This morning I felt like listening to some music before I got on to buisniss. So tried remembering stuff I/we used to listen to when I was younger, found lots of "pearls" on youtube after surfing a bit.
I always have loads of pages saved up, so I never close them. But the list was starting to get so long, I have to close some of them, And some of the really good poker articles I don't like closing, so I just took the important notes of one of them, and paste it here, so now I can close a few more. =]
Enjoy
- The key is using your time efficently and becoming consumed with the game.
- If you are just starting out play 2 tables. After you become adept at ANALYZING hands move up to three. If you cannot analyze hands at 2 tables go to one table. After you master three tables move to four. DO NOT MOVE BEYOND 4.
- if you can follow this piece of advice you will be in good shape, the biggest leak/cruch of unl-SSNL players is their penchant to multitable. You will never learn anything playing that many tables, learning the game has a FAR greater value than any RB/bonus/hourly of grinding SSNL ever could.
- Review your sessions! You need to know your game AND your opponents game. Get used to analyzing your play with an opponent and the dynamic you guys create (obviously this requires pokertracker of some sort). This isn't as important until like 100-200NL but knowing how to do it is crucial because this is what actually makes you think deeply about how to play hands and your overall game plan.
- Play SOLID. Do not run any type of big bluffs until 400NL. Just that simple, do not make moves. You will be extremely tempted constantly to run the bluff, the more in control of this urge you are the faster you are going to moveup, plain and simple, these guys are waiting to give away their money, you just need to be patient and understand how to play solid.
- Playing solid is what poker is all about, you need to know how to play every situation without reads in a somewhat nitty/conservative manner so that you avoid spewing and making horrible players (bluffing a station, checking vs a weak tight, folding vs a spewy aggro monkey)
- Think of poker like a road, while you are going striaght you are playing your solid ABC game, later down the road you will turn left/right to adjust to your opponents game, but for the beginning of sessions/early levels play solid and aggressive and you will do just fine.
- I wish I could go back in time and just avoid using a HUD and play 4 tables and focusing with decisive reads, but alas I cannot, don't use a HUD, focus on your opponents line and what hand (s) he is representing and how he plays certain hands, where he is weak and where he is strong, this is far more valuable than knowing a regular is 20/17 or a fish is 40/2.
- EV graphs, won $ at showdown, showdown winnings, all that is bullsht just ignore it.
- Tilting. This is the hardest thing to handle, basically if you can play solid and not tilt you'll play 5/10 in like 8 months tops if you work almost every day. For everyone its different how results effect you and how you deal with it. One thing I can tell you is that one day you will, no matter what run worse than you ever thought was reasonable, logical, mathematically possible.
- just be constantly aware that poker is going to kick the **** out of you and you can take it kicking and screaming or take it like a man and rough it out.
Right view begets right speech (Because often what we say are just reflection of what's in our mind.)
When we can control what's in our mind, we can control what comes out of our mind, and we can calm situations, calm ourselves, which also causes reduction of suffering, absorb the stuff that comes at you, which will reduce tilt as well.
Scaring the fish ?
Does it cost you money? (Will it make them quit if you harass them, make them play better?)
Wrong speech....
You're also stirring up some negative mojo inside you.
"Clear your mind of the evil that could put you on tilt."
Think of it as, purifying your mind, undoing of wrong speech (Which is the same as right speech.)
Chatting online
"Look at typing in the chat box purely from an EV standpoint."
Do you think your probability of making miss clicks is increased or decreased by typing in the chatbox?
It can't be positive EV to type in the chat box.
Reasons to keep your fingers quiet:
- You'll make fewer mistakes.
- You'll optimize information reciprocality.
If you're actively using msn/aim.
You'll divert power to making money. Any language uses up a lot of brain power.
Upside of chatting and aIM-ing while playing:
- soothing
- humor
- release
"Awareness is the most important thing."
- For people who are unsure, test, try play a few hours not using it, to see how that makes you feel.
* Extremely easy to miss out on profitable spots where you "give up" on a hand, and it goes check check on the next street as well, and you could have taken it down if you were paying attention, hugely + EV
Posting online
If we just take a minute to not be so "reactive" then we're a little more likely to say what we really want to say, in the way we want to say it.
*One of the problems with talking to people and we say things we regret, is because we immediately reacted, didn't take a split second to just pause, so we're not mindlessly reacted.*
- It's the nature of message boards that people tend to post when they disagree. So when you post something, there's a high probability that you're going to get a disagreeing reaction.
- So when someone replies to your hand "I think you played this like a moron, I hate you." React with, sitting up straight, breathe, and think before replying. Or rise completely above it.
