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

Great Vid, will review on bad streaks for sure.

I would love to see you doing a PLO series.
As you just converted yourself, do you feel ready for this?

Very much appreciated Krantz.

I think the reason poker players struggle with tilt is because there are few things in life where you get negative results from doing something correctly. One thing I find that is comparable is hitting in baseball, especially since getting a hit 3 out of 10 is really good. You can go through a couple weeks of hitting .500 and think u have the game figured out and all of sudden, you start hitting line drives right at people. Before you know it, you are 0 for your last 20, can't figure out what you are doing wrong, and make unnecessary changes to your swing. In my experience, the same thing happens in poker. You crush for awhile by playing well and running good, but then inevitably you run bad for awhile. When this happens, you lose confidence in your game and start making mistakes. It makes it difficult to keep your confidence when you don't have the reinforcement of being successful. When you invest a lot of time and emotion into to be a good poker player, failure becomes tough to deal with. Same with baseball. Everyone deals with it, but the very best have short memories and the blind confidence that separates them from the herd. Theoretically, it would be nice to never tilt but I don't think it's quite possible. But all skills being equal, the player the who manages tilt the best will go a lot further in this game than everyone else, imo. So I think the ultimate goal should be to have an awareness of our emotions and constantly improve on being able to control them.

Dani, Thanks for doing this I got a lot out of it.

Highlight for me was

"Really? your still tilting"

So much tilt advice out there somewhat condones tilt. they say things like "everyone tilts to some extent","its ok to tilt" etc. I think what you said was spot on.

IMO it would be awesome to see some videos from you showing your approach to small stakes PLO games.

Thank you for this.

This may be exactly what I needed to hear for many reasons, most of which to burn that flame hotter and never, ever stop progressing in poker or in life.

Really loved this episode Dani. Great stuff, especially the part about needing that fire we all started with when learning new games.

As for your next series, maybe some MTT stuff or PLO, most likely with a student as I think your bluntness translates well to high quality educational material Being able to berate someone in a nice way seems to fire you up and bring out the best in your teaching abilities. My vote would be for MTT since I don't play PLO, but I know many do so that's an option as well.

Love this format and Dani's input here is exceedingly enjoyable.

I almost never ever actually laugh out loud but your image of the accountant on tilt (and the child playing a board game) are absolutely classic.

Great stuff!

One question, though. How do you manage to be "obsessed with poker", as you say, but at the same time healthily step away from the table? Where lies the line between healthy obsession and addiction? Do you know your line? Did it move at some point?

nice episode.

But I don't really get your view on tilt. Tilt is described as not playing your a-game. And isn't that the same as being perfect? And I think you said something about perfect being an illusion yourself.

For me tilt is not breaking the mouse or yelling - that's obv. a result of the tilt. But as long as i'm not playing my a-game because of some factors, I consider it as tilt.

So how do you progress to becoming tiltless? You kinda told it like it was a choice of growing up?

As a sidenote, my "tilt-triggers" isn't anything results oriented.

Time Link to 00:30:39

Nah you do snap in a proffesional career, everybody does, and everyone has a bad day at the office once in the while where they fuck everything and it just gets too much.

Great video...

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Ansky, PLO PLO PLO!!! The Crossfire series from MagicNinja was excellent, but too short, so hopefully you can make up for this shortfall. If you do it kinda like "The Riddler" series where you 4 table, except do all PLO, would be perfect.

Thanks for all your hard work!

Devin

Really great. I'm sure that was the best 36 minutes I've spent on this site (which is hard to say because I've learned so much). You really picked up on the things that are important, not just in poker but in your life. Confidence, agrressiveness, pursuing perfection, incentive to learn, using what's available, etc. The first line about tilt was awesome. It's nice to have it all condensed. I've always enjoyed hearing/watching you. You have a confident way of conveying your point that makes it very believable. The whole series idea was great. I look forward to seeing the rest. Sidenote, I'm sure you've answered this and don't want to offend you, but, why is your name pronounce "Donny"?
Thank you sir.

I just wanted to say that I've watched probably 30 videos in the last 2 weeks since I've joined the site and this was the absolute best video I've watched so far. I mean, wow, was this ever direct, and well articulated.

Thanks Dani, my respect for you has just gone through the roof.

I just wanted to say that I've watched probably 30 videos in the last 2 weeks since I've joined the site and this was the absolute best video I've watched so far. I mean, wow, was this ever direct, and well articulated.

Thanks Dani, my respect for you has just gone through the roof.

Thanks, I really appreciate it.