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Vegas Baby, Vegas
Posted on22. Jun, 2009 by Gugel.
Just booked my tickets to Vegas today. I’m leaving this Friday and coming back on Tuesday. My flight leaves at like 5:50AM Tuesday so that pretty much guarantees I’m staying up all night. I’m so pumped!
Best part is that I’m staying with Ansky at the Two Months, Two Million house. Plan is to go to [...]
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The 7 C’s of Mental Toughness
Posted on19. Jun, 2009 by Gugel.
Practice the seven C’s (Competitive, Confident, Control, Committed, Composure, Courage, Consistency) of mental toughness.
That quote is from a book called Mind Gym that HokieGreg was raving about on Twitter yesterday. A lot of players (myself included) put mental toughness on the backburner. But recently, I’ve begun to realize how that’s a huge mistake. Jack Nicklaus, [...]
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Bing Blang Blaow Lyrics – A Hilarious Poker Video
Posted on10. Jun, 2009 by Gugel.
This is the new victory song of heads up. It started as a thread on 2+2 by ch3ckraise and snowballed from there…
It’ll probably be the funniest thing you’ve seen all day.
Here are the lyrics.
I just stacked that dude
Man, that’s another 50 bucks today
Bing blang blaow
You know for now
Bing blang blaow
Is in the house, yea yea [...]
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100k-Hand Variance Simulator
Posted on03. Jun, 2009 by Gugel.
Ever wonder what your graph will look like over the next 100,000 hands you play?
Head over to the Tools section and check out the Variance Simulator (requires Excel). Just enter your winrate and standard deviation and keep pressing F9. It will automatically generate what your next 100,000 hands might look like. You might be very [...]
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Final Table of the WSOP 40K
Posted on30. May, 2009 by Gugel.
Ansky made the final table of the WSOP 40k (’bout time). There are 9 players left and Dani is 7th in the chip count. For the latest chip counts, go here.
Here’s the payout structure:
1 – $1,891,012
2 – $1,168,566
3- $774,927
4 – $548,315
5 – $413,166
6 – $329,730
7 – $277,940
8 – $246,834
9 – $230,317
Run good Dani!
Update: Ansky finished [...]
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3 Things You Need to Master
Posted on29. May, 2009 by Gugel.
There are three things you need to master to be a great poker player. That’s right, just three things.
If you master just one or two, you’ll probably be mediocre at best (probably still bad). Some people have excellent emotional control, but bad hand reading skills. Others have great strategy, but bad emotional control. Identify your [...]
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CardRunners Review
Posted on21. May, 2009 by Gugel.
Cardrunners is largest online poker training site. I usually get a free membership to Cardrunners for a week or two out of the month and that gives me more than enough time to download the videos I’m interested in and watch them at my leisure.
The Good
1. Cardrunners probably has the biggest selection of HU videos [...]
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Your Brain on Tilt
Posted on18. May, 2009 by Gugel.
This is tilt. This is your brain on tilt. Questions?
Emotional control is what makes good poker players great. Here’s an amazing 2+2 post about tilt by mental game coach Jared Tendler. And just in case you missed it, here’s my writeup from a while back about controlling tilt.
The Only Reason Tilt Happens
Republished with [...]
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The Biggest Mistake of All
Posted on15. May, 2009 by Gugel.
“To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.”
- Peter McWilliams
You’ll never be a great poker player if you avoid difficult situations. The more you get challenged, the more you’ll think and adjust, and the better player you’ll become. The great thing about heads up is that it [...]
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Top 100 Poker Blogs of 2009
Posted on30. Apr, 2009 by Gugel.
Here’s a list of the 100 best poker blogs of 2009. The blogs were rated on how often people linked to them and how much traffic they received. Yup, it’s pretty much a popularity contest. It would be a little too much work to rate each blog on the quality of content [...]
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