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  • Learning Transferable Skills with Wayne Yap

    Wayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker.

    In this episode, Wayne talks about how he used the biggest downswing of his life to his advantage.

    2:31 – Wayne talks about the biggest downswing in his life

    3:35 – How Wayne got out of his downswing

    4:11- Wayne talks about the concentration camp survivors

    5:05 – Wayne shares what he can do to move forward

    5:44 – He shares how he became a bigger and better version of himself

    6:54- Handling Setbacks lesson 1 – Always make your future bigger than your past

    7:44 – Handling setbacks lesson 2 –You can always separate your thoughts from your emotion

    8:24 – Handling setbacks lesson 3 – The biggest breakthrough you get from your setbacks

    Link and Resources:

    https://www.wayneyap.sg/

    https://www.jumpstakes.com/

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/jumpstakespoker

    https://www.instagram.com/waynejumpstakes/

    www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-yap-jumpstakes

    8 min
  • Risk of Ruin with Wayne Yap

    Wayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker.

    In this episode, Wayne talks about how you can avoid risk of ruin.

    0.49- What is the risk of ruin.

    2.27- The opportunity cost when you reach risk of ruin

    4.33- Opportunity cost with risk of ruin connects each other.

    5.40- Ego plays an important role in the risk of ruin.

    6.39- You have to develop your wealth

    Link and Resources:

    https://www.wayneyap.sg/

    https://www.jumpstakes.com/

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/jumpstakespoker

    https://www.instagram.com/waynejumpstakes/

    www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-yap-jumpstakes

    9 min
  • What Triggers You with Wayne Yap

    Wayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker.

    In this episode, Wayne talks about how you can find your triggers and how to control them

     

    1.34- It's always a lesson

    2.36- Always try to understand what triggered are you at that point

    4.07- Merge your real life experience with poker

    4.37- Always focus on 1 main thing at a time.  

    Link and Resources:

    https://www.wayneyap.sg/

    https://www.jumpstakes.com/

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/jumpstakespoker

    https://www.instagram.com/waynejumpstakes/

    www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-yap-jumpstakes

    8 min
  • It's Not About the Cards with Wayne Yap

    Wayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker.

    In this episode, Wayne talks about how you can maximise your game even with "bad" cards

    1:23- Don't wish that it was different.

    2.01- You can always say NO.

    2.41- Sunk cost fallacy 

    4.10- Maximize the probability of success

     

    Link and Resources:

    https://www.wayneyap.sg/

    https://www.jumpstakes.com/

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/jumpstakespoker

    https://www.instagram.com/waynejumpstakes/

    www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-yap-jumpstakes

    6 min
  • Handling Toxic Environments with Wayne Yap

    Wayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker.

     In this episode, Wayne talks about how he uses toxic environments to his advantage.

    1.14- Lesson 1 - Use your environment to learn lessons 

    2.43- Lesson 2 - Handle parts that you can handle

    4.02 – Lesson 3 – If you are part of the toxic environment you have to take of it efficiently.

    5.20- Lesson 4 – There's always good in any environment.

    Link and Resources:

    https://www.wayneyap.sg/

    https://www.jumpstakes.com/

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/jumpstakespoker

    https://www.instagram.com/waynejumpstakes/

    www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-yap-jumpstakes

    7 min
  • Feedback Loops with Wayne Yap

    Wayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker.

    In this episode, Wayne talks about how he uses feedback loops to his advantage

    0:50- What is a feedback loop

    1:22- Lesson 1 - Iteration 

    1:44 – Lesson 2 – Get enough sample size first.

    3.50- Lesson 3 – You have to accumulate standard variation

    3:46 – Taking care of the large feedback loops 

    Link and Resources:

    https://www.wayneyap.sg/

    https://www.jumpstakes.com/

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/jumpstakespoker

    https://www.instagram.com/waynejumpstakes/

    www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-yap-jumpstakes

    8 min
  • Hedge Fund with Bill Perkins

    Bill Perkins

    Mr William O. Perkins, also known as Bill, III, serves as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner at Skylar Resources LP. Mr Perkins is the Founder and President of Small Ventures USA, L.P. He founded Small Ventures USA in 1997. Most recently, Mr Perkins has been a significant market participant for Centaurus Energy, where he joined at inception in 2002. Mr Perkins has a 12-year history of energy derivatives trading, holding senior risk management and trading positions at AIG, El Paso Energy and Statoil. He serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Cutuco Energy Central America. He serves as a Director of NorthernStar Natural Gas Inc. Mr Perkins has produced several films under his production company, Lleju Productions and Films, including After. Life, The Chameleon and Road Kill. He is an active participant in the Save the Children charitable organisation. Mr Perkins received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa.

