Podcast appearances and mentions of ben saxton

Super best friend of the show Ben Saxton joins the show for his 5th appearance. The Olympian and NBVL Commissioner gives us the behind the scenes details on the Calgary event, playing in the Van Open, and so much more!   We hope you enjoy this episode. If you've read this far please, please, please leave a comment, a 5 Star review and the best compliment you can give the show is telling your friends about us! 

Ben Saxton joins Andrew and Carlos to discuss why poker rooms feel a little too normal, why Andrew will not be at the WSOP, what we've all been watching and reading, and more. Ben previously appeared on Episode 281 and ... Read more...

This episode is sponsored by Formpipe.   Despite all the investment in digitization of paper, organizations still face huge volumes of paper documents and manual processes. That's according to Lennart Garbarsch, CEO of Tabellae. He speaks with Formpipe's Ben Saxton on this special MSDW Podcast episode about Tabellae's efforts to help organizations expand their document and output automation across more departments and more core business processes. He also offers feedback on the human side of the automation, both in terms of project execution and user adoption.   Show Notes: 1:45 - Why so business document automation still remains today 4:45 - Accelerating automation projects that had been slated for the future 7:30 - How to help make people more comfortable with the move to cloud document management 10:30 - The future of industry-specific document needs in retail, logistics, and other areas 12:30 - The demand for a single view of content and documents across internal and customer-facing processes   For more information on Formpipe, please visit www.formpipe.com or contact them at sales@formpipe.com

Super Best Friend of the Show Ben Saxton makes his record setting 4th appearance on Passin Dimes with Friend of the Show Craig Moore. The group talks about BC Volleyball, Volleyball Communities, Federation models and so much more!  Be sure to tell your friends about us and please give a 5 Star review on Apple!  Momentum Volleyball is the online Canadian hub for volleyball story telling, reporting, and event coverage, allowing content creators to connect with fans, coaches and players. Momentum is the hub for athletes, coaches and fans to find free and paid volleyball content, and are proud to be the voice of Canadian volleyball around the world! Head to momentumvolleyball.ca to subscribe for free, and get access to exclusive content and all your Canadian volleyball updates!

Sharp Cuts welcomes Olympians and Father - Son Duo, Don and Ben Saxton! The squad talks about the business of volleyball, volleyball families, a little east vs west discussion and so much more! Don and his family own and operate  The Volley Dome in Calgary and Ben started the NBVL, so these two know what it takes to run a volleyball business.  We hope you enjoy this episode. Please leave a comment, a 5 Star review and the best compliment you can give the show is telling your friends about us!     We couldn't be more excited to partner with Momentum Pro Camps. Momentum Pro Camps runs volleyball camps across Ontario, bringing professional athletes, coaches and resources to communities, clubs and partners. Follow Momentum on social media @momentumprocamps for updates and details on future programs, or email them at contact@momentumprocamps.com! Stay Excellent Friends    Be sure to check out Club Json at https://www.clubjson.com/ Use promo code dimes to get 15% off your order. Any order over $99 in North America will get free shipping!

Ben Saxton has finished on the podium 6 times at the US National Nordic Ski Championships including a win in 2019 in the US National Skate Sprint. He has 8 World Cup starts and 1 World Championship start. Ben skis for the Stratton Mountain T2 team. Ben is thoughtful and has a perspective beyond his years. Not only is he one of our country's fastest Nordic skiers but is also clearly a passionate fan of the sport.

This episode of SANDCAST: Beach volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Canadians Grant O'Gorman and Ben Saxton, who are the second-ranked Canadian team in the race for Tokyo 2021.  More than pushing for Tokyo, however, they -- and especially O'Gorman -- are pushing for men's health awareness, as O'Gorman was diagnosed with, and beat, testicular cancer.  On this episode, we cover: - O'Gorman discovering his testicular cancer, beginning in Hamburg, Germany, at the World Champs - How the coronavirus may have actually saved his life - How O'Gorman and Saxton became partners, and O'Gorman's brief stint living in a van  - Saxton's new mindset of not focusing on the Olympics, but simply trying to be the best he can be, every year - The upcoming King of the Court event, the first time either has competed in the format - The rise of Canadian volleyball, particularly the women's side This episode, of course, is brought to you by Wilson Volleyball, the best balls in the game. Use our discount code, Sandcast-20, to get 20 percent off! SHOOTS!

New Zealand Star Jason Lochhead joins the show to share his playing career, coaching career, golf game, and lots of great stories from the road.  Jason played 116 FIVB events, earning 78 main draw results and 11 top 10 finishes. Jason and partner Kirk Pitman narrowly missed the Olympics as players before joining the coaching ranks and working with top teams from around the world. Jason started his coaching career with Vanuatu, before leading super best friend of the show Ben Saxton and Chaim Schalk to their best results as a team. Jason then joined one of the best teams in the world Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena. Jason still works with Phil and Nick while also coaching with Florida State.   We hope you enjoy this episode! Please send any comments, give a 5 star review and the nicest compliment you can give us is to tell a friend about Passin Dimes. Stay Excellent Friends! 

