Do you ever just stare at an empty Google Doc desperately hoping to find enough inspiration to write a compelling VIP newsletter? Ya, me neither. Ignore the fact I’m about to lean on some past Bootcamp Recruit testimonials for the rest of your newsletter today. Past Recruits have said stuff like: “I stopped playing online …
Today I wanna talk to you about reality. You probably remember the famous scene from the Matrix where Morpheus asks Neo if he wants to take the Red Pill (so that he could see the Truth of reality) or the Blue Pill (so that he could continue to see the world as he has always …
Today I wanna talk to you about priorities and how they can make you or break you. And I’m gonna start with a basketball story. Of all the basketball fundamentals, which one do you think Young Coach Brad spent the most time working on? It was dribbling and it wasn’t even close. Why? Because I …
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It’s been two weeks since my last newsletter and I’m so fired up I am burning. Today I’m gonna share with you an experience I had at my first PokerCoaching.com webinar that was titled “The Learning Path”. Near the end of the presentation I gave out homework on how to go about tracking your progression …
People want to measure intelligence by things like standardized tests, total amount of knowledge, or aptitude in specific skills. But it’s all nonsense. People equate “smart” with knowing the answer, when in reality that matters so much less than getting the answer. A big, important distinction. The “smartest” people I know are given that label …
Two guys with tons of presence: Garrett Adelstein and Dan Zack. Both these guys are absolute killers at the table, and both have their opponents twisted in knots at the thought of having to make a tough decision against them when deep-stacked. And they do it in completely different ways. Garrett is physically imposing, talkative, …
A dude I used to play cards with who worked at UPS told me a really funny story I wanna share with you. Apparently it’s tough to get fired from UPS because of their union but one guy, against all odds, managed to pull it off beautifully. His boss walked up on him while he …
If you’ve seen the movie Forrest Gump, you know that Forrest wasn’t the world’s smartest man, but he did end up becoming one of the world’s wealthiest. How did this fictional man of far below average IQ accrue so much money? On the surface it might look like a case of “right place at the …
Today I wanna talk to you about new beginnings. A few weeks back I sent you an email detailing my vision for Chasing Poker Greatness and it’s turned into one of my most popular and received email newsletters of all time. To tell you the truth, I was afraid to send it out because it …
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Today I wanna talk to you about opportunity. In 2012 forty-eight souls ponied up $1 million apiece for a chance to win the MOAHR (mother-of-all-high-rollers). In my 16 years of playing poker professionally, I’ve never experienced anything like the reactions to the One Drop. It went down during my “living in Commerce” phase and I …
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