tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76128088953518209652024-03-27T16:53:00.045-07:00There Is No Limit Like No Limit PokerNo Limit Holdem or NLH Poker Is A Game Of Money Played With CardsHotel @nywarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03618654734152044877noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612808895351820965.post-11396766712494106192023-12-31T00:45:00.000-08:002023-12-31T00:45:03.096-08:00GIB Poker<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxj1989jTxlNpVLI_KBPT01td67ohPW1bhmFIyyVodwRxQO_jkLw95STBvDuiuMQLmQDdWt6H_fQBgg6sCGzPVJuylIvUuHbFYmHgGA35u757U5nydpiM-SKpiOkqgtuwbZ9aJBxYCbIcbvWEusi9Liz95AfjU0Ox-XXXEsv0N35oTD_ZQgVnrmkSdIE0/s4000/20231230_214549.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxj1989jTxlNpVLI_KBPT01td67ohPW1bhmFIyyVodwRxQO_jkLw95STBvDuiuMQLmQDdWt6H_fQBgg6sCGzPVJuylIvUuHbFYmHgGA35u757U5nydpiM-SKpiOkqgtuwbZ9aJBxYCbIcbvWEusi9Liz95AfjU0Ox-XXXEsv0N35oTD_ZQgVnrmkSdIE0/s320/20231230_214549.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great way to end the year winning one of those Monte Carlo poker plaques that intense million dollar bets are made with!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRof5C2__VNQW7BRrumjDdOkHS-n8Xj8mT8RCbIeRs-zg9vFzGu4J2SQzeL2TMc8DHN3G5XMW_szqLx-ejKuqY3dOIfHynrFVH2csrRxHNAeKQtyowHq8pHQiSUqly_cmIbLDEngqC4Ow30L29Noy_XwhOTQS2IfGqtOr5niVU4h6_AVOi73Ni0KULkGI/s4000/20231230_230155.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRof5C2__VNQW7BRrumjDdOkHS-n8Xj8mT8RCbIeRs-zg9vFzGu4J2SQzeL2TMc8DHN3G5XMW_szqLx-ejKuqY3dOIfHynrFVH2csrRxHNAeKQtyowHq8pHQiSUqly_cmIbLDEngqC4Ow30L29Noy_XwhOTQS2IfGqtOr5niVU4h6_AVOi73Ni0KULkGI/s320/20231230_230155.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> I'd like to thank Grey Goose Vodka for inebriating my British Opponent and allowing him to "donate" one of these £500 pounds plaques, just like the ones they use in Monte Carlo., to Corporation Ed's poker bankroll.<p></p>Hotel @nywarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03618654734152044877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612808895351820965.post-79771584484385389442023-10-10T23:36:00.003-07:002023-10-16T06:35:02.559-07:00Marbella, Spain<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Staying at The Hard Rock Hotel. Used our Unity Points from Las Vegas- Dog friendly too. So Skyelark was able to join us. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Casino is right next to the hotel. Jumped into a 5 10 game- doubled my.money in 40 minites then left. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkvaWceJCOp_sGVVIJJYs3bH7vcCDVwSpHLK_AwqAt_Bcm8oex9uQZDSqv_QdM5eQ5I_FTvL9BjW6e4b3Oco902Ailf5sRKgTIU-xhJi3qw5jLlBRygEpsYgVoxxrZvCvqUdlIUm5ngY_vV3LDmzAmzkx-nSl1mETUI62ao2ZjMh4wwuHSse224weo/s4000/20230413_100307.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkvaWceJCOp_sGVVIJJYs3bH7vcCDVwSpHLK_AwqAt_Bcm8oex9uQZDSqv_QdM5eQ5I_FTvL9BjW6e4b3Oco902Ailf5sRKgTIU-xhJi3qw5jLlBRygEpsYgVoxxrZvCvqUdlIUm5ngY_vV3LDmzAmzkx-nSl1mETUI62ao2ZjMh4wwuHSse224weo/s320/20230413_100307.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> First Hand American Airlines AA<p></p><p><br /></p><p>Felted a villian next hand</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyU1Mzwu1dR4UF5VSWR2lFv9aYgrvuzLt-li_BlOxGxNmMscM2h76xK5frsA8nZS-Th6lDceUdUAk2W9Eumsw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p>Final hand for me: Any Two Cards spotted me the nuts and sucked out on the river with a baby flush. Busted.</p>Hotel @nywarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03618654734152044877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612808895351820965.post-34750091847719508312023-04-10T22:21:00.000-07:002023-04-10T22:21:30.892-07:00Won a WSOP Daily Tornament <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxHsUc1vNd90ihEs_MJEeIPFxViyw4n__MvQ6PLp9b8dmkJ4um-0gUfo0G3VAN08G4T6K825pBM1gjhIJt7yQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhQOybgddY3tTTcPfBjz7y0exSxMOlZOO7MmtGGIPVUixelcfB_6hA4u6mScJAqfXUecVoCjbhAXcqJow_EAhiAqBkPqcx1UOVLOOs-clm3LyrV6KGW8v-SRS7Lp3uL-0ZLS_HllYfjCY3Idij-I1_whP3wt6mDCsSVowEdlV0TfuBW5J1Ar22PZSW/s4000/20230410_193727.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHoSrg06Klt8WdajP4Sry_X0BMOxSF7nPzm3TjxAsHArlBtE_6W1A5nbD-W_roIilgBSNTjcjIcgIMgdLLYBxIPg3kB-jO8Q4Yiqulu4pDHVCFujNKm7jzkOBg6V7t-tFzad0PWwYrYO8/s1080/246177015_1079090205960099_7210452691684760385_n.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHoSrg06Klt8WdajP4Sry_X0BMOxSF7nPzm3TjxAsHArlBtE_6W1A5nbD-W_roIilgBSNTjcjIcgIMgdLLYBxIPg3kB-jO8Q4Yiqulu4pDHVCFujNKm7jzkOBg6V7t-tFzad0PWwYrYO8/s320/246177015_1079090205960099_7210452691684760385_n.png" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I Have A Stream</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Nick V is the Rosa Parks of Poker driving the bus for live poker. This (Hustler Live) is the gold standard and the one with the gold makes the rules.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Texas Holdem Universe is litered with exoplanets- Flat Earthers who are losing audiences ASAP. Why? Because they lack everything that Hustler Casino has-- a great lineup, huge buy ins and the one-two punch of live open mics and great commentary by Ryan and Bart, delivering lights out poker. Everyone else is and will be just karaoke poker shows, a cheap imitation of Hustler Live.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">There is one miraculous exception---LATB-Live At The Bike. That show has equity and like the pizza man-always delivers. Pain is Always For Sale when the Joes and Pros come to send their chips to money heaven.<br /></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT8RaCKv8EU">Hustler Live Stream</a>, however, will break the internet with this weekend's starting line up, including the legendary Phil Ivey. The show should be dubbed, The Sex Of Poker:</span><h3><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">First you do it for Fun, Next you do it for Money, Then you do it for Love. Afterall, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Money can't buy happiness but it can buy chips which is kinda the same thing.</span></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Nick V, you put the HE in Hero. Thanks for bringing this show to the world. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In Poker the future is already here. It’s just not yet evenly distributed yet. This is why we watch Hustler Live. Anything can happen, and it usually does.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Streams Do Come True.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div>Predicitions for this weekends high roller cash game:</div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Pain For Sale:</strong><span style="font-size: 13.6px;"> <strong>Too much respect for money makes you a bad NLH player., and that;s what makes Mikki a Great Player.</strong></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.6px;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.6px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMTfaLgtm5CZLOA3TVlN1w-fnfBppXA6cewSG8pUelcQw74YPfBEfqSRhf5M0QqE8Q1VvGBYuec6tOtdyl3q11I1SGQpNTjowH_bEk-vmYNlVRwsIuSq8Dj1W5U1igSWiamLeYsxehC3k/s291/OH+DEER.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="291" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMTfaLgtm5CZLOA3TVlN1w-fnfBppXA6cewSG8pUelcQw74YPfBEfqSRhf5M0QqE8Q1VvGBYuec6tOtdyl3q11I1SGQpNTjowH_bEk-vmYNlVRwsIuSq8Dj1W5U1igSWiamLeYsxehC3k/s0/OH+DEER.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><br /><strong></strong></span><blockquote><span style="font-size: 13.6px;"><strong><br /></strong></span><em>"When you lose, you lose money, when you win; you lose the value of money." Mikki will get in touch with his inner deer hunter </em></blockquote><em></em></span></div><div><em><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></em></div><div><em><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></em></div><div><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i></div><div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h2><span><br /><b style="font-family: inherit;">Eating What You Kill Is So Money </b><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.6px;"><b>but it's not personal:</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.6px;"><b>You can't spell Manslaughter without laughter, so when you eat what you kill, he makes sure his opponents are having a good time.</b></span><br /></span><em style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjFSiV8HmG4wSYGW7Ftkfg3Zb3y-yUXUpZmOe2Voq6edbB1e4MNnhokgjg45NUqtuoM5UF7Grr0vaT8gTAXXUBynaHQQwb72XzLBYrtBJ3uTXwVErjc1-pKhzm_7uF5XnYgfmyHKFLS0E/s281/WINN.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="241" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjFSiV8HmG4wSYGW7Ftkfg3Zb3y-yUXUpZmOe2Voq6edbB1e4MNnhokgjg45NUqtuoM5UF7Grr0vaT8gTAXXUBynaHQQwb72XzLBYrtBJ3uTXwVErjc1-pKhzm_7uF5XnYgfmyHKFLS0E/s0/WINN.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></em></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em>"We’re not playing together, but we're not playing against each other either." Gal would say this</em></span></div><div><em><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></em></div><div></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div><span><br /><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Get Your Freak-onomics On: <span style="font-size: 13.6px;">The Cards are just there to confuse bad players.</span></strong><span><br /></span><em style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></em></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="316" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhisAjhNC8TdggxPnVnLYuT6N39AaRhrvQSCkay15GSCNzP0xcQ_XJQlZdi5VWsn-5o2ntrypWXE_8YvN-5QCDuZqWIPJWwc8pei3CbX5Cv2dwi-3Y0_0CuqnUlsA75XxEUwhrxq3q31q8/s0/OH+DEER.jpg" width="316" /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhisAjhNC8TdggxPnVnLYuT6N39AaRhrvQSCkay15GSCNzP0xcQ_XJQlZdi5VWsn-5o2ntrypWXE_8YvN-5QCDuZqWIPJWwc8pei3CbX5Cv2dwi-3Y0_0CuqnUlsA75XxEUwhrxq3q31q8/s316/OH+DEER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><em><br /></em></span></div><div><em><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></em></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em></em></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em>"</em>Poker is not a game of cards played with money—It is a game of money played with cards.<em>" Phil Ivey will say this</em></span></div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p> <b>The Poker Lobotomist- Welcome to this world of “and”. Doing two things at the same time that apparently negate each other. NLH is 100% skill and 100% luck. Garrett has both.</b></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"'The surest way to win a huge pot in NLH is to spot 'em the nuts and suck out!</strong><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;"> Garrett will do this</span></p><div><h3><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></h3><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></h2><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Infinite patience brings immediate results to his game. </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO1iPClNa8XSvYywIdcRKO_xoZny8tlDzrKyuFhzpVMil7_K2xNcRmvIILVk-oMP-bguoPVc30hxVtBkGBHfxcZKkYPDWM_1hHwt1uqHp4GAFySJGOjvAkpQKxAfPqk9PA5HxdzBZqRWU/s1080/Red+and+Black+Casino+For+Men+Themes+Social+Story.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO1iPClNa8XSvYywIdcRKO_xoZny8tlDzrKyuFhzpVMil7_K2xNcRmvIILVk-oMP-bguoPVc30hxVtBkGBHfxcZKkYPDWM_1hHwt1uqHp4GAFySJGOjvAkpQKxAfPqk9PA5HxdzBZqRWU/w297-h297/Red+and+Black+Casino+For+Men+Themes+Social+Story.png" width="297" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><strong style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">"Whether my decision is good or bad depends on how I make it, not on the outcome." 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Krish will sput on a clinic</span></span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div>Hotel @nywarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03618654734152044877noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612808895351820965.post-15880517779010136192021-08-20T05:56:00.002-07:002021-10-19T03:51:01.486-07:00Hello, My Name is "I'm All In".<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjDLXPOblKSdpa-M1I41KdMc7BsZvnbYxrJXrcbLzXk33tDWmRJw2lwY6LlIgIJIN5gEbi3M-exrZeuHHIHE_tLadWlL_a21XExTLY0cjbc4SU7JtMyY6f5x036vn_FkYUZdxmQ6tgE40/s1600-h/ER.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Chapter One Teaser: <span style="font-weight: bold;">AN I for an I </span>, 'See it with your mind's eye.' is so BC (Before Covid) Our mind is our eye.What we think is what we see, and what we see directs how we act. This paradigm clear, let me offer concrete and practical ways to change our mind's eye and as a consequence change our actions and the results we get. <span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 13;">A miracle is a shift in thinking and shifting our thinking opens new opportunities.</span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> the gift of connecting to the field of awareness that exists within each playah. When your LEFT Brain gets good at telling the RIGHT brain what to do--the power of now+new,1+1=infinity...because after all: </span></span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /><strong>Shift Happens</strong><br /><br />When your third eye and your turd eye are at one—you start to believe your own sh*</span>t, hooked on the belief that you are about to make mo’ money. This creates a midbrain mutiny between dopamine and serotonin. Like any addict, when the bad beat comes, you will go into a painful withdrawal. I think therefore I am—might need a re-write- I don’t know so maybe I’m not. It’s all chemical!</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Thinking and <em>feeling</em> differently about lose-Whatever is going on in you is chemical. What could your neurons "want"? It's enigmatic, but basically they wants a jolt of serotonin, norepinephrine (adrenaline) and dopamine. If you can remember--you are never know how you have been, and maintain a malignent optimism, you can live to play another day. The hard thing about this is that it is so easy to do, because feelings are not true, they're feelings...<em>nothing more than feelings.</em></span></span><br />
<strong><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Poker= f(dopamine flow); Money= happiness</span></strong><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><em>"Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy chips, which is kinda the same thing"</em> Ed Reif, <em>Wise a</em><em>nd </em><em>Otherwise,2007</em></span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Money is a means to an end. When you get money, you shouldn't experience immediate happiness. Brain research shows, however, that people get immediate pleasure and pain from winning and losing money.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Dopamine is a swiss army knife that does a lot of jobs, but the thing Mr. Science notices most is that it regulates reward. When you win a hand of poker, it's a dopamine spike that's responsible for the thrill that follows. Drugs, legal and illegal-mimic the actions of dopamine in the brain. Dopamine is a chemical which makes us feel elated; crystal meth is so addictive because it releases dopamine. More than that, The brain images of drug addicts who are about to take another hit are indistinguishable from those of poker players who are making money and about to play another showdown hand.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Getting what you deserve is boring. Having pocket AA, and raking a small pot, just won’t do it. There has to be risk and ambiguity. Don’t you feel more energized when you’re uncertain of the outcome of a hand. When you do a three barrel bluff, don’t you feel more alive, your heart jumping out of your chest, you sweat, your take that dry mouth swallow. I think that a subconscious desire to return to this state affects my game. I bluff too much because I want to experience the feeling I get at these moments…. when you get him to fold top pair, when a scare card is on the turn..This is poker at its finest: If you can think impossible thoughts, you can do impossible things.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">If you had a normal “addiction” to, say, crack or sex-there are group therapies for that-but being addicted to “risk” in the poker culture just makes makes you a gambler. Is that so bad, you are wired to invest? Don't they call that <em>arbitrage on Wall Street?</em> Isn't gambling a fundamental brick in the foundation of economic and investment thinking.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">Poker points to gambling. Gambling points to math. Math points to risk. Risk points to investing. Investing points to finance; and finance points to economics, and economics points back to gambling</span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Neurons that wire together fire together---Making money and then making money again is our chemical romance; the love drug Dopamine. It produces a “desire to continue”. Congratulations, you are wired to play poker. Happy Valentine’s Day. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">What happens in your brain when your expectations are confirmed — or shattered by surprise. It's a steady flow of dopamine that makes the anticipation such a pleasure. Walking the painted line, tolerating low calculated risks, the safe choices,---it is impossible to settle for what everyone else gets---no matter how comfortable that would make you. The extraordinary opportunities lie in the leaps of faith, the uncalculating risks.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">We might not realize it, but dopamine is our favorite neurotransmitter. <strong>T<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu3Bp3mzMKK7uWlfdPf4xdbEa370cFHnqjQUxoqS864m9E4uJBExeqV0H_-IythBNyRJsO_o1vdxduoQMUn7v0K8O0HgVCYD4u9qadntOZCRlFhoNYj084ckwkTUqFw9tv0OMvqzCebLs/s1600-h/love.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="145" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167006951502200050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu3Bp3mzMKK7uWlfdPf4xdbEa370cFHnqjQUxoqS864m9E4uJBExeqV0H_-IythBNyRJsO_o1vdxduoQMUn7v0K8O0HgVCYD4u9qadntOZCRlFhoNYj084ckwkTUqFw9tv0OMvqzCebLs/s400/love.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" width="238" /></a>he Sex of Poker</strong> reward circuit runs on Dopamine. It makes us pursue whatever we think will be rewarding. Life, liberty and the pursuit of a fast buck. "fits like a glove" with neuroimaging findings of alcoholics, and drug addicts. Let's cast a nice halo around poker, call it Yuppie bulemia, for the three C's: guys with Cash, Condos and Cars.</span></span><br />
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">David Sklansky's Fundamental Theory of Poker is a theory which is not about poker. Instead it is a theory about the results of poker. In other words, you cannot use the Fundamental Theorem of Poker to solve any actual poker problems. It’s good for finding out whether I was lucky enough or not to be holding any two cards against an opponent. That theory is outlined early in his book:</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">"Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would have played it if you could see all your opponents' cards, they gain; and every time you play your hand the same way you would have played it if you could see all their cards, they lose. Conversely, every time opponents play their hands differently from the way they would have if they could see all your cards, you gain; and every time they play their hands the same way they would have played if they could see all your cards, you lose." [17-18]</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">POKER: It is not about winning or losing, rather excelling: Because of the huge amount of luck associated with NLH, We often face uncertainty in making decisions, we can, therefore, make a good decision and get a bad outcome. (Bad beats are had more often by GOOD players than bad. Afterall, you are "getting your money in good"...only to get that suckout miracle card ruin your nut flush to a staight flush etc.) Good decisions in poker, therefore, will not guarantee good outcomes, but on average, consistently better decisions lead to consistently better outcomes.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><strong>You can't immediately win by calling; you can by betting, or raising!</strong> Furthermore, you need a stronger hand to call than to bet or raise. betting or raising allows the possibility of winning the pot immediately by forcing decisions on the other opponents, who may very well fold, with slim holdings....and never cold call a preflop raise with easily dominated off suit hands.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><strong>The Equity of Folding in a Tournament</strong>-Folding is the invisable way to win<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiHdH0tt6Ozvs2PzXLtg-1sCi8X4si475T6noVy39ay2onrGyzK7QZsrQlscw-Wx8dUI0C8h5QLOM8W35RrJQ47aJtW73N5vMmPZEWF1CERCtNd7FUzKv0nd0hkfgwxDZGwApdALfHfbA/s1600-h/DNE.jpg" style="color: #b87209; text-decoration-line: none;"></a>The best way to win more is to fold more! Hand selection is really something to consider; so is position. Playing too many starting hands is the How Not to Do It way..When it is raised in front of you-Your mantra should be "I'm looking for a way to fold this AJ offsuit.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNloZGy40i0YS4PJf3x1kXeseoCdoQoSwN4yCP3VFDkhBwuBmvM90pkpAe73383SFmA7DdZSbQFKv5wZsR5yrLTC0HMLjIPbZw5jPCHqyKs0YWgy-WWj-qqQ3ETzziPzi5B3cve5fGaM/s1600-h/DNE.jpg" style="color: #b87209; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><strong>Knowledge isn't power---applied knowledge is.</strong> Luck isn't power either, but applied luck is the most powerful element in NLH: here's what I mean; Focus on decisions not consequences. Luck has consequences. Focus on decisions, not luck. What you think of me is none of my business, and what luck thinks of me at any particular time, is none of my business. Luck Positive (Winning) and Luck Negative (gad beats) are OVERHEAD; Chips, the cost of doing business!<br /><br />Think about good decisions, not results. It's about the process not pots won---the chips will come. Do what you love and the money will follow--have a love affair with making sound decisions based on partial information. It is, after all, about excelling, not winning or losing a particular hand.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Poker without cards---bluffing. It simply has to be part of your game--- this Misleading Vividness. But remember: BIG POTS for BIG CARDS: The really powerful starting hands---High card value, suitedness and connectedness---have multiple ways to win.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The more your bluffs matters, the harder they are to pull off because they are, after all, bluffs. It is, however, impossible to defend against a solid bluffing strategy. Reality is perception, and appearance reality. When you don' have good cards, however, somebody else probably does.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">For the poker Balla, nothing is better than when that average Joe Player sits down at a poker table. Why? Because he just sat down with money he INTENDS to lose! There is no more +EV situation, and most tables in a live poker room are filled with players exactly like that. When you treat No Limit Hold em as only a game of chance instead of skill, it is not a law of probability, it's a fact for games with negative expectations: Risk of ruin is 100%.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">A Joe plays when he "feels" like it, a Pro, all the time! Call them perpetual shortcuts JOES make when losing poker ASAP; and as any of the PROS will tell you, they don't need cards to win--that's for amateurs. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pro Players specialize in other people's biases!</span> especially that malignant optimistic one that beats its chest and says, "I'm the best player at the table". Hotel Anyware considers himself an average player, except for the fact that he considers himself an average player!</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Irrational default modes of playing tend to show up in our game both when we win---the <strong>House Money Effect</strong> chip overload of playing loose with <em>their</em> money, and when we are getting on tilt with bad beats: That's when emotion and even confidence cloud our judgment and misguide our actions. The Volatility and Variance of NLH rewards patience, a clear mind, and, <u>selective </u>aggression.</span><br />
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<strong><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">American Airlines AA and the Concorde Effect—A True Story at the $100 Buy-In Bicycle Casino- Eating Dessert First.</span></strong><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I’m UTG, deep stacked with four limpers. I raise and get called by all four. I should muck right there but I don't. I’ve got pocket aces. The flop is low ball 3 4 7 rainbow. I bet big-a Dan Harrington "information" bet to see where I am at... and lose three players. The turn is a 5, a possible straight. I bet big again and get re-raised all in. I insta-call. The river is a blank. I flip over AA and Lift Ticket has Pocket 66. for the nuts.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The very next hand I get pocket kings--it was <em>Dijon Vu,</em> the same old mustard--My emotional return on investment however, my EROI, was saying "SEAT OPEN!" and the table could smell it and I got everyone calling, a family pot. <em>I actually wanted to go home broke</em>..and even though I tripped up, I lost to runner, runner, heart flush. I did. That's right,wanting to lose money. And that emotional return was more of a payoff than the financial one--when my black Kings got cracked by suited connectors (hearts, a baby flush!).</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Granted, too much respect for money makes you a bad NLH player but I walked away from that session with knowledge: First, that my brain is the "most powerful computer." Second, when on tilt, my brain is the most powerful "broken computer ."</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Tilt makes us sub-optimal for evaluating rewards, sizing up risks and calculating probabilities. It's like selling the car for gas money.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I walked away with a<em> less</em> broken computer, less sabotaging behavior, and more insight into the fact that self-delusion is more than possible in poker - it's highly likely!</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Behavioral Finance ---The Black Box Flight Recorder has a name for my crash landing -- <strong>The Sunk Cost Fallacy</strong> --the refusal to get out of a losing position, because you've already written the money off -- resulting in losing even more money.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The British and French governments continued to fund the Concorde project long after it was determined that it was a loser---merely to justify past investment in it, rather than assessing the current rationality of investing.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">You have an over pair on the flop and bet big. You get called. On the turn the texture of the board is dangerous. You bet out in the dark---suddenly you are stuck as your opponent straightens out.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">We are in fact more sensitive to decreases in our chip count than we are to increases in them.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Doyle Brunson, a member of the MENSA Poker Club says: <em>Great players lay down great hands.</em> In fact, the ability to accept a loss and get away from a great hand is probably the most important (and difficult) skill to learn in poker. It's the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The ability to take a small loss to avoid a big one is the hallmark of this poker genius.We all start out as geniuses, and then allow our emotions to de-genius us. If you put good players into bad situations they usually turn bad.</span><br />
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<strong><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 130%;">Secrets to Beating America's 92 Million Irrational Poker Players</span></strong><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Common sense is not so common, and these common flaws are often consistent, predictable, and can be exploited for profit.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_control" title="Illusion of control">Illusion of control</a> - the tendency for players to believe they can control or at least influence outcomes which they clearly cannot. NLH is 100% luck and 100% chance. An opponent can (suck out) win one hand 100% of the time. NLH is too random to be left up to chance-yet <strong>good results will have you rejecting alternative ways to play</strong>--Nothing fails like success. Doing things right the first time is an obscenity--If your game isn't broke, don't just break it, break it before the competition does.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion" title="Loss aversion">Loss aversion</a> - The pain of chips lost generally is much greater than the pleasure of a chips gained. Playars strongly prefer avoiding losses over acquiring gains ( Quit early when winning and playing marathon sessions when stuck or chasing---see also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost" title="Sunk cost">sunk cost effects</a>. To win money over the long haul, you’ve got to win big pots. And to win big pots, you can’t be held back by this thinking error. You can't play a safe tight- is -right solid game and expect to win. You can't avoid crisis, you must be in a perpetual one that you create...but selectively picking your spots).</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_blind_spot" title="Bias blind spot">Bias blind spot</a> - The left side of the brain will do the math. But the right side will "tag" it with a story. That story usually doesn't compensate for one’s own cognitive biases.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias" title="Choice-supportive bias">Choice-supportive bias</a> - It's called "anchoring" remember one’s choices as better than they actually were. (Using the past to predict the future). There is never a certain prescribed way to play a hand, just a way to think about them. I've had racks of chips only to be felted 14 hours later because instead of an attitude of gratitude, I had the Mick Jaggar <em>Tumbling Dice</em> "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing"soundtrack playing.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect" title="Endowment effect">Endowment effect</a> - When I own something, I will tend to value it more highly. If I have to sell it, I will probably want to ask more than it is really worth. (Not being able to let go of QQ,AA,KK---rookie moves, and over betting the pot) There's the expected result, based on analysis, and the actual result, based on events. Poker is a game of situations---I've learned to thrown away Kings, Queens, and with a four card flush on the board, even two red Aces!</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias" title="Confirmation bias">Confirmation bias</a> - The Indians Rain Dance worked because they never stopped dancing! The Jeane Dixon effect-of making a few right predictions, and overlooking the false ones. Searching for information in a way that confirms one’s preconceptions. The delusions of reference--tells, lucky charms, hunches and coincidences.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect" title="Bandwagon effect">Bandwagon effect</a> - Do things because smart money people do or believe the same, like playing Helmeuth starting hands, or walking the painted line of Sklansky's <em>Theory of Poker</em> or Doyle's <em>Super System</em>. Related to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink" title="Groupthink">groupthink</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_behaviour" title="Herd behaviour">herd behaviour</a>. That's what I find so cool about my game--being able to fire three barrels with squadush. (Thank you Poker Stars Sit and Go's)</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%A9formation_professionnelle" title="Déformation professionnelle">Déformation professionnelle</a> - the tendency to look at things according to the conventions of one’s own T.O.E., time on earth; assuming things that have similar traits are likely to be identical; forgetting any broader point of view. Past experience and feedback loops can make you Hola Lupe.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disconfirmation_bias" title="Disconfirmation bias">Disconfirmation bias</a> -. We tend to use the information that is most handy when we make decisions/predictions. The path of least resistence mashed up with thin slicing.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focusing_effect" title="Focusing effect">Focusing effect</a> - prediction bias occurring when players place too much importance on one aspect of an event; causes error in accurately predicting the utility of a future outcome.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_discounting" title="Hyperbolic discounting">Hyperbolic discounting</a> - the tendency for players to have a stronger preference for more immediate payoffs relative to later payoffs, the closer to the present both payoffs are.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_bias" title="Impact bias">Impact bias</a> -Our minds are suited for solving problems related to our survival, rather than being optimised for poker decisions. Players overestimate the length or the intensity of the impact of future feeling states.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_bias" title="Information bias">Information bias</a> - Seeking TMI, too much information, even when it cannot affect action. Try playing in the dark, or blind---With less information to be processed and filtered, the brain assigns higher priority to the information that it does receive.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neglect_of_probability" title="Neglect of probability">Neglect of probability</a> - the tendency to completely disregard probability when making a decision under uncertainty. Expected Value and Variance---weighing all the possible outcomes, weighting the more likely outcomes, and coming to a conclusion---play a big part in the decision process. There is therefore, never a certain prescribed way to play a hand, just a way to think about them</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_exposure_effect" title="Mere exposure effect">Mere exposure effect</a> - the tendency for players to express undue liking for things merely because they are familiar with them. If it's not broke, break it!</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_bias" title="Omission bias">Omission bias</a> - The tendency to judge harmful actions as worse, or less moral, than equally harmful omissions (inactions).</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome_bias" title="Outcome bias">Outcome bias</a> - the tendency to judge things on their outcome, and not on their process. Over weighing and overeacting to a bad beat-- the most recent information or circumstances.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy" title="Planning fallacy">Planning fallacy</a> - the tendency to underestimate task-completion times. It has taken me ten years to become an overnight Holdem success!</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-purchase_rationalization" title="Post-purchase rationalization">Post-purchase rationalization</a> - the tendency to persuade oneself through rational argument that a purchase was a good value.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocertainty_effect" title="Pseudocertainty effect">Pseudocertainty effect</a> - the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, but make risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_perception" title="Selective perception">Selective perception</a> - the tendency for expectations to affect perception. (Gamblers Fallacy)</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_quo_bias" title="Status quo bias">Status quo bias</a> - the tendency for players to like things to stay relatively the same.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Restorff_effect" title="Von Restorff effect">Von Restorff effect</a> - <a href="http://www.sethgodin.com/purple/">Purple Cows</a> and items that “stands out like a sore thumb” have a tendency to be more likely to be remembered than other items.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-risk_bias" title="Zero-risk bias">Zero-risk bias</a> - preference for reducing a small risk to zero over a greater reduction in a larger risk.</span><br />
