Dan "Jungleman" Cates

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Steve Albini is an American musician, record producer, audio engineer and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black and is a member of Shellac. He has produced iconic albums for artists such as, Nirvana, The Pixies, and Jimmy Page. He is the founder, owner and principal engineer of Electrical Audio, a recording studio complex in Chicago. In 2018, Albini estimated that he had worked on several thousand albums during his career. He has had major influence on the development of genres such as noise rock, post-hardcore and math rock. All the while, Albini combined a lifelong love of music with a fascination with Poker. He started playing poker when his great grandmother taught him in 1969 and has been playing ever since. He recently won a WSOP bracelet in 2022. Albini is also known for his outspoken views on the music industry, having stated repeatedly that it financially exploits artists and homogenizes their sound. Nearly alone among well-known producers, Albini refuses to take ongoing royalties from album sales, feeling that a producer's job is to record the music to the band's desires, and that paying a producer as if they had contributed artistically to an album is unethical.

Listen to this latest episode of Winning The Game Of Life where Dan talks with Steve Albini to discuss human relationships, charity, and rock and roll.

What you can expect to hear on this episode:

2:04 Coming of age in the underground punk rock scene

Criticisms of the music industry’s relationship with artists

The shifting economics of the music industry

What makes a successful album 27:00 The expression of the creative impulse

The inherent equality of humanity

Taking the transactional element out of human relationships

Alleviating poverty with a charity

Thoughts on capitalism

Stupid poker games

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Websites: https://www.electricalaudio.com

https://www.letterstosanta.com

https://www.unconditionalgiving.org

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Jennifer Harman is one of the most accomplished female poker players in the world. In 2002, she became the first woman to hold two World Series of Poker bracelets and throughout her career she has won over $2.5 million from live tournaments alone. She is renowned for playing in the high-stakes cash games at the Bellagio Hotel and was a natural at poker from a young age. Jennifer lost her mother to kidney failure, and she herself has had a kidney transplant. In order to help others who have struggled with kidney failure, Harman founded the Creating Organ Donation Awareness (CODA), a non-profit organization that raises money to support the cause. She also donates a portion of her winnings to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Nevada.

Listen to this latest episode of Winning The Game Of Life where Dan talks with Jennifer Harman about taking advantage of whatever comes your way.

What you can expect to her on this episode:

• How solvers are changing poker games
• Using your emotions in your poker games
• Poker as an escape
• The Corporation and its battles with Andy Beal
• Taking abuse as a woman at the poker table and using it to your advantage
• Learning parenting skills from poker
• Awareness as a huge element to success
• Battling a health crisis
• COVID and chill
• From Poker to writing a screenplay
• Increasing organ donor awareness and supporting the SPCA

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Facebook: @JenniferHarman

Twitter: @JenniferHarman

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Website: https://www.dancatesfoundation.com/

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A self-confessed nerd with a first-class degree in astrophysics, Liv combined her science background and passion for games to become one of the most recognizable faces in professional poker. She was the #1 ranked female player from 2014-2016, and holds both European Poker Tour and World Series of Poker championship titles after winning more than $4 million on the international circuit. Liv is also a keen philanthropist, and in 2014 co-founded Raising For Effective Giving (REG), a research and advisory non-profit that uses the philosophies and strategies of Effective Altruism to identify and raise money for the most globally impactful charities. Since retiring from professional poker in 2018, Liv is now focused on education, keen to inspire others with the rational thinking techniques she has learned through both poker and Effective Altruism.

Listen to this latest episode of Winning The Game Of Life where Dan talks with Liv Boeree and they ponder how game theory relates to it all!

• What you can expect to hear on this episode:
• Winning early and using that confidence to manifest success
• Liv and Dan speculate on Hellmuth’s “white magic” and how he has, “broken the poker god’s simulation”
• Busting onto the poker scene in a big way and learning some life lessons
• Liv’s charitable organization REG and a discussion on the most effective altruism
• Using a poker mindset to help solve the world’s problems and to inspire action
• Can confidence be learned and the value of gaming for other life skills
• Inspiring effective altruism amidst our “war of the memes”
• The rationality of faith
• Our culture’s relationship with image, and Liv’s “Beauty Wars” notion
• What poker players understand, and others do not
• The moment Dan reached a higher state of awareness
• Considering the validity of mysticism
• Liv tries to debunk Dan’s psychic reading
• Pondering using poker as a part of our formal education

I hope you find this episode as informative and as exciting as we have. Liv is winning the game of life and is on a mission to help others win as well!

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Connect with Liv Boeree

Website: https://www.livboeree.com

Facebook: @LivBoeree

Twitter: @LivBoeree

Instagram: @LivBoeree

Liv’s Beauty Wars Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fifVuhgvQQ8&t=487s

Recommended Reading From Liv: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/@LivBoeree ▬

Connect with Dan Cates

Website: https://www.dancatesfoundation.com/

Instagram: @thedancates

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Brian Rast is an American poker player and winner of five World Series of Poker bracelets. He is one of only two players to have won the $50,000 Poker Players Championship on two occasions, doing so in 2011 and 2016 for combined cashes of over $3,000,000. A high-school valedictorian and Stanford dropout, once discovering poker, Brian has over $22,000,000 in live earnings and ranks 27th on the all-time money list.

