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Poker vs Tennis: Career Trajectory, Earnings, Exposure, and Costs Are All Similar
(Cross-posted excerpt from research I did for Raising for Effective Giving.) Professional-level poker and tennis are both competitive endeavors that take years to train for. The size of the player pools are similar. And the top players in each make … Continue reading
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Poker’s Positive Economic Impact; Including over 119,000 jobs
(Cross-posted excerpt from research I did for Raising for Effective Giving.) Amazingly, no one has ever calculated the full economic impact of poker. Some top line statistics on poker’s annual worldwide economic impact: $5.16 billion in economic impact 108,240 jobs … Continue reading
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REG player Martin Jacobson wins 2014 WSOP Main Event
Congrats to Martin Jacobson who won the 2014 WSOP Main Event for $10,000,000! Both REG players at the final table, Jorryt Von Hoof and Martin Jacobson, navigated their way down to 3 handed play for monster scores of $3.8M and … Continue reading
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Raising for Effective Giving
As an effective altruist, I’ve written before about how passionate I am when it comes to identifying and giving to the highest impact charities. So I was really excited this summer to join REG, the new effective giving group for poker players. In fact, I … Continue reading
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“This is what 5% feels like.”
Today I’m going to give you an explicit technique to improve your rationality. But first, a short digression: Have you ever seen poker players on TV talk to themselves? It’s an interesting phenomenon and there’s a few different motivations behind it. … Continue reading
Tilt as Moral Outrage and Limbic Override
This blog is about the intersection between poker, rationality, and life. Poker is hard far out of proportion to the strategic complexity of the game, because it is so good at invoking our irrationalities and biases. This makes it an … Continue reading
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Sportsmanship in the game of poker
Trash talk is the standard in online poker. Every player other than you is a donk or a fish. This attitude is reasonable from some perspectives — poker is a zero sum game, your winnings can only come from other … Continue reading
Train to be rational?
Rationality is the process of coming to correct beliefs. Correct beliefs turn out to be really important. Being correct about how the world works gives you a huge advantage in achieving your goals. No matter what you want to do … Continue reading
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Poker as Rationality Training
Looking for the best known form of rationality training? How about a fun, addictive game you can play from anywhere that rewards you with more money as you become more rational? Welcome to online poker! Poker can be the key to conquering … Continue reading
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