"you could be the seventh best player in the whole world like literally seven best player but if you're playing with the other six you're the sucker you are you are the like the worst player in the gam..."

"everything everyone does at the poker table conveys information so let me ask sort of the big overview question what are the various sources of information that you project and others project at the t..."

"too and also just you know and this is just part of who I am anyway like I like to talk to people but one of the byproducts is the more I know about you the more I likely know about how you think abou..."

"true what do you think about the rounders Teddy KGB when he does the Oreo tell do players at the high level communicate that kind of stuff do you think it's realistic to be able to have a tell like th..."

"simple if he would have went with something more subtle you know like licking your lips or looking to the right and I think it might have been lost on the audience and they didn't actually explicitly ..."

"able to just make a decision on at that point so yeah essentially not being attached okay I've already put in forty thousand dollars in this pot and this guy's bet another 20. well I mean I got to get..."

"hand that you don't expect them to have in their range and you know maybe a little bit uh unorthodox doing some things you don't expect to throw you off but a range is essentially all the possibilitie..."

"my range is going to be Bluffs and they'll be balanced so in theory no matter what you do okay no matter what you do if you call or you fold in theory it's just you're printing a zero as we say you're..."

"Tendencies they like to you know that they have um and overall that's just gonna you know that's gonna allow you to exploit more right so like if I played with somebody I've never played before I'm pr..."

"the the betting and the hands in the current hand or does it look at the history so if you were to play optimally optimally would you need to look at the history of the individual players or just ever..."

"purely you're looking at the board versus memorized openings and memorized lines is it the case that the best poker players are the ones that are able to at the right time play really sub-optimally or..."

"watch um today watching a guy like that what aspect of his play have you been able to incorporate into your own like what do you learn from that because you're constantly learning you're constantly ad..."

"massive raise bigger than the size of the pot what was the Flop again so nine seven five okay turn an ace what is he representing exactly well he could have a straight he could have three three of a k..."

"were able to mess with each other's mind how how old is he he's young he's in his 20s I feel like that takes a lot of guts to uh take risks like that well that's what's great about him he certainly ne..."

"ranges doesn't matter what you have absolutely Narrows the the end absolutely and if you bet big combined with the perception of you at the table doesn't that represent the hand range uh-huh absolutel..."

"the two and three and I'll play the ace King speaking of garbage uh you're you've said that 10-7 is your favorite poker hand to place that's still the case and what aspect of it is that you enjoy yeah..."

"because you know I mean there's there's a cold absurdity to the fact that you can play up you can play extremely well and still lose I mean the actually this year you've played uh what it what is it 5..."

"yeah one of the hardest things especially about playing because cash games and tournaments are different one of the most difficult things about you know being a tournament player is resilience because..."

"they did a study I remember there was like a study it was supposed to be related to gambling but it was mice and they put them in a little maze and they'd go down these three tubes and they go down th..."

"was a uh it wasn't a tournament but it was a kind of tournament-like style I already forgot what it was but what I do remember is I had four of a kind so the last hand I've ever played in poker was I ..."

"dangerous feeling and everybody was really mad for walking away from the table one of the other things is I think it's interesting about poker 2 is good is relative right yeah so you could be the seve..."

"money playing poker considering what I know about the private games and the types of players who play in these private games and the stakes that they play I absolutely believe you know Dan has made I ..."

"so I play at the high stakes against people who can afford it they know who I am I'm not a hustler I'm not pretending I'm bad at poker to squeeze in like I was thinking about this just yesterday becau..."

"um well let me ask you about a tough uh period of your recent life you had a rough like we mentioned the World Series of Poker uh losing 1.1 million dollars over 48 days what were you going through me..."

"obviously you know the more the more it happens in the higher binds like the one where I broke the selfie stick I lost 500 000 in that tournament right and it was like the last card it was painful I t..."

"corner it's safe I threw the selfie stick on the ground and of course social media blows up about how you know I I was a violent act yeah you know I mean it's like if you've never watched Sports have ..."

"has a flush draw and the river was another Spade so he caught Spade spade and he made he made a flush well but statistically you were winning the whole time yeah I was winning up until the last card w..."

"big blind and you know he got lucky so what was the throughout the strategy of preparation and strategy of play so you're playing so many days is are you trying to ignore the results and stick to a pa..."

"frustrating part is this with poker unlike chess or other things making the best possible decision doesn't mean you win often you lose you don't chest well as a Magnus Carlson has also talked about th..."

"so you did a podcast on the mental game a few years ago and that's just something you really care about so what aspects of the mental gaming poker is most difficult to master I think the most difficul..."

"psychologically in poker in general actually maybe it was this year maybe it was in general do you remember there was times in your life speaking of resilience that were extremely difficult to you men..."

"like a low Point walking back behind paradise and Twain which is not a great part of town uh where did you find the the strength to answer yes to that question that you can you can still do good I thi..."

"worthwhile to allow yourself to feel and vent so many people today the Instagram culture world I call it it's like they want to act like they're perfect nothing bothers them bullshit right you're piss..."

