Are you killing in poker?

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. Read more

Bump it or dump it is the mantra of the antifish

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 for.i mean, really, wouldn’t you like it to be that way? Read more

Open your mind to new learning

“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 face certain hard truths about themselves. The question of when and whether it’s appropriate not to play poker at all. This is a question that many poker players simply can’t address. Read more

Revelation When we encounter new ideas in poker

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 thinking with new revelations even revelations that illuminate the exact same idea-we become stale in our thinking and habituated in our play. A concept that once lent great clarity to our game eventually becomes only a memory of that concept, and its usefulness weakens accordingly. Read more

ICT AFCOA -Increasing Commitment To A Failing Course Of Action

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 raise is a rising course of action. However, when the flop cornes T-9-8 in suits you don’t…, your course of action turns and mns downhill. Sure you still have a chance (about 24 percent) of catching two cards to a low, but unless there’s a table full of players chasing high, your expectation is negative-your course of action is failling. Yet you call anyway!

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Your spouse doesn’t think you play too much poker

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 poker no matter what physical, mental, or financial shape you’re in? Knowing when not to play poker is crucial. Everyone talks table selection, but sometimes the best table to choose is (d) none of the above. When your frame of body or frame of mind deny you the possibility of playing your best, you must not play! Read more

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