February 14, 2013 Leave a Comment
We’re a species that mass produces individual variety.
One of the most unbelievably beautiful things is that each and every single human on this organic spaceship is different in extraordinary ways. Each and every day, I think about how I am standing on a rock that is spinning at ridiculous speeds barreling through space and the vastness of the infinite universe. Read more of this post
March 12, 2012 4 Comments
I have felt this way for a long time about the education system, especially how the education system in America limits children in their creativity.
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January 11, 2012 5 Comments
Just Like The Shirt Says!
One of the biggest things you can do right now to immediately improve your life and productivity is to GET ORGANIZED.
Organization makes doing things a lot easier. You will know exactly where everything is and you can work more efficiently and effectively.
Put it this way, if you already think you are organized, there is someone out there who is more organized.
Get organized to the point where people are actually disgusted and repulsed at how organized you are.
Once you reach that stage, you know you are going to be able to work at 100% of your potential.
Being organized is not just moving a few things around on your desk. It involves organizing EVERY ASPECT of your life. If you find yourself constantly searching for things and locating where you left something, you are wasting time that can be dedicated to improving your own success.
Think of all the time you waste looking for where your keys are, where you put that last thing you bought, and where the fuck you left the remote.
How much time would you save if you organized everything to the point where you knew EXACTLY where to look for it instantly without hesitation?
It really isn’t hard.
Create a system of organization for yourself based on your personal lifestyle.
Everyone is different.
What works for one person will be totally different for another.
The best step to stop forgetting where things are initially is to WRITE THINGS DOWN.
When you write something down, you can never forget it. Unless of course, you forget where you left the piece of paper. Sucks to be you and that unorganized.
Start working at it!
It really isn’t that hard to get organized and requires minimal time to organize a few things. After you organize certain aspects of your life, you will want to organize everything else because you will realize how much time it is saving you during the workday.
Being Unorgazined Creates Stress!
To sum it up, being organized:
1. Reduces stress of not realizing where you left things
2. Makes you more efficient
3. Makes you more productive
4. Makes it easier to manage your time
5. Creates a clean work environment that is comfortable to work in
I think #5 is of utmost importance to me.
I love being in a comfortable environment. It makes it so much easier to work and get things done when I am relaxed.
If you have ever met me personally, you already know how I operate. I know EXACTLY where everything is that I need instantly and my room and work station area is SPARKLING CLEAN.
I can’t operate in any other environment anymore until I make it so disgustingly organized that people are repulsed by my work ethic and organization skills! 
January 8, 2012 1 Comment
The main problem that arises for many people in the area of self-development is that they feel at effect to their current condition rather than working courageously to AFFECT their current reality.
Many of us feel effected by outside external circumstances instead of deciding to AFFECT them. When you choose to affect your current state of reality, you can reap the rewards effectively.
The universe will deliver whatever you want, you just have to set out your intentions and work towards creating them. You set your intention, and the universe will respond to your thoughts by guiding you along the way as you consciously create.
Subconsciously, without you knowing the exact way, the universe will do its work if you allow it to.
Create Your Own Reality.
Nothing is going to fall in your lap.
If your intention is to earn $1,000,000 dollars, it is not going to fall from the sky.
If you stick to your intention everyday and work at it as hard as you can, the universe will open up channels of opportunities to make your thoughts a physical reality. If for one second you don’t trust in the universe, it will respond to that distrust, and close up the channels.
You will face setbacks along the way, but treat those as learning experiences rather than failures. If you get upset over failing, the universe will tune into that frequency you are vibrating in, and attract more and more failure and discontent.
You have to know that it will not be easy to change your current state of reality.
If it was easy, you would already have what you want.
But most of us don’t, right?
It wouldn’t require any effort on your part, and everyone would have what they want.
It doesn’t work that way, but if you understand the Law of Attraction, you can use it to your advantage on your creative journey of life.
You are the master creator of your reality.
You are the manifester.
You are the alchemist of your own life.
Everything you create has stemmed from yourself.
Everyone else is simply an avatar in your reality, they don’t have to exist in it if you don’t want them to.
