About this episode

High stakes poker player Lewis Spencer discusses his journey in poker and its connections to prediction market trading.

In this episode we are joined by high stakes cash/ tournament poker player Lewis Spencer. We talk to Lewis about his path to playing in the biggest poker games/ tournaments: what it takes to win, how the game has changed with AI, and the state of the poker economy today. Then Lewis walks us through what skills have been transferrable to his prediction market trading - and how he is approaching finding edge using his experience beating the highest stakes poker games. Plus an epic Isildur1 sto...

People in this episode

Guest: Lewis Spencer

Topics covered

• poker
• prediction markets
• AI in gaming
• high stakes
• trading skills

Keywords

• poker
• Lewis Spencer
• AI
• prediction markets
• high stakes
• trading

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