Check out this latest episode of Winning The Game Of Life where Dan talks with Brian Rast about all things poker and flexing your global citizenship.

What you can expect to hear on this episode:

An insight into the games in Bobby’s Room at the Bellagio Hotel

A lesson on stud poker and the differences between Full Ring and Shorthanded play COVID hot takes

Brian’s path from high school valedictorian to Stanford dropout to poker player

What the hell Bayesian analysis is and how it can help your poker game

Turkey, Brazil, and some of the other finer things in life

Math and its role in poker

Focus, flow state, and your poker A-game

Brian’s Poker exploits 55:01 Proving your doubters wrong

Being a Bitcoin Bull and hedging on other forms of crypto

A comparison between trading stocks and playing poker

Eschewing borders and embracing a global citizenship

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Connect with Brian Rast

Websites: https://www.BrianRast.com/

Twitter: @BrianRast

Instagram: @BrianRast

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Website: https://www.dancatesfoundation.com/

Instagram: @thedancates

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Douglas Polk is a successful American professional poker player, who is rightfully called one of the best heads-up players in the world. He has earned over 9 million dollars playing poker and holds three WSOP bracelets. having started his way with just $20. However. In his heyday, Polk is a prominent content creator on YouTube, and streamer on Twitch under the handle, “WCGRider.” Polk is also one of the owners of Upswing Poker, one of the best coaching sites around and a Global Brand Ambassador of CoinFLEX, a cryptocurrency exchange.

• What you can expect to hear on this episode:
• Finding the poker game that uses your natural skill set to find success
• Running and coaching a successful stable 10:26 Investing strategies based on your goals
• Who can make a living as a poker player and how
• Doug’s match with Negreanu to settle their feud
• Doug makes Dan speak on his feud with Tom Dwan
• Health regimes, diets, and work-out routines
• Losing money on a business venture but learning valuable lessons
• Crypto scams and dubious promoters
• Dan holds himself accountable for what may be construed as unethical moves at the poker table
• Addressing current trends on cheating in poker, blacklisting, and bans
• A discussion on modern dating and comparing it to poker
• Why Doug started a poker training website

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Connect with Doug Polk

Websites: https://www.upswingpoker.com

https://www.coinflex.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DougPolkPoker

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Tyler Blevins, known as 'Ninja' across social media, is an American gamer, author, and social media star best known for his Fortnite streaming on Twitch. Ninja first started his gamer career in 2009 when he began playing Halo 3 professionally for various organizations. He soon moved to Twitch, where he streamed himself playing Fortnite Battle Royale. In 2018, he set the record on Twitch for the largest concurrent audience on an individual stream (outside of tournament events) when he played Fortnite with Drake, Travis Scott, and Juju Smith-Schuster. Since joining Twitch, Ninja has become one of the most-followed active gamers on Twitch with more than 16.9 million followers. In 2018, Ninja became the first-ever esports gamer to be featured on ESPN Magazine. The gamer has also released several books through a deal with Random House, which includes the popular book “Get Good: My Ultimate Guide to Gaming.” Most recently, Nina joined the Hustler Casino Live poker stream alongside other streamers and poker pros. The game brought together some of social media’s biggest names combined with poker pros.

Listen to this latest episode of Winning The Game Of Life where Dan talks with Ninja about rising to the top of the streaming world and a foray into poker!

What you can expect to hear on this episode:

• The origin of Tyler’s online handle, Ninja
• A shared affinity for bright blue hair
• The early days of the professional gaming circuit
• A rise to the top of the streaming world with 16-hour days
• Finding a balance between building your brand and life at home
• Tyler and his wife’s love story 20:21 Staying humble with great success
• Tips to become a social media star and the wild world of TikTok
• The ebbs and flows of an online following 39:51 Ninja’s newfound obsession with poker
• Learning the basics of pokers to apply your strengths to the game
• Having fun with poker and seeing where it goes
• Building your brand with poker
• How Ninja helps others win the game of life

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Connect with Tyler “Ninja” Blevins:

Website: https://teamninja.com/

Facebook: @Ninja

Twitter: @Ninja

Instagram: @Ninja

TikTok: @Ninja

Twitch: @Ninja

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ninja

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Website: https://www.dancatesfoundation.com/

Instagram: @thedancates

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Maria Ho is a Hall of Fame Professional Poker Player and TV Host/Commentator, born in Taipei, Taiwan and raised in the U.S. With over 4 million dollars in live poker tournament earnings, she is one of the most recognized and successful women in the game and was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame in 2018, the first year she was nominated and eligible.

Listen to this latest episode of Winning The Game Of Life where Dan talks with Maria Ho about sitting at the boy’s table and her hands-on approach to giving back.

