Beyond Poker: Recent Episodes
Wayne Yap
Entrepreneur Magazine said that Wayne Yap’s poker strategies will give your business an unfair edge and record profits, and enable you to make difficult, high-stakes decisions in seconds with limited information.
In the Beyond Poker Podcast, Wayne Yap and Nick Howard share original wisdom that earned them millions of dollars in poker. This podcast gives you front-row seats to eavesdrop on topics such as “Performance Resilience”, “Type-A Performance Traps”, “Life After Poker”, “The Role of Intuition in Poker and Business” and “Simplicity Beyond Complexity”.
This show will also go into topics like “7 Transferable Skills You Can Take From Poker to Business”, “5 Opportunities After Poker”, “The Number One Biggest Opportunity For Transitioning Poker Pros” and “The Quickest Way To Leave Poker and Profit”
Wayne and Nick will do bonus episodes and interview other Elite poker players (that have wisdom outside of poker) such as Elliot Roe, Matt Berkey, Jason Su, Kristy Arnette, Yuri Martins, Blake Eastman and Fedor Holz.
Wayne Yap was a nosebleeds poker pro that played the biggest games in Macau (think - Million dollar pots, betting houses and Ferraris). He is now an investor who buys and scales companies to prepare them for an exit.
Nick Howard spent the last 15 years moving up the ladder in professional poker from player, to coach, to his current position as CEO of Poker Detox, one of the most elite training companies in the industry.
More than just a podcast, Beyond Poker is a community for (1) Ex-poker players who moved into the positive-sum game of Entrepreneurship, and (2) Business Owners who love the game of poker.
The objective of the community is to maximize peak performance, “Group Flow” and “Elevation of the Collective”, so that members can be at the cutting-edge of the business world.
Nick Howard has been a professional poker coach. He became known for teaching practical simplifications of well-balanced play on RunItOnce.com as a coach. I️n 2015-2016, Nick documented a notable amount of success on Ignition High stakes in his Run it Once Blog “Achieving Higher Balance,” where he developed many of the independent learning strategies he uses today. Nick is one of the most prominent coaches in the poker world for going on 10 years now.
Nick speaks with conviction as he shares his journey through inner turmoil, how he used that pain to drive him forward and create something new, and why he feels that it is absolutely essential that he shares what he knows and what he’s doing with those who want to learn from him. If you feel like you’ve been struggling, or that you’ve hit a wall you just can’t seem to get past, Nick’s words could be the catalyst that sets you on a new and easier path to poker greatness. Today’s episode, Nick tells us about the Five Closest Friends.
Key Takeaways
- I will become the average of my 5 closest friends.
- The growth mindset vs the fixed mindset
- The simplicity on the other side of complexity
Quotes
- “Moving to the simplicity on the other side of complexity” – Patrick Howard
- The growth mindset vs the fixed mindset
- Projection vs Data.
- What do the top players focus on?
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- Nick Howard on Instagram
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- PokerDetox.com
Nick Howard founded Poker Detox, an NLHE training company in May 2016. In its first year, Poker Detox produced three major public courses, and Nick began a side project attempting to train a selection of losing players, using a team-training format. By Fall of 2017, that “losers” team had proven itself successful, and Nick had been able to refine his coaching methodologies to a point where he was ready to expand. Poker Detox now functions as one of the most elite application-based staking companies in the industry, containing a crew of mind coaches and language-optimization experts that work to provide a full support system for students. The company achieved a high enough level of methodology that it became possible to tailor the Detox training system for players of different native languages and even different learning types. The result is a powerful combination of training exercises that highlight the necessary concepts while empowering the learner to choose their path toward integration. Applications for new team members are accepted several times per year, and in 2018 Poker Detox became the first training organization to offer guaranteed salaries to its players.
Today, Nick Howard shares about The Funhouse Effect, something he notices while working with Jason Su on Poker with Presence.
Key Takeaways
- The 8 Man Zoom Group.
- The struggles of the 8 man.
- The Funhouse.
Quotes
- The more you are projecting from a distorted unresolved emotional space, the more you’re going to be sort of twisting the information in front of your face in a way that’s not actually accurate. That’s the real reason that we need to work with emotions as performers.
- “One of the hardest things about Poker is that, because we’re not getting immediate feedback on the quality of our decision.”
Resources
- https://presence-profit.samcart.com/products/mpp
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- Nick Howard on Instagram
- Nick Howard on Twitter
- PokerDetox.com
Nick Howard founded Poker Detox, an NLHE training company in May 2016. In its first year, Poker Detox produced three major public courses, and Nick began a side project attempting to train a selection of losing players, using a team-training format. By Fall of 2017, that “losers” team had proven itself successful, and Nick had been able to refine his coaching methodologies to a point where he was ready to expand. Poker Detox now functions as one of the most elite application-based staking companies in the industry, containing a crew of mind coaches and language-optimization experts that work to provide a full support system for students. The company achieved a high enough level of methodology that it became possible to tailor the Detox training system for players of different native languages and even different learning types. The result is a powerful combination of training exercises that highlight the necessary concepts while empowering the learner to choose their path toward integration. Applications for new team members are accepted several times per year, and in 2018 Poker Detox became the first training organization to offer guaranteed salaries to its players.
Patrick Howard started playing Poker back in the moneymaker era when he was really young. Patrick took a long break to pursue a degree in physics. He started his PHD but decided to quit within 1 year as he realizes that Science isn’t something for him. In 2017, he came back to Poker. He started by helping Nick out with various jobs at Poker Detox and played part time on Nick's stake throughout 2018. At the end of 2018, he created a course called Ether which uses Hand2Note data to quantify the population's bluffing frequencies across the game tree. At the beginning of this year, he started playing full time on his own stake on Ignition. He broke even for a couple of months, but things really took off in March and he climbed from 200nl to 2000nl over the course of the last four months.
