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When Bad Things Happen To Nice Starting Hands

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Styled Blog Post The Road Less Traveled: The Psycho Path Ah, the poker life! The older I get, the better my past gets... OJ Simpson's 405 Freeway Chase , William Jefferson’s Monica Affair, and Ace Jack – The road less traveled: the psycho path! Ace Jack is also known as Slick Willy – The Bill Clinton. I don’t know why. Ask Monica or Hillary... oh wait... DONK! Ace Jack is my Monica, and like Bill Clinton, I too admit to having an "inappropriate relationship" with Ace Jack! It keeps screwing me out of money. The 3-Second Rule vs. LA’s 45-Minute One Car accidents and high-speed chases can wreak havoc on the freeway. I remember LA’s concrete jungle, the 405, turning into the world’s largest parking lot on June 17, 1994. People began talking about the “Remember the 45-m...
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Poker WIthout Cards (Bluffing) Is Hard With Free Rolls

Comment | Copy This Free Roll Poker Tournaments--Scratch Out Tickets--The Poker Free Lunch Poker is, after all, anything you can get away with--and when you play free rolls, you can't get something for nothing. Most hands go to showdown, and there is first place and no place---coming in second, who cares. In No Limit Holdem, things don't even out with time, they even out with the number of hands you play. Sometimes nothing can be a good hand....but I am rethinking free rolls. Advice for limit applies to No Limit Free rolls: Free Roll Hold em is a game of high cards, and kickers. Likewise, in Limit Hold em, the number of players increases, so big cards must be played most of the time. Hand selection is very important since almost all the time you are going to a showdown---the one with the best hand usually wins; and bluffing is a rather hard thing to pull off, since it only costs one small bet for Deputy Barney Fife to "keep you honest". Likewise in a free ...
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The Secret Is About Results; Poker About Making Good Decisions

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Flounders vs Rounders Flounders vs Rounders The Difference in Playing to Win vs Just Being Social For the poker Balla, nothing is better than when that average Joe Player sits down at a poker table. Why? Because he just sat down with money he intends to lose! There is no more +EV situation, and most tables in a live poker room are filled with players exactly like that. When you treat No Limit Hold'em as only a game of chance instead of skill, it is not a law of probability, it's a fact for games with negative expectations: Risk of ruin is 100%. Joes vs Pros Joe plays when he "feels" like it; a Pro plays all the time! Joes make shortcuts when losing, but Pros know that winning doesn't depend on cards—it depends on exploiting biases. Secrets to beating America's irrational poker players involve Behavioral Finance—part art, part science: Common Biases and Strategies Illusion of Contro...
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Paper Or Plastic-Folding The Invisable Way to Win

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:33 AM Download - TODAY'S PODCAST This Podcast was made with the Simplest Podcasting product API ever from BlogTalkRadio ! S till checking out Voice Blogging with SnapeVine . It eliminates downloads to itunes.Seems like one less step.
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Pain For Sale-Playing Too Many Starting Hands

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Keeping My Head Above Water Keeping My Head Above Water Here's your business-class ticket to cool , with complimentary mojo after takeoff. When your poker game crashes, this is the black box. One day, they’ll make the whole game out of that stuff. Build your game on POW—pearls of wisdom from the best damn poker blog around. The best things in life aren’t things. They’re people who write free advice on how to win at poker—a game of money played with cards, not the other way around. Pain For Sale — Don’t treat paper like plastic. Cash games aren’t tournaments. PAPER: The longest journey begins with... a cash advance from Bank of America. PLASTIC: “Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy chips—which is kinda the same thing.” The sex of poker is really a game of mistakes. The biggest one? Pleasure. That fine line between success and self-destruction lives in one dirty (Harry) question: “Do you feel lu...
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The Hardest Way to Make An Easy Living

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In poker, "The Nuts" refers to not only an unbeatable hand, It is also an unbeatable style of playah, a raisey-crazy one -man asylum., whose default mode of betting suffers from Jim Carey’s “advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage.” An adrenaline junkie with demented energy, grandiose plans, he likes being feared. It imbues him with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence. The Playah is inebriated by the looks of horror or repulsion on people's faces, as they fold with the best hand as you bluff--The poisoned joy to the poker world of depriving others of what you don’t have, a legitimate hand. The crime and punishment for playing with the Playah is a malignant optimism. He plays a one-handed game of "Good Cop, Bad Cop" with different people. Stiring the pot, triangulating and pitting one against another. Gossip may be false intimacy but Torture is the ultimate act of his perverted intimacy. A kind of Traumatic bonding...
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Passing The Test But Failing the Class

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Teach an old DOGMA New Tricks. An Ace and A Race... Paper or Plastic-Cash verses Chips When you lose, you lose money, when you win, you lose respect for money. Yet too much respect for money makes you a bad player.... I must be a great player because I have lost total respect for money- and now I know why. I treat cash game chips like tournament chips... I thought making the change from limit to NLH was apples to oranges, well, so is live cash verses tournament, where you have an infinite verses finite amount of chips to work with. On any given Friday night, people come to gamble in a cash game and they will call you down with ace high.. RAISE or FOLD- If you call, you are accepting someone else's odds. Doyle's Super System says AK is his best hand...because it's easy to let it go. It is after all, a drawing hand, not a made one. In position, I'll almost always make a continuation bet, if the flop is low ball, and hardly ever check. Being normal. I...
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Eating What You Kill Is So Money

