Liv Boeree | The Science Behind Poker | Oxford Union
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A television presenter with a background in astrophysics, Liv Boeree is also one of the most successful poker players of all time. With total tournament winnings of more than $2.9m, she joins some of the best known poker faces in the world as an ambassador of PokerStars.
As of November 2015, has been ranked as the Number 1 female player on the Global Poker Index. She recently co-founded Raising for Effective Giving, an organisation which encourages poker players to donate at least 2% of their winnings to highly effective charities.
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Such annoying haters you all are. This was great. She is great. Is she the best in the world? No. But she is a winner who is certainly qualified and capable of giving over information. This was exceptionally well done.
lmao... Your lack of thoughtful criticism only means one thing... you are in love with her flabby ass.
Joel Lewis Actually he's the one making a resonable comment. Your comment, on the other hand, seems to be emotional.
No she stole
She isn't a good player
@@kevinswan4830 she clearly is. Nobody gets that deep in so many tourneys on and off line without being good, its statistically impossible
Liv is smart, successful, attractive, and witty. I can see why the internet is against her.
She chose to steal instead of splitting in Golden Balls and lied about splitting.
Shes screwed the one guy over lol.... I think she hit him back later tho if i remember right, most people dont gaf enough to look into it
@@HahaYes master of bluffing hey? Got to keep it real to the game
She has ruined two perfectly good jackets here though.
oh it is so hard to explain poker to all skill level. I assume you are good player...aaaanyway, being in position means you are last to play, and that is good
The players in these comments apparently have never lost a tournament or a hand of poker. Everyone here always makes the right call, fold, bet, or bluff 100 percent of the time.
finally someone here speaking some darn sense.....
Yes and all of this not even playing poker, just talking.
In case you dont know what kind of game poker is(i can see you dont)
You should know that poker is game where you do everything perfect and still lose match. So talking in that manner my point is that the biggest loser in game is in math theory possible to be best player ever to exist in 100 billion universes.
Stop being negative asshole and go for it.
Best wishes ~DASA
@volcano hi not talking to you. PS: good for you go for it
shes just not good, only a cute face
Olivia 'Liv' Boeree is tremendously intelligent and perhaps the most educated poker player on tour. She is an Astrophysicist who has been to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and has lectured at prestigious Universities such as Oxford. She is a lecturer and published writer of scientific, philosophic, mathematical articles.
@Max Ballard why?
Steven Smith the best educated don’t gamble that’s why
@@DHDKJRTB Keep telling yourself it's gambling. If you're losing in poker, you're either a fish or being too risky with bankroll management.
@@DHDKJRTB By that same logic investing in the stock market is gambling.
PGraveDigger1 wrong, insider trading and using derivational techniques allow exploitation’s to be made in financial markets all the time
great insight. very sharp lady! there's a lot to consider if you're planning a professional career in poker and Liv explains it well.
I have been watching a lot of Negreanu vids as he breaks down hands and player behavior as well as the sheer concentration and mental focus one needs to play tournaments successfully. long hours, late nights, the mental and physical challenges and the discipline he has is astonishing. not an easy life at all!
loved every minute of this. liv is truly the best
Wonderful video. In every way, loved it. Well done Liv, and well done interviewer!
Really good explanation of GTO for the beginner. I've been away from the game for a few years, trying to get back, and finding the game is much different. Everybody playing what we would have called "small ball" in my day, and they've been kicking my butt somehow. I used to eat small-ballers for lunch damnit. Need all the help I can get, and this is just what I was looking for.
Not sure why so much hate. She has been a successful pro player for years and is presenting basic templates for poker in one hour. This basic information has made her alot of money from ppl who refuse to abide because they believe it's luck or they get too cute with their style trying to emulate a pro or some cool guy in their imagination. Ofcourse it takes years of experience to master so you need to play thousands of hands. It's not for everyone.
you mean millions
she is an astrophysicist, it gaves you an idea of the level of math she used to win
U can’t control everything, sometime 5 players in a hand and ace highs good, sometime heads up and it’s aa vs kk, there’s good running streaks and bad running streaks tilty, and who’s got patience for that, to make money it needs very very high level , Daniel negranu level
@@pridefulobserver3807It really doesn't. The level of math required for poker is pretty trivial compared to getting a physics degree.