Marinelli was a long-time member and coach of the Poker Detox crew and also the Co-founder of BigBetU Matt Marinelli. He’s not one to outright dismiss differing opinions or feel overly sensitive when another player critiques his play. He simply listens to the feedback, takes that he believes is valuable, upgrades his game and then disregards the rest. When you’re constructed in this way as a human being and surround yourself with some of the best poker players and minds on the planet, there is no alternative destination than experiencing massive poker success.
Key Takeaways
- Recap with Patrick Howard and Matthew Marinelli
- The best way for the average player to improve their study process.
- Patrick Howard on Simplicity on the other side of Complexity.
- Simplicity and accuracy
- The Detox Elite Program
- How to quantify mistakes in a way that allows players to walk away with confidence
- Why is it necessary for Patrick and Matthew to seek out coaching even though they’re already winning players?
- Difference that one-on-one coaching makes.
- Poker players on Merry-Go-Round
- Why is Matt running this program?
Quotes
- “We’re looking for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.”
- An ounce of complexity for a pound of resilience.
Resources
- https://www.runitonce.com/chatter/mobius-poker-blog/
- https://twitter.com/mobiuspoker?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
- https://twitter.com/matthewmarinel5?lang=en
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- Nick Howard on Instagram
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- PokerDetox.com
This clip was taken from a group call with players from the Poker Detox Coaching For Profits Team.
Nick Howard has been a professional poker coach. He became known for teaching practical simplifications of well-balanced play on RunItOnce.com as a coach. I️n 2015-2016, Nick documented a notable amount of success on Ignition High stakes in his Run it Once Blog “Achieving Higher Balance,” where he developed many of the independent learning strategies he uses today. Nick is one of the most prominent coaches in the poker world for going on 10 years now.
After experiencing extreme suffering and considering giving up the game forever, Nick surrendered to a larger purpose and made it his life’s mission to develop more simplified strategies than the GTO based ones so that other folks wouldn’t have to go through what he did. Nick Howard founded Poker Detox, an NLHE training company in May 2016. In its first year, Poker Detox produced three major public courses, and Nick began a side project attempting to train a selection of losing players, using a team-training format. By Fall of 2017, that “losers” team had proven itself successful, and Nick had been able to refine his coaching methodologies to a point where he was ready to expand. Poker Detox now functions as one of the most elite application-based staking companies in the industry, containing a crew of mind coaches and language-optimization experts that work to provide a full support system for students. The company achieved a high enough level of methodology that it became possible to tailor the Detox training system for players of different native languages and even different learning types. The result is a powerful combination of training exercises that highlight the necessary concepts while empowering the learner to choose their path toward integration. Applications for new team members are accepted several times per year, and in 2018 Poker Detox became the first training organization to offer guaranteed salaries to its players.
Nick speaks with conviction as he shares his journey through inner turmoil, how he used that pain to drive him forward and create something new, and why he feels that it is
absolutely essential that he shares what he knows and what he’s doing with those who want to learn from him. If you feel like you’ve been struggling, or that you’ve hit a wall you just can’t seem to get past, Nick’s words could be the catalyst that sets you on a new and easier path to poker greatness. Today’s episode, Nick tells us about the Red Line Secret.
Key Takeaways
- Data in Nick Howard’s words.
- The reality in data interpretation.
- Projection vs Data.
- What do the top players focus on?
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Jason Su is a longtime poker cash game professional. He has enjoyed sustained success across all forms of poker, both live and online for more than 15 years. In 2014, he began creating and testing ways to increase presences and flow. He uses these techniques to elevate his game and facilitate high-level performance in those he coaches. He is a Poker Detox coach and the author of the book, “Poker with Presence”. Subscribe to Jason's daily email newsletter to hear his thoughts on presence and performance in poker at pokerwithpresence.com, and check out his new podcast, Poker With Presence, on all major podcast platforms, or just download here:
Key Takeaways
- What makes Nick Howard join Jason Su’s mailing list?
- What is The Shopping Cart?
- The Karate Kid.
- Nick’s Emotional Equity.
- The loops in our minds.
- The Pain vs Pleasure motivational system.
- How much time do you freeze and only think?
- Jason’s coffee shop experiment
- What makes Jason think that Passion is a trap?
Resources
- https://www.pokerwithpresence.com/group
- https://www.buzzsprout.com/1761201
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- Wayne Yap on Instagram
- Nick Howard on Instagram
- Nick Howard on Twitter
- PokerDetox.com
The term alcohol originally referred to the primary alcohol ethanol, which is used as a drug and is the main alcohol present in alcoholic drinks. Different concentrations of alcohol in the human body have different effects on a person. The effects of alcohol depend on the amount an individual has drunk, the percentage of alcohol in the spirits and the timespan that the consumption took place, the amount of food eaten and whether an individual has taken other prescription, over-the-counter or street drugs, among other factors.
Alcohol brings many pleasures and to some, pain. Let’s hear what Wayne and Nick has been experiencing with alcohol these days.
Key Takeaways
- What does Wayne mean by Dry January?
- What happened after Dry January?
- What is the million-dollar race horse theory?
- What Wayne thinks about drinking.
- What makes Nick drink?
- What caused Nick go through the 10 days bender?
- What keeps Nick on for a professional event?
