Winning The Game of Life

Jennifer Shahade grew up in a family of gamers. Her brother is IM Greg Shahade is founder of the PRO Chess League and the US Chess School, while her mother, Dr. Sally Solomon (1940-2013), was an avid bridge and poker player. Her father, FM Michael Shahade is a four-time state champion and taught her chess at five. Jennifer did not take to the game right away, gravitating instead to acting and writing. When she got back into it in high ...

Michael Soyza is a Malaysian poker player from Kuala Lumpur. He first started playing poker in 2008, playing in a $0.03/$0.06 home game as his first introduction to the game. After a three-year foray into the world of investment banking, Soyza jumped into poker full time. After cashing for over $650,000 in 2017, Soyza followed it up with six tournament wins in 2018 for a total of more than $1.5M. In 2019, at the esteemed Triton Poker Series in Jeju, ...

Timofey "Trueteller" Kuznetsov is a Russian poker player.Here is what you can expect on this week's show!0:00 Introduction0:36 Poker's latest twitter debate 9:00 Math and poker15:30 The neuro-divergent spectrum and intense focus21:18 Russia and the U.S.23:20 The rhythm of poker27:58 Jumping into high stakes poker31:00 Trueteller is a big deal37:58 Poker and life's cardinal sin41:38 When to use GTO45:08 Private game anecdotes55:57 A well balanced life1:09:48 Would Truteller fight Jungleman?▬ Winning the Game of Life ▬▬▬▬▬▬Check out other "Winning the ...

Lichtenberger was born in 1987 in East Northport, New York. He started playing poker online on PartyPoker when he turned 18. However, it took some time for Lichtenberger to reveal his true talents. After playing cash games for awhile Andrew switched to MTTs and emerged as a highly successful tournament player. He eventually stepped into the live tournament arena in 2007. His first deep run in pursuit of a WSOP bracelet came in 2009, finishing as runner-up in a $5,000 ...

Adrian Mateos is a Spanish poker player. During his career he has won four World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, including the 2013 WSOP Europe Main Event. During his career he has also won an EPT Main Event and a partypoker MILLIONS Main Event.He is a Winamax ambassador, and is widely considered one of the best poker players under 30. In 2017, he became the youngest player ever to win a WSOP bracelet aged just 22.Here is what you can ...

Mike Gorodinsky is an American poker player. He has won two World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets including the prestigious $50,000 Poker Players Championship in 2015. In that same year, he won WSOP Player of the Year. Gorodinsky was born in St Petersburg, Russia and graduated from Olin Business School at the Washington University in St. Louis in 2009. His first recorded cash on The Hendon Mob came in 2008, with Gorodinsky's cashes coming in a wide variety of tournaments ...

Neeme, from Michigan, first started playing poker in 2004 but didn't pick up vlogging until 2016. Since launching his poker YouTube channel, Neeme has earned 176,000 subscribers and racked up millions of views to make him one of the most popular content creators in poker. As a WPT ambassador, Neeme will follow the tour and attend WPT events around the world and create exclusive content for WPT. Earlier in the year, Neeme and Brad Owen teamed up with fellow content ...

Daniel hails from Toronto, Canada. He first fell in love with the game when playing different variations of poker during breaks from pool hustling. It was here that his love of numbers and probability shone through, and gave him an edge in those early games. It is his ability to read people for which Daniel is best known. He won his first WSOP bracelet way back in 1998. It was in this year, at the age of 23, that he ...

Chris Brewer is a former collegiate runner turned high stakes poker player from Oregon, currently sitting second on the state's all-time money list. After getting his first tournament cash in 2015, Brewer broke out onto the high stakes scene and is a regular in Triton events and in the PokerGO studio. In September 2021, Brewer took down the Poker Masters $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em event for $427,500, just one month after getting $420,670 after winning the $50,000 Super High Roller at ...

Jonas Wood makes paintings that can be classified as a variety of different genres, including portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and interior scenes. In each of these, however, his work reflects an instantly recognizable vision of the contemporary world, as well as a personal approach to subject matter defined by his affinities and experiences. Its warmth is matched by a quasi-abstract logic that breaks pictures down into layered compositions of geometry, pattern, and color. Wood works at every scale, and maintains ...

