Look, I don’t have much more to say about this. I wanted this section to be longer, but I got nothing. I don’t know why this helps, but it does, so I’m not gonna question it. Sometimes you find something that just...works. And you don’t know why it does, but you don’t always need to justify it with a reason. Final Fantasy 8: Helps my depression but I have no idea why and I’m fine with it. So it’s no secret that I am a fan of all things related to murder mysteries; If you’re new here and you didn’t know this, well then LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT IT.
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We had to win $1, or we had to play $.5 slots with $1 tournament on Paradise Poker in order to roll. Who knows what would have happened if we didn't do well in that $1 tournament. Max Steinberg: That's awesome. Carl C.: As you were learning the game and progressing; how did discussing hands and theory on Flop Turn River and other forums aid to your success? Do you think that was a large part of it? Max Steinberg: Yeah, I definitely do https://oncasinogames.com/canada/keno/.
I'm not just saying that because you're from Flop Turn River and you're interviewing me right now-it really did. Not only as just a place to get feedback, but just a place to put something out there that I was thinking and just organizing my thoughts by just writing a post in general was really helpful. It was also just ... I feel like helping other people who are at a lower level than me helped me straighten my thoughts a little about my own game, playing at the levels I was playing at. All around, FTR was extremely helpful to me. I definitely would not be as good a poker player as I am if it wasn't for FTR, so, definitely, thankful for them. Carl C.: Good to hear. As you were moving up and getting better, is there anything that clicked in your mind, where you started to get it? There wasn't a slower progression that had like more factors to it? Max Steinberg: There wasn't, really, a eureka moment. I started getting a lot better when I started moving to heads-up cash games instead of playing 6-Max cash games. I guess the moment where it clicked is I just got a couple of lessons on heads-up cash games from Sauce, who is "Sauce123" on Flop Turn River. He just said a few things to me that started ... The way in which, in heads-up cash games, he was playing differently than 6-Max opened up my mind a bit about how to think about strategies in poker, and to think about how to counter someone, how to play against a specific opponent and how to develop good strategies. I think that was a big turning point in my game. Carl C.: Cool, yeah. FTR members, on the forum, submitted some questions and we can go through those right now, if you want. Max Steinberg: Okay. Carl C.: All right. "Sasquatch991" asked: "What adjustments, mental or otherwise, do you make going from multi-tabling online to sitting at one table, sitting for long periods, while playing live?". Max Steinberg: That's an interesting question. I don't think I've ever made a conscious mental adjustment, but it does require, sort of, more patience. Actually, one of the big things, I think, is hands become much bigger deals to you, even though they shouldn't. You're playing live, and you have 30 big blinds in a big tournament, and if a lose a 10-big-blind pot, suddenly, a third of my stack is gone, and I'm feeling really dejected and upset. In an online environment, it would feel like nothing. It took me a while to make the mental adjustment, to realize that losing that 10-big-blind pot online, and losing that 10-big-blind pot in a live tournament is, basically, the same thing. Just the slower aspect can be mentally draining if you don't take the right approach and realize how little of a deal some of the hands that seemed so big really are. Carl C.: Right, yeah. Especially, because when you play online, when you bust a tournament you can just load another one up. With live, you have to wait a day or two, maybe, before you're playing again. Max Steinberg: Right, so you have time to dwell on the two hands you played that were, probably, just fine. Carl C.: "Alexos" asked; "How do you adjust hand reading live versus online, and the fact that live ranges seem way wider? Max Steinberg: I wouldn't say they're way wider. How did that work out for you? Max Steinberg: I did, actually, have good reads. Actually, my brother, obviously, who everyone knows as Iowa Skins fan. Danny, actually, called me up at breaks and he was watching the stream and he would tell me reads that he got on people. Carl C.: Oh, really? Max Steinberg: They were, actually, incredibly effective.
