The Best Poker Players Are the Ones That Play Suboptimally

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At the highest level, people are so much more similar in terms of their style of play. And then you have outliers who try to do things a little differently and confuse people. It seems like the outliers, like we talked offline that Magnus, in order to win Magnus Carlson, has to play suboptimally in the openings to take his opponents out of the comfort zone. So he can play what he calls pure chess as quickly as possible.

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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:43) – Poker hands
(14:39) – Poker ranges
(20:10) – Game theory optimal
(36:25) – Winning
(42:57) – Losing
(48:58) – Mental game
(53:17) – Day in the life
(1:02:20) – History of poker
(1:06:10) – Poker solvers
(1:12:46) – Online poker
(1:20:49) – Greatest poker player of all time
(1:40:43) – Main Event of the WSOP
(1:49:14) – Advice for beginners
(1:54:44) – Cheating
(2:04:43) – Movies
(2:10:10) – Advice for young people
(2:19:29) – Love
(2:24:43) – The Gambler