- Your happiness, your thoughts, never need to be dependent on what someone else write/says/thinks about you, ever...
Thought is such a dangerous thing, they come out of people's mouth, they intent one thing, and gets interpreted another way, and then get's miss interpret even worse.
Rise above it
Not being thrown of what people say is an essential skill not to be put on tilt.
Online anonymity
"Don't poison your own mind."
Stillness
"You can't hear what is quieter than you."
- You need to still your mind, then you can hear what comes in at all levels.
- When you're talking, you're not going to hear people who are lower than you.
The whole idea by being still, is to CRUSH your opponents in the information world.
Theory of mum
mumpoker = Silent poker, two days of doing it:
* Don't talk/interact speak about anything poker related to anyone at the table/or in the chat box. But react to non poker stuff.
* Don't speak to anyone, remain silent no matter what at the table.
- Usually people respect people's right to remain silent.
Sixth Street / Defined
Everything that happen at the poker table after the last round of betting is done. (Can go on for a long time.)
* Don't explain anything, or make any excuses. Don't get dragged in when people shoot at you, or question you.*
Shutoff answers: Anytime anyone ask you a specific questions, no matter what it is, just say Yes. No matter the question, shuts them all of. (If that won't work, say something where you use as few words as possible, and use same answer for everything.)
Some words from his book
- Bet with your hands, not with your mouth.
- Never call for the clock on another player.
- When you are going to raise, and you are goign to state the amount you raise, do not begin to speak until you know what you are going to say.
- Do not say the word "call" unless your call is the final betting action of the entire hand. And even then, only sometimes, such as when you have the nuts or a probable winner, and you are doing a courtesy fast roll. In that case you would simultaneously turn your hand over and say "call."
- Sixth street starts when the betting stops. Sixth street is when players let their guard down, as if all of a sudden it's safe to reveal classified secrets to the enemy. It's like they don't even know the war is still going on.
Upgrades
- Right speech cures foot in mouth disease.
- Stop saying stuff you often regret right after, gossip, stop the cruel toxic language.
- Right speech is close to right view, changing views and ideas, poisonous words.
- The act of not blaming other people for thing, or yourself.
"Blame is a form of cruelty."
Ending words
Whatever you do, end things with a smile on your face. No matter if you lose or win.
winner13 Check
Drizzt28 Bet (3.93)
winner13 Call (3.93)
River (Pot : $13.10)
winner13 Check
Drizzt28 Check
Showdown winner13 shows: (two pairs, Fives and Fours)
Drizzt28 didn't show hand (Ac Js)
winner13 wins: EUR 12.45 (with two pairs, Fives and Fours)
Rake: EUR 0.65
Game ended 2010-01-17 08:47:05 CET
Hand #4
Submitted by : Mariuslol
Game # 1540363449 - Texas Hold'em No Limit EUR 0.10/0.20 - Table "Assisi Italian chat"
Players(max 6):
kari85 (EUR 22.80 in seat 1)
Sklansky$s (EUR 20.00 in seat 2)
greco72 (EUR 4.55 in seat 3)
Drizzt28 (EUR 21.10 in seat 4)
tato33 (EUR 19.75 in seat 5)
TIAMO (EUR 7.38 in seat 6)
Dealer: Drizzt28
Small Blind: tato33 (0.10)
Big Blind: TIAMO (0.20)
Showdown TIAMO shows: (three of a kind, Eights)
Drizzt28 shows: (a pair of Queens)
TIAMO wins: EUR 17.13 (with three of a kind, Eights)
Rake: EUR 0.90
Game ended 2010-01-17 14:07:47 CET
Hand #5
Submitted by : Mariuslol
Game # 1543856031 - Texas Hold'em No Limit EUR 0.10/0.20 - Table "Borlange"
Players(max 6):
danieleco1 (EUR 12.73 in seat 1)
denis_msk (EUR 20.31 in seat 2)
iron555 (EUR 4.00 in seat 3)
Drizzt28 (EUR 24.76 in seat 4)
veikkaus1 (EUR 12.20 in seat 5)
ANDREA341 (EUR 9.97 in seat 6)
Dealer: danieleco1
Small Blind: denis_msk (0.10)
Big Blind: iron555 (0.20)
For some reason forgot to update it, been a few days, instead of adding the bottom half in the other entry, I just post the whole thing here.
Quitting
" Quitting is the one poker topic that touches our regular lives the most directly and most often."
"It is the demarcation between poker and non-poker."
Toughing it out
- The difference between normal manual labour and poker is that, when you do feel out of your A game, and don't feel up for it, you can still do the work, and get a paycheck at a normal job. In poker, you will lose money.