You can turn away from people who negatively effect you, and turn towards the positive people who can help you and embrace the entire experience with you.
You have the conscious choice.
There is no one telling you a certain way to act unless you are WEAK and give into the desires of others for their advantage.
Be STRONG and overcome the influence of others if it is guiding you in a wrong direction. You subconsciously know what is right and what is wrong, but too many times you might fall into the trap of doing the wrong thing.
The “right” thing is spreading positive energy and positive ideas to every single person or “avatar” you meet in your reality.
If you try to impose positive energy into other people’s lives, they will respond equally with positive energy.
If they are stuck in a rut of negativity and don’t respond well to positive energy, you can just let them suffer by themselves and consciously find other people to help you on your trip.
If you treat everyone you meet as you would like to be treated yourself, you will be amazed at the results.
Most people will return the energy you project on to them and help you as you help them.
It works hand in hand.
Two minds are better than one and two people working towards achieving a goal is a lot easier than one.
If you have big dreams and goals, don’t feel alone.
A lot of us have deep desires that we wish we could achieve, but we limit ourselves in our beliefs. There are many people out in this world who would love to help you and join team as you both work towards building a great future.
Don’t feel isolated because you don’t think anyone else will help.
If you can inspire people to think the same way you do, they will join your team and the goals will be easier to achieve.
If I thought no one would appreciate this website and what we have done, I would not have even bothered to create it.
It has become what it has become due to a TEAM effort of conscious individuals looking to grow and prosper and share those ideals with everyone who is interested in growing themselves.
If I for one second was fearful of what people thought of us, I wouldn’t have even bothered to create this.
I would have let the fear take over and I would be too scared to even try it.
Good thing that didn’t happen.
If I can leave you with one thought, it would be to stop thinking about what you want and START ACTING ON IT.
Stop dwelling on what you DON’T want and start moving towards what you DO WANT.
TAKE ACTION!
Stop being lazy, and stop expecting things to happen overnight.
They won’t.
Take baby steps and set baby goals at the beginning of your journey.
It will be easy to achieve these goals, and you will build confidence in yourself once you achieve some little steps.
After that, you will trust in yourself that you can achieve ANYTHING you set your mind to.
This is where its gets to be A LOT OF FUN.
Share the experience with everyone you think deserves it, and you will attract some more positive opportunities and people along the way.
We did, and we continue to each day.
So what are you waiting for?
GET MOVING!
January 6, 2012 8 Comments
Your Poker Bankroll: Manage it, or Lose it.
In poker, you have one lifeline, your bankroll.
Without it, you can’t buy into any tournaments or cash games.
For this reason, the most important thing as a poker player is to protect your life. Protect your money by learning how to manage it correctly.
The basic rule of thumb in bankroll management is to not put more than 5% of your entire bankroll into a cash game or single table sit n go. For multi-table tournaments, you should not be putting more than 1-2% of your roll on the line for a buy-in.
Under these rules, if you have a bankroll of $10,000, you should not be buying in to any cash game for over $500 and no tournament over $100.
At times, there will be opportunities to stretch these limits slightly but only if the games are VERY JUICY and you know you have an advantage.
Even having an advantage in a game doesn’t GUARANTEE that you will win. Luck is always a factor in poker and if you get unlucky, it can take a huge chunk out of your roll that you will slowly have to rebuild.
I will take shots in multi-table tournaments for up to 5% of my roll if I see that the player list is very weak. I want to invest in games I know I have the opportunity to make a lot of return on my investment.
The downfall of a lot of successful players is not managing their roll correctly. They hit a big score in a tournament and then dump it off in the cash games. Keep in mind, as the stakes get higher, the competition gets better.
I use a program called PokerTracker 3 to track all of my winnings and statistics of each of my individual opponents at the tables.
With PokerTracker, I can see how much I have won/lost at a certain stakes so I can determine my long term average win rate. If you are not beating a certain stakes after 10,000 hands, you will probably never beat it until you improve your game.
Find the stake that nets you the best return, and stick to it to build your roll.