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Hotel @nywarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03618654734152044877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612808895351820965.post-71299920985759595812021-08-20T03:40:00.007-07:002021-10-19T03:47:29.086-07:00The Sex Of Poker<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqS1ArHaMSdWvoEvPuWXcNtaAwnYtfxL6LKGzT3Uqb2WwISkYxcvBKYNpHPJwZTt6FcINXCHln9Qn8-w-YbeevZHAXGRggxH6UDvdDOFLZ9fjAUllz8I-nR8pjHDXee9QMWjMWXwzk724/s1654/20211019_114406_0000.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1654" data-original-width="1654" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqS1ArHaMSdWvoEvPuWXcNtaAwnYtfxL6LKGzT3Uqb2WwISkYxcvBKYNpHPJwZTt6FcINXCHln9Qn8-w-YbeevZHAXGRggxH6UDvdDOFLZ9fjAUllz8I-nR8pjHDXee9QMWjMWXwzk724/s320/20211019_114406_0000.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">The sex of Poker is really a game of mistakes and the greatest one is rooted in pleasure. The fine line we walk between success and self-destruction comes down to asking that one dirty (Harry) question rooted in the loner cop’s message of personal freedom, </span><a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0066999/" style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">“Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?”</a><p></p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">First you do it for Fun, Next you do it for Money, Then you do it for Love.</span></span></h3><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">Poker is a game of situations. Winning poker is about making good decisions Feeling lucky and going to a casino is like feeling athletic and going to a sports bar. It’s a bad decision. It is the in to your sane, a kind of voluntary madness. The surest way of getting nothing from something. The road less traveled-the psycho path!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">In Blackjack, there is always a correct decision, a perfect strategy. </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">No Limit Holdem</span><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">, on the other hand, is a game of completing the puzzle of partial information; where players make inferences and “investments” under uncertainty. Fixed strategies don’t work because players don’t always act perfectly. You are, above all else, playing against other people, and conditions change.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">No Limit Hold ‘em or </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">NLH</span><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;"> is designed to have a high luck factor that can quite easily lead to a sort of pathological optimism. It’s a fast, easy to understand game that pulls down huge bucketfuls of short-term luck. In fact, playing because you are “feeling lucky” is (almost) the right way to play.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">Yet, the right way to play </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">NLH</span><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;"> and (almost) the right way to play is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. I don’t want to steal your thunder but that’s what luck is--- the Thunder. Thunder is a good thing , thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work and gets the job done, and it </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">doesn</span><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">’t strike twice in the same place because the same place </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">isn</span><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">’t there anymore.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">The sex of poker therefore can be misery. It no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. The remarkable thing about luck is no matter how bad it gets, it can always get worse. Luck is a strange teacher. It gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. Luck is your university. The chips are your report card. Everything proceeds from there.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">While it is true that it is the mark of an inexperienced player not to believe in luck, luck </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">doesn</span><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">’t always believe in you--- Luck is pauperized ecstasy because it lends but never gives. When you’re buying in to feeling lucky, there is plenty of pain for sale. It is easier to change your religion than your diet, and in the buffet of luck may have no calories, but everyone eventually goes home hungry.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">If Pain is weakness leaving the body, then Poker pain is weakness leaving your game. It is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into--- the poker frequency. Do you play in-frequently? Is that one word or two?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">Playing too many starting hands in a standard $2-$4 </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">NL</span><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;"> game is weakness. You should have a 20-30% view of the flop percentage. This means folding, saying “No” to </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;">AJ</span><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;"> in first position, KT in middle position and QT in late position Just saying `no', to every hand, however prevents bad playing the way “Have a nice day” cures chronic depression. 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What it's really like to stay in a hotel during the coronavirus pandemic? Well, daily housekeeping was done on request. I got a nice pandemic amenities package ---including: a mask, hand sanitizer and a little gadget for pressing the elevator buttons and opening doors- known as a Key chain Touch Tool. I decided to buy this Raider's mask, however, after I won a big pot off one of my opponents who was selling them. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Started NLH at The New Sahara Poker Room. Got dealt Aces twice in 20 minutes and then Ace King -flopped Full House Ace Ace King. Felted my opponents.These were the cleanest chips I have ever used- </td></tr>
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My takeaway from this trip. First time I have ever waited online to wash my hands. Thank you Corona!<br />
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Hotel @nywarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03618654734152044877noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612808895351820965.post-85202724901896512020-01-20T18:21:00.001-08:002020-02-13T09:24:42.897-08:00World Poker Tour- Seminole Hard Rock, Florida<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Hotel @nywarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03618654734152044877noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612808895351820965.post-91459905019707440082019-07-10T06:45:00.000-07:002020-07-29T06:23:06.612-07:00Selling Your Car For Gas Money<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm0CWJsi8nJn_wXjZ8An3O3IMR43i_xJp_i7MufDqE1Hq2D85DLhYB6oNBB-C7kLpBbne-Ofh0cMMrWe3cIAwUQXmx0jqcwvNnRfflserz3OTE1bT1-GyXyudUbgaZTifZfH40CKJyb28/s1600-h/Ed+Reif++chips.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160399624881651858" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm0CWJsi8nJn_wXjZ8An3O3IMR43i_xJp_i7MufDqE1Hq2D85DLhYB6oNBB-C7kLpBbne-Ofh0cMMrWe3cIAwUQXmx0jqcwvNnRfflserz3OTE1bT1-GyXyudUbgaZTifZfH40CKJyb28/s200/Ed+Reif++chips.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a> Egonomics 101---Overconfidence, Myopia and Hubris<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In most of our decisions, we are not betting against another person.Rather, we are betting against <i>all the future versions of ourselves that we are not choosing</i>. We are constantly deciding among alternative futures</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">:one where we go to the movies, one where we go bowling, one where we stay home. Or futures where we take a job in Des Moines, stay at our current job, or take some time away from work. Whenever we make a choice, we are betting on a potential future. We are betting that the future version of us that results from the decisions we make will be better off. At stake in a decision is that the return to us (measured in money, time,happiness, health, or whatever we value in that circumstance) will be greater than what we are giving up by betting against the other alternative future versions of us.</span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p><b><o:p><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">― Annie Duke, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts </span></b></div>
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The power of mind over money is rooted in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias">mental bias</a> . It is our own idiosyncratic way to distort our map of reality. Just as the menu is not the meal, this map is not the territory--because everyone experiences gambling differently. When your reality check bounces---change your map.<br />
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<strong>FLOUNDERS verses ROUNDERS</strong> -The difference in playing with the belief and intention of winning against just being social.<br />
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For the poker Balla, nothing is better than when that average Joe Player sits down at a poker table. Why? Because he just sat down with money he INTENDS to lose! There is no more +EV situation, and most tables in a live poker room are filled with players exactly like that. When you treat No Limit Hold em as only a game of chance instead of skill, it is not a law of probability, it's a fact for games with negative expectations: Risk of ruin is 100%.<br />
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A Joe plays when he "feels" like it, a Pro, all the time! Call them perpetual shortcuts JOES make when losing poker ASAP; and as any of the PROS will tell you, they don't need cards to win--that's for amateurs. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pro Players specialize in other people's biases!</span> especially that malignant optimistic one that beats its chest and says, "I'm the best player at the table". Hotel Anyware considers himself an average player, except for the fact that he considers himself an average player!<br />
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Pros know the 60/40 end of a proposition--- when to hold em and when to fold em--- when you have some competitive advantage over somebody else. And you don't bet, you don't gamble, you don't invest, unless you have some competitive advantage.<br />
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Poker is a game of partial information, and when you have a competitive advantage you have to take into account this and, more important, behavioral factors. There is wise.... and there is otherwise:<br />
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Irrational default modes of playing tend to show up in our game both when we win---the <strong>House Money Effect</strong> chip overload of playing loose with <em>their</em> money, and when we are getting on tilt with bad beats: That's when emotion and even confidence cloud our judgment and misguide our actions. The Volatility and Variance of NLH rewards patience, a clear mind, and, <u>selective </u>aggression.<br />
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<strong>American Airlines AA and the Concorde Effect—A True Story at the $100 Buy-In Bicycle Casino- Eating Dessert First.</strong><br />
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I’m UTG, deep stacked with four limpers. I raise and get called by all four. I should muck right there but I don't. I’ve got pocket aces. The flop is low ball 3 4 7 rainbow. I bet big-a Dan Harrington "information" bet to see where I am at... and lose three players. The turn is a 5, a possible straight. I bet bi<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAp3xh8r6uHSTRtY5BW_WGnd_srlMR9JBJTkMefExOBLhDussw69ol4-yr9QXjJ8qxmp32DCwei9uSRBdWBcJBDCFMl_Cn7r2JUVaAZQJE2kJk_o6LSlRbRMWQBBUcnlwZM2g-UbTC0gc/s1600-h/concorde.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160393302689792098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAp3xh8r6uHSTRtY5BW_WGnd_srlMR9JBJTkMefExOBLhDussw69ol4-yr9QXjJ8qxmp32DCwei9uSRBdWBcJBDCFMl_Cn7r2JUVaAZQJE2kJk_o6LSlRbRMWQBBUcnlwZM2g-UbTC0gc/s200/concorde.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a>g again and get re-raised all in. I insta-call. The river is a blank. I flip over AA and Lift Ticket has Pocket 66. for the nuts.<br />
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The very next hand I get pocket kings--it was <em>Dijon Vu,</em> the same old mustard--My emotional return on investment however, my EROI, was saying "SEAT OPEN!" and the table could smell it and I got everyone calling, a family pot. <em>I actually wanted to go home broke</em>..and even though I tripped up, I lost to runner, runner, heart flush. I did. That's right,wanting to lose money. And that emotional return was more of a payoff than the financial one--when my black Kings got cracked by suited connectors (hearts, a baby flush!).<br />
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Granted, too much respect for money makes you a bad NLH player but I walked away from that session with knowledge: First, that my brain is the "most powerful computer." Second, when on tilt, my brain is the most powerful "broken computer ."<br />
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Tilt makes us sub-optimal for evaluating rewards, sizing up risks and calculating probabilities. It's like selling the car for gas money.<br />
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I walked away with a<em> less</em> broken computer, less sabotaging behavior, and more insight into the fact that self-delusion is more than possible in poker - it's highly likely!<br />
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Behavioral Finance ---The Black Box Flight Recorder has a name for my crash landing -- <strong>The Sunk Cost Fallacy</strong> --the refusal to get out of a losing position, because you've already written the money off -- resulting in losing even more money.<br />
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The British and French governments continued to fund the Concorde project long after it was determined that it was a loser---merely to justify past investment in it, rather than assessing the current rationality of investing.<br />
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You have an over pair on the flop and bet big. You get called. On the turn the texture of the board is dangerous. You bet out in the dark---suddenly you are stuck as your opponent straightens out.<br />
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We are in fact more sensitive to decreases in our chip count than we are to increases in them.<br />
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Doyle Brunson, a member of the MENSA Poker Club says: <em>Great players lay down great hands.</em> In fact, the ability to accept a loss and get away from a great hand is probably the most important (and difficult) skill to learn in poker. It's the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.<br />
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The ability to take a small loss to avoid a big one is the hallmark of this poker genius.We all start out as geniuses, and then allow our emotions to de-genius us. If you put good players into bad situations they usually turn bad.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 130%;">Secrets to Beating America's 92 Million Irrational Poker Players</span></strong><br />
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Common sense is not so common, and these common flaws are often consistent, predictable, and can be exploited for profit.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_control" title="Illusion of control">Illusion of control</a> - the tendency for players to believe they can control or at least influence outcomes which they clearly cannot. NLH is 100% luck and 100% chance. An opponent can (suck out) win one hand 100% of the time. NLH is too random to be left up to chance-yet <strong>good results will have you rejecting alternative ways to play</strong>--Nothing fails like success. Doing things right the first time is an obscenity--If your game isn't broke, don't just break it, break it before the competition does.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion" title="Loss aversion">Loss aversion</a> - The pain of chips lost generally is much greater than the pleasure of a chips gained. Playars strongly prefer avoiding losses over acquiring gains ( Quit early when winning and playing marathon sessions when stuck or chasing---see also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost" title="Sunk cost">sunk cost effects</a>. To win money over the long haul, you’ve got to win big pots. And to win big pots, you can’t be held back by this thinking error. You can't play a safe tight- is -right solid game and expect to win. You can't avoid crisis, you must be in a perpetual one that you create...but selectively picking your spots).<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_blind_spot" title="Bias blind spot">Bias blind spot</a> - The left side of the brain will do the math. But the right side will "tag" it with a story. That story usually doesn't compensate for one’s own cognitive biases.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias" title="Choice-supportive bias">Choice-supportive bias</a> - It's called "anchoring" remember one’s choices as better than they actually were. (Using the past to predict the future). There is never a certain prescribed way to play a hand, just a way to think about them. I've had racks of chips only to be felted 14 hours later because instead of an attitude of gratitude, I had the Mick Jaggar <em>Tumbling Dice</em> "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing"soundtrack playing.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect" title="Endowment effect">Endowment effect</a> - When I own something, I will tend to value it more highly. If I have to sell it, I will probably want to ask more than it is really worth. (Not being able to let go of QQ,AA,KK---rookie moves, and over betting the pot) There's the expected result, based on analysis, and the actual result, based on events. Poker is a game of situations---I've learned to thrown away Kings, Queens, and with a four card flush on the board, even two red Aces!<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias" title="Confirmation bias">Confirmation bias</a> - The Indians Rain Dance worked because they never stopped dancing! The Jeane Dixon effect-of making a few right predictions, and overlooking the false ones. Searching for information in a way that confirms one’s preconceptions. The delusions of reference--tells, lucky charms, hunches and coincidences.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect" title="Bandwagon effect">Bandwagon effect</a> - Do things because smart money people do or believe the same, like playing Helmeuth starting hands, or walking the painted line of Sklansky's <em>Theory of Poker</em> or Doyle's <em>Super System</em>. Related to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink" title="Groupthink">groupthink</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_behaviour" title="Herd behaviour">herd behaviour</a>. That's what I find so cool about my game--being able to fire three barrels with squadush. (Thank you Poker Stars Sit and Go's)<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%A9formation_professionnelle" title="Déformation professionnelle">Déformation professionnelle</a> - the tendency to look at things according to the conventions of one’s own T.O.E., time on earth; assuming things that have similar traits are likely to be identical; forgetting any broader point of view. Past experience and feedback loops can make you Hola Lupe.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disconfirmation_bias" title="Disconfirmation bias">Disconfirmation bias</a> -. We tend to use the information that is most handy when we make decisions/predictions. The path of least resistence mashed up with thin slicing.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focusing_effect" title="Focusing effect">Focusing effect</a> - prediction bias occurring when players place too much importance on one aspect of an event; causes error in accurately predicting the utility of a future outcome.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_discounting" title="Hyperbolic discounting">Hyperbolic discounting</a> - the tendency for players to have a stronger preference for more immediate payoffs relative to later payoffs, the closer to the present both payoffs are.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_bias" title="Impact bias">Impact bias</a> -Our minds are suited for solving problems related to our survival, rather than being optimised for poker decisions. Players overestimate the length or the intensity of the impact of future feeling states.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_bias" title="Information bias">Information bias</a> - Seeking TMI, too much information, even when it cannot affect action. Try playing in the dark, or blind---With less information to be processed and filtered, the brain assigns higher priority to the information that it does receive.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neglect_of_probability" title="Neglect of probability">Neglect of probability</a> - the tendency to completely disregard probability when making a decision under uncertainty. Expected Value and Variance---weighing all the possible outcomes, weighting the more likely outcomes, and coming to a conclusion---play a big part in the decision process. There is therefore, never a certain prescribed way to play a hand, just a way to think about them<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_exposure_effect" title="Mere exposure effect">Mere exposure effect</a> - the tendency for players to express undue liking for things merely because they are familiar with them. If it's not broke, break it!<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_bias" title="Omission bias">Omission bias</a> - The tendency to judge harmful actions as worse, or less moral, than equally harmful omissions (inactions).<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome_bias" title="Outcome bias">Outcome bias</a> - the tendency to judge things on their outcome, and not on their process. Over weighing and overeacting to a bad beat-- the most recent information or circumstances.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy" title="Planning fallacy">Planning fallacy</a> - the tendency to underestimate task-completion times. It has taken me ten years to become an overnight Holdem success!<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-purchase_rationalization" title="Post-purchase rationalization">Post-purchase rationalization</a> - the tendency to persuade oneself through rational argument that a purchase was a good value.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocertainty_effect" title="Pseudocertainty effect">Pseudocertainty effect</a> - the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, but make risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_perception" title="Selective perception">Selective perception</a> - the tendency for expectations to affect perception. (Gamblers Fallacy)<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_quo_bias" title="Status quo bias">Status quo bias</a> - the tendency for players to like things to stay relatively the same.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Restorff_effect" title="Von Restorff effect">Von Restorff effect</a> - <a href="http://www.sethgodin.com/purple/">Purple Cows</a> and items that “stands out like a sore thumb” have a tendency to be more likely to be remembered than other items.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-risk_bias" title="Zero-risk bias">Zero-risk bias</a> - preference for reducing a small risk to zero over a greater reduction in a larger risk.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 130%;">Holdem is too random to be left up to chance.</span></strong></div>
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<strong>"Whether my decision is good or bad depends on how I make it, not on the outcome." </strong><br />
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The Secret is about the law of attraction and results—the secret of poker is the complete opposite! And opposites attract!<br />
The way to get better is to think about process not results—focus on better decision making and ignoring short term results.</div>
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Poker Bloggers are the sharpshooters that come down from the hill after the battle to shoot the wounded, in this case, the dead. I'll give it my best shot.</div>
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There is never a certain prescribed way to play a hand, just a way to think about them. There's the expected result, based on analysis, and the actual result, based on events. For Instance:</div>
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David Sklansky's Fundamental Theory of Poker is a theory which is not about poker. Instead it is a theory about the results of poker. In other words, you cannot use the Fundamental Theorem of Poker to solve any actual poker problems. It’s good for finding out whether I was lucky enough or not to be holding any two cards against an opponent. That theory is outlined early in his book:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">"Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would have played it if you could see all your opponents' cards, they gain; and every time you play your hand the same way you would have played it if you could see all their cards, they lose. Conversely, every time opponents play their hands differently from the way they would have if they could see all your cards, you gain; and every time they play their hands the same way they would have played if they could see all your cards, you lose." [17-18]</span><br />
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POKER: It is not about winning or losing, rather excelling: Because of the huge amount of luck associated with NLH, We often face uncertainty in making decisions, we can, therefore, make a good decision and get a bad outcome. (Bad beats are had more often by GOOD players than bad. Afterall, you are "getting your money in good"...only to get that suckout miracle card ruin your nut flush to a staight flush etc.) Good decisions in poker, therefore, will not guarantee good outcomes, but on average, consistently better decisions lead to consistently better outcomes.<br />
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<strong>"Good decisions are made one step at a time."</strong> Preflop, flop, turn, river.</h3>
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Rock.Paper.Scissors. It's not just for kids anymore. Part coin flip, part drawing straws, RPS is not just some novelty way to gamble but a poker strategy to bet:</div>
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ROCK=CHIPS. PAPER=Cards. SCISSORS=POSITION.</div>
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Rock: wins against scissors, loses to paper and stalemates against itself.<br />
Paper wins against Rock, loses to scissors and stalemates against itself.<br />
Scissors wins against paper, loses to rock and stalemates against itself.</div>
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<strong>BET, RAISE, or FOLD-</strong></div>
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<strong>You can't immediately win by calling; you can by betting, or raising!</strong> Furthermore, you need a stronger hand to call than to bet or raise. betting or raising allows the possibility of winning the pot immediately by forcing decisions on the other opponents, who may very well fold, with slim holdings....and never cold call a preflop raise with easily dominated off suit hands.</div>
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<strong>The Equity of Folding in a Tournament</strong>-Folding is the invisable way to win<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiHdH0tt6Ozvs2PzXLtg-1sCi8X4si475T6noVy39ay2onrGyzK7QZsrQlscw-Wx8dUI0C8h5QLOM8W35RrJQ47aJtW73N5vMmPZEWF1CERCtNd7FUzKv0nd0hkfgwxDZGwApdALfHfbA/s1600-h/DNE.jpg"></a>The best way to win more is to fold more! Hand selection is really something to consider; so is position. Playing too many starting hands is the How Not to Do It way..When it is raised in front of you-Your mantra should be "I'm looking for a way to fold this AJ offsuit.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNloZGy40i0YS4PJf3x1kXeseoCdoQoSwN4yCP3VFDkhBwuBmvM90pkpAe73383SFmA7DdZSbQFKv5wZsR5yrLTC0HMLjIPbZw5jPCHqyKs0YWgy-WWj-qqQ3ETzziPzi5B3cve5fGaM/s1600-h/DNE.jpg"></a><strong>Knowledge isn't power---applied knowledge is.</strong> Luck isn't power either, but applied luck is the most powerful element in NLH: here's what I mean; Focus on decisions not consequences. Luck has consequences. Focus on decisions, not luck. What you think of me is none of my business, and what luck thinks of me at any particular time, is none of my business. Luck Positive (Winning) and Luck Negative (gad beats) are OVERHEAD; Chips, the cost of doing business!<br />
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Think about good decisions, not results. It's about the process not pots won---the chips will come. Do what you love and the money will follow--have a love affair with making sound decisions based on partial information. It is, after all, about excelling, not winning or losing a particular hand.</div>
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<strong>Make probability based decisions</strong>--How many outs do you have? What are the immediate odds-pre flop, flop, turn and river? What are the long shot odds for you and your opponent, once you put him on a range of hands? <strong>The universal tell in poker is called betting! </strong></div>
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Poker without cards---bluffing. It simply has to be part of your game--- this Misleading Vividness. But remember: BIG POTS for BIG CARDS: The really powerful starting hands---High card value, suitedness and connectedness---have multiple ways to win.</div>
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"Cards are there for bad players" is not always the case. Neither is:" NLH is about playing the person more than the cards"</div>
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The more your bluffs matters, the harder they are to pull off because they are, after all, bluffs. It is, however, impossible to defend against a solid bluffing strategy. Reality is perception, and appearance reality. When you don' have good cards, however, somebody else probably does.</div>
