I can read minds. Once I learned to read mine, yours was a snap. Don’t worry; I’ll teach you how to read minds too. It’s just part of what I know about Poker, and I plan to teach you everything I know about Poker.
January 5, 2008 – 8:04 am
To be the antifish , the dominant player at the table, you must be the one who is expected to raise. To create that expectation, sim ply put the heat on and keep it on. If you’re in the right game with the right actions, you’ll be the Lone Raiser-a consummation devoutly to be wished [...]
January 5, 2008 – 5:13 am
“To open your mind to new learning, you first must open your mind.” This is why so many players become complacent and really stop growing in their game. They don’t want to open their minds. They are, in a very real sense, afraid to look within. They find it daunting, threatening, maybe even im-possible to [...]
January 3, 2008 – 11:30 am
They often strike us with the force of revelation. There are two things worth noting about revelation. One is that it’s the nature of reve-lation to propel us through the paradigm shift, to change the way we think. The other is that it’s the nature of revelation to fade, and unless we keep refreshing our [...]
January 3, 2008 – 11:27 am
It’s a terribly powerful concept in poker because it explains so well how we go so wrong.
You’re playing Omaha/8, and you pick up a big drawing low like A-2-3-4. Against a table full of Cally Wallies, you feel justified in making a raise, and so you do. Nothing wrong with that; at this point a [...]
January 3, 2008 – 11:17 am
but you think she thinks you do. So maybe spend a little quality time with her. Pass! Got other work to do? Pass! Don’t feel sharp? Pass! Just had a big meal? Pass! Forcing a short session? Pass! Just don’t have the bucks? Pass! Can it be that you never pass? Do you go play [...]
January 3, 2008 – 11:13 am
Do you ever put on your hat and coat to go play, but then change your mind? Maybe you even get down the driveway. Maybe you get halfway to the freeway, when suddenly, confronted by the prospect of enduring an hour in traffic just for the enjoyment of playing poker-an enjoyment you don’t even feel [...]
