Ted Talk Poker
William Hung, who rose to fame in 2004 after his “She Bangs” audition on American Idol, is headed to Vegas this month to participate in the Ante 4 Autism charity event hosted by Karina Jett at Golden Nugget.
- Two months later, Boeree took to the stage at the official TED conference with lessons on making decisions that she garnered from her years in poker. She boiled it down to three essential lessons from poker that can be applied to everyday life.
- More about the return of High Stakes Poker. High Stakes Poker went off in the air in 2011 after running for over five years. The show, which was broadcast on the Game Show Network and other stations, was a premier live poker show of its time, featuring some of the greats such as Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Tom Dwan and many.
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00:35 Playing poker in Los Angeles
01:01 $58K in lifetime tournament earnings
01:40 William Hung’s poker origin
03:00 Was American Idol a positive experience?
04:04 Playing against Johnny Chan
04:30 12th Annual Ante 4 Autism
06:45 Trips to Las Vegas & WSOP
08:00 Playing the WSOP Main Event
09:30 Which American Idol judge would make the best poker player
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Poker pro Liv Boeree back in mid-February gave a speech at the TEDxManchester conference, and in it she discussed the ways in which people can use probabilities to improve our “everyday decision making.”
On Tuesday, the video of Boeree’s talk was uploaded to YouTube. Boeree is currently fifth on the women’s all-time poker money list with more than $3.5 million in lifetime tournament scores. She’s widely considered one of the best in the game.
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“We can’t be certain which path the future will take, but we can control the likelihoods of the paths we want,” she said during the talk. That sounds like a poker tournament.
Check out the 14-minute talk below.