#611: Liv Boeree, Poker and Life — Core Strategies, Turning $500 into $1.7M, Cage Dancing, Game Theory, and Metaphysical Curiosities

Liv Boeree, Poker and Life — Core Strategies, Turning
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Liv Boeree (@Liv_Boeree) is one of the UK’s most
successful poker players, winning both European Poker Tour and
World Series of Poker championship titles during her professional
career. Before poker she studied astrophysics and now focuses her
time as a TV host and YouTuber specializing in game theory,
futurism, and rationality. She also gives seminars on high-stakes
decision-making, and recently spoke at the annual TED conference
about the application of poker thinking to everyday life. In
2014, she co-founded Raising for Effective Giving (REG), a
nonprofit based upon the philosophies of effective altruism that
has raised over $14,000,000 for its carefully selected list of
maximally cost-effective charities.


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[06:41] Youthful obsessions.


[11:14] How poker entered the picture.


[18:55] The qualities that made Liv excel at poker from the
start.


[27:22] Liv’s advice to a newcomer wanting to learn poker.


[34:04] What Liv’s eight-week poker education curriculum might
look like.


[42:11] Failure points that might discourage someone during this
curriculum.


[44:07] Red mist, white noise, and fast math.


[50:18] Volcano-induced tournament participation and
self-regulation.


[59:07] A skeptic’s experiences with the unexplainable.


[1:14:59] How does Liv rationally coexist with these experiences?


[1:18:49] How to become a better skeptic.


[1:24:59] Inadequate Equilibria and Moloch.


[1:29:49] Parting thoughts.


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