Dan "Jungleman" Cates

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Max Lacerda is a 27 year old Brazilian professional mid-high stakes online cash game player and co-owner of world's biggest cash game stable/CFP, Metagame.

Saulo Costa is a poker coach, content creator and founder of Metagame, one of the largest cash game staking companies in the world. Check out his free weekly newsletter here: https://saulocosta.poker/newsletter

Here is what you can expect to hear on this week's episode:

0:00 Introduction

1:03 METAGAME - $7 Million Made Backing Players Around the World

3:18 The Poker Dream in the Developing World

5:05 All Stakes Are Beatable

7:47 You Can't Compare Dan to the Average Poker Player

8:37 How Long Does it Take to make a Profitable Poker Player?

16:12 What a Typical Student Looks Like

19:40 Online Cash Games - The Path That Makes More Sense

24:36 The Staking Business - Difficult to Maneuver

29:19 Selecting the Right Players to Stake - More Than Poker Metrics

33:00 Psychological support for your players

41:50 The History of METAGAME

44:15 Pure Betting - A Diversion Into Strategy

49:05 Building Bots to Gather Data

51:40 A Virtuous Poker Culture

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Winning the Game of Life—Dylan Weisman

'Dr. GTO' has the Antidote for Bad Poker

Supercharge Your Poker Game with Coaching

A Prescription for the Poker Community from 'Dr. GTO'

Bet on Yourself, Join a Poker Community

Take Your Poker Game to the Next Level with Coaching

‘Dr. GTO’ Dylan Weisman is Lead Instructor for Upswing PLO and Founder of Weisman Consulting Group, where he serves as a peak performance coach for poker players and business executives.

Dylan started playing poker professionally at age 16 but took a break from the game to earn a degree in financial math and statistics at UC Santa Barbara and pursue a career in project management and business operations.

Since returning to poker, Dylan has played in the largest PLO cash games in Vegas. Some of his most notable wins include the US Poker Open 25k and a 2021 WSOP bracelet.

Here is what you can expect to hear on this week's episode:

[0:33] Introduction

[2:58] Poker Coaching to Common Tendencies

[5:32] Diagnosing & Overcoming a Player’s Leaks

[9:19] Applying Learnings in a Live Environment

[11:15] The Benefits of Learning Poker in Community

[17:31] Cooperation in a Poker Ecosystem

[20:49] The Feasibility of Poker as a Career

[28:40] What Inspired Dan’s Discord Community

[32:25] Making a Positive Impact with Poker

[36:42] Financial Independence Through Poker

[39:13] Applying Business Fundamentals to Poker

[44:37] Pros & Cons of Exploitative Communication

[49:35] How to Communicate Negative Feedback

[54:49] Potential Collaborations Among Poker Influencers

[59:01] Moral Ambiguity in Poker

[1:05:33] How Dylan Defines a Community’s Success

[1:09:54] Creating Justice in Poker Communities

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Patrick Howard is a data-driven poker strategist renowned for his evidence-based approach and exceptional results. With a bachelor's degree in physics and a brief stint in biophysics research at New York University, Patrick transitioned to poker full-time in 2019.

As an online cash game player, Patrick swiftly climbed from 200nl to 2000nl in just six months. His expertise led him to lead the cash game division at Poker Detox Coaching For Profits, where he helped the team generate over $5M in profits over three years.

In 2022, Patrick founded Mobius Cash, an elite community for high-stakes players. Here, he focuses on analyzing solver databases to develop simplified game theory optimal strategies, empowering players to excel in the competitive world of poker.

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

0:00 Introduction

1:19 Concern Over The Path for New Poker Players

3:35 Average Win Rates Online

7:03 Why Charge So Much Rake?

9:59 A Non-Sustainable Direction for Online Poker

12:46 A Lack of Transparency in Calculating Rake-Back

14:22 Is the Poker Boom Over - No More Reg Battling

20:18 The Landscape of Online Poker

24:39 The Bot Problem in Online Poker

29:28 Rooting Out Cheaters

3:17 Mass Data Analysis

52:28 High Stakes Poker is Safer

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Oleg Ostroumov is a mathematician and a poker player who created the world’s first No-Limit Hold'em solver in 2013 and a Triple Draw solver in 2014, which calculated Nash Equilibrium (also known as GTO strategy) for those games. Oleg then partnered with a group of elite players—including Trueteller, Alex ‘Kanu7’ Millar, RaulGonzalez, and Daniel Cates—and played a pivotal role in their rise to prominence.

