There Is No Limit Like No Limit

Live At The Bike OVER AND OUT! ---The Bicycle Casino Tonight With Jamie Gold, 2006 WSOP Champion. "Since you didn't write a book yet," I told him, "the only thing I can imitate about your game is the Blueberries". (He ate them constantly during the World Series, and credits them with his win--because they are a super "brain food" Leaving Las Vegan I bought 4 pints of Blueberries, before I went to play poker and channeled Jamie! I had no idea he would be playing last night so it was a "meaningful coincidence" or was I Being Fooled By Randomness again....the architecture of my own brain that thinks things are happening by chance when they are actually happening by design. I got to talk story with The Oracle, Jamie Gold , and yes he does possess Christ-like healing powers. I could care less if I ever played cash games again. The chip swings are too huge. Just Like I left Las Vegan , and started eating egg whites again (that's chick...

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you want! Brick walls are there for a reason - they let us prove how badly we want things. Play the Hand that you're dealt. I wish I had said these things, but Randy Pausch, did; the Carnegie Mellon Prof who died two weeks ago at 47 to cancer. Here's his last lecture, made famous by You tube: (His last words are 76 minutes long! so even if you watch just a bit of it, you'll be inspired) Here are the "Cliff Notes" Always have fun Dream big Ask for what you want Dare to take a risk Look for the best in everybody Make time for what matters Let kids be themselves "How do you get people to help you? By telling the truth. Being earnest. I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term." * "Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself. How do I make a concrete example of that? See, yesterday was my wife...

A good poker player is like a good QB. The Quarterback uses "the facts" before him to make adjustments, but sometimes the decision to " call an audible " is based on a "gut feel" for the situation. Some of the greatest plays ever have resulted from the QB calling an audible and changing the play. Poker is a game of incomplete information, a game of situations. Q B's are skilled at r eading situations and being able to change plans "on the fly" in real time, under great stress. Playing Poker When You Are short-stacked: The Hail Mary Flutie's Miracle in Miami Mistaken Agenda raises the risk of getting nothing over the possibility of a windfall! Winning in this way also has a way of turning money into problems. See an episode of THS Investigates: Curse of the Lottery! Been there. Done That. Rockstar Poker: When you lose, you lose money, and when you win, you lose the value of money. Thinking is something that we do, not some...

Your Brain on Poker Your Brain On Poker and Decision Your bankroll increases when the LEFT brain gets good at telling the RIGHT brain what to do. How does it help to know that you're literally "of two minds"? The Limbic RIGHT and Analytic LEFT. "My brain made me re-buy!" The one lives in the United States of unconsciousness —on insta-call and auto-pilot. The other lives in Singapore, a happy dictatorship of rules and reason. So what should our nervous system do? Analysis is Paralysis Think Long. Think Wrong. The money-making potential of this idea in your game should not be underestimated. Your bankroll increases when the left brain gets good at telling the right brain what to do. If you can name your demon, you have a chance to banish it. What motivates you to call or fold, or go all in—fear, or disgust? What inspires you—the desire to gain something new and exciting—or maybe you just have the st...