You will lose money and win money on any given day depending on a variety of factors. ALWAYS manage your roll and make sure you are playing your A+ game or don’t bother sitting down. If you are not in the right mental state, YOU WILL LOSE MONEY, and losing money causes a lot of people to LOSE EVEN MORE MONEY. They like to chase their losses hoping to win their money back and in the process, rip their entire roll to shreds.
INCORRECTLY Manages a Bankroll
Just ask Viktor “Isilidur1″ Blom about bankroll management. This gentlemen might be one of the top 5 No Limit Hold’em players in the world, but he simply cannot manage a bankroll.
I am sure he is being staked and he makes some money from his Pokerstars sponsorship, but he is the complete opposite of an example of how to manage a bankroll!
Blom has won $5,000,000 in a week, then lost it all the next.
He is a complete sicko, but that is what separates him from the others at the high stakes.
His problem like many others is TILT.
He goes on big winning streaks, but can’t cut off his losing streaks.
He is only 21 years old, so I don’t blame him.
It must be tough being a millionaire at his age!
If you are serious about developing your game, I suggest checking out some of my other articles I have written:
The Poker Trance: The Ultimate Poker Mindset
Top 10 Reasons You Should Play Poker
Top 5 Reasons You Lose at Poker
My Multi-Table Tournament Strategy
Booking The Win at Final Tables
The $3,000 Guarantee Final Table Takedown
Top 5 Heads-Up No-Limit Cash-Game Strategies
How to Develop Into a LAG (Loose-Aggressive) Player
My Most Profitable Session of Online Poker
Using a Rubberband To Squash Negative Thinking Patterns
Good luck at the tables! 
January 6, 2012 8 Comments
I have been wanting to do this post for a while and share what I use to do some of my writing and blog posts.
Here are my top 5 tools and instruments for writing!
Music is a Must.
1. Music
Music is an absolute must when I am writing.
I need to have something to have my mind flowing and in a positive state. This is easily achieved through putting on my Bose AE-2 headphones on full volume and tuning out of the outside world. It gives my mind a chance to go completely nuts and spit out anything that I have stored in the back of it.
The type of music doesn’t matter.
What matters is that you enjoy the music and it is putting you in a good mood. When I am in a good positive mood and writing, it doesn’t feel like I am writing, it is more a flow state of my fingers hitting the keys and words being produced in a well structured fashion.
If you don’t feel like that when you are writing, you are not writing in a state of your full potential.
Blast some music and just have at it. Don’t expect anything.
Just write.
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2. Coffee
I need some stimulation to get all of my thoughts out quick and easy.
Coffee is a big help due to the caffeine contained in coffee.
I choose coffee because I like the taste and the hot temperature tends to wake my brain up.
Caffeine releases dopamine in your brain which gives you more motivation, focus and drive.
I take a lot of other supplements as well.
For my full list read: The Ultimate Supplement Stack.
Free Your Mind.
3. Meditation
Meditating right before I write lets me explore every single angle of what I am about to write about.
It is a great feedback method and a way to formulate my thoughts before I sit down to pound them out.
I have a lot of articles written on meditation if you would like to explore the amazing practice:
Top 5 Reasons You Don’t Meditate
Top 5 Reasons You Should Meditate
The Seven Human Energy Chakras
How to Crack Your Intuitive Third-Eye Chakra
The Power of The Subconscious Mind
The Power of Positive Thinking
4. Marijuana
Marijuana: Hey at Least its Not Meth Either.
The ultimate creativity tool.
If you have any objection to pot, and you believe it is a harmful substance, you have been misinformed and lied to.
It simply isn’t.
I am not going to lie, a majority of this site and my writing was created and written while under the influence of marijuana.
I guess it makes me lazy and not want to do anything…
I even work out on pot.
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I hope you try some of my tools and ideas out and give writing a shot if you aren’t already interested in it.
It is a great way to release your thoughts, express yourself, and share what you have to say with the world.
I am going to keep doing it, and I encourage you to as well!
January 4, 2012 8 Comments
WHAT IS A PANIC ATTACK?