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You aren't a bad poker player if you get caught bluffing sometimes or most of the time. You only have to win a fraction of the time to net a profit. Sklansky's (game)Theory of poker points out that you cannot play optimally unless you include bluffing into your game.<br />
Every bet or raise can be a bluff, and you can beat a bluff with a mediocre hand. The only way to compensate for the bluffs of your opponents is to bluff them back! <br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Poker, in contrast,[to chess] is a game of <i>incomplete information</i>. It is a game of decision-making under conditions of uncertainty over time. (Not coincidentally, that is close to the definition of game theory.) Valuable information remains hidden. There is also an element of luck in any outcome. You could make the best possible decision at every point and still lose the hand, because you don’t know what new cards will be dealt and revealed. Once the game is finished and you try to learn from the results, separating the quality of your decisions from the influence of luck is difficult.</span></div>
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Hotel @nywarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03618654734152044877noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612808895351820965.post-21142326209275362622019-05-30T07:52:00.000-07:002020-07-29T06:21:10.941-07:00The Sex Of Poker-The New Poker Lobotomy<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/Rl2XhuE7mKI/AAAAAAAAAng/pokTs3B1kT0/s1600-h/ACEKING.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070375361049237666" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/Rl2XhuE7mKI/AAAAAAAAAng/pokTs3B1kT0/s320/ACEKING.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" /></span></a><br />
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First you do it for Fun, Next you do it for Money, Then you do it for Love</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">I'm two thirds of</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">the way finished with </span><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">The Sex of Poker</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">-- It's about how not to be a sucker to the unexpected and the unknown. It's The New Poker Lobotomy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%; font-style: italic;">The Sex Of Poker </span><span style="font-size: 100%; font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">log</span>ic makes what you don't know far more relevant than what you do know.<span style="font-size: 0;"> </span>I considered<span style="font-size: 0;"> </span>that many of my<span style="font-size: 0;"> </span>Jackpots<span style="font-size: 0;"> </span>and big hands were caused and accelerated by their being unexpected.---of me being an anti-gambler. The upshot is that:Knowledge leads to action but<span style="font-size: 0;"> </span>lack of knowledge can also lead to action. At least, that was the case when I qualified for The Legends Of Poker on the WPT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Sex of Poker is really a game of mistakes and the greatest one is rooted in pleasure. The fine line we walk between success and self-destruction comes down to asking that one dirty (Harry) question rooted in the loner cop’s message of personal freedom, “Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Poker is a game of situations. Winning poker is about making good decisions Feeling lucky and going to a casino is like feeling athletic and going to a sports bar. It’s a bad decision. It is the <i>in </i>to your sane, a kind of voluntary madness. The surest way of getting nothing from something. The road less traveled-the psycho path! To get an edge, you have to study the game, prepare and take,not just a focused approach but also a holistic approach that includes supplements, sleep, nutrition and exercise. A lot happens off the felt when you are not playing-doing the hard things now, so the easy things will come later.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;">What </span><st1:country -region="-region" st="on" style="font-style: italic;"><st1:place st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country><span style="font-style: italic;"> does best is produce the ability to accept failure. Poker is no miraculous exeption. One in a million is not one in a thousand, yet we confuse them as we focus on the payoff. It's charged. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Black Swan Events </span></b>Fooled by Randomness--"'<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 20px;">We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">9/11 (Twin Towers) and Covid 19 are Black Swan Events... we retrofit a narrative to tell ourselves that someone should have seen it coming because we ourselves could not have been that stupid. And yet, we are no better prepared for the next one.We all know that history will be dominated by an improbable event, we just don't know what that event will be.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Economically important things are consistently unexpected, in that people underestimate, on average, the probability and impact of improbable events We are chronic explainers-once an event happens we try our hardest to say I told you so and explain it...Hindsight and Monday morning Quarterbacking-Missing a train is only painful if you run after it!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 11.05px;">Since you didn't write a book yet," I told </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Jamie Gold,</b> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> <span class="LrzXr kno-fv" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Winner, 2006 WSOP</span>, </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "the only thing I can <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 11.05px;">imitate about your game is the Blueberries".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Buying into a poker game, unlike buying a car is a gamble that the future will represent an improved version of the past. And who knows whether that will be true? When it comes to NLH, what you don’t know is far more relevant than what you do know. Consider that many huge hands <span style="font-size: 0;"> </span>can be caused and sped up by their being unexpected, that case eight on the river for a suck out, a four card flush free roll.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So many utopian ideas are about Finite Games: End Cancer, solve global warming, get people to be more rational, reduce violence, and so on. As wonderful as all those Quixotic achievements would (will!) be, there is something missing from them. Finite Game optimism suggests a circumscribed utopia, without frontier or mystery. The result isn't sufficiently inspiring for me- a<b>nd I turned to poker because poker doesn't think! It is an infinite game</b>; the overall phenomenon of NLH has no end. It is always a frontier, always on the edge.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I consider myself an average player, except for the fact that I consider <span style="font-size: 0;"> </span>myself an average player. <b>NLH is too random to be left up to chance-</b>Unplanned discoveries--you can't predict them but you know where they can come from and you know how they will affect you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Poker is cool because the<span style="font-size: 0;"> </span>"greed is good" meme in the 80s, and the "rules don't apply to the rich" 90s (think Enron, Worldcom, dotcom). don't apply.Poker is the new Religion, the new golf, the old wine in a new bottle astrology and magic It helps us with our daily problems by teaching us how to avoid misfortune and how to account for it when it strikes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p><i></i></o:p><i>Pig Lipstick---renaming something unpleasant to get more mileage outof it... AKA, putting lipstick on a pig. Poker is too random to be leftup to chance---I was fooled by randomness. I needed a miracle, a shift in thinking about my unknown unknows in my game.that retrofitting of stories we create to explain my loses because my brain wasn't a laptop.</i><i>The tip of another iceberg: the knowledge of uncertainty that built my winning streak, that beginner's luck...</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Decisions are bets on the future</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">,</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> and they aren’t ‘right’ or ‘wrong’based on whether they turn out well on any particular iteration. An unwanted result doesn’t make our decision wrong if we thought about the alternatives and probabilities in advance and allocated our resources accordingly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Longest Journey begins with...a cash advance from an ATM.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Money can't buy happiness but it can buy chips which is kinda the same thing"-</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The sex of Poker is really a game of mistakes and the greatest one is rooted in pleasure.</span> The fine line we walk between success and self-destruction comes down to asking that one dirty (Harry) question rooted in the loner cop’s message of personal freedom, “Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Poker is a game of situations. Winning poker is about making good decisions <span style="font-size: large;">Feeling lucky and going to a casino is like feeling athletic and going to a sports bar. </span>It’s a bad decision. It is the in to your sane, a kind of voluntary madness. The surest way of getting nothing from something. The road less traveled-the psycho path!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Getting what you deserve is boring. Having pocket AA, and raking a small pot, just won’t do it. There has to be risk and ambiguity. Don’t you feel more energized when you’re uncertain of the outcome of a hand. When you do a three barrel bluff, don’t you feel more alive, your heart jumping out of your chest, you sweat, your take that dry mouth swallow. I think that a subconscious desire to return to this state affects my game. I bluff too much because I want to experience the feeling I get at these moments…. when you get him to fold top pair, when a scare card is on the turn..This is poker at its finest: If you can think impossible thoughts, you can do impossible things.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">If you had a normal “addiction” to, say, crack or sex-there are group therapies for that-but being addicted to “risk” in the poker culture just makes makes you a gambler. Is that so bad, you are wired to invest? Don't they call that <em>arbitrage on Wall Street?</em><span style="font-size: large;"> Isn't gambling a fundamental brick in the foundation of economic and investment thinking.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Poker points to gambling. Gambling points to math. Math points to risk. Risk points to investing. Investing points to finance; and finance points to economics, and economics points back to gambling</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In Blackjack, there is always a correct decision, a perfect strategy. NLH, on the other hand, is a game of completing the puzzle of partial information; where players make inferences and “investments” under uncertainty. Fixed strategies don’t work because players don’t always act perfectly. You are, above all else, playing against other people, and conditions change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">No Limit Hold ‘em or NLH is designed to have a high luck factor that can quite easily lead to a sort of pathological optimism. It’s a fast, easy to understand game that pulls down huge bucketfuls of short-term luck. In fact, playing because you are “feeling lucky” is (almost) the right way to play. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yet, the right way to play NLH and (almost) the right way to play is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. I don’t want to steal your thunder but that’s what luck is--- the Thunder. Thunder is a good thing , thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work and gets the job done, and it doesn’t strike twice in the same place because the same place isn’t there anymore. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The sex of poker therefore can be misery. It no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. The remarkable thing about luck is no matter how bad it gets, it can always get worse. Luck is a strange teacher. It gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. Luck is your university. The chips are your report card. Everything proceeds from there.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">While it is true that it is the mark of an inexperienced player not to believe in luck, luck doesn’t always believe in you--- Luck is pauperized ecstasy because it lends but never gives. When you’re buying in to feeling lucky, there is plenty of pain for sale. It is easier to change your religion than your diet, and in the buffet of luck may have no calories, but everyone eventually goes home hungry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If Pain is weakness leaving the body, then Poker pain is weakness leaving your game. It is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into--- the poker frequency. Do you play in-frequently? Is that one word or two?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Playing too many starting hands in a standard $2-$4 NL game is weakness. You should have a 20-30% view of the flop percentage. This means folding, saying “No” to AJ in first position, KT in middle position and QT in late position Just saying `no', to every hand, however prevents bad playing the way “Have a nice day” cures chronic depression. A Jackass who persists in his recklessness, nevertheless becomes a smartass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">You can't spell Manslaughter without laughter, so when you eat what you kill, make sure your opponents are having a good time.</span> It’s not some felony conviction; more of a firm belief in magic, the process of putting the con back in confidence and creating community, paying them off with social currency.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You are not keeping up with the Joneses. You’re dragging them down to your level on the green felt jungle. It’s not how good you are. It’s how bad you want it. The quest is in the question of not, “ Who is going to let me?” Rather, “Who is going to stop me?” Power is never given. Power is taken.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Losing Holdem ASAP is about putting that monkey on your opponents back; the “hundredth monkey” that creates a critical mass of change in how they view your “table Presence” As they start believing your own B.S., your third eye and turd eye are one--- Shift Happens! Poker appears to be ’ user friendly. After all, it takes a minute to learn …and a lifetime to master. It isn’t user friendly, it’s user illusionary.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The cards are just there to confuse the bad players,</b> the Hellen Keller’s. It’s not what you look at that matters but what you see. You don’t need cards to win. You need cards to lose. Try=Fail.The illusion of control is like pushing an elevator button and thinking it will arrive faster. You can however push people’s buttons, and get them to do things faster, like calling your “All in” when you flop the nuts, an unbeatable hand, or folding when they have the best hand. Your mind can't tell the difference between what it sees and what it remembers. Nerons that wire together fire together. You have this social situation, where you get to create your own reality, your own table presence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Playah puts the odds back into God--- a Megalomaniac who not only must confuse his thoughts with gods, but gets you to believe in his thoughts. Your reality check will not bounce because you create your own reality. It’s your world, others are just a tourist in it and eventually, their own. They believe a monster truck is coming toward them, they will always jump out of the way. So keep on truckin, They have been gas lighted. “Let there be flop”….<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In poker, "the nuts" refers to not only an unbeatable hand, It is also an unbeatable style of playah, a raisey-crazy one -man asylum., whose default mode of betting suffers from Jim Carey’s “advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage.” An adrenaline junkie with demented energy, grandiose plans, he like being feared. It imbues him with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence. The Playah is inebriated by the looks of horror or repulsion on people's faces, as they fold with the best hand as you bluff--The poisoned joy to the poker world of depriving others of what you don’t have, a legitimate hand. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The crime and punishment for playing with the Playah is a malignant optimism. He plays a one-handed game of "Good Cop, Bad Cop" with different people. Stiring the pot, triangulating and pitting one against another. Gossip may be false intimacy but Torture is the ultimate act of his perverted intimacy. A kind of Traumatic bonding", akin to the Stockholm Syndrome, takes place… You are his “Supply” he is your change agent—He find you; gets you,to love him; make you eventually hate him. That’s fine with him---He love to be hated and he hate to be loved The Playah uses use up other people like candy bars, and when he’s finished eating , he throw away the wrappers. Disposable relationships. No deposit. No return.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In RL (Real Life), When you define me you negate me, but in NLH, --- Love Thy Label As Thy Self. This Perception Shifting is the Most Promising to Define a New Space for winning at NLH. . Playahs need a reputation to live up to and tend to become whomever people see us as. Most of life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. (Players tend to confuse habits with identity. When asked WHO they are, most people resort to communicating their habits. Get into rearranging. Native American Indians on <st1:placename st="on">Caribbean</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Islands</st1:placetype> couldn't see <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Columbus</st1:place></st1:city>'s ships sitting on the horizon because they were beyond their knowledge. You don’t see it then believe it. You believe it then you see it.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">3.<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.bellagio.com/" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">Motivated by Noise and Money</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Poker is a struggle for silence, and never interrupt an opponent when he is making a mistake. With the license of the brothel and the silence of the cloister, the Playah provides the loophole that allows the whore to climb into your game. With your Wal-Mart table presence-- huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, the Playah devours all his ” rivals in his lust to expand. You operates in a world of overwhelming force, supply and command, While the TV audience supplies new players who demand action. Without new players, good Playahs wouldn’t make any profit. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A “rush” is a winning streak. When you are on one, it’s like drinking from a fire hydrant. Everybody knows you can’t park anywhere near that place. There is a certain larceny in getting more for less, a bit of cheating when the money faucet is <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Niagara Falls</st1:place></st1:city>. You have no reason to believe the well will ever dry up. So you drive the bus, by looking in the rear view mirror. Caution, objects appear closer than they actually are! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">How you do chips is how you do life. Chips are congeled energy and releasing them releases holdem’s possibilities. Energy, however follows the path of least resistance, and most beginning players are calling stations, and/or over bet preflop, and under bet post flop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7612808895351820965" name="_Poker_Rewards_Aggression"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. </span><a href="http://cardplayer.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">Poker Rewards (selective)Aggression</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Being normal. It is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful and unimaginative. Ask your mother. <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Normal</st1:place></st1:city> is the setting on her washing machine. <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Normal</st1:place></st1:city> isn't a virtue. It denotes a lack of poker courage. You have to be Madonna, constantly reinventing yourself. Otherwise, it’s a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. You don’t want to be normal. Normal people spend their lives avoiding tense situation, Poker Playahs spend their lives getting into them. The whole upshot of NLH is that it be a perpetual crisis that you create. The Phish is the last one to know it is in the ocean. Phush swim in it. Players surf on it. Failure to plan creates crisis in RL (Real Life) In NLH, planning for crisis eliminates failure. This is a Poker Mini-<a href="http://amberstar.libsyn.com/">Satori-</a> You abhor monotony and constancy, equating them, in your mind, with death. Seek upheaval, drama, and change.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">God may play dice with the universe,, but this ain’t no metaphysical crapshoot, it’s NLH. If you want to have “fun” then spin the wheel of fortune, phone a friend, buy a vowel, and get voted off the island. Deal or No Deal. If you want an “experience”, play NLH. It’s not a sport, it’s a concussion! Good NLH poker is not a "A-ha" experience, it is more of a "holy-shit" experience. Most playahs are experience rich and technique poor. Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. Someday, this books will start to read like one long typographical error, and you come away thinking, “From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way”. 'It’s like football - if you don't wear a helmet and pads, you're going to get hurt.. This book is your equipment. It is a contact sport, and the more contact you have with other players, the more you will win.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You simply can’t play a solid, safe game. Anyone who plays poker within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. You have to get in there and gamble.. Aggression makes you money. And the trouble with NLH is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Poker very simply, rewards aggression. Aggression is the main source of energy for the NL playah.. NLH is about aggression and domination- it’s a playah’s only redeeming qualities. When everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. Due to the effect of community cards, hold'em is a game of "domination. A hand is dominated if it has 3 or fewer outs against another, like AQ against AK.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The price of aggression, however, is not cheap. You have to be willing to lose in order to win. Aggression causes trouble. The trouble is you must use extreme self-discipline. If you cannot obey yourself you will be commanded by someone else’s play You cannot control the luck factor, but skill is something over which you have control, and you have the power to gain yet greater skill by becoming a Playah. A playah is just looking for opportunities, not guarantees. Don’t get me wrong. This isn’t amateur hour, this is gambling. All of life is risk exercise. It’s the only way to live more freely and interesting. Dream with your eyes open. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Aggression causes pressure and pressure makes diamonds and diamonds last forever--- It creates the mutant ability to do the impossible, win consistently at NLH. You deserve to win consistently, and the minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. But you don’t get what you deserve in poker, you get what you negotiate, and you better be good at negotiating risk. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In NLH, betting is far better than calling. That’s aggression. When you bet, you can win if you have the better hand or if your opponent folds. If you call, you can only win if you have your opponent beaten. If you bet, you determine the bet size. You determine the pot odds. If you call, you are accepting someone else's odds. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you bet, you force people to pay you off when you have a good hand. If you are a caller, you have to hope someone else will willingly pay you off. The importance of aggression is why tight-passive players can win a lot more at Limit than No-Limit. If you were arrested for aggression would there be enough evidence for the poker police to convict you? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The gambling world is a kind of gambling kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "Poker" with the wrong blocks.. You got “T” testosterone, that’s good, you’re gonna want that, You got “A”, aggression , that's even better you're gonna want and need that, too. You can’t spell danger without anger, and every NLH needs to feel dangerous.But any two year old kid can throw a fit! NLH is about controlling that aggression , harnessing that aggression into a series of wins. Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The antidote to anger is patience, and as we already know: infinite patience brings immediate results to your game. Yet the opposite of patience is aggression. We have this paradox. We are learning that NLH is more subtle and multiple than conventional 'either-or' limits have allowed. Our imaginations have some catching up to do. The power not of positive thinking but paradoxical thinking. The nearer you are to paradox, the nearer you are to beating the game.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">5.</span><a href="http://www.gladwell.com/blink/" style="font-weight: bold;">The Power of Paradoxical Thinking.</a></span> Don’t cheng unless you ch’i<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you want to perform optimally at NLH, then you have to be paradoxical . In NLH you have to have your cake and eat it too. This is not either or duals and duality. Welcome to the world of “and”. Doing two things at the same time that apparently negate each other. NLH is 100% skill and 100% luck. The language of "and" is the language of NLH. The language of "and" is the language of passive and active, optimystical and materialistic, hard and soft. There’s a yang for every yin. It’s Fuzzy logic, and everything is a matter of degree and the player is fuzzy wuzzy to the nth degree. Get a clear, sharp view of the fuzzy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The best way to protect yourself is to be as fluid and formless as water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Control The Options: Get Others To Play With The Cards You Menally DealGeneration Terrorist- Keep Others In Suspended Terror: Cultivate An Air Of Unpredictability. A placebo ---Latin for "I shall please"<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">On a psychological level, there are other ways of changing perspective and opening up your game. Getting a miracle case 9 on the river for a full boat-- a dramatic and startling experience can completely alter our understanding of the game, making us into new playah Sometimes the experience can be so overwhelming, it is as if we have shifted into a new dimension, as if our minds have expanded by a Power of 10. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Between the paradox of holding back and holding on comes the midpoints. TheABC midpoints of NLH---The energy of Anger, Boredom and Craze (enthusiasm). Being healthy in poker is having the same diseases as your neighbors. The nearer you are to paradox the nearer you are to healing the hurt that comes from going broke. It’s not either/or. On the one hand, on the other, I’m up, on the other I’m down. It’s one long game. Admit to third options.. Reframe it, You have an an infinite number of third options. IS NLH an all or nothing proposition. different things come from separate places' into 'apparently different things may come from the same place---you may win, you may lose, but what does that really mean. Do not think in extreme "black-or-white" terms but use continuums instead! Do not think in words like "always, never, every time, everyone".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">For a Playah, discipline doesn’t mean to punish, it doesn’t even mean to control behavior, when you are self-disiplined you are becoming your own disciple, and your game gets more interesting. It leads to self-respect, and the ability to say no is key----No to playing too many hands first and foremost. No to under-estimating how much of your profit comes from AA,KK,AK, No to playing suited mongo (trash) out of position and for more than one raise outside of your blinds. The key to NLH is laying down big hands no matter what the table encourages you to do. My Bad (My fault) is you don’t remember this one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Go within or go without winning. Live from the inside out. What we know inside always exceeds what we know from the outside. Beliefs are what you learn from the outside; knowledge is what you know from the inside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7612808895351820965" name="_The_randomness_of"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">6. The randomness of NLH is too important to be left to chance!</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">NLH is mostly not about cards, it’s about people. To get around this problem, All decisions should be randomly generated. Every time that the same situation occurs, you should act as if it has never occurred before and randomly decide whether to Raise, Fold or Bluff. You might go 10 times in a row or more without bluffing, or you might bluff six times in a row. Choose an action that leaves your opponent with no way to take advantage of it. The mess is the message<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The best-kept secret is held by one, but what if you knew all your opponents’ hole cards, all his secrets. Would you have played the same way? If the answer is yes, then they have no secrets to keep and you have profited, they have lost. If the answer is no, if you would have played differently, then they have gained, and you have lost. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">More than that, If your opponents play their hands differently from the way they would have if they could see all your cards, they made a mistake and you profit; and if they play their hands the same way they would have played if they could see all your cards, they played correctly, and you lose.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7612808895351820965" name="_Why_be_a"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">7. Why Be A Man When You Can Be A Success?</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Few teams win back- to -back championships. Because nothing fails like success You set yourself up to be your own Judge Judy and executioner. It is the greatest injustice you perpetrate upon yourself when you play in your CZ (Comfort Zone), the safety net of being a winner. If it works, it’s obsolete. Doing things “right” the first time is an obscenity. Built to last I s yesterdays idea, There is no yes in yesterday.If you talk about the past you have no future. It’s a sure fire way to have your winnings sequestered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nothing lasts forever in NLH. You might as well get used to the expression, “Don’t worry, and It’ll change”. Getting what you expect is boring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the RW(Real World) change is seen as some “thing” containing lastingness, permanent press. Would you rather have a TEMPORARY change to your game that lasts as long as it is useful, or rather a LASTING change that continues to last far beyond any limits of usefulness. A poker game is not static. It's a dynamic, living organism that changes from moment to moment. You have to respond to those changes. You have to be the change you want to see in your poker world. Any given game is a Living system, with environmental conditions, adaptation, life cycles, recycling, needs, homeostasis, evolution, survival of the fittest, health, illness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Poker is 100% skill and 199% luck. Information is the difference that makes a difference. Information is surprises. We all expect the world to work out in certain ways, but when it does, we're bored. What makes something worth knowing is organized around the concept of expectation failure. You learn something when things don't turn out the way you expected. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The greatest temptation for a winning player is to repeat the things he did to get there. Winning at the poker table is like milk, with an expiration date stamped right on the carton. Pretty soon, you’ll be in deep yogurt. If your game is not broke, break it, and more than that, break it before someone else does. You have to continually switch gears, and mix it up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ignorance is blistering. Imagine someone of average intelligence. Now consider that half the Poker world is dumb and dumber. They have put the odd back into god. Laziness is the religion of the 21st century player. Players have more leisure than money. Their cash can’t buy happiness, but it can buy chips which is kinda the same thing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Happiness, isn’t good enough for the Playah , he demands euphoria. It is a form of energy that tends to make you more of who you already are. Hearing the mantra “Tight is Right” is really “Procrastinate Now” but that’s a “I only want to win” strategy. You”ll be forever in the control of things you can't give up, your chips. