🔥Rewiring Tilt Into Tactical Flow

Vegas Poker Trainer Vegas Brain Carousel

🎲 Got Tilt? Decisions, Luck, and the Power of Process

When your left brain masters communicating with your right brain: it's like Mr. Metrics teaming up with Mr. YOLO for the ultimate collaboration.

🎙️🎧 Presented by Ed Reif Audio

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🎲 Enter the Insane World Of Alan Keating

♠ Poker Doesn’t Think, and the Cards Have No Memory

“Hold’em is too random to be left up to chance. Yet, we attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness.”

Poker is a game of decisions, not outcomes. Tilt begins where logic ends.

💡 Improving Decisions, Not Chasing Results

Poker is not about winning every hand but excelling over time. You don’t play hands—you play ranges, process, and probability.

🎤 Karaoke Poker

ABC Emotional Players mimic what they've seen, not what they’ve processed. Sing the right song—or go silent.

📚 Egonomics 101

Loss Aversion: Players hate losing chips more than they love winning pots...
Anchoring: The first bet size you hear isn’t just a suggestion—it’s a trap.
Sunk Costs: “I’ve already put 80% of my stack into this pot...”
Overconfidence: “Everyone thinks they can outplay the table...”

🧠 Poker and Behavioral Biases Info Hub

1. What is the "Egonomics 101" concept in poker?

Egonomics 101 refers to the impact of mental biases on poker gameplay, from denial to distortion, and how they chip away at your edge.

2. How do "Flounders" differ from "Rounders" in poker?

Flounders approach poker as a game of chance. Rounders? They study, iterate, and fold with purpose. One floats, the other rows.

3. What is the significance of emotional return on investment (ROI) in poker?

Emotional ROI distinguishes professionals from gamblers. You don’t just invest chips—you invest confidence, clarity, and calm.

♠️ OJ Sim Trainer ♣️

Your Hand

J♠

10♠

The Situation

You're in the final table of a tournament with 6 players left. You have JT suited in the small blind.

Blinds: 6,000/12,000, Ante: 1,500

Your stack: 180,000 (15 big blinds)

The Action

Everyone folds to you in the small blind.

The big blind has 240,000 chips and is playing tight.

You're in the money, but there's a significant pay jump at each position.

The Decision

With JT suited in the small blind, you have a medium strength hand.

ICM pressure is significant at this final table.

What's your play?

Pro Tip

When facing ICM pressure, your decisions should be more conservative than in a regular chip EV situation. Consider how each action affects your tournament equity.

Your Hand

A♦

A♣

The Situation

You're playing $5/$10 No-Limit Hold'em cash game. You have pocket aces in middle position.

Your stack: $1,000

Table dynamics: Aggressive players to your left who 3-bet frequently.

The Action

First player folds, second player raises to $30.

It's your turn to act with your premium hand.

Players behind you are known for their aggressive play.

The Decision

With pocket aces, you have the nuts preflop.

How should you play to maximize value?

What's your optimal play here?

Pro Tip

When playing premium hands like pocket aces, balance protection against maximizing value. Your position and table dynamics should influence your sizing strategy.

Your Hand on the Button

9♦

8♦

UTG

BTN

The Situation

You're playing $1/$2 No-Limit Hold'em cash game with $200 effective stacks (100 big blinds).

You have 9♦8♦ on the button - a suited connector with position advantage.

The table is playing relatively tight with a mix of recreational players.

The Action

UTG limps for $2, MP folds, CO folds.

It's your action on the button with 9♦8♦.

Small blind and big blind players tend to defend their blinds often.

The Decision

The button is the most profitable position at the table.

Your suited connector has playability and draws potential.

How should you play this hand with position advantage?

Pro Tip

The button is poker's most profitable position. When playing suited connectors from the button, consider how your position advantage allows you to play more hands profitably and control the pot size on later streets.

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.