- Everytime you feel out of your game or damaged, you shouldn't necessarily quit. If you're a professional
"This whole quitting topic is deeply complex because each person is different, and each person is changing all the time."
(Just tossing out wide area of nets)
- Each individual needs to learn to know/feel themself good when they aren't on their A game, and what might bring them close to it, or how to refocus.
From Tommy's book:
I have always had very strict policies when it comes to quitting, even when I first started playing poker. Back then I had two main quitting rules that I never broke. I would always quit if I was out of money and nobody would lend me any, and I would always quit if everybody else did.
Taking Breaks
*Very important topic*
- Possible to recharge your engine, back to your A game if it's started to detoriate.
- Usually people take breaks because they want to pee, disturbances, get food so forth
- Really smart to take breaks just to take a break, because you been sitting for too long, you're starting to become flusterd, harder to focus, so forth.
"Walking away is easy. The hard part is standing up."
If you really wanna take on quitting as a skillset, as a new challenge, body of work that you're gonna undertake. The way to do that is thinking of taking a break, as quitting practice, because everytime you're taking a break, you're going away from the table.
(Only practicing the act of walking away in the middle of the table.)
What to do on breaks
*Start thinking of your beaks in a completly different way, you're not taking a break to do anything, you do it to remove yourself from teh game, physically, and mentally, and this takes effort.*
- Doing something that takes your mind off the game
- Just concentrate on the act your doing, on yourself, concentrate on the present tense and what's going on, do the breathing.
- If you play online, It's never smart to play more than 1hour to 1hour30min, take a break, do something, do sit ups, push ups, something.
- The reason why after we've sat down, feel fresh and sharp, playing our A game, then after 1 hour, 2 hours, we just feel, deteriorated, exhausted, flusterd is because we've accumulated mental stuff.
(Like an accumilation of weights, baggage.)
- Take breaks when you feel good. (We have a tendency to take breaks when we feel like shit.) Do it before desperate time.
EVERYTIME YOU TAKE A BREAK, YOU ARE QUITTING
- Have to practice quitting when it's really difficult.
Use the "object of the game" concept to practice quitting.
Quitting "lopping off the C game"
"Lopping off the C-game has such enormous long term effects."
- On your well being, happiness, bankroll, friends, family, so forth.
- We tend not to think in long term, but saving the cash you "waste" end of long session is huge. Lopping off the C game which starts to creep in
"I see quitting as a tool to use toward this higher objective of loppinf off the C game."
"If you want to lop of C-game, you need to trim back the end of your worst sessions."
I was about to go play poker at a local casino. I hadn't slept all that well but I had showered and walked and I had convinced myself that I was good to go. I was at the door, saying goodbye to my wife, when this big yawn opened up on my face.
Wife: "Are you sure you want to go play right now?"
And I'm like, "Yes."
And she said, "Well, of course you know if you are ready or not. I'm just saying, it's never wrong to not play."
It's never wrong to not play.
It's never wrong to not play.
I let those words melt over me for a second. Then I walked to my desk and wrote them down, and stayed home.
Stack size matters
- If the only one with same stacksize is to your left, good idea to quit (Both of you 200bb.) Ideally, you want him to your right.
- If players who are better than you are deep, the worse ones have small stacks, good idea to quit as well. (If not weigh heavily to your decisions.)
Stop losses
- Completly personal, it's about knowing yourself, it's about knowing when you need one, and actually doing it.
- If you get rid of your tilt, you don't need a stop loss.
"You can't fix tilt with stop loss."
- Stop loss are only related on how big your bankroll will be in comparisontment to not stopping.
- A lot of people tilt really bad when they're stuck, stop loss is not only a good idea, it's essential, until they get their tilt under controle.
"Long range stop loss strategies are a good thing."
- Stop losses are a great idea for they who need em.
Quitting: Earn rate matters
"Good quitting requires seeing deeply into ourselves and being able to analyze our actual performance at each moment."
Quitting, pain, tilt and fear
- Quit, and relieve our suffering at poker, so we can play again. When we quit well.
- When you know you're a good quitter, gives you a level of safety and security. When you're not afraid of having those terrible sessions, because you know you'll be able to quit, that relives the fear of that pain.
"From Elements of poker"
I think of quitting as a skill set unto itself, with branching subsets of skills for each type of quitting situation. There's knowing how to quit at limit games, and there's knowing how to quit at no-limit. There's knowing how to quit when you have a curfew, and when you don't. There's being able to quit when you're ahead, and when you're stuck. There's quitting when you feel good, and for when that doesn't happen, you need to know how to quit when you feel bad.