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- Wayne Yap on Instagram
- Nick Howard on Instagram
- Nick Howard on Twitter
- PokerDetox.com
Nick Howard has been a professional poker coach. He became known for teaching practical simplifications of well-balanced play on RunItOnce.com as a coach. Nick is one of the most prominent coaches in the poker world for going on 10 years now. After experiencing extreme suffering and considering giving up the game forever, Nick surrendered to a larger purpose and made it his life’s mission to develop more simplified strategies than the GTO based ones so that other folks wouldn’t have to go through what he did. Nick Howard founded Poker Detox, an NLHE training company in May 2016. Poker Detox now functions as one of the most elite application-based staking companies in the industry, containing a crew of mind coaches and language-optimization experts that work to provide a full support system for students. The result is a powerful combination of training exercises that highlight the necessary concepts while empowering the learner to choose their path toward integration. Applications for new team members are accepted several times per year, and in 2018 Poker Detox became the first training organization to offer guaranteed salaries to its players. Today, Nick speaks about the real difference between high stakes crushers and the rest of the industry. Specifically, how a high stakes crusher thinks his way through a difficult spot in a hand.
Key Takeaways
- What do you do when you don’t know what to do?
- What do you do in an uncharted territory?
- What is the real difference between the real crusher and the guy who chose to stay complacent?
- What is the shit that most people don’t want to face?
- What is the 3 years vision that Nick talks about?
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Today, we’re back with Wayne telling us about his latest adventures and business acquisitions. At 21, Wayne was able to make 6-figures at Poker and 7-figures by the time he was 27 years sold. That's how he made millions in Poker Cash Games, a verifiable $1,419,184 in tournaments, and became Singapore's #1 poker player in 2017. Wayne has took a step beyond poker and looked into business deals. He has done some coaching and consulting for several businesses. In the episode before this, Wayne talked to us about a Korean Beauty Aesthetic shop in Singapore named Kosme. Today, we hear about his experience in his new adventures, new acquisitions and new deals.
Key Takeaways
- What are the new deals in the pipeline waiting for Wayne?
- What does Wayne think about these new deals?
- What is Wayne doing in a Children’s Gym?
- Wayne’s strategy to acquire a Children’s Gym.
- What are some deals that Wayne decided to let go of, and why?
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By calculating the odds and waiting for the right moments to go all-in, Wayne was able to make 6-figures at Poker by the time he was 21 years old, and 7-figures at 27 years old. That's how he made millions in Poker Cash Games, a verifiable $1,419,184 in tournaments, and became Singapore's #1 poker player in 2017. Today, Wayne has took a step beyond poker and looked into business deals. He has done some coaching and consulting for several businesses. Wayne has acquired a Korean Beauty Aesthetic shop in Singapore named Kosme. With his experience in his new adventure, Wayne talks to us about The Beauty Industry.
Key Takeaways
- What is Wayne doing with Kosme?
- What are the challenges Wayne is facing?
- What are Wayne’s growth strategies?
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- Nick Howard on Twitter
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By calculating the odds and waiting for the right moments to go all-in, Wayne was able to make 6-figures at Poker by the time he was 21 years old, and 7-figures at 27 years old. That's how he made millions in Poker Cash Games, a verifiable $1,419,184 in tournaments, and became Singapore's #1 poker player in 2017. To date, he has spent over $550,000 learning from the best personal development and business coaches in the world such as Dan Sullivan, Brendon Burchard, Jay Abraham, Roland Frasier and Tony Robbins. He spends all that money to bring the best thinking tools and hacks to his clients. His business advisory clients typically come to him for help with strategic planning, and his fees start from $20,000 for a day.
Wayne has took a step beyond poker and looked into business deals. He has done some coaching and consulting for several businesses. In today’s episode, Wayne tells us about his new adventures in the business world and his new acquisitions.
Key Takeaways
- What is Wayne up to these days?
- Why did Wayne choose to buy Kosme?
- What is the difference between Kosme and the other beauty parlours?
- What changes did Wayne make Kosme different in terms of the pricing games in the beauty world?
- How did Wayne leverage on the grants available in Singapore to enhance Kosme?
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Nick Howard has been a professional poker coach. He became known for teaching practical simplifications of well-balanced play on RunItOnce.com as a coach. I️n 2015-2016, Nick documented a notable amount of success on Ignition High stakes in his Run it Once Blog “Achieving Higher Balance,” where he developed many of the independent learning strategies he uses today. Nick is one of the most prominent coaches in the poker world for going on 10 years now.
After experiencing extreme suffering and considering giving up the game forever, Nick surrendered to a larger purpose and made it his life’s mission to develop more simplified strategies than the GTO based ones so that other folks wouldn’t have to go through what he did. Nick Howard founded Poker Detox, an NLHE training company in May 2016. In its first year, Poker Detox produced three major public courses, and Nick began a side project attempting to train a selection of losing players, using a team-training format. By Fall of 2017, that “losers” team had proven itself successful, and Nick had been able to refine his coaching methodologies to a point where he was ready to expand. Poker Detox now functions as one of the most elite application-based staking companies in the industry, containing a crew of mind coaches and language-optimization experts that work to provide a full support system for students. The company achieved a high enough level of methodology that it became possible to tailor the Detox training system for players of different native languages and even different learning types. The result is a powerful combination of training exercises that highlight the necessary concepts while empowering the learner to choose their path toward integration. Applications for new team members are accepted several times per year, and in 2018 Poker Detox became the first training organization to offer guaranteed salaries to its players.
Nick speaks with conviction as he shares his journey through inner turmoil, how he used that pain to drive him forward and create something new, and why he feels that it is absolutely essential that he shares what he knows and what he’s doing with those who want to learn from him. If you feel like you’ve been struggling, or that you’ve hit a wall you just can’t seem to get past, Nick’s words could be the catalyst that sets you on a new and easier path to poker greatness. Today’s episode, we hear about how Nick helped a player turn off his mind at the end of the day.