Its not a good presentation when it goes over the heads of the listeners. It doesn't even matter how smart they are, if they haven't played at a certain level(not $ level but hours spent on thinking or using solvers), they wont get this. Presentation must be much more simple, and less specific. Hand examples should have been scrapped all together, except the live reads.
You come across as a very sincere and warm-hearted lady, I would say an ambassador for the sport. I hope that seeing people like yourself encourages more women to take part, I think it will change the character of the game for the better.
Sport?
Didn’t know Liv was so accomplished academically!❤️
Great presentation Liv!
Watching this and reading the comments makes me feel like I’m on my phone in class 😩👌🏽
Here is somebody who just won at life.
Young,
Rich,
Smart,
Beautiful.
lmao what? everyone is young at some point
@@liveslowlivesimple She just so happens to be right now as well.
@@liveslowlivesimple Yeah, but young and rich? Not a particularly common combination. Especially when you also combine that with being smart, beautiful and talented (because it takes more than just intelligence to be consistently good at poker).
@@liveslowlivesimple the point is that they achieved all this at a young ag.
She’s my future wife
The top players are at the top for a reason....Liv is in the moment, and a good OxUni pod.....who would have picked Ox Uni doing a Poker spiel 20 years ago ....Imagine the next 20 years....
Awesome video showing some quality content. Great stuff if interested in poker.
WE LOVE YOU LIV!! Emilia and Jeff
nice vid. watching while i play poker stars.
Useful video from a class player. Shame about the comments, the internet's really opened up poker to the incels.
she's amazing
Great lecture.
Thanks Oxford, the presentations you upload are awesome.
It's pendantic, but it would be cool if you could splice the slides/videos into the uploaded presentation à la Tedx style.
Thank you Fantastic job explaining these charts Keep rocking it.
Are the slides available?
Great Course...something to remember in pressure situations...
Very interesting video!
does anyone know where i can get the hand range charts she used?
Well spoken very well done
What is the algorithm/program she's talking about? Can't find it using Google.
What program is she using to determine if it is best to bet big or small? Anyone know?
Pio solver
What are the programmes Liv is referring to?
Can anyone give me the names?
Anyone else get invited to guest lecture on poker at Oxford? No? Thought not. Liv wins.
she's a laaydee! And she's a hotie. That's why she got invited. She ain't even top 100. She's probably a good poker player though
Liv is not only beautiful, but very eloquent and says what she means to say, without making the mistake of sounding patronising, as so many people do. Very good vid, and I could listen to Liv talking about anything, she's got it all. Intelligence, looks, and she plays poker. I'd marry her today ;)
Hate a little more does not really matter you will never reach her success nor her level of thinking.
Results speak for themselves.
Cheers nice presentation.
Thumbs up continue doing this!
what results? lucking on a tournament 6 years ago?
the only reason she receives attention is the fact that she is a good lucking woman,as with most women in poker bar vanessa selbst.
Dude you can not be serious. Wake up she has 3 million in tournament earnings.
She is still relevant plays high roller tournaments.
What the hell are you talking about? Do you buy in for 25K tournaments? How many pro's do that 5% {max} of the total poker pro's around the world?
You say it is luck I say it is skill. Prove it otherwise.
She receives attention because is so interesting as a person and she is hot at the same time + she is a team
Pokerstars Pro a 5 billion dollar company. Face of the company basically.
Nice profile pic
Can u upload that presentation...?
where is the link for the slides...?? thanks...
What was the program she kept mentioning?
PIO solver
My favorite hand right now is pocket jacks😉
where can I get slides like hers????
Anyone know the tool she mentions for analyzing optimal play pre and post flop?
Equilab, I believe
I'd poker
filthy :)
EastEndDerryBoy show her the ox
You mean poke her...
liquor in the front, poker in the back
Do you have a liquor license? :)
I do not understand poker but this woman is mesmerising, both in her appearance and her mind.
She just gave a regular presentation. Stop gf all I g in love with every good looking woman who takes part in stuff that men do? She got 50 million simps blowing kisses at her, u want to be 50 million and one you stalker!
Ms Boeree has many positive angles to her that make her a great ambassador for poker, Trolls are just jealous and haters will always be haters.
Can you tell us how to predict the ebb and flow of variance???
Stevo chi-squared
I really wonder what it must be like to hear all this terminology without a clue how poker works, if they understand it at all.
Great talk.
Sound is too low. Increase the audio
This comment section is gold.
I don't see any hate comments here, only comments hating on hate comments...