He previously dropped out of college to play poker professionally full-time.

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

0:00 Introduction

1:00 Working With the Big Names in Poker

4:50 The Beauty of Nash Equilibrium

7:58 Best Response - Predicting Your Opponent’s Strategy

10:33 Early to the Game with Solvers

14:09 A Bet to Disprove Nash Equilibrium and Other Failures

18:51 Making the Case for Solvers

23:11 Ancient Wisdom - Jungle’s Solver Realization

30:42 Who is Better at Poker - Man or Machine?

39:35 All the Possible Solvers

45:14 Dividing the Shares - The Worth of a Solver

50:27 The Untold Effects of Making Money

54:59 Finding Meaning in the Work You’re Doing

1:01:06 Groundbreaking CFR Work

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Igor Kurganov is a Russian-born poker player with over $18 million in live tournament cashes. Kurganov has a WSOP gold bracelet from a win in the 2017 $10,000 Tag Team Championship with his partner Liv Boeree.

Kurganov studied math in Munich before he became a professional poker player. His top scores include million dollar finishes in high roller events at EPT Monte Carlo, as well as a victory in the Super High Roller at PokerStars Championship Barcelona in 2017 and a final table run at the GuangDong Asia Millions Main Event in Macau in 2013.

As of late, Kurganov is more known for his organization, Raising for Effective Giving (REG) founded in 2014 by the pair and his ties to Elon Musk. The organization strives to empower people to make better giving choices by promoting the idea of effective giving, providing donation advice to individuals and organizations, and supporting fundraising campaigns and events.

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

0:00 Introduction

3:00 Promoting Positive Social Impact - REG

10:13 Strengthening Critical Thinking with Poker

19:13 Oxford - The Intellectual Center of Effective Altruism

20:30 Autism, Effective Altruism, and Quantification

22:28 Are We Sure About Infinity?

26:55 Existential Risk Prevention

30:51 Ai Made Me Quit Poker - Changing the Game to Keep it Human

35:22 Afterlife or Not - Make the Most of It

39:20 The Hedonic Treadmill

44:20 Rogue AI - Preventing Catastrophe

51:50 Valuing Truth - Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain

56:15 Defining Value Systems

1:06:07 Working to Improve the World with Elon Musk

1:11:55 The Role of Poker Players in REG

1:16:55 EA - Does it Give Us the Answer to Everything

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Victoria Livschitz is a technologist, innovator and serial tech entrepreneur with 10+ companies in different industries, including Grid Dynamics, an early pioneer in cloud computing that went public in 2020. Also avid our doorwoman, she has trekked thousands of miles of wilderness from polar Alaska to Southern Patagonia. For the last two years Victoria has been deeply enamored with poker - the game, the community and the industry. She plays in major tournaments around the world, including High Roller MTTs, with several titles wins, including two recent FTs at PokerGO Masters. Victoria is also a co-founder of OctopiPoker.ai with LuckyChewy and Nick Schulman - the new poker tech company. Finally, Victoria is a co-founder of Pocket Queens - a study group, turned global platform for women to pursue mastery in poker.

Here is what you can expect to hear on this week's episode:

0:00 Introduction

2:19 A Career in Tech

6:35 Burnout

7:18 Discovering Mountains

9:21 Binging Final Tables and Discovering High Stakes Poker

13:03 Absolutely Hooked on Poker

14:55 Transfer Learning - Making Poker Simple

16:45 An Unusual Success Story

23:58 A Hostile Business Takeover and Reception in Moscow with Schwarzenegger

35:51 Poker's Black Friday

43:06 Mindset

51:51 A Genetic Edge - ADHD and Hyper-Focus

1:09:06 Octopi Poker - How Do You Want to Learn Poker?

1:35:40 How to Scale Social Impact

1:48:03Bringing Women to the Poker World

152:20 Hard Problems Require Nerds

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Websites: https://rightontrek.com/

https://octopipoker.ai/

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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.

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

0:00 Introduction

0:49 Maria’s Win Against Jungleman…Or Was it Danny McFanny…on GOG

2:54 A Positive Win for Women in Poker?

4:58 The Team Experience on GOG

10:15 Jungleman Gives Maria a Gift and She Loses It

11:18 Where Does GOG Stack Up Against Other Poker Shows?

