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Jennifer Shahade grew up in a family of gamers. Her brother is IM Greg Shahade is founder of the PRO Chess League and the US Chess School, while her mother, Dr. Sally Solomon (1940-2013), was an avid bridge and poker player. Her father, FM Michael Shahade is a four-time state champion and taught her chess at five. Jennifer did not take to the game right away, gravitating instead to acting and writing. When she got back into it in high school, she fell in love and quickly improved, becoming a National Master at the age of 16, and the first female to win the US Junior Open. She went on to win two US Chess Women’s Championship titles and a Silver Olympic medal.

Jennifer’s joint passion for games and art led to dozens of creative projects through her career, including authoring Chess Queens, which chronicles the true stories of the top women players in history, intertwined with Jennifer’s own life. She’s also the host of two award-winning podcasts, the GRID and Ladies Knight. The show is a game within a game, as Jen fills out the entire 169 grid of possible poker hands, with no repeats.

Jennifer is the MindSports Ambassador at PokerStars and loves to show how games like poker and chess can help anyone make better decisions. Her titles include a Championship belt at the Open Face High Roller Championship in Prague. Jennifer fights to make games more inclusive through her work with US Chess Women, where she helps bring chess to girls, gender minorities and women. She’s also an ambassador for Poker Power, an organization that aims to “flip the table” and teach one million women poker.

Here is what you can expect on this week's show!

0:50 What is a Grandmaster

3:10 Authoring books is kind of a big deal

9:50 Battling Artificial Intelligence

12:54 Does chess have more drama than poker?

15:24 Scandals

32:34 Life skills learned from chess and poker

40:26 Parallels between poker and chess

50:35 Making games and the world more inclusionary

1:01:35 Does poker hold a mirror to rising inequality?

1:09:30 Hula Hooping

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Michael Soyza is a Malaysian poker player from Kuala Lumpur. He first started playing poker in 2008, playing in a $0.03/$0.06 home game as his first introduction to the game. After a three-year foray into the world of investment banking, Soyza jumped into poker full time. After cashing for over $650,000 in 2017, Soyza followed it up with six tournament wins in 2018 for a total of more than $1.5M. In 2019, at the esteemed Triton Poker Series in Jeju, Soyza defeated Sam Greenwood heads-up to win Event #3: HK$500K Six Max for over $1.4 million. He then won the 2019 PokerStars APPT Korea Super High Roller for $157,423. Later that year, he finished fourth in the Triton Super High Roller Series London Main Event for another $1.3 million.

Here is what you can expect on this week's show!

0:00 Introduction

1:04 The culture of gambling in Asia

6:53 From investment banking to poker

11:40 A jump to high stakes

17:35 Buying the APT and a plea for unconventional tour stops

25:25 Stoicism and other philosophies

35:00 Adventures around the world

43:00 Life after poker

52:27 Skateboarding

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Timofey "Trueteller" Kuznetsov is a Russian poker player.

Here is what you can expect on this week's show!

0:00 Introduction

0:36 Poker's latest twitter debate 9:00 Math and poker

15:30 The neuro-divergent spectrum and intense focus

21:18 Russia and the U.S.

23:20 The rhythm of poker

27:58 Jumping into high stakes poker

31:00 Trueteller is a big deal

37:58 Poker and life's cardinal sin

41:38 When to use GTO

45:08 Private game anecdotes

55:57 A well balanced life

1:09:48 Would Truteller fight Jungleman?

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Lichtenberger was born in 1987 in East Northport, New York. He started playing poker online on PartyPoker when he turned 18. However, it took some time for Lichtenberger to reveal his true talents. After playing cash games for awhile Andrew switched to MTTs and emerged as a highly successful tournament player. He eventually stepped into the live tournament arena in 2007. His first deep run in pursuit of a WSOP bracelet came in 2009, finishing as runner-up in a $5,000 Shootout event for over $200,000. Lichtenberger continued to rack up the cashes across the United States in the early 2010s, making more WSOP final tables in the process. The largest cash of Lichtenberger's career came in 2014 when he won the World Poker Tour Alpha8 Las Vegas for $2,104,245 before winning his first bracelet in 2016. In 2019, he narrowly missed out on another WSOP bracelet finishing second in the $50,000 High Roller for $917,232.

