The AI Metagame

Podcast 37 is an interview with my friend Peter Jennings (@CSURAM88). Peter, perhaps the most successful player in the early years of daily fantasy sports, was a co-founder of the highly successful site www.fantasylabs.com and is a successful investor in the sports analytics and legal sports gambling spaces. He is the co-founder and CEO of LuckyTraderHQ (www.luckytrader.com), which seeks to be the...

Cole South (@ColeSouth) has mastered pretty much everything he’s touched, and this pod was a great opportunity to learn from him. His ascendency in poker was legendary, but I didn’t understand before this podcast exactly how rapid it was: he discovered poker at the very end of 2005, and was one of the biggest winners in the game in the Spring 0f 2006. He then quit school (he later finished) and st...

Philip Sternheimer is a partner at Hellman and Friedman who also plays in the biggest poker games in the world. In this episode, we cover: his experiences in the Bobby's Room, including his stint in a massive $5k-$10k limit game; his advice for career success, especially for those transitioning from poker; his "Not-to-do List" list for for investing; his advice for time-efficient fitness and nutri...

I started getting poker coaching from Cory about six months ago , and then became fascinated by his life story. In addition to studying poker intensively, he's a writer and former Chess Master, and he's keenly interested in rapid skill acquisition (a lifelong learner, he's now most interested in languages).

This episode features an interview with Dan Cates. Known by his online moniker "jungleman", he's one of the biggest winners in the history of poker. In this interview, we dive deep into our respective poker matches with Phil Galfond, and he teases an ambitious match "lock the doors" match against Galfond that might (or might not) happen later this year. Dan previews his new social app (involving r...

Podcast 32 is an interview with Phil Galfond (@PhilGalfond), a top poker player in the world for nearly two decades and founder of training site www.runitonce.com. This interview - for hardcore poker fans only - is a detailed look at his recent heads ups poker challenges. Phil, who is currently undefeated in heads up PLO challenges, details the emotional rollercoaster of his first challenge, where...

In my third podcast with Barton Wang (@Barton_options), we discuss recent market events, the Archegos Capital saga, and Barton's new subscription newsletter, Liquidity Matters (a 2-3 times a week newsletter that elucidates Barton's long-held view that short-term monetary and fiscal policy changes are the primary driver of market action).

This is a unique 3-way podcast with Nate Silver and Tom Dwan. We hit pretty much everything under the sun, including some fan favorites (betting markets, poker, cryptocurrencies, NFTs).

Doug Polk is the top poker content creator (100 million+ views on Youtube) and a top poker player. The live streams of his recent 25,000 hand challenge against Daniel Negreanu was one of the most-watched pieces of poker content ever. In this interview, we discuss his ascent in poker and in poker content (first 30 min), the details of his match with Daniel Negreanu (second 30 min), and then his vie...

In this pod, Jason Strasser gives his takes on the recent craziness in $GME stock. Jason (@strassa2) is the co-founder and CIO of Caption Partners. This podcast is for entertainment purposes; it should not be viewed as investment advice.

Tom Dwan (@TomDwan) has been one of the most popular and successful poker players in the world since he first popped on the scene as a teenager playing high stakes under the moniker "durrrrr". His clips on High Stakes Poker and Poker After Dark are the most widely discussed and downloaded poker content on the internet. This is his first ever podcast.

Jennifer Shahade (@JenShahade) is the host of what might be the greatest poker podcast of all time --- the wildly ambitious Poker Grid podcast. Jen has a fascinating background - a longtime poker player, she is also a two-time US Women's Chess Champion. We spend about half of the time discussing the Poker Grid podcast (which features 169 poker players talking about the 169 possible...

Barton Wang (@barton_options) is an extremely popular financial commentator on Twitter. This podcast is a follow-up to our conversation on March 10. That episode was the most popular episode ever on this podcast (30k+ downloads), in part because Barton, whose parents lived near Wuhan, made some detailed predictions about the economic and health consequences of COVID19. In the first part of this po...

Richard Davies is the former economics editor of The Economist. He is also a fellow at the London School of Economics, and a former speechwriter for the Bank of England. In this podcast, we discuss his fascinating new book, Extreme Economies, in which he visits nine places across the globe that are dealing with inequality, technological change, environmental change, or aging populations to an extr...

Many people consider Chad Schroeder the best season-long fantasy football player in the world. If you have the slightest interest in fantasy football, this is simply a must listen. If you don't like fantasy football, don't listen. If you do like fantasy football, especially auction drafts.... well, Chad will blow your mind. Almost every sentence is loaded with strategic depth. You will realize tha...

A former collegiate tennis player and 15x Olympic distance triathlete, Nelson Peña is now a performance coach with an unusual focus -- fitness in the 40s! He's very easily the fittest 40-something I know, and this interview is full of tips for nutrition, fitness, and mental resilience for men in and around the 40s. Nelson can be found on insta @thenelsonpena and online at www.t...

Ben Sulsky is the consensus best poker player in the world. He rarely appears on podcasts, and doesn't do social media. In the first half of this podcast, I ask him questions about poker; in the second half, he asks me questions about economics.

In this interview with Maria Konnikova (@konnikova), we discuss her new book, The Biggest Bluff (available next week on Amazon). Maria, a bestselling author and contributing writer for The New Yorker, originally planned on spending one year on the pro poker tour, where she would study under one of the world's best (Erik Seidel). In fact she spent three years and had major success. Her book about t...

In this interview, I had a cherished opportunity to interview Jim Grant, a legend of financial journalism. We discuss his new book on Walter Bagehot, and the Federal Reserve interventions of March and April 2020.

Joe Campanale is a renowned sommelier, restaurateur and wine expert. After co-founding several wine-focused concepts with the West Village-based Epicurean Group (dell'anima, L’Artusi and natural wine bar, Anfora), Joe branched out on his own in 2017 to open Fausto in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Following Fausto’s immediate success, Campanale opened LaLou, a neighborhood wine bar in Prospect Heights, Bro...

Brandon Adams Podcast Ep 17: Interview with Jonathan Shecter. Jonathan Shecter (@sheckygreen) co-founded The Source magazine in his Harvard dorm. He then moved to New York, where as editor-in-chief, he oversaw content of The Source as it became the most influential publication in hip hop history. In the early 2000's, he moved to Vegas and became deeply involved with electronic music, ultimately be...

I really enjoyed this opportunity to interview the brilliant Arnold Kling. Dr Kling (@KlingBlog) is a star of the economics blogosphere. Dr Kling is not shy about giving his predictions about economic growth, unemployment, and financial markets following the extended COVID-19 lockdown. His blog can be found at https://www.arnoldkling.com

Few people are better placed to discuss recent market turmoil than Benn Eifert (@bennpeifert). Benn is the founder and CIO of QVR Advisors, an investment advisor managing data-driven, option-based investment strategies. Topics covered include: 1) the 15 year history of popular option strategies, 2) the concept of "tail risk hedging" and its performance before March 2020, 3) the blow-up of the vola...

Aaron Brown was the Chief Risk Manager at AQR Capital Management. He is a Bloomberg columnist (on markets and cryptocurrencies) and NYU adjunct professor. He is the author of Red-Blooded Risk: The Secret History of Wall Street , as well as The Poker Face of Wall Street. I could think of few better people to engage in a discussion about recent economic turmoil.

Jason Strasser (@strassa2), co-founder of Caption Partners, shares his thoughts on recent market volatility.