What causes us to play too conservatively? We may have a standard TAG game or be somewhat LAG, but there are times where we just don’t play our normal game, where we find ourselves opting too frequently to check or fold or to passively call down rather than betting out or raising. Here are some [...]

There are a lot of things that I’ve discovered over the years of maintaining this blog. I thought I’d do a summary for myself. the aggression muscle is not easily controlled by me. I can easily fall into a mode of being either passive or spewy I like to win, and I have some fear [...]

I was just thinking about how various types of players, various situations put us on tilt. We spend a lot of time, discussion, thought, about how to avoid tilt, how to deal with tilt, how to get off tilt. But it’s often interesting to look at things from different perspectives. For example, if I wanted [...]

Continuing on from the previous post on coaching. I was an education major (amongst other things) in my undergraduate studies and have done some teaching in music. I’ve also taken classes and private lessons as an adult in music, martial arts, theatersports, and others. The email from my former co-worker who is now a management [...]

I’m on the mailing list for a former co-worker of mine who has gone into the business of coaching managers. Every couple of weeks he sends out an email writing about various management related topics and his thoughts on them. Recently he was reflecting on the Olympics that are taking place and how top tier [...]

I was searching through some of my old posts, searching for cashout/deposit information because I was trying to build a spreadsheet that tracks my “net”; my online bankrolls plus my net cashout/deposits. It’s actually starting to get to the point that I can’t keep track easily any more because of redeposits (chasing redeposit bonuses) and [...]

Are you free? Or maybe the question should be, how free are you? To what degree can you say that you chose to work every day, at the job that you work at? Or school, or family situation? Sometimes I wonder about people who commit crimes or commit suicide or suffer mental breakdowns or stress [...]

Say you work as a high school teacher in a mid-sized city in the mid-West. You grew up in this town, so you’re quite familiar with the local issues, the local economy and the population mix. Parents of your kids work in local businesses or one of a few large manufacturers. Employment rates are and [...]