
Learn to get into poker growth mode
In just about any endeavor, if you’re not growing, you’re not likely to succeed. As legendary hoops coach John Wooden said “It’s what you learn

In just about any endeavor, if you’re not growing, you’re not likely to succeed. As legendary hoops coach John Wooden said “It’s what you learn

By Zack Bartholomew Poker is a really tricky game to get a handle on. One minute you think you have a system down, you feel like you can see the code and then the next minute you wonder how you got sucked into this terrible game. One thing I’ve really taken to heart the last […]

To be a really good poker player, you have to be skilled. You have to be dedicated. You have to be mentally tough. With that

Last issue, I stressed player performance in relation to the internal clock and covered how professional athletes are more likely to blunder at “off peak”

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More often than not, poker students who seek my advice are at a level in their game whereby the student has read a few books

By Steve Blay Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garry Kasparov. For a time, they were all the best at what they did. And

By Zack Bartholomew Recently, I’ve been playing in a super juicy, private pot-limit Omaha game. I must admit, I know little about the deeper math

We have all heard it before: You need mental toughness to reach peak performance. Before we get into that, it’s important to ask yourself how



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