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

Time Link to 00:50:10

Really fantastic Series, loving every episode more than I have the last. This music interval is really soothing and I'd love to get hold of it. What's the music/melody?

Really fantastic Series, loving every episode more than I have the last. This music interval is really soothing and I'd love to get hold of it. What's the music/melody?

It's the song "Hurricane" by Neil Young. That track, and almost all the other music from the series, is on this page. Just keep on scrolling.

http://tommyangelo.com/the-eightfold-path-to-poker-enlightenment.html

Time Link to 00:32:39

i try not to be an asshole because i feel like kharma will smack me in the face, so the fear of getting that kharma would cause me to play timidly or feel uneasy while playing, so that's my reason for not being an asshole.

Thats crazy, I'm in Columbus Ohio and "slippery" and "Nervous" still deal at the charity game

I think talking about "tapping the aquarium" and "fish", etc, are also wrong speech. I have always had a problem with such language among players.

Time Link to 00:12:48

What your standpoint about turning the chat off completly?

What your standpoint about turning the chat off completly?

If you think that's a good idea for you, then it almost certainly is.

If you think that's a good idea for you, then it almost certainly is.

Thanks i that will help a lot the coming period.
This is the first serie i watch complety in a breath i think i will do it again in the next 2 month.
This was defintly worth my subsricption with deucescracked.

Im verry gratefull to watch this im 100% sure this is the turning point not only in my pokerlife but in real life also. Im usualy not so a suck up. But i dont care what other people think anymore.
Breathing is the best advise i got to relax and it worked a lot allready. I will follow a mindfulness course next month but i allready learn a lot from you.

Also i was just watching a Interview with Jose “Girah” Macedo on pokerstatic and the also mentioning you........i guesse your the PokerGuru of the community.....lol

I think the best way to start this new way is to sacrifice some current and old habbits;-).
Could you do a VID about sacrifice?

Thanks for your reply and for the life changing series.
Ken

People don't think enough about where the money comes from in poker. Recreational players play because they want to have a good time and being sarcastic and nasty etc at the table just puts them off and they leave and take their money with them.

I was in a situation once where the game was being built completely around a single very loose passive player and one of the aggressive regulars was being so nasty to me in chat trying to put me on tilt (I managed not to respond but it was hard) that the bad deepstacked recreational player got up and left the table. Definitely -EV for everyone.

Might I suggest that there are benefits to keeping the chat visible, even though you fully intend not to contribute to it. Think of it as information reciprocality. Seeing the comments of other players gives you a read on what their state of mind is, and reinforces what you might expect from them, eg. how badly have they taken the beat from the last hand etc.

A related point regarding "right speech" in general. It's well known that Daniel Negreanu chats a lot during table poker to provoke information from his opponents. I would strongly advise other players from assuming they can easily adopt this practice, since it takes a real master to be able to make it work, but in principle it demonstrates that "right speech" isn't necessarily no speech. Provided that you have awareness of your speech, its impact on others and on yourself, you can use it to your advantage.

I'm on the right track here right?

there are benefits to keeping the chat visible, even though you fully intend not to contribute to it. Seeing the comments of other players gives you a read on what their state of mind is

Agreed.

A related point regarding "right speech" in general. It's well known that Daniel Negreanu chats a lot during table poker to provoke information from his opponents. I would strongly advise other players from assuming they can easily adopt this practice, since it takes a real master to be able to make it work, but in principle it demonstrates that "right speech" isn't necessarily no speech. Provided that you have awareness of your speech, its impact on others and on yourself, you can use it to your advantage.

I'm on the right track here right?

I think so.

A couple related add-ons are 1) independent of whether we decide to use speaking as an information gathering tool, we still need to be rehearsed at how to be on the receiving end of an interrogation and come out ahead. 2) Even an expert at the vocal game needs to also be an expert at the quiet game for those times when it occurs naturally or on purpose.

Time Link to 00:49:43

Wow! Sixth street might be my biggest leak! A lot of other pros too.

Time Link to 00:06:53

im not much of a talked myself, but couldnt keeping all of this emotion inside lead to negative consiquences too? is this more of an add on to right thinking and almost a reminder of it?
i guess i just feel that if you suppress those emotions they could cause more damage.

im not much of a talked myself, but couldnt keeping all of this emotion inside lead to negative consiquences too? is this more of an add on to right thinking and almost a reminder of it?
i guess i just feel that if you suppress those emotions they could cause more damage.

Hi Matt,

The idea of "keeping emotions inside" and "suppressing those emotions" is precisely the opposite of what is taught by Buddhist teachers. It's unfortunate that the passage at 00:06:53 made you think otherwise!

With anger, for example, the suggested approach is to hold it close, to study it, to review it, after the fact, and if possible, while it is going on. To embrace it. To see it an a part of yourself, just like a finger. It's not good or bad. And it's definitely not something to hide or run away from. If the objective is to have your anger cause less damage than it does now, then the best approach is to treat anger as almost like a hobby, something you tinker with and improve on every day.

All of that, as you can see, is nothing at all like "suppression."

Tommy

thanks. i just finished this series and took a "bad beat" almost simultaneously
on impulse i went "dammit." then i stopped sat up straight and tried to breath, then i thought, why am i mad? i dont get mad when i lose in sports... so im mad now because it was out of my control?? that seems like a bad reason to be frustrated.
and just like that the madness was gone. so i can see what you mean, staying mad on the inside and studying it are very different things and im very happy i watched this series.
thanks alot.

matt.