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Years ago I created a pregame warmup and have gotten many messages like this one about it.
If you want it, it’s free—just use the link in my bio to join my newsletter.
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Years ago I was in this poker friend circle.
One day, someone has an idea:
Let’s all go to nice restaurant once a month and split the bill.
First time, meal was great, everyone had a good time and nobody had any sort of issue with splitting the bill evenly even though some
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First time playing live poker in two years and somehow this happens. See you all again in 2024.
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Signs you might be a bad reg:
1. If you always seat change for position on the fish, you might be a bad reg
2. If you're under the age of 30, have no kids and practice excellent bankroll management, you might be a bad reg
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The people I feel for the most in poker aren’t the ones dumping huge amounts of money.
It’s the cash grinder who has to keep watching people with less knowledge and skill move past them, the tournament player who works hard on their game but can never find a big score.
Always
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To crush poker:
Step 1: Realize that nobody has it all figured out and that everyone is just making it all up as they go along
Step 2: Get really good at making it up as you go along
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Story time:
In the summer of 2015 I was playing a tournament, cruising along with a big stack.
A very young looking guy who I’ve never seen before sits down, and instantly I know I’m in the presence of something pretty great.
When someone has "it" you just know. (1/9)
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When cooking: if it smells good, it tastes good.
At the poker table: if it feels right, it’s likely +ev.
To succeed with this, learn how to differentiate the natural “feels right” from the experience of you wanting something to be true and convincing yourself it feels right.
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1/ It's uncanny how often people have their biggest losing sessions right after their biggest wins.
It's not a coincidence.
Here's why it happens:
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1/ One time a new client showed up.
He’s crushing at midstakes, but every time he tries to move up he gets destroyed.
I ask him one question:
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Poker players are probably the group of people least suited to being told what to do.
And yet most are now making all their decisions based on what they "should" or are "supposed" to do instead of trusting your gut.
Probably why so many pros are unhappy.
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The player who rages off their stack and the player who stays solid but then needs to smoke, eat, and watch tv for three hours to “decompress” are the same.
Anyone who can't feel their emotions to the end will pay the toll—just in different currencies.
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A "nit" is just a "solid" player who you have unresolved emotional issues around
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If you "100% know for sure" that it was cheating or wasn't:
You probably also have trouble sitting with the discomfort of not knowing what the perfect answer is in a big poker or life decision, then make decisions too quickly only to regret them later.
Stay curious out there.
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In poker you will either:
A) Look dumb
or
B) Feel dumb
There's no world where you escape both.
When you decide you're going to trust your instincts above all else, you will make decisions that make you look stupid to others when they don't work.
If you decide you'd rather
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Three weeks ago I got hired by Poker Detox to do mindset and performance coaching for their players. It's been incredibly fun and insightful getting to hear the issues that plague high-level players from performing their best on a regular basis. Some takeaways:
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1/ The holy grail of poker is to not be results oriented.
It’s a concept that gets talked about a whole lot more than it's actually felt.
Ironically, trying to be less results oriented actually just makes you more results oriented.
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Getting good at poker requires a mastery of logic.
Winning money at poker requires a mastery of emotions.
It's two games, not one—and this is what the class of mediocre regs who always complain about "not winning what I deserve" don't understand.
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The way you deal (or don’t deal) with stuff at the table is a reflection of who you are and who you’re becoming in the rest of your life—and vice versa.
There’s no difference, it’s all one game.
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For all the people pushing back on
#2
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In 2004 I was a 20 year old college student and had built up maybe a 10k bankroll and found myself in the greatest game I ever played in:
5/5 PLO, with one guy who would literally raise pot preflop 90% of the time and then bet pot
Signs you might be a bad reg:
1. If you always seat change for position on the fish, you might be a bad reg
2. If you're under the age of 30, have no kids and practice excellent bankroll management, you might be a bad reg
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Study, prepare, make a plan.
Then when it's time to play?
Forget it all and focus everything on staying present.
You'll see things clearly as they unfold, recognize what needs to be done, then execute without getting in your own way.
