Poker With Presence

When you lack the ability to understand what context your opponents are living in, you can't make the proper adjustments against them.

When the nervous system gets stuck in a loop, strange things can happen.

Insight follows experience, and to get the full insight, you've got to let the entire cycle of an experience play out.

Sometimes success can be your own worst enemy—something I had to learn the hard way.

The key to getting where you want to go isn't about projecting a certain image out into the world and to yourself. 

Checking your results during sessions isn't what creates an emotional reaction inside you—the emotion was already there before you ever did it.

When you stop trying to pretend you're something you're not, a huge weight drops away and you can finally play and perform from a place of creativity and flow.

When we lock in to a read without being open to feedback from our environment, it can often lead to big errors in judgement later on.

When the action starts heating up at the table, you need a reliable way to notice when you start to "spin out," which is the sign that you're about to do something you'll regret later.

When you feel like someone is "in your head" and always a step ahead of you, they're not—they've just reached a higher level of emotional congruence than you have. Fix this, and you can play your game the way you want.