Decision Science

The Poker Lobotomy — First Five Episodes The Poker Lobotomy • Series Map The First Five Five quiet-ASMR lessons for learning to make better poker decisions when information is incomplete, outcomes are uncertain, and emotion wants a vote. Series: The Poker Lobotomy Format: Learn Poker in Your Sleep By: Ed Reif Featured podcast playlist: The Poker Lobotomy — the first five quiet-asmr poker decision sessions. Open Full YouTube Playlist What This Series Is The Poker Lobotomy uses poker as a laboratory for decision quality under uncertainty . Each episode isolates one failure mode, strips away the drama, and replaces it with a repeatable decision protocol. The point is not to eliminate emotion. The point is to stop emotion from rewriting the evidence. Poker is the laboratory. Judgment is the subject. The next decision is the product. The series grows out of the ideas in Luck Is Probability Taken Personally and The Asymmetrical Life . The recurring question is simple: what deserves ...

Failure Is Data, Not Drama | The Poker Lobotomy 005 The Poker Lobotomy • Episode 005 • By Ed Reif Failure Is Data, Not Drama Learn Poker in Your Sleep. A quiet-hour lesson in separating decision quality from outcome, reading failure as evidence, and updating the model without letting the river rewrite the hand. Series: The Poker Lobotomy Format: Pre-Sleep Poker Learning Author: Ed Reif Watch Episode 005 — Failure Is Data, Not Drama on YouTube. I’ve been building something new at the intersection of poker, decision science, mental rehearsal and pre-sleep learning . It’s called The Poker Lobotomy — Learn Poker in Your Sleep. The idea is simple: take the noisy parts of poker—tilt, variance, impatience, bad outcomes and overconfidence—and turn them into calm, repeatable decision protocols that can be listened to at night. This is not casino hy...

The Poker Lobotomy 004 — GTO for the Feel Player Episode 004 • Learn Poker in Your Sleep GTO for the Feel Player Theory is not a prison. It is a baseline. Start with the model. Then make the table earn every deviation. Episode: 004 Theme: Baseline / Evidence / Deviation Series: The Poker Lobotomy Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5V30Aols1zo The Problem Some players trust the solver. Some players trust the room. The mistake is believing you must choose one. Pure instinct can become autobiography disguised as strategy. Pure theory can become obedience without observation. The stronger approach is simpler: use theory to establish the default, then use evidence to earn the deviation. GTO is the baseline. Feel is the sensor. Evidence decides whether you move. The feel player already notices timing, discomfort, rhythm, sizing, hesitation, speed, confidence and table energy. The upgrade is not to kill that instinct. It is to stop giving every ...

The Poker Lobotomy 003 — Infinite Patience Episode 003 • Learn Poker in Your Sleep Infinite Patience Patience is not doing nothing. It is refusing to spend attention, chips or emotion before the evidence earns the action. Episode: 003 Theme: Patience / Selectivity / Timing Series: The Poker Lobotomy Episode 003 — Infinite Patience • Watch on YouTube The Problem Poker creates a dangerous illusion: because you are sitting at the table, you should be doing something . You fold. You wait. You fold again. Nothing appears to happen. Then boredom begins negotiating with judgment. You widen a range because you have been quiet. You call because you are tired of folding. You manufacture action because stillness feels like losing. The absence of action is not the absence of work. Infinite patience means staying mentally active while remaining behaviorally selective. You are watching frequencies, sizing, timing, position, emotional shifts and table t...

The Poker Lobotomy 002 — Stop the Spiral Episode 002 • Learn Poker in Your Sleep Stop the Spiral Tilt begins when one event becomes a story, the story becomes a state, and the state starts making the next decision. Episode: 002 Theme: Tilt / Emotional Contamination Series: The Poker Lobotomy Episode 002 — Stop the Spiral. Share link: https://youtu.be/cTetUtr1Tk4 The Problem Tilt is not just anger. It is decision contamination . One hand reaches forward and changes the next hand before the cards have earned that influence. A loss becomes a verdict. A bad beat becomes a prediction. A prediction becomes urgency. Urgency becomes action. Did the field change… or did I? That question creates separation. It slows the decision before speeding the action. It puts the evidence back in front of the emotion. Episode Doctrine Interrupt the sequence. Do not let one event become the operating environment. Separate event from story. The cards are facts. The meaning you attach to them is a mode...

The Poker Lobotomy — New Series Announcement New Series • By Ed Reif The Poker Lobotomy Learn Poker in Your Sleep. ASMR, decision science, tilt, variance and mental rehearsal for the quiet hours. Series: The Poker Lobotomy Format: Pre-Sleep Poker Learning Author: Ed Reif Watch the series introduction / Episode 001 on YouTube. I’ve been building something new at the intersection of poker, decision science, mental rehearsal and pre-sleep learning . It’s called The Poker Lobotomy — Learn Poker in Your Sleep. The idea is simple: take the noisy parts of poker—tilt, variance, impatience, bad outcomes and overconfidence—and turn them into calm, repeatable decision protocols that can be listened to at night. This is not casino hype. It is not bad-beat theater. And it is not another collection of hand charts. It is a series about decision quality u...

The Asymmetrical Life | A Five-Book Series by Ed Reif See full image Ed Reif | Five-Book Series The Asymmetrical Life The Asymmetrical Life is a series about making better decisions when the future refuses to cooperate. Using poker, decision science, behavioral economics, and real-world experience, Ed Reif explores how to protect the downside, improve the odds, preserve optionality, and stay positioned for outsized upside. You cannot control the cards, but you can design the bet. These books are practical operating systems for uncertainty - built to help you think more clearly, risk more intelligently, and create a life where heads you win a lot, and tails you lose a little. View the Series on Amazon Explore the Five Books Opening Audio The Brief By Ed Reif ...