Panic Attack!
A panic attack is a period of intense fear and worry that a person experiences with or with out an identified trigger that appears to come out of nowhere.
A panic attack usually does not last for more than 10 minutes.
People who have experienced a panic attack at some point in their lives have described it as the most terrifying and uncomfortable situation they have ever been in, especially if the person was having a panic attack in a public/social situation.
More times than not, panic attacks are mistaken for heart attacks and many people rush to the ER for medical attention. People usually are diagnosed with panic attacks when the doctors find absolutely nothing wrong with them. It takes a lot of time for most people to accept that what they experienced was “just” a panic attack because of how intense the feeling could be.
A panic attack can be seen as some kind of a “glitch” in our autonomic nervous system which is responsible to send a general “alarm” to our bodies to either “fight or flight” when we are in a dangerous situation. People who experience panic attacks may have an over sensitive or hyper-reactive autonomic nervous system.
TWO TYPES OF FEARS:
During a panic attack a person will experience two types of fears.
The primary fear is the initial and physical experience of pure panic; racing heart, interrupted breathing, sweating, etc.
SYMPTOMS THAT COMMONLY OCCUR DURING A PANIC ATTACK:
1.) Numbness/tingling sensations
2.) Dizziness,faintness, difficulty balancing
3.) Racing and/or Pounding heart
4.) Chest Tightness
5.) Sweating
6.) Shaking
7.) Hot Flashes
8.) Feeling unreal or as if you’re in a dream
9.) Nausea or abdominal discomfort
10.) Shortness of breath
11.) Fear of dying
12.) Fear of “losing it”
13.) Fear of losing control
14.) Intense need to flee or escape
The secondary fear are the thoughts that follow these physical sensations a person experiences during a panic attack.
THE CYCLE:
Treating individuals who experience panic attacks and a variety of different anxiety disorders, I’ve come to learn that addressing the secondary fears (thoughts) first have been extremely helpful in decreasing the intensity of the attacks. Let’s take a look at some of the very common false beliefs and thoughts that most people have during panic attacks.
“I’m going to stop breathing”
“I’m going to pass out”
“I’m going crazy”
“I’m going to embarrass myself”
“I’m going to fall”
I’m going to have a heart attack”
“I’m going to die”
These thoughts and internal dialogue will only intensify your panic attack, so cut it out!
Not so easy right?
Well here are some facts about panic attacks that may help you negate these thoughts and help you kick panic attacks in the ass.
MYTH BUSTING!
Busted!
You will NOT suffocate because of a panic attack:
When distressed, your body tends to tighten the muscles, and that includes your neck and chest muscles which reduces the extent of your respiratory function. This does not mean there is anything wrong with your lungs or breathing at all. If you are not taking in enough oxygen, your brain will utilize it’s built in mechanism to force you to take deeper breaths or gasp. Yes, the feeling of suffocating IS NOT PLEASANT, but trust that you will not actually suffocate. There are no recorded deaths of suffocation during panic attacks
You will NOT faint because of a panic attack- Due to hyperventilation, (fast,fast breathing) during a panic attack, you may feel light headed which may give off the impression that you are going to faint. NO! Your blood circulation to your brain has slightly decreased. This is far from deadly. Allow the light-headed feelings to diminish, they will with time, along with slowed breathing.
Guess what!!? During a panic attack your heart is beating a little quicker; people usually faint when their hearts slow down.
So Much Panic!
You will NOT fall during a panic attack:
Sometimes you may feel as if your legs are too weak to hold your body which triggers the thoughts “I’m going to fall”, which then leads to “I’m going to embarrass myself or get hurt”.
Adrenaline is released during a panic attack which sometimes causes dilation in blood vessels in your legs. This feeling is JUST a feeling. Your legs are not actually weaker, they are just as strong as they were before the panic attack.
You will NOT go CRAZY during a panic attack:
A common reaction to rapid breathing is the sensation of feeling “not in reality”. Again, this is JUST a sensation. If you experience a feeling of disorientation or “dream like”, tell yourself that this is just a reaction to a change in your breathing. People do not go crazy from a panic attack. Mental illnesses are complex and usually progress slowly over time. There are no recorded “psychosis” due to a panic attack.