     Perkins graduated as Electrical and Electronics Engineer from the University of Iowa and worked under oil trader, John D. Arnold for several years before starting his own hedge fund. During his 12-year career, Perkins directed NorthernStar Natural Gas and was the CEO of Cutuco Energy Central America. Perkins actively traded the stock market turning a $1.25 million profit trading Goldman Sachs in September 2008. In 2009 Perkins became involved in film production, producing various films including After. Life (2009), Unthinkable (2010), and Cat Run (2011).

    Perkins is an avid poker player and has entered multiple events including the World Series of Poker Big One for One Drop, PokerStars Big Game, PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and "High stakes poker" as well as Poker Night On Wall Street. Perkins is friends with Dan Bilzerian, and they are often seen together. As of 2015, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,500,000 of which $1,965,163 have come from his One Drop cash at the WSOP.

     

    In this episode:

    00:08– About Bill Perkins

    00:51– Bill Perkins talks about liking puzzles

    2:45- The process of learning Chess

    4:55– Why Bill believes "delayed gratification is no gratification"

    5:57- How Bill came up with his model

    10:17- How does it work with longevity? Bill explains that

    16:16- Bill's thoughts on retirement

    18:09- How Bill lives his life

    18:59- How Bill takes the risk of running on autopilot

    21:31- Bill talks about the different seasons of life

    27:50- Bill discusses his upcoming book "Die With Zero"

    34:40– Bill talks about the importance of health

    44:44- The importance of discipline

    51:12- Focus on the thing that people can do

    58:35- Believing in the supernatural

    59:40– Importance of meditation and healing the body and mind

     

    Links and Resources:

    https://twitter.com/bp22

    https://raiseyouredge.com/meet-the-team

    https://www.instagram.com/billperkins/

     

    1 hr 5 min
  • Handling Setbacks with Wayne Yap

    Wayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker.

    In this episode, Wayne talks about how he used the biggest downswing of his life to his advantage.

    2:31 – Wayne talks about the biggest downswing in his life

    3:35 – How Wayne got out of his downswing

    4:11- Wayne talks about the concentration camp survivors

    5:05 – Wayne shares what he can do to move forward

    5:44 – He shares how he became a bigger and better version of himself

    6:54- Handling Setbacks lesson 1 – Always make your future bigger than your past

    7:44 – Handling setbacks lesson 2 –You can always separate your thoughts from your emotion

    8:24 – Handling setbacks lesson 3 – The biggest breakthrough you get from your setbacks

    Link and Resources:

    https://www.wayneyap.sg/

    https://www.jumpstakes.com/

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/jumpstakespoker

    https://www.instagram.com/waynejumpstakes/

    www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-yap-jumpstakes

    10 min
  • Polarisation with Wayne Yap

    Wayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker.

    0:27- Wayne speaks about the relationship between polarisation and poker

    1:13- Wayne talks about the benefits of this approach and how people think in the long term.

    1:40 – Wayne talks about the objectives of polarisation.

    2:22- The necessity of polarisation.

    2:59 – the benefit of polarisation.  

    Link and Resources:

    https://www.wayneyap.sg/

    https://www.jumpstakes.com/

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/jumpstakespoker

    https://www.instagram.com/waynejumpstakes/

    www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-yap-jumpstakes

    4 min
  • Expected Value with Wayne Yap

    Wayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker.

    In this episode, Wayne will discuss the basics of Expected Value and the practicalities of it in everyday life.

    0:21- Wayne gives the definition of Expect Value.

    0:42- What is expect a value in the long term.

    1:34- The randomness in basically everything.

    3:15- Expected Value application in the real world

    Link and Resources:

    https://www.wayneyap.sg/

    https://www.jumpstakes.com/

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/jumpstakespoker

    https://www.instagram.com/waynejumpstakes/

    www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-yap-jumpstakes

    4 min

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We interview Ex High Stakes Poker players that have transitioned to other careers. Our mission is to bring the raw intelligence of poker players from a world of value extraction to the value creation…