Was it the killer kale salad? Or maybe it was the nap. Why was tonight’s poker session extra awesome? Three times I found myself basking in the bliss of poker nirvana. The third event was so profound that I rushed home to type about it. Topping off at Oaks After Covid, when poker players were […] The post Symptoms of Poker Nirvana appeared first on Tommy Angelo.| Tommy Angelo
What I’m about to say is hard to fathom, even though we all know it’s true: Your phone is an inanimate object. It just sits there, dead like a stone, until you decide to bring it to life. What if, during your poker sessions, you deployed your phone for the sole purpose of playing better […] The post Project Phone Fruit appeared first on Tommy Angelo.| Tommy Angelo
If you prefer your coffee with cream, and that doesn’t happen, you don’t have to be unhappy about it. If you prefer to win with pocket aces, and that doesn’t happen, you don’t have to be unhappy about that either. Do you believe what I just said? Do you believe that painless preferences are possible? […] The post Painless Preferences appeared first on Tommy Angelo.| Tommy Angelo
The stillness hypothesis goes like this: During poker, each moment of stillness is a moment of less unhappiness, and less tilt, which is pretty much the same thing. By tilt I mean any non-A-game performance or mindset. A scientific hypothesis should be falsifiable, meaning that the hypothesist provides an experiment that could disprove the hypothesis. […] The post The Stillness Hypothesis appeared first on Tommy Angelo.| Tommy Angelo
Poker mantras are plentiful and awesome, such as “All you need is a chip and a chair,” and “It’s never wrong to not play.” But the best poker mantra of all – the only one with explicit universal instructions that can improve your win rate at any moment – the only mantra that has saved …| Tommy Angelo
