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Nov 7, 2025
What You Should Do: Finding the Hidden EV
Sometimes the most profitable play isn't the one that looks best on paper.
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Writing.
I write about poker, thinking well, and navigating uncertainty.
Life
Making a Life-Changing Decision
I was on a coaching call recently with a recreational poker player – let's call him Dan – who was wrestling with whether...
Mindset
The Story in Your Head
One of the best tools I've ever learned from a coach isn't complicated. There's no complex theory, no multi-step framewo...
Mindset
The Broken Compass Effect
I used to work 1:1 with a PLO player. We’ll call him Jamie*....
Strategy
Calibrate Your Poker Instincts
Over many years of playing poker, talking to peers, responding to questions on training videos, forums, social media, an...
Strategy
Look Around The Table: Who's the Mark?
Mark was an online mid-stakes cash game player in a group coaching program of mine....
Mindset
Logic vs. Emotion: Off the Table
Last week, I wrote about how emotions impact your game at the poker table — and how to use that to your advantage. Thi...
Mindset
Logic vs. Emotion: Who is in Control?
I’ve played millions of poker hands. I started learning over 20 years ago through the books of David Sklansky — a pure l...
Mindset
Damage Control: The First Domino
I was recently on a call with several members of my group coaching program. One of them – we’ll call him Bob – shared a ...
Life
Make 2025 Different. Actually.
Allow me to start with a hypothetical:...
Life
Why I No Longer Aim for Work-Life Balance
For most of my poker career, I preached work-life balance—the need to focus energy on life outside of the game....
Mindset
The Confident Man
Just like poker, life is filled with competing perspectives, biases, and the need to navigate uncertainty....
Poker
Run, Rush, Rake, Revolution
What if a poker site aimed to give back all their rake? How could it possibly work?...
Strategy
Studying GTO: One Size Doesn't Fit All
If you’ve been reading this newsletter for a while, you’ll have heard some of my thoughts on GTO poker....
Mindset
Four Attributes of Elite Poker Players
Over my nearly two decades as a high-stakes poker player, I’ve had the privilege of observing, competing against, and be...
Strategy
The Wild Image Paradox
Poker is a game of misdirection and deception....
Strategy
GTO Gone Wrong: "But I Had the Bottom of My Range"
One of my more popular past issues was about how players trying to emulate GTO strategies screw up due to bet sizing (...
Mindset
Hacking Envy: A Wake Up Call
It’s World Series of Poker season....
Mindset
Why Can't I Break Through?
Every one of us is at a different point in our poker journey....
Mindset
Let's Get Uncomfortable
What do taking the escalator and playing poker have in common?...
Mindset
The Five Post-It Notes Stuck to My Screen
Like many people in 2024, I mostly use my phone and different apps to remind me of things. Yet, anyone who visits my off...
Strategy
Blockers: A Practical Guide
If you’ve been near a poker table, you’ve likely heard about blockers....
Strategy
Let's Bluff: Seven Actionable Tips
Bluffing is an art form, much less flashy and dramatic than movies make it out to be....
Strategy
How To Handle Tough Decisions
Welcome to this week’s edition of In Position!...
Mindset
Intensity: The Power of Perception
I went digging around in my mind this morning, trying to unearth principles I use in my poker game that aren’t as common...
Strategy
From Intimidation to Illumination
Last week, I finished off by explaining that even the strongest players leave clues when you're trying to hand-read....
Mindset
Conquering FOBP: Building Pots and Performing Well
Let’s talk to him and get to the bottom of this....
Strategy
Why? Poker's Most Important Question
I began teaching the importance of “Why” in poker fifteen years ago....
Strategy
Down to Business: Poker Training Part 1
One of the most common requests I got from readers when I asked for directional feedback in my end-of-2023 newsletter vi...
Strategy
Down to Business: Poker Training Part 2
In Part 1 last week, we covered the Run It Once origin story. If you haven’t read it yet, check it out before continui...
Strategy
Down to Business: Poker Training Part 3
Welcome to part 3 of 3 reviewing the journey of Run It Once Training!...
Strategy
Five Common Tournament Leaks and How to Fix Them
We’re in the middle of the World Series of Poker. Thousands of poker hopefuls flock to Vegas, dreaming of winning the co...
Mindset
Finding My A-Game
In our journey together, we've delved deeply into the intricacies of high-level poker strategy, uncovering the nuances t...
Strategy
Want to Win in Theory or in Real Life?
Last time, we talked about how many people get the “bottom of their range” bluffs wrong because they don’t understand t...
Strategy
Bluffing and Value Betting Naturally
River comes the 4❤️....
Strategy
Don't Play Like a Solver, But Think Like a Solver
I began my poker career long before the advent of solvers....
Strategy
How I'd Start Learning Poker in 2024
It must be overwhelming for unstudied players to enter the world of learning poker today....
Mindset
The Best Poker Advice I've Ever Received
This newsletter is now a little over a year old. In the past 53 volumes, I’ve given you my poker advice from fixing y...
Life
From Captain to Table Captain
If you’ve followed my career for a bit, you won’t have to look back far to see evidence of me dealing with adversity....