What’s up guys, Been a while since I offered a poker article to you guys, but I have a thought that’s been kickin around in my head so I thought I’d share it with you. It’s probably most relevant in HU matches but is definitely still applicable in a 6m setting (possibl... Read More
Despite the fact that my main games for the last couple years have extremely high variance, I had not had a losing month for over two years up until January. A lot of this is a function of anal game selection and playing a ton of hands each month. Since I started playing for a living... Read More
Have you ever felt like this during a session? I used to just snap like that. I’d start going allin every hand like a maniac until my account was empty. But doing things like this is not a death sentence. Today, I won more in a single session than my biggest tilted chipdump ($200 back in 2007 playing 10NL and 25NL) in what I will call my “dark ages.” If you want to change, you can, and ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/85531-Best-tilt-on-film-ever-">(continued)</a>
Currently, I’m deleting some of the random, less performance/poker/gambling-related entries on my blog. Aggressive Certainty is not my facebook, and wallowing is not productive, and my inner speech was wrong in those posts. In essence, this is my mental performance log which I hope to use later on to help others. Yup, pretty boring. FOCUS!! I’m just happy to be here, and I hope I can help the ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/83811-Housekeeping-Focus-">(continued)</a>
There will be no more goal pimping on this blog (after this one obviously). No more “gonna do this, gonna do that.” The Mornings Are Win entry was a total fail. I played 3 morning sessions then stopped playing poker entirely. My motivation fell off a cliff. I’ve fallen into the announcement trap. What. The. Mother. Effer. I fell for the announcement trap. Hey Dave, remember that video clip you s ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/83521--Not-Keeping-Goals">(continued)</a>
I’m bored of poker. I haven’t played a single hand in days. “But we’re only in the middle act!” “What about the 50K challenge?” I know. I just. I dunno. I feel a huge nothingness right now. I wanna smash that alarm clock. I defragged my hard drive last night while staring at the progress screen. Then I organized my bookmarks. Then did about 10 minutes of poker drills. Then took a nap. Then woke up and ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/83071-Bored">(continued)</a>
From Wikipedia: Ben Hogan is generally considered one of the greatest players in the history of the game of golf and widely acknowledged to have been the greatest ball striker ever to have played golf. “You hear stories about me beating my brains out practicing, but I was enjoying myself. I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning so I could hit balls. When I’m hitting the ball where I want, hard and ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/82211-Old-Master-Speaks">(continued)</a>
[an excerpt from Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi] As my new manager, Perry’s primary task is finding me a new coach, someone to replace Nick. He draws up a short list of candidates, and at the top of the list is a guy who’s just written a book about tennis: Winning Ugly. Perry hands me the book, urges me to read it. I shoot him a dirty look. Thanks, no thanks. No more school for me. Besi ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/81901-Be-Like-Gravity">(continued)</a>
[I’m just going to keep posting sections from Mastery on my blog. I love books that keep growing on me. I love it when my first impressions are wrong. Unexpected gifts are that much sweeter!] An excerpt from Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment by George Leonard: Good Horse, Bad Horse In his book Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind , Zen master Shunryu Suzuki approache ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/79571-Good-Horse-Bad-Horse">(continued)</a>
I’m re-reading “Mastery” right now because I feel like I’m not progressing as steadily as I should, and I’m having trouble keeping up with the goals I’m setting for myself. It culminated last night in a bad dream in which I was on the forums reading something by Grindcore, when suddenly I was struck by the sickening realization that I had no idea what he was talking about while everybody ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/79051-The-Joy-of-Regular-Practice">(continued)</a>
“I have gathered a garland of other men’s flowers, and nothing is mine but the cord that binds them.” – Montaigne A QUOTER’S GUIDE TO OPTIMISM “Fortitudine vincimus” (By endurance we conquer) – Shackleton family motto “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.” – Ralph Wald ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/77511-A-Quoter-s-Guide-to-Optimism">(continued)</a>
My name is David. I was 27 years old when I watched Rounders and realized what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I have been playing poker for 6 years now. The highest stakes I’ve ever played is 50NL. I have wanted to think of myself as a serious player for 5 years, yet I have honestly studied the game for maybe 1 year in total. I’ve been scared of losses, scared by the work ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/76381-My-name-is-David-Ego-death-">(continued)</a>
[repost from forum thread: High Neuroticism – quit poker? ] I just finished reading George Leonard’s “Mastery,” and even though it was written almost 20 years ago, it distills everything else I’ve read in the past 3 years about talent and skill into a short, if not qualified, read. I say it’s not qualified since the author wants the reader to “surrender” (being one of the 5 master keys ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/75791-Master-teach-me-your-ways">(continued)</a>
