FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver joins Doug Polk to talk about poker, politics, COVID, Twitter beefs and more.

0:52 Nate joins
2:55 Political betting, FiveThirtyEight vs sports betting markets
11:00 2020 Primaries, Superdelegates
16:29 Polarization of the US population
22:30 WSOP Covid restrictions
34:28 Nonsensical Covid policies
41:42 Nate's upcoming book on gambling/risk
46:22 Nate's poker background, talking all things poker
1:25:38 The Nassim Taleb beef
1:29:35 Why is Nate trending on Twitter today?, Covid talk
1:48:48 Stimulus checks, GOP's future
1:59:32 2024 Election predictions?
2:07:13 Parting words, Nate's WSOP schedule

Mike "The Mouth" Matusow joins Doug Polk to share his thoughts on modern poker strategy, the 2021 WSOP, scammer stories from the early 2000s and more. 

Timestamps: 
0:45 Mike joins 
6:28 What is Mike playing nowadays 
10:31 Matusows thoughts on GTO/solvers 
20:50 What happened with UltimateBet? 
27:01 WSOP 2021, Covid/Vaccination 
38:06 Should the WSOP be cancelled? 
55:44 Reminiscing early 2000s, scammer stories 
1:17:30 Mikes biggest mistakes, growing up and grinding it back 
1:29:55 Playing the victim, talent/luck/hard work 
1:42:45 Social media, medicine/drugs, extra-long sessions 
1:54:25 Deals in tournaments, NBC Heads up 
2:05:03 Parting words, Mikes online home game and podcast 
2:11:04 Outro

The one and only Phil Hellmuth joins Doug Polk to talk about his run of heads-up wins and more.

1:08 Hellmuth joins 
3:25 Phil's Heads Up Duel win streak 
13:28 Hellmuth's success in big field MTT's vs High Rollers 
20:40 White Magic vs GTO 
29:50 Hand histories from the DNegs match 
44:48 Upcoming match vs Tom Dwan 
47:15 Is Phil reasonable? 
58:12 Doug's amazing fold vs Phil 
1:05:50 High Stakes Poker 
1:09:08 World Series of Poker & Covid 
1:20:33 Bitcon Latinum 
1:30:28 Final words 
1:36:37 #POSITIVITY

Ethereum developer Mudit Gupta joins Doug Polk to talk about what really went down with the biggest DeFi hack in the history of cryptocurrency. 

0:38 Mudit joins 
1:54 Rundown of the hack 
8:09 Did this hack use a new strategy? 
14:25 Are DeFi projects really decentralized? 
21:11 Bridges/Multi-blockchain 
28:52 Should we be concerned about the hack? 
33:35 Did the hacker dox himself? 
41:14 Hackers plans, how much money will he keep?
47:30 Mudit's final thoughts 
50:50 Outro

Former poker pro and current rich guy Mike "Timex" McDonald joins Doug Polk to discuss topics that would probably make no sense to your grandma.  DeFi, NFTs, cryptopunks, oh my!

0:31 Intro 
2:22 Mike joins 
4:53 Crypto market today and in the future
 15:17 Equity vs Tokens, FTT/FTX, Uniswap 
30:28 NFT's, CryptoPunks 
51:18 What CryptoPunks could perform well in the future? 
58:25 Collateralized and Fractional NFT's? 
1:09:22 Problems with an NFT representing a physical thing 
1:16:35 Future of the most expensive NFT's 
1:27:40 Will America split up in our lifetime? 
1:44:24 Is Bitcoin the future? 
1:49:08 Outro

If you like hearing about Bitcoin, you're gonna like this one. Doug Polk is joined by the CEO of Riot Blockchain and former high stakes poker pro Jason Les. The duo takes a deep dive into a number of Bitcoin-related topics, including environmental concerns, mining, the recent China ban and more. 

TIMESTAMPS: 
0:33 Intro 
5:56 Upcoming podcast schedule 
8:00 Jason Les joins 
9:20 Bitcoin/market in the last 6-12 months 
15:00 Future of Bitcoin 
29:13 Smart contracts on Bitcoin? 
33:40 Mining, PoW vs PoS 
46:29 The energy consumption of mining, energy sources 
1:02:35 China mining ban, legislation in the US 
1:15:44 Elon Musk 
1:21:44 Transaction fees, can Bitcoins high value be a bad thing? 
1:28:57 What happens when every Bitcoin is mined? 
1:35:55 Jason's rise to success, RIOT, Bitcoins future 
1:40:19 Outro

The elusive Daniel Negreanu joins Doug to talk about playing heads-up versus Phil Hellmuth, his recent victories in the PokerGO Open, and his pick for best tournament player in the world. Plus, Doug reveals a timing tell he had on Daniel.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro 
1:15 Upswing plug 
2:00 Daniel joins 
5:32 Daniel / Hellmuth match 
23:10 Jake Schindler 
29:04 More Heads Up Duel talk, live tells 
52:25 Heads up variance 
1:03:00 WSOP sanctity and re-buys 
1:21:46 Loosey Goosey eating sandwiches 
1:22:50 Landon vs Perkins 
1:28:50 Heads Up format resurgence 
1:41:55 Daniel's goals 
1:46:30 Doug's content comeback

What is the current state of cheating in poker? Are things like preflop charts and HUDs considered cheating - and if not, should they be?  Doug Polk sits down with poker pro Olivier Busquet to flesh out a heated discussion that started on the wonderful website Twitter dot com. 

Timestamps: 
0:00 - Intro 
5:52 - Olivier Joins, discusses preflop chart opinions 
9:38 - History of preflop charts 
13:28 - Lack of transparency in poker industry
 23:45 - HUD use 
24:50 - Who should be responsible? TOS evolutions 
44:32 - "Fair and Square or Cheater There?" 
1:08:05 - The slippery slope of pre-flop charts and the bigger fight against RTA 
1:14:30 - What is good for Rec players
 1:19:46 - Who is hurt most by preflop charts 
1:24:00 - Doug and social media 
1:28:20 - Olivier's history playing HUSNG

Young poker pro Landon Tice agreed to pay businessman Bill Perkins $3,600 for every 100 hands the two played in a $200/$400 heads-up challenge. The match was meant to last 20,000 hands, but Landon threw in the towel less than 25% of the way to the finish line. Doug Polk is joined by Jason Mo, Kevin Rabichow and Bill Perkins to parse out the not-so-epic conclusion to the match. 

 Timestamps: 
0:00 to 3:53 - Intro 
3:53 to 43:32 - Jason Mo
43:33 to 1:39:34 - Kevin Rabichow 
1:39:35 to 2:46:29 - Bill Perkins

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