Bill welcomes lead MMA analyst of the Brawl Network Ben Saxton. Together the breakdown each fight on the upcoming card. Ben gives his indepth analytical approach and Bill provides some handicapping approaches, as well as, some free picks typically reserved for his VIP clients

The all time leader in KBVA (Clivers) wins and prize money, 6x BC Provincial Champion, Seaside Open Champion, Jonny Wiskar joined the show! Jonny played indoor at Capilano in the CCAA before transferring to UBC in the CIS (USports). Jonny may be one of the best, if not the best, beach player in Canada to never represent Canada in an international tournament. Jonny tells us all about the tournaments he's played in and what it's like playing with Matt LeBourdais, Maverick Hatch, Jared Kraus, Rudy Verhoeff, Ben Saxton and so many others! Jonny also tells us about Jort Court, Challenge Court, the NBVL, Van Open, and so much more!  We are excited to announce our partnership with Shady Rays! For a limited time Shady Rays is offering our listeners 40% off when they purchase two (2) or more pairs of sunglasses. Follow our link and use coupon code "TEAM" to get your Passin Dimes Discount. https://shadyrays.com/?rfsn=4192403.b49ffd  We hope you enjoyed this episode. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes! Please give a 5 Star review, leave a comment and the best compliment you can give the show is telling your friends! Stay Excellent!  

Ben Saxton joins Andrew to discuss the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the poker world, from WSOP delays to poker apps to Zoom-based home games. In the strategy segment, they discuss playing out of position in multiway pots. Ben ... Read more...

Super Best Friend of the show Ben Saxton makes his long awaited return to the Passin Dimes Podcast! Ben is an Olympian, has represented Canada for over 15 years on the World Tour, a CIS Champion, President of WeCoBeVo, and the creator of the NBVL! We hear all about the NBVL finals between Calgary and Vancouver, coaching Pacific Elite Beach Volleyball, and learn about his upcoming season with Grant O'Gorman on the FIVB World Tour.  For more information on the West Coast Beach Volleyball Society or The National Beach Volleyball League please visit their websites. https://www.wecobevo.com/ https://nbvl.ca/   We hope you enjoyed this episode, please leave a comment and a 5Star review! Stay Excellent

Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have capped off day three of the 49er World Championship in Auckland in typical fashion.The Olympic champions are second after the final day of qualifying, a point behind Germany.Oscar Gunn and Logan Dunning Beck are sixth.Nacra 17 sailors Olivia Mackay and Jason SaThe scorecard doesn't always tell the full story but it shows Peter Burling and Blair Tuke in a strong position after the second day of the Hyundai 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships in Auckland.The pair banked two thirds, a first and an eighth in their four races to jump up from 11th to second in the 49er class, only one point behind Benjamin Bildstein and David Hussl of Austria.But the four-time world champions and defending Olympic champions had to claw their way back into a couple of races in sometimes treacherously shifty conditions.The breeze built around the middle of the day, climbing to about 15 knots, but died off completely in the late afternoon as the last 49er race was concluding. Some boats were almost pushed back over the finish as they limped to the line."It was definitely a really tricky day out there," Burling admitted. "We had a fair share of either going backwards or forwards in races at times but we are pretty happy to walk away with the scorecard we did. It could always have been a bit better but it could also have been worse. All in all with how tricky it was, we were pretty happy."Logan Dunning Beck and Oscar Gunn were also pretty satisfied after winning two of their races which helped them climb from 33rd to seventh overall.With one more day of qualifying before the top third move into gold fleet, the priority is to post consistently good scores, especially as there are a gaggle of teams within striking distance of the leaders."We survived the day," Gunn said. "It's just about not throwing it away, really. A lot of people screwed it up today and yesterday so there are a few good guys who aren't in contention any more."We tried really hard to throw it away but we haven't yet so we will keep on chipping away and get some more good scores on the board."Alex Maloney and Molly Meech did mostly that in their first day of racing at these world championships and sit fourth in the 49erFX fleet after four races. They posted two top-three results across their four races and had two other middling scores on a day when some of the favourites struggled.Americans Paris Henken and Anna Tobias grabbed an early lead ahead of Ida Marie Baad Nielsen and Marie Thusgaard Olsen of Denmark with Singapore's Kimberly Lim and Cecilia Low third."I thought we did a lot of things well but we also made some mistakes that are easy to see in hindsight," Maloney said.The top four teams in the Nacra 17 did a really good job of that in their four races and only one point separates the quartet. Great Britain's John Gimson and Anna Burnet hold a slim lead over compatriots Ben Saxton and Nicola Boniface with Riley Gibbs and Anna Weis of the United States third.Gemma Jones and Josh Porebski were the best of the Kiwis in 16th. Micah Wilkinson and Erica Dawson are 17th and Liv Mackay and Jason Saunders 20th on a congested leaderboard that shows only 21 points between the top 20 teams.There's still a long way to go in these world championships, which finish on Sunday, and it will be something of a war of attrition.The 49ers, in particular, have already had two long days, but Burling and Tuke were relishing the battle ahead."It's what you train for, isn't it?" Burling said.And those two know better than any what it takes to win. unders have had a win and a third to improve to 11th overall after six races.

