The Non-Poker Book That Will Increase Your Bottom Line: The Untethered Soul May 17, 2024 If you’re desperate for a practical way to stop tilt and regain control over your emotions, Michael Singer’s The Untethered Soul might just offer the answers you’ve been looking for. Having cycled between academia and eastern philosophy, Singer turned life as a barefoot hippie into an empire of goodness, building and selling multiple multi-million dollar
Let Kobe Bryant Guide You Out of the Micros May 10, 2024 If you’ve heard any stories about Kobe Bryant, they’re likely ones about his insane work ethic. Part passion and part obsession, Bryant’s willingness to suffer in the name of self-improvement has transcended the world of basketball and continues to inspire people all around the globe long after his tragic passing. Recently, while listening to former
Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bust & Boom Of A Poker Life May 3, 2024 In the book The Sun Also Rises, legendary author Ernest Hemingway writes one of the most memorable lines in American literature: “How did I go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Incredible wit aside, the line not only showcases the most common path to financial ruin, but has incredible applications to the poker life too,
Countertrade Your Poker Self April 26, 2024 Anyone who has spent time on financial Twitter X will no doubt be familiar with the idea of “countertrading”. This is a term, often used disparagingly, to indicate taking a trading position in direct opposition to a recommendation from a specific person or group of people. The idea peaked with the recently shuttered Jim Cramer
The Positivity Freeroll – Why You Should Stop Expecting To Lose April 19, 2024 In Parts I and II of The Positivity Freeroll, I shared the incredible true story of how a message from beyond led me to the biggest tournament win I had up to that point. Today, we complete the trilogy by looking at the practicality of Positivity as it relates to making more money at the
The Positivity Freeroll II April 12, 2024 Welcome to the conclusion of The Positivity Freeroll, the incredible true story of how a late-night encounter with my intuition led me to what was then my biggest poker tournament win. ~ As I fired up the first few tournaments of the day, I felt a type of purpose I had not felt before. Although
The Positivity Freeroll April 5, 2024 Early on in my poker career, I got a powerful lesson into the power of positivity in poker, leading to my biggest tournament score to that time. And while the story of how it unfolded may seem dramatized (I sometimes still struggle to believe it happened as it did), I want to assure you that
Marcus Aurelius & The Patterns Of Poker March 22, 2024 The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius once wrote that observing life for forty years was as good as a thousand. If you did live to a thousand, he asked, would you really see anything new? And while Aurelius lived some 2000 years before the advent of pocket computers and Ubers where we can see 14 new
Reparenting Our Inner Poker Parts March 15, 2024 There are no bad parts of you, just misunderstood ones. – No Bad Parts The concept of reparenting yourself as a strategy for improving your bottom line at the poker table may sound unconventional, but it offers a powerful framework for understanding and managing the emotional turmoil that high-variance competition so often breeds. According to
What David Goggins & Atomic Habits Can Teach You About Going Pro March 8, 2024 One of my favorite lines to repeat to myself in times of strife or indecision is “everybody wants to be a hero, but nobody wants to do the work.” When I was younger, I used to think ‘the work’ meant the physical labor of any given task – writing the blog, running around the block,
The Ideal Poker Self March 1, 2024 You may not use these words, but you already know what I’m about to tell you: the real battle does not take place externally, but on the inside – between your ideal and imperfect selves. Every day these two sides engage in a vicious fight to secure control over your mind, spirit and, ultimately, the
Phil Galfond On Why You Should Expect To Lose At Poker February 23, 2024 A little while back, I heard online poker legend Phil Galfond say something that I haven’t been able to get out of my head since. Galfond was describing something his poker mentor Tommy Angelo (author of some incredible poker books) said to him that Phil claims completely changed his perspective. After hearing what it was,