Archive for the 'Poker and life' Category

More thoughts on coaching; Vulnerability

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

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 coach [...]

Olympics, coaching, and poker

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

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 athletes [...]

“You must be willing to die in order to live”

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Amir Vahedi, the player who is credited with being the first to state, “you must be willing to die in order to live”, passed away on January 8, 2010, at the age of 46. A one time Iranian soldier and a political refugee, Vahedi was indeed able to live and to win before his passing [...]

Transactional analysis, Veneer of righteousness, Betting for thin value

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

The other day I made a comment on a blog elsewhere, stating my feelings and reactions on an issue and why I felt that way. In my comment I listed three reasons why I choose to act in a certain manner in a certain situation, and as a fourth item I described an experience from [...]

Gambling with marbles

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

When I was in fifth grade marbles were a big thing in our school. But we didn’t have the ordinary marble games where you chase each other around by trying to hit your opponent’s marble, or trying to knock other marbles out of a circle that’s drawn in the dirt.
Our marble gaming area was like [...]

Poker, for the homeless

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Just a quickie shout out. I mentioned in another post that I was reading Leatherass’s book. Here’s a video link to a news site clip about Dusty in his attempt to raise money for the homeless, by donating his winnings to a nonprofit organization that helps the homeless.

Climate change; Blog Action Day

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Okay, this is tough.
I joined Blog Action Day on the topic of Climate Change. Something I do have concerns about, but, how to make it relate to poker?

Climate change has connections to the variance that we experience as poker players. Short term seasonal change is standard. Even shorter term daily weather change is [...]

Addicted, obsessed, or passionate?

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

People often fling these words around almost interchangeably. Addicted, obsessed, passionate. I’m sure that by strict definition they don’t mean the same thing and I think most people realize this, but still they will tend to exaggerate knowing that their audience will likely understand. For example they’ll claim to be addicted to a TV show [...]