The most reads he had were on Samuel Gerber, and those reads were incredibly effective and came in handy later in the tournament, especially when I got heads-up. I, also, had friends who had told me some information on some of the tournament players, like Matt Stout and Dylan Horton and that, also, was very helpful in the end. Carl C.: Yeah, I guess, it's helpful when you have your identical twin brother watching the stream, looking out for you. He's, obviously, a really good live player, himself. Max Steinberg: Yeah, exactly. I was just going to say there was one hand where I got a very good live read, which allowed me to make a call that I wouldn't normally make. I don't think people realized that I had a read here because the commentators were saying how they felt like it was a bad call. Basically, I had opened the button and Dylan Horton, who is a very good player, just snap jammed on me for 20 big blinds. It folded back to me and I just got the sense that he had just planned to do it to my button open because I was playing so loose. That was supported by the fact that he jammed just so quickly. It just seemed like he was trying to act strong and he had planned to do this because he was opening so many buttons. I expected him to show up with some pretty weak holdings, and so, I called with Ace-5, off. Even though, if I had no read there, it should be a fold but since I did, it was a call. He ended up having King-7 suited, so I felt like I had a pretty right read there. Carl C.: Yeah, that was the other hand that I was going to bring up. Some people were talking about in FTR. Yeah, the commentators did, kind of, lean towards it being a bad call, but when you add in all that ... Especially, the fact that you had a read. That makes it ... Max Steinberg: I was pretty confident in my read. I would never make that call without a read. It would just be bad math, basically. With that read, it makes it a call. Carl C.: How about we switch gears here, a bit. Let's talk about your poker career and how you got started. Max Steinberg: Is that a question? Carl C.: I guess. I know you and Danny were sharing an account, at first and you had a deposit. How about you just tell everyone when you started and how you got going? Max Steinberg: Yeah, okay. I started when I was 17, playing online poker. I started playing poker a little before that but it was just with friends. My dad actually deposited $50 for us on our seventeenth birthday. That was fun, and cool. We told him; "Just deposit $50. This isn't going to become some gambling thing. If we lose it, we lose it. If we don't, then we'll just keep playing and see what happens". I have not deposited any more money, besides that $50. It did get down to $2, multiple times. It wasn't till the end of the second day, where I started to think; "Wow, I'm in a position to, possibly, final table".
Carl C.: That's good. Yeah, that's awesome. What were some of the critical hands leading up to final table that really gave you your stack and set it in motion? Max Steinberg: I don't know ... I'm not sure I remember. Hold on, I'm going to ask my friend for some help. Speaker 3: Set of 9s. Max Steinberg: Set of 9s where? Speaker 3: When you were [running through that 00:05:05.27]. Max Steinberg: Oh, okay. We were about 14 away from the Final Table, at the start of the third day. I had a decent amount of chips. This older guy, who was an amateur, raised on the button and I 3-Bet him with 9s, and he, kind of, played it a little looser than one would expect a normal, older white guy would play. He called, and the flop came: Jack-9-5, or something like that. I bet and he just jammed on me. Carl C.: That must have been a great feeling. Are you there? Can you hear me? All right, we're having some problems; your video ... Oh, you're back now. Max Steinberg: Yeah, I can hear you now. Carl C.: There were two hands on the Final Table that a lot of people were talking about, at least, in FTR. The first one was when you made that All-In river bet, I can't, specifically remember it. Max Steinberg: I think I know the hand you're talking about. Yeah, it was versus ... There was this player that was playing extremely tight. It seemed like he wanted to just ... Are you still there? Carl C.: Yeah, I'm here. Can you hear me? Max Steinberg: It seemed like he just wanted to get, sort of, Second or Third. He was playing really tight. The money was really, really important to him. I think I raised in early position with, I think, it was 6 at this point. This was [inaudible 00:07:02.07], but it came 3-suited. The whole table's playing tight and I had a decent sized stack. I thought that was an okay raise. He called me from the big blind. He was the type of player who had called, sort of, loose from the big blind. Looser than you would expect from the big blind but he was very tight post-flop. I don't even remember the board really well, I think it was 8-7-6-flop, Jack-turn, 3-river. I ended up triple-barreling All-In. It was actually funny, because, he actually said that he wanted to call on the river, but he only had Ace-high. I'm, sort of, panicking because I think that I'm just triple-barreling air, but what I forgot is that I actually had pair of 3s on the river. Carl C.: Oh! If he would have called that would have been. Max Steinberg: I would have won, yeah. To be honest, he might have just been talking trash because he was such a tight player and he really did not want to get out in Sixth. It was just a spot where the board was draw-heavy and I just didn't think that he would slow play a big hand in that spot, so I just barreled him and assumed that he would fold, basically, everything, and he did, so. Carl C.: It seemed like you had a really good feel of how the table was playing. Did you have any good reads on anyone? So I'm a professional poker player, and today, I want to talk about three things that the game has taught me around decision-making that I find apply to everyday life. Now the first of these things is about luck. Now, like poker, life is also a game of skill and luck, and when it comes to the biggest things we care about -- health, wealth and relationships -- these outcomes don't only depend on the quality of our decision-making, but also the roll of life's dice. For example, we can be perfectly health-conscious and still get unlucky with something like cancer.
