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Think Like a Top 20 Poker Player | E77 Chris Sparks

Podcast |: The Struggle is Real: Adulting 101
Publisher |: Justin Lee Peters
Media Type |: audio
Podknife tags |: Growing Up,; Interview,; Personal Journals,; Self-Help
Categories Via RSS |: Business,; Careers,; Education,; Health & Fitness,; Mental Health,; Self-Improvement
Publication Date |: Dec 05, 2022
Episode Duration |: 01:02:57

Today’s episode is an exciting conversation with Chris Sparks, a retired professional poker player although I think he uses the term retired fairly loosely. I’ll settle somewhere in the middle and call him a well-paid hobbyist.

Chris has played over 2 million hands of poker across thousands of tournaments including main events tournaments like World Series of Poker, World Poker Tour, and the European, Asian-Pacific, and Latin American Poker Tour.

During his hay days, he had a fast and furious climb that eventually led him to being ranked in the top 20 online cash game players in the world.

In our conversation, Chris shares stories about his growth as a poker player. He’ll also teach us the meta-skills of high stakes poker that can be extrapolated and applied to our own life.

By listening to this episode, you’ll learn how to recognize a good bet, how to take action with incomplete information, and the benefits of focusing on the process versus being results-oriented.

If you’re a listener of the show and haven’t left us a rating and review, we’d really appreciate it if you did. And if you’re new, welcome, sit back, relax, and let’s learn something new.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with the man who started playing poker in college for fun but eventually used it to pay for his tuition…Chris Sparks.

Key Takeaways:

Why Chris tried standup comedy
How Chris uses retirement in order to reprioritize what he currently wants his life to look like
How you can turn bad luck into good fortune
The “Poker House”
How to use a forcing function to accomplish your goal
How to take action without complete information
Emotions have to be a part of the decision-making process
Skill acquisition is a long game so be kind to yourself, have fun, and stay curious

Mentions:

Expected Value Calculator: www.forcingfunction.com/evc

Play to Win Article: https://www.forcingfunction.com/articles/play-to-win

Experiment Without Limits Workbook: https://www.forcingfunction.com/workbook

Performance Assessment: https://www.forcingfunction.com/assessment

Team Performance Training: https://www.forcingfunction.com/team-training

More of Chris:

www.forcingfunction.com

More of TSIR:

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