Quitting is a skill, it's a poker skill, it's one that you can work on, it's one that very few people do work on. This isn't on how to play poker, this is how to be a poker player, quitting is becoming a poker player.
So much notes on this episode, I'll have to cut it in 2, adding the the second part tomorrow night.
Quitting
"Quitting is the one poker topic that touches our regular lives the most directly and most often."
"It is the demarcation between poker and non-poker."
Toughing it out
- The difference between normal manual labour and poker is that, when you do feel out of your A game, and don't feel up for it, you can still do the work, and get a paycheck at a normal job. In poker, you will lose money.
- Everytime you feel out of your game or damaged, you shouldn't necessarily quit. If you're a professional
"This whole quitting topic is deeply complex because each person is different, and each person is changing all the time."
(Just tossing out wide area of nets)
- Each individual needs to learn to know/feel themself good when they aren't on their A game, and what might bring them close to it, or how to refocus.
From Tommy's book
I have always had very strict policies when it comes to quitting, even when I first started playing poker. Back then I had two main quitting rules that I never broke. I would always quit if I was out of money and nobody would lend me any, and I would always quit if everybody else did.
Taking Breaks
*Very important topic*
- Possible to recharge your engine, back to your A game if it's started to detoriate.
- Usually people take breaks because they want to pee, disturbances, get food so forth
- Really smart to take breaks just to take a break, because you been sitting for too long, you're starting to become flusterd, harder to focus, so forth.
"Walking away is easy. The hard part is standing up."
If you really wanna take on quitting as a skillset, as a new challenge, body of work that you're gonna undertake. The way to do that is thinking of taking a break, as quitting practice, because everytime you're taking a break, you're going away from the table.
(Only practicing the act of walking away in the middle of the table.)
What to do on breaks
*Start thinking of your beaks in a completly different way, you're not taking a break to do anything, you do it to remove yourself from teh game, physically, and mentally, and this takes effort.*
- Doing something that takes your mind off the game
- Just concentrate on the act your doing, on yourself, concentrate on the present tense and what's going on, do the breathing.
- If you play online, It's never smart to play more than 1hour to 1hour30min, take a break, do something, do sit ups, push ups, something.
- The reason why after we've sat down, feel fresh and sharp, playing our A game, then after 1 hour, 2 hours, we just feel, deteriorated, exhausted, flusterd is because we've accumulated mental stuff.
(Like an accumilation of weights, baggage.)
- Take breaks when you feel good. (We have a tendency to take breaks when we feel like shit.) Do it before desperate time.
EVERYTIME YOU TAKE A BREAK, YOU ARE QUITTING
- Have to practice quitting when it's really difficult.
Use the "object of the game" concept to practice quitting.
Quitting "lopping off the C game"
"Lopping off the C-game has such enormous long term effects."
- On your well being, happiness, bankroll, friends, family, so forth.
- We tend not to think in long term, but saving the cash you "waste" end of long session is huge. Lopping off the C game which starts to creep in
"I see quitting as a tool to use toward this higher objective of loppinf off the C game."
"If you want to lop of C-game, you need to trim back the end of your worst sessions."
I was about to go play poker at a local casino. I hadn't slept all that well but I had showered and walked and I had convinced myself that I was good to go. I was at the door, saying goodbye to my wife, when this big yawn opened up on my face.
Wife: "Are you sure you want to go play right now?"
And I'm like, "Yes."
And she said, "Well, of course you know if you are ready or not. I'm just saying, it's never wrong to not play."
It's never wrong to not play.
It's never wrong to not play.
I let those words melt over me for a second. Then I walked to my desk and wrote them down, and stayed home.
So looked through a boywonder thread. Here's some words of wisdom.
I have been recieving a few PMs from people who are in fact winning players, but have trouble logging hands. Often, I believe, the big issue is a fear of loss more than anything. I mean, if our hourly was given to us variance free at the end of each day, I am sure most of us would be in front of our computers sunrise to dawn every day up until early retirement. Thankfully, poker does not work like this.
I believe that the fear of the (future) loss, is often much more daunting than the actual loss itself. I think that feeling a certain amount of anxiety about losing can have a greater effect on you than the actual loss. Humans have a much bigger fear of fear, or fear of the future, than they have anxieties over the present moment.
Once you have lost and you are done, you should become fully conscious of your emotions and surroundings, and realize that if you are in a position to be reading this thread, you are still better off than 95 % of this planets population. Next time, when your dysfunctional and negative thought patterns eventually emerge (like they always do), remember that moment of clarity when you did indeed lose, and it wasn´t the end of the world.