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" Money can't buy happiness but it can buy chips which is kinda the same thing"- Ed Reif" The longest journey begins with a cash advance from the Bank of America" The Kung Fu Book of Caine Poker Without Money Is An Opinion-- Just busted out with Anna(looks good never wins!)...Here's my bad beat story... The sex of Poker is really a game of mistakes and the greatest one is rooted in pleasu re. The fine line we walk between success and self-destruction comes down to asking that one dirty (Harry) question rooted in the loner cop’s message of personal freedom, “Do you feel lucky? Wel l, do ya punk?” Poker is a game of situations. Winning poker is about making good decisions Feeling lucky and going to a casino is like feeling athletic and going to a sports bar. It’s a bad decision. It is the in to your sane, a kind of voluntary madness. The surest way of getting nothing from something. In Blackjack, there is always a correct decision,...
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Growth Hacks for The Rec Player ♠️♦️♣️♥️

Crypto: The Ultimate Bluff Economy

The "Bro Economy" is driven by day traders, crypto junkies, and sports bettors chasing volatile gains. Fueled by FOMO, they favor thrill over strategy—creating opportunities for those who can exploit the chaos.

The Cult of The Amateur

If you play a hand as if you could see your opponents' cards, they lose; if you don't, they gain.

Poker Rewards (Selective) Aggression

Risk is a Feature, Not a Bug: Mastering Uncertainty – just as innovation thrives on calculated risk. Knowing when to push forward and when to fold is the key to long-term success.

The Leap Strategy

Risk isn't chaos—it's clarity in disguise. Push boundaries, embrace the fallout, and refine your aim after every leap.

Building The Plane While Flying It

Fail Forward: The Art of Rapid Experimentation – Poker, like startups, is about building the plane while flying—making strategic moves, adjusting in real time, and learning from every hand dealt.

When Bad Things Happen To Good Starting Hands

Variance shapes vision. The best players don't just survive bad beats—they evolve through them.

Bad Beats Are Overhead; Chips, The Cost of Doing Business

Risk isn't part of the game; it IS the game. Losses are investments, and every chip in play is the price of staying in the game.

Mental Edge Ops ♣️♥️♠️♦️💡

The Odds of Thinking

Conventional Wisdom is a Bluff waiting To Be Called.

Set the Speed Limit – Fear Speeds Things Up

Your Brain's Bouncer-What Gets through The Velvet Rope?

Losing Holdem ASAP

Tilt isn't just a crack—it's a call to recalibrate. Master your mind, and watch the field unravel.

The IN To My Sane

The loop traps the unaware. Break patterns, bend probabilities, and redefine sanity in high-stakes play.

Outcome Independence Mindset

Thinking in bets means trading urgency for edge. Burn momentum on impulse, you lose. Stack it with patience, you scale.

Stop the Spiral

Feedback loops fuel losses. Cut the noise before the noise cuts your bankroll.

Radical Abundance: A Force Multiplier

Shift from managing limits to engineering limitless possibilities, and play not with scarcity, but with strategy, design, and vision.

Infinite Patience Brings Immediate Results

The more hands you win, the more money you lose: playing too many hands boosts short-term wins but increases risks that harm long-term profits.

Energy Shapes Strategy

Flow attracts focus. Bring intentional energy to your game, and watch your connections solidify.

ABC Poker

The Alphabet Crisis: Analog Poker In A Digital World

The Meta Stack ♣️♥️♦️♠️☁️

Rewire, Reignite

You Can't Teach An Old Dogma New Tricks. Conventional Wisdom is a Bluff waiting To Be Called.

Be the Glitch

Unpredictability isn't randomness—it's controlled chaos. Become a shadow in their playbook. Don't be the system—be the error

Tranquility Base: The Ego Has Landed

Read the tells. Control the ego. Summon your alter ego and play like you're not even from Earth. This is next-level poker.

Decision Science

Turn every guess into a calculated gamble. Probability doesn't just inform decisions—it dominates them.

Adapt to Dominate

Solvers shape the meta, but true mastery lies in adaptation. Stay sharp, stay evergreen.

ABC Poker: Risk Smart, Play Sharp

ABC poker is about controlled aggression—high stakes, but strict discipline.

Poker Courage: Micro Bravery

Courage isn't about grand gestures—it's about the small, decisive actions that build confidence and define champions.

Failure Is Data Not Drama

Turn setbacks into insights. Fail better, learn faster.

Wise And Otherwise: A Game Of Partial Information

There are exactly two things that determine how our lives turn out: the quality of our decisions and luck.

Night Vision: Playing in The Dark

Not having an expectation to win is liberating. Every search begins with beginner's luck.

Level-Up Lore ♦️♠️♥️♣️

Moonshots & Margins

Big ideas don't just need bankroll—they need fold equity. Think beyond limits, and scale with intention.

Luck Is Probability Taken Personally

We confuse luck with skill, misjudge outcomes, and fall for biases. Leverage setbacks, adjust strategies and use pressure as fuel for creative breakthroughs.

The Truth About Lying

Less "I" More Lie: Junk Words and The Secret Lives of Pronouns.

Range Craft

There are exactly two things that determine how our lives turn out: the quality of our decisions and luck.

The Loophole: Manufacturing Focus

Players follow mental "apps"—predictable patterns. Disrupting those gives you the real edge.

Gut vs Grid

Solvers crack numbers, but instincts crack aces. Trust what machines can't compute.

Cognitive Gravity Is Your Cryptonite

Put the SUPER in Superman. Take the Poker Crash Course For your Black Box 3 lb-Universe-Brain

GTO For The Feel Player

Beyond Opponents: It's Not About Them. It's About The Game Itself.