Where’s My Edge At The Poker Table? October 11, 2024 Where’s my edge? A simple question we know we should be able to answer with high specificity, but probably can’t. At least not without putting some serious thought into it, because it’s something most of us have never been asked. Where’s my edge? How can I be sure I am better than my opponents? What
NFL Legend Says This Is The Secret To (Poker) Success October 4, 2024 “Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.” – Bill Belichick When it comes to poker, everyone enters the game with a bit of talent, even if they barely know the rules of the game. Sometimes it comes from experience in other 1v1 strategy games, such as chess, while other times it comes from a
The Dumbest Path to Poker Enlightenment September 27, 2024 I promise I mean no offense by what I’m about to say, but your brain is sort of an idiot. Observing what it does objectively, it’s easy to see that our minds are far from perfect. They are wildly susceptible to emotion, can be influenced by the slightest shift in perspective, and if history has
Riding The Poker Heater – 3 Tips For When You’re Running Good September 20, 2024 Search the internet and you’ll find endless articles about what to do when you’re running bad in poker, but what about the opposite? What about when you’re on one of those rare heaters where the stars are aligned and everything seems to be going right? It might not happen often, but when it does, we’d
This Is A Smart Place For A Bluff – And Other Poker Thoughts That Will Get You Killed September 13, 2024 The poker brain is a double-edged sword. It’s smart enough to have you pulling off an epic triple-barrel bluff but equally likely to give you advice that will set your bankroll on fire. Thanks to the way we’re wired, poker is never just about the cards we’re dealt, but about the ability to analyze and
3 things we learned from the WSOP to remember next year August 30, 2024 Now that another season of WSOP Main Event action has come and gone, it’s time to sit back and reflect not only on what we observed, but on the lessons we learned that will hopefully serve us next year when the cycle of hopes, triumphs and defeats renews again. Make Folding Great Again If you
Atomic Habits for Poker Players: Small Changes, Big Results August 23, 2024 If you’re looking to build better poker habits, the best-selling book Atomic Habits is a revelation. The book breaks down the process of habit building into four key steps (or rules) that anyone can take to greatly increase the likelihood of accomplishing their goals. Here they are along with some ways to use them to
Basketball lessons from a 10-year-old that will help your poker game August 16, 2024 I’ve been watching my 10-year-old son play a lot of basketball recently, which got me thinking about the parallels between it and the game of poker. Watching his games, it became clear how in both basketball and poker (and likely any other form of competition) it is preparation, not talent, that sets the great players
Boom To Bust – Why You Keep Punting Off Your Big Stacks August 9, 2024 We’ve all been there, it’s the middle to early-late stage of a poker tournament and you’re sitting on a top-five stack. You know there’s still a long way to go, but you just can’t help imagining what it would feel like to score the win. You sneak a little peek at the lobby and picture
The $10 Million WSOP Controversy July 26, 2024 If you’ve invested any time following the 2024 WSOP Main Event, you have likely heard about the latest controversy to rock the poker world. If not, let me catch you up in short. Throughout the final table, including the heads-up portion of the Main Event, eventual $10 million winner Jonathan Tamayo was seen interacting with
So You Didn’t Make It To The WSOP – 4 Tips To Get There Next Year July 19, 2024 If you’re a poker player during summertime, you experience only one of two realities: you’re either at the WSOP in Vegas living out the dream, or sitting at home compulsively refreshing updates on X/Twitter wishing you were there. If you’re in the second group, here are 4 tips that will help change your fortunes. Set
4 Deep Poker Lessons From ACR Pro Tom Dwan July 5, 2024 If you somehow haven’t heard, poker legend Tom “Durrrrr” Dwan recently signed as an ACR Pro and returned to televised cash games by immediately taking part in some enormous pots. Here are 4 lessons I learned watching the return of Durrrr over the past couple of weeks. 1. Everyone underbluffs (the river) I’ll admit I