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

Very nice. I'm certainly guilty of just passively cruising through my poker learning activities. It's actually something I've recently started making an active effort to improve upon. Similarly with some of the other topics that you have coming up. The timing of this series seems quite serendipitous to me. Thanks!

Is it possible to put a MP3 version online?

Thank you Travis. Really useful information. The homework assignment focuses on something I feel I have trouble with, so I'm looking forward to seeing how it works out for me.

Can't wait 'til next week!

Thx,

Better be next Tuesday tomorrow imo.

Time management has lately been a big trouble for me. Really looking forward to the helpful tips you'll provide us with.

Is it possible to put a MP3 version online?

+1 This seems like perfect commute listening.

My mouth has been watering for this episode for what feels like forever... TYVM cannot wait

+1 This seems like perfect commute listening.

Ask and ye shall receive. I have posted mp3 versions of this and the primer.
-Rusty

Dammit Travis, why are you telling everyone what they need to do to rapidly improve? Gotta say, I figured out about 2 months ago that I "knew" far more than what was showing up in the middle of play. I came up with a plan to resolve this, and holy f**** s*** has it made a difference. I think others will do well to follow your advice here.

Since you referenced baseball - there's a few types of hitters: talented (relying on natural gifts), slugger (just powering through), and the game film type. Which one was Tony Gywnn? He was the guy that hit me 15 minutes into this video... that guy was sick:
http://www.answers.com/topic/tony-gwynn

Talk about studying game film. Who is the most *skilled* player in basketball the last 8 years or so? If you need help, he wears #24 as a reminder to himself and others to seize the day and squeeze as much as possible out of every hour (as Travis would say)... he's not the most athletically gifted, but that guy studies game film like a crack addict smokes the pipe.

Anyway, loving the series. Having come from an athletic background myself, it's great to have you comparing poker to sports.

Sounds like you've got a head start on this one StueysKid! Good to hear you're already seeing improvements from the things you've been doing already - it should provide a little motivation to others who haven't yet.

interesting... you asked for things we do that we ought not do in the last video (in reference to preparation), and the only thing I could think to write down was "wasting time"

Well, looks like you're going to whip that leak out of me - I promise to do my homework this week (writing it here so that the whole world can keep me accountable)

im assuming there isnt much information lost if you listen to MP3 rather than watch the vid.

Is this the case?

Thanks

watched it and the pilot. Am I somehow part of a sect now ???
very interesting videos anyway.

Hey thansk alot Travis!!!!!!!

I like this series alot. And it helps me alot to develope myself. I have a full time Job, and its not so easy to squeeze Poker, Gym and etc.. But I'm already on the way to do a time managemnet list on my Ipad. Which reminds me very well, what I have to do dayly. You know in my Wokr life I'm very efficent. But In my private Life I like to lag alot. This is what i need to change. As i aswell alwayes say, if you wannt to reach something in your JOb. You need spend time with it and do effort. Now i will do the same with Poker.

thanks

great video

Another awesome episode... Can't wait for the next one, time management and procrastination are my biggest leaks/weaknesses.

This series couldn't have come at a better time for me. I've recently started trying to implement many of the things you are talking about into my game and life and this series will hopefully be that push that keeps me focused and moving towards my Flow.

A daily to-do list is something I started doing two weeks ago for all of my non-poker stuff and it's really helped me tackle many of the things I've been meaning to get around to but have put off for god knows how long. I feel that with each day I'm becoming more effective and efficient in getting my non-poker things down that it is freeing up more time for me to focus on poker. Looking forward to applying this to my poker path as well!

Nice vid sir. I especially enjoyed the section when you discussed curricular progression. It is very difficult to establish a framework for getting where we want to go when we have very little idea of how to do it. So many different things have worked for different players, who are respected for their game, but what works for one person might be a horrible idea for someone else. Hopefully, this series can help us formulate a few viable options.

Keep up the good work !

I've actually just made this .doc file of a table that has every hour listed, which i fill in every night before i go to bed, about the next day.

This is extremely usefull cause every night you get back at it, and you can see what you did that wasn't on your list and where you deviated from your planning. Also you can see if your planning was unrealistic, you can learn at what times you generally don't feel like playing poker and plan around that to do something else.

If you get some experience with planning your day each day it can really help you become a more efficient and relaxed person. I don't need much help with time management, I do need a BUNCH of help with identifieing leaks and construct plans on how to work with them.

I come from a gaming background which i always performed in at the very highest of competitivness, but in gaming its very clear what the next step is, this sometimes is a guideline i miss when playing poker.

Another great part - I love this series

One question on taking_notes:
Sure it makes sense to taking notes from Vids, discussed HHs and high-quality books.
Here it further makes sense to take notes which refers to one of your weaknesses and where somebodyexplains your weakness and shows you better way (Analyze your own game).
It also makes sense to take notes regards to plays, lines from great players and figure out what for what reasons theyhave done it (Analyze your opponent`s game which will help you to improve your game).

But does it also makes sense to take notes for example regards to a discussed HHs from guys who are giving a bad advice - here the onlysense would be to figure out how they think that they can make a "bad" decision to be able to exploit the thoughzs of potential opponents...
Would you recommend to do this last point, too?

idk... attempting to "get into their head" is the goal of poker, no? So, why not stop the video and try and figure out wtf they're thinking and more importantly WHY. Then take it an extra step further and extrapolate into how you would alter your approach to attack that mindset...

I think the part about taking notes (at least for me) has been that it engages me to actually attempt to think deeper and most importantly PROCESS (depth of processing model). I haven't quite gotten to the point where I'm doing what I mentioned above in the first paragraph though...

But does it also makes sense to take notes for example regards to a discussed HHs from guys who are giving a bad advice - here the onlysense would be to figure out how they think that they can make a "bad" decision to be able to exploit the thoughzs of potential opponents...
Would you recommend to do this last point, too?

Your notes in these situations would also allow you to remember to run this piece of advice by other players to see if there's a general consensus one way or another, to analyze different viewpoints, and to critically think from any of their perspectives during actual play.

Your notes in these situations would also allow you to remember to run this piece of advice by other players to see if there's a general consensus one way or another, to analyze different viewpoints, and to critically think from any of their perspectives during actual play.

all right, thank you

You must be a rich man if you sell a lot of your books to overseas customers on amazon. I was looking for it and was offered to buy it for only 917.44€ (approx. $1,200). Obligatory shipping fee of 3€ will be added aswell of course

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Unfortunately amazon.de doesnt have it available ATM (who offer it for 16.70€ and no shipping fee), so I guess I'll just wait a bit lomger

Hahaha WOW that's crazy. Hopefully they've got that fixed. If not I'll hit up my publisher and have him contact them.

If your publisher is the one shipping on AMZN, then all they have to do is enable international shipping.

If not, or if they're unwilling, you should just sell them yourself on there. Probably 40% of your potential buyers are overseas IMO

Another good video thanks