Lichtenberger is also a LearnWPT Instructor.

Here is what you can expect on this week's show!

0:00 Introduction

2:23 Heads Up Poker and solvers

3:30 Politics

9:24 How spirituality contributes to success 20:22 Giving back

37:33 Translating personal development into success

42:09 A pilgrimage to India

51:30 The Yoga of Poker

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Adrian Mateos is a Spanish poker player. During his career he has won four World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, including the 2013 WSOP Europe Main Event. During his career he has also won an EPT Main Event and a partypoker MILLIONS Main Event.

He is a Winamax ambassador, and is widely considered one of the best poker players under 30. In 2017, he became the youngest player ever to win a WSOP bracelet aged just 22.

Here is what you can expect on this week's show!

0:00 Introduction

1:24 What do you do when you win your first million?

4:41 How Adrian found success at such a young age

8:30 Attaining financial freedom with poker

16:45 A transition from online poker to live tournaments

18:13 Reading your competition

39:07 The pitfalls of playing with ego

42:08 Winimax Ambassador and life outside of poker

45:20 Spain

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Mike Gorodinsky is an American poker player. He has won two World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets including the prestigious $50,000 Poker Players Championship in 2015. In that same year, he won WSOP Player of the Year. Gorodinsky was born in St Petersburg, Russia and graduated from Olin Business School at the Washington University in St. Louis in 2009. His first recorded cash on The Hendon Mob came in 2008, with Gorodinsky's cashes coming in a wide variety of tournaments including 8-Game, Chinese Poker, and Pot-Limit Omaha. Gorodinsky made his first WSOP final table in 2012, finishing sixth in the $2,500 10-Game and won his first WSOP bracelet in 2013, taking down Event #5: $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better for $216,958. In 2015, Gorodinsky was named WSOP Player of the Year after a performance that saw him finish second in the $10,000 Razz Championship and win the $50,000 Poker Players Championship 12 months after finishing ninth in the same event. Since 2015, he has been a regular at the WSOP and in High Roller Mixed Game tournaments. In 2018, he won a US Poker Open Pot-Limit Omaha title in 2018 for $179,200.

Here is what you can expect on this week's show!

2:46 Starting out as a PLO player but missing out on the boom

8:58 Mixed games proficiency and strategy

16:10 Side Action Hustles

32:00 Chinese Poker is all about the math

34:37 Surfing and rock climbing to lead a well-balanced life

36:30 A musical duet between Mike and Jungleman

53:00 Don't mess with the Jungleman

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Neeme, from Michigan, first started playing poker in 2004 but didn't pick up vlogging until 2016. Since launching his poker YouTube channel, Neeme has earned 176,000 subscribers and racked up millions of views to make him one of the most popular content creators in poker. As a WPT ambassador, Neeme will follow the tour and attend WPT events around the world and create exclusive content for WPT. Earlier in the year, Neeme and Brad Owen teamed up with fellow content creator Doug Polk to purchase The Lodge Card Club in Austin, Texas.

Here is what you can expect on this week's show:

0:00 Introduction

1:02 The scene in London

4:42 The musical forte of two poker stars

9:33 Creating content for the poker world

17:53 Where will Dan go with his content?

28:18 The Lodge Card Club in Austin

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Daniel hails from Toronto, Canada. He first fell in love with the game when playing different variations of poker during breaks from pool hustling. It was here that his love of numbers and probability shone through, and gave him an edge in those early games. It is his ability to read people for which Daniel is best known. He won his first WSOP bracelet way back in 1998. It was in this year, at the age of 23, that he earned the nickname ‘Kid Poker’. Along the road to stardom, Daniel has even popped up as an actor in films such as ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ and ‘Detention’. And when not crushing live or online poker, he’s not a bad golfer either! Daniel is a GGPoker Ambassador.

