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
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Unnecessary Poker Things
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
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!
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