A self-confessed nerd with a first class degree in astrophysics, Liv combined her science background and passion for games to become one of the most recognizable faces in professional poker. She was the #1 ranked female player from 2014-2016, and holds both European Poker Tour and World Series of Poker championship titles after winning more than $4 million on the international circuit.

• Liv Boeree The Science Behind Poker Show

Official Facebook page of Liv Boeree - Science Broadcaster, Futurist and Poker Champion. Liv waffled a bit, then Ivan said you just have to play and analyze a lot. While that is true, the actual answer is that you use modeling software to create a hand model, get clear on your 'intuition' of the situation, then run the model to see if your intuition matches the results of the model. Is it better to be lucky or good? Should we trust our gut feelings or rely on probabilities and careful analysis when making important decisions? Is it better to be lucky or good? Should we trust our gut feelings or rely on probabilities and careful analysis when making important decisions? In this quick talk, professional poker player Liv Boeree shares three strategies she's learned from the game and how we can apply them to real life.

Liv is also a keen philanthropist, and in 2014 co-founded Raising for Effective Giving (REG), a research and advisory non-profit that uses the philosophies and strategies of Effective Altruism to identify and raise money for the most globally impactful charities.

Since retiring from professional poker in 2018, Liv is now focussed on education, keen to inspire others with the rational thinking techniques she has learned through both poker and Effective Altruism.

Growing up in rural Kent, England, Liv was a highly competitive straight-A student who held a deep love for space and astronomy from an early age. This lead to her studying physics and astrophysics at the University of Manchester, graduating in 2005 with first class honours (4.0 GPA equivalent).

She was also a passionate guitar player, spending much of her time between lectures playing lead for various metal bands, a passion that lead her to London after graduation to pursue music further. It was there she noticed a cryptic TV gameshow advert looking for contestants “willing to use their powers of skill and deception to win money”, to which she promptly applied with the hope it could pay off her student debt. After being selected as one of the five contestants, it was revealed that they were to be taught to play poker.

Despite not winning that particular show, Liv immediately fell in love with the game and decided to pursue the game as both a player and TV host. Her first major win was the televised European Ladies Championship in 2007, but her breakthrough moment came a few years later when she bested 1240 opponents to take down the European Poker Tour in Italy.

Her poker career continued for another nine years as a member of Team Pokerstars Pro, hosting various TV shows and winning further live and online tournaments including the 2017 World Series of Poker Tag-Team championship alongside her partner Igor Kurganov.

Liv retired from professional poker soon after her breakout TED talk to pursue speaking and TV more actively, and today splits her time between the speaking circuit and creating TV and video content on her favourite counter-intuitive and scientific topics.

Quick-Show Notes:

In this episode JP and Liv Boeree discuss:

• COVID-19
• Was this a Black Swan? There have been multiple predictions.
• Leaders should now relies that there is a possibility of future risk
• Other events that are happening:
  • Unfriendly AI
  • Synthetic Biology
• Tale risks:
  • Climate Change
  • Nuclear War
• Be aware of the projections
• Do your research .
• This is the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression
• Boarders are now becoming more relevant
• Possible changes as a consequence:
  • Communications
  • Harder to justify travel
  • Conferences may be a thing of the past, why spend 30k for a booth when you can do e-conferences.
  • People have seen the benefit of e-meetings
  • Employees will push to work from home more
• Economy dies if people die, but people will also die if the economy
• Is the stock market a good predictor?
• Level of adoption of new systems and ways is high, even 91 year olds are on ZOOM!
• When to favour intuition:
  • Life or death
  • Low steak stuff
  • Really really regular things
• When not to favour intuition:
  • Major life or death
• Your intuition will be bias
• Businesses should take everything into consideration
• Have your data
• People will benefit from making predictions.
• Make probability sexy!
• Women should keep in mind
  • Never been a better time to be an entrepreneur
  • Be aware that people will go to you because you are a female, but don’t let that get you down, use it you your advantage
• Keep in mind
  • Try a few different things before you settle
  • Set specific goals for yourself, set predictions
  • Think about what would achieve goodness in the world, be helpful and be valuable
  • Set yourself apart from the rest and people will want to help!
• Navigate your own path
• Use this time to decompress! Your normal life is all on hold, enjoy it!

Key Takeaways

• Unique time right now, world is at a halt
• So much you can learn right now
• Do your research
• Gather data
• Do not always trust your intuition.

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