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