"and in general what is a perfect day in the life of Daniel in the ground will look like when you're like on a day when you have to play a big game big tournament game and so on so like what what time ..."

"so so essentially it's like the tale two during the World Series of Poker all my sort of structured life thrown out the window there's no walking there's very little walking there's very little workin..."

"back there in time is there any hacks to uh quiet the mind because you're going on a pretty intense roller coaster mentally when you're playing was is there any tricks to getting to sleep given up I'v..."

"basically I created a meal plan so what I did for myself is because I'm really anal and nerd I made a spreadsheet with like a day's food and I have six different ones so I just follow it like I don't ..."

"event of his career okay so um what else is there in terms of mental preparation and uh focus and meditation those kinds of things leading up to the games is there anything you like to like any ritual..."

"look to you know throw curveballs how hard is that that process uh do you enjoy it or is it like really hard work to analyze the players to try to understand what are the different holes what are the ..."

"feel like a little bit of work we're like oh my God that's a lot of footage I got to get through and I don't know that I have the timer I don't know that I want to spend 10 hours of my day doing that ..."

"for poker because poker really changed a lot over the past couple decades can you can you speak to how much has changed yeah because you've been at the top for so long yeah so complacency is a big iss..."

"people from my generation they they go the other way I don't know they just have this idea that they figured it all out once you feel like you've mastered it there's nothing left to learn that's the m..."

"the do you start to memorize the optimal play for every single hand you you try your best so again the solvers are imperfect as well in terms of the way the humans uh utilize them right because you ca..."

"one-third two-third and one and a half times pot is what people often do so they sort of have a gate a vague idea of what a solver wants but again imperfect in terms of the uh implementation of it rig..."

"your hand it tells you you'll look at you'll look at the grade and be like oh this is my hand and it tells you what it is but it tells you what you what you would do with any hand right it gives you t..."

"opponent can have so if your opponent is so basically if you had the king queen you know it may say um for lack of better nerdy term it blocks potential bluffing hands that your opponent can have so l..."

"help of a solver is there some aspect of that that Rings true to you absolutely I totally can relate to what Magnus is saying first and foremost because when solvers was first introduced I didn't come..."

"there some at the highest level plays there's still a role for feel 100 ocean absolutely if you're not doing that because here's the thing right no human being plays perfectly balanced in game three o..."

"on your opponents right so let's have you know online I can see your data I'm like well this guy he's playing 40 of hands he's betting the river 80 of the time so now I can use that data and you know ..."

"he hates Olympics and World Championships and all that kind of stuff because it's so low sample but to me that's part of the magic of it there's the World Series of Poker the main event there's a magi..."

"younger generation learns how to play the game being balanced in every spot um and then randomizing you know like oh I'm supposed to do this 50 of time okay so if my left card is red I'll do it and if..."

"uh the few words you say at the table can can completely affect a hand like that that's that's almost that's scary it was just so cool to me you know like just how he was so calm and I think that too ..."

"enough they're comfortable with this you know the robot thing but I thought more about that and how especially with some tournaments coming up I plan on really kind of sort of getting back to my roots..."

"make the case for a few folks so first you you tweeted referring to Phil Ivey as the goat saying the goat doing goat things that's a recent tweet so uh can you make the case for Phil Phil Ivey or mayb..."

"that's unparalleled I think when he's in the zone I mean for lack and this has nothing to do with race it really has to do with mannerism but he does remind me of like a a combination of Michael Jorda..."

"I don't know like I have fun at the table when you look outwardly look at someone like maybe he is having a blast maybe that's just the way that he likes us like his Tiger Woods having fun when he's l..."

"remember him saying and it was exactly what you're saying he'd make like one little mistake right and then he would go off and I was like why do you do that like you know your b game would be just fin..."

"and so focused and has such a just a of he's Fearless right A lot of people you know they'll play poker and be like you know what I don't think this guy has it but do they have the guts do they have t..."

"so he is in some sense in tune with some deeper thing he has what we would what we used to call card sense card sense can you try to make the case for some others like Doyle Brunson Phil Hellmuth uh D..."

"player in the world by a mile okay that's not even close and Doyle again he's another guy who plays all the games he's played high stakes cash tournaments you name it he's iconic you know he's The God..."

"yeah a professional game yeah so he was there through the whole thing he's been there through the whole transition he's seen it all yeah yeah and then to the online world so uh what about um I can't e..."

"it will be successful and I think there's something to be said about that right he doesn't ever lack himself in belief that he can win and he finds a way to do it his way and frankly a lot of what he ..."

"there somebody like that that stands out to you as a potential uh goat status person yeah so there's two different ones but one is very so they're both just no limit right so I like again when I think..."

"there's another kid too um Russian kid named Timothy kuznetsov and he plays all the games and he's well respected um you know in that regard and same with a guy like uh Jungle Man Dan Cates who's a un..."

"so that can happen right because there is a lot of burnout you know I think like I think it was actually uh Gotham chess who mentioned something about how difficult it is to like I think it's true in ..."

