Liv Boeree, Poker and Life —Turning $500 into $1.7M, Game Theory, and Metaphysical Curiosities

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Liv Boeree (https://www.youtube.com/user/livboeree) 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 raised over $12,000,000 for its carefully selected list of maximally cost-effective charities.

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Show notes: https://tim.blog/2022/07/28/liv-boeree/

00:00 Start
00:02:10 Youthful obsessions.
00:06:42 How poker entered the picture.
00:14:42 The qualities that made Liv excel at poker from the start.
00:22:37 Liv’s advice to a newcomer wanting to learn poker.
00:29:52 What Liv’s eight-week poker education curriculum might look like.
00:36:28 Failure points that might discourage someone during this curriculum.
00:38:32 Red mist, white noise, and fast math.
00:44:43 Volcano-induced tournament participation and self-regulation.
00:53:46 A skeptic’s experiences with the unexplainable.
01:10:36 How does Liv rationally coexist with these experiences?
01:14:29 How to become a better skeptic.
01:20:35 Inadequate Equilibria and Moloch.
01:25:26 Parting thoughts.

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Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 700 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.

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  2. Even with the economic fluctuation, I am very excited to have earned $45,000 on my $10,000 investment every 10 days

  3. 42:43 I think it’s more because of the “abicus school” they go to and not from ordinary school curriculum just because the time allocated for the study is not adequate nowadays… could have been different centuries ago but I’ve never met people at that level who did not have special education outside school. But nonetheless, I really admire the ability and wished I did go to the soroban school myself😗

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