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7612808895351820965" name="_Vene,_Vidi,_Velcro:"></a><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">8. Vene, Vidi, Velcro: "I came, I saw, I stuck around”</span> <o:p></o:p>---Teach Yourself Poker in 10 Years (Why is everybody in such a rush!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">NLH is not that Spanish story about a guy named “Manual”. There are no playbooks, no rules and no rulers. The Playah change the rules. He creates his own game. The Playah is the measure of all things. His money talks. It’s present tense grammar is a slang that spits on the street, rolls up its sleeve and gets to work. The Playah is at the center of gravity, and you are in the vortex of his personal twister, a black hole which sucks your energy and resources dry .The aim of the playahs language is to throw others off the scent and obtain a supply of more chips. When you grow up, do you want to be a Global Village Idiot? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Damn it, this isn’t brain surgery; It’s rocket science! We have guided missiles and misguided players who forget the cards always have the first move. They act, you react. ---a traitorous mistress that sometimes has to be gang raped into submission.You are always in a state of not knowing. You never know how soon is too late because at anytime, anyone, including you, can go “All-In” and risk everything. The important thing, nevertheless, is not to be in the know, but to be in the now. Good poker comes through you not from you. It’s a gift, that’s why they call it, the present. Open it up! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, then why practice? There is absolutely no substitute in NLH than for a genuine lack of preparation.. A NLH session is one long conversation run by C students, and Cash is their report card. NLH is like high school with money. Dare to be naïve. This is a world beyond the classroom besides getting the correct answer. Few playahs save for a rainy day. Playahs are perennially ill-prepared. avoided and ignored, rendered transparent by their checkered past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Keeping players in the dark so that when you spike the bluff, they have that deer in the headlights look---frozen disbelief. Heads or tails? In the dark both are correct. If I turn on the light, I "collapse" the superposition, and force the coin to be either heads or tails by measuring it. Never show your cards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A broken clock is right twice a day ,just like a square circle no one can win lose all the time. If you play badly long enough sooner or later you will win. The fact that so many people are playing NLH makes unlikely events almost certain.. With a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen . The one chance in a million will undoubtedly occur despite extremely long odds, someone will eventually win the WSOP because millions of people play. This is not magical thinking. It’s The Law of truly Large Numbers. The mathematical Law of Large Numbers states in essence that if an event is given enough opportunities to occur, sooner or later it will occur. The one chance in a million will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.' <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7612808895351820965" name="_The_Free_Agency"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">9. The Free Agency</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The casino is the ultimate playground of Free Agency. The plug-and-play low entry point is one that anyone from waitress moms to NASCAR dads can move into and put together a life---or at least a facsimile of a life ---in less than a month. There are charities for the homeless There are charities for the homeless. The casino is for the homely default lottery- Ka-ching- mentality of wish fulfillment, a portable magic. Most want to go through the revolving door of poker on luck’s push. Do yourself a favor and avoid the free ride.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like Temporary ("flexible") workers you are paid a premium to compensate for not having job security. Like owning your own business, you only have to work half a day. You can do anything you want with the other twelve hours! Got poker? It’s like, Got Milk?” with an expiration date stamped right on the carton. It's never too late to be what you might have been if you start now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Play Poker It’s like applying for citizenship in the Gaming World. NLH is a form of patriotism, It is not the last refuge of a scoundrel, but the home of the free and brave declaration of independents who stick to the old school values: life, liberty, and the pursuit of a fast buck. There is no treason, You can not be a traitor to anything, except to yourself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">All Players are created unequal. All Playahs are cremated equal. . Being "on fire" is misleading in poker. Usually it's the fire that's on you. It is not some spontaneous combustion, about the match being too close to the gasoline. You must first set yourself on fire. When you released from the burn center, (of bad beats, and your own idiosyncratic mistakes) you start to see things more clearly: This is the Fuzzier Side of the ROI of NLH. Fire can be our friend, whether it's toasting s'mores or raining down on Charlie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The assumption that gambling is bad has outlived its usefulness. If it wasn't for pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, gangsters there wouldn't be any poker. There was a time when one could almost be afraid to call himself a playah because it meant so much kneecapping. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now anyone can do it with complete ease, because it means nothing at all, thanks to the CNN effect of dealing with everywhere and everything at once, including the WPT and WSOP. You cannot avoid poker paradise. You can only avoid seeing it. The sign in the window reads, “Sorry, we’re open 24/7” The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. NLH is the speed of light. 24 hour casinos-I haven’t got time for that.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7612808895351820965" name="_Are_You_Experienced?"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">11.Are You Experienced?</span></span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wisdom is shared experienced---Thanks for sharing-Phil, Doyle, and David. “Beast Out”-on Helmuth’s tool box, Play Poker Like the Pros and it’s a poor workman who blames his tools of its core message---Only play premium hands and play those hands aggressively. Doyle’s Super System is the Rosetta Stone, the black box,the flight recorder when your game crashes. For all you Pi in the sky math atheists, Sklansky’s, Theory of Poker will make you a believer, deifying pot odds and probability. They are among the best techniques. The sum of their thick information is accurate. Yet everyone of these techniques is a trap. The tricky thing is you have to be trapped by them for them to work. Go into their books knowing you’ll be trapped, with a trust, that once they work, they will self-destruct.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When you played Stratego on a rainy weekend, you were just pretending to take over the world; when you play NLH, you actually are, one player at a time. It’s a game of domination. Is there life before death in poker? If you don’t create your own whole NLH world, you will certainly die in other peoples, NLH is so perplexing to the fish/phish --- he’s not used to being in a situation where he has to figure out what to do each and every moment. For him, NLH is just another way to gamble, one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking, a kind of yuppie version of bulimia for the guy with 3C’s-cash, condo and cars. A Yuppie on a poker table is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so playahs can approach it without fear. There’s no better way of doing that with a raise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Road Dawg’s high-speed chase to nowhere is your now here You’re good at opening up the present---the gift called now. You have found your “Calling Station”. Nothing makes this kind of player more vulnerable than playing every hand to a showdown. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The fish thinks he only has to learn how to play by the rules. He’s wardrobe consists of two t-shirts; the one says “But They Were Suited”, the other, “Take My Money”, He plays like a sledgehammer. Gorden Gekko’s greed is not good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When all he has is a Sledge-bankroll, every hand to him seems like hours of fun. It’s a poor workman who blames his tools but if the only tool you have is that hammer, then everything you see begins to look like a nail. . The nails that stands up to this kind of player , is not getting pounded down. He ends up buying a new BMW’s and having stock options in (Blue Horse Shoe Loves) Anacot Steel<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You can’t play poker without money, and lack of money is the root of all poker evil. "You wanna play NLH? That's gonna take a lot of mirror! Every playah has roots once in a while in an insufficient bankroll. Playing short stacked is the last resort--- like paying for a ten-day vacation and arriving on day seven. It’s like selling the car for gas money. The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. You work yourself up from nothing to a state of supreme poverty with re-buy after re-buy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s not whether the playah loses a hand , but how he loses and how he’s changed because of it and what he take away from it that he never had before, to apply to other hands, other players. This kind of losing, in a curious way, is winning. How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win again. So what--- that you’ve lost all your money. Luckily, you will still have everybody else’s. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. . It is when we lose everything purposefully - that we gain it back.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7612808895351820965" name="_White_Angry_Hold"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">13. White Angry Hold Em--- My invisible internet friends</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Vegas got Amazoned. Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and started all over again in the user-friendly universe of location neutral Casino @nyware. The “Open Source” world that everybody is smarter than anybody doesn’t apply in Internet NLH. One of us is smarter than all of us. The herd is wrong. Let me get ghetto on you-it's the white people version of looting. Home isn’t where their heart is it’s where their computer is,.. The napsterization of cutting out the brick and mortar middleman by partypoker.com and others have created Alpha geek---get rich click-- students and beta freak--tweeds-to-riches—teachers high on silicon crack. While it is true that the quicker you go the longer it can take, when you think long you think wrong— To begin to think is to begin to be undermined. Decisions made very quickly from the gut, in poker can be every bit as good as those made carefully and deliberately! Internet players are no miraculous exception. They make snap judgements and decisions fast. There really is no correlation to time and effort spent on a decision and the outcome. Analysis is paralysis or another why to put it Paralysis by analysis! Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not power, but applied knowledge is. The longer and harder you think about something, we usually assume, the better you think about it, and when you assume you make an ass out of U and ME. Go with your best guess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Take your hate off Adolph- I was a teanage Nazi sympathizer…Play poker like the Pros….and go broke. If you play like Gus, you will go broke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You don’t need <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/">powerpoint</a> to explain it. You don’t know why you knew but you knew. This feeling of knowing in the first two seconds is not a gift given to the few. What is deeply personal is universal, It can be cultivated. Common sense,, however is not so common. It is possible to know without knowing why you know and accept it. Internet Playahs are capable of making sense of situations based on the thinnest portion of experience. Poker ooms are really in the art business. Limit poker is to NLH poker what paint-by-numbers is to art. NLH artists have to live out loud.That’s just the way the cookie crumbles, er I mean that's just the way the cookie gets completely stomped on and obliterated. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their bad habits. Art is anything you can get away with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The “Open Source” world that everybody is smarter than anybody doesn’t apply in NLH. One of us is smarter than all of us. The herd is wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is poker not confession. Poker is a struggle against silence. Betrayal oozes out of every pore, there’s chatter in the finger tips, happy feet, the breath. NLH is fraught with opportunities to keeps one's mouth shut."The little voices inside the playahs head want the other guy to shut up but then you realize--- Never interrupt your opponent when he is making a mistake. Everything bad is good for you, and NLH is bad to the bone. Most players lead lives of quit desperation. Playahs are artists, and artists have to live out loud. The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. Be original. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from the next freeway exit.The poker highway is full of magical rides patiently waiting for our wits to test drive. Bad Beats are the potholes in the road of NLH. The way is to act not compete. You're either part of the steamroller or part of the pavement. Putting the sin back in sincere is not the highway to hell. Its not a major sin, so you only go to heck. It’s just an I’m the boss applesauce tude. Putting the con back in confidence, Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. If everything seems to be coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane. Cowboy up, and Begin again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Remember, NLH is a game of high cards.. Remember, NLH is a game of high cards. “Let there be flop.” “The geeks shall inherit the earth,” and The first shall be last and the last shall be first. No where is this more true than in holdem. NLH is a game of position. The power of position is your super power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Last is basically best. Pretty hands turn into pretty ugly hands quickly relative to position. If you're betting in early position, you don't have the information yet on the other hands that someone in late position will have. All good players will tend to play more hands when they are in late position and less hands when they are in early position. A Beginer/limit player has no sense of the importance of (betting) position. The most common trap hands are AT, AJ, KQ, KJ, KT, QJ and QT.from early position. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Many people are overly aggressive and too loose pre flop, and too tight post flop The best position is on the button, right in front of the small blind. It is in this position that you will posses the most information when your turn to act arrives. When sitting on the button you will know how many players are in the pot, if there has been a raise/re-raise, etc. This is most certainly the most profitable position.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I don't suffer from tilt. I am a carrier!!! The Broken Escalator Phenomenon: When Autopilot Takes Over.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7612808895351820965" name="_Ah!_the_limit"></a>Ah! The limit Table-- I spent a year there one weekend. It’s All About The Jackson’s’Hell is other people and you can usually find them at the 3/6and 2/4 limit games. A good Limit player is basically a high-functioning autistic who has no idea how NLH people do it . It is a recipe for permanent mediocrity. The middle of the road may be where the white line is, and the limit player walks the walk and talks the talk down that line, but it is the worst place to drive in NLH. Limit is a science, but NLH is an art, the difference between checkers and chess.. If it keeps you awake, it’s art; if it puts you to sleep, it’s a drug. Limit players are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. Everybody pities weak limit players; jealousy you have to earn. For those of you without hope, we have Limit poker rooms with color TV, cable and air conditioning It is the most original torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. I didn’t fully understand the fatal term terminal illness, until I played in a 2/4 limit game.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bounty after the mutiny. Expecting the other playahs to treat you fairly because you are a good guy is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. Bulls, however, do not win bull fights. It’s all about the Hamilton’s.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Infinite patience brings immediate results to your game. How do you spell success in poker? T.I.M.E. Time is one of your most valuable assets, We Americans are in a time famine, while the rest of the world, (the axis of evil)---the 100 million people on this planet that make less than $2 a day, are time millionaires. Some of them come over here, and make great playahs. Nevertheless, Spontaneity is not random. It is a function of your training, practice. And rehearsal. .Don’t always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily or for there to be some relationship between cause and effect. And when there isn't -- when you win a big jackpot for no apparent reason, or when you make it to the final table in a tournament, don’t be surprised..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Holdem’s Looney-tuned tension gets its storyline from the Cartoon Network. In a New York minute, an ACME anvil pancakes you, and then a split second later, you’re expanded - accordion-style - back to normal, like some tempurpedic mattress. It’s a formula of ins and outs, need and speed, aggravation and acceleration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">NLH is a game of domination. It rewards (selective) aggression. Infinite patience, however, brings immediate results to your game. The game has gotten faster, yet the faster you go, the longer it takes to beat the game. You spell success in NLH, T_I._M_.E_.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the United States of Unconscious gambling, we Star Strangled Bastards can’t get enough of what we don’t want, don’t need and don’t know. —S.A.D. the Standard American Diet, Uncle Sam’s unhappy default mode of doing the same stuff over and over again; and expecting a different result. NLH really put the c*nt in country, a metaphor for the most valuable thing on the planet Sorry We’re open 24 hours a day---like some vast and unimaginable mall, opening her legs to receive us all. But your quest to beat the game will be turning into 25/8.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nothing else in the world smells like that. Smells like victory When you start losing and you hear yourself saying that, it’s the lesser known "I don't have a dream" speech. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You cannot get ahead while you are getting even (Chasing). The word winning would lose its meaning if it weren’t for losing. Losing motivates -- it never compensates. And motivation is the key to NLH. No noose is not good news Nothing focuses the mind as a noose around your neck., like going all-in, and drawing to the nuts. Try it sometime. A flopped set over set situation ranks right up there with the mother of all ex[periences. especially when you have top set, then river quads for basically the stone-cold-mortal nuts.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Happy 120th birthday---Staying healthy may be the slow way to die, but The secret to staying young in NLH is lying about your age! In poker, we’re obsolete at ever-younger ages.NLH, like professional sports, has a way of making 30 year old men feel decrepit. Twenty is the new 30. Your poker life is too short to play bad cards. Stay healthy with strong starting hands AA,KK,QQ,AK Suited. It is the slow way to die. Pay attention to the number of hands going to showdowns. Showdown Percentage is a critical concept in no-limit hold'em. Since no-limit lends itself to bluffing, one can make a lot of money simply by stealing pots if your opponents have a “Right is tight” approach. However, this strategy obviously fails if everyone shows you down at the river.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gowing old in poker isn’t optional, growing up is. The only thing tender about you is your legal tender. Nothing but frenemies at the table. They are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. Putting the ick in dick, a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept with chips. Just like there is no business like showbusiness, that’s right it’s show business, not show friends--- There's No Limit Like No-limit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s hard to make a comeback when you haven’t been anywhere. What doesn’t demolish you , makes you tougher. The future is already here it’s just not evenly distributed yet. How do you predict the future? You create it buy sitting at a table with the wallet bearing crowd and exploit their affliction, the “house money effect”. The future you see is the future you get. We are inventing the future of NLH every day we go to play. It will happen with or without us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kindly let me help you or you will drown," said the monkey putting the fish safely up in a tree. The ultimate goal is to separate these fish from the sea, leaving them exposed to good play. NLH is designed to achieve an important balance: any Jones (unskilled player) must be able to win just enough hands to keep them at the table rocketing. One of the ways you can recognize a Jones is by what they win with. For a player to win he has to show his cards. If a player wins with a 8 and a 2 off suit, you know you've got low hanging fruit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The longer the playah lives – the more average he becomes.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s a misfortune that never misses. It’s the price we pay because we don't want to pay the price to lose. NLH is never finished, only abandoned---It’s a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Chips aren’t lost or made, simply transferred from one Party of One to another. The assumption that gambling is only about the money has outlived its usefulness. A player that count their chips at the table, is like a hooker who looks at her watch. They are missing the point. They see Cindy Crawford, when the reality is only the mole. NLH is not just about money anymore. It’s about winning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Having a huge chip stack are weapons of mass distraction because the house money effect of playing with “their” chips takes over but there is no their there. It’s all yours. If you don’t figure this out regime change is in the air you’ll run your fortune into a shoestring, trying to prop up your ailing dictatorship, defending your status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. Nothing says “Obey Me” more, however, than a large chip stack. "In poker, stasis = death."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Motion creates emotion. M.A.D. No nukes is good nukes, Mutual Assured Destruction. When you put emotion into your game, You pull the handgranade and blow up everyone. The herd is usually wrong. Good NLH playahs thinkers are like comedians: they test boundaries and challenge the status quo. Capitalism is often refered to as Creative destruction. Get the wrecking ball ready<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A BIG Project is so vastly expensive and complicated that people cannot understand it, so they assume that those working on it understand it. It gets green lit. A big chip stack has the same effect—People back down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Boredom is the only thing that can help you to make correct decisions. It comes from knowing what you are doing. The cream always rises in boredom; your submerged best play comes to the surface.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Laziness is the religion of the 21st century player. What we have here is a failure to excommunicate the notion that sometimes nothing is a good hand. Our “Procrastinate Now!” Right is tight is wrong. You sit there waiting for the deck to hit you, and it will. Try raising with nothing . You’ve got to get creative. You’ve got to mix it up. The flop misses everybody 2/3 of the time, and NLH lends itself to bluffing a small bet in or out of position can take it down. Playing suited connectors 89 and J10. "Sell the sizzle not the steak," makes everyone a vegetarian for a while. It works great—until the player tries the steak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Playah not only puts himself in your shoes before he took your shirt, he waits patiently for that shoe to drop! He knows instant gratification, when it is merchandised as a commodity, takes too long. The Casino is a wish-fulfillment striptease for the all-consuming Afluenza crowd. Leisure is more available than money and money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy chips, which is kind of the same thing. So you dig into your pocket and re-buy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">With the license of the brothel and the silence of the cloister, the Playah provides the loophole that allows the whore to climb into your game. With his Wal-Mart table presence-- huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, he devours all his ” rivals in his lust to expand. The Playah operates in a world of overwhelming force, supply and command, While the poker economy supplies new players who demand action. Without new players, good Playahs wouldn’t make any profit. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Henry Ford said you could have the Model T in any color as long as it was black. When you go head to head with the Playah, your “I for an I” will leave you blind in a black room looking for a black car that isn’t there. You may be the engine, but the playah does the steering. Your Blue book value? Nonexistent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Does he really have that kind of juice? No. He’s altered your thinking. He’s made you a fan. You’ve been played. Hate the game, not the player. It’s poker. He’s a Poker Playah, the opposite of people. Poker is not a civilized situation, it’s an heroic one.We can't all be heroes. Someone has to sit on the curb and clap as you go by. . You could quit anytime, but chooses to call with marginal hands, redoubling their efforts while forgetting their aim which was to win. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you dream to become the “Dian Fossey” of this NLH poker jungle, to become one of “them”, and then study “their” behavior from the inside and tap into this vibe, then read ,The Sex of Poker. It may not get you in Who’s Who, but it can certainly tell you “What’s What” about the monkey and the business. Drinking the company Kool-Aid and Tattoo the sex of poker logo on your chest. NLH is the modern Greek tragedy. You can basically go from Hero to zero. It’s good to be be king of the hill , married to the queen of the nights, and then, in one moment with one card left to come, all of a sudden, you’re sleeping with your mother and you poke your eyes out. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use in NLH. Players seem to be violating the most basic most basic laws of the universe: Cause and effect, sowing and reaping, action and reaction. Even the law of gravity the law of gravity, figuratively jump off a cliff (with any two cards, in RL (Real Life) you’re going to plummet to the Earth below – 100% of the time, not in NLH. just KNOW it, the same way one "knows" about gravity – directly, immediately and assuredly. No cosmic immunity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You get your Freak-onomics on with more = better. The temptation to get into the action is constant.. After all, in NLH, being safe is risky, and being risky is safe. Sandwiched in between that tipping point of no return and the law of diminishing ones is this one “great mistake” in your game, and this great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied with the simple realization that, sometimes enough is a feast. Because long-term planning is for Communists and poker is the most democratic form of gaming, you continue your casual misanthropy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Allow me to sound like a thing from another tax bracket, and quote some proud members of the right wing conspiracy, “We rich are different. We know when to leave.” Remember Enron, Tyco, Global Crossing? Most of those guys knew when to bail. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. Most poker pigs end up making hogs of themselves. They never get disgruntled. You can never get enough of what you really don't want." If your goal is to "not lose ," you can have continual wins and still not have what you don't want.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today’s poker is not necessarily a lapse of morality, but the result of a great social injustice. In your “W2” world, you name your own decimal dusted salary. He’s called Vinnie, and Mr. Bag-a-Donuts is always going to be having out of money experiences: because a funny thing happened while homeslice was pressing his nose to the grindstone: His world changed.---his joy-to-stuff ratio got out of balance, his office ennui Dilberted his Type T (Thrill) personality and he turned into an underemployed torpedo. Getting what you expect is boring, and another thing---you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. Garbage hands win. In poker, what's supposed to happen really is happening. There’s the rub.\<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">.Respond to change. A poker game is not static. It's a dynamic, living organism that changes from moment to moment. You have to respond to those changes. Survival of the fittest. CEO salary distinct or extinct?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We are part of the best entertained and least informed people on the face of the planet, free v to change spouses, jobs, careers, neighborhoods; but the way he gamble? Players don't resist change. They resist being changed! Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget, neither does your house of cards. You have to work hard at failing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The “house” takes 5 percent, but what's 5 percent of a dream? A nightmare. There is wise and otherwise--- winners and losers--- AmeriCAN’s and AmeriCANT’s. Video Poker, Caribbean Stud, 4 card and Crazy Poker hijack the game into unrelated territory of luck only. It doesn’t seem right, but NLH is as important cognitively as reading a book or operating a McDonald's cash register, Poker Genius is nothing more than constant attention. Everyone is a genius, it’s just that some of us are too stupid to realize it. It is easy to get de-geniused rapidly with all these house games. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our national id may have ADD, our shared hallucination of “more” and “any place but here” having instead of being;but our poker idd needs DDD --- deceive, delude and deny. We have to misrepresent or disown what we know to be true, we have to lie to our self, deceiving our self requires that we both know and not-know sometimes. This apparent paradox is one of the keys to understanding how poker-DDD operates . The Self “Flim Flam” startegy. You have just lost $500 in a big hand---Nothing changed except the meaning we associate with our response - and hence everything changes. That's reframing! It's the art of choosing what to give greatest significance to in any situation. It is the art actively choosing our response. It means we do not engage in regretting or resenting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There’s a yang for every yin. Attention is the strongest currency at your disposal. It’s poker capital. Every moment of our game is of infinite worth in that it has the potential for movement. There is Infinite input at the table. NLH has more to do with a state of mind than the cards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now anyone can do it with complete ease, because it means nothing at all, thanks to the CNN effect of dealing with everywhere and everything at once, including the WPT and WSOP. You cannot avoid poker paradise. You can only avoid seeing it. The sign in the window reads, “Sorry, we’re open 24/7” The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. NLH is the speed of light. 