Dan "Jungleman" Cates

Dan "Jungleman" Cates

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Dan "Jungleman" Cates episodes

  • Establish The Run Founder Adam Levitan & "Jungleman" Dan Cates - DFS, Prop Bets, Twitter, Poker

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    Adam Levitan is a daily fantasy sports player, sports better, and the Co-founder of Establish The Run, a premium football and analysis site. Adam is one of the most respected DFS football analysts and podcasters in the space. His podcast has been downloaded more than 5 million times and offers market moving DFS analysis each week. He won multiple Fantasy Sports Writers Association awards while at Rotoworld before focusing on DFS full-time in 2015. Not only is Adam a DFS analyst, but he also plays nearly year round, specializing in cash games.

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

    • Fantasy sports writers win awards?
    • The intersection of sports betting and poker
    • Bad beats
    • Twitter and how to use it
    • Prop bets
    • #teamsex and jokes

    Connect with Adam Levitan:

    Twitter: @adamlevitan

    Instagram: @establishtherun

    Website: https://establishtherun.com/about/our-team/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/EstablishTheRun/featured

    Follow "Jungleman" Dan Cates on social:

    Websites: https://www.wtgol.com

    Instagram: @wtgolpodcast

    @thedancates

    Twitter: @junglemandan

    1 hr 8 min
  • Poker Commentator Ali Nejad Questioned by "Jungleman" Dan Cates

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    Born and raised in San Francisco, Oliver ‘Ali’ Nejad is a mainstay in the world of televised poker, breaking onto the scene in 2005 as the host of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship. His poker career started while in college at UC Berkeley. In 1998 he dropped out of college to pursue poker full time, achieving great success and becoming a renowned high-limit cash game player. Over the course of his career, Ali has become one of the most recognizable voices in poker. He has acted as a commentator or correspondent for Poker After Dark, the Heads-Up Championship, Pro-Am Poker Equalizer, and many other shows. Ali is currently part of GGPoker as the GGTeam’s Media Ambassador and will continue to share his love of poker and his talent in broadcasting.

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

    • Introduction
    • An $800/$1600 stakes game, a supermodel, and a debacle
    • Ali's career in the media
    • Pursuing passions and "soft riches"
    • Dating and the ills of social media
    • Ali's travel and food recommendations

    Connect with Oliver "Ali" Nejad:

    Instagram: @Ali_Nejad

    Twitter: @ali_nejad

    Follow "Jungleman" Dan Cates on social:

    Websites: https://www.wtgol.com

    Instagram: @wtgolpodcast

    @thedancates

    Twitter: @junglemandan

    1 hr 4 min
  • Investment Advice, Mixed Games & Burning Man | "Jungleman" Dan Cates & Philip Sternheimer

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    Philip Sternheimer is a Partner at one of the oldest and most successful private equity firms, Hellman & Friedman. He also plays some of the highest stakes poker cash games and tournaments, often facing off against Jungleman around the world. Philip is fluent in English, German, and French and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business. He currently resides in London.

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

    • Introduction
    • A nice child has many nicknames
    • The world of private equity
    • Parallels between business and poker
    • Choosing between finance and poker
    • Mixed Games
    • Investment advice
    • Burning Man
    • Dan challenges Philip to a "chest-off"

    Connect with Philip Sternheimer:

    Twitter: @TheMannheim

    Instagram: @sternhep

    Follow "Jungleman" Dan Cates on social:

    Websites: https://www.wtgol.com

    Instagram: @wtgolpodcast

    @thedancates

    Twitter: @junglemandan

    1 hr 19 min
  • Raising Awareness, Inspiring & Empowering Women in Iran - "Jungleman" Dan Cates & Melika Razavi

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    The globe-trotting Iranian-South African beauty is a serial entrepreneur with a successful property portfolio and other business interests. She is also a global poker player having recently won her first WSOP online bracelet for the grand prize of $239,180, quadrupling the previous biggest score of her career. A qualified personal trainer and a self-taught magician now based in Cape Town, Melika feels strongly about championing women empowerment in South Africa and around the world.