Adam Levitan is a daily fantasy sports player, sports better, and the Co-founder of Establish The Run, a premium football and analysis site. Adam is one of the most respected DFS football analysts and podcasters in the space. His podcast has been downloaded more than 5 million times and offers market moving DFS analysis each week. He won multiple Fantasy Sports Writers Association awards while at Rotoworld before focusing on DFS full-time in 2015. Not only is Adam a DFS ...

Born and raised in San Francisco, Oliver ‘Ali’ Nejad is a mainstay in the world of televised poker, breaking onto the scene in 2005 as the host of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship. His poker career started while in college at UC Berkeley. In 1998 he dropped out of college to pursue poker full time, achieving great success and becoming a renowned high-limit cash game player. Over the course of his career, Ali has become one of the most recognizable ...

Philip Sternheimer is a Partner at one of the oldest and most successful private equity firms, Hellman & Friedman. He also plays some of the highest stakes poker cash games and tournaments, often facing off against Jungleman around the world. Philip is fluent in English, German, and French and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business. He currently resides in London.Here is what you can expect on this week's show:IntroductionA nice child has many nicknamesThe world of ...

The globe-trotting Iranian-South African beauty is a serial entrepreneur with a successful property portfolio and other business interests. She is also a global poker player having recently won her first WSOP online bracelet for the grand prize of $239,180, quadrupling the previous biggest score of her career. A qualified personal trainer and a self-taught magician now based in Cape Town, Melika feels strongly about championing women empowerment in South Africa and around the world.Here is what you can expect on ...

British-born Chinese comedian Ken Cheng has been snagging laughs and rave reviews with his unique brand of dry, analytical, story-based humor for over a decade. Finalist in the 2015 BBC New Comedy Awards and nominee for Amused Moose’s 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Best Show, Cheng is one of Comedy Central Online’s Ones to Watch, BBC’s 2017 Hot New Talents, The Guardian’s 2018 Pick of The Fringe, and the winner of the coveted 2017 Dave Joke of The Fringe. His past performances ...

Nate Silver is a leading statistician and founder of FiveThirtyEight.com, an award-winning website focused on statistical analysis of politics, sports and science.As a former syndicated columnist for The New York Times, Silver first gained national attention during the 2008 presidential election, when he correctly predicted the results of the primaries and the presidential winner in 49 states. A diehard baseball fan, Silver is also credited with developing PECOTA (Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm), a statistical formula for predicting ...

Tony Dunst, a high-stakes pro and one of the most unique personalities in the poker industry, joined the World Poker Tour as host of the WPT Raw Deal segment for Season IX. Dunst beat out hundreds of other contestants in a nationwide search to capture the coveted slot and spent seven seasons strategically analyzing some of the most pivotal hands from World Poker Tour events. When Mike Sexton announced his retirement from the WPT commentary booth, it was only natural ...

Kahle Burns may be Australia’s best kept secret. He has been collecting tournament cashes across Australia and the world for over a decade and has amassed more than $13 million in live tournament earnings during that stretch. His first major result came in the 2013 World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific main event, where he pocketed $211,392 for a fifth-place finish. In the summer of 2016, he won the Sydney Championships for $226,295 and weeks later won the Western Classic Poker ...

Dylan Weisman is a professional poker player and executive performance coach. He has been playing poker professionally in some capacity since he was 16. While studying probability theory at the University of California Santa Barbara, Dylan became more in tune with the non-game theory aspects of what it takes to be a solid poker professional, such as self-knowledge, self-care, emotional control, and life sustainability. Most recently, Dylan has grinded from $2/$4 to $10/$20 online, and he’s played in the largest ...

Tommy Angelo is a top-tier writer, coach, and philosopher. His playfulness and creativity is singular in the poker universe. During his decades of grinding, Tommy staged a revolt against the pain. The pain of losing, the pain of playing bad, the pain of bad luck, bad people, bad nights, bad food, bad sleep, to be done with the pain, to distill his life down to its most enjoyable, profitable form. That was his quest, and he got there. Then he ...