Years ago a psychologist named John Gottman ran a study on married couples and found that he could determine the likelihood of them staying together versus getting a divorce with over 90% accuracy. The key indicator? Blame and criticism. More accurately, it was the ratio of blame and criticism that the couples had in their …
This week’s topic: Two very different ways to show up to a poker game. The first, one we all know well: Agenda. Trying to “make it happen” by “focusing hard,” which generally leads to trying a little too hard, seeing things that aren’t really there, and making plays you would never advise a friend to …
I’ve been thinking a lot about a word Bootcampers use to describe how poker feels after they’ve been through the program: Smooth I kept asking myself, “What does “smooth” even feel like?” Then I remembered a game played on one of my favorite TV shows of all-time: MXC. I don’t know if you remember MXC …
Today I wanna tell you a story about a good friend of mine (Keith) who has one of the most successful careers of anyone I know. Keith’s a tough as nails businessman blessed with high intelligence, great people skills, and a keen intuition that allows him to pounce on opportunity after opportunity… Anyone would be …
There’s a metaphor I like to use as it relates to your poker journey: Imagine yourself as a factory. Instead of producing widgets on your assembly line, your product is putting together well played hand after well played hand. In the beginning, your factory is dark and musty and filled with sharp objects, cobwebs, and …
In episode #100 of Chasing Poker Greatness, Jason Koon dropped this Greatness Bomb squarely on your Coaches thick skull: “Once you kind of understand the way that poker, defense frequencies, and bluffing frequencies work… combos, side cards, blockers and all these things work. You just kind of start to see poker in a different light …
There’s this term that I heard a while back: Sneaky hot. It’s when you first meet someone and aren’t too wowed by their physical attractiveness, but then over time as you spend more time with them, you eventually start to see just how beautiful they are. From then on, every time you see them it’s …
Many years ago a very nice fellow reached out to me about private poker coaching. I was still in the process of “figuring out where all the buttons were” as it related to my coaching process but what I lacked in experience I more than made up for in sheer tenacity. If a student scheduled …
Today I wanna tell you a story that is based on true events: Sally Sitwell was by far the prettiest girl in the 9th grade and, much to Michael Bluth’s pleasure, they sat right next to each other in Algebra I. Everyday before school Michael would psych himself up because TODAY was THE day he’d …
Today I wanna tell you the behind-the-scenes story as to how my PokerCoaching crossover events with Jonathan Little came to pass and it all starts out with some controversy… The first controversy you’re probably very well aware of as it was a fairly public ordeal. Jonathan, at his most brazen and controversial, had the audacity …
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