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

    • Introduction
    • Cards, magic tricks, and poker
    • Poker in South Africa and beyond
    • Organizing a venture filled life
    • The world of International Beauty Pageants
    • Speaking out against Iran's unjust political regime
    • Empowering women and youth

    I hope you find this episode as fun and informative as we have. Melika Razavi is winning the game of life!

    Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!

    Connect with Melika Razavi:

    Twiiter: @melika_razavi

    Instagram: @melirazavii

    Connect with Dan Cates:

    Websites: https://www.wtgol.com

    https://www.dancatesfoundation.com/

    Instagram: @wtgolpodcast

    @thedancates

    1 hr 13 min
  • From Poker Player to Stand-Up Comedian | "Jungleman" Dan Cates & Chinese Comedian's Ken Cheng

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    British-born Chinese comedian Ken Cheng has been snagging laughs and rave reviews with his unique brand of dry, analytical, story-based humor for over a decade. Finalist in the 2015 BBC New Comedy Awards and nominee for Amused Moose’s 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Best Show, Cheng is one of Comedy Central Online’s Ones to Watch, BBC’s 2017 Hot New Talents, The Guardian’s 2018 Pick of The Fringe, and the winner of the coveted 2017 Dave Joke of The Fringe. His past performances have included a critically acclaimed, sold-out run at the Edinburgh Festival.

    Along with his comedy career, Ken is a professional poker player and had pursued the game full-time before being inspired to enter the comedy world after watching Chris Addison perform. He’s received viral attention for some of his jokes and sketches, including his fictional persona Mark Liu, and a 2017 Twitter thread insulting the flag of every country in the world. Cheng directed the 2015 Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show, which held events in multiple continents, and wrote and starred in his Chinese Comedian series, nominated for Radio 4’s Pick of The Year. Outside of standup, Ken has appeared in several shows and shorts, including The Now Show, Dave’s Advent Calendar, Celebrity Eggheads, A Good Read, and Russell Kane’s Evil/Genius Podcast. He also presented the BBC Radio documentary, Game Over, Humans. Fans can look forward to attending upcoming live comedy dates after enjoying his latest role as the host of E4’s The Hangover Games.

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

    Introduction

    • Cheng’s Brand of comedy and finding your niche
    • How to become a comedian and writing jokes
    • Fame, or lack thereof, and its pitfalls
    • Networking horror stories
    • Comments on Poker’s latest cheating scandal
    • Cheng’s poker career
    • Social deduction games
    • Making positive social impact with comedy
    • How Poker prepared Cheng for comedy
    • Love and dating – it’s complicated

    I hope you find this episode as fun and informative as we have. Ken Cheng is winning the game of life!

    Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!

    Connect with Ken Cheng:

    Twitter: @kenchengcomedy

    Instagram: @kenchengcomedy

    Connect with Dan Cates:

    Websites: https://www.wtgol.com

    https://www.dancatesfoundation.com/

    Instagram: @wtgolpodcast

    @thedancates

    1 hr 20 min
  • "Jungleman" Dan Cates and Nate Silver on POKER, sports betting, New World Order and more!

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    Nate Silver is a leading statistician and founder of FiveThirtyEight.com, an award-winning website focused on statistical analysis of politics, sports and science.

    As a former syndicated columnist for The New York Times, Silver first gained national attention during the 2008 presidential election, when he correctly predicted the results of the primaries and the presidential winner in 49 states. A diehard baseball fan, Silver is also credited with developing PECOTA (Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm), a statistical formula for predicting a player’s performance.

    In addition to serving as editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight.com and an on-air commentator for ESPN, Silver is the author of numerous books on baseball statistics. His book, “The Signal and The Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t” is a New York Times bestseller. Silver has written for ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Slate and The New York Times. He was recently named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Influential People in Business.

    Before Silver built a media empire, however, there was a time when he was a professional poker player and Nate can still be found on the poker circuit, playing in a number of live tournaments, with highlights including a runner up finish at the World Series of Poker.

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

    • Observations on poker from a statistician
    • Betting on sports
    • Baseball talk and asking who the real homerun king is
    • Trends in deception – sabotaging trust and the misinformation age
    • COVID responses and political partisanship
    • Politics and missing the mark on the 2016 election
    • What’s the over/under on nuclear war?
    • Different people – different brains
    • A New World Order
    • Does poker help in other areas of life
    • A universal consciousness beyond math

    I hope you find this episode as fun and informative as we have. Nate Silver is winning the game of life!

    Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!

    Connect with Nate Silver:

    Website: https://fivethirtyeight.com

    Twitter: @NateSilver538

    Instagram: @realnatesilver

    Connect with Dan Cates:

    Websites: https://www.wtgol.com

    https://www.dancatesfoundation.com/

    Instagram: @wtgolpodcast

    @thedancates

    1 hr 32 min
  • "Jungleman" Dan Cates and WPT Host Tony Dunst talk POKER around the world, style, and MORE!!!

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    Tony Dunst, a high-stakes pro and one of the most unique personalities in the poker industry, joined the World Poker Tour as host of the WPT Raw Deal segment for Season IX. Dunst beat out hundreds of other contestants in a nationwide search to capture the coveted slot and spent seven seasons strategically analyzing some of the most pivotal hands from World Poker Tour events. When Mike Sexton announced his retirement from the WPT commentary booth, it was only natural for Dunst to be promoted into the role starting with Season XVI.

    Dunst has always been an avid player of World Poker Tour events. In Season XII, he was able to etch his name on the venerable WPT Champions Cup™, winning WPT Caribbean and $145,000. Later that season he nearly became a two-time champion, but ultimately fell in third in the WPT World Championship, earning $452,729.

    A successful online pro, Dunst began playing poker in home games with friends in college. After visiting Australia to play in the Aussie Millions tournament in 2005, he left the U.S. to move Down Under. He returned to the States a year later and played in his first World Series of Poker, where he established himself as a young force in the poker world, finishing 198th in the 2006 Main Event.

    One of the most consistent posters and moderators at the TwoPlusTwo forums, as well as hosting one of the most popular blogs in all of poker, Dunst has written articles on dozens of topics both within and outside of poker. With his candor and oversized personality, Dunst quickly developed a loyal following of fans and more than a handful of critics, becoming a lightning rod in the poker community.

    In 2016, Dunst added another marquee title to his poker résumé when he won a WSOP gold bracelet in a $1,000 no-limit hold’em event. Dunst defeated a field of 2,452 entries to earn $339,254 in that tournament.

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

    · Introduction

    · Tony Takes on tennis

    · Living and playing poker in China and Australia

    · Challenges of living out of a suitcase

    · How poker is different in different parts of the world

    · A more diverse and richer history abroad

    · Tony’s poker style and putting your money where your mouth is

    · The attention economy

    · Reporting on poker

    I hope you find this episode as fun and informative as we have. Tony Dunst is winning the game of life!

    Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!

    Connect with Tony Dunst:

    Twitter: @tonydunsttv

    Instagram: @tonydunsttv

    Connect with Dan Cates:

    Websites: https://www.wtgol.com

    https://www.dancatesfoundation.com/

    Instagram: @wtgolpodcast

    @thedancates

    56 min
  • "Jungleman" Dan Cates and Kahle Burns talk insomnia, poker solvers, and MORE!!

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    Kahle Burns may be Australia’s best kept secret. He has been collecting tournament cashes across Australia and the world for over a decade and has amassed more than $13 million in live tournament earnings during that stretch. His first major result came in the 2013 World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific main event, where he pocketed $211,392 for a fifth-place finish. In the summer of 2016, he won the Sydney Championships for $226,295 and weeks later won the Western Classic Poker Championship in Perth for another $55,674.

    It was at that point that Burns started becoming a more familiar face on the high roller circuit and in 2020 was second on the all-time money list. His most recent notable wins include a first-place finish in the75k NLH Triton Super High Roller Series in Cyprus, a second-place finish in the 50k NLH European Poker Tour in Barcelona, and another second-place finish in the 25k NLH WSOP Super High Roller Championship ONLINE.

    Burns has been a dominant cash game player, steadily moving up the stakes ever since he entered the poker world after high school. Traveling around Australia, or to Macau and the United States, Burns is always on the lookout for a good game and the opportunity to compete against high-level competition.

