Seeking Balance

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Host: Jared Alderman
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 — Intro
00:00:50 — WSOP Prep: Stevie's Triton Cool Down & Footage Review
00:08:29 — The Mythos of Elite Players
00:17:50 — Playing Against an Image: The Adamo Story
00:23:32 — Confidence, Self-Belief & Delusional Self-Trust
00:27:33 — Should Profitability Even Matter? Fixed Views & the Razz Hypothetical
00:33:59 — EV as a Useful Convention, Not a Truth
00:41:07 — Day-to-Day Variance & Trusting the Path
00:44:20 — A Game / B Game / C Game: Why Labeling Hurts You
00:48:44 — Was It Even a Mistake?
00:55:30 — The Buddha on Speaking Truth
00:58:00 — Truth vs. Utility: The David Deutsch Argument
01:05:09 — The Performance Coach Story: What's Useful vs. What's True
01:12:17 — Fixed Views & Buddhist Relative vs. Ultimate Truth
01:18:52 — Attention, Memory & How We Evaluate Decisions
01:27:43 — Agency, Free Will & Tendency vs. Choice
01:35:39 — Relative Truth, Ultimate Truth & the Two Questions
01:38:16 — Outro

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This week on Seeking Balance, Jared sits down at the WSOP with Kevin Rabichow and Owen "PR0DIGY" Messere fresh off their matches in the $25K Heads Up Championship. The conversation dives deep into what makes heads up poker uniquely mentally demanding — from how you build an exploitative strategy on a tiny sample, to knowing when a read is real and when you're fooling yourself.
Owen breaks down why playing against type is one of the most underrated skills in poker, Kevin shares how an hour of "nothing working" turned out to be his most productive stretch of the match, and Jared crystallizes why the pressure to act on information every hand might be the most common mistake live cash players make.

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Timestamps:00:00 – Intro
01:12 – Kevin's $25K heads up match
08:11 – The meta of heads up tournaments: building an exploitative strategy on limited info
14:55 – When to trust a read vs. when it's just variance
28:11 – Is gathering information worth the EV cost?
31:41 – Owen joins
36:11 – Aggression as a data-gathering tool
40:28 – Kevin's plan falls apart in the first 20 hands
41:36 – Playing the WSOP Main: Exploits in Tournaments
49:11 – When to accept a risk vs. protecting your edge
55:00 – Playing against type: how switching it up raises your EV floor
56:44 – Balance, patience, and the politics analogy
01:02:48 – The pressure to act on reads (and why patience is the real skill)
01:03:11 – How Owen accidentally turned his students into rabid dogs
01:05:48 – Owen on coaching: raising ceilings vs. floors, and Guerilla Poker
01:11:11 – What it's like playing against someone who has you in their head
01:22:11 – Decision fatigue and repetition in heads up poker
01:24:30 – Outro

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Host: Jared Alderman
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Today on Seeking Balance, Jared sits down with Melanie Weisner! Melanie is a accomplished tournament player, performance coach, and one of the most thoughtful voices on the mental side of the game. In this episode she sits down with Jared to talk about why the best players never play their B-game, how the skills that make you great at poker transfer far beyond the table, and why your biggest breakthroughs might actually be doing nothing for you.

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Timestamps:
00:00 — Intro
00:55 — Melanie's poker background and career timeline
04:17 — How the game has evolved and finding your edge
06:35 — Why Melanie stepped back from grinding and what replaced it
08:45 — The difference between good and great players on tilt
09:57 — Crossing over to trading and finance performance coaching
13:38 — Trusting live reads and the epistemological side of poker
18:52 — Why every hand is practice, not performance
29:15 — The fog of war and judging your own decisions
33:37 — Why aha moments don't actually change anything
40:21 — Anchoring bias and how to use it instead of fight it
46:08 — Check Out The Poker Performance Field Kit!
46:51 — Normalizing decisions under pressure
01:05:49 — Freedom requires discipline
01:10:18 — Learn More About The Coaching Group!
01:10:43 — The holistic human experience
01:12:31 — Is there anything in Buddhism you disagree with?01:16:46 — Interpersonal relationships as the real test of practice
01:22:22 — Where to find Melanie

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Today on Seeking Balance, Jared sits down with Brian Hastings! Brian is a 6 time bracelet winner, former high stakes online cash game specialist, and one of the most respected mixed game players in the world. In this episode he sits down with Jared to talk about beating Isildur1 for $4M at the height of online poker, the best frameworks for making tough decisions, and why he believes a rich life outside of poker makes you a better player at the table.

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Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro
00:59 – When does RNGing actually make sense?
02:42 – Breaking decisions that feel 50/50
06:16 – Balance vs. exploits
10:37 – Why aggressive players still get folds from great players
11:34 – Beating Isildur1 for $4M at 500/1000 PLO
13:58 – The Black Friday era
14:39 – Brian's dedication to mixed games and tournaments
19:56 – Brian's framework for tough decisions
24:29 – Check Out The Poker Performance Field Kit!
25:13 – RNGing as a hedge on your own confidence
28:52 – Are poker players obsessing over frequencies that don't matter?
40:16 – How personal growth made Brian a better coach
50:44 – Brian's remaining goals in poker
58:57 – Balancing poker and family life
59:45 – Learn More About The Coaching Group!
1:00:10 – Why a rich life outside poker makes you better at it
1:10:16 – The right mindset after a bad session
1:14:41 – How much do you actually need to study?
1:18:35 – Studying smarter not harder
1:19:22 – Multiway spots and unintuitive bluffing

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Host: Jared Alderman
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