If you have 60 % probablity to win you will lose 40 times in 100 hands and a good poker player must be able to withstand this emotionally.
The main thing is every time to be +EV.
Like life or investing, or in poker with a win rate of 99% you still could still have a catastrophic loss. And if you’re playing in a sketchy place you can’t win even with the best hand…they won’t allow you to leave with their money.
where can i find that nash programm??
or similar
have you found an answer yet?
PioSolver
Wow... Vary interesting... Vary seriously great to learn from...
Great stuff for those who wish to improve their game from truly elite poker players. Never mind the trolls.
pdfs of those charts?
The mike at 21:50… so satisfying
Very interesting guys . I do well playing this game and most of my reading is just listening to conversation.
sometimes with bad players it just doesn't matter
@ 18:02 @ a quick glance, ...I thought Mike Tyson was sitting in on this seminar. Bahahahaha!!
She clearly is intelligent. There is no doubt an analytical aspect based on odds in poker. However, I find it interesting that younger players tend to dominate at the highest levels so there seems to be a factor perhaps about focus endurance that makes a difference. Most players recognized for being at the top of their games and considered world-class don't keep it up for too many years and you see many of them flame out and go broke. Like many other sports, athletes don't stay at their peak for long even with a mental game like poker.
That awkward moment when she starts talking about her life like I give a fuck
or donations..
Your description of liv as "One of the most successful poker players if all time" is technically true but still a little misleading.. It suggests that she is among the elite players in the game but she is in fact not at that level.
Elite? LOL she just got lucky she's like a mediocre reg at best
Luck is a big part of poker
at top level they say 80/20 skill luck ratio... obviously when you play against worse players, the luck ratio becomes bigger, one thing i hate about poker is the idiots who make bad calls, always seem to hit!
+Si1301 I heard it was more 70/30 at absolute most
Making up a skill to luck rate is retarded, this depends on the game as it is caused by variance. If you play x amount of hands in any game and x goes to infinity, you'll see it's 100% skill.
She's helping still and its halfway through 2019. Thanks lady..
Thankfully I am watching this on CZcams and can skip several minutes beginning from 16:35
The game has changed much from when I was young, but I believe it has "peaked" in terms of theory *on the decision making end*. This is because of what I call "final outcome" or, the end result of the termination of a hand; it's binary. Therefore, theoretically, you can flip a coin to make plays. This is still much more complex than, say, chess which is pure math, or even go as Liv states. However, in games such as American football, there's not only the deep analysis on the front-end, plus in-game, but the outcomes are much more varied.
It will never be like chess because in chess GTO is always the best play.
I love the first poker scene in casino royale where he wins the car then steals the guys wife and doesn’t even give her the D. Just made her cheat and give him info. Might be my favorite bond move ever
@@darylvanhorne3580 the bond movies are intentionally absurd, like 99% of the movies would never happen in real life.
Ack, her necklace chain is stuck in the mic. But love her, good stuff here.
I get the theory, but in fact the "check, call" approach is very risky. Liv should know this since she herself benefitted from Hellmuth's "trap" style; he had AA, she had 55, he checked every street and she spiked a set on the turn.
Ads after One minute of video?Wtf
Premium dude
is this tournament cash game or both?
Deon Paul Osei-Kuffour both. The exact decisions vary slightly because in cash you can rebuy and tournament you have to consider payouts, variance (if you’re knocked out you can’t rebuy, how many blinds are in your stack, which is also a factor in cash, and a few other variables).
What's the exact rationale for saying it's optimal to open 50% on the button? I'd intuitively expect you should open more than that.
OsefKincaid commenting years later hoping you’ll see. The rationale is that it’s a program trying to describe GTO (game theory optimal). GTO is the idea that how you’re playing is unbeatable. You can never be beaten if you play optimally against a non-optimal player. So what the program is saying is that, on the button, 50% of the ~3600 possible starting hands are playable on the button if you’re striving to achieve perfect GTO. It’s a bit more complex than that, as Boree described, because it’s assuming you’re against a non-optimal player which can be exploited. Most of the time you’re not playing GTO and you’re opponent isn’t either.
there's a high stochastic component of what 2 cards u get 1st and the others right?
what program gave those range %'s on the river??
did you get the answer yet?
Is there a better graphic than this somewhere?
she is a national treasure.
lmaaaoooo at the guy sitting next to igor.. he looks so confused haha
My poker crush
"I'm e poke pleyaaa" Love the accent.