Stay Strong!
You will NOT have a heart attack during a panic attack- A healthy and strong heart can beat 200 beats per minute for as long as several weeks without a problem! Your heart can withstand a lot more than you think it can. There is a MAJOR difference between what your heart feels like during a panic attack and during a true heart attack.
THE DIFFERENCES:
During a panic attack your heart may pound and beat more rapidly and sometimes people complain of some pain. This pain quickly subsides.
During a true heart attack, there is much more consistent pain involved and intense pressure against the chest. This pain gets worse and worse.
EKG research indicates that during a panic attack, there are no abnormalities in the heart other than rapid beating. EKG tests indicates quite a few abnormalities in the heart during a heart attack.
APPLYING IT:
Now that you have learned a little more about the realities of panic attacks, try to replace your catastrophic thoughts with your knew FACTUAL knowledge. You are not going to die from a panic attack. Yes, they are scary, traumatic, and serve as interruptions in the lives of many, but don’t give them THAT much credit.
You may tell yourself, even after learning and knowing all of this, that during your next panic attack, that this one is different. you may tell yourself, “This time it’s really a heart attack.”
Well now you will know that that is one of the most common thoughts people have during panic attacks.
A last piece of advice- Embrace the symptoms. The more you try to avoid these symptoms, such as isolating yourself, constantly seeking medical attention, avoiding walking,talking and just being during a panic attack, the more you will reinforce your false beliefs that they are dangerous. You are stronger than a panic attack. Laugh at it. Millions of people experience panic attacks.
THERE ARE NO RECORDED DEATHS DUE TO PANIC ATTACKS!
You will NOT go CRAZY during a panic attack:
A common reaction to rapid breathing is the sensation of feeling “not in reality”.
Again, this is JUST a sensation. If you experience a feeling of disorientation or “dream like”, tell yourself that this is just a reaction to a change in your breathing. People do not go crazy from a panic attack. Mental illnesses are complex and usually progress slowly over time. There are no recorded “psychosis cases” due to a panic attack.
You will NOT have a heart attack during a panic attack- A healthy and strong heart can beat 200 beats per minute for as long as several weeks without a problem! Your heart can withstand a lot more than you think it can. There is a MAJOR difference between what your heart feels like during a panic attack and during a true heart attack.
ATHLETES WOULD BE DROPPING DEAD:
If our hearts could not sustain some rapid beating once in a while, don’t you think athletes would be dropping to the floor left and right?
You may tell yourself, even after learning and knowing all of this, that during your next panic attack, that this one is different. you may tell yourself, “This time it’s really a heart attack”. Well now you will know that that is one of the most common thoughts people have during panic attacks.
A last piece of advice- Embrace the symptoms. The more you try to avoid these symptoms, such as isolating yourself, constantly seeking medical attention, avoiding walking,talking and just being during a panic attack, the more you will reinforce your false beliefs that they are dangerous. You are stronger than a panic attack. Laugh at it. Millions of people experience panic attacks every day.
No One Dies From Panic Attacks!
THERE ARE NO RECORDED DEATHS DUE TO PANIC ATTACKS.
January 2, 2012 16 Comments
Please come assassinate me.
I am spreading truth and positivity too fast, I need to be stopped.
You have done it in the past, so why not do it again right?
You killed Kennedy because he foiled your plans to fake terrorist attacks on Americans by vetoing the bill your Joint Chiefs of Staff approved.
Never heard of Operation Northwoods? Read this article.
How about just hiring a hooker to lure me back to a house where you can do experiments with psychedelics on me.
Never heard of Operation Midnight Climax? Read this article.
God Bless America? God Bless Truth, not Propaganda.
It is pathetic how you get away with so many things that people have no idea about.
Even if they knew about it, they probably wouldn’t believe it anyway because you cover it up so well.
Thanks to the internet, I have learned all of your secrets and plan on infecting everyone with this knowledge.