Key Takeaways
- What’s your definition of productivity?
- Nick explains about energy longevity vs energy bulldoze.
- Chasing the imaginary trophy and the effects of it.
- Nick tells us more on de-loading.
- What does self-aware relaxation mean?
- The importance of asking and answering the honest questions.
- Why does Nick keep his phone out of his bedroom at night?
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By calculating the odds and waiting for the right moments to go all-in, Wayne was able to make 6-figures at Poker by the time he was 21 years old, and 7-figures at 27 years old. That's how he made millions in Poker Cash Games, a verifiable $1,419,184 in tournaments, and became Singapore's #1 poker player in 2017. To date, he has spent over $550,000 learning from the best personal development and business coaches in the world such as Dan Sullivan, Brendon Burchard, Jay Abraham, Roland Frasier and Tony Robbins. He spends all that money to bring the best thinking tools and hacks to his clients. His business advisory clients typically come to him for help with strategic planning, and his fees start from $20,000 for a day.
Other than Poker, Wayne has a huge passion for meditation. He has travelled around the world for meditation retreats and classes. In today’s episode, Wayne talks about the spiritual experiences that he encountered while meditating.
Key Takeaways
- The 3 biggest Spiritual experiences in Wayne’s life.
- What did Wayne do in Oakham, India?
- How was Wayne’s experience in Doctor Joe Dispenza’s retreat?
- What made Wayne feel like Darth Vader?
- How did Wayne travel to space?
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Jason Su is a longtime poker cash game professional. He has enjoyed sustained success across all forms of poker, both live and online for more than 15 years. In 2014, he began creating and testing ways to increase presences and flow. He uses these techniques to elevate his game and facilitate high-level performance in those he coaches. He is a Poker Detox coach and the author of the book, “Poker with Presence”.
Key Takeaways
- Cultivating Presence and how to convert it into better decision making.
- Why do people get intimidated by an opponent on a full calm state?
- The stories about objections.
- What makes the group between Nick and Jason work well?
- The delusions about strategies for feeling better.
- Talking about blind spots with Jason Su.
- The best dynamic for deep emotional vulnerability openings.
Quotes
- “the definition of delusion is mapping towards an objective that you have zero chance of getting to.” – Nick Howard
Resources
- https://www.pokerwithpresence.com/group
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Martin Jacobson is a Swedish professional poker player, originally from Stockholm, Sweden, but currently residing in London, England. In 2014, he won the World Series of Poker Main Event fo $10,000,000, the fifth largest single payout in poker tournament history.
Prior to his poker career, Martin studied to be a chef. His first live cash came in 2008 when he won 3rd place at the European Poker Tour even in Hungary. In season 7 of the European Poker Tour, he made 3 final tables, including 2 runner-up finishes in Vilamoura and Deauville. He also finished runner-up at the World Poker Tour event in Venice in 2009. Prior to the Main Event in 2014, his largest tournament cash came from a 6th place finish at the Big One for One Drop High Rollers event at the 2013 WSOP, earning $807,000. He has 16 career WSOP cashes, including 5 final tables.
As of 2015, his total live tournament winnings exceed $15,000,000. His 18 WSOP cashes account for $11,234,390 of those winnings.
Martin is a member of Raising for Effective Giving, an Effective altruism organization of poker players who pledge to donate at least 2% of their gross tournament winnings and at least 3% of their profit from cash games every quarter to charities. In 2015, Martin Jacobson was named Player of the Year by the Swedish publication ‘Poker.se’. This title has previously been awarded to other high profile professional players such as Viktor Blom, Chris Bjorin and Robin Ylitalo.
Key Takeaways
- Martin’s take on the importance of customer service in a business.
- Martin’s most tilting and dream come true customer service experience.
- Is customer service trainable and how much would Martin pay for the best staff ever?
- Martin’s experience with coaching.
- How did Martin start poker?
- What happened in Martin’s 3rd hand at the satellite game?
- Experiencing Vegas.
- Martin’s take on performance optimizing equipment.
Resources
- http://martinjacobson.pro/
- https://twitter.com/martin_jacobson?lang=en
- https://www.instagram.com/martin.jacobson/?hl=en
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Elliot Roe is a leading expert in Mindset Optimization for High Performers. He is the world’s #1 Mindset Coach for poker players. In the last 3 years, his poker clients have won over $50,000,000 and nearly every major tournament title, including the World Series of Poker Main Event. His clientele also includes Olympic medalists, UFC Champions, Hollywood Actors, Business executives and wall street traders. His unique mindset coaching system leverages the power of hypnotherapy to eliminate fears and breakthrough mental roadblocks allowing you to operate in a state of peak performance every day.
Key Takeaways
- Elliot Roe’s Gift and Curse in life.
- The major difference between typical coaching clients versus high performer clients.
- Elliot’s preference, the emotional assurance or perspective shift approach?
- How did Elliot develop his super power?
- Elliot’s hypnotherapy structure over the years.
- Nick’s communicational issues and his upgrades.
- Changing regrets to Growth mindset with Elliot.
- Elliot’s advantages and upgrades gained from his perfect job.
Resources
- https://elliotroe.com/
- https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1224121850
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.primedmind&referrer=utm_source%3Dsource%26utm_medium%3Dmedium%26utm_campaign%3Dryancarter
- https://www.runitonce.com/courses/a-game-poker-masterclass/
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Andrew Lichtenberger is an American poker player from East Northport, New York. He is also known as LuckyChewy. He began playing poker at the age of 18. After playing in cash games, Andrew switched to multi-table tournaments and was successful.
