The Body & Brain Optimization Strategies Of A Professional Poker: Brain Biohacking, Ketosis, Sleep, Jet Lag, Travel Fitness Tips & More With Jason Koon.

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🗓️ 4 December 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

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My friend and today's podcast guest Jason Koon is a professional poker player. As of August 2021, he is the 10th highest earner in history, with nearly $32,000,000 in winnings.

Originally from West Virginia, Jason was raised outdoors, spending much of his childhood fishing, hunting, and playing sports. Jason attended West Virginia Wesleyan College on a track scholarship where he competed as a sprinter. He would go on to graduate with a finance undergraduate degree, as well as an M.B.A.

Jason found poker in college after suffering a severe hip injury. Within months he was winning money playing on the internet. By the time Jason finished university, he was winning at high-stakes poker games on the internet. After taking a finance job in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jason almost immediately quit and decided to give playing poker for a living a chance.

Jason is married to his wife Bianca and has a newborn son, Calum. They reside in Las Vegas, NV.

Detailed show notes containing links to resources, podcasts and articles mentioned in today's show can be found at https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/koon

In this episode, you'll hear:

-The mental and physical grind of becoming and remaining an elite poker player...

-How to excel at poker without getting into the trap of gambling...

-Nootropics and smart drugs that assist with focus...

-Meditation and keeping the mental game optimized...

**Specific nootropics for optimal brain function with special guest Lucas Aoun...

-And much more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	On this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast,
0:04.2	trying to get my body going a little bit, lots of stretching, lots of, you know, skipping rope,
0:09.2	but nothing intense, the heart rate's never high,
0:11.4	to play with a guy that's losing at such a massive rate and enjoying doing it.
0:15.7	Well, then everything else kind of gets put on the back burner and your body,
0:19.4	and you're just like, you know what, I'm going to suffer for the next 30 days
0:22.2	because I know how much money this is worth.
0:23.8	For possibly even longer than you'd be able to maintain with your current approach,
0:26.8	something to think about at least.
0:28.0	I'm definitely in to be the guinea pig here.
0:30.1	Help, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more.
0:41.4	My name is Ben Greenfield.
0:43.4	Welcome to the show.
0:44.6	Hey, so today's podcast is a bit of a toofer.
0:56.2	It's a bit of a toofer.
0:57.2	I had a chance to interview my friend and professional poker player, Jason Coon.
1:03.4	And Jason really just did a great job outlining the life and times of a professional poker
1:09.0	player and how that works and little hacks and nutrition tips and supplements and fitness
1:14.7	type of protocols that he uses to survive in that environment.
1:18.8	However, after interviewing him, I thought, you know what, we talked about in the topic
1:24.0	of so-called neutral picks or smart drugs, especially to enhance something like poker,
1:29.3	came up as a conversation topic so many times while I was interviewing Jason.
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