This is how knowledge becomes profit.
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Super excited for this:
I had the pleasure of getting to sit down with
@luckychewy
where we went deep into the world of presence, intuition, and yes, learning how to be more lucky.
Really enjoyed this conversation.
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1/ At some point it became universally accepted in poker that if you stick around long enough, losing will inevitably feel far worse than winning feels good.
As if this is an inherent part of the game—which it’s not.
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Solvers are great—but when you make decisions based on what you “should” or are “allowed to” do, you cut off access to your instincts and it's no longer you playing.
Give yourself permission to do what feels right.
Then the tools will enhance your instincts, not replace them.
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There are a lot of jobs where the best way to earn more money is to work more hours at a lower quality.
Poker is not that.
When you start tolerating mediocrity in your game, your longterm earning potential falls off a cliff—and it's really hard to come back from that.
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1/ About 20 years ago in college, I find this 5/5 PLO game.
Action is insane.
There’s a guy who bets the pot 80% of the time it’s his turn, and a woman who never folds any kind of draw no matter the size of the bet—zero pros in the game.
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When I played my first main event in 2006, I didn’t want to win because I was 100 pounds overweight and didn’t want the world to see me like that, so of course on day one I got put on the featured table and the episode ran on ESPN like ten million times. Life’s funny like that.
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Poker culture says:
"Don't feel too good after wins"
"Don't let yourself feel sad when down"
"Every day just another day"
But you fell in love with the game because of how it made you feel.
Getting rid of emotion makes poker less special.
And makes you less profitable.
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When you start out, it’s all fun, growth, and learning.
But then you learn stuff.
Get pretty good, and all of a sudden, one day it flips over from “It’s really cool when I win,” to “I was supposed to win.”
And it’s all downhill from there.
What comes after that is extremely
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Do you keep calling bets when everything inside you is screaming to fold?
Every player goes through it.
The explanations are always the same:
Ego. Curiosity. Tilt.
But it's not ego. You’re not actually “curious.” And you do this whether you're on tilt or not.
You keep
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1/ Showed up for restart at WSOP one day.
Two guys are in mid-conversation.
One says:
“Yeah, I always go there to eat every time I come to Vegas, it’s not fancy or anything but it’s so satisfying every time.”
Instantly I know what they’re talking about:
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The worst part about chasing your losses isn't that you're probably playing worse than usual or ruining your sleep schedule—it's that if you do it enough, you end up spending the majority of your time playing poker in a fairly unhappy and miserable place.
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1/ The most famous last words in poker:
“I’ve got it figured out.”
The moment you believe this, you create the conditions for a long and difficult downswing.
It’s not superstition.
It’s about the way you carry yourself.
Here’s what you need to know:
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Never forget:
If someone else's success bothers you, it's really just your unhappiness with your own levels of effort and success that you're projecting in their direction.
Sucks to hear but it's true.
Get locked in and it won't matter who else is getting what.
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11. If you saw someone punt 2 years ago and still tell everyone that person sucks based solely on that, you might be a bad reg
12. If you say "you guys do what you want, I'm not straddling" you might be a bad reg, and also nobody likes you
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To all main event players, remember:
Everything from the prize pool to the reporters to the cameras to the pressure you feel is just a test.
To see if you can stay present and focused.
Stay who you are, trusting your instincts.
It's the only path with no regrets.
Good luck.
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Something I’ve noticed in my work:
1) People tend to relax and stop growing when things are going really well, and most don’t seek out big changes and support until the house is burning down.
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1/ My first WSOP experience:
I had gained 100 pounds in two years—had completely lost myself in a cycle of nonstop poker, eating, and not liking myself.
I remember telling people:
“I don’t want to win the main. It’s too much.”
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Poker is just a giant series of tests to see what will stop you from being present:
Running good, running bad, feeling good, feeling bad, surrounded by idiots, internet goes down, reg you hate wins big, etc.
It's all the same test.
If you keep passing you get to keep winning.
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It's profitable to understand what balanced ranges look like.
