What do you do for a living?
Here’s a hand I played in the big no-limit game at Lucky Chances. There was a guy in the game I’d never played with before. He was giving lots of action. So far I’d played two pots against him. Both...
View ArticleKay Says to Raise My Fee
Dear reader: I wrote this in 2009. I’m in Vegas right now doing a four-day coaching program with a new client. At the end of day one, after doing coaching stuff all day in my hotel room, we went...
View ArticleHe Got Me
Dear reader: I wrote this in 2002. He really got me good on this one. I was playing $40-80 limit hold’em at Lucky Chances. Alex was at the next table, playing no-limit. He spoke to me with a hand...
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One Night Nicknames
It was a chatty $2/5 game in Vegas. Good vibe. Good action. The waitress came by and several players ordered adult beverages. She was standing behind seat six, and I was in seat one, so when it came my...
View ArticleA Watched Pot
Went camping last weekend. First night was solo. Best one of those yet. Kay appeared the next day. The day after that, friends came. Some stayed for dinner, some for breakfast. It was all quite...
View ArticleThe Buttoff Seat
Words lag behind what they label. Bad beats were around long before the term “bad beat” was invented. And “the universe” was here for billions of years before it got its name. So it’s no surprise,...
View ArticleButchering 72o
Have you ever played a hand so atrociously poorly that you just can’t let it go? During the session you keep thinking about it. The next day you keep thinking about it. It’s an itch. In your mind. That...
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I Freeze My Opponents By Playing POOP
My image at the poker table, so I’m told, is that of an old tight-ass. Maybe because of hands like this: Playing no-limit holdem, I had AK in the big blind. Everyone folded to the button who opened to...
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Know and Grow Your Act-Last Percentage
What if there was one guy in your game who had position on you every time the two of you played a pot? You dread playing against him because hand after hand, when the flop hits the table, you have to...
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How to Meditate While You Play Poker
Downloadable audio: Print: Streamable audio: Let’s talk about secretly supercharging yourself right in the middle of your poker sessions so that you’ll feel...
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