Explore every episode of the podcast Poker With Presence

Winner of the 2023 WSOP $25k bracelet event, Alexandre Vuilleumier, comes on the show to discuss his 1.2 million dollar victory,  lessons learned from being an international master in chess, and how to grow your passion for the game while also increasing your productivity at the same time.

You can find Alexandre's new Precision Poker masterclass  on Upswing Poker:

https://upswingpoker.com/precision-poker-mastering-methodology/

High stakes pro and 3rd place finisher in the 2019 WSOP main event Alex Livingston shares his best advice on how to stay energized and motivated in the long run by making the game as fun as possible—not just for yourself, but for others around you as well.

High stakes pro and performance coach Jared Alderman drops in to share his experience of going through the legendary Navy SEAL training—and all the harsh but needed lessons that came with it.

Poker's funniest commentator drops by to discuss humor, luck, and the value of being brutally honest with yourself in front of others.

Kevin Rabichow drops in to talk about battling Ivey and Negreanu heads up, the most efficient ways to learn poker, and what it's like to become a recognizable high stakes pro.

To check out Kevin's new course, The Game Plan, visit: https://www.runitonce.com/courses/the-game-plan/

The legend Phil Galfond drops in to discuss how principles from the world of improv can help increase your performance at the poker table, in business, and in life.

Chance Kornuth of Chip Leader Coaching joins the show to shares his thoughts on how to best use tells and behavior patterns to maximize your winnings.

Marle joins the show to talk about her creative process, what it's like to put your work out for the whole world to see, and the importance of being open to receiving feedback.

The 2014 WSOP main event champion Martin Jacobson joins the show to talk about how he approaches high performance in big situations,  what he finds to be the most efficient ways to study and learn new ideas, and much more.

Check out Martin's course: www.prepare-perform.com

Whether you want to get invited to juicer games, or just have more good things come into your life, you need to be able to connect with others in a way that feels good to them—from a place of genuine authenticity.

The thing about you that you're most embarrassed about is also the thing that's going to give you the most fuel to propel you to your highest goals, once you get fully resolved about them inside yourself.

Presence can take you far beyond making more money at the poker table. And once it does, you'll make even more money at the poker table.

There are thousands of different ways people try to manipulate their thoughts—but only one way to directly make your nervous system feel better.

The more you open to feeling your feelings as they come, the more you'll improve your mental and physical well-being in your life—and your performance capabilities will go higher than ever before.

Depending on what state you're in, you might be seeing what's actually there, or you might just be making up a whole bunch of stories in your mind and then acting on them.

The way that you approach small decisions that have very little consequence either way determines how well you're going to be able to stay connected and solid when you find yourself facing a very big decision that will matter a lot.

You'll never create lasting change if you can't find the thing that's currently keeping yourself from acting in the way you'd like.

As you stay more present and connected to yourself, your style will emerge, and it will be unique to you.

Your ability to focus deeply on the task in front of you—without splitting your attention off into the future—will determine how well you can perform at any given time.

When you start to identify too strongly with your issues, they become a necessary part of your regular human experience, and you'll do whatever it takes to keep it that way.

Presence is effortless—and if your way of playing is to focus as hard as you can and tire yourself out, that's not it.

Andrew Lichtenberger joins the show to talk all things presence, such as: what it's like to be perceived by others the way he is, how he's able to blend technical mastery with intuition, and what he meant when he tweeted that luck might be just "another form of skill."

Whether playing poker or dealing with holiday travel, learning how to accept things as they come—as a feeling, not a thought—will get you where you want to go.

If you're having trouble being totally happy for people around you having success, you've got a big problem on your hands.

When you fixate on wanting something to be true, you'll start to convince yourself things are true when they aren't—and this will derail your performance over time.

Educating players at the table is a financial disaster, but something that happens all the time if you get overly dependent on external things for validation.

The key to winning in any game is always staying one step ahead

The worst advice you can implement into your game in big moments is to "act like you've been there before," because you haven't—and trying to pretend you have will create tension in your system and take you out of presence.

When you stop trying to pretend you're something you're not, a huge weight drops away and you can finally play and perform from a place of creativity and flow.

It's not about the words—it's about the feeling being experienced when the words come through.

When you think you're bored, it's likely that there's much more going on behind the scenes.

When you choose from presence, you'll often choose the exact same thing as if you're not—but the process is still priceless.

Going after what you want most means also being willing to face and get present with all possible outcomes—a vulnerable, but powerful position.

When you learn how to feel presence and connection in one aspect of life, it very easily translates to everything in your world.

If you're overly attached to winning, it also means that you haven't trained yourself to be present with the feelings that come with losing—and it will eventually bring you down.

To get to levels you've never reached before, you need to keep increasing your capacity to have more of what you want—otherwise you'll always bring yourself down when you reach your limit.

If you have big goals, what you do matters so much less than how you do it.

Presence is universal, and gives you the stability and confidence to grow and learn new things at a much faster rate than you otherwise would.

Michael Jordan's emotions no the court were often unprovoked, but it was very much real to him—and so was his ability to channel it into incredibly high performance.

If you want to stay sane and continue performing at a high level, you need to learn when to believe your thoughts and when to ignore them.

Sometimes the fastest way to the top is to stay at the bottom for a little longer than most.

Regret is an experience that happens when you don't allow yourself to get present with all the emotions that come after something happens. Feel it all, regrets fade away.

The world prioritizes speed, but doesn't understand that the fastest way to reach big goals is to slow down and presence first.

Every situation, whether in poker or life, is one of a kind, and the best way to move forward is to first connect with all the feelings and emotions that are present in yourself and others.

Reading and avoiding tells isn't about the body, it's about how well you can feel the intentions of your opponents, and keep them from feeling that in you.

In this special episode, high stakes player and founder of Solve For Why, Matt Berkey, drops by to talk about impostor syndrome, how we relate to poker differently as we get older, and why people are always comparing themselves to one another.

You can learn more about Solve For Why and all they offer at SolveForWhy.io

When we experience fear, our brain chemistry changes—and we become vulnerable to believing things to be true that we otherwise never would.

Sometimes success can be your own worst enemy—something I had to learn the hard way.

To be the best version of yourself, you need to own up to who you really are—then bring presence and connection to showing up how you want to be seen.

Stop trying to resist what's actually true, and you'll free up your energy to channel into your best performance.