"Poker the poker door was closed yeah it's all the time off all of August I didn't play any poker at all until just recent you know I started to get the itch again because I that's what's important for..."

"these essentially my version of journaling right so there's a lot of value I think in like at the end of a day doing a brain dump where you just write out Journal but doing it on camera has a similar ..."

"there are so many players you've not played with before too you play these high roller events like these super ones you get 30 40 people you know everybody right so you have an idea you sit at the mai..."

"you're grinding for you know week and a half but most of the time you're playing against people you've never played against before especially early on yeah and then by the end like who knows you know ..."

"what uh mistakes do amateurs usually make in tournaments like that are they over bluffing well I think amateurs generally the biggest mistake they make is they think that Pros are bluffing more than t..."

"the term for that that you know kids use is ICM independent you know chip model right where it talks about the value of each chip where what happens what we see now is let's say one guy has a big chip..."

"know one chip and me and you have good ships and I go all in with you and I lose now that guy you know got the guaranteed you know he got the pay jump that I wouldn't have got so there's some extremel..."

"know use some of the tools whether it's the solvers if you're you know Advanced enough or ask your group you know like have a couple friends at your level and talk through the different decisions and ..."

"as far as books and there's also like tons of people who stream poker professional players and then you can get in there and you get in on the chat and you start talking you ask them you see people yo..."

"the most part there's a lot of real especially with tournaments there's a lot of really good principles in the book what's the difference in the Dynamics if you could just comment on between uh heads ..."

"more um heads up is very intense I like heads up but I think if you had to play heads up eight ten hours it's so mentally draining because your face with so many constant decisions each and every spot..."

"people looking to take advantage whether that's live or online right and so it's like the job essentially of the you know the online operators or the you know live event staff to police it the best th..."

"like so here's the thing I don't play in private games and whatever right right but in private games theoretically yeah you know you could be in if you don't trust the people you're playing with like ..."

"yeah so if the dealer is in on it that's one way you could cheat it's fascinating uh that's part of the reason that they cut so like you'll see like uh there's a burn card because what would happen yo..."

"movie yes yes what happened with Phil Ivey in that whole case is it's it's a catastrophe really yeah it is such a horrible precedent because here's what he did Phil Ivey shows up at the casino says I ..."

"fact that you're playing you know you've offered me cards that yeah are faulty can I just say that of course it would be Phil Ivey who's who's the goat at the at the normal game it would be figure out..."

"it was crazy because the judges in his case said he did not cheat but well we it's probably not right hold on yeah you just said he didn't cheat you know that that should be the end of the case and th..."

"Danny White would be counting and so casinos don't kick you out if you don't often kick you out do they ever kick you out if you make too much money so you're playing millions of dollars that they unl..."

"blah blah so they sort of representing that group of people and you know they received some backlash back in the day I'm a huge supporter of diversity in all the beautiful forms that uh the human spec..."

"everyone she goes there everybody's attracted and Drawn to her and she was kind of when she was younger she was a little wild and crazy and whatnot so she reminded me of uh the Sharon Stone character ..."

"unrealistic now because if they're in an error that is now like none of this stuff can happen because there's cameras everywhere yeah you can't like get away with these like killing somebody and jumpi..."

"um how did that Define like help Define who you are as a person that generosity yeah to rub off on you it made me think about in my life when it comes to like any sort of business deals or things like..."

"opportunity to set yourself up for the rest of your life right so while the 20s are a period where you want to have fun and you want to experience youth it's also a good opportunity to start thinking ..."

"I've talked to a lot of rich people I hang out with a lot of rich people is not going to be as fulfilling as you imagine if you arrive there by not doing the thing that you love doing that's true ulti..."

"cheap in any way you know like they wouldn't donate 5 000 to a worthwhile charity because it's like buddy this like when it changes your life not and even like like small things like taxes like okay y..."

"have done anything and then you became like super wealthy and then you have this like dunning-kruger effect where you think you know everything about everything and a lot of Poker people have that and..."

"what's those low points of losing everything I think because I've been there I have more empathy than I probably should for those people that really feel for them because I remember being in Vegas and..."

"successful it is incredibly important to have almost an inflated level of confidence in yourself because you're you're up against it right as I said the majority people fail so why are you special why..."

"experience it so that you can you know reassemble there's a fundamental way in which you haven't really lived life you ever if you haven't experienced periods of Despair you have a jaded view of the w..."

"years ago you know she was young she was you know new to Poker and she wasn't ready to settle down I was like when I met her I think I was 31 she was 21. and I was ready to like lock her up if you wil..."

"because we both had to grow you know and become different people huh and that love was still there somehow yeah like she went through her relationships I went through mine you know we experienced life..."

"can't pass my judgments on other people like that I believe it is ethically wrong and probably illegal to eat cereal for dinner listen if she wants it she wants it acceptance like when she goes to bed..."

"like I literally do think about with her how important it is and how much I try to like just come from neutral and like compassion and never judge because she's got other things that she deals with ri..."

"loser what does that mean I like that one I like for me that's like the difference between victim and responsible like the way that I think about it right you can be a victim to circumstance or you ca..."