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!

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Connect with Tony Dunst:

Twitter: @tonydunsttv

Instagram: @tonydunsttv

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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

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

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!

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Connect with Tommy Angelo:

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

Twitter: @TheTommyAngelo

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Websites: https://www.wtgol.com

https://www.dancatesfoundation.com/

Instagram: @wtgolpodcast

@thedancates

Brandon Adams taught undergrad economics courses at Harvard for nine years in game theory, behavioral finance, and international macroeconomics. He’s a regular in the biggest poker cash games and tournaments, and has appeared on Poker After Dark, High Stakes Poker, and multiple televised final tables. He was the lead research assistant for Michael Lewis’ The Big Short, and he has self-published several books. He enjoys fantasy sports, and has a website dedicated to daily fantasy sports analytics.

What you can expect to hear on this weeks episode:

• Getting into Harvard as a poor student

• What makes your college years a powerful time in life

• The Poker House as an equivalent to college for poker players

• Stress and the role it plays in performance

• What hyperbolic discounting is and how it affects our decisions

• Game Theory and poker

• The podcasting world

• Economics and contributing expertise to The Big Short

• Utilitarianism – the dangerous force

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

Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!

Connect with Brandon Adams:

Websites: http://brandonadams.co/

https://www.advancedsportsanalytics.com/

Instagram: @brandonadams78

Twitter: @badams78

Connect with Dan Cates:

Websites: https://www.wtgol.com

https://www.dancatesfoundation.com/

Instagram: @wtgolpodcast

@thedancates

Hailing from West Virginia, USA, Jason Koon is one of the most successful poker players of all time, specializing in high roller tournaments.

He began playing poker in college, being taught the rules of the game by a roommate, and quickly realized he had an aptitude for cards and that he could even make a career from it!

Koon is 9th on the All Time Money List, with over $38M in live tournament cashes, including one WSOP bracelet, multiple high roller tournament victories in Triton Poker Super High Roller Series and World Poker Tour high roller events. He is also an experienced online poker player, with much success in tournaments played on the digital felt.

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

• Street poker and lessons learned

• Talking fitness and cold plunges

• Taking personal pain and putting it to work towards success

• Business endeavors and a life beyond poker

I hope you find this episode as fun and informative as we have. Jason Koon is winning the game of life.

Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!

Connect with Jason Koon:

Instagram: @jasonkoon

Twitter: @JasonKoon

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Websites: https://www.wtgol.com

Instagram: @thedancates

@wtgolpodcast

Nemo “akaNemsko” Zhou is a FIDE Master (FM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) competitive chess player. Zhou started playing at the early age of 4 years old, with notable achievements winning World Youth Chess Championships in 2014 and winning the Canadian women's championship in 2016 at the age of 16. She has competed for Team Canada at the Women's Chess Olympiad since 2014. She is currently on break from the University of Toronto, focusing on streaming Chess, poker and other games on Twitch.

What you can expect to hear on this episode:

• A transition from chess to poker and shared skill sets

• Growing up a chess prodigy and career success

• The differences and similarities between poker and chess

• Content creation and building a following

• Using the skills learned from chess and poker to win in other areas of life

• Jungleman’s reading recommendations

I hope you find this episode as fun and informative as we have. Nemo Zhou is winning the game of life.

Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!

Connect with Nemo "akaNemsko" Zhou:

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/akanemsko

Instagram: @akaNemsko

Twitter: @akaNemsko

Connect with Dan Cates

Websites: https://wtgol.com

https://www.dancatesfoundation.com

Instagram: @wtgolpodcast

@thedancates

Elliot Roe is a leading expert in Mindset Optimization for High Performers and is the world’s #1 Mindset Coach for poker players. His poker clients have won over $100,000,000 and nearly every major tournament title, including the World Series of Poker Main Event. His clientele also includes Olympic medalists, UFC Champions, Hollywood Actors, Business executives and wall street traders. His unique mindset coaching system leverages the power of hypnotherapy to eliminate fears and breakthrough mental roadblocks allowing you to operate in a state of peak performance every day.

What you can expect to hear on this episode:

Turning a fear of flying into a life’s work

Removing self-sabotage and enabling talent to show itself

Can hypnotherapy stop Dan from eating junk food?

Working on your mindset to reach the top in poker or any endeavor

Common themes in self-sabotage

How to improve your interactions with the opposite sex

I hope you find this episode as informative and as exciting as we have. Elliot Roe shows us how to remove self-sabotage, improve our mindset, and become a peak performer.

Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!

Connect with Elliot Roe

Websites: https://www.elliotroe.com

https://www.primedmind.com

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Websites: https://wtgol.com

https://www.dancatesfoundation.com

Instagram: @wtgolpodcast

@thedancates

Martin Jacobson is a Swedish poker player who can lay claim to one of the biggest comebacks in professional poker history with his victory at the 2014 World Series of Poker’s Main Event. Martin began playing poker when his dream of becoming a professional chef was derailed but since pivoting, he has not looked back. He is the first Swedish player to crack the top ten on the well-respected Global Poker Index (GPI) leader board, broke a record by reaching the final table in three main events of the European Poker Tour in one season, won an Online Qualifier of the Year Award, and once finished runner up as the EPT Player of the Year. A man of many interests, Martin resides in London training his body and mind to reach new levels of performance, enjoying the outdoors and physical activities, practicing mixed martial arts, teaching poker online, angel investing, and of course, cooking. Martin advocates a balanced holistic lifestyle and to focus on whatever makes you happy.

What you can expect to hear on this episode:

• Mental and physical routines in preparation for poker matches

• Pace of play and table manners – etiquette or an edge to use?

• Mixed Martial Arts and Poker as zero-sum games and their shared use of strategy

• Is poker selfish?

• Similarities between cooking and poker

• Measuring the effectiveness of “giving back”

• Poker and blockchain technology

I hope you find this episode as informative and as exciting as we have. Martin Jacobson pulled off one of the biggest comebacks in poker history and there is some insight into how he did it here!

Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!

Connect with Martin Jacobson

Website: https://martinjacobson.pro

Poker Coaching program: https://www.prepare-perform.com/

Blockchain venture: https://gambl.io/

Twitter: @martin_jacobson

Connect with Dan Cates

Websites: https://wtgol.com

https://www.dancatesfoundation.com

Instagram: @wtgolpodcast

@thedancates

Muskan Sethi is India’s first female professional poker player and received an award from the President for breaking stereotypes and paving the way to success in unconventional fields. A regular on the Indian poker circuit for years, Sethi has achieved success in international poker tournaments, having competed in the World Series Of Poker numerous times. Sethi is co-founder of the app, "Doggydoo." Listen to this latest episode of Winning The Game Of Life where Dan talks with Muskan Sethi about trailblazing for women in poker, her love of animals, and poker as a mind sport.

What you can expect to hear on this episode:

Growing up in India and learning poker

Playing cards in India and erasing the taboo

Receiving national recognition at the official residence of the President of India Finding inspiration after loss and working on controlling the mind

Opportunities in entrepreneurship and the importance of teamwork

How to attract more women to poker and promote the game to a bigger audience

I hope you find this episode as informative and as exciting as we have. Muskan Sethi is winning the game of life and is working to help others win as well!

Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!

Connect with Muskan Sethi

Twitter: @muskaansethi

Instagram: @muskansethi5

Facebook: @muskansethi

@doggydoo

Connect with Dan Cates

Websites: https://wtgol.com

https://www.dancatesfoundation.com

Instagram: @wtgolpodcast

@thedancates