Olympian, Superstar, and Super Friend of the show Ben Saxton makes his debut on Passin Dimes! He goes into detail on his volleyball family, CIS Championships, and playing over 15 years and 130 events for Canada on the beach!  We also cover Ben's two businesses he started to grow volleyball on the west coast. The West Coast Beach Volleyball Society (https://www.wecobevo.com/) is an organization created to raise funds not only to develop an elite athlete environment for Western Canadians beach athletes to train and thrive on the West Coast, but also in community spirit, we are donating a percentage of all our funds raised to KidSport.  His second project is The National Beach Volleyball League (https://nbvl.ca/) The NBVL’s mission is to cultivate a professional environment for both men’s and women’s Beach Volleyball in Canada through the development of professional leagues in major cities. We hope you enjoy this episode, please leave a comment and a 5Star review! Stay Excellent     

Jake and Chris discuss S1 E6 of Danny Phantom, What You Want, with Olympic Skier, Ben Saxton's brother - Nick Saxton.  Topics include jealousy, naval piercings, and Nick's weird penis. 

The Libratus AI beating top poker pros is just the public face of a revolution in poker strategy. Journalist Ben Saxton joins Dirk and Jon to explain poker engines, cutting-edge strategy, and tips on how to learn. Poker is undergoing a revolution in strategy thanks in part to AI-driven poker engines that enable precise computation of game theory optimal, or GTO, strategy. Based on physicist John Nash’s “equilibrium”, GTO is professionalizing a game historically known more for cigar smoke and degenerate gamblers than extremely complex math. Journalist, teacher, and poker player Ben Saxton joins Dirk and Jon to go inside these developments.   Memorable Quotes "When you're in a hand, you're never gonna be able to process what these solvers are offering up to you." "What do we do with all this complexity? I can barely explain what a solver does, let alone how to interpret it." "Just imagine a player who has software that can tell him how to play GTO style in game. How do you beat that player?" "The most successful classrooms that I've been a part of are collaborative and dialogic." "One example that comes to mind is PokerSnowie, a neural network and you can play against in real time." "If you're able to actually work through and interpret the different hands that these solvers are using in all these different spots and you're able to craft these strategies, you're gonna be very, very tough to beat." "The best way that I know to help not just my students but myself see more clearly or see in a different way is through fiction and short stories and novels because they allow us to imaginatively project ourselves into some other person, some other world and see in a radically different way."   Mentioned in this episode Poker’s 2011 Black Friday GTO Poker   Who You'll Hear Dirk Knemeyer, Social Futurist and Producer of Creative Next (@dknemeyer) Jonathan Follett, Writer, Electronic Musician, Emerging Tech Researcher and Producer of Creative Next (@jonfollett) Ben Saxton, Writer, Teacher and Poker Player (@beeteesax)   Join The Conversation Website & Newsletter: www.creativenext.org Twitter: @GoCreativeNext Facebook: /GoCreativeNext Instagram: @GoCreativeNext   Sponsors GoInvo, A design practice dedicated to innovation in healthcare whose clients are as varied as AstraZeneca, 3M Health Information Services, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. www.goinvo.com Design Museum Foundation, A new kind of museum, they believe design can change the world. They’re online, nomadic, and focused on making design accessible to everyone. Their mission: bring the transformative power of design everywhere. You can learn about their exhibitions, events, magazine, and more. www.designmuseumfoundation.org BIF, As a purpose-driven firm, BIF is committed to bringing design strategy where it is needed most - health care, education, and public service to create value for our most vulnerable populations. www.bif.is

Ben Saxton teaches literature and writing classes at Tulane Medical School and Bard Early College. He’s also a poker writer whose interviews for Two Plus Two Magazine have a lot in common with those you’d hear on the Thinking Poker ... Read more...