24 hour casinos-I haven’t got time for that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Broadcasting poker let the genie out of the bottle. Thanks to WSOP and WPT enslaving the masses just became easier. It is like randomly mailing automatic rifles to 50 million addresses. This time, You hope some crazy twenty- something trench coat mafia types gets a hold of one, with their fine unwashed arrogance steps into a casino, and go postal as their longest journey begins with cash advance from Bank of America. Fasten your seat belts. There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. How was the poker game ?" is like saying, "How was that drive-by shooting?" You don't care how it was - you're lucky to get out alive. Iit’s much easier to SHOOT a bullet than to DODGE a bullet (a If I had three thumbs, I'd put them all up There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation. You need chaos in your soul to play well, and a unit of chaos is called a cao. Playing against these fish is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope . It’s called Texas Holdem not Texas sharpshooting---the guy who shoots holes in the side of a barn and then draws a bull's-eye around the bullet holes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today’s poker is not necessarily a lapse of morality, but the result of a great social injustice. In your “W2” world, you name your own decimal dusted salary. He’s called Vinnie, and Mr. Bag-a-Donuts is always going to be having out of money experiences: because a funny thing happened while homeslice was pressing his nose to the grindstone: His world changed.---his joy-to-stuff ratio got out of balance, his office ennui Dilberted his Type T (Thrill) personality and he turned into an underemployed torpedo. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Most Players simply do not know how to behave in a massacre. Poker weakness is pitied, but jealosy, that’s gotta be earned. If you’re not pissing somebody off at the table, you’re not doing your job. A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull flop. If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think, they'll hate you. Hate the game not the playah. Get mad at the situation not the playah. Don’t take it personal.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Poker acts. You react. The Cards alway have the first move. Playahs are really living in a state of not knowing. So, you need a Scenerio It might take 15 years to become an “overnight Success” or it might take one tournament. Inspiration, however, is wonderful when it happens, but you have to develop an approach, for the rest of the time. The wait is simply too long. You can just Fake it till you make it. Money costs too much. The road to better play is whatever road you're on and it helps to have a scenario. My overnight success took 10 years-- People tend to overestimate what can be done in one years worth of poker and to underestimate what can be done in five or ten years. Failure is not an option in poker. There are only outcomes. It’s like one long day. It’s never a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight .Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day on the felt. NLH’s has this eternal present feel to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Create your own system, or be enslaved by another player’s.Check it out--- When you're in a hand against one or more opponents, put them on something. Make your best guess about their holdings in light of their betting. Have a keen sense for the obvious because it is easy get so caught up in our own hands that you don't stop to consider what your frenemies are up to until it's too late. If you have a scenario, you may be wrong but at least you have a chance to be right, and have something left. Count your outs—How many cards can improve your hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The world needs more of ME---Your education is an STD, It makes you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you have the urge to pass it on. Every playah has a number: the exact change you need in the bank to walk away. You know that you can lose your job at any moment, that his madness takes its toll on your mind and body and soul, and that the job prepares you to do nothing else. Your career becomes a race to squirrel away a bundle. There is no equivalent to the gold watch, just--a double lobotomy and ten rolls of rubber wallpaper.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">That rule that everything worthwhile is a result of struggle is not only false. There’s a bit of larceny in getting more for less, a bit of cheating the “system”. You feel like some black market wheeler-dealer., living in the underground economy of CASH. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. $100 bucks makes you the corporation . This ain’t no Google this ain’t no Buffetology. There's nothing better to change your moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If it wasn't for pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, gangsters there wouldn't be any poker. There was a time when one could almost be afraid to call himself a playah because it meant so much kneecapping. The assumption that gambling is bad has outlived its usefulness.Now anyone can do it with complete ease, because it means nothing at all, thanks to the CNN effect of dealing with everywhere and everything at once, including the WPT and WSOP. When you start to read about the evils of NLH, you have to give up only one thing--- reading.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The future is already here it’s just not evenly distributed yet. How do you predict the future? You create it buy sitting at a table with the wallet bearing crowd and exploit their affliction, the “house money effect”. The future you see is the future you get.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Everyone profession has a blind spot. Players have a mindset, just as lawyers, accountants, bankers, engineers, and scientists have their specific mindsets. He wants to win money, but ends up losing, that’s a problem. These unwanted problems aren’t the problems----they’re attempted solutions. Every behavior has a positive intention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The lawfulness of poker players behavior. Somebody’s gotta be a sheriff The herd is usually wrong. They don’t play aweful, they play lawfully. They are predictable. They act in certain ways. They act in a cause and effect way. They “take In” the game.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">All Phish are made from the same mold, some are moldier than the rest-the sponge pants Bob, the Fred the funnel, Steve the sieve, Sam the strainer. Bob absorbs all! Fred puts the fun in funnel. He’s here to have a good time. The chips pour in at one end and they spill out the other. The strainer lets the juice pass through and is stuck with the pulp. The sieve is the best because it lets out the flour dust and keeps the fine powder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The so called new ways to play holdem are the old ways heated up in a microwave for 15 seconds. The Playah is devoid of trvia, the structure of one's own skills are frequently invisable to himself. Teach an old dogma new tricks-You never hear of a dog that is failure at being a dog. If yourgame is not broke break it before some one else does.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Going For Broke makes you Broken- Having lost everything, the Playah feels that he has found himself, that he has been re-born, that he has been charged with natal energy, able to take on new challenges and to explore new territories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Symptom Prescription-The Cure Is In The Poison.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Do the unwanted habit of folding instead of raising. The cure is in the poison. As long as you’re wanting to change, you won’t. Trying to hard worsens problems, Don’t just schedule in some me time, schedule some worry time. Some forced catastrophes. The blow up method, blown out of proportion. It is important to do what you don't know how to do. your poker skills keep you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Paradoxical intention: All In with 74 Off Suit. Bluff off all your chips. Do what you (love) fear and the money will follow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The world of either or is a world of false dilemma. There is a third option. The world of “and”. It is the difference between a breakdown and a breakthrough. The Pro’s of con ---Confidence and contradiction. to reach beyond what appears to be obvious. Reaching beyond the obvious is the essence of getting creative with NLH.. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The statue is not the saint, the menu not the meal, but the map is the territory. out there' in the cards—Go within or go without, without an understanding of players..The poker world isn’t user friendly it’s user illusionary a blur of energies and frequencies. We are really "receivers" floating through a kaleidoscopic sea of frequency, and what we extract from this sea is but one channel from many extracted out of the supermix The Phish is the last one to know it is in this mix.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sorry we’re open 24 hours a day---like some vast and unimaginable mall, opening her legs to receive us all screaming out, “I’m for sale” I 'm at a seedy Indian Casino in Ft Lauderdale, where I think everyone goes eventually, if they die without Christ. I start to take up second hand smoking, .have a beer, what the hay, it’s only liquid bread. The Brain is like an appendix for these dunces, they don’t even use it. All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me—so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer. Work is the curse of the drinking classes. A bunch of underdogs in this inhumane society. These are working class people. You can’t lie to them. You can never offend them in small ways. It’s all or nothing . I am allergic to civilization. It makes me wake up with headaches. I need to go back into the casino with all these zombies. Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength, and most of these New York transplants wear rudness as a a fashion statement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">29..A rainbow of chaos</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A chao (pronounced "cow") is a single unit of chaos...We have , chaoboys and chaogirls. The wrecking ball swings, out of chaos order, and order chaos. There is order in apparent randomness. Perspective is the key to perceiving order. Crisis is not merely a mindless jiggling, it’s a subtle form of order. Reign Chaos Cow/girls/boys..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You would rather be skillful than lucky anyway--Sure anyone any ONE TIME gets lucky 100% of the time. The law of large numbers says that you will win the lottery. Ask yourself this question before sitting down to play poker: Lucky or skillfull?</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Whether my decision is good or bad depends on how I make it, not on the outcome."</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Secret is about the law of attraction and results—the secret of poker is the complete opposite! And opposites attract!<br />The way to get better is to think about process not results—focus on better decision making and ignoring short term results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Poker Bloggers are the sharpshooters that come down from the hill after the battle to shoot the wounded, in this case, the dead. I'll give it my best shot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There is never a certain prescribed way to play a hand, just a way to think about them. There's the expected result, based on analysis, and the actual result, based on events.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">David Sklansky's Fundamental Theory of Poker is a theory which is not about poker. Instead it is a theory about the results of poker. In other words, you cannot use the Fundamental Theorem of Poker to solve any actual poker problems. It’s good for finding out whether I was lucky enough or not to be holding any two cards against an opponent. That theory is outlined early in his book:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would have played it if you could see all your opponents' cards, they gain; and every time you play your hand the same way you would have played it if you could see all their cards, they lose. Conversely, every time opponents play their hands differently from the way they would have if they could see all your cards, you gain; and every time they play their hands the same way they would have played if they could see all your cards, you lose." [17-18]</span></div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_control" title="Illusion of control">Illusion of control</a> - the tendency for players to believe they can control or at least influence outcomes which they clearly cannot. NLH is 100% luck and 100% chance. An opponent can (suck out) win one hand 100% of the time. NLH is too random to be left up to chance-yet <strong>good results will have you rejecting alternative ways to play</strong>--Nothing fails like success. Doing things right the first time is an obscenity--If your game isn't broke, don't just break it, break it before the competition does.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion" title="Loss aversion">Loss aversion</a> - The pain of chips lost generally is much greater than the pleasure of a chips gained. Playars strongly prefer avoiding losses over acquiring gains ( Quit early when winning and playing marathon sessions when stuck or chasing---see also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost" title="Sunk cost">sunk cost effects</a>. To win money over the long haul, you’ve got to win big pots. And to win big pots, you can’t be held back by this thinking error. You can't play a safe tight- is -right solid game and expect to win. You can't avoid crisis, you must be in a perpetual one that you create...but selectively picking your spots).</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_blind_spot" title="Bias blind spot">Bias blind spot</a> - The left side of the brain will do the math. But the right side will "tag" it with a story. That story usually doesn't compensate for one’s own cognitive biases.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias" title="Choice-supportive bias">Choice-supportive bias</a> - It's called "anchoring" remember one’s choices as better than they actually were. (Using the past to predict the future). There is never a certain prescribed way to play a hand, just a way to think about them. I've had racks of chips only to be felted 14 hours later because instead of an attitude of gratitude, I had the Mick Jaggar <em>Tumbling Dice</em> "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing"soundtrack playing.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect" title="Endowment effect">Endowment effect</a> - When I own something, I will tend to value it more highly. If I have to sell it, I will probably want to ask more than it is really worth. (Not being able to let go of QQ,AA,KK---rookie moves, and over betting the pot) There's the expected result, based on analysis, and the actual result, based on events. Poker is a game of situations---I've learned to thrown away Kings, Queens, and with a four card flush on the board, even two red Aces!</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias" title="Confirmation bias">Confirmation bias</a> - The Indians Rain Dance worked because they never stopped dancing! The Jeane Dixon effect-of making a few right predictions, and overlooking the false ones. Searching for information in a way that confirms one’s preconceptions. The delusions of reference--tells, lucky charms, hunches and coincidences.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect" title="Bandwagon effect">Bandwagon effect</a> - Do things because smart money people do or believe the same, like playing Helmeuth starting hands, or walking the painted line of Sklansky's <em>Theory of Poker</em> or Doyle's <em>Super System</em>. Related to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink" title="Groupthink">groupthink</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_behaviour" title="Herd behaviour">herd behaviour</a>. That's what I find so cool about my game--being able to fire three barrels with squadush. (Thank you Poker Stars Sit and Go's)</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%A9formation_professionnelle" title="Déformation professionnelle">Déformation professionnelle</a> - the tendency to look at things according to the conventions of one’s own T.O.E., time on earth; assuming things that have similar traits are likely to be identical; forgetting any broader point of view. Past experience and feedback loops can make you Hola Lupe.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disconfirmation_bias" title="Disconfirmation bias">Disconfirmation bias</a> -. We tend to use the information that is most handy when we make decisions/predictions. The path of least resistence mashed up with thin slicing.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focusing_effect" title="Focusing effect">Focusing effect</a> - prediction bias occurring when players place too much importance on one aspect of an event; causes error in accurately predicting the utility of a future outcome.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_discounting" title="Hyperbolic discounting">Hyperbolic discounting</a> - the tendency for players to have a stronger preference for more immediate payoffs relative to later payoffs, the closer to the present both payoffs are.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_bias" title="Impact bias">Impact bias</a> -Our minds are suited for solving problems related to our survival, rather than being optimised for poker decisions. Players overestimate the length or the intensity of the impact of future feeling states.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_bias" title="Information bias">Information bias</a> - Seeking TMI, too much information, even when it cannot affect action. Try playing in the dark, or blind---With less information to be processed and filtered, the brain assigns higher priority to the information that it does receive.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neglect_of_probability" title="Neglect of probability">Neglect of probability</a> - the tendency to completely disregard probability when making a decision under uncertainty. Expected Value and Variance---weighing all the possible outcomes, weighting the more likely outcomes, and coming to a conclusion---play a big part in the decision process. There is therefore, never a certain prescribed way to play a hand, just a way to think about them</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_exposure_effect" title="Mere exposure effect">Mere exposure effect</a> - the tendency for players to express undue liking for things merely because they are familiar with them. If it's not broke, break it!</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_bias" title="Omission bias">Omission bias</a> - The tendency to judge harmful actions as worse, or less moral, than equally harmful omissions (inactions).</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome_bias" title="Outcome bias">Outcome bias</a> - the tendency to judge things on their outcome, and not on their process. Over weighing and overeacting to a bad beat-- the most recent information or circumstances.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy" title="Planning fallacy">Planning fallacy</a> - the tendency to underestimate task-completion times. It has taken me ten years to become an overnight Holdem success!</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-purchase_rationalization" title="Post-purchase rationalization">Post-purchase rationalization</a> - the tendency to persuade oneself through rational argument that a purchase was a good value.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocertainty_effect" title="Pseudocertainty effect">Pseudocertainty effect</a> - the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, but make risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes.</div>
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The power of mind over money is rooted in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias">mental bias</a> . It is our own idiosyncratic way to distort our map of reality. Just as the menu is not the meal, this map is not the territory--because everyone experiences gambling differently. When your reality check bounces---change your map.<br />
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<strong>FLOUNDERS verses ROUNDERS</strong> -The difference in playing with the belief and intention of winning against just being social.<br />
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For the poker Balla, nothing is better than when that average Joe Player sits down at a poker table. Why? Because he just sat down with money he INTENDS to lose! There is no more +EV situation, and most tables in a live poker room are filled with players exactly like that. When you treat No Limit Hold em as only a game of chance instead of skill, it is not a law of probability, it's a fact for games with negative expectations: Risk of ruin is 100%.<br />
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A Joe plays when he "feels" like it, a Pro, all the time! Call them perpetual shortcuts JOES make when losing poker ASAP; and as any of the PROS will tell you, they don't need cards to win--that's for amateurs. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pro Players specialize in other people's biases!</span> especially that malignant optimistic one that beats its chest and says, "I'm the best player at the table". Hotel Anyware considers himself an average player, except for the fact that he considers himself an average player!<br />
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Pros know the 60/40 end of a proposition--- when to hold em and when to fold em--- when you have some competitive advantage over somebody else. And you don't bet, you don't gamble, you don't invest, unless you have some competitive advantage.<br />
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Poker is a game of partial information, and when you have a competitive advantage you have to take into account this and, more important, behavioral factors. There is wise.... and there is otherwise:<br />
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Irrational default modes of playing tend to show up in our game both when we win---the <strong>House Money Effect</strong> chip overload of playing loose with <em>their</em> money, and when we are getting on tilt with bad beats: That's when emotion and even confidence cloud our judgment and misguide our actions. The Volatility and Variance of NLH rewards patience, a clear mind, and, <u>selective </u>aggression.<br />
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<strong>American Airlines AA and the Concorde Effect—A True Story at the $100 Buy-In Bicycle Casino- Eating Dessert First.</strong><br />
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I’m UTG, deep stacked with four limpers. I raise and get called by all four. I should muck right there but I don't. I’ve got pocket aces. The flop is low ball 3 4 7 rainbow. I bet big-a Dan Harrington "information" bet to see where I am at... and lose three players. The turn is a 5, a possible straight. I bet bi<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAp3xh8r6uHSTRtY5BW_WGnd_srlMR9JBJTkMefExOBLhDussw69ol4-yr9QXjJ8qxmp32DCwei9uSRBdWBcJBDCFMl_Cn7r2JUVaAZQJE2kJk_o6LSlRbRMWQBBUcnlwZM2g-UbTC0gc/s1600-h/concorde.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160393302689792098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAp3xh8r6uHSTRtY5BW_WGnd_srlMR9JBJTkMefExOBLhDussw69ol4-yr9QXjJ8qxmp32DCwei9uSRBdWBcJBDCFMl_Cn7r2JUVaAZQJE2kJk_o6LSlRbRMWQBBUcnlwZM2g-UbTC0gc/s200/concorde.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a>g again and get re-raised all in. I insta-call. The river is a blank. I flip over AA and Lift Ticket has Pocket 66. for the nuts.<br />
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The very next hand I get pocket kings--it was <em>Dijon Vu,</em> the same old mustard--My emotional return on investment however, my EROI, was saying "SEAT OPEN!" and the table could smell it and I got everyone calling, a family pot. <em>I actually wanted to go home broke</em>..and even though I tripped up, I lost to runner, runner, heart flush. I did. That's right,wanting to lose money. And that emotional return was more of a payoff than the financial one--when my black Kings got cracked by suited connectors (hearts, a baby flush!).<br />
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Granted, too much respect for money makes you a bad NLH player but I walked away from that session with knowledge: First, that my brain is the "most powerful computer." Second, when on tilt, my brain is the most powerful "broken computer ."<br />
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Tilt makes us sub-optimal for evaluating rewards, sizing up risks and calculating probabilities. It's like selling the car for gas money.<br />
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I walked away with a<em> less</em> broken computer, less sabotaging behavior, and more insight into the fact that self-delusion is more than possible in poker - it's highly likely!<br />
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Behavioral Finance ---The Black Box Flight Recorder has a name for my crash landing -- <strong>The Sunk Cost Fallacy</strong> --the refusal to get out of a losing position, because you've already written the money off -- resulting in losing even more money.<br />
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The British and French governments continued to fund the Concorde project long after it was determined that it was a loser---merely to justify past investment in it, rather than assessing the current rationality of investing.<br />
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You have an over pair on the flop and bet big. You get called. On the turn the texture of the board is dangerous. You bet out in the dark---suddenly you are stuck as your opponent straightens out.<br />
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We are in fact more sensitive to decreases in our chip count than we are to increases in them.<br />
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Doyle Brunson, a member of the MENSA Poker Club says: <em>Great players lay down great hands.</em> In fact, the ability to accept a loss and get away from a great hand is probably the most important (and difficult) skill to learn in poker. It's the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.<br />
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The ability to take a small loss to avoid a big one is the hallmark of this poker genius.We all start out as geniuses, and then allow our emotions to de-genius us. If you put good players into bad situations they usually turn bad.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">33. Choosing Preferences over Outcomes</strong></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-style: italic;">It's not success or failure only outcomes.It's not about winning or losing, but exceling and making good decisions in spite of the outcome!</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> ER</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Poker is, first and foremost, a game of managing resources, or if non are available, being resourceful. </span><span class="EC_EC_ecapple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="color: black;">You can explain anything with preferences- For example “I always play 7 deuce unsuited”. It’s The Hammer. </span></span><em style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">7</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">-</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">2</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> off suit is considered the worst hand in Texas </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Hold'em</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">. ... Because it is the worst, some players will </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">play</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> it for fun, and will continue to keep betting, even if they expect to lose This .Belief perseverance-that you can spike that one out, and get lucky is every where in Poker, the seductive NOW moment in the the game. It's becoming a routine observation.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">This malignant optimism can create the happy accident-- you can get lucky 100% of the time....on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-weight: bold;">any </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">one hand.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">This is a predictable surprise in holdem, the cost of doing "Business" are chips, and BAD BEATS are the overhead!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">34. Playing holdem without a helmet</span></strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">This is one of the secrets to Beating America's 92 Million <em>Irrational</em> Poker Players:Most players are experience rich and technique poor. They most likely are gambling not betting. This is your demographic of"overconfidence", of magical thinking,Every Americon Gambler is only a hand away </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">from a very humbling wake-up call.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><br />Most people will choose preferences over outcomes. like <span class="EC_EC_ecapple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">playing Russian roulette and saying to yourself "You have a 5/6 chance of surviving. People sometimes select the choice they put less monetary value on. That is why calling to the river is a way of folding. The Cult of the amateur has drunk the kool-aid. The close choice of say, a heavy metal fan of Metalica verses Mozart Effect. The glass is not half full, it’s not big enough for gamblers. If you swim in the river, you drown in the river. Things don't even out with time, they even out with the number of hands you play against "fish" PS Don't tap the Aquarium, you'll scare the fish.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Every hand of poker is a series of risk/reward decisions. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">America's 92 Million <em>Irrational</em> Poker Players</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> cannot always figure out what is in their best interest.<br /><br />Money and risk are abstract, complex things. We act less rationally, less logically, and more emotionally when playing cards. When your left brain gets good at telling your right brain what to do, you even the score, and gain a competitive advantage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">35.The universal tell in poker is called betting!</span><br />
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No limit holdem is a game of ins and outs, need and speed, aggravation and acceleration. </div>
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<em>Counting your outs</em>, the number of cards that will make you a complete hand is something to reconsider, thanks to what I call, the <span style="font-size: 130%;">Bluff Outs:</span>additional scare cards that, if they hit, you bet out, and, force your opponent to fold; mentally dealing them the hand .Bluff Outs Poker is about playing 'in the dark': betting that your opponents DON'T have the cards rather than that they do.<br />
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Preflop, a pocket pair only has 2 outs to improve, overcards have 6 to draw to the nuts.This is not even taking into account straight and flush draws! That means over cards are at least a 3:1 favorite to improve and win the hand. And with bluff outs, even if you miss, you can bet it like you have it.</div>
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It requires a shift in thinking---Instead of "I hope he doesn't bet" or " Come on--- pair the board" or "Club, Club Club" ...that's wasted energy...Say to yourself, "If a club comes on the river, I am betting out like I have it, enough to take your opponent off their hand of top pair, even trips! or " If I hit my set, I am betting the pot". or If I miss with AK, I am making a big cointinuation bet, no matter what"....I've done it. It works.<br />
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Full Catastrophe Poker is not a game of cards played with money—It is a game of money played with cards. It speaks a language called betting, is a slang that rolls up its sleeves, spits in the street, screams strength possibly more than any other and gets the work done. Tells Don’t Tell – People Do with the language of their betting. Poker is a game of partial information and the language of betting "last in" is information dominance.<br />
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Bluffing is a big part of NLH since most players miss the flop 33% of the time.IN NLH there are 4 opportunities to bluff, 1 pre and 3 post flop. LOOSE players are looking for reasons to CALL; TIGHT, to FOLD. </div>
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You aren't a bad poker player if you get caught bluffing sometimes or most of the time. You only have to win a fraction of the time to net a profit. Sklansky's (game)Theory of poker points out that you cannot play optimally unless you include bluffing into your game. </div>
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Every bet or raise can be a bluff, and you can beat a bluff with a mediocre hand. The only way to compensate for the bluffs of your opponents is to bluff them back! </div>
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You don' t get what you deserve in poker, you get what you negotiate--Bluffing is the quintessential Negotiator. If you are going to be a winning player, you have to include bluffing in your game.<br />
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Tells can give you a competitive advatage. HINTS or suggestions are better ways to describe the leaks in opponents (and your) game.-The universal hint in poker is called betting—jamming the pot when you have the best of it, and punishing opponents for their draws.Betting is the language of poker; the more money behind your bet, the louder your voice! This kind of game is The safe sex of poker-without the deceit, the seduction, the bluffing-is like wearing a condom. And you know how that feels. </div>
