Reparenting Your Inner Poker Child November 24, 2023 Shadow Work As A Strategy For Explosive Tilt If you were interested by the title of this article, you likely know the feeling. You’ve just taken your third consecutive bad beat to bust on the bubble of the biggest tournament of the day. You instantly feel an explosion of rage welling up inside you. Your
Two Warriors That Will Revolutionize Your Poker Game November 17, 2023 The famous Russian author and philosopher Leo Tolstoy once wrote: “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” Leo Tolstoy Believe it or not, this powerful insight applies not just for life in general, but for the life of a poker player as well. Let’s break down how these two warriors can improve our
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Words Will Transform Your Poker Game November 10, 2023 Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America’s most influential writers and philosophers, is a treasure-trove of insight for better living, both day-to-day as well as at the poker table. Let’s take a look at three Emerson quotes that will immediately improve your poker game. 1. Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. Let’s
The Real Nit Is You November 3, 2023 Play poker for long enough (and often for not very long) and you’re bound to have a classic poker insult thrown your way: You Nit. You Maniac. You Calling Station. No matter what play you make, no matter what hand you have, there’s always a poker stereotype perfectly suited for the occasion. That’s because these
The Teachings Of Video Games – Donkey Kong November 2, 2023 People often dismiss video games for being child’s play, a waste of time. But as with anything in life, perspective is everything. Choose to find value in video games (or anything you choose) and you will. Take the following thought experiment I instituted for myself long ago that has, surprisingly, proven itself to be powerfully
Unnecessary Poker Things October 27, 2023 How many things have you already done today that really didn’t need to be done? How many emotional reactions have you had this week that added no value to your life? How many self-defeating thought patterns have you heard echo inside your head recently? When taking honest inventory of our daily experience, we quickly see
2 Reasons Slow Playing Is Setting Your Cash On Fire October 20, 2023 I get it — we all love the feeling of checking back a monster, having our opponent hit top pair on the turn, and getting paid in full. Unfortunately, the chase of this high has led to an uncountable number of hands being misplayed at the poker table. Nowhere is FPS (Fancy Play Syndrome) more
You’re Studying Hand Histories All Wrong! October 20, 2023 The Ancient Stoic Epictetus once said: “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish.” Nowhere is this more true than at the poker table, where growth is almost entirely dependent on the ability not just to weather the storms of variance, but to withstand the judgment from others as well as from
Why You HAVE TO Be Yourself At The Poker Table October 13, 2023 “Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson In a game where every player, coach, and professional has a different answer to the question of “what’s the right way to play?”, there is a wildly underrated piece of advice: Be Yourself. Let’s explore what this means from
3 Reasons ADHD Is Your Poker Superpower October 6, 2023 It helps to think of ADHD as a complex set of contradictory or paradoxical tendencies: a lack of focus combined with an ability to superfocus; a lack of direction combined with highly directed entrepreneurialism; a tendency to procrastinate combined with a knack for getting a week’s worth of work done in two hours; impulsive, wrongheaded
Stop being a bad poker player! September 29, 2023 Warning: we’re going to get a little deep today but stay with me – the payoff will be worth it. I read a poker quote by David Mamet recently that I haven’t been able to get out of my mind. It said: “Many bad players do not improve – because they cannot bear self-knowledge.” Poker