This week’s topic: The “results oriented” trap. You might think I’m about to tell you to stop being results oriented. I’m not. The trap isn’t that you’re results oriented–it’s that you think telling yourself not to be that way will solve your mental game problems. It’s great advice, there’s just one huge step missing: How …
“Whoa, that’s weird. I wonder who all those security guards are after?”, I thought to myself. Imagine my surprise when I learned they had come for me. What a weird time in my life. I was great friends with a billionaire, was living in a Hollywood apartment with the Mistress, and am pretty confident I …
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Dear VIP, In every card room across the United States there lives an ancient, mythical, and critically threatened creature: Old Man Coffee (OMC) OMC has shown up to play cards through 6 different presidents, three wives, and four wars. When Ronald Reagan famously said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” OMC watched history being made …
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Ricky Gervais’s pranks need a warning label: For professional use only. Because if you try to steal one they can go horribly, horribly wrong. Last year my wife and I were watching one of Ricky’s stand-up specials where he talked about how he would sometimes send his mom postcards with no return address that read: …
For a highly intelligent man Berkey has made one extremely poor decision. Don’t get me wrong – his one bad choice is a million times better than my bad choices but that let’s not focus on that. Let’s focus on the fact that you shouldn’t even know who Matt Berkey is. He spent the majority …
Big topic this week: Finding your “why.” In my book, Poker with Presence, (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088CQDTM9) I wrote about the importance of connecting deeply with the most important reasons why you play this game. It could be money, camaraderie, or anything else. But either way, you’ve got to find it. If you don’t, this game will chew …
Metaphorically speaking of course, VIP. Put your shot glass down, poker-town-drunks DGAF and Sean Snyder haven’t turned me full Dark Side yet. Earlier this week I had high stakes mixed-game pro Melissa Burr on the pod and she dropped a MOAGB (Mother of All Greatness Bombs) right on your favorite podcast host’s cranium. She actually …
Dear VIP, CPG guest and self-professed “Mediocre Poker Coach” Carlos Welch and I recorded a Round 2 episode this past week, and he told an amazing story. If you listened to the first episode, you’ll know Carlos is known far and wide for traveling around the USA playing cards and living out of his car. …
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Dear VIP, The gloves are off. Shots have been fired. Poker’s most noble hero has done the community a grave disservice. Years ago Phil Galfond worked the poker world into a frenzy by announcing he was going to try his hand at creating a poker platform. A poker platform where every type of player would …
Yesterday Jason Koon tweeted: “If had to pick a novice poker player to coach I would take someone who’s naturally aggressive over someone naturally passive. My guess is almost every great player at some point in their evolution was way too nuts. In order to know the boundaries you have to test them.” Sound familiar? …