It is even more pathetic that you have been doing this throughout history, and have made people believe that your actions are for the benefit of society as a whole.
You have constantly brainwashed your own citizens to believe a certain way.
You control the media, and most people will believe anything they see on television and read in the newspapers.
You create depression and make people depressed, then conveniently sell the cure for it in the form of anti-depressants. 115,000,000 suckers each year. No wonder pot needs to be illegal. You would be out of business if it wasn’t.
I know it is.
I wish I had your power so I could do the complete opposite.
So like I said, please take me and my crew down, we are going to go right ahead and change the world if you don’t.
I am willing to die spreading truth. It is the only thing that matters in this crazy world.
December 25, 2011 10 Comments
Steve Jobs, one of the most successful and creative innovators of the century was….a hippy?
Wait…what?
Yes, you heard that correctly.
Steve was a big tripper and he attributes a lot of his creativity and innovative powers to psychedelics.
Steve was also big into zen meditation.
Steve says taking LSD was one of the “most important things of his life.”
Steve Jobs: The Billion Dollar Hippy
Wow!
Now if you have been conditioned to believe that psychedelics are harmful and make people go crazy, this may seem a little nuts.
However, if you have done some independent research on psychedelics and maybe experimented yourself, you probably have realized already that all the propaganda that has been flooded into your brain is completely false.
Why is this?
It is because our government can’t have millions of people like Steve Jobs wandering it’s streets because they would have already been out of power.
I invite you today to sit down and watch this documentary that BBC has put together on Steve.
It is one of the best documentaries I have seen to date, and is certainly worth the hour of your time.
November 18, 2011 16 Comments
10. Poker develops your patience:
Sitting in a live game only getting 20-30 hands per hour can be very boring if you aren’t getting good cards. Developing a strong poker mindset can make you a very patient person.
Being impatient at the tables leads to mistakes and mistakes cost money. There will be times where I click the fold button 100 times in a row and there will be times where I am playing AA KK AK and QQ on 4 different tables.
Focus on staying patient then capitalizing on big hands when they eventually come. The best players in the world and the worst players in the world get dealt the same amount of good and bad hands. The winning players separate themselves from the losers by staying patient and waiting for good hands and spots to take pots away from opponents.
9.Poker develops your discipline:
Folding top pair is something very mediocre players have trouble doing. Building your discipline to fold top pair when faced with a re-re-raise by a tight aggressive player is something you need to develop to be successful.
I see too many players lose their entire stack with top pair because they cant get away from it. It can be difficult when you haven’t had many hands in the last few hours and now have a hand that seems very good but may be second best.
In order to succeed and profit nicely from this game, you have to be disciplined enough to get away from a hand when you know you are beat.
8.Poker develops your creativity:
An important aspect of winning at the tables is out-thinking smart opponents. At times, very tricky and creative plays are going to be a necessity to win money.
If your not creative, you are predictable, and even more vulnerable to having your chips taken because other players will know what you have and adjust accordingly.
You have to realize how other players are playing against you and develop a constantly adjusting strategy to counter their every move. You simply cannot play a robotic style without adjusting your game if you want to profit from this game.
7. Poker develops your math skills:
Most people suck at math and they know it.
In order to become good at poker, you need to do basic math on the fly almost automatically. When I am 24 tabling, the math I do in my head is automatic and I can calculate odds without even thinking about it consciously.
I have seen so many situations over and over again that I already instinctively know what the odds are that my hand will hold up.
Math is everywhere, its not going anywhere, and there is no reason to not develop math based logic.
6. Poker develops your power of observation:
There is so much that goes on in a single hand for such a simple game it can get very mind boggling.
Even when not currently in a hand, keen observation skills are a must to play at an extremely high level. Recognizing tells and opponents tendencies are essential for making proper decisions at the tables. I once observed in a live game the players hole cards to my left 135 different times.
On the 135th time I let him bluff himself into a $1000 pot with Ace high while I was sitting with Aces and his hand completely face up. I didn’t even bother to tell him at the end of the session, and I also cant wait to see him back at a table of mine.