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The sex of poker is bluffing, getting something for nothing-Poker is, after all, anything you can get away with. In the real world, If your wife is cheating on you---you don't want to believe it.(Truth bias). So she bluffs you and gets away with it but then...one day her own Fear of being caught---detection apprehension---will be the non verbal (TELL) communication that speaks to your subconscious and allows you to divorce her! That is, if your left brain gets good at telling your right brain what to do. </div>
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Bluffing is giving yourself permission to win, even if you do not have the best of it. When you show up to a game, you have to be script driven, and the lines are simple--I am going to win, NOT I should win , NOT I deserve to win. If you can pull off a feeling of acceptance, not even belief, you will have a reasonable amount of success in your bluffs. Be misleading not confusing in your bluffs. </div>
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Use position, psychology and bluffing to tip the scales. One thing for sure-POSITION makes every bluff easier. What is your RRR, your risk reward ratio? What are the CP's, calling patterns of your opponents? What are their BP's, betting patterns? The bluffing quest is in these questions. </div>
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You don't get a second chance to make a first impression on any given hand. Commit to a hand, and the prosperous termination of desired events--scooping up the pot. Bluffing really means I am against something but appear to be for it. Creating a false impression, disguising the "truth" is easier said than done. Overcompensating in either direction usually occurs---that's a bad bluff. Manipulating how confident you appear, a person who is bluffing will almost always overcompensate 100%, to convince or convey. </div>
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<span style="color: black;">The way to get better is to think about process not <em>results</em>—focus on better decision making and ignoring short term results. This is extremely hard to do because neurons that wire together fire together--- that's the sex of poker ---Having fun. In fact, it's not about winning or losing any one hand, but excelling and having an "experience"</span></div>
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There's a wonderful phrase in Gladwell's <strong>Blink</strong>--"the power of thin slicing"--which says that as human beings we are capable of making sense of situations based on the thinnest slice of experience. That's what I mean about the difference between having fun and "having an experience"---pure house games like black jack and slots, verses poker. NLH is not just a "sport", it's a concussion. The difference between lightning and a lightning bug. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Hello, My Name is--"I'm All In"-</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">when bad things happen to good decisions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Bad playing (Making the right mistake) can get "rewarded" 100% of the time on ANY one hand.This kind of poker---PUSH and PRAY-- is not a user friendly game, rather a user illusionaryone because : "Lucky" players will always have worse cards then you, and will draw out, even if there is one card in the deck they need, and they may very well get it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Getting your money in good, only to get sucked out is a fact of NLH. Chips are overhead, bad beats the cost of doing business against random reDONKulous decisions. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">For these types of absolute novice, everything is even money. The idea is to defeat that concept, making, for instance, balanced decisions---correlating the size of the pot to the strength of your hand. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Nevertheless, when you treat No Limit Holdem as a game of chance instead of skill, it is not a law of probability, it's a fact for games with the "F" fun factor-- you may have great expectations , but you will get negative ones. Risk of ruin is 100%! That's the difference between gambling and betting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Losing holdem ASAP is about that default lottery- Ka-ching- DONKey mentality of wish fulfillment.It is a portable magic---you rent but never own. Take it to your game and you will leave through the revolving door of poker on the old gambling world of luck's PUSH, verses the New wor(l)d order of NLH's PULL. It's rolling the DICE verses Inviting CHOICE.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Learn to play poker like the Pros….and go broke. If you play like Gus (Hansen), you will..TVEPP TV Educated Poker Players-see:<a href="http://www.edreif.com/2008/02/lightning-and-lightning-bug-difference.html">The MoneyMaker Effect</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">NLH is too random to be left up to chance. NLH is senseless, common sense and it’s not so common. It’s crazy delicious! The fixed is replaced by an obsession with the here and now, The Power Of New. It's less about how do I play 3 3 in early position and more about how should I think about it. There is no there there! in the distilled experience of the veterans.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Old wine in a new bottle is when you play ABC "I bought the book" holdem. "Money runs counterclockwise...You always lose money from the guy on your left and win chips from the guy on your right" or " Seat 9 only value bets here and only bluffs there." </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The quest is not in these Either/or questions:---Am I gonna win this hand or lose it? Is my hand better or worse than my opponents single hand? Will I play it as a stealing hand or a hitting hand? Either/OR even in terms of thinking Pre/Post flop. .This duality of up and down, playing optimally verses exploitively -- There is no right and wrong, good and bad. odds and even. Zero Sum Minus Some, is too pedestrian, too run-of-the-mill. It's more than mixing it up and shifting gears---the mess is the message.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;">You can't predict the flop, but you can invent it--Plan around commitment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Doing two things at the same time that apparently negate each other. NLH is 100% skill and 100% luck. The language of "and" is the language of NLH. The language of "and" is the language of passive and active, optimystical and materialistic, hard and soft. There’s a yang for every yin. It’s Fuzzy logic, and everything is a matter of degree and the player is fuzzy wuzzy to the nth degree. Get a clear, sharp view of the fuzzy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">NLH revolves around the threat of an all in bet. It should be considered around ever decision. This may come at you. Play differently in big pots...Isolate hands that have a high showdown value, and overlimp in hands that have a positive and implied odds to invite more people into the pot. </span><span style="color: black;">If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, then why practice? There is absolutely no substitute in NLH than for a genuine lack of preparation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">A NLH session is one long conversation run by C students, and Cash is their report card. NLH is like high school with money. This is a world beyond the classroom besides getting the correct answer. The important thing, nevertheless, is not to be in the know, but to be in the Power of NEW . The glass ain’t half empty, it ain’t half full, the glass is not big enough. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">What everyone knows about poker is not worth knowing. Challenge the Myths of One-Liner NLH Formulas-Think long think wrong. Dump it or pump it. Suited and booted. Tight is right. All in to Win. No set, no bet. Go big or go home. Raise more than call and fold more than raise.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I wrote </span><a href="http://hotelanyware.blogspot.com/2007/10/power-of-paradoxical-thinking-in-high.html"><span style="color: black;">The Power Of Paradoxical Thinking in High Stakes Poker</span></a><span style="color: black;"> This draws water from that wellspring-- </span><span style="color: black;">Procrastinate now! Infinite patience does brings immediate results to your game. When was the last time you said "I think I'll go to the casino and fold 80% of my hands!"<br /><br />In Poker the future is already here. It’s just not yet evenly distributed yet. You see, Poker is really a game of mistakes. The rules of Americon Poker are designed to achieve an important balance: an unskilled player(usually the guy with the three c’s condo, cash and cars) must be able to win just enough hands to keep him at the table losing his money. The Americon just look for opportunities, not guarantees. He is ready to make the right mistakes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Come sideways at an issue instead of head on -</span><span style="color: black;">It's Not the Big that Eat the Small...It's the Fast that Eat the Slow . Slowplaying fast...<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125897361584511698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSMliVB3nVEgPRCf2mI36Md15-X-3uxkR4yYiH-a0Y6fRg0tqRxjgX3t1XyCFP_qYG4Ew-L8CSKKceJdq1KRlFCg_azA0y42KTMZ-Fxn5XHJAXaHsmw6TEvjkGg2JcJq07urH9zGUhYzA/s200/Michael+Corleone.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" />Don’t ca-cheng unless you ca-ch’i--Physical energy capacity is measured in terms of quantity---low to high; and emotional capacity in quality ---negative to positive.. It’s energy, not time, that's your street cred, your <em>table image</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">You don't get a second chance to make a first impression--Logic should yield to instinct. Rebuys are just rearranging the deck chairs of the titanic. The iceberg image, unless you realize something else is keeping the guy afloat who just took all your money , you are destined to become a human hangover, obscene and heard screaming "I'm king of the world! The Emperor's new t-shirt says" But they were suited"...Check please.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfk0-FCf8wY1QXlOQTsuN1rSUzGV1Z_bB_b6DfIdcaTRK0Mg-GO4Lblv8CS6qNvy5W9fpYWGSzk79H0A4D51AVZ8pGb1CuJdeJzxfxmsF3qHz7qpqQE05dH7pwX8RJ-etKgyUhLbknZpM/s1600-h/07-15-08_2242Ed_Reif_Chips1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223794406573504578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfk0-FCf8wY1QXlOQTsuN1rSUzGV1Z_bB_b6DfIdcaTRK0Mg-GO4Lblv8CS6qNvy5W9fpYWGSzk79H0A4D51AVZ8pGb1CuJdeJzxfxmsF3qHz7qpqQE05dH7pwX8RJ-etKgyUhLbknZpM/s200/07-15-08_2242Ed_Reif_Chips1.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>There are four basic stages that a player must pass through to achieve poker mastery:<br />
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"If one really wishes to be master of an art, technical knowledge of it is not enough. One has to transcend technique so that the art <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgknZ8J5_-zjDmdBYikmydCmlvkfd7n-1rV-aU8fSPcunUQsDJVUPzT8UzCPli2y1OChyf7FnVFmXTG0ZXHO33I1y2FlbmFA81ASeFAjqnNxBvZqncxzN6hi8fq9KpwYV2JlLfPKlbCrRk/s1600-h/07-15-08_Ed_Reif_Chips.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223796037927557842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgknZ8J5_-zjDmdBYikmydCmlvkfd7n-1rV-aU8fSPcunUQsDJVUPzT8UzCPli2y1OChyf7FnVFmXTG0ZXHO33I1y2FlbmFA81ASeFAjqnNxBvZqncxzN6hi8fq9KpwYV2JlLfPKlbCrRk/s200/07-15-08_Ed_Reif_Chips.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>becomes an 'artless art' growing out of the Uncon<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF2IWz-ipy-SX2KuaoeEgUiN0k8NdOAfWYf4zZLp63K52Y-dLyznqmlJEUL6WdRPGpf2rNV8L0fW5C3Gdt9HXGKpe6X_S0jvaYpLArL9jNHZV4jni72TChEGyEVGTdzVZzdO4iEHlFoXE/s1600-h/07-15-08_Ed_Reif_Chips.jpg"></a>scious" Daisetz T. Suzuki<br />
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Hotel @nywarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03618654734152044877noreply@blogger.com187tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612808895351820965.post-39705103244581890922019-05-10T07:05:00.000-07:002019-08-09T22:33:59.632-07:00Poker Doesn’t Think, and the cards have no memory.<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169490331657518834" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjGe0Lw2KWDSVpI_tZ2OcRxaeFuphpc3MxMbGqVU5qNAsqkBTC9qBzFNZmPBOwEx_P-4PqkVyUNokAsKLGC8gLG0kLiMhKZgygQOf41AOrKtXpJRhLZSXkLLQuFlHCrt1_TWv8ssibDb8/s320/72.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /><em>Once upon a starting hand: When all you have is the hammer, everything is a nail.</em><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">The implicit value of 7 deuce-Leading uphill against conventional wisdom.</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Under the right circumstances you can play ANY Two Cards---ATC, and expect a positive return, either immediately or down the road.</span><br />
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<br /><em>Starting hands can be created or dissolved with the change in its implicit value, which is determined by the personal perceptions and whim of players and their cards</em><br /><br />Playing 72 like aces. Should I? In the case of automatic enrollment, the default decision may be too powerful to ever let 7 2 go. You have tried this a few times and got away with it, scooping a $300 pot in a low NLH game. It could start out, first as a bluff, the 72 trash hand, then catching a full house with it. Sometimes you'll get caught. <br />
Winning like this doesn't make you a good player; neither does losing like this make you a bad one---it just is the cost of doing (monkey) business, and making moves at pots.<br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;"><strong>Being There-The Greatest Movie You Have Never Seen </strong></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">Peter Sellers' <a href="ttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6301590740/satirescreeningr">Masterpiece</a>---A How To Own The Zone Poker Play Book</span><br />
Those who forget the past are doomed to reread it. Remember this one--President Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln and President Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy. Coincidence? How about this one: you need 23 people in one room for there to be a 50% chance of two people having the same birthday. Probability?<br /><br />The concept I'd like to deal with, then, is the concept of "framing" -- that the way we are presented information determines our reaction to that information. You can have your delusions of reference, but when it comes down to it, poker doesn't think and the cards have no memory. Yet, if you choose to frame it as <em>meaningful</em> coincidence or <em>good</em> luck-What you believe is real, will be real to you in its consequences--<strong>the magic of magical thinking</strong><br />
<br />Magical thinking is real--I like to call it beginner's luck---because you just don't know any better. You don't understand possible causes because of your low information diet. TMI, Too Much Information can damage your game. That's why you can bluff good players---they've been there, done that. They have the <em>in-the-trenches</em>- experience and the war stories and bad beats. Check out <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=bN8_gO1_Njg">Brad Booth on High Stakes Poker </a>to see what I mean-an amazing three brick, 300K bluff against Phil Ivey, whose holding pocket Kings, and lays them down.<br />
<strong>...all is well - and all will be well - in the garden</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSumLO6Ymvc6YFL6hszp9Ne1Oo2gVCA0vfz4Trg7yOwCX-m4dsSyXgBse4zzym6ZfbW6v4GJlYq2_fcY1ZDbBhOuxYOuU0pg6fboga9UA0YvpIreg4HEBkpExYTiE98UEPSMRTq6uvxMs/s1600-h/sellerschance.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169502370450849554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSumLO6Ymvc6YFL6hszp9Ne1Oo2gVCA0vfz4Trg7yOwCX-m4dsSyXgBse4zzym6ZfbW6v4GJlYq2_fcY1ZDbBhOuxYOuU0pg6fboga9UA0YvpIreg4HEBkpExYTiE98UEPSMRTq6uvxMs/s200/sellerschance.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>Beginner's Luck doesn't so much as remove the heavy lifting of real thinking. It just keeps you lean and trim on this low info diet, where the "how " of your happiness takes on new meaning. In RL (Real Life) WSOP Champ, with The Power Of NeW, Huck Seed has this vibe. No need for filters--<span style="font-size: 130%;">You can only recognize what you already know.</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 130%;">It has a way of creating your NOT To Do List. The on demand vibe is about simplicity, and that's scarce, a To Be list. Forest Gump, and Being There's <a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/4708/Being-There/trailers">Chauncey Gardiner</a> come to mind. <strong>The Bermuda Triangle For Socks-The Dryer-the mythology</strong><br /><br />When I do my laundry, I mix it all together—that’s called pink laundry. It all doesn’t come out in the wash. More than that, I don't know where my socks sometimes go after I (Think) I put them in the dryer. Did they really disappear? You see that’s the illusion---they never make it to the machine in the first place! When I was a kid, I worked at a resturant, we had a far more important mystery---the missing teaspoon phenomonon.<br />
Missing chips and missing socks---the way we do laundry is the way we do chips. The somewhat "unreal" characteristic of money and poker, leave you with that missing sock conspiracy theory thing, since the most straightforward way of telling you where your money went is that it actually disappeared into thin air; and chips just go to money heaven.<br />
The brain seems to have networks wired to produce magical explanation in almost every cirucmstance. The point at which my child brain withdrew support for belief in Santa and the Easter Bunny is about the same time it got introduced to prayer---and believe me there is a lot <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8rcbj7_BuPf2fFL404FJuhBNYeEfr1v4s3o-3EriTfgM1RrDqNq-qSDvZQuFv9V8ptzef8KW5p7aV4rPAUMW94lmVa7V8nwMBoOdWEyA7PXImkltPyNxjik6MCUZd8h13WVLm89OK0HY/s1600-h/Giants.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169499840715112194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8rcbj7_BuPf2fFL404FJuhBNYeEfr1v4s3o-3EriTfgM1RrDqNq-qSDvZQuFv9V8ptzef8KW5p7aV4rPAUMW94lmVa7V8nwMBoOdWEyA7PXImkltPyNxjik6MCUZd8h13WVLm89OK0HY/s320/Giants.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>more praying going on in casinos and holdem games than churches!<br />
<br />It goes on to this day--what New Yorker didn't think they were responsible for the outcome of last year's Giant's Superbowl victory! In part it’s because we are constantly exposed to our own thoughts-"I want the Giants to win, I want the Giants to win..." Hay, WTF--It worked!<br />
<br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Chauncey+Gardiner" rel="tag"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Chauncey Gardiner</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/seven+deuce" rel="tag"><span style="font-size: 85%;">seven deuce</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/7-2+offsuit" rel="tag"><span style="font-size: 85%;">7-2 offsuit</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/The+Hammer" rel="tag"><span style="font-size: 85%;">The Hammer</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Missing+Socks" rel="tag"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Missing Socks</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/New+York+Giants" rel="tag"><span style="font-size: 85%;">New York Giants</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Magical+Thinking" rel="tag"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Magical Thinking</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/High+Stakes+Poker" rel="tag"><span style="font-size: 85%;">High Stakes Poker</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Brad+Booth" rel="tag"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Brad Booth</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Phil+Ivey" rel="tag"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Phil Ivey</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Being+There" rel="tag"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Being There </span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Peter+Sellers" rel="tag"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Peter Sellers</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span></span>Hotel @nywarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03618654734152044877noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612808895351820965.post-7775278999998184122019-04-14T07:20:00.000-07:002019-08-09T22:34:32.313-07:00Poker With Out Cards—Bluff Outs<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5utxDtTtaSvLxyChepGIZLxUr2y6UMUI4-Lp4sJfvyVtATEKcPfPHX7jiNOxec0t2ClHyrFBBkWsXE6jC_Bz70RV3-HU_2JuP5yuSvqIpMAxnVjH-7eeZaPKrJuc_mxFcxWu-qOVrD7A/s1600-h/Harrah"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205429080662299506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5utxDtTtaSvLxyChepGIZLxUr2y6UMUI4-Lp4sJfvyVtATEKcPfPHX7jiNOxec0t2ClHyrFBBkWsXE6jC_Bz70RV3-HU_2JuP5yuSvqIpMAxnVjH-7eeZaPKrJuc_mxFcxWu-qOVrD7A/s200/Harrah's+Ed+Reif.bmp" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">The universal tell in poker is called betting!</span><br />
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No limit holdem is a game of ins and outs, need and speed, aggravation and acceleration. </div>
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<em>Counting your outs</em>, the number of cards that will make you a complete hand is something to reconsider, thanks to what I call, the <span style="font-size: 130%;">Bluff Outs:</span>additional scare cards that, if they hit, you bet out, and, force your opponent to fold; mentally dealing them the hand .Bluff Outs Poker is about playing 'in the dark': betting that your opponents DON'T have the cards rather than that they do.<br />
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Preflop, a pocket pair only has 2 outs to improve, overcards have 6 to draw to the nuts.This is not even taking into account straight and flush draws! That means over cards are at least a 3:1 favorite to improve and win the hand. And with bluff outs, even if you miss, you can bet it like you have it.</div>
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It requires a shift in thinking---Instead of "I hope he doesn't bet" or " Come on--- pair the board" or "Club, Club Club" ...that's wasted energy...Say to yourself, "If a club comes on the river, I am betting out like I have it, enough to take your opponent off their hand of top pair, even trips! or " If I hit my set, I am betting the pot". or If I miss with AK, I am making a big cointinuation bet, no matter what"....I've done it. It works.<br />
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Full Catastrophe Poker is not a game of cards played with money—It is a game of money played with cards. It speaks a language called betting, is a slang that rolls up its sleeves, spits in the street, screams strength possibly more than any other and gets the work done. Tells Don’t Tell – People Do with the language of their betting. Poker is a game of partial information and the language of betting "last in" is information dominance.<br />
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Bluffing is a big part of NLH since most players miss the flop 33% of the time.IN NLH there are 4 opportunities to bluff, 1 pre and 3 post flop. LOOSE players are looking for reasons to CALL; TIGHT, to FOLD. </div>
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You aren't a bad poker player if you get caught bluffing sometimes or most of the time. You only have to win a fraction of the time to net a profit. Sklansky's (game)Theory of poker points out that you cannot play optimally unless you include bluffing into your game. </div>
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Every bet or raise can be a bluff, and you can beat a bluff with a mediocre hand. The only way to compensate for the bluffs of your opponents is to bluff them back! </div>
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You don' t get what you deserve in poker, you get what you negotiate--Bluffing is the quintessential Negotiator. If you are going to be a winning player, you have to include bluffing in your game.<br />
The more your bluffs matters, the harder they are to pull off because they are, after all, bluffs. It is, however, impossible to defend against a solid bluffing strategy. Reality is perception, and appearance reality. </div>
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Tells can give you a competitive advatage. HINTS or suggestions are better ways to describe the leaks in opponents (and your) game.-The universal hint in poker is called betting—jamming the pot when you have the best of it, and punishing opponents for their draws.Betting is the language of poker; the more money behind your bet, the louder your voice! This kind of game is The safe sex of poker-without the deceit, the seduction, the bluffing-is like wearing a condom. And you know how that feels. </div>
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The sex of poker is bluffing, getting something for nothing-Poker is, after all, anything you can get away with. In the real world, If your wife is cheating on you---you don't want to believe it.(Truth bias). So she bluffs you and gets away with it but then...one day her own Fear of being caught---detection apprehension---will be the non verbal (TELL) communication that speaks to your subconscious and allows you to divorce her! That is, if your left brain gets good at telling your right brain what to do. </div>
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Bluffing is giving yourself permission to win, even if you do not have the best of it. When you show up to a game, you have to be script driven, and the lines are simple--I am going to win, NOT I should win , NOT I deserve to win. If you can pull off a feeling of acceptance, not even belief, you will have a reasonable amount of success in your bluffs. Be misleading not confusing in your bluffs. </div>
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Use position, psychology and bluffing to tip the scales. One thing for sure-POSITION makes every bluff easier. What is your RRR, your risk reward ratio? What are the CP's, calling patterns of your opponents? What are their BP's, betting patterns? The bluffing quest is in these questions. </div>
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You don't get a second chance to make a first impression on any given hand. Commit to a hand, and the prosperous termination of desired events--scooping up the pot. Bluffing really means I am against something but appear to be for it. Creating a false impression, disguising the "truth" is easier said than done. Overcompensating in either direction usually occurs---that's a bad bluff. Manipulating how confident you appear, a person who is bluffing will almost always overcompensate 100%, to convince or convey. </div>
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Hotel @nywarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03618654734152044877noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612808895351820965.post-1286466770098261002018-07-27T07:06:00.000-07:002019-08-09T22:21:38.776-07:00Bad Beats are Overhead;Chips, The Cost of Doing Business As Usual<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaTS2ZoWfwoe-ujZp6KuDgvhculUXFDxDqSDD88jJ4KG_JNpi5-AvNfgxlI9NSj4vX01Gav6igO_k59jTlCjSHrNJ1OkTX4qw_kesC9NtihzUGoo_5bVvgfOFjCkGmiZ1nlBx3lfZl6LA/s1600-h/Ed+Reif.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182566555935946450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaTS2ZoWfwoe-ujZp6KuDgvhculUXFDxDqSDD88jJ4KG_JNpi5-AvNfgxlI9NSj4vX01Gav6igO_k59jTlCjSHrNJ1OkTX4qw_kesC9NtihzUGoo_5bVvgfOFjCkGmiZ1nlBx3lfZl6LA/s400/Ed+Reif.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
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Limit is about value betting and NLH is about trapping.You spell limit poker t.i.m.e. You can't spell anything in NLH! You gotta do the math---the heavy lifting of pot odds, implied odds, counting your <em>outs. </em></div>
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In No Limit Holdem, things don't even out with time, they even out with the number of hands you play. Sometimes nothing can be a good hand. See my <a href="http://hotelanyware.blogspot.com/2008/02/your-brain-on-poker-zero-gravity.html">Post on Zero Gravity Thinking.</a></div>
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Holdem is a game of high cards, and kickers, In Limit Holdem, the number of players increases, so <strong>big cards</strong> must be played most of the time. NLH is like chess; Limit, like checkers: so don't play it like cheese! Find the holes and leaks in your limit game, and plug them up.</div>
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For the beginner, everything is even money, when you don't know any better. Replacing that with true odds is the goal. There is one goal and many pathways. There is the psycho path way, playing like a Kramer maniac.---the push and pray NLH way, hoping to hit the flop big. There is the rocky road, playing a tight-is-right, the Jerry game of counting your outs---the number of unseen cards that will give you the best hand---the NUTS!</div>
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If a guy has 20k behind him, and you are first to act and bet 6K. He is really betting 20K if he calls your 6K.(the implied turn and river bets) You bet 6K. he bets 20K That is the threat of NLH, the all-in threat. PUT THE COMMITMENT ON HIM.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWOWbazp388CkWWJqfMiBZgxss-ob-mqUCnGZNpm1_XD8xyMfCBQhFmz6e_0L2Cf9eCXsYf45oQNNFlgwkrRPfN0KwexNzA5hfWRblowzfOZmrQycSVNhAeT6mN-bPBX5qspG9J7HLytU/s1600-h/george.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171842491972009954" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWOWbazp388CkWWJqfMiBZgxss-ob-mqUCnGZNpm1_XD8xyMfCBQhFmz6e_0L2Cf9eCXsYf45oQNNFlgwkrRPfN0KwexNzA5hfWRblowzfOZmrQycSVNhAeT6mN-bPBX5qspG9J7HLytU/s320/george.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a><br />
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What is deeply personal in poker is universal. If I am capable of thinking it, so are my opponents. That's feeling the fear and doing it anyway---like <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Opposite">The Opposite Episode</a> </em>in Seinfeld. "If I raise everyone will think I have an ACE. So you get 72 and raise with squadush. After all, you don't get a second chance to make a FALSE impression. You may win the pot outright, or take it away on the turn if their hand doesn't improve.<br />
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"Getting broke" and "Going Broke" are two different things. Getting broke is when you place burns down and you become houseless, you, the franchise can still go out and buy or build another house. Going broke is setting yourself on fire---you are homeless, a lifestyle of disenfranchisement. Have an attitude of gratitude because pokewr is 100% skil and 100% luck</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNloZGy40i0YS4PJf3x1kXeseoCdoQoSwN4yCP3VFDkhBwuBmvM90pkpAe73383SFmA7DdZSbQFKv5wZsR5yrLTC0HMLjIPbZw5jPCHqyKs0YWgy-WWj-qqQ3ETzziPzi5B3cve5fGaM/s1600-h/DNE.jpg"></a>Knowledge isn't power---applied knowledge is. Luck isn't power either, but applied luck is the most powerful element in NLH: here's what I mean; Focus on decisions not consequences. Luck has consequences. Focus on decisions, not luck. What you think of me is none of my business, and what luck thinks of me at any particular time, is none of my business. <strong>Luck Positive (Winning) and Luck Negative (gad beats) are OVERHEAD; Chips, the cost of doing business</strong>!</div>
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Think about good decisions, not results. It's about the process not pots won---the chips will come. Do what you love and the money will follow--have a love affair with making sound decisions based on partial information. It is, after all, about excelling, not winning or losing a particular hand.<br />
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It is a poor workman who blames his tools--I don't have a big enough bankroll--A BR is your toolbox. Don't sell your tools. Poker happens in the mind--but it is played with money. I got $1,000 bucks worth of chips and $100,000 worth of courage.</div>
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The best way to win more is to fold more! Hand selection is really something to consider; so is position. Playing too many starting hands is the How Not to Do It way..When it is raised in front of you-Your mantra should be "I'm looking for a way to fold this AJ offsuit.</div>
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Hotel @nywarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03618654734152044877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612808895351820965.post-81325012915247804182017-05-04T02:39:00.002-07:002017-05-04T02:39:39.406-07:00Losing Holden ASAP-Kareoke ABC Poker <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqZfB1VxSJl1smJ4aifkRYG3myzpoifST8AG86XQV6cREoml9pPc-9iLC4DgeKAD9JNiNqpRJdaHaxJs3keNUUTLOWELNBI3vIVhas9esCiLNuwyP42uf70f1POmOyVbIftfV6To_4SRE/s1600-h/Ed+Reif.jpg"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339022187355917650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqZfB1VxSJl1smJ4aifkRYG3myzpoifST8AG86XQV6cREoml9pPc-9iLC4DgeKAD9JNiNqpRJdaHaxJs3keNUUTLOWELNBI3vIVhas9esCiLNuwyP42uf70f1POmOyVbIftfV6To_4SRE/s400/Ed+Reif.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 183px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 240px;" /></span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">The possibility of sudden significant change in your game.<br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"></span><br /><em><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyOcsgBbW3I/AAAAAAAABEI/L01eV_4ysuY/s1600-h/secret.jpg"></a>The Secret</em> is about the law of attraction and results—the secret of poker is the complete opposite!</span><br />