Here is what you can expect on this week's show:

0:00 Introduction

1:10 What is the PGT championship?

4:33 Are you the true #1?

6:30 Hollywood

14:01 The Poker OG - Wisdom From A Vet

20:09 Randomize in 1K?

31:34 A Cycle of self-sabotage

41:02 The downside of instant gratification

46:57 Negreanu's knack for spreading the poker word

50:56 A tip from Jungle

51:36 Questions from fans

54:58 The future of poker

1:06:55 Fun Questions

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Chris Brewer is a former collegiate runner turned high stakes poker player from Oregon, currently sitting second on the state's all-time money list. After getting his first tournament cash in 2015, Brewer broke out onto the high stakes scene and is a regular in Triton events and in the PokerGO studio. In September 2021, Brewer took down the Poker Masters $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em event for $427,500, just one month after getting $420,670 after winning the $50,000 Super High Roller at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. Brewer's heater continued into 2022 and he finished first in the Triton Poker Series Madrid €20,000 No-Limit Short Deck event for $387,209. Despite racking up $485,202 in WSOP earnings across 27 cashes, Brewer has yet to take home a coveted WSOP bracelet or ring. His closest call was in the 2021 WSOP.com Circuit online series, where he finished third in a $500 Pot-Limit Omaha event for $14,736. At the 2021 WSOP, Brewer finished fifth in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship for $211,235.

Here is what you can expect on this week's show:

0:00 Introduction

1:04 The world's most expensive mullet

7:41 3% Body Fat

9:32 The world's fastest poker player

18:29 Break-down of a bad beat

34:20 A run at the Olympics

44:18 Will Chris get slapped silly?

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Jonas Wood makes paintings that can be classified as a variety of different genres, including portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and interior scenes. In each of these, however, his work reflects an instantly recognizable vision of the contemporary world, as well as a personal approach to subject matter defined by his affinities and experiences. Its warmth is matched by a quasi-abstract logic that breaks pictures down into layered compositions of geometry, pattern, and color. Wood works at every scale, and maintains active drawing and printmaking practices, each of which helps him generate techniques that he eventually uses in paintings. Conjuring depth using flat forms—his process involves collage-based studies in which he works with photographs, breaking images apart and reassembling them—Wood probes the boundary between the new and the familiar, integrating emotionally resonant material from everyday life. Jonas Wood has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art (2019); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, the Netherlands (with Shio Kusaka, 2017); Lever House, New York (2014); and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010). Other solo projects include Still Life with Two Owls, a monumental picture covering the façade of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2016— 2018); Shelf Still Life, High Line Billboard, High Line Art, New York (2014); and LAXART Billboard and Façade, LAXART, Los Angeles (2014). Recent group exhibitions include Since Unveiling: Selected Acquisitions of a Decade, The Broad, Los Angeles (2021–2022); Psychic Wounds: On Art and Trauma, The Warehouse, Dallas (2020); One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2018); and Los Angeles: A Fiction, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2016) and Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France (2017). His work is in the permanent collections of many institutions, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Broad, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2019, Phaidon published the first monograph dedicated to Wood’s paintings and drawings. Wood lives and works in Los Angeles. He is represented by David Kordansky Gallery and Gagosian.

Here is what you can expect on this week's show:

• Introduction 1:42 The American Dream Through Art
• A Mixed Games Romance
• A Love for Poker
• Learning Disabilities
• Introducing Art to Mixed Games
• Life Outside of Art and Partnering with Triton Poker
• Strategy in Art and Poker

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Photo Credit for Jonas Wood Headshot: Aubrey Mayer