Or we can smoke 20 a day and live to a ripe old age, and this kind of ambiguity can make it hard for us to know how good our strategies are, sometimes, especially when we're experiencing a lot of success. For example, back in 2010, I won a really big poker tournament known as the European Poker Tour. And because I'd only been playing full-time for about a year, when I won, I assumed I must be rather brilliant. In fact, I thought I was so brilliant that I not only got rather lazy with studying the game, but I also got more risky, started playing in the biggest tournaments I could against the very best in the world. And then my profit graph went from a thing of beauty to something kind of sad, with this worrying downhill trend for a long time, until I finally realized that I was overestimating my skill level, and got my act together. And this kind of reminds me of what we've been seeing in the cryptocurrency space, at least in 2017, where the only thing that's been going up faster than the markets themselves is the number of "senior investment specialists" who have been appearing out of nowhere. Now I'm not saying it's not possible to have a strategic edge, but at the same time, it's very easy to feel like a genius when you're in a market that's going up so fast that even the worst strategies are making a profit. So when we're experiencing success, it's important to take a moment to really ask ourselves how much of it is truly down to us, because our egos love to downplay the luck factor when we're winning. Now, a second thing poker taught me is the importance of quantifying my thinking. When you're playing, you can't just get away with going, "Eh, they're probably bluffing. http://casino-games.my/play-live-roulette/" That's just going to lose you a bunch of money, because poker is a game of probabilities and precision, and so you have to train yourself to think in numbers. So now, whenever I catch myself thinking vaguely about something really important, like, "It's unlikely I'll forget what I want to say in my TED Talk," I now try to estimate it numerically. (Laughter) Trust me, it helps a lot with the planning process. And the thing is, almost anything that could possibly happen here today, or at any point in the future, can also be expressed as a probability, too. (Laughter) So now I also try to speak in numbers as well. So if someone asks me, "Hey, Liv, do you think you're going to come along to that thing tonight?" instead of just saying to them, "Yeah, probably," I actually give them my best estimate -- say, 60 percent. Because -- I know that sounds a little odd -- but the thing is, I ran a poll on Twitter of what people understand the word "probably" to mean, and this was the spread of answers. Enormous! So apparently, it's absolutely useless at actually conveying any real information. So if you guys catch yourselves using these vague words, like "probably" or "sometimes," try, instead, using numbers, because when we speak in numbers, we know what lands in the other person's brain. Now, the third thing I want to touch on today is intuition. How often have you seen these kinds of inspirational memes in your Facebook feed? [Always trust your gut feeling and never second-guess.] They're nice, right? It's lovely. Yes. "Trust your soul." Well, they're terrible advice. These are some of the best poker players in the world right now. Do they look like people who live purely off feelings and intuitions? (Laughter) Look at them! Obviously, these guys are about slow, careful analysis, and that's because the game has outgrown the days where pure street smarts and people-reading can get you to the top. And that's because our intuitions aren't nearly as perfect as we'd like to believe. I mean, it'd be great, whenever we're in a tough spot, to just have an answer appear to us from some magical source of inspiration. But in reality, our gut is extremely vulnerable to all kinds of wishful thinking and biases. So then, what is our gut good for? Well, all the studies I've read conclude that it's best-suited for everyday things that we have lots and lots of experience in, like how we just know that our friend is mad at us before we've even said anything to them, or whether we can fit our car into a tight parking spot. 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