It's way more profitable to understand that the hand you're playing right now is one of a kind—influenced by the exact emotions and game dynamics that are happening right now and never again.
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So far on my podcast, I’ve interviewed:
* LuckyChewy
* Matt Berkey
* Martin Jacobson
* Marle Spragg
* Chance Kornuth
* Phil Galfond
All big time players in the industry.
All doing it in their own way.
Some key lessons from each of them:
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Poker players: Peeing in water bottles to optimize their winnings while actively suppressing their emotions since 2005.
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Someone who has written books on poker messaged me to tell me that my book was "weird" and that "it's not even about poker" without realizing that this is probably my favorite compliment anyone has ever given me.
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A year ago I pressed "publish" on Amazon with the hope that maybe 100 people would eventually buy and read Poker with Presence. Many thanks to all who bought, read, shared kind words, and helped push it way beyond what I thought would happen. A real dream come true.
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Underrated aspect of poker:
No matter how much you know, you can always make a terrible play. And no matter how little someone knows, they can always own your soul in a hand.
Presence, or lack of it, contributes heavily to these two things happening.
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Live poker is a battle to see who is best at keeping their soul intact as much as anything else.
If you can’t, doesn’t matter how good you are.
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If you want more success and happiness?
You need to grow.
If you want to grow, you need to get uncomfortable.
And if you want to get there as fast as possible, you need to keep raising the bar on how uncomfortable you’re willing to get, and keep increasing how honest you’re
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6/ If you’ve had some success but are struggling to go higher, get present with a couple of feelings inside yourself:
1) Appreciation for how far you’ve come
2) Connection to what excites you going forward
Don't just think about them—that won't help.
Feel it deeply.
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I think the right time to be thinking about poker is all the time, except when you're playing. When the game starts, you'll play your best when you let go of everything you learned, focus on getting connected inside-out, and just let it happen––having thoughts without thinking.
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Playing lower stakes than usual is like moving up in stakes, but for your mental game.
How do you respond without the money rush?
Can you check your ego?
Respect the game?
Execute well?
If not, your play at your usual stakes will one day break down too once the rush is gone.
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About a week after getting home, I randomly checked online to see if anyone I knew was still in the main, and saw a photo of one of the chip leaders, instantly recognized the face, as well as his online screen name.
And that’s the story of the time I met Fedor Holz. (8/9)
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Got a text from a client that said:
"You're a dope coach."
I brag to my wife, who says:
"Are you sure there's no comma after the word dope?"
For best results in life, find yourself someone who can check both your punctuation and your ego 😂
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Yesterday I got to have the experience of having two longtime clients make the same final table at the WSOP—both surreal and amazing to get to be a part of it.
I think I have the best job in the world.
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The way you conduct yourself to get there will be exactly how you are once you’re there.
However you imagine yourself to be when you have x amount of money/the dream job/a partner, start being that way now, or you'll lock yourself into a loop you can't get out of later.
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Not sure who needs to hear this, but your:
* work ethic
* poor exercise
* junk food habit
Is not the problem.
Neither is any other habit that you've been blaming for your lack of success and happiness.
And you're not one new routine away from being "fixed."
If you were,
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Me right before WSOP:
"Not gonna sweat my clients too hard this year, I always stay up too late"
Me at 2:15am two days later with a client still in the 25k with 10 left:
"WHY AREN'T THEY DOING MORE HAND UPDATES"
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Nothing kills winrate like an agenda. When you get stuck in:
“I need to book a win”
“I need to beat this guy”
“I need to be right”
Playing well is no longer your top priority and you’re screwed.
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On weight loss bets
You’re using the fear of losing money to change your habits in an attempt to get healthy, and all this does is teach you that the only way you can motivate yourself is through the fear of losing money.
If you do this:
The new habits may stick for a while.
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The words "play poker” vs “grind” show how you view performance.
Play is encouraged at an early age, then beaten out of us over time. Without it, you lose your capacity to see things as only you can and let your instincts flow.
Reconnect to play, and you'll like what happens.