Andrew is the champion of the 2010 World Series of Poker Circuit event in Caesars Palace, Las Vegas in April 2010. Lichtenberger has made five World Series of Poker final tables and has won a WSOP bracelet in 2016. Andrew’s WSOP cashes exceed $2,000,000. His largest cash is from World Championship Hold’em event in July 2009 for $500,557.
In today’s episode, Andrew and Nick speaks about exploring intuition, non-linear expansions and alien encounters.
Key Takeaways
- Andrew Lichtenberger’s definition of intuition.
- Following the curiosity thread, is it a waste of time or a just a lack of imagination?
- How Andrew balances curiosity and practicality.
- Why does Andrew think that everything is interconnected?
- Nick’s chess trauma and learnings about negative EV.
- Andrew’s views on psychedelics.
- Andrew’s take on intuition and how it shifted his views of the world.
- Free will and non-free will exploration with Andrew.
- How has Andrew’s naivety hurt and helped him.
- What happened to Andrew in 2012?
Resources
- https://twitter.com/luckychewy
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James Whittet is a mindset coach with over 5 years of experience training hundreds of players around the world. James was a head mindset coach for bitB staking group before founding his own program Poker Mindset Mastery and becoming CEO of 5 PLO International for 5Card Coaching and Staking.
Prior to becoming a mindset coach, James profited over $1 million himself across various poker formats. He started his career in high stakes sit-n-go tournaments earning supernova elite honors twice. He transitioned into PLO and battled up the stakes to as high as 10/20. He also found success in tournaments with 3 COOP final tables and a player of the series trophy this past SCOOP.
In today’s episode, James and Nick are connects to speak about a wide range of nuances, correction processes and the paths of performance modes.
Key Takeaways
- The longevity of performance paths, Disassociation or Self Care
- What does it feels to be disassociated and what disassociation truly feels like.
- How James sees the David Goggins’ unstoppable force identity versus the life goals you have.
- What is over correction and why it’s human nature to over correct.
- What James thinks about taking break periods and working in sprints.
- The danger of Success in James’ views.
- Can Zero-sum and Non Zero-Sum games co-exist?
- James’ take about cold immersions.
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Before he was even old enough to legally play, Zach Resnick fell in love with the game of poker. By the time he was 21, he’d started building out a number of business ventures, including Just Hands Poker.
Nick met Zach for the first time at Poker Out Loud in December of 2017. Talking just through hands, they struck up a relationship that led to them keeping in touch over the next several years. Recently, they reconnected in the world of cryptocurrency, and it seemed like the stars had aligned and their journeys had overlapped again.
In today’s conversation, Zach and Nick reconnect to talk about building sustainable businesses in the crypto space, the traits that the best investors all have in common (no matter what they invest in), and how to navigate the potential conflicts that come from changing your convictions.
Key Takeaways
- Why Zach pivoted into the crypto scene instead of doubling down on poker.
- Why there’s so much dumb money and so many scams in crypto - and how Zach built a fund with due diligence and smart people instead of just chasing exponential returns.
- How Zach sees a value proposition for blockchain technology that has nothing to do with existing outside of government regulation.
- Why it’s human nature to overvalue the first piece of information on any topic you read - and why this makes doing deep dives absolutely necessary.
- What happened to change Zach’s opinion on both Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV - and why hard pivots almost always create intense friction, blowback, and even fallout.
- Why Zach thinks Craig Wright is Satoshi.
Resources
- Unbounded Capital Fund Offerings
- Unbounded Capital's Book
- What is Proof of Work
- Why Unbounded Thinks Craig is Satoshi and Why That Matters
- EasyPoint.me
- PokerUnicorns.com
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Every poker player knows that understanding your opponents tells by reading their nonverbal cues is a huge advantage. But how do you know if your reads are right? This is Blake Eastman’s passion and focus. He led the largest behavioral study ever on poker players and has built his business by giving others one of the biggest edges available at the poker table.
Blake doesn’t play in as many tournaments as he used to, but still has an impressive $200k in career cashes with a 4th place finish in the 5K 6-Max and a very deep run in the 2016 WSOP Main Event. He has been coaching poker players for over a decade and is the Founder of the School of Cards. He’s also the Founder of the behavioral research company The Nonverbal Group, and was an Adjunct Psychology Professor at the City University of New York.
In this episode, Blake joins the podcast to share what he’s learned about nonverbal behaviors, how poker players at all levels — including high stakes players — can improve their reads, and how to tell the difference between what an opponent is telling you and what they are trying to conceal from you with their emotions and physical behaviors.
Key Takeaways
- Understanding cognitive empathy and the actual reason why someone is experiencing an emotion.
- Why poker players use concealment strategies to gain an advantage and when you should pay attention to those behaviors - and when you shouldn’t.
- How variations in an opponent’s voice aren’t always the tells that you should be looking for at the poker table.
- Why it’s important to have a systematic process for determining what information is helpful and the information that isn’t useful.
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Why do the best players reliably outrank the competition? Why are some people so much better at analysis than intuition?
Today, Nick and Wayne are talking with Fedor Holz. Fedor is an unbelievably gifted player. He won his first WSOP bracelet in 2016 and now sits at #1 on the German all-time money list, with life tournament winnings of over $32,500,000. He shifted his focus away from poker in 2019 to develop his start-up, a mindset coaching app called Primed Mind, which makes it easy for people to use the same powerful visualization techniques that have empowered the world’s most notable phenoms.
In this episode, Nick begins by immediately asking Fedor a simple question: “How do you navigate the analytical and intuitive plane in balance?” Fedor’s answer leads the trio in a number of different directions, including what it really means to have grit, how to process new information in every aspect of life, and how the COVID-19 pandemic forced Fedor to evaluate not just what truly matters, but what stops someone from being truly effective at what they do.