14:29 The Feedback on Maria’s Play

16:33 Lucky to Get Out Alive – Maria’s Toughest Heads-Up Match Ever Played

18:50 The Characters on GOG

21:37 A Maria Ho Bluff!? – A Hand Analysis

26:09 Leveling Up in Poker

28:24 Words of Wisdom for Aspiring GOG Players

32:09 I Own Your Soul – It’s Good to Have a Nemesis

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Steven Jones is an American poker player based in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is best known for his final table run in the 2023 World Series of Poker Main Event. Jones entered the final table of the 2023 Main Event second in chips after a run of good on Day 7 put him among the leaders. He managed to maintain that performance through Day 8 and 9 of the 2023 WSOP Maine Event, reaching the final three with a significant chip lead over his two remaining opponents.

Prior to his 2023 Main Event run, Jones had $245,346 in live tournament cashes. The biggest of these wins was $57,425 for a ninth place finish in 2018’s WSOP Event #07: $565 No Limit Hold'em Colossus.

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

0:00 Introduction

0:27 2023 WSOP’s Main Event Runner-Up – A Dream Come True

2:34 Real Estate Broker by Day, Poker Player by Night

5:12 Real Estate Brokerage – What Are We Talking About Here?

8:44 Who You Partner With is Everything

10:54 Investing in Real Estate

13:25 Squeezing the Middle Class - The State of the Housing Market

16:07 Finding a Mentor to Learn the Basics

19:17 Balancing a Professional Life and Poker – Grinding Your Face Off

22:38 Why Poker? I like Money!

24:11 Finding the Action

26:25 Poker Travel Plans

27:30 Overseas Real Estate Opportunity – Too Complicated?

29:57 The Problem with Charity

33:09 Positive Thought and Abundance

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Nikita Luther is a professional poker player from India with more than half a million dollars in live tournament cashes.

Luther can be seen on the first season of GGPoker's Game of Gold, a poker reality competition on the GGPoker YouTube channel.

Through her career, Luther has won one WSOP bracelet in the 2018 WSOP Tag Team Event with her teammate Giuseppe Pantaleo. She also made deep runs in the 2021 WSOP Tag Team Event (15th - $2,288), the 2019 WSOP Bracelet Winners Only Event (13th - $3,584), and the 2018 $3,000 No Limit Hold’em Event (17th - $18,495). In 2023, Luther also made a deep run in the WSOP Main Event, finding herself among the chip leaders at the end of Day 4.

Nikita is also an Ambassador for Natural8 India, and is the only poker player to give a TedX Talk in India.

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

0:00 Introduction

1:06 Poker’s Secret Star – Bringing on the Heat

3:37 Game of Gold – Some Insane Hands

11:28 Big Time Poker Study Habits

12:08 Adventures at Poker Boot Camp

14:36 Beating all the Guys

17:10 Creating Opportunities from Your Weakness

20:53 The Problem with Being Underestimated

26:52 So Much Abundance

28:03 The Advantage of Being a Woman

29:55 Emotional Stability

31:37 Using Your Intuition

36:34 Game of Gold – Poker’s Reality TV

38:28 Classy Anger

41:04 Poker in India – Bigger Than Ever But Still Taboo

47:41 Picking Up Table Reads as a Woman

49:34 A Commitment to the Character

54:09 Magic Moment

56:18 If You Risk Nothing You Risk Everything

56:49 Nikita’s Ted Talk – Keep Uncomfortable

1:00:39 Grabbing Every Opportunity

1:04:30 Working To Break the Stereotypes

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Stephen Chidwick is a professional poker player from Deal, England. He is best known for his tournament career, where he is the highest-earning tournament player from England. Stephen is in the top 5 in the world for tournament poker earnings. He is known as one of the most impressive opponents in the modern era of poker, and he without a doubt has the results to back up this claim.

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

0:00 Introduction

1:06 Building a Bankroll With Free Rolls

3:02 Outgrowing Sit and Goes

5:56 Can You Be the Next Stephen Chidwick – Learning from Sit and Goes

10:50 A Method to the Madness in Mixed Games

12:40 Not Allowing Reads at a Tournament

14:45 An Early Adopter of Solvers – Knowing the Potential

17:30 Striking Discoveries with ICM Study

26:50 The Biggest Equity Pot I’ve Played

33:05 To Be or Not to Be Entertaining at the Table

37:16 The Poker Content We’re Missing

39:53 Intense Stare Downs & The Softer Side of the Game – Calm Ferocity

42:50 Exercise & Success at the Table

44:15 Jungleman Gets an Invite to Rock Climb

46:20 Trying to Measure Focus

51:13 Spirituality and Breathwork

56:38 Neuropeak Pro – The Bio-Feedback You Need to Win

1:12:55 Quelling Self Criticism

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