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There's a wonderful phrase in Gladwell's <strong>Blink</strong>--"the power of thin slicing"--which says that as human beings we are capable of making sense of situations based on the thinnest slice of experience. That's what I mean about the difference between having fun and "having an experience"---pure house games like black jack and slots, verses poker. NLH is not just a "sport", it's a concussion. The difference between lightning and a lightning bug. </div>
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<span style="color: black;">Bad playing (Making the right mistake) can get "rewarded" 100% of the time on ANY one hand.This kind of poker---PUSH and PRAY-- is not a user friendly game, rather a user illusionaryone because : "Lucky" players will always have worse cards then you, and will draw out, even if there is one card in the deck they need, and they may very well get it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Getting your money in good, only to get sucked out is a fact of NLH. Chips are overhead, bad beats the cost of doing business against random reDONKulous decisions. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">For these types of absolute novice, everything is even money. The idea is to defeat that concept, making, for instance, balanced decisions---correlating the size of the pot to the strength of your hand. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Nevertheless, when you treat No Limit Holdem as a game of chance instead of skill, it is not a law of probability, it's a fact for games with the "F" fun factor-- you may have great expectations , but you will get negative ones. Risk of ruin is 100%! That's the difference between gambling and betting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Losing holdem ASAP is about that default lottery- Ka-ching- DONKey mentality of wish fulfillment.It is a portable magic---you rent but never own. Take it to your game and you will leave through the revolving door of poker on the old gambling world of luck's PUSH, verses the New wor(l)d order of NLH's PULL. It's rolling the DICE verses Inviting CHOICE.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Learn to play poker like the Pros….and go broke. If you play like Gus (Hansen), you will..TVEPP TV Educated Poker Players-see:<a href="http://www.edreif.com/2008/02/lightning-and-lightning-bug-difference.html">The MoneyMaker Effect</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">It's closing time for the karaoke crowd, the old dogs of kitsch. Who actually cares that you can</span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyOsJgBbW7I/AAAAAAAABEo/Xl893RxCn48/s1600-h/Joe+Pis.jpg"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126130080092478386" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyOsJgBbW7I/AAAAAAAABEo/Xl893RxCn48/s200/Joe+Pis.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></span></a><span style="color: black;"> belt out,after three martini's , the loudest <em>My Way</em>: AK all in pre flop is still drawing hand! --It's still the S.O.S. Same ole ___ bland copies of the original AKA Doyle's by/buy-the-book, <em>Super System;</em> or Sklansky's <em>Theory Of Poker --</em>Don’t bring math to the game, bring strategy. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">NLH is too random to be left up to chance. NLH is senseless, common sense and it’s not so common. It’s crazy delicious! The fixed is replaced by an obsession with the here and now, The Power Of New. It's less about how do I play 3 3 in early position and more about how should I think about it. There is no there there! in the distilled experience of the veterans.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Old wine in a new bottle is when you play ABC "I bought the book" holdem. "Money runs counterclockwise...You always lose money from the guy on your left and win chips from the guy on your right" or " Seat 9 only value bets here and only bluffs there." </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The quest is not in these Either/or questions:---Am I gonna win this hand or lose it? Is my hand better or worse than my opponents single hand? Will I play it as a stealing hand or a hitting hand? Either/OR even in terms of thinking Pre/Post flop. .This duality of up and down, playing optimally verses exploitively -- There is no right and wrong, good and bad. odds and even. Zero Sum Minus Some, is too pedestrian, too run-of-the-mill. It's more than mixing it up and shifting gears---the mess is the message.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;">You can't predict the flop, but you can invent it--Plan around commitment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Doing two things at the same time that apparently negate each other. NLH is 100% skill and 100% luck. The language of "and" is the language of NLH. The language of "and" is the language of passive and active, optimystical and materialistic, hard and soft. There’s a yang for every yin. It’s Fuzzy logic, and everything is a matter of degree and the player is fuzzy wuzzy to the nth degree. Get a clear, sharp view of the fuzzy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">E= MC2 Equity= More Chips Squared.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Commitment- Plan around it. Where is your equity coming from: Making the best hand by hitting or stealing it post flop.—to win the pot, but every hand has the potential for both. Most battles are won before they are fought. Consider the range of hands as well as the playah's temperament.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">NLH revolves around the threat of an all in bet. It should be considered around ever decision. This may come at you. Play differently in big pots...Isolate hands that have a high showdown value, and overlimp in hands that have a positive and implied odds to invite more people into the pot. </span><span style="color: black;">If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, then why practice? There is absolutely no substitute in NLH than for a genuine lack of preparation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">A NLH session is one long conversation run by C students, and Cash is their report card. NLH is like high school with money. This is a world beyond the classroom besides getting the correct answer. The important thing, nevertheless, is not to be in the know, but to be in the Power of NEW . The glass ain’t half empty, it ain’t half full, the glass is not big enough. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">What everyone knows about poker is not worth knowing. Challenge the Myths of One-Liner NLH Formulas-Think long think wrong. Dump it or pump it. Suited and booted. Tight is right. All in to Win. No set, no bet. Go big or go home. Raise more than call and fold more than raise.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I wrote </span><a href="http://hotelanyware.blogspot.com/2007/10/power-of-paradoxical-thinking-in-high.html"><span style="color: black;">The Power Of Paradoxical Thinking in High Stakes Poker</span></a><span style="color: black;"> This draws water from that wellspring-- </span><span style="color: black;">Procrastinate now! Infinite patience does brings immediate results to your game. When was the last time you said "I think I'll go to the casino and fold 80% of my hands!"<br /><br />In Poker the future is already here. It’s just not yet evenly distributed yet. You see, Poker is really a game of mistakes. The rules of Americon Poker are designed to achieve an important balance: an unskilled player(usually the guy with the three c’s condo, cash and cars) must be able to win just enough hands to keep him at the table losing his money. The Americon just look for opportunities, not guarantees. He is ready to make the right mistakes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Come sideways at an issue instead of head on -</span><span style="color: black;">It's Not the Big that Eat the Small...It's the Fast that Eat the Slow . Slowplaying fast...<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125897361584511698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSMliVB3nVEgPRCf2mI36Md15-X-3uxkR4yYiH-a0Y6fRg0tqRxjgX3t1XyCFP_qYG4Ew-L8CSKKceJdq1KRlFCg_azA0y42KTMZ-Fxn5XHJAXaHsmw6TEvjkGg2JcJq07urH9zGUhYzA/s200/Michael+Corleone.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" />Don’t ca-cheng unless you ca-ch’i--Physical energy capacity is measured in terms of quantity---low to high; and emotional capacity in quality ---negative to positive.. It’s energy, not time, that's your street cred, your <em>table image</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Managing energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of NLH. You can be motivated to play holdem that's good. You can be inspired to play holdem, that's great. Good, however, is the enemy of great.</span></div>
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For the poker Balla, nothing is better than when that average Joe Player sits down at a poker table. Why? Because he just sat down with money he INTENDS to lose! </div>
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There is no more +EV situation, and most tables in a live poker room are filled with players exactly like that. When you treat No Limit Hold em as only a game of chance instead of skill, it is not a law of probability, it's a fact for games with negative expectations: Risk of ruin is 100%.</div>
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Joe plays when he "feels" like it, a Pro, all the time! Call them perpetual shortcuts JOES make when losing poker ASAP; and as any of the PROS will tell you, they don't need cards to win--that's for amateurs. Pro Players specialize in other people's biases! especially that malignant optimistic one that beats its chest and says, "I'm the best player at the table". </div>
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<strong>Secrets to Beating America's 92 Million Irrational Poker Players:Behavioral Finance-Part ART Part SCIENCE:</strong></div>
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Common sense is not so common, and these common flaws are often consistent, predictable, and can be exploited for profit. We are not logical, we are emotional, and motion creates emotion-winning and losing in the stock market or in poker have some suprising failings--Let's reframe them and call them OUTCOMES:</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_control" title="Illusion of control">Illusion of control</a> - the tendency for players to believe they can control or at least influence outcomes which they clearly cannot. NLH is 100% luck and 100% chance. An opponent can (suck out) win one hand 100% of the time. NLH is too random to be left up to chance-yet good results will have you rejecting alternative ways to play--Nothing fails like success. Doing things right the first time is an obscenity--If your game isn't broke, don't just break it, break it before the competition does.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion" title="Loss aversion">Loss aversion</a> - The pain of chips lost generally is much greater than the pleasure of a chips gained. Playars strongly prefer avoiding losses over acquiring gains ( Quit early when winning and playing marathon sessions when stuck or chasing---see also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost" title="Sunk cost">sunk cost effects</a>. </div>
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To win money over the long haul, you’ve got to win big pots. And to win big pots, you can’t be held back by this thinking error. You can't play a safe tight- is -right solid game and expect to win. You can't avoid crisis, you must be in a perpetual one that you create...but selectively picking your spots).</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_blind_spot" title="Bias blind spot">Bias blind spot</a> - The left side of the brain will do the math. But the right side will "tag" it with a story. That story usually doesn't compensate for one’s own cognitive biases.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias" title="Choice-supportive bias">Choice-supportive bias</a> - It's called "anchoring" remember one’s choices as better than they actually were. (Using the past to predict the future). There is never a certain prescribed way to play a hand, just a way to think about them. I've had racks of chips only to be felted 14 hours later because instead of an attitude of gratitude, I had the Mick Jaggar Tumbling Dice "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing"soundtrack playing.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect" title="Endowment effect">Endowment effect</a> - When I own something, I will tend to value it more highly. If I have to sell it, I will probably want to ask more than it is really worth. (Not being able to let go of QQ,AA,KK---rookie moves, and over betting the pot) There's the expected result, based on analysis, and the actual result, based on events. Poker is a game of situations---I've learned to thrown away Kings, Queens, and with a four card flush on the board, even two red Aces!</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias" title="Confirmation bias">Confirmation bias</a> - The Indians Rain Dance worked because they never stopped dancing! The Jeane Dixon effect-of making a few right predictions, and overlooking the false ones. Searching for information in a way that confirms one’s preconceptions. The delusions of reference--tells, lucky charms, hunches and coincidences.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect" title="Bandwagon effect">Bandwagon effect</a> - Do things because smart money people do or believe the same, like playing Helmeuth starting hands, or walking the painted line of Sklansky's Theory of Poker or Doyle's Super System. Related to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink" title="Groupthink">groupthink</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_behaviour" title="Herd behaviour">herd behaviour</a>. That's what I find so cool about my game--being able to fire three barrels with squadush. (Thank you Poker Stars Sit and Go's)</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%83%C6%92%C3%82%C2%A9formation_professionnelle" title="Déformation professionnelle">Déformation professionnelle</a> - the tendency to look at things according to the conventions of one’s own T.O.E., time on earth; assuming things that have similar traits are likely to be identical; forgetting any broader point of view. Past experience and feedback loops can make you Hola Lupe.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disconfirmation_bias" title="Disconfirmation bias">Disconfirmation bias</a> -. We tend to use the information that is most handy when we make decisions/predictions. The path of least resistence mashed up with thin slicing.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focusing_effect" title="Focusing effect">Focusing effect</a> - prediction bias occurring when players place too much importance on one aspect of an event; causes error in accurately predicting the utility of a future outcome.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_discounting" title="Hyperbolic discounting">Hyperbolic discounting</a> - the tendency for players to have a stronger preference for more immediate payoffs relative to later payoffs, the closer to the present both payoffs are.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_bias" title="Impact bias">Impact bias</a> -Our minds are suited for solving problems related to our survival, rather than being optimised for poker decisions. Players overestimate the length or the intensity of the impact of future feeling states.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_bias" title="Information bias">Information bias</a> - Seeking TMI, too much information, even when it cannot affect action. Try playing in the dark, or blind---With less information to be processed and filtered, the brain assigns higher priority to the information that it does receive.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neglect_of_probability" title="Neglect of probability">Neglect of probability</a> - the tendency to completely disregard probability when making a decision under uncertainty. Expected Value and Variance---weighing all the possible outcomes, weighting the more likely outcomes, and coming to a conclusion---play a big part in the decision process. There is therefore, never a certain prescribed way to play a hand, just a way to think about them.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_exposure_effect" title="Mere exposure effect">Mere exposure effect</a> - the tendency for players to express undue liking for things merely because they are familiar with them. If it's not broke, break it!</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_bias" title="Omission bias">Omission bias</a> - The tendency to judge harmful actions as worse, or less moral, than equally harmful omissions (inactions). </div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome_bias" title="Outcome bias">Outcome bias</a> - the tendency to judge things on their outcome, and not on their process. Over weighing and overeacting to a bad beat-- the most recent information or circumstances.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy" title="Planning fallacy">Planning fallacy</a> - the tendency to underestimate task-completion times. It has taken me ten years to become an overnight Holdem success!</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-purchase_rationalization" title="Post-purchase rationalization">Post-purchase rationalization</a> - the tendency to persuade oneself through rational argument that a purchase was a good value.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocertainty_effect" title="Pseudocertainty effect">Pseudocertainty effect</a> - the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, but make risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_quo_bias" title="Status quo bias">Status quo bias</a> - the tendency for players to like things to stay relatively the same.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Restorff_effect" title="Von Restorff effect">Von Restorff effect</a> - <a href="http://www.sethgodin.com/purple/">Purple Cows</a> and items that “stands out like a sore thumb” have a tendency to be more likely to be remembered than other items.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-risk_bias" title="Zero-risk bias">Zero-risk bias</a> - preference for reducing a small risk to zero over a greater reduction in a larger risk.</div>
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<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Behavioral+Finance" rel="tag"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Behavioral Finance</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/No+Limit+Holdem+Startegy" rel="tag"><span style="font-size: 85%;">No Limit Holdem Startegy</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Loss+aversion" rel="tag"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Loss aversion</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/mental+bias" rel="tag"><span style="font-size: 85%;">mental bias</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gambler" rel="tag"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Gambler's Fallacy</span></a></div>
Hotel @nywarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03618654734152044877noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612808895351820965.post-24494689038699298872017-04-26T07:01:00.000-07:002017-05-04T08:21:48.549-07:00<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125913317388016386" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyLnAQBbWwI/AAAAAAAABDQ/-VjrLwY-5tU/s200/SAm.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125894788899101378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEior47CfuMpbovOfTtO7hNQv3HdR6nyaF9taULO7LPxnl8XAMjPIkzP6XKNS8kOvdts6pvNmMlFSi43NohVRpD8teAtCHQf0-v_HvmeGVfeujEyW0jm0q1C5HsQOj9bBvSpUX3IrRbOW9s/s320/POWER+OF+NEW.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" />An Ameri<strong>con</strong> Dreamer’s guide to the Texas Hold’em Universe. The possibility of sudden significant change in your game.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><strong><em><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyOcsgBbW3I/AAAAAAAABEI/L01eV_4ysuY/s1600-h/secret.jpg"></a>The Secret</em></strong> is about the law of attraction and results—the secret of poker is the complete opposite! And opposites attract!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">The way to get better is to think about <strong>process </strong>not <em>results</em>—focus on better decision making and ignoring short term results. This is extremely hard to do because neurons that wire together fire together--- that's the sex of poker ---</span>Having fun. </div>
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You can fake it till you make it, and than it will break you. There’s a fine line between loving holdem and being greedy for it. The fine line we walk between success and self-destruction---the card lust - Lays Potato Chips--- "I bet you can't eat just one", --- You play too many pots! </div>
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When you treat No Limit Holdem as a game of chance instead of skill, it is not a law of probability, it's a fact for games with the "F" fun factor-- you may have great expectations , but you will get negative ones. Risk of ruin is 100%! </div>
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Losing holdem ASAP is about that default lottery- Ka-ching- mentality of wish fulfillment.It is a portable magic. you rent but never own. Take it to your game and you will leave through the revolving door of poker on the old gambling world of luck's PUSH, verses the New wor(l)d order of NLH's PULL. It's rolling the DICE verses Inviting CHOICE.<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyKx8QBbWrI/AAAAAAAABCo/YPEGltgnsN0/s1600-h/bono.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125854974552267442" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyKx8QBbWrI/AAAAAAAABCo/YPEGltgnsN0/s200/bono.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a> Teach Yourself Poker in 10 Years ---Why is everybody in such a rush! </div>
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Learn to play poker like the Pros….and go broke. If you play like Gus (Hansen), you will..</div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyKx8QBbWrI/AAAAAAAABCo/YPEGltgnsN0/s1600-h/bono.jpg"></a>Learn to play poker like the Joes….Hay T-Mobile, calling station----You’re playing Rock Star Poker- U2 without Bono, that’s just karaoke, a cheap imitation. Obsolescence is in full bloom-- Caught in the headlights, this is your brain on money. You can, nevertheless, teach an old dogma new tricks. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 180%;">It's closing time for the karaoke crowd, </span>the old dogs of kitsch. Who actually cares that you can<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyOsJgBbW7I/AAAAAAAABEo/Xl893RxCn48/s1600-h/Joe+Pis.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126130080092478386" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyOsJgBbW7I/AAAAAAAABEo/Xl893RxCn48/s200/Joe+Pis.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a> belt out,after three martini's , the loudest <em>My Way</em>: AK all in pre flop is still a drawing hand! --It's still the S.O.S. Same ole ___ bland copies of the original AKA Doyle's by/buy-the-book, <em>Super System;</em> or Sklansky's <em>Theory Of Poker --</em>Don’t bring math to the game, bring strategy. </div>
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NLH is too random to be left up to chance. NLH is senseless, common sense and it’s not so common. It’s crazy delicious! The fixed is replaced by an obsession with the here and now, The Power Of New. It's less about how do I play 3 3 in early position and more about how should I think about it.</div>
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Old wine in a new bottle is when you play ABC "I bought the book" holdem. "Money runs counterclockwise...You always lose money from the guy on your left and win chips from the guy on your right" or " Seat 9 only value bets here and only bluffs there." There is no there there! in the distilled experience of the veterans.</div>
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The quest is not in these Either/or questions:---Am I gonna win this hand or lose it? Is my hand better or worse than my opponents single hand? Will I play it as a stealing hand or a hitting hand? Either/OR even in terms of thinking Pre/Post flop. .This duality of up and down, playing optimally verses exploitively -- There is no right and wrong, good and bad. odds and even. Zero Sum Minus Some, is too pedestrian, too run-of-the-mill. It's more than mixing it up and shifting gears---the mess is the message.<br />
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Doing two things at the same time that apparently negate each other. NLH is 100% skill and 100% luck. The language of "and" is the language of NLH. The language of "and" is the language of passive and active, optimystical and materialistic, hard and soft. There’s a yang for every yin. It’s Fuzzy logic, and everything is a matter of degree and the player is fuzzy wuzzy to the nth degree. Get a clear, sharp view of the fuzzy.</div>
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<em><span style="color: red;"><strong>E= MC2 Equity= More Chips Squared.</strong></span></em></div>
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Commitment- Plan around it. Where is your equity coming from: Making the best hand by hitting or stealing it post flop.—to win the pot, but every hand has the potential for both. Most battles are won before they are fought. Consider the range of hands as well as the playah's temperament.</div>
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NLH revolves around the threat of an all in bet. It should be considered around ever decision. This may come at you. Play differently in big pots...Isolate hands that have a high showdown value, and overlimp in hands that have a positive and implied odds to invite more people into the pot. </div>
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1. The New Americon Dreamers--- This is the story of how Playah's are verbing that noun ---NLH, and dreaming with eyes wide open.</div>
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We are all in the right place at the right time. It’s the playah who want to put themselves in the game, who are prepared to be lucky, that get the prize. How do you position yourself to get lucky? Walk into a casino. Become one of the New Americon Dreamers.— An AmeriCAN not an American’t .<br />
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If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, then why practice? There is absolutely no substitute in NLH than for a genuine lack of preparation.. A NLH session is one long conversation run by C students, and Cash is their report card. NLH is like high school with money. This is a world beyond the classroom besides getting the correct answer. The important thing, nevertheless, is not to be in the know, but to be in the Power of NEW . The glass ain’t half empty, it ain’t half full, the glass is not big enough. Shuffle up and deal with it.</div>
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<em><span style="color: red; font-size: 180%;">All uncertainty is holdem’s special invitatiion to enter the mystery of the ever-new---the POWER of NEW.</span></em></div>
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What everyone knows about poker is not worth knowing. Challenge the Myths of One-Liner NLH Formulas-Think long think wrong. Dump it or pump it. Suited and booted. Tight is right. All in to Win. No set, no bet. Go big or go home. Raise more than call and fold more than raise.</div>
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In my last post, I wrote <a href="http://hotelanyware.blogspot.com/2007/10/power-of-paradoxical-thinking-in-high.html">The Power Of Paradoxical Thinking in High Stakes Poker</a> This draws water from that wellspring--</div>
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<strong>Procrastinate now! Infinite patience does brings immediate results to your game. When was the last time you said "I think I'll go to the casino and fold 80% of my hands!"</strong><br />
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In Poker the future is already here. It’s just not yet evenly distributed yet. You see, Poker is really a game of mistakes. The rules of Americon Poker are designed to achieve an important balance: an unskilled player(usually the guy with the three c’s condo, cash and cars) must be able to win just enough hands to keep him at the table losing his money. The Americon just look for opportunities, not guarantees. He is ready to make the right mistakes.</div>
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Come sideways at an issue instead of head-Short stacked you can't even pay attention-wo cares "deliberate inattention is required. The only baggage you bring is all that you cannot leave behind.<br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: 130%;"><em>It's Not the Big that Eat the Small...It's the Fast that Eat the Slow</em></span><br />
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You don't get a second chance to make a first impression--Logic should yield to instinct. Rebuys are just rearranging the deck chairs of the titanic. The iceberg image, unless you realize something else is keeping the guy afloat who just took all your money , you are destined to become a human hangover, obscene and heard scareaming "I'm king of the world! The Emperor's new t-shirt says" But they were suited"...Check please.</div>
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There's a wonderful phrase in Gladwell's <em>Blink</em>--"the power of thin slicing"--which says that as human beings we are capable of making sense of situations based on the thinnest slice of experience. That's what I mean about the difference between having fun and "having an experience"---pure house games like black jack and slots, verses poker. NLH is not just a "sport", it's a concussion. The difference between lightning and a lightning bug.</div>
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It might be even easier change our religion than our style of gambling-play . Yet we Americans have put the ODD into God: Laziness has become the religion of the 21st Century gambler. Vene, Vidi, Velcro: "I came, I saw, I stuck around until I ran out of money...When the going gets weird the weird don't turn pro, they join the cult of the amateur. The casino is their water cooler. There's plenty of kool-aid for all to drink. Totemic discussion of the previous hand's bad beat are like sand at the beach--and Life's a bitch. This is poker not confession.<br />
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The secret of staying young is lying about your age---You must bluff to win big in poker. In other words---- Your fake plants will die if you don't pretend to water them---the language of betting is a slang that rolls up its sleeve and spits inthe street and gets the work done:NLH rewards aggression., <em>selective </em>aggression. Pick your spots. Bluffing works best heads up. Turn raises, or bets are scarier to most opponents than flop bets, and here are three: The Stone Cold Bluff---no pair, no draw. The Representing Bluff---betting scare cards, flushes and straights. The Semi-Bluff---drawing to the nuts, flush, straight or overcards. </div>
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Bluffing has more to do with an overall strategy than one specific hand. It makes the range of hands you can win with larger. There is a betting-to-bluffing ratio. The percentage that you’re bluffing should be proportional to the amount you’re value betting. For example, if you’re playing pot-limit and you’re betting the pot you should be bluffing about half the time that you’re value betting.<br />
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Americon don't want to be normal. Normal playah's spend their lives avoiding tense situation, Americon-Poker Playahs spend their lives getting into them. NLH---It takes a minute to learn and a life time to master. It’s hours of utter boredom coupled and then a few moments of sheer terror. Your baseline trance of our everyday All-American life as you know it is over. You’re an Americon-Playah The <strong>clock reads “Now”</strong> There is no yes in yesterday. Honor your beginning.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">3. </span><strong><span style="font-size: 130%;">The harder you work the luckier you get! Quit work, play poker, sleep 'till noon</span></strong><br />
“L.U.C.K. is the acronym for laboring under correct knowledge, Follow your own inner GPS <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyO6SQBbW9I/AAAAAAAABE0/fOHMndJwLFk/s1600-h/Deer+Hunter.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126145623579122642" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyO6SQBbW9I/AAAAAAAABE0/fOHMndJwLFk/s320/Deer+Hunter.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a>system. Knowledge won’t t be power, applied knowledge will.”<br />
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If you want to be a gambler, you have to play poker. It’s like applying for citizenship in the Gaming World, and no limit Poker is a form of patriotism.<br />
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<strong>The Urban Monk Ed Reif's Wise and Otherwise sayings:</strong></div>