5. Poker develops your intuition:
After playing poker seriously for about two full years now I begin to pick up on things a lot more frequently than I used to. I think I am more receptive to what is going on around me at all times, a feeling of having eyes and ears everywhere almost.
At the tables I begin to pick up on betting patterns and after playing with someone for a long period of time over a lot of hand samples I can begin to almost narrow their holdings down to exact cards. Intuition develops through constant focus and concentration almost at an obsessive level, an obsession to keep developing and improving your game.
4. Poker teaches you how to handle deceptive people:
Poker is a game of trying to conceal your holdings while simultaneously trying to figure out the other players holdings.
Players try to be deceptive as to not reveal their holdings to you. Learning to read people at the table is an essential skill, even the smallest of tells can cost people a lot of money.
In real life, there will be many situations where people will try to deceive you into buying something, doing something you wouldn’t normally do, etc.
I think after playing thousands and thousands of hands of poker I understand how a lot of people think and try to deceive me at the tables. Knowing when someone is deceiving you in real life can be difficult, but noticing patterns in deceptive behavior can help at the tables, and in your development throughout life.
3.Poker forces you to manage and respect money:
For a serious poker player, proper bankroll management is a requirement to have any long term success. Poker is influenced by so much short term luck that not having proper bankroll management will result in going broke.
I like to be extremely aggressive at the tables and I counter that by being extremely conservative with my bankroll.
I wont sit in a cash game if I don’t have 50 max buy ins for the stakes. Losing 5-6 buy-ins in a day is not that uncommon, and with my bankroll I am able to withstand the swings and fight off variance that can last hundreds and thousands of hands.
I respect money but I have built up a sickening disdain for money which I feel is necessary to play at a serious level. I can lose all my chips on 2 tables at the same time but I don’t even have enough time to care because I have 22 other tables to attend to.
I don’t care about the money at all, I feel the same way if I win $1,000 in an hour or lose $1,000 in an hour.
I focus on making good decisions and sometimes good decisions result in losing pots due to unlucky cards.
I have built up so much mental discipline I could talk to you like I just won the lottery after losing the last 7 sessions.
Poker is played with chips, not money. The chips have a monetary value but if you are exercising proper bankroll management, the value shouldn’t matter.
2. Poker teaches you to think long term:
Many players rate each session on whether or not they won money or lost money. This is a terrible way to evaluate your play because you can make mistakes, still win money, and feel as if you played good. On the contrary, you could play flawlessly and still lose a few buy ins.
For this reason, I don’t judge my play by just one session, my poker career is its own giant session. In fact, each hand of poker is a new session and if you can understand this concept, you can forget about every hand you have played in the past and focus on the present hand and how you need to play it effectively.
Downswings aren’t really downswings and upswings aren’t upswings if you view poker this way, if every hand is its own session, there is no such thing as a “swing.
” Too many players get caught up in results of past hands that their current play is adversely affected by what happened in the past. If you are able to look past short term results and make decisions based on long term expected profits, you can play with an even leveled mind and focus on the hands you have dealt to you right now.
Long term winners all have losing sessions but statistically most of these players will win in the long term once variance is factored out. Treat each hand as its own new session and you will stop getting caught up in past results and focus completely on the task at hand.
1. Poker teaches you how to deal with losing:
Many people get upset and angry when they lose a big pot with an unlucky river card. This emotional state usually leads to even more losses as players try to “chase” their losings and end up losing more in the process.
In order to beat the game, you have to understand that even the best players in the world have losing days, losing weeks and even losing months. Losing one big pot is not the end of the world when you have a deep bankroll lifeline behind you.
If you let your emotions tie in to how you play poker, your game will be negatively affected. When I get unlucky and get sucked out on for a big pot, I don’t even flinch anymore, I have learned to detach from emotions at the table and play every hand the best way possible regardless of the monetary outcome.
If no one got lucky in poker sometimes, no one would play as all the highly skilled players would have all the money. Luck is one factor that keeps the games running and once you begin to realize that you are going to have to lose sometimes, you can begin to deal with and keep your emotions in check and move onto the next hand.
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