"You do this for me, I do this for you, the former."
Reciprocality
"In the world of reciprocality, it's not what you do that matters most, and it's not what they do. It's both."
- No thing in poker is isolated. (I bet, that was good, it's in correalation to what you opponent does.)
" Reciprocality says that when you and your opponents would do the same thing in a given situation, no money moves, and when you do something different, it does."
Information reciprocality
- It's as simple as not giving up information in situations they would.
- Each time you don't give out information, you gain.
(example, raging after bad beat, making comment, so forth, just stay quiet, muck the hand, nothing.)
"There's two sides of the information coin at all times, there's giving information and receiving information."
The Information War
- Recieve more, and send less, and you win the information war.
(Anytime you can isolate a situation, where you're able to do something diffrent than they do, which is profitable, which comes again over and over again, you're gonna make a ton of money.)
- Important to put effort into sending less information, and recieve more.
- You work on moving less, moving ur tongue less, eyes less, hands less, shoulders less, everything.
- Where does the money come from ? Is it just from playing good? No. It's from playing diffrent than they do.
- Giving off little information is profitable.
- Over time, this will add up huge.
The origin of reciprocality
- From duplicate Bridge, where everyone plays the same hands.
- In poker, a good way to see if you played the hand well is, at the river, when hands are shown, imagine you had his hand, he had yours, and then play the hand out in ur head. What would have happend.
"Reciprocal Analysis"
Reciprocality
- Look for, create, and amplify profitable differences.
Life: Can look at it with life as well, for instance, you eat meatballs and spaghetti and get stuffed, the other guy eat some salad and yogurt, and you sit down and play poker.
" Mine for reciprocal gold inside any decision that impacts your poker game."
- Any sort of health asspect is major. (Correct sleep, working out, so forth.)
- If you feel good and sharp all the time, you earn a hell of a lot more money.
Reciprocal analysis
- Example: You bet the river, he calls, you reverse the street, you get his hand, he bets, you would have folded.
"You can use this tool on just one street, or a combination of streets."
Reciprocality in action: Look what people aren't doing, and do that, till they find a counter strategy, then do something else people aren't doing. (Example, when people started 3 betting light, then people started 4betting light, so forth.)
Acting Last
" You can think of there being two positions: last and non-last."
How strong is acting last? It's strong, so strong. The act of being last is monumental.
What does this mean as far as reciprocality matters?
"If you can act last more than they do, you have created an advantage."
Acting last. how to create it?
- playing the button more often than they do
- folding the blinds more than they do
- And how you decide to play in the high jack and cut-off (Play it really aggressive.)
- Multiway pot, you're middle position, first guy bets, you raise, guy behind you fold, now you're last on turn and river.
"Anytime you take action which puts you last more than they do, you made a reciprical advantage."
Bankroll reciprocality
- How you partition your money, and where it actually physicly exists, compared to your opponents money.
"Anything that is not your A-game, we are defining as tilt."
"Tilt reciprocality is anytime you tilt less than your opponent would in the same situation."
Tilt reciprocality is your slippage matched up against everybody else's. Tilt reciprocality recognizes that any reduction, however small, in the frequencies, durations, and depths of your own tiltings will always have the effect of favorably widening the gap between your tilt and theirs, thereby earning immediate reciprocal advantage. To make money from tilt, you don't need to be tiltless. But you do have to tilt less.
Rolling with the reciprocality flow
"There's no absolute right or wrong way to play poker, ever. It's entirely dependent on what other people are doing."
* That's why being adaptive and flexible is critical.
- You want to have all the skills available, play extra tight when they are not, and you need to play looser when they are not.
- Preflop % Is something to always be looking for.
Reciprocality and mindfulness
- Be more mindful than your oponent in situations where it is more profitable than mindlessness.
- mindfulness can be seen as a renewable energy sources which never goes dry.
What is the diffrence that makes the biggest diffrence? The ultimate reciprocality?
As it turns out it has nothing to do with the diffrences between ourself an our opponent, and has everything to do with how we are today, and how we are tomorrow.
And that's why this practice with mindfulness is the ultimate
place to mine for recpirocal gold. Because what we are really doing when we remember to put more attention to what is happening now, than we did in the previous hour, day, week, is that we are generating profit, in ourself, in our lives. By making ourself happier people.
What this mean?
If we want to try and take the concept of reciprocality, and apply it at it's very highest level, toward the objective of reducing our suffering, the suffering around us, then all reciprocality should be thought of as being internal.
(two pairs, Fives and Fours)
(three of a kind, Eights)