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"Why be difficult when, with a bit of effort, I could be impossible? I think, looking down on American Airlines, Pocket Rockets, Bullets,---Aces, larger than life , greater than the rocky mountain highs. <span style="font-size: 130%;">I got 50 outs!</span> I am so glad, I am not in some<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyO6ugBbW_I/AAAAAAAABFE/sDuk7VFr5HE/s1600-h/Patton.jpg"></a> $3-$6 game, where if I don’t trip up--- hit 3Aces on the flop, no set no bet, I will be hunted down and stalked to the end by some river rat, and get those aces cracked with a baby flush or a low ball straight.<br />
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I’m a Poker genius. Poker is situational--You wanna be heads up with AA.These cards will play themselves..<strong> I like living in the now,</strong> and this was truly a gift, the “present” moment of my two hole cards---the best starting hand-----I couldn’t get any closer to “seeing” all of my opponents cards. I put him on Ace King, Big Slick ---so what- I have him dominated. QQ,Queens, KK, Kings, JJ’s Jacks, Big Deal. Let’s get it on.<br />
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I look down on my stack- Money is <span style="font-size: 85%;">a Poker</span> life’s report card and we keep score with it. I got chips! I’m about to graduate. I was feeling too good about this table, how weak they were, to leave, and besides I was winning.<br />
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Cool Hand French Fry, , must be thinking” Sometimes nothing is a good hand”. I was almost sure he would get nothing for something---his whole stack would be mine.<br />
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Without hesitation, I say, “I call!” and that’s “Mr Asshole to you” I quip “Show some respect”. The table laughs. I push in $400+. Hay I know it sounds like chicken feed, but hay $400 dollars is $400+ U.S. dollars. Oh yea, but these are just chips. It ain’t money until you cash out. Allow me to correct myself,----I push in 400+ chips.<br />
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Americon’s are not greedy, Americon’s are not noble. We don’t “need” anything. We just want to win, and you know how dangerous people like we are. Even if you kill us, with a bad beat, we’ll come back from the dead. Just like Jesus. We’re beachcomber Jesus’. We’ll just rebuy, but not with F You Money. . When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion, so excuse the Jesus metaphor---- We’re Americon’s—we play to win at all times---that’s why we never lost a war, and don’t give me that Vietnam stuff, that was a “police action,” a conflict, not a war. Poker is war, in disguise as “Fun” and “entertainment”. Americon/s have a real edge over players who want to have “fun”. The object of this war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. Thinking like an old soldier … get em scared and then keep the scare on em. --Exponentially scared.And open a can of whoop ass.</div>
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It’s the The Lincoln Myth, going from outhouse to white house... log cabin, be a Paul Bunyan of poker, chopping wood, carrying water ---a legendary giant lumberjack of a playah! int<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Obrestad"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125817419358230994" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyKPyQBbWdI/AAAAAAAABA4/P05yQcglEI4/s400/viking.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a>ertwined with America's entrepreneurial ---Free Agency--- spirit of itself of “anyone can play”. Poker is democratic; everybody on the table is going to win hands. That’s just the way it is. Maybe this is the one. Americon says, “L.U.C.K. is the acronym for laboring under correct knowledge, Follow your own inner GPS system. Knowledge won’t t be power, applied knowledge will.” Even a caveman or an 18 year old viking from Norway---Annette Obrestad---can do it.<br />
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I was gambling my car payment on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled me with a kind of awe inspiring rush. The next best thing to playing poker and wining is playing poker and losing. The $400+ bucks on the table is all I got. Until the end of the week. Who cares. I’ ve had AA cracked before. Well, I wouldn’t call it gambling, poker is a game of skill, of making correct decisions. Here are the cliff notes: I win the pot.<br />
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The flop is dirty---low ball 472 rainbow, nothing special. Things just got worse for Seat 9 , when I spiked an Ace on the turn for trips. He was drawing dead. Oh yea, he had AK, Big Slick. I had him at Hello.<br />
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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but you must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.<br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;">4</span> <span style="font-size: 130%;">The Urban Monk Ed Reif's Wise and Otherwise sayings: <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyKfNwBbWlI/AAAAAAAABB4/ZQwKmaeWD_Y/s1600-h/Ed+Reif.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125834384479050322" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyKfNwBbWlI/AAAAAAAABB4/ZQwKmaeWD_Y/s200/Ed+Reif.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyKV_wBbWfI/AAAAAAAABBI/WiJN5itBeHY/s1600-h/Ed+Reif.JPG"></a></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: red;"><em>"The ultimate goal is to separate the fish from the sea, leaving it exposed to good play."</em></span></strong><br />
A year ago, I was Buddha Boy, in the touchy feely world of high vibrational foods in Las Vegan, slamming shots of wheatgrass and drinking Jamba juice smoothies, and doing yoga , starbucks and meditation--- hybrid cars and oxygen bars. and now I find myself in a quasi Las Vegas haze here at the Commerce casino in Los Angeles---- with Red Bull, Coffee but no neon ---abandoning my early to bed, early to rise---it turned me from wise to otherwise---an alternative lifestyle of all nighters, strip clubs, and hanging out with guys from Newport Beach, Ca’ Witness protection program, truck drivers, smokers drinkers, boozers,gamblers, womanizers, Guys that go on vacation and come back on probation. They weren’t growing up to become president, or even vice president, just Vice. In fact growing up was optional, growing old however wasn’t. Poker players are made from the same mold, but some of them were moldier than others. . Some of these guys looked pretty weathered.<br />
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The seductive game of poker is the licence of the brothel combined with the silence of the cloister. It’s not so much a card game as a game that happens to be played with cards, Poker is a game, essentially about psychology, and betting, and betting behavior is at the center of gravity of the game., and coping with probability and uncertainty. Tricks and magic will not work over time. Superior play will.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyKcdwBbWhI/AAAAAAAABBY/dUPSIaru-vE/s1600-h/gus.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125831360822073874" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyKcdwBbWhI/AAAAAAAABBY/dUPSIaru-vE/s320/gus.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>It is a game about solving imperfect information, partial information.</span><br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: red; font-size: 130%;">Poker is a game of partial information</span></em>. </strong></div>
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It is not static like black Jack, with a rock solid never yielding tried and true strategy. You have to switch it up. You are, above all else, playing against other people, and conditions change. You can be lucky on one hand 90% of the time, but over all, this is a game of skill. But there is a luck factor in hold em. Poker equals chess plus luck.<br />
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Poker is a game of imperfect in formation where players make inferences and investments under uncertainty. Bluffing a bad player makes you a bad player. Don’t go overboard.<br />
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<strong>5.</strong> <strong>The Urban Monk Ed Reif's Wise and Otherwise sayings: <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyKV_wBbWfI/AAAAAAAABBI/WiJN5itBeHY/s1600-h/Ed+Reif.JPG"></a><em><span style="color: red;">In Poker the future is already here. It’s just not yet evenly distributed yet</span></em></strong><em><span style="color: red;">. .</span></em><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyKctABbWiI/AAAAAAAABBg/WAx8zrimtG8/s1600-h/hansen-gallery-one-small.jpg"><em><span style="color: red;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125831622815078946" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyKctABbWiI/AAAAAAAABBg/WAx8zrimtG8/s320/hansen-gallery-one-small.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></span></em></a><em><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></em>Eventually everybody wins a big pot. A broken clock is right twice--- That’s the seduction. I am a teacher by trade. A meager salary has led most of us to the game. I think poker is not necessarily a lapse of morality, but the result of a great social injustice. Formal education made me a salary, Self-education in the poker world, was making me a small fortune. Yet, the luck factor makes Holdem an equal opportunity offender.<br />
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Life is too long to play bad cards. Life is too short to not play poker. What’s the meaning of a poker life? Get one, Perhaps, The meaning of a poker life is don’t die, Right?<br />
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<strong>If you need money how come you play poker</strong> ---Poker Courage---doing it <em>with</em> heart, like <a href="http://www.gushansenpoker.com/">Gus</a><br />
In the United States of Unconscious living, I have finally found a higher life, ---poker. It is courage. <em>It is art. It is skill. It’s like the classic western Showdown, high noon, mono et mono. </em></div>
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<em><span style="color: red; font-size: 130%;">Counting chips is like a hooker who looks at her watch</span></em></div>
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We have on demand, anytime, anywhere poker. In L.A. Most beginner’s play every hand- no foldem holdem. It’s an obscenity pornographic-not so cheap and very nasty. If you are not folding 80% of your hands, there’s a problem. You are having fun instead of making money. The right way to play and almost the right way to play poker is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. Welcome to the user friendly universe of Americon. It is lightning in a bottle. You can only quit once, so quit playing every frigin hand. This bolt that’s about to come into your life is both striking and alarming, and it will leave the entire landscape changed-as you will find out, irrevocably. Pretty flops become ugly real quick. If you can’t fold AK,(in a limit game) when you flop nada, you’re headed for a bad beat.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-size: 130%;"><em>Poker is a great second job and a lousy first job</em></span></strong>.<br />
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Luck never gives; it only lends. I knew this, but I was on this winning streak. It was time to move up to the higher limits. What’s<br />
the difference, nothing. It’s the same game, only the chips are different colors. Really. The players aren’t any better. In fact. Some of them are worse.<br />
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If you bet on a suited connectors , that's gambling. If you bet you can make 69 “Dinner for 2”, flop, that's entertainment. If you bet AA,KK,QQ will win , that's business.Playing on the button, that’s “My office” because position is so important, and on the button I get the feel for the hole cards others are laying. When I play hold em, with bad players at a 6 12, 4,8 table I am like a good therapist I heal everybody of all their daydreams and delusions. I felt a little bit uncertain though about leveling up.<br />
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Good Poker is an acquirement, like music, a foreign language, paralysis. No body is born with it. Poker is never finished only abandoned. Poker is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.It is like one long game. I got that fling when living in the sun of California for years. It felt like one long day, no seasons, just one long day.<br />
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Poker players, the really good ones, and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on your face. The cardroom is the silence of the cloister with the license of the brothel. It provides the loophole for the whore to climb into your head. There is something so wrong about that, Yet it felt so right.<br />
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I started out as a chess player Poker players often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role. Poker is not chess, not checkers, not tiddly winks. Well, maybe it is chess plus luck, yea , that’s what it is Chess plus luck. The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand you are dealt them.It’s not what you have. It’s what you do with what you have.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><strong>7.</strong></span> <span style="font-size: 130%;"><strong><em><span style="color: red;">Hold em is to stud what chess is to checkers</span></em></strong>.</span><br />
After an all- nighter binge of Hold em, a bad beat trip Jacks cracked by a baby flush. I’m pissed and this is just the situation to get mad at: I buy a cup of coffee and they gave me a receipt for the coffee. I don't need a receipt for the coffee I give you money and you give me the coffee end of transaction. “We don't need to bring ink and paper into this.” I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a coffee . I wouldn’t even act like I didn't buy this coffee I've got the documentation right here... It's going in my file at home. ...Under "C”. Killing all these trees for paper.” I know I’m on tilt, because no “Barista” deserves such treatment.<br />
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“Hay, no worries” dude”. He’s very understanding, as he goes back to reading his haiku poetry..<br />
So I’m a dude. Great. I’m still thinking about poker. Clear your head. Get to the gym.Staying health is the slow way to die. Happy 120th birthday. Yea so what. That’s me. I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing.<br />
My buns of steel could set off an airport metal detector, but I’d be satisfied with buns of cinnamon. In Las Vegas, Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 130%;">8.</span></strong> <strong><span style="font-size: 130%;">I payed for my Poker Lessons</span></strong>:<br />
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--- <strong>Playing too many starting hands</strong>: in a standard $4-$8 NL game you should have a 20-30% view of the flop percentage. This means folding AJ in first position, KT in middle position and QT in late position.<br />
--- "<strong>Pump it or dump it"</strong>: fold or bet/raise (if the odds are with you). You should avoid calling unless you have a good reason (like trapping an opponent).<br />
--- <strong>Respect most big bets and raises</strong>: this is particularly true on the turn and river as most players do not bluff.<br />
---<strong>From Zero Hero</strong>---<strong>Firm hand selection</strong> =patience and patience almost equals power. Infinite patience brings immediate results to your game. It's not a matter of can or cannot, it's a matter of will or will not, every hand is a choice, choose wisely.<br />
---<strong>Poker Courage--- to bet/raise/call down</strong> (aggressive with draws or perceived best hands) It’s always your next move raise or fold! Foldophobic. “Good poker is patience; great poker is courageNot vulnerable to go on tilt. If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance! You can’t control what goes on the outside, only the inside, and the guy that gets you angry conquers you. No Snowflake ever felt responsible for an avalanche.</div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 130%;">9.</span></strong> <strong><span style="font-size: 130%;">Send the Bread to Fred---</span></strong> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyOPewBbW1I/AAAAAAAABD4/KoanRAECiOA/s1600-h/freddy.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126098559327492946" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyOPewBbW1I/AAAAAAAABD4/KoanRAECiOA/s320/freddy.gif" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOVmZeLU8ocUbmapF70o8dyNBLLtXrgvFwl7lo3TXADwCxRIkOxnySEv8j11rPz3RIGrGBEizOzHeELnspWEQe7JkoE4Y7LwaAc2cy4Dpj-GwFIgsnh-NUQ8UH8GAnqYbEaaffHU5w7k8/s1600-h/freddy.gif"></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">American gambling is a kind of a great sort of dipstick to where our culture is or isn’t.</span>And Poker not baseball has replaced the national pastime. Dream---to become the Dian Fossey of the poker jungle. to become one of “them”, and then study “their” behavior from the inside. These McMonkey’s, Vinnie Bag-a-donuts, Joe Six Pack. John Q And bust them. Anyway. My Second Coming: When Bad things happen to good cards--getting sucked out on--when weak players make good mistakes, and call your KK with pocket 99, the german Virgin" Nein,Nein!" and hit trips on the flop to bust you---<br />
<strong><em><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: red;">Hate the win, not the winner---</span></span></em></strong></div>
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because he will eventually give you back all his chips +yours! Exploit their affliction, the “house money effect” of "I'm playing with their money" He becomes his own personified tipping point, where his small mistakes actually effect his own game until he calls when he should fold, or he gets out drawn and becomes his own critical mass, and busts out.</div>
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The law of large numbers says---With a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen. And odd coincidences are likely to happen. The one chance in a million will undoubtely occur. The Naked aggression player is free balling, going commando, ----with a no limit dyslexia, the inability to read the writing on the wall. Once again, Poker rewards s<em>elective </em>aggression.<br />
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In the United States of Unconscious Poker Playing, I wanted to be different and think in poker”, using my head to complete the puzzle of incomplete information, but also my somatic body to "feel" the cards. Always make new mistakes because you are not your mistakes. Doing things right the first time is an obsenity. It's not about learning but unlearningf rom them. It's subtraction, not addition.<br />
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<em>There is a sophisticated class of professional Poker players with an interesting philosophy which is closely related to a deep understanding of basic probability. The rules of Poker are designed to achieve an important balance: an unskilled player must be able to win just enough hands to keep him at the table losing his money.</em><br />
<strong>10.</strong> <strong>Troubleshooting? Every time I do that trouble comes shooting back at me</strong>.</div>
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You have to have your <strong>bad beats</strong>---Nobody is stronger; nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can throw at such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him Yet, it's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere. I may not be in “who’s who” but I can tell you what’s what when it comes to Texas Hold em. The Urban Monk’s bad beat Flops a full house beaten by a high one.Ace high flush beaten by a nut straight flush, four of a kind deuces never loses, beaten by four of a kind 5’s! It’s not a user friendly flop, a user illusionary, because </div>
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-size: 130%;"><em>Bad players can get lucky 100% of the time on one hand</em></span></strong>...<br />
but it is an illusion, because they will always have worse cards then you, and will draw out, even if there is one card in the deck they need, and get it. For these types of absolute novice, everything is even money. The idea is to defeat that concept, making, for instance, balanced decisions---correlating the size of the pot to the strength of your hand.<br />
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We are always telling ourselves it’s going to rain, well ask Seminole Indian Chief Billy Cyprus (The Everglade is our mother"-yet he manages to build the mother of all casinos on it!) why the rain dance works—he’ll tell you I never stop dancing!<br />
<strong>Some flashbacks--- from "F"-LA,</strong> where I took up "Second-hand" smoking at the Hard Rock Cafe...<br />
Fat-It's not just for chicks anymore--I like playing against fat guys---They're such good losers. and dude. you are so not pregnant!</div>
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Seat one’s Aqua Velva Stench was getting to me. He had just beat me with 7 2 bluff and showed it, like licking the toilet seat at a Yankee Stadium restroom, I hate when these jerkaholics play garbage, and bust you with a premium hand like AJ <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyOVVwBbW2I/AAAAAAAABEA/eEvytgH8De4/s1600-h/hard_rock_seminole_lg.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126105001778436962" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyOVVwBbW2I/AAAAAAAABEA/eEvytgH8De4/s320/hard_rock_seminole_lg.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>suited.</div>
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I have two things on my wish list right now, hosting an episode of the O”reilly Factor naked, so the FCC can fine that windbag, and winning this hand.<br />
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Sick and tired of your one horse town poker game, big fish in small pond is swimming in the river…Queer Eyes for the straight flush…. Chasing straights and flushes go home on dirty greyhound buses. This guy was a chick magnet---300 pounds of fun, unemployed and graduate of the local community college. But played like a rock star,, a solid player. How could I budge him, all this inertia, I could set him off. I had to find his weakness and explot it with some table talk.<br />
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The flop comes 6 8 10 rainbow. Seat three has pocket sixes. Kiss your soul goodbye and say hello to your new best friend, Satan. The Devil’s hand. If you are an atheists, you don’t have anyone to thank when things go right---So I hear quite often,” thank be to the Poker gods”.<br />
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Speak Spanish, this is Los Angeles! Where you from I ask him, he say’s right here.. I say, I hate L.A.. if you need a fake ID -or an Abortion. Whore, then go east young man, east Harlem, east LA, East Norwick. the newest and hottest foot soldier on the front lines of the average Joe, Vinnie Bag-a-donuts, Joe Six Pack takeover of modern culture, turning us into a kind of crack addicted McMonkey. crack addiction in Larry Flint’s Gardena Hustler casino, and the Bike in Bell, and the mother of all poker rooms, the Commerce Casino in Commerce CA. I t's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere. I felt the need for speed, the Las Vegas trip I had never taken seriously.<br />
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Collateral damage of Poker. The guy from the trailer park, with the “Look at my Striped shirt” on, who wins a stack a chips. Acts like an opiate, distracts you from real issues like “Do you rent or own?”, Car Payments, credit card debt and the like<br />
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There was something so absolutely dirty about it all. I was nostalgic in my head-, bringing me back to a place I had never been before, the rat pack,listening to Sinatra’s New York New York or Luck Me A Lady Tonight, smoking cigarettes, drinking scotch, pinching waitresses asses and tip her a stick ($100) in her cleavage. , Calling all women dames. Or better yet banging hookers. Misogyny on tap. You know, old school, before the days of sexual harassment lawsuits and stuff like that. No judgment. A Man’s world. In the poker game of life women are the rake. Right or wrong, I had come to realize that, life is wasted on the living. I could face a crisis, it’s the day-to-day living that was killing me. . Setting too good an example was a kind of obscenity, not the neon, not the poker. I felt good about what I was doing.<br />
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People come to the casino for two reasons, to get away from or to move towards something. I still couldn’t figure out which one it was.<br />
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Yet, it was like I had my ipod, two radio stations and a pornographic movie going on at the same time. But I couldn’t stop, because I was winning. Every day. I knew I was winning because I came to the table to make money, not have fun. Having fun is playing King 4 suited; having fun is playing all your blinds no matter what two cards you hold. Having fun is staying in with AK, <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">when the flop, 70% of your hand , come nothing and you go to the river. If I see an unhappy face at the table, scratching at the table, his bad beat story, I know for a fact, will start with these words, “But they were suited”. I want to get a T shirt, that sells that. Only people who play poker for fun would get it! (understand it). Getting nothing for something, that’s playing with “their” money, playing for fun. If you want to have fun, have sex, jump out of an airplane. Poker is hard work.<br /><br />Nobody is always a winner, so I had to make a decision, play again or take a break. Pretty hands turn into pretty ugly hands but Poker is mostly not about cards, it’s about people. Out To launch-Fat America-The Weigh We Were. The four types of poker players I met.at Commerce Casino. In full-ring games (8-10 players)....</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyKvDABbWoI/AAAAAAAABCQ/HyTiC0I5snk/s1600-h/TOAST.bmp"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125851791981501058" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Km9o8iVz550/RyKvDABbWoI/AAAAAAAABCQ/HyTiC0I5snk/s320/TOAST.bmp" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></span></a><br />
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Playing well is a happy accident. Follow the Poker plaha Guide and you will become accident prone.I gave up drinking but somehow it’s the same feeling- You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next dayYou could be a hero or a zero. Drinking and drugs are a bet with your mind! So is poker. I need a break. I’m going to the gym for a workout. Rule Number ##: Never Play</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">There’s nothing ethical about the “work ethic” .In my w2 world, I named my own salary. I called him Fred, and Mr Flintstone was having an out of money experience. If it wasn’t for the hockey strike, I would have never heard of ESPN’s WSOP. They kept looping the same content over and over again. . I figured I could do this.---gamble I mean. I’m the classic angel devil, hedonist and puritan all wrapped up in one. I don’t drink or do drugs. Steak is my favorite animal and I don’t eat any. Putting my money down without looking at my cards, like black Jack or a house game, So pre 9-11, like buying airline tickets from a travel agent. Too stone age, too Rat Pack Frank Sinatra.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Just when Jack's his ant farm started showing a profit, I foreclosed on it. He doesn’t live in fantasy. He only toils there. Work is the curse of the drinking classes and Jack is a workaholic. Every time you force him to a decision it’s like mentioning the word work and he wants to get drunk. Jack is Dead Money, Bulletproof., but a human hangover. He wanted to leave a mark on the table; he’d be lucky to leave a stain. You are simply going to rip off his testicles and slash his tires turning his wild oats into shredded wheat. Moral of the story---Don’t drink and drive at the same time.</span> </div>
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Hotel @nywarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03618654734152044877noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612808895351820965.post-42297315523569659112012-05-14T07:10:00.000-07:002012-09-12T13:59:44.997-07:00Winning at The Wynn in Macau-The Wealth Report<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlOyQNjPOb_qyLy05CFkUnRfKVm1dVgGxtl3gz33gkHKyrYTb5zbvkcdWeVWEufX447wPnYi65a8PtDslcMp9s33xha1trqEQJEtzicX8Z_ElRKBKG1RGZyYXnWL-VbhKGQFwfPu9Eek4/s1600-h/Wynn.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304113668557268418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlOyQNjPOb_qyLy05CFkUnRfKVm1dVgGxtl3gz33gkHKyrYTb5zbvkcdWeVWEufX447wPnYi65a8PtDslcMp9s33xha1trqEQJEtzicX8Z_ElRKBKG1RGZyYXnWL-VbhKGQFwfPu9Eek4/s200/Wynn.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 147px;" /></a> <span style="font-size: 130%;">There's No Limit Like No Limit! in Money Heaven</span><br />
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Aircrafts (Metal) and Yachts are not the latest fad in Macau---Texas Hold'em is. China’s version of the Forbes list — the country now has 106 billionaires, second only to the U.S---were out throwing away their money on the house games this weekend, but poker is catching on.<br />
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I'm staying across the street at the Grand Lisboa--the epitome of bling.In it's hey day, it was the greatest hotel Macau had to offer. Inspired by the lotus – Macau’s national flower, check out this photo<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRZPvxFXfOq2mM0gfe0P5cLFUkb0ugdnO_9oVigRWRgfN4flnJTg8-wBQ64HvlerCymej4G9WoQ8r-DVCMxEhAOzlIteeOjN8c60U4HmnxNbxhBlLy19I3DdKqtl6pQbN5h2mWtnkNc-Y/s1600-h/250px-Macao_Grand_Lisboa200712.jpg"></a>, where I played a real Sunday night loose game and was up $600.<br />
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Today I went to the Wynn, and played a $10 $20 no limit loose game and had a bluff fest. Got caught a few times, but I'm going back there now---It's Midnight!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">The Kowloon Report -Vintage Chaos</span> 2/27/2009<br />
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Greetings from the user-friendly universe of Bangkok, to the most densley populated piece of real estate on the planet; at least according to The Guinness World Records, three blocks from the Mong Kok subway station 旺角, Hong Kong. <img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307995118200097458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_9XBMx1h_ucqDhkSU4tQCft-NuzVuWCnpEY4_YQFHki8B_ricQY88Eb_vrl4FaXOlGJs3UISeOs-9SOsEtN-IFoYao5c9yq8oYs68rFB2vKRYMzJO6oS9ObZMYM6Tac9dg3QmXFwTUwQ/s200/Chinese+starbucks.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 150px;" /> </div>
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At some point, inevitably, the "off-the hook-off-the-chain"- extraordinary becomes the ordinary. The steady diet of fast food, the 24 hour news cycle <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">ka</span> the CNN effect of knowing everything, the napsterization of cutting out the middleman, the tivoization of on demand time-shifted-content. Here comes everywhere again---this time in Chinglish.</div>
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I really enjoy being inside a Hong Kong Starbucks, especially after managing to dodge food poisoning from all that street vendor <em>padi thai</em> food on Khao San Road. Drinking coffee from that paper coffee cup, there's nothing better to remind me of where I was, and where I'm going. </div>
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I get to show that "I voted" for Starbucks again, just like all those Obama stickers on Hybrid Prius' in la-la- land Los Angeles---overkill. I'm a long nose, a round eye in the Far East. So I'm not Chinese, huh?"</div>
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It's not about the coffee; it's about the lifestyle. The Urban Monk attitude, no <img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307649738106612786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg1newy53n6bbk-5Nf5Eq0i5w-y_6BfnVgK3fhQQN6QjersPoG5ljKHiBkBHgUbVKObx37u1f1T-Nk22MalRoleX3Wll23BOrCpp6K9m9EXAt8On4CfW0xWoK0GDOFzS5NOOP_wgVrMHQ/s400/Mong+kok.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 166px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 114px;" />strings attached, living in this world but not of this world, telecommuting at location neutral, Hotel @nyware from a wi fi hot spot. I am back to that place that I have never been before. </div>
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I sit in one of their epiphany chairs to self-reflect, write about Hotel @nyware , and give in to a mood swing here or there. Besides it takes the edge off all these cars driving on the left side of the road, not to mention the impecably dressed generation text, especially in knock-off/ kitsch ready wear, and lots of folks in knock out uniforms. It's all just part of the landscape, full of magical rides patiently waiting for my wits to test drive---<em>a business class ticket to cool, with complimentary mojo on take off.</em></div>
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In Kowloon, however, I low keyed it---Stayed at The Champion Guest House, By the MTR--it's not called the subway here; it's the MTR, by the Jordan Stop--- for $500 Dollars...wow I actually know the value of those chips I have been splashing the pot with. I got a shoe box room with AC and a 1/2 bath.<br />
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