Key Takeaways
- Why the best poker players - and businesspeople - are naturally curious.
- Why Fedor had to spend tens of thousands of dollars on protein bars and work with a full-time sports scientist to realize there was no product that could optimize his performance and well-being.
- The value of being the person who doesn’t jump to conclusions.
- How having an overloaded calendar with too many meetings makes it impossible to forge real, authentic connections.
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Bencb is widely seen as one of the best online tournament players out there. He made a name for himself when he took the top prize of over $250,000 in the SCOOP Main Event in 2014, and won the WCOOP Super High Roller 2016, where he won over $1.2 million in an event with the biggest buy-in of all time. He now runs Raise Your Edge, where he teaches players to plug their leaks, master preflop, and increase their win rate through a series of classes and articles.
In this episode, Ben joins the podcast to talk to Wayne and Nick about how his values have changed as he’s leveled up in poker, how he clarified his vision, and what it means to move in a more accelerated, harmonious way through your network without burning out.
Key Takeaways
- How Ben combined his hobby of playing poker with a sustainable business model.
- How your poker skills can help you effectively outsource projects and operations without getting screwed over.
- Red flags to identify before doing business with a business advisor, lawyer, or accountant.
- Why you can’t lose your confidence when you fail - and why this happens to so many poker players who try to enter other lines of business.
- Why you should start meditating - and how to create a practice of your own.
- Why poker isn’t a single player game - and why mindset matters just as much as strategy.
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When all is said and done, there’s one thing that almost anyone can take away from poker: maturity. Poker players have to learn how to balance self-compassion and patience with perseverance and a dedication to something great. Poker players aim high - and when they find themselves getting frustrated, they almost always need to get help.
Today’s episode comes from that exact experience. Jefferson Brayner is a 5/10 player with a very high personal ceiling. When he started to feel frustrated that his career wasn’t as far along as he wished it would be, he requested a consult with Nick to comb through these feelings and see what they could find.
In this conversation, Nick and Jefferson explore how to alleviate pressure and pull back the curtain to reveal just what it means to be involved when high stakes are involved. They explore how thinking about mindset performance can help someone explore new worlds, and how to solve these complex problems without getting frustrated or angry.
Key Takeaways
- Why so many tantrums are directly linked to a lack of certainty or a lack of progress.
- Why our subconscious believes there may be a benefit to throwing a tantrum - and how to stop wasting energy cycling through irrational beliefs.
- How entitlement stifles progress and hurts performance.
- How to shift attention and awareness to achieve higher clarity and keep a cool head in tense and difficult situations.
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What makes a poker game “good?” For that matter, what makes any human interaction “good?” As players and people, what social behavior helps us create enjoyable scenes, as opposed to tight and uncomfortable ones?
Helping to answer these questions today is Matt Berkey. Matt is the CEO of the Solve For Why Academy training program, where he and a team of elite players provide a unique, advanced poker coaching experience built on real-time analytics and the psychology of personal interactions. He’s also played in some of the highest stakes cash games ever televised on the planet.
Today, Matt and Nick have a long overdue conversation about creating authentic experiences, the signals we send and receive in poker (and everywhere else), infinite game when it comes to network expansion, and the skills needed to excel as poker keeps changing.
Key Takeaways
- What a good poker game looks like - and what certain types of players want to experience while they play.
- Common ways players express themselves when they’re winning (and losing) - and how these behaviors can impact both enjoyment and performance for everyone else.
- How conversation at the poker table can change someone’s performance.
- The mindset shift necessary to get invited to (and excel) in private games.
- How online poker could become an arms race of high-frequency data exchange.
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After Nick watched Kristy Arnett’s video, A "Sexy" Photoshoot Triggered 8 Years of Social Anxiety, he knew he needed to talk with her. He was astounded by Kristy’s ability to unpack eight years of social anxiety, mental struggle, and battle in about eight minutes.
Kristy began her career as a writer, host, and video producer for Card Player Magazine and PokerNews before leaving to play professionally in 2014. On her YouTube channel, she creates content about love, relationships, and lifestyles, including lessons learned from her experiences within the world of poker.
In this episode, Kristy joins Nick for an open, honest, and direct conversation about mental health, processing and healing from trauma, and the power of sharing stories - as well as how the challenges we face by ourselves and in our relationships impact our lives in poker.
Key Takeaways
- How Kristy deals with self-criticism and adversity on a daily basis, both in poker and in life.
- Why experiencing trauma as adults often retriggers things we buried earlier in our lives - and how to navigate it.
- What Kristy learned about overcoming limiting beliefs by working as a dating coach for poker players who were afraid to approach women or pursue relationships.
- The power of setting intentions.
- How to sense someone’s integrity.
- What Kristy learned from being on the brink of divorce with her husband - and the skills she cultivated to save her marriage and ensure they could truly grow together.
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How do you vet people who belong in your network? This isn’t a question about who they are on a fundamental level - it’s about quality of communication, integrity, and the difference between healthy connection and drama within your inner circle.
This episode took almost a year to craft, and the degree of nuance that we explore should explain why. It goes deep into one of the most valuable zones of expertise that a network-oriented person can develop: optics. Specifically, we focus on the intricacies of relationship vetting.
From the importance of setting a vision for your ideal network, to the types of signals to hone in on in the process of getting to know someone new, to the healthy boundaries that you’ll need to put in place when people demonstrate unsafe behavior. This episode is packed full of real life examples and case studies that will provide you with a clear and versatile map to high level relationship building, no matter what types of business or social circles you run in.
Key Takeaways
- Why greater abundance creates more options to meet new people and higher quality people - and why these are almost always people with a high level of integrity or emotional maturity.
- How to navigate the social pressure that comes with building an effective network.