“I have gathered a garland of other men’s flowers, and nothing is mine but the cord that binds them.” – Montaigne … Repeat after me, “I am not a thinker” “Very few people think; a considerable number of people believe they think; and the rest would rather die than think.” – anonymous “The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not entirely a ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/64421-A-Quoter-s-Guide-To-Thinking">(continued)</a>
The following is something I wrote up à la Jerry Maguire early Friday morning. It’s a set of beliefs and the relevant sources directing me in my life right now and in turn my poker quest. It could be something more in the future, possibly a charter for a new secret HQ group. The Beliefs 1. I am not talented, gifted, or deserve the prize by virtue of showing up. 2. I am not talentless, inferior, or have ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/61271-Mindset">(continued)</a>
Looking through my HEM db I made a sobering realisation recently that if I just never called an all-in ever I would have made more money. And not just by a little bit, by an absolute mile. Now part of that is to be expected because I am a beginner, but part of that is just that I seem to go on a special kind of all-in tilt where all my plans go out of the window and my disciplin ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/huntse/59181-I-get-it-in-bad-and-that-ain-t-good">(continued)</a>
Mullanimal said in a thread Quitting shouldn’t be look at as a temptation. It should be looked at as a logical decision. Failing at things you are not good at is ok, it gives us a chance to find something we are good at. The word ‘failing’ has a lot of negative baggage, as does ‘quitting’. This is standard. The majority of people think failure sucks, but at the same time, qui ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/58131-You-Are-Not-Talented-at-Cards">(continued)</a>
A few days ago, I listened to stheif09’s Blueprint , and @ 20:45, he talks about stopping 15 minutes into a session cause nothing’s going our way. He said just stop, declare an end to the session, take a 30 minute break, then start a new session with a clear head. Good things will happen. Well, it happened yesterday. I did all my pre-game rituals, fed, motivated, primed, and then… bluff called, value ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/56901-Reset-Button">(continued)</a>
“You need to love to lose. It’s like you’re playing the piano for ten years and you still can’t play chopsticks, and the only thing you have to keep you going is the belief that one day you’ll wake up and play like Rachmaninoff.” – Mark Spitznagel Does the flaw make profit in a simple domain? Not technically, as a strategy. But it can be essential mentally.
[I’m finally reading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and I just read such a surreal and beautiful passage. It’s just… wow. I said in my first post in this blog that I don’t believe poker itself is a Black Swan dependent endeavor, but I’m beginning to think The Great Internet Poker Boom was a Black Swan event. Anyway, the following passage will make sense when you know that Yevgenia is ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/51741-Inebriated-by-Hope">(continued)</a>
It happened! It really happened! I had a poker dream last night! Gabe Kaplan was there. Mary Tyler Moore was there (with a British accent. what?). A bunch of young pros I have never heard of were there. And someone was playing heads-up on a couch and pushed all-in with a gutshot with an overcard and got snapped off by a set. And the guy wasn’t really upset cause he was a pro and li ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/50831-On-Finally-Getting-A-Tetris-Dream">(continued)</a>
I started re-reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink yesterday, and was struck again by the simple yet powerful concept of priming . In a nutshell, seemingly innocuous words and images in our environment influence our behavior in unexpectedly powerful ways. There was also a study done in the U.K. recently that revealed that being “observed” by a picture of eyes on a wall made people behave bet ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/50601-Priming-For-Fun-and-Profit">(continued)</a>
It’s one thing talking about negative variance in an objective light, talking about keeping positive, talking about reformulating one’s idea of success in poker not in terms of money but in finding joy in becoming better through mistakes. But then you lose 5 sessions in a row, and it’s hard not to get discouraged. It’s hard not to feel like taking another break that turns into something much ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/50461-Orphans-Rule-The-World">(continued)</a>
I’ve been in a mental holding pattern for a few weeks now. I’ve been heavily influenced by Nassim Nicholas Taleb for the past few months, and I think I’ve been unable to reconcile his warnings on the futility of risk taking in complex domains due to the limits of knowledge in such domains with the act of playing poker. I felt like a hypocrite. To reference a favorite analogy of ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/nawhead/50111-The-Final-Piece-of-the-Mental-Game">(continued)</a>
I read an article at youarenotsosmart.com , which outlines a behavioural pattern known as as the Extinction Burst . The ideas hail from the 1960s and ’70s and are attributed to Burrhus Frederic Skinner . Below are a few quotations from the article, and below that a very brief commentary of my own. Bear with me, this is relevant to poker. Here are a the quotations: If you get rewarded by your ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/jjd323/31741-Extinction-Burst">(continued)</a>
This is a blog that nearly every trader reads and I think it is very relevant to poker players also. It deals mainly with psychology, winning and peak performance and winning. You will find most concepts although designed for traders can be directly applied to poker player’s. “An important premise of this series of posts is that elite levels of performance a ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/onthecome/13371-An-article-you-MUST-Read-Finding-Your-Niche-in-Life">(continued)</a>
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