Liv Boeree, a WSOP winner and YouTuber with $3.85M in career tournament earnings, is a poker champion with a background in astrophysics. She talks about her experience doing a Ted Talk, what inspired her to co-found a non-profit called Raising for Effective Giving, and shares her thoughts on applying game theory in life’s biggest decisions. Tune in to hear why Liv believes that thinking probabilistically, with nuance, and in grayscale – not black and white – will help us come out stronger on the other side of this crisis.

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Time Stamped Show Notes:

• 00:00 – 22:00 – How Liv started playing poker, her sponsorship, familial support, thoughts on luck, poker-playing breakdown, and some of her big win stories.
• 22:00 – 44:00 - On being a female poker player, winning her WSOP bracelet, her upcoming poker plans, her thoughts on streaming, and information about her YouTube channel.
• 44:00 – 01:05:00 - Her thoughts on near misses and risk, electing people with game theoretic mentalities, and her opinion on COVID-19.
• 01:05:00 – 01:20:00 - Information about REG (Raising for Effective Giving), Liv’s view on giving and making the largest impact possible, investing, motivation, and poker as a zero sum game.
• 01:20:00 – On speaking, meeting new people, going to space, her Burning Man experience, her thoughts on having kids, and cooperation and game theory as a message.
• 01:54:00 – On stereotyping women, advantages of being a woman in the industry, takeaways from poker, and advice for poker players during this time in history.

3 Key Points

• Luck plays a role in poker, especially at the beginning.
• Streaming and playing takes up a lot of cognitive power!
• Everybody has a strong opinion.

Contact/Resources

• Partner - partypoker
• Website - Jeff Gross Poker
• Jeff’s Twitch
• Liv’s Website
• Liv’s Instagram