- How to effectively assess someone’s communicational or integrity maturity - and why this almost always requires a lot of self-reflection.
- What it means when someone is trying to convince you that their past behavior is anomalous.
- How high requirements for transparency and connection can make people feel like nothing is ever good enough.
- What to do when people in your network, or people you are vetting to be part of your network, display unsafe behavior.
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Today’s episode picks up where last week’s left off. Nick and Wayne continue their conversation about communication by delving into the dangers of perfectionism. They explore how poker forces you to fight off perfectionist impulses, cope with mistakes, and conquer performance deficiencies once and for all.
Key Takeaways
- How perfectionism can set you up to burn out, quit, or fail.
- How compassion can help you resolve major emotional conflicts.
- How unresolved trauma and feelings of unsafety from the past stop us from dealing directly with our most complicated emotions.
- How to use self-inquiry to unpack these feelings, act more logically, and stop distorting your perception.
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Recently, one of Nick’s players had a rough month of play. He needed his account to be reloaded more often than normal, and sidestepped the chain of command and normal communications hierarchy to complain. Higher level officers got frustrated with this player, so Nick spoke to him personally. The player told Nick that he was being demanding because he deeply craved more connection, more efficient systems, and more trust - and Nick had to explain to him that his behavior was having the exact opposite effect.
As entrepreneurs and poker players, we are always trying to have full information in incomplete games. We want to be able to trust people fully, for people to be able to trust us, and to minimize our risk - and our behavior in our communications on how we’re perceived, respected, and able to perform.
In this episode, Nick and Wayne share stories about communication from their careers in poker and in business, the value of vulnerable communication, and how to communicate with yourself to get unstuck when you need to.
Key Takeaways
- How our communication can accidentally do the exact opposite of what we intend it to.
- Why poker forces you to give up the factors outside your control.
- How striving for perfection drains your energy and makes you less effective.
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As a high performer, you can sometimes feel your batteries have only output. You can never recharge, you can’t relax, and as a consequence, you find yourself on the verge of burnout.
For many high performers, the problem isn’t just that their schedules aren’t optimized. It’s that they don’t know how to relax or recharge, especially when taking tons of meetings, traveling, or between events.
Today, Nick and Wayne take a deep dive into the nuances of energy management on a high performance path. This one is packed with a lot of daily energy hacks, as well as a broader description of the different types of scheduling that Nick and Wayne use. You’ll walk away from this one with a keen sense of how to optimize your logistics based on your own personality and stage of development. You’ll learn when to allow for scheduling flexibility and when to stick to the plan, how to identify blindspots in your scheduling system, and the power of communication in your daily life -- all told from the dual perspective of the poker player and the entrepreneur.
Key Takeaways
- What rest activities can look like for the high-performing entrepreneur or poker player.
- How the ungrounded energy state and the feeling of “not doing enough” when we’re idle can drain our energy when we’re trying to relax, how to identify if this is dissociation, and how to learn to work through this feeling.
- How to identify your peak productivity times to eliminate friction, stop feeling decision fatigue, and 10x your output.
- How to add freedom to a highly regimented schedule without sacrificing what’s working effectively.
- Tools you can use to calm your brain down.
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A while back, one of Nick’s poker players was struggling. This player was performing well, but relied on support and handouts from friends because his parents didn’t approve of his career. He spent months hovering between being in a financially stable place and never quite getting there.
When he consulted Nick, the player expressed frustration that he was going to have to go back to a toxic home life in London. On the call, Nick rejected this player’s belief that he had no friends, challenged him to find a way to use his network to move out on his own, and put himself out there. Within one minute of asking our group chat to help him, another player invested in his future performance and gave him the freedom to rent his own apartment.
Almost everyone has trouble asking for help on the come up. We think it makes us weak or entitled in some way. The reality is that asking for help is one of the biggest differentiators between a successful entrepreneur and the rest of the pack.
In this episode, we document some different case studies on the topic and provide insights with how you can go about asking for help more effectively on your own journey. Whether you’re a poker player or an entrepreneur trying to navigate bigger business, this episode is jam packed with win rate for building out your network in a powerfully vulnerable way.
Key Takeaways
- Why we’re all so afraid of asking for help - and why we shouldn’t be.
- Why asking the right people for the right help makes all the difference.
- How Nick’s problem player positioned his ask for help in a way that both benefited him and anyone who chose to help him.
- Why requests for help sent via direct message from strangers almost never go answered - and why the people who read these messages often think the senders are completely deluded.
- Why people who are at rock bottom and think they have nothing to offer often have more resources (and more to give) than they think they do.
- Tools you can use to assess your values in a meaningful way.
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High-performing individuals of all kinds fixate on imperfections. The quest for efficiency can lead us to live in extremely hostile environments without even realizing it. We collapse under time-based pressure and trap ourselves in situations we simply cannot make work on our terms.
Today’s episode is one of the more meta episodes in this series. It revolves around the considerations that people often overlook when considering the most beneficial path for their growth. A lot of the examples in this conversation come from real case studies from poker players operating from narrow viewpoints that cause them to justify unhealthy choices, unbeknownst to them. Nick and Wayne also open up with examples from their own journeys where they uncovered similar blindspots and provide insight on how they overcame them.
Key Takeaways
- What Nick learned from talking to a player who convinced him that he had to play at peak hours, even though he wasn’t benefiting from this decision.
- Why it’s so hard to overcome biases in logically consistent ways.
- How to create a path that takes you from being purely analytical to getting more in touch with your emotions.
- Why being self-critical often gives way to being self-hostile - and why this often leads to self-sabotage.
- Why effective leaders have to be willing to exit power struggles.
