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Poker Video: Misc/Other by Tommy Angelo (Micro/Small Stakes)

Thanks for all the awesome videos Tommy & Wayne, really changed my life.
What I consider essential is the great delusion topic. I watched Fight Club again just a few days ago and Tyler says "everything you posses, someday posses you" and I think this is true. But how do I get unattached to all those material things. Knowing that I am attached to them doesn't get me unattached to them.

I've thought about that movie a lot since watching this series and even more as I'm learning more about Zen and Buddhism. If you've got the time here is a great article http://www.unomaha.edu/~jrf/vol11no2/ReedFightClub.htm

This is the pinnacle of human achievement, no joke.

Fantastic, fantastic series. The subscription pays for it self on this content alone. You two have steered me back on track as I was very prone to tilt before but I'm consciously noticing lack of tilt when I get 2 outered for the 3rd time in a row.

Now when that happens I say "Money would have gone in all the same if the positions were switched therefore this is an EV=0 spot" and I banish it from my mind.

Like someone else who has posted feedback my gf who doesn't play poker has watched the first episode and loved it, this is like general life self-improvement series in the sense that ANYONE can benefit from it.

Tommy & Wayne are the nuts.

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Tommy, where have you learnt all this stuff?

Mostly from two-outers.

Now to release the music

Just started on that last night! Eventually it will be at this address:

www.tommyangelo.com/the_eightfold_path_to_poker_enlightenment.html

(The page is not published yet.)

When the music is there, I will blog about it here:

tommyangelo.com/blog

And I will tweet about the music page when it is published. My tweet name is thetommyangelo.

Like it says it episode 8... stay tuned!

Tommy

Yeah, we're the nuts.

Tommy, Wayne, you guys are alright too.

Oddly enough, I also made my gf watch Episode 1. I guess it's got that "mustshowsomeonewhohasboobsasap" kind of appeal.

Yeah, we're the nuts.

In the before-Moneymaker_time, at my huge family reunions, I recall trying to explain what "the nuts" means, at poker and at life. Of course it was hard for anyone first hearing that phrase to suppress the giggles long enough to hear about what it meant. Now, those same people come up to me at the reunions and in dead seriousness say things like, "I had the nuts and I milked them for all I could."

Tommy

I've read a lot of posts saying things like, "Thank you Tommy, Wayne, and DC, for making this series.”

I seem to be unable to say the words “you’re welcome” with integrity. That’s probably because it feels to me like thanking me for writing stuff is like thanking a raindrop for being wet. That’s not to say there’s something wrong with thanking a raindrop for being wet. I can imagine situations where that would be quite appropriate. It’s just that I wouldn’t be surprised if the raindrop didn’t say anything back, and if it did, it would probably say, “Who? Me? What’d I do? All I did was fall through the sky like all the other raindrops and go splat.”

Let’s move on to something I’m better at…

Thank you Joe, Rob, Jay, Chris, and Chuck. This thank you comes in two parts. First is the general thank you from the poker community for making this very special place in the poker cosmos. And second is from me for saying yes to me so many times.

Thank you Rob Cole (aka Entity), the unsung hero of this project. Rob is The Carpenter. He is the scaffolding. He is the polish. Rob is a like a huge slave-labor force that doesn’t eat or complain.

Wayne and I made the audio tracks, and we scripted the visuals. All of the slides were made by Rob. All of the 8 movies were constructed by Rob. Many creative decisions were made by or guided by Rob.

Rob and I made the first three movies sitting side by side. The other six we made remotely. We had hundreds of opportunities to stress out. One time we were talking and we realized that if we get all stressed out while working on a project whose primary purpose is to teach about how to reduce stress, we must be doing something fundamentally wrong.

Dear Wayne: Thank you for losing everything to a hurricane and moving to Vegas. Thank you for starting the radio show called “Bibliothech” on holdemradio.com and inviting me on your show to talk about my book. Thank you for then having the idea that we do a series of broadcasts on holdem radio where we talk about you and your poker and I try to help you fix it. Thank you for keeping that idea alive after your radio show ended, an idea that molded and morphed itself into what became EPTPE.

But mostly, Wayne, thank you showing us that it’s all okay. It’s okay to freefall. It’s okay to go splat. It’s okay to phase change into vapor and be lifted up, just to fall again. I have no idea what I’m saying now. Thank you Wayne.

Tommy

I've thought about that movie a lot since watching this series and even more as I'm learning more about Zen and Buddhism. If you've got the time here is a great article http://www.unomaha.edu/~jrf/vol11no2/ReedFightClub.htm

I saw Fight Club when it came out and not since. Definitely going to watch it again with a fresh perspective. Thanks.

Keep breathing while you two getting so many compliments it's easy to get lifted into air

It was a great serie

Thank You Tommy, Wayne and Rob!

A little more than two years ago, TT asked me to arrange a limo for Joe Tall and his beautiful bride for their wedding. I said I would be happy to do so and would even drive them. And that's how I met Tommy, who is now my best man.

His wife Kathleen asked his friends to write something for Tommy's 50th birthday and I said that was easy. "If Tommy is your friend, you think you're his best friend." He really is my best friend, because they just don't come any better.

I'm so incredibly lucky. My friends include this remarkable guy, TT, Joe Tall, Entity, Krantz, the incomparable Death Donkey, Sklansky, Malmuth and Mike Minkoff of Professionalpoker.com, and a dozen more. Had it not been for Hurricane Charley, none of these people would be in my life.

That's what is known as hitting a one-outer.

I cannot thank you all enough, who have downloaded and listened and written us about the series. We put all we had into it, and you have told us it was worth the effort. Tommy and I have enjoyed your reactions. We thought we had something, but you let us know we did, and we thank you.

Best wishes to all, and we hope you suffer less and love it more.

Thank you, Tommy, and you are most certainly welcome.

Wayne Lively
Las Vegas, NV

Hey guys,

thanks for this remarkable series. Before watching this, I know I had a problem with tilting, but i wasn't quite sure what exactly the problem was, or even how to fix it. Thanks to you, now I know:
It's definitely the living-in-the-past/future-thing.

I remember situations where my thoughts where so heavily clouded by a previous hand that, no matter how hard I tried, I wasn't able to get back to the present tense for the rest of the whole session/night. And that caused even more tilt, and so on. And it all happened like "undercover".
You picked the words perfectly: "Accumulation of stuff"
And now there is breathing & sitting up straight

One more thing: You mentioned movies as a good remedy for coming back to the present tense, I really liked the idea. And right when you said it, I thought of the poker table you're sitting at as a movie. I guess that would be mindful watching. Watching the movements, colours, actions, clothes etc. just like you would in a movie to calm your mind/body. Didn't try it yet, but I think it could work for me.

Would love to see more of you ! Thank you much

One more thing: You mentioned movies as a good remedy for coming back to the present tense, I really liked the idea. And right when you said it, I thought of the poker table you're sitting at as a movie. I guess that would be mindful watching. Watching the movements, colours, actions, clothes etc. just like you would in a movie to calm your mind/body.

Yes. Exactly.

Didn't try it yet, but I think it could work for me.

No doubt it will.

Tommy

Do you have any plans for a second serie? If so, please give us a nugget.

I have seen videos from several training sites. I think this is on a top five of quality. You adress so much which is so important and neglected if we want to make a living of playing poker.

TYVM!

I know my English sucks