April is when the full-time volleyball begins. But the real battle annually begins in late January and early February, when Canadians Sam Schachter and Sam Pedlow stop by Hermosa Beach for a few weeks of high level training prior to FIVB Fort Lauderdale, the first major international event every year. The real battles, of course, do not take place on the courts themselves. Nah, they're on Instagram, where Pedlow has curated one of the best social media accounts across all of sports, right up there, it's easy to argue, with Joel Embiid, the troll savant of the NBA. He'll post highlights and bloopers, funny sound bytes and inspirational quotes, a little bit of everything. What makes it fun is that for the few weeks the Canadians are in town, the U.S. players they practice with – namely Jake Gibb and Taylor Crabb, Casey Patterson and Stafford Slick, Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena in Florida prior to Fort Lauderdale – fire it right back in a friendly, if not still competitive, manner. “It's a self-proclaimed rivalry by Casey and Slick,” Schachter said, laughing. “In Canada, beach volleyball isn't as publicized as it is in the States,” Pedlow, the more active of the two, added. “They do a great job of making everybody know who you are. If we want people to know who we are we need to do some work, do some ground work. Every time we come down to the United States and play with these guys and post some videos it's good for us, because now we might get some Sam Times Two fans.” Patterson did his part in making sure his followers knew the Sams plays were fake (they're not), while his are real (they are). “People think we're kinda going at each other but it's all in good fun,” Pedlow said. “Now, I don't post a whole lot of rallies we don't win.” If you follow them closely enough, you'll know that isn't true. Pedlow and Schachter both enjoy a good blooper as much as the rest of us. But here's the thing: The rallies they lose are becoming exceedingly harder to come by. Last year, 2017, marked their first as a team, Schachter having needed a replacement for the since-retired Josh Binstock, and Pedlow in potential need of an upgrade from Grant O'Gorman (perfectly enough, the Sams are in the same pool as countrymen O'Gorman and Ben Saxton, former partner of transfer American Chaim Schalk). Their first tournament together was at this very same event a year ago, where they took ninth, having beaten O'Gorman and Michael Plantinga and Austrian Olympian Robin Seidl and Tobias Winter to break pool. Eventually, they were knocked out by Gibb and Crabb, though it was an auspicious start for what would become Pedlow's best season, one in which the Sams – or SamX2 or Sam Squared, whichever you prefer – would improve upon their seed in every single FIVB tournament they played in. Those finishes are thanks to what the two call “one and done volleyball,” a nod to their height and physicality. Pedlow, the 2017 Most Improved Player on the FIVB, stands 6-foot-5 and Schachter, the defender, 6-foot-6. They're the first to admit they won't dig as many balls as, say, a Crabb, who's light and nimble and quicksilver fast, but when they do, they're more likely to put it away, relying more on offensive and transition efficiency than long, dragged out rallies. They're ok with that. It works. Most importantly, for the fans and those following on social media: It's fun to watch.

Chaim Schalk had been to the United States before. The Alberta native has actually been an American citizen his entire life -- his mother is an Iowan -- but as a kid raised in Red Deer, Schalk has been competing in the Canadian pipeline his entire life.  Until now.  After the 2017 season, Schalk, who finished fifth at the 2017 Beach Volleyball World Championships with longtime partner Ben Saxton, the 6-foot-5 defender made the decision to transfer to compete for the United States, homeland of his wife, Lane Carico, another top-flight U.S. defender whom he married on New Years Eve of 2015. “It was probably halfway through the season when I considered what my options were going to be,” Schalk said. “Me and Ben, we weren't, I don't think, were on the same page after a certain period of time. We had a really good run over five years but I was hoping we were going to become more consistent and we never actually won a tournament, and every team around our level has won a tournament. Every team. And that was one thing I wanted to do: I wanted to win. “We'd get into these tournaments where we were so close and every time, something happened. Not to say that's the reason why I wanted to move on, because if it's not Ben, who am I going to win with?” And that remains the No. 1 question for Schalk moving forward: Who will the erstwhile Canadian partner with? Because of an FIVB transfer rule, Schalk will have to sit out of FIVB tournaments until October of 2019. He'll be an exclusively AVP talent, though it's possible he could compete in the World Series of Beach Volleyball, should it not fall under the FIVB umbrella, as it did not this past season. He hasn't decided on anything; he hasn't ruled anything out. It's just as possible he plays with Brazilian blocker Ricardo Santos, with whom he played in AVP New York and stunned Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena in the first round, as with a young and developing blocker. For now, Schalk is rehabbing his pinky finger post-surgery, though the next time he steps on the sand, it'll be as a member of USA Volleyball. WATCH: SANDCAST host Tri Bourne plays against SANDCAST guest Chaim Schalk in the Toronto semifinals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8BHlrar2wc&t=934s Where to find Chaim Schalk: Twitter: @chaimschalk  Instagram: @Chaimer Website: ChaimSchalk.com