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So many poker players won't listen to anyone "below" them and only ask questions to people "above" them.
But brilliant players make awful plays all the time, and the biggest losers still come up with incredible ideas.
Put the hierarchy stuff away.
Just always be learning.
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A thread:
1/ Poker culture is big on not celebrating.
I get it: when you win a hand, someone lost, and you want to show respect.
But many now have an internal dynamic where they’re incapable of enjoying the wins, which causes a lot of problems over time.
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When you’ve been working hard on your game, playing well but running terrible, feeling miserable, and worried that you’re going to go broke?
Keep in mind:
The most damaging things anyone can tell you is stuff like:
“No need to feel that way.”
“You’re playing well and working
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After you lose a big hand, notice how long you can be present with your experience before you grab your phone, stuff food in your mouth, or go for a smoke.
Your ability to grow this skill over time will have a strong correlation with how much you win and how good you feel.
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You want to tell the bad beat story because you can't stay present through the pain and need to unload it onto someone else.
Two problems with this:
1) The pain doesn't go away
2) Nobody cares
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Take these 3 things:
1) Your current level of self-love
2) How you'd feel about yourself if you lost everything
3) How you'd feel about yourself if you made all your dreams happen
When they're all running at high levels with no difference between them, you have a superpower.
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Doesn't matter who you're playing against.
You have to believe that your best is good enough to win.
It doesn't mean you'll win—but if you can't feel it, don't bother playing because you'll just find a way to lose.
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5/ Being ready for the opportunity means:
* Being present enough to see it
* Moving past all the fear and doubt that makes you not try or give up too soon
* Knowing how to stay sharp, motivated, and focused until the job is done
Own these skills, and you’ll crush it.
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Don't confuse yourself.
If you think winning more will make you:
* Happy
* At peace
* Generous
You've got it backwards.
You need to become those things first—and that's how you're gonna win all the money
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It's not the first mistake that kills you.
It's the beating up on yourself and time spent wishing you'd done something different that ruins you.
Pain will happen, but suffering is optional.
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1/ If you study a lot but your results are consistently worse than your skill level indicates, chances are that more knowledge won't solve the problem.
The issue is that you're getting in your own way.
Here’s how this plays out:
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The knowledge gap between the biggest winners and the tier below is way smaller than you think.
The presence gap between the biggest winers and the tier below is way bigger than you think.
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Only being at your best when your back is agains the wall is an adrenaline addiction.
If this is your strategy for success:
What do you think you'll do when you've reached your goals?
Sabotage, always—because this way of doing things means you never get to enjoy success.
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A performance concept you need to know:
The moment you have the thought that you’re crushing it and playing on another level is also usually the moment when you’re going to stop playing at that level moving forward.
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When people around you succeed, there are two main responses:
1) Completely happy for them, and it fires you up to go even harder
2) Can’t fully get there because you’re having thoughts of “they don’t deserve it” or “it should have been me.”
If you’re
#2
, you’ve got a problem.
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People waste so much time trying to figure out their hourly in games when really your hourly fluctuates wildly based on whether you're feeling good and happy to be in the chair, your mind free of distractions.
Maybe focus on how to get into that state instead?
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Lots to unpack from the absurd score I hit this week in Calgary.
Some thoughts:
1/ I’m now convinced more than ever that if you want to be someone who plays well in big moments, you need to go all in on focusing on creating presence and connection in yourself in those moments.
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Apparently it's not cool in poker anymore to talk about wanting to win big—you have to attach some sort of disclaimer about being focused on the process.
Hot take:
It's okay to want whatever you want.
And you don't need a reason, you can just want it because you want it.
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When you get better at poker all of a sudden it's:
"Wow these players have so many leaks"
When you become more present, it's:
"Wow everyone is a total headcase"
Both spots are incredibly exciting because a whole lot of money is about to be made once the realization hits you.
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4/ Great opportunities are a limited time offer.
When they show up, you better be ready to maximize.
If you’re not, someone else will, and you’ll wish later that it had been you.
