tony Harrison. We cannot spoil the consequence, which is revealed in Episode 3.

Watch the brand new season of “Chase The Dream” on the Rec Poker YouTube channel starting Sept. 25. Episodes will probably be launched each Thursday.

Connor Richards is a Senior Editor U.S. for PokerNews and host of the Life Outdoors Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for 3 International Poker Awards for his writing.