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Today in the 3-Bet we find Liv Boeree sharing the stage with a global icon, Antonio Esfandiari sees the poker light and Maria Ho turns up the heat on the Poker Night live stream.
1) Boeree Infiltrates Googleplex
You know you've really "made it" as a poker pro when you get to wear the PokerStars patch as a member of Team Pro.
That moment happened for Liv Boeree after her win at EPT San Remo in 2010 and she's carried the honor well ever since.
You know you've made it as a human being when you're invited to share the stage with some of the most influential and forward-thinking leaders on the planet.
Boeree will get that honor in less than two weeks as one of the speakers at the Effective Altruism Global 2015 conference in San Francisco.
Hosted at the infamous Googleplex Boeree is part of an elite list of presenters that include SpaceX/Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, Director of Google Jacqueline Fuller and more.
Boeree's subject, of course, is the groundbreaking REG Charity she co-founded with Igor Kurganov and Phil Gruissem. Her excitement, unsurprisingly, is through the roof:
I am so unbelievably excited to be speaking at http://t.co/xkH6rsUnvN summit about @REGcharity Aug 1st at the GooglePlex, San Francisco!!!!
— Liv Boeree (@Liv_Boeree) July 16, 2015More on the summit here and more on REG here.
2) Antonio: "I Had a Moment"
Antonio Esfandiari has been around - and so successful in - the poker world for so long you'd think he'd have every possible angle of his poker game locked down backwards and forwards.
Not so, he tells Joe Ingram in a new Poker Life podcast. In fact, he says, he's only really started to take poker seriously in the last three years.
Which is kinda crazy when you think about how much he's won in live poker tournaments ($26.5m!), how many high-stakes TV cash games he's played in and how many undisclosed sessions he's had with six-figures on the line.
Antonio even says he's completely reinvented his approach to playing poker this summer thanks to an "epiphany" he had which may or may not have happened under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs and/or at Burning Man. Watch the full podcast below:
3) Maria, Phil, Daniel, Jason and More on Poker Night Cash Game
Speaking of illuminating poker moments if you don't know Maria Ho (and her poker game) very well today's the day to change that.
Our esteemed Battle of Malta host is one of the luminaries invited to play in the Poker Night in America/Twitch.tv cash game livestream today and tomorrow and, based off our early peek, looks like she's brought her full arsenal and is ready to play.
The $25/$50 game with a minimum $5k buy-in runs all day (from 11 am-11pm) and will be a fun one with DNegs, Hellmuth, Phil Laak and Jason Somerville already in the mix. Check it out below:
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