From High Stakes Poker To
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago -We interview Ex High Stakes Poker players that have transitioned to other careers. Our mission is to bring the raw intelligence of poker players from a world of value extraction to the value creation paradigm, by providing information and resources for them to successfully make that transition. This is the place for you to hear the thinking systems of players who have played for buy-ins that are worth cars and houses, and so you can have a deeper understanding of practical game theory and probabilistic thinking.
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Learning Transferable Skills with Wayne Yap
September 12, 2019 13:00 - 7 minutes - 8.41 MBWayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker. In this episode, Wayne talks about how he used the biggest downswing of...
Risk of Ruin with Wayne Yap
August 29, 2019 13:00 - 8 minutes - 9.83 MBWayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker. In this episode, Wayne talks about how you can avoid risk of ruin. 0....
What Triggers You with Wayne Yap
August 15, 2019 13:00 - 7 minutes - 8.19 MBWayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker. In this episode, Wayne talks about how you can find your triggers and h...
It's Not About the Cards with Wayne Yap
August 01, 2019 13:00 - 5 minutes - 6.21 MBWayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker. In this episode, Wayne talks about how you can maximise your game even ...
Handling Toxic Environments with Wayne Yap
July 18, 2019 13:00 - 6 minutes - 7.79 MBWayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker. In this episode, Wayne talks about how he uses toxic environments to h...
Feedback Loops with Wayne Yap
July 04, 2019 13:00 - 7 minutes - 9.06 MBWayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker. In this episode, Wayne talks about how he uses feedback loops to his ad...
Hedge Fund with Bill Perkins
June 21, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 73.9 MBBill Perkins Mr William O. Perkins, also known as Bill, III, serves as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner at Skylar Resources LP. Mr Perkins is the Founder and President of Small Ventures USA, L.P. He founded Small Ventures USA in 1997. Most recently, Mr Perkins has been a significant market participant for Centaurus Energy, where he joined at inception in 2002. Mr Perkins has a 12-year history of energy derivatives trading, holding senior risk management and trading positions at...
Handling Setbacks with Wayne Yap
June 13, 2019 13:00 - 9 minutes - 11.4 MBWayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker. In this episode, Wayne talks about how he used the biggest downswing of...
Polarisation with Wayne Yap
June 07, 2019 01:00 - 3 minutes - 4.53 MBWayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker. 0:27- Wayne speaks about the relationship between polarisation and poke...
Expected Value with Wayne Yap
May 31, 2019 01:00 - 3 minutes - 4.34 MBWayne Yap has won 7-figures in Online Cash Games, Live Cash Games, and Live Tournaments. He is here to help you take your game to a whole different level by focusing on soft skills and other non-technical aspects of the game, and not all the lies about poker you were told. Wayne's aim is to help you jump stakes one, two, or ten levels, to become the best player in your player pool, to beat all of your friends in poker. In this episode, Wayne will discuss the basics of Expected Value and th...
Public Speaking with Scott deMoulin
May 17, 2019 01:06 - 1 hour - 89.3 MBScott deMoulin is the Founder and CEO of Destiny Training Systems, a conscious business growth consulting and training company founded in 1989. Retained by over 480 companies located around the world, Scott has been directly responsible for helping to make his clients over $1 Billion. With over 30 years of experience as a Speaker, Trainer and Business Growth Expert, Scott has achieved Outlier status a couple of times over. Scott has facilitated hundreds of public and private training program...
E-commerce with Aloysius Chay
May 10, 2019 01:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBAloysius used to play poker professionally. During his formative years, he played poker for close to a decade, spending a few years in Macau. It started off with micro stakes playing for $0.1/0.2 home games and he slowly worked his way up to the high stakes in Macau ($1k/$2k HKD). It was pretty joyous days when he hustled Chinese whales from Mainland China and also crunched numbers using software’s to achieve game theory optimal strategies (GTO) to stay ahead vs the rest of the profession...
Cultivating Your Mindset and Preparing for Business Success with Elliot Roe
May 03, 2019 01:00 - 54 minutes - 31.5 MBElliot Roe is one of the best mindset coaches in poker, and he helps so many poker players reach the highest levels. As a hypnotherapist and mindset coach, Elliot has worked with many poker players across his career, ranging from low-stakes to high-stakes players. He uses hypnotherapy to help players work through the issues that they bring to the table. There’s a lot of crossover between the self-sabotage that he sees at the business table and the poker table, he points out. Often, whe...
Problem Solving with Fedor Holz
April 25, 2019 01:00 - 51 minutes - 29.9 MBFor those in the poker world, Fedor Holz needs no introduction. After quitting poker a couple years ago, he started dabbling in various things, particularly building a community focusing on an environment of creativity. In poker, he points out, his tendency to lose interest in things he doesn’t feel passionate about in the moment was a good thing. Fedor enjoys and is energized by puzzling out and solving problems, and not so much by the process of actually executing the path that he figure...
Assessing Behavior, Reading Tells, & Running a Business with Blake Eastman
April 15, 2019 14:16 - 1 hour - 36.7 MBAfter watching Rounders when he was 17, Blake Eastman knew that poker was what he wanted to do with his life. More accurately, he wanted to live the story of Rounders, making enough money with poker to pay for law school. He did so well with poker, though, that he stuck with it instead. After a couple years of playing, he shifted from playing poker to coaching and creating a poker business. Blake is an interesting guest since his transition out of playing poker hasn’t taken him out of the ...
Dan Tsui
March 27, 2019 16:00 - 50 minutes - 29.4 MBDan Tsui, CEO at software engineering consultancy and product studio Kyokan, joins me today for this conversation. Before this, he did a lot of freelancing in software engineering. And before that, of course, he was a professional poker player. As he’ll explain today, playing online poker is actually what got him into software to begin with. When I ask Dan about the similarities between poker and business, he brings up a very insightful answer: the intuitive understanding of risk, having a...
Fantasy Sports with James Gettinger
March 07, 2019 02:30 - 38 minutes - 22.4 MBWelcome to “From High Stakes Poker To …”! In this brand-new podcast, we interview former high-stakes poker players who have transitioned into other careers. If you’re ready to learn how the raw intelligence of poker players can function to create (rather than extract) value, or to make that transition, this is the place for you! Today’s guest is James Gettinger, a former high stakes poker player who is now a professional fantasy sports player mostly on DraftKings and FanDuel. He started pl...
“From High Stakes Poker To …” Intro
March 07, 2019 02:00 - 14 minutes - 8.72 MBHello there, and welcome to this brand-new podcast! In “From High Stakes Poker To …”! I’m your host, Wayne Yap. In each future episode of the show, I’ll interview a former high-stakes poker player who has successfully transitioned into something else. In case you’re not familiar with my story, I’ve spent the last few years of my poker career playing the highest games in Macau. I realized that I was playing poker to make money, and taking that money to try to make people around me happy, bu...