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Sergii Levchenko, also known by his online alias "Jayser1337," is a highly skilled professional poker player and coach from Ukraine. Specializing in Game Theory Optimal (GTO) strategies, he has made a name for himself in the world of high-stakes online poker. Over time, he transitioned into coaching, where he helps players sharpen both their technical abilities and mental approach to the game. Levchenko believes that while online poker faces technological challenges, live poker will continue to thrive, and he emphasizes that genuine passion for the game is key to long-term success in poker.

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

0:00 Introduction

1:25 Perfectionism – A Deadly Sin in Poker

3:10 A Sleek Coaching Site Built with AI

4:35 The Pareto Principle - The 80/20 Rule and How it Applies to Coaching

8:15 The GTO Shove – A Pre-flop Hack

16:32 A Solid Ascent Up the Stakes

18:45 Overcoming Challenges to Break Through

22:50 Coping Mechanisms - Music, Travel, and Alone Time

29:10 Winning the Game of Life - Following your passions

35:20 Coaching the Fear Out

44:50 Different Strokes for Different Folks

50:00 Deep Incentive and Finding Motivation

57:00 Social Causes

1:04:30 Poker – Where the Final Goal is Not as Important as the Process

1:07:30 Choosing Your Students

1:13:00 Success Stories

Follow Sergii "Jayser1337" Levchenko:

Youtube:  @Jayser1337 

Website: www.jpokerschool.com

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Poker strategy tips

Poker tournament highlights

Poker player profiles

Poker player rankings

Poker coaching

Poker mental game

GTO Wizard - The best way to learn and practice GTO!

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Chris Hunichen, also known as "Big Huni," is a renowned professional poker player from the United States, recognized for his exceptional skills in both online and live tournaments. With a background in online gaming, where he quickly rose to prominence, Hunichen has amassed millions in earnings, making him one of the most successful online poker players in the world. His transition to live poker has been equally impressive, with numerous deep runs and titles in major events, including the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the PokerStars Championship. Known for his strategic prowess and adaptability, Hunichen continues to be a dominant force in the poker community.

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

0:00 Introduction

1:24 Polk vs. Hunichen – A Go-Fund Me Controversy

5:42 Showing Generosity

8:46 A 2.8 Million Dollar Win and a WSOP Bracelet

12:33 Standout Hands from His WSOP Win

18:05 A Positive Mindset and the “Sickest” Rail of All Time

19:28 One of the Best - Online Poker’s Triple Crown Winne

21:30 NOT Talking Live Tells

24:56 The ROI of a Great Online Player

27:53 Online Cheating

34:53 A Drastic Black Friday

36:44 Scams, Hard Vouches and Mental Health Downswings

41:10 A Move to Costa Rica and Grinding to Recovery

46:15 Future Plans

47:52 What’s so Great About Costa Rica?

52:08 Balancing Your Life

Follow Chris Hunichen:

X (Formerly Twitter): @bighuni

Instagram: @thebighuni

Facebook: Chris Hunichen

Follow "Jungleman" Dan Cates:

Instagram:@thedancates

X (Formerly Twitter): @junglemandan

Poker strategy tips

Poker tournament highlights

Poker player profiles

Poker player rankings

Poker coaching

Poker mental game

GTO Wizard - The best way to learn and practice GTO!

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Benjamin Rolle, widely recognized by his online moniker "bencb789," is a distinguished figure in the poker world, renowned for his exceptional skills and strategic acumen in both online and live tournaments. Originally from Germany, Rolle began his poker journey in 2009, grinding $1 Sit & Go (SNG) tournaments. His dedication and sharp analytical approach saw him climb the ranks to the high-stakes $5000 SNGs. In 2014, he transitioned to Multi-Table Tournament (MTT) poker, further establishing his reputation as a formidable opponent. His deep understanding of game theory and strategic play has earned him substantial winnings and respect among his peers. Not just a player, Benjamin is also an esteemed coach; in 2015, he founded Raise Your Edge, a poker training site that released the immensely popular Tournament Masterclass in 2016, helping countless players improve their game.

Off the felt, Benjamin Rolle is known for his disciplined lifestyle and commitment to personal growth, attributes that have significantly contributed to his success. Emphasizing the importance of mental and physical well-being, he integrates practices such as meditation and fitness into his daily routine. Beyond poker, Rolle ventured into esports, founding Acend Club in 2019, which notably became the first Valorant World Champions. Currently based in Sofia, he has rented and built an 800m² gaming and bootcamp facility, serving both Acend teams and poker bootcamps. Benjamin is also actively involved in charitable endeavors, leveraging his platform to give back to the community. His multifaceted approach to life and poker has made him a role model for aspiring players worldwide, demonstrating that success in poker is as much about personal development as it is about mastering the game.