What you can expect to hear on this episode:

• A passion for music and contemplating chasing a dream
• Emerging onto the poker scene at the front of the Money-maker Boom
• Breaking it to your parents that your pursuing an unconventional path to success unlike your PHD sibling
• Being the only female at the poker table more often than not
• Traditional gender roles and how they contribute to underrepresentation of women in the poker world
• Fostering an environment that is more inviting to female players and more fun for all
• Transferring success in poker to success in television
• Having one life to live and relishing any challenge and experience that comes your way
• Inspiring a younger generation to embrace their most authentic selves and pursue their unique dreams
• An actionable, hands-on approach to philanthropy
• The incredible challenge that The Amazing Race is

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Websites: https://www.mariaho.com/

Twitter: @MariaHo

Instagram: @Maria_Ho

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Originally from Manalapan, New Jersey, Dan Smith has become a star and future hall-of-famer in poker. With titles including WPT, Aussie Millions, and several high roller titles, Smith currently sits at #5 on the all-time money list. With such accomplishments on the felt, it would be enough to cement his legacy, but what he does off the felt is where he truly shines. Smith runs his annual Double Up Drive for Charity, raising millions of dollars to give to the less fortunate.

Listen to this latest episode of Winning The Game Of Life where these two Dans realize that you don’t have to take the same road to get to the same place.

What you will hear:

• College shenanigans
• A transition from top chess player to top poker player
• Breaking onto the poker scene and realizing how soft so many of the tournaments were
• The wild world of 24-hour poker games in Macau
• Moving from zero sum games to helping the less fortunate
• Two Dans and two different philosophical reasons for charity
• How Dan Smith’s Double Up Drive has raised more than 26 million through matching
• A logical argument for the existence of karma
• Asking if the world can be sustained without charity
• Helping the small village on the other side of the world or helping your cousin go to college
• Dealing with your mental health
• A night partying at burning man and personal revelations made
• The power of a positive mindset

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Connect with Dan Smith

Websites: https://www.dansmithholla.com/

https://doubleupdrive.org/

Twitter: @DanSmithHolla

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Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Eugene Katchalov was raised in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from New York University (NYU) with a business degree, but he has been playing poker professionally for the past four years. One of Katchalov's biggest scores in a live tournament came in a $5,000 no-limit event during the 2007 Bellagio Cup III, where he earned $118,785. He also won the Sunday $750,000-guaranteed tournament on Full Tilt in November of 2007, but nothing compares to the more than $2.4 million that he snagged for winning the 2007 World Poker Tour Five-Diamond World Poker Classic. Katchalov entered the televised final table as the chip leader and rode it all the way to victory. In addition to success at the poker table, Eugene co-founded Qlash in 2017, a new kind of Media company building and supporting Gaming & Esports Communities at the global & local level.

Listen to this latest episode of Winning The Game Of Life where Dan talks with Eugene Katchalov about all things poker and taking life’s free rolls and exploring the possibilities.

What you can expect on this episode:

• Poker as an exercise in psychology and reading peoples tendencies:
• Losing as the best way to learn and the worst way Eugene ever lost
• Dealing with self-doubt to carry on and find success
• Learning how to navigate risk moving from gaming, to poker, to entrepreneurship
• Poker as a zero-sum game and wanting to find the win-win situations
• Eugene’s brief modeling career in Men’s Fitness
• A friendly wager, 1000 push-ups, and a 100 km bike ride across France
• The origin story of Eugene the Entrepreneur and how Clash is creating a new eSports community
• The challenges associated with a startup
• Developing a spiritual self after investigating psychedelics
• Optimism as a synonym for success
• We hope you find this episode as informative and as exciting as we have. Eugene is winning the game of life and illustrates how believing you will win can get you there.
• Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!
• Connect with Eugene Katchalov:
• Website: https://www.qlash.gg/
• Twitter: @eugenekatchalov
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Patrik Antonius has managed to become one of most recognizable and popular names in the poker world. Antonius is best-known as a feared cash game player, having done exceptionally well for himself in both "live" and online cash games, including winning the biggest pot in online poker history. Born and raised in Finland, Patrik Antonius spent time as both a tennis player and coach, and a professional model before becoming a professional poker player. In 2019, Patrik launched FLOP, a digital platform for the poker community to connect players with games, giving them the easiest access possible to games in licensed poker rooms.

Listen to this latest episode of Winning The Game Of Life where Dan talks with Phil Hellmuth Jr about all the possibilities presented to you with a positive perspective.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The prevalence and popularity of poker around the world
• Turning $200 into $30,000 with online poker and never looking back
• Life in Monaco amongst its diverse international community
• Wining the largest pot in online history in 2009
• Patrik’s infamous hand with Doug Polk at the Aussie Millions
• Knowing your foe and learning a player’s tendencies and abilities
• The evolution from amateur poker player to pro

I hope you find this episode as informative and as exciting as we have. Patrik is winning the game of life and shows us another approach to how we can help others in the world win as well!

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Connect with Patrik Antonius:

Website: www.firstlandofpoker.com

Instagram: @Patrik_Antonius_Official

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Website: https://www.dancatesfoundation.com/

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