- How Type A personalities can turn methodologies like breathwork or meditation toxic.
- Why the win-loss mentality rarely serves people as well as they think it does.
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In this episode, we revisit the origins of the Beyond Poker project by giving you a backstage pass to the conversation that inspired it. We never intended to release this call to the public, but upon revisiting it in the building phase of our episode list we just couldn’t resist. Our hope is that it gives our listeners a chance to tap into the energy we were in at that time, and to come away with the confidence to pursue a project that feels true, even if you don’t quite know where it leads.
Key Takeaways
- Why Type A personalities are prone to succeed - and why so many of them need help to create sustainable, lasting careers and happy lives.
- Why loading more stress on yourself does not guarantee you’ll make more money - and how this misguided belief distracts and confuses a lot of Type A personalities.
- Why people like Michael Jordan and David Goggins who perform at an incredible level for years or decades are outliers - and why so many Type A personalities can barely rest or take time off.
- How to understand the difference between control energy and cooperative energy - and why it’s always in your best interest not to engage with people who need to be right.
- How to clarify your intent, surround yourself with people who will lift your abilities, and see the value in other journeys that people might be taking.
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When are things “enough,” and when do you want more? What do you want to think about in life and in work? What are the skill sets that poker players have that serve them best in life after poker?
Today, we’re answering these questions and more. Nick dives into Wayne’s mind to better understand how Wayne amassed the confidence to transition out of poker, and what skills he found most valuable when making the shift. The ensuing discussion focuses on the most common career blind spots among poker players, particularly the lack of vision they have over their implieds as developing entrepreneurs. This is a must watch episode for any poker player looking for guidance on how to start diversifying from poker and connect with the vision of the Beyond Poker network.
Key Takeaways
- How to find projects that interest you and get involved in them as you transition out of a career in poker - and how to learn from the mistakes you might make along the way.
- Who should think about finding a conventional job after walking away from poker - and why this is almost never an option that will make high-level players happy.
- Why the skills cultivated in poker lend themselves to business development, strategy, and investing - and why now is such a great time to learn highly transferable skill sets.
- How to rewire your brain as you think about business and risk in contexts outside of poker.
- Why it’s okay to make mistakes as you pursue opportunities and projects.
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Building Poker Detox from the ground up started off as a lonely road for Nick Howard. As he built the company, he recognized the importance of surrounding himself with a group of high performers that he could relate to, support, and empower.
Join us as we explore the nuances of team building through the evolution of the Poker Detox CFP Team. Nick takes us back to the energy he built the Detox culture from, and explains how he reverse engineered it from the question “What do the people on this team need to FEEL?” What follows is a detailed, behind the scenes look at what it takes to hone the structures and communicational balances necessary to support a high performance community.
Key Takeaways
- Why Nick built Poker Detox to be a cooperative unit of high performers, rather than a traditional corporate hierarchy.
- How an effective community helps players work through struggles in their careers by learning from peers, rather than just coaches.
- What stops so many great poker players from taking the leap and thriving outside of poker.
- Why it’s almost impossible for poker to be a perfectly fulfilling career - and why the best poker players can never free themselves from competitive stress.
- How Poker Detox is changing in the face of a global pandemic and a drastically shifted economy.
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Almost all of the world’s best poker players have specific, easily identifiable traits. These are skills that make them great at the game, and often great at business. They’re often overachievers who come from Type A motivational systems with an astounding capacity for analysis and optimization. They also almost always struggle to find a healthy balance between work and life.
Wayne Yap always wanted to be the best. He played competitive video games, became a nationally-ranked bowler in Singapore, and was soon dedicating all of his free time to poker. He pushed his body to its limits and struggled to take breaks, even when taking vacations.
To grow, Wayne needed not just to find his next move after poker, but to learn how to treat life as a series of sprints and rests, rather than a perpetual marathon.
This episode takes a deep dive into the dark side of the overachiever lifestyle, pulling from stories from Wayne and Nick’s past to provide a framework for the types of motivational systems that do and don’t work. Prepare to come away with a full kit of healthy new tools to help you navigate the high performance path.
Key Takeaways
- Why the Type A personality is so drawn to poker.
- Why Type A personalities struggle to let go or take breaks, even when they’re ostensibly relaxing or on vacation.
- What makes Type A personalities so good at optimization.
- The crossroads that many entrepreneurial-minded poker players face - and what stops so many of them from making major gains and improving their relationships.
- How Type A personalities can work to repair their emotional and motivational systems and approach life from a more balanced perspective.
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Welcome to Beyond Poker — a podcast that shows you how to apply the skills from poker to the world of entrepreneurship.
Join Wayne Yap and Nick Howard, as they reveal the lessons learned from generating millions of dollars playing high-stakes poker, and give you actionable tips & strategies to skyrocket your success in business.
Whether you’re a poker player who wants to build a business, or a business owner who loves the game of poker, this podcast is for you.
In this first episode, Nick and Wayne detail their experiences laddering up through the poker industry, and how it eventually led to an intersection with entrepreneurship. While Wayne found his calling in mergers and acquisitions, Nick found himself drawn to performance psychology and team-building. Join us as we map the twists and turns of their journey and come out together on the other side with a vision for a future beyond poker.
Key Takeaways
- Why high performers can be so good at crossing over from poker into other fields.
- How Wayne used his network and connections to level up his game and ultimately to transition out of poker.
- Why Wayne struggled so badly when he first moved on from Poker - and how he built a bridge to help others avoid having the same experience.
- Why the level you play in is the only thing stopping you from achieving the results you want.
Check Us Out On:
- BeyondPoker.com
- Wayne Yap on Instagram
- Nick Howard on Instagram
- Nick Howard on Twitter
- PokerDetox.com
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