Back To The Trap House

I've been reading a book called a guide to life on earth written by my friend Kiwi Bautista. It basically desrcibes how energy flows in the world and basically how to change your perspective on life. Everyone knows there are people out there who are just always "unlucky" or "can't do anything right" Good people who have "bad things" happen to them.

Well that really just doesn't even exist from what I've learned the past few years by changing my own outlook on life. In the book Kiwi describes a filter that we all have. The brain is capable of taking in 450 billion pieces of information at one time, almost all at a subconscious level.

The conscious level? 2,000 active processes! What a huge discrepancy! Maybe this is why the myth arose that we use less than 10% of our brains!

So if you're only actively processing 2,000 of 450 billion then think about how much you're missing? What about those people who are always "lucky" or seem to always get there way, make the most money and get the girl! They have tapped into the source and know what they're looking for. There positive outlook on life gives them much greater opportunities and the ability to see these opportunities. If you're negative these things you will NEVER EVER see.

So can you really run bad then? Yeah mathimatically you WILL run bad but on a whole different level you can't ever run bad. All these books such as a guide to life on earth or The Secret speak of ways to bring good things into your life by thinking positive. You can bring the bad into your life as well by thinking negative.

Then that means you're in complete control of your own situation so you CAN run bad and you CAN'T run bad. Running bad is a reflection of how you feel in life because while you're running bad someone on the other end is telling everyone how GREAT they played and how badly they crushed you! No poker player ever says I didn't play very good he just ran bad....

So, why is this so important? Don't think of it as a magician who can wave their magic wand and then suddenly run good or run bad. No, its not that simple. The natural flow of things is downwards. Think of water. The laws of thermo dynamics where things are always more likely to fall apart then put themselves back together. We see that in everyday life as building continue to fall apart and bone break.

This is all a gradual decline. As poker players we have to fight so much to become successful and the mistake people make is that somewhere along the way they begin to give up. WE are always out numbered and WE are always fighting an uphill battle. Not only do we have to deal with X amount of opponenets but we have to deal with the rake and our own personal Degens.

My point is that somewhere along the way as you were grinding your ship sprang another leak somewhere and you ignored it. You began navigating into a storm. Through sloppy habits or laziness you started to fall apart. It took time but suddenly through your everyday routine you lead yourselves to running bad! Is that so far out if you're in complete control? These laws of nature don't just apply to a few things they apply to EVERYTHING. So ask yourself, what did you do to run bad? Did you only break down one HH instead of the 5 you usually do a day? Did you have that one more beer only to wake up hung over as hell with a throbbing headache and a fat bar tab? Did you skip that last gym session which turned into missing a week? Did you eat a dozen Krispy Kremes and do it again the next day?

These are all indications that you are going to run bad at the tables because you're slipping in life.

All these situations depend on certain people. Basically what they are are things that begin to make you think negatively like that guy who says "I never get lucky". BULLSHIT! If you broke down that idiots life by the numbers and showed him how lucky he's been through out his entire life he'd shit.

Theres this book I've been meaning to read, the black swan principlel. It talks about how many close calls we really have on a day to day basis. The author mentions if we really knew how close we were to dying on a plane everytime we got on no one would ever fly. I mean were all hear right? We got hear because as sperm we beat millions of other sperm to the egg! We won the biggest competion all of us will ever be in before we were ever born! Why can't we beat those odds again and why can't we do that over and over and over and over AGAIN? We can!

When I start to slip in everyday life I can feel it in my gut like fuckin' spider man himself. I can sense it for weeks or months before I slide to the very bottom or "run bad". When I hit the bottom I yell "How the fuck did this happen?"

You can feel it too. You can sense it but what happens is that we choose to ignore it instead. Instead we just say one more beer or one more buy in lost and I'll quit. I'm falling asleep but I can play this last tournament or smoke this last cigarette. It won't hurt............

So the answer is basically yes YOU can run bad and NO you can't run bad