Alex Livingston $4,000,000 score in WSOP Main Event, poker life and degen stories

Alex Livingston finished 3rd in the WSOP Main Event in 2019. He shares several crazy stories from his professional poker career spanning over a decade. As an example - he once lost $40k playing beerpong at a time when he had less than that to his name.  Another one is about how he went to Amsterdam with a couple of friends for a week and ended up quitting his studies and staying in Amsterdam for 3 months. Of course, he also shares his experience of playing in the final table of the Main Event, random stories about Vegas, casinos around the world, life as a poker player, and his advice to people getting into poker.

 

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OUTLINE

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:29 Alex's background

00:04:14 The turning point

00:12:20 Making a decision to stay in Europe

00:14:05 The key takeaways from the Europe trip

00:15:36 The key qualities to winning at live poker

00:18:30 Top 3 Casinos

00:22:29 Player profiling

00:23:12 Family reaction

00:24:14 The conventional path

00:25:50 First steps on poker

00:31:55 What happened after staying 3 months in Amsterdam

00:34:10 WSOP Main Event Final Table

00:42:11 Approach to live poker

00:45:49 Focus and fun

00:48:13 Keeping it fun in the final table?

00:50:39 Overthinking and playing fast

00:52:50 Writing a book about the lifestyle of a poker player

00:57:42 How to lose 40k playing Beer Pong

01:00:39 What Alex Livingston learned from poker

01:03:40 Overcoming gambling

01:06:03 Life after winning $ 4,000,000.00 on WSOP Main Event

01:11:36 Mixed games

01:20:05 What Alex Livingston learned from poker

01:21:50 Best advice for poker newcomers

01:27:49 How well would you do if you started playing poker today?

01:29:32 How much the poker industry has changed in the past decade

01:31:42 RaúlGonzalez

01:33:35 Isildur1 vs Patrik Antonius $1.3 million pot

01:35:47 Playing at the Wynn, Bellagio, and Aria

01:38:16 Private games in casinos

01:41:32 The GOAT casino floor

01:44:52 Miss playing live poker

01:47:42 Social skills that poker teaches

01:49:56 The beauty of poker

01:52:10 The goal of the upcoming book

01:54:35 Every Hand Revealed - Gus Hansen

01:56:56 Winning 45 buy-ins in a single day

02:00:37 Fun low/mid games

02:02:28 Christmas charity