This is probably one of the most important lessons I've
learned at poker, and it took me a lot of years to actually learn this lesson. This
article is about your mind, relaxing your mind.
Included are my two very favorite tips for making poker a lot easier. Tip #1: Relax your mind. Tip #2: Breathe.
I've been a successful poker player for more than seven years. There are a lot of great poker players out there, many of them reading my blog, I can tell from the ones I've spoken to. Being a great poker player doesn't automatically include being a great businessman or being capable of working for yourself. A lot of my friends are having some success right now, and I am sure that it will continue, because these are very good players. The only thing holding some of you guys back from being really successful is approaching poker like a business. This thread is a must-read for successful players. I talk about keeping cash ledgers, managing your time, staying upbeat, happy, physically fit, and sociable, and how to pay Uncle Sam your taxes.
Range - Equity - Maximum, or REM, was a concept created with the first printing of Professional No-Limit Hold 'em: Volume I
A recent article in the New York Times caught my eye. It discusses a paper in cognitive psychology titled "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties of Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-assessments."
According to the paper, there are two types of people in the world:
those who have enough experience to know they're making a mistake, and
those who don't have that much experience yet. In this world-view, the
amateur player makes a mistake but also fails to realize that it was a
mistake.
In this article, I discuss what winrates are sustainable over a large sample by a good player, in different game types and formats, and then I discuss what hourly rate these ROIs translate into.
This is a response to the article over at Suited Aces of the same name.
Danny always believed that he had some poker skill, but not what it takes to beat the highest stakes games. Now that he plays high stakes poker, Danny asks, "Why was I wrong? Why did I feel like I didn't have the potential to be the best? Besides the obvious underinflated self esteem, a lot of it had to do with misguided views on what it takes to be a good poker player."
Full Tilt has added Super Turbo HU SNGs to their game lineup. Here, I discuss strategies and reading material for Super Turbo HUSNGs, where the stacks start at only 500 chips.
Everybody's been exposed to statistics at some point or another. The study of statistics is two-fold. First, there's applied statistics, which we use in applications like my Variance & Bankroll Calculators, that let us know if what we're experiencing is out of the norm. Second, there's statistical theory, which can help us avoid making general errors in judgment.
Three major theoretical concepts stand out, the Law of Large Numbers, the Central Limit Theorem, and Sampling Bias.