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

    · Solvers – to use or not to use

    · Philosophical questions around poker

    · Decisions to make when trading one of life’s commodities for another

    · Insomnia and going 7 days with no sleep

    · Dan Challenges Kahle’s black and white world view

    · More on sleep deprivation and trading life’s commodities

    · To be nice at the table or not to be nice at the table

    · Juggling life’s commodities and what to keep in the air

    · Optimal poker strategies, computers, and AI in poker

    I hope you find this episode as fun and informative as we have. Kahle Burns is winning the game of life!

    Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!

    Connect with Kahle Burns:

    Twitter: @ROFLshove

    Facebook: @KahleBurns

    Connect with Dan Cates:

    Websites: https://www.wtgol.com

    https://www.dancatesfoundation.com/

    Instagram: @wtgolpodcast

    @thedancates

    1 hr 36 min
  • "Jungleman" Dan Cates and Dylan "Dr. GTO" Weisman talk applying POKER to BUSINESS and MORE!

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    Dylan Weisman is a professional poker player and executive performance coach. He has been playing poker professionally in some capacity since he was 16. While studying probability theory at the University of California Santa Barbara, Dylan became more in tune with the non-game theory aspects of what it takes to be a solid poker professional, such as self-knowledge, self-care, emotional control, and life sustainability. Most recently, Dylan has grinded from $2/$4 to $10/$20 online, and he’s played in the largest live PLO cash games in Las Vegas. Recent notable wins include the U.S. Poker Open 25k and a 2021 WSOP bracelet. On the business side of things, after graduating with a degree in financial math and statistics from the University of California Santa Barbara, Dylan started his career in analytics and has done it all from project management and operations, to large-scale product developments. Throughout his career, Dylan was drawn to problems relating to operational efficiencies - in other words, human-centered problems. Poker was all about using analytics on people and he was using those skills into business. Today, Dylan focuses his time on product development and executive performance coaching. His clients range anywhere from CEOs of mid-level startups, Esports athletes, and managers at fortune 500 companies. Additionally, he consults with his portfolio companies on operational efficiencies, hiring practices, and digital analytics infrastructure.

    What you can expect to hear on this episode:

    What you can take from your poker game and apply to building and executing a business

    What winning the game of life is really all about

    Developing the superpower of empathy to find success and change the world

    Searching for solutions to a poker feud

    Different coaching for different types of poker players

    Hiring and running a team and how it relates to poker

    Are poker players built for business?

    I hope you find this episode as fun and informative as we have. Dylan Weisman is winning the game of life!

    Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!

    Connect with Dylan “Dr. GTO” Weisman:

    Website: https://www.dylanweisman.com/

    Instagram: @dr.gto

    Twitter: @Dweisman13

    Connect with Dan Cates:

    Websites: https://www.wtgol.com

    https://www.dancatesfoundation.com/

    Instagram: @wtgolpodcast

    @thedancates

    1 hr 6 min
  • "Jungleman" Dan Cates & Poker Author Tommy Angelo on Meditation, Enlightenment, Poker, and More!

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    Tommy Angelo is a top-tier writer, coach, and philosopher. His playfulness and creativity is singular in the poker universe. During his decades of grinding, Tommy staged a revolt against the pain. The pain of losing, the pain of playing bad, the pain of bad luck, bad people, bad nights, bad food, bad sleep, to be done with the pain, to distill his life down to its most enjoyable, profitable form. That was his quest, and he got there. Then he made books and videos to share his wisdom on how to play the game of poker, and the game of life, with grace.

    • What you can expect to hear on this episode:
    • Reducing unhappiness to play better poker
    • Creating a meditation practice that has transformational power
    • Bad times. suffering, and finding enlightenment in life and poker
    • Bringing joy to others as the real reason for self-improvement
    • Applying Buddhist principles at the poker table to win

    I hope you find this episode as fun and informative as we have. Tommy Angelo is winning the game of life!

    Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!

    Connect with Tommy Angelo:

    Website: https://www.tommyangelo.com/

    Twitter: @TheTommyAngelo

    Connect with Dan Cates:

    Websites: https://www.wtgol.com

    https://www.dancatesfoundation.com/

    Instagram: @wtgolpodcast

    @thedancates

    52 min

About Dan "Jungleman" Cates

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Dan "Jungleman" Cates (Formerly "Winning The Game of Life") is hosted by Dan Cates. Known as Jungleman in the poker world, Dan has won nearly $12 million in live tournament earnings, more than $11…