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,
Three Insights From Your Future Poker Self February 16, 2024 Dear poker player I used to be, Hi. I’ve been sent here from the future to teach you 3 things that will lighten your journey, both on and off the felt. The only thing is, neither of the first two will have any impact whatsoever if you don’t accomplish the third, and you have to
Dare To Be Great At The Poker Table February 9, 2024 Theodore Roosevelt said something that completely changed my life, here it is: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face
4 Poker Stories From 2023 We’re Still Thinking About February 2, 2024 Poker players who have been around for the dozen or so years since the infamous Black Friday in 2011 have had front-row seats to the evolution of the game, particularly in the media. Once vilified and left to the “degenerates,” poker’s recent growth has showcased the resilience of the industry – evidenced by YouTube searches
Why You Should Stop Triple-Barreling (as much) January 26, 2024 Having played the 3-handed jackpot style Sit & Go games since they first hit the market all the way back in 2014, I’ve both seen and made every mistake possible when playing a game with a starting stack of just 25BB. In fact, it would be more accurate to say that I have witnessed the
The Miracle Of Self – A New Year’s Poker Odyssey January 19, 2024 The only reason you haven’t made it yet is that you don’t believe. You don’t believe that it is possible for you to actually reach your dreams. You don’t believe that you can actually play a game for a living. You don’t believe that if you worked hard enough, studied hard enough, sacrificed hard enough
Ordinary Things, Extraordinary Outcomes January 12, 2024 You get extraordinary outcomes by doing ordinary things for extraordinary periods of time. It’s the commitment to the act, not the act itself, that create the outsized return. Alex Hormozi You get extraordinary outcomes by doing ordinary things for extraordinary periods of time. It’s the commitment to the act, not the act itself, that creates