Obviously poker players are needed
She's so perfect
No she stole
whered she get Graeme Garden's jacket from? XD
The web cam idea is great. As is online is getting fishy as most will attest to.
alguien que lo pueda traducir en español , gracias (I love poker)
ha que mala
traducimelo se buenita
bueno pero capaz que te la comes
si no te la comes porque te enojas tanto , si no sos comilon , tenes una represion
porque no hablamos de poker , y basta si sos comilon o si yo no cojo
Igor has nice hair...reminds me of someone
Just to be clear, Is she talking about Texas Hold Em Poker, i.e. the game I've extensively played on the Facebook app "Texas Hold Em Poker"?
Yes "No-Limit Texas Hold Em Poker"
yes, the whole time conversing is regarding the game of Texas Hold Em.
When the term Poker is used nowdays is about Texas Hold'em like 99% of the time. Any other variant would be explicitly stated
do not confuse how people play on facebook, to how the game should be played
I watch about 5 minutes of this at a time when I'm feeling a bit lonely. I'm at 20 minutes right now
Just borrowing this from someone else on the internet. But, Liv has a strong advantage over most of her opponents: Starting every hand with a solid pair.
I just realized that the MAN speaking in the audience was IGOR. LOL
No shit sherlock lol
I'd marry her for her smarts and beauty. Love her. Brilliant.
i'd marry her for her money, but i'm shallow.
Damn she is a genius. Just listening to her level of knowledge and context of the game is unreal. Wow.
@tommy aronson agreed, but she is actually a rocket scientist lol did astro physics at university!! lol
@tommy aronson I said she is a rocket scientist technically having got a degree in physics and astrophysics. And when did I say poker is rocket scientis, youre a fucking moron!!!
@tommy aronson fake news >?? grow the fuck up
What I have always been confused about in poker is that at the highest level I always assumed that everyone knows that statistics and everyone knows how to act. So it is basically just gambling at the highest level. But I think there are few people that would argue that there isn't a ranking of the top 100 players in the world. So that is where I am confused. How can the ranking exist? You would have to say that either they don't always know the statistics or they actually give off real tells. And that some players can tell the difference between acting and reality even when it is coming from the best in the world.
If you look up big tournament events and the participants you will see a trend, the best players are almost always amongst the best while fun-players are always rotating. Almost always because in big fields the luck-factor is huge but still the theory behind the play on the long run prevails. Look at final table appearances.
upswingpoker.com/top-ten-best-poker-players-history/
Ik this is a late response, but that's a really true concern. The thing about poker is that chips ALWAYS have to flow. Yeah, two high-level players can understand what the stats are, but the arts of disguising your hand strength and getting money in when you have the best of it are necessary. The problem is the reconciliation of the two. The higher level you are, the more likely it is that you can both discriminate betting for value and betting as a bluff, as well as do those two yourself and reveal the least amount of information possible. That's why ranges are a thing, cause you'll never know exactly what Villain has, but you do know the number of logical value hands and bluffs that they would have in a certain spot. Poker at a high-level is WAY more a game of information than a game of luck
hey for the record poker rise was the same time as the hockey lock out and it got tv like mad people watch and wanted to play thats how it got huge
People still watch hockey? Ok Canadian.
25:05 They'll be playing game-theory optimally.
But nobody knows what full-ring GTO strategias 70BB deep look like now. And they definitely didn't know it in 2016
Is it really that diffrent?
@@tomislavbirk8986 different from what?
Hey! Why are there only men watching Liv Boree explain Poker game theory???
the male/female ratio probably has more to do with interest in the game more so than any other reason
Ad 1 minute into the video. Nice.
The whole point of a laptop is its moveable.. You move it so you don't have to lean over half a desk
lol ur quite stupid, the mouse is literaaly right in front of her, why would she need to move the laptop, get a life bro
When calculating the amount of lives saved from Malaria, diminishing marginal returns is not taken into consideration, i.e. the first x lives saved might cost what she says, but the remaining people who need saving will be more and more expensive to save. You would still obviously be able to save far more people from Malaria with that amount of money, but one needs to remember that there are myriad complex economic phenomena to take into consideration if trying to distribute money to various causes in an optimal manner.
What a wonderful Human being
great video liv very interesting and informative wish all online players would educate themselves be a better playing field lol
What is the program?
have you found the answer yet?
No , but sng wizard is pretty good for learning optimal play in tournaments