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

0:00 Introduction

1:28 Losing Most of Your Bankroll

6:53 Where to Find the Best Online Games

14:28 Finding Your Exploits Multi-tabling in Online Poker

21:20 Adjusting Your Ranges Based on Your Observations

29:20 The Most Important Concepts to Study for Tournament or Online Play

34:03 How Much Emphasis to Put on Solvers and GTO

Follow Benjamin Rolle:

X (Formerly Twitter): @bencb789

Instagram: @bencb789

YouTube:  @RaiseYourEdge 

Website: https://www.raiseyouredge.com/

Follow "Jungleman" Dan Cates:

Instagram:@thedancates

X (Formerly Twitter): @junglemandan

Poker strategy tips

Poker tournament highlights

Poker player profiles

Poker player rankings

Poker coaching

Poker mental game

GTO Wizard - The best way to learn and practice GTO!

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Syrian businessman Mazzi Dumato opted for a complete life overhaul after he crashed his Ferrari in Dubai in 2016. Feeling lucky to be alive, the real estate and internet investor ditched his playboy lifestyle in favor of a simple, hippie existence and gave away the vast majority of his $3 million fortune to charity. Discovering it was all a scam, Mazzi embarked on another journey and embraced meditation and metaphysics, discovering his selfless mission of service to others. Mazzi currently lives in Guatemala teaching the meditation, yoga, and metaphysics that brought him peace and happiness.

Listen to this latest episode of Winning The Game Of Life where Dan talks with Mazzi Dumato to discuss poker, true peace and happiness, and service to others.

What you can expect to hear on this episode:

• A transition from international businessman to poker player
• Playing with house money and becoming a horse
• Giving a fortune away to charity
• The competitive high-powered lifestyle in Dubai
• A chance encounter, a viral video, and the revelation of a scam
• More money, more problems
• Embracing meditation, yoga, and metaphysics
• Discovering a selfless mission of service
• Achieving true happiness by authentically discovering yourself

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

Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!

Connect with Mazzi Dumato

Website: https://www.laspiramidesdelka.com

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

Instagram: @thedancates

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Nick Schulman is an American professional poker player and poker commentator. He has won 3 WSOP gold bracelets so far; as well as a WPT title in 2005, at the time, the youngest player ever to do so. Overall, he has over $13 million live tournament cashes, which puts him in the top 100 on the worldwide all-time money list and in the top 50 on the US all-time money list. He’s also a regular in the world’s most famous super high stakes cash game room, Bobby’s Room at the Bellagio. Schulman is also known as a frequent commentator for ESPN’s World Series of Poker coverage. In 2019, his offhand remark about the level of play in the WSOP Main Event caused some controversy in the online poker community.

Listen to this latest episode of Winning The Game Of Life where Dan talks with Nick Schulman to discuss all things poker and taking the good in front of you.

What you can expect to hear on this episode:

Making a living hustling at the pool table

Similarities between poker and pool

Learning poker through repetition and feel

Garnering respect with an aggressive style of play

Playing with no attachments and bringing your hutzpah

Being yourself at the poker table and flowing how you flow

Bad winners and bad losers as one in the same

Finding the good in other players and taking it with you going forward

Personal growth away from the poker table and the way of the samurai

I hope you find this episode as informative and as exciting as we have. Nick Schulman is winning the game of life and his positive spin on things can help others win as well!

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Connect with Nick Schulman

Facebook: @NickSchulman

Instagram: @NickSchulman

Twitter: @NickSchulman

Connect with Dan Cates

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

Instagram: @thedancates "Finding The Good And Letting The Bad Go"

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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

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

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Connect with Steve Albini

Websites: https://www.electricalaudio.com

https://www.letterstosanta.com

https://www.unconditionalgiving.org

Connect with Dan Cates

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

Instagram: @thedancates

GTO Wizard - The best way to learn and practice GTO!

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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

I hope you find this episode as informative and as exciting as we have. Jennifer is winning the game of life and is helping others win the game of life as well!

Please let us know your thoughts on the episode!

Connect with Jennifer Harman

Facebook: @JenniferHarman

Twitter: @JenniferHarman

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

I hope you enjoy checking out this episode! Brian Rast is winning the game of life and illustrates how we can help others get there as well!

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Connect with Brian Rast

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

Twitter: @BrianRast

Instagram: @BrianRast

Connect with Dan Cates

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

Instagram: @thedancates

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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!

Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!

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

GTO Wizard - The best way to learn and practice GTO!

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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

I hope you enjoy watching this episode! Doug Polk is winning the game of life and illustrates how we can help others win as well!

Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!

Connect with Doug Polk

Websites: https://www.upswingpoker.com

https://www.coinflex.com

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

Connect with Dan Cates

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

Instagram: @thedancates