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If you're always:
* estimating your hourly
* projecting future earnings
* figuring out how to "do more"
You're missing the point.
You haven't reached a level of trust and confidence in yourself that you can handle whatever comes.
Work this out first—the rest is details.
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Overthinking is what causes you to get in the way of your instincts, make mistakes in big moments, and spend hours regretting it afterwards.
To increase earnings and reduce stress, the formula is simple:
Feel more, think less.
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The game is just a mirror for who you are in each moment.
If you're constantly:
* miserable
* only seeing what's wrong
* never satisfied after playing
The game isn't the problem—you are.
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When I was 20, I had some stuff happen in my life and I wasn’t able to really be with the emotions that came with them. I pushed it away with everything I had.
The result:
Within a few months, I had lost most of my bankroll, and within 18 months gained 100 pounds.
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Back in 2005 I was at the Pokerstars tournament in the Bahamas, walking through the casino, when it felt like time just stopped and everyone froze.
A few seconds later, a tall man in a beautiful suit brushes right past me:
Michael Jordan.
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Ask poker players what the number one priority is, and they'll say:
"Win money" or "Play well"
Ask them what leads them them playing well and winning, and they'll say:
"Feeling relaxed, confident, focused."
So why would you not make feeling this way your number one priority?
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The "positive reframing" trend of saying stuff like:
"No need to feel bad, played it well"
"Be happy they played that hand that way"
"Don't think about it"
Is ridiculously destructive to both your bankroll and mental health.
It teaches you to pretend you're not having the
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1) Becomes okay with "I don't know."
2) Moves through all the emotions.
3) Gets open and curious, and has fun with it.
Then the intuition comes through.
The fucking master at work.
New YouTube video:
@andystackspoker
gets AA,
@GmanPoker
gets KK, all hell breaks loose…
Watch it here:
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Top 5 worst main event cliches
1/ “Treat it like any other tournament”
Really? Is your wedding day just another day too?
2/ “Act like you’ve been there before”
Maybe stop acting, and just start accepting reality instead? Yeah that's probably better.
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There's a subtle pressure in poker to get a little more robotic every year. Don't feel too good after wins, don't let yourself feel sad when down—every day just another day.
But humans will be humans, and if you deny what's happening inside for too long, it won't end well.
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1/ If you all too often know exactly what the right play is when you’re not in the hand, but can’t replicate that accuracy when it’s you in the chair, the good news is that this can be fixed.
Here’s how it works:
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Dropped the first episode of my new podcast, Poker With Presence. You can listen or download onto your podcast app from here:
New episodes every Monday through Friday.
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The fastest way to ensure you're fully present for the big moments is to learn to be present in all the moments, big and small.
This way, when the big moment comes, you don't need to come up with something "special," it's just more of you being you as usual.
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On my podcast today, I talked about how to deal with the emotional swings and irrational impulses that can show up when the table starts getting crazy.
A quick recap:
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You say you're not results-oriented because you don't give it away at the table when things go bad but you also eat worse, can't get anything done, and are much less pleasant to be around when you've been losing, so is that even really true?
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My family's been playing Tetris on the same Nintendo since 1991. My mom got tired of losing to me and my sister, so she started practicing on level 9/5 before bed each night and now for the last ten years every time I've come home she's happily destroyed me. I respect the grind.
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Winning does not build confidence.
Winning is the byproduct of confidence.
And you get the confidence by building a process you can rely on to stay calm, composed, and able to think clearly in tough situations—by doing the inner work.
Once that's done, winning gets way easier.
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No amount of money or success can outrun a relationship with yourself where you don't feel deserving of it.
You'll either:
1) Keep finding insane ways to punt the money off
or
2) Live your whole life feeling like you're undeserving or a fraud, unable to enjoy what you have
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Here's a thing I used to do:
When feeling down I'd go to one of those fancy cupcake shops that were all the rage and I’d buy two, hoping that this way the person behind the counter wouldn’t assume I was some sad, lonely single guy in a cupcake shop—which is exactly what I was.
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