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Chess phenom Alexandra Botez joins Doug Polk to talk about chess, poker, and which game has smarter players.

0:51 Alexandra joins
1:43 Living in Austin, Making content
13:54 The Chess Hustlers, Did AI ruin Chess?
21:07 How to start studying Chess or Poker
25:21 Poker players vs Chess players, Tells vs strategy
35:20 The Chess Twitch boom, Would Chess benefit from a luck factor?
42:00 The World Chess Championship, catering to newbs
51:17 Alexandra's thoughts on Poker, being competitive
1:02:00 Mike McDonald, NFT's, Regulation on cryptos/investments
1:26:31 Which cryptos Alexandra and Doug like?
1:37:38 Advice to young people, College
1:46:30 Will Alexandra play more poker in the future?

World Series of Poker Staple Norman Chad joins Doug Polk to discuss the (potentially) upcoming series and more. 

0:42 Norman joins
2:00 The ex-wife jokes, dealers, poker in California
8:45 WSOP 2021
18:42 Is PokerGo good for the industry?
25:45 WSOP on CBS Sports, Norman+Lon, Jamie Kerstetter
36:42 Who could replace Norman and Lon?
43:10 Making mistakes, glorifying HendonMob stats, rake
49:44 Why is NL Hold'em THE game?, WPT, Mike Sexton
57:02 The WSOP Main Event, what tournaments will Norman play (Doug buys a piece)
1:05:25 Phil Hellmuth, old school pros vs new pros
1:11:25 Women in poker
1:20:02 Gambling Mad with Norman Chad
1:24:58 Doug vs DNegs challenge, broadcasting
1:29:28 How to succeed in broadcasting/content creation
1:45:34 Parting words, will Doug play any events?
1:49:00 Outro

Early cryptocurrency adopter Bryan Micon joins Doug Polk to talk about mostly NFTs, as well as other crypto stuff and the 2021 World Series of Poker.
0:50 Bryan joins 
3:40 NFT markets, Flexing, Rare Pepes 
29:15 Where does the value of NFT's come from? 
35:05 Will all this have a negative effect? 
44:32 What happened to CryptoKitties? 
48:00 Selling NOTHING?, where is the line, NBA Top Shots 
55:10 Thoughts on the crypto market, Bitcoin Cash 
1:13:01 MarketMania, grinding out content vs life balance 
1:18:37 Bryans thoughts on WSOP 2021 
1:23:09 Living in Antigua and Barbuda, driving a Tesla 
1:27:18 Reminiscing the poker days, does Bryan still play? 
1:32:18 Bryan and Doug exchanging gifts 
1:37:09 Price predictions, poker talk 
1:45:10 Outro 

FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver joins Doug Polk to talk about poker, politics, COVID, Twitter beefs and more.

0:52 Nate joins
2:55 Political betting, FiveThirtyEight vs sports betting markets
11:00 2020 Primaries, Superdelegates
16:29 Polarization of the US population
22:30 WSOP Covid restrictions
34:28 Nonsensical Covid policies
41:42 Nate's upcoming book on gambling/risk
46:22 Nate's poker background, talking all things poker
1:25:38 The Nassim Taleb beef
1:29:35 Why is Nate trending on Twitter today?, Covid talk
1:48:48 Stimulus checks, GOP's future
1:59:32 2024 Election predictions?
2:07:13 Parting words, Nate's WSOP schedule

Mike "The Mouth" Matusow joins Doug Polk to share his thoughts on modern poker strategy, the 2021 WSOP, scammer stories from the early 2000s and more. 

Timestamps: 
0:45 Mike joins 
6:28 What is Mike playing nowadays 
10:31 Matusows thoughts on GTO/solvers 
20:50 What happened with UltimateBet? 
27:01 WSOP 2021, Covid/Vaccination 
38:06 Should the WSOP be cancelled? 
55:44 Reminiscing early 2000s, scammer stories 
1:17:30 Mikes biggest mistakes, growing up and grinding it back 
1:29:55 Playing the victim, talent/luck/hard work 
1:42:45 Social media, medicine/drugs, extra-long sessions 
1:54:25 Deals in tournaments, NBC Heads up 
2:05:03 Parting words, Mikes online home game and podcast 
2:11:04 Outro

The one and only Phil Hellmuth joins Doug Polk to talk about his run of heads-up wins and more.

1:08 Hellmuth joins 
3:25 Phil's Heads Up Duel win streak 
13:28 Hellmuth's success in big field MTT's vs High Rollers 
20:40 White Magic vs GTO 
29:50 Hand histories from the DNegs match 
44:48 Upcoming match vs Tom Dwan 
47:15 Is Phil reasonable? 
58:12 Doug's amazing fold vs Phil 
1:05:50 High Stakes Poker 
1:09:08 World Series of Poker & Covid 
1:20:33 Bitcon Latinum 
1:30:28 Final words 
1:36:37 #POSITIVITY