MaREC Madness

This year, RecPoker has created a 16-person, heads-up No Limit Hold ’em tournament as our answer to March Madness… we call it MaREC Madness!

Sixteen members of the RecPoker core team and community will be facing off in a heads-up bracket to determine this year’s Heads-Up Champion of RecPoker. The winners earn a shout out on the RecPoker podcast and some serious bragging rights.


Watch on Twitch Thursdays

Watch the matches unfold every Thursday night in March at 7:30pm CT at twitch.tv/recpoker. Hole cards will be shown and RECing Crew members (and perhaps some special guests) will be commentating LIVE on the play.

Our upcoming MaREC Madness schedule is:

Thursday, March 16: (special early start) 7:30 pm CST — 4 second round matchups

Thursday, March 23: 8:00 pm CST — 2 semi-final matchups

Thursday, March 30: 8:00 pm CST — Best of 3 Finals


The Bracket

Use the links below to view the match-ups and create your own bracket

Then jump into the forum to post your predictions and discuss – anyone who picks a perfect bracket will win a prize after the finals on MaREC – uh, I mean MARCH 30th!


2023 Results

Check back here for results from this year’s MaREC Madness! The current brackets are below:


Previous Results

We have held two previous MaREC Madness Tournaments.

  • 2021 Champion: Taylor Maas
  • 2022 Champion: John Somsky

Watch each of the matches and commentary on our YouTube playlist. Past special guest commentators include LearnProPoker’s Ryan Laplante!