tommy angelo
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I think all of those activities are equal in that doing any of them is way, way better than doing none of them.
As to solo vs. group, you're right that solo exercise serves up an opportunity to do mental and physical training at the same time, in a way that group exercise doesn't. But merely being "along with your thoughts" doesn't count as mental exercise/training. Great effort must be applied to get anywhere with the mental workouts, just as with building muscle mass. By mental workout what I mean is using mindful breathing -- being aware of whether you are breathing in or out -- as a wedge of awareness that let's you see what you are thinking about, rather than just being lost in the random thoughts. The act of rising above your thoughts, over and over, and being able to say "I was just thinking about such and such" is the repetitive act that builds concentration power, and calmness under pressure. You can do that on a treadmill. You (probably) can't do that during a basketball game.
tommy angelo
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Because if we parked on our parkways and we drove on our driveways, we'd run out of milk.
Makwa
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Great to have you here Tommy, you sent me a copy or EoP some time ago but didn't sign it, will have to get u to do that some day...
will check the new one too...
Re differences in approach to the game (life), is true Dusty's approach (see comments above) is more discipline and work oriented (true work ethic driven business approach) which, although it can work for the multitable grinders, is not fun at all, at least for me.
Your attitude is more like Roy West's, only play when you feel good. He writes about driving hours to a casino to play, only to turn around in the parking lot and go home, because he didn't feel right.
So yr wife Kay is absolutely right, not playing some sessions and playing less hands (similar related thoughts) are very zenlike if I may be so presumptuous, in that absence is really the substance. And then playing when things are right becomes much more powerful. Don't you think?
Exactly, partly accounting for some of those huge swings that happen to them. Grinding brick and mortar rooms like Roy or Tommy has its own toll, but I can't imagine what it does to a young person's life to sit staring at a screen and hundreds of anonymous blips all day and night (and dreaming about it of course) for years at a time. Can you say arrested (human) development? The fallout to these kids lives is yet to be seen. I don't care that some of them get rich. And ya, even the best end up playing a lot of crappy poker, like the C Game or worse described in EoP, when they are forcing themselves to sit and grind into the night, having missed seeing daylight. Whew...
I have an Irish granny who told me, if you turn around the money in your pockets, you will get more!!
will check the new one too...Re differences in approach to the game (life), is true Dusty's approach (see comments above) is more discipline and work oriented (true work ethic driven business approach) which, although it can work for the multitable grinders, is not fun at all
, at least for me. Your attitude is more like Roy West's, only play when you feel good. He writes about driving hours to a casino to play, only to turn around in the parking lot and go home, because he didn't feel right.
So yr wife Kay is absolutely right, not playing some sessions and playing less hands (similar related thoughts) are very zenlike if I may be so presumptuous, in that absence is really the substance.
And then playing when things are right becomes much more powerful. Don't you think? Exactly, partly accounting for some of those huge swings that happen to them. Grinding brick and mortar rooms like Roy or Tommy has its own toll, but I can't imagine what it does to a young person's life to sit staring at a screen and hundreds of anonymous blips all day and night (and dreaming about it of course) for years at a time. Can you say arrested (human) development? The fallout to these kids lives is yet to be seen. I don't care that some of them get rich. And ya, even the best end up playing a lot of crappy poker, like the C Game or worse described in EoP, when they are forcing themselves to sit and grind into the night, having missed seeing daylight. Whew...
I have an Irish granny who told me, if you turn around the money in your pockets, you will get more!!
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orangepeeleo
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I recently won a copy of Jared's book and I seen him tweet that you two met up in vegas recently, I remember thinking that i'd love to be on the table next door and listening in to 2 great minds chatting away........so what did you talk about??
tommy angelo
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I recently won a copy of Jared's book and I seen him tweet that you two met up in vegas recently, I remember thinking that i'd love to be on the table next door and listening in to 2 great minds chatting away........so what did you talk about??
Our first visit went so well, we had another one yesterday afternoon! We really hit it off. We talked a great deal about our backgrounds and approaches and techniques and philosophies. We were both happy to find that we shared many commonalities on some topics we feel are most important, and we isolated some interesting/instructive/useful differences (and please don't ask me to go into that! It's exhausting! lol), and, we talked about ways we might collaborate on projects down the road.
And we traded books -- my A Rubber Band Story and Other Poker Tales for his The Mental Game of Poker -- on the first visit. So I sort of "won" a copy of Jared's book too.
tommy angelo
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Yes, as TheTommyAngelo
WVHillbilly
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I follow like 5 people and never tweet myself, so I am but just barely.
Makwa
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tommy angelo
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The first time I read "Poker: A Guaranteed Income for Life" by Frank Wallace. I think that was around 1982. At the time I was 24 and I had been playing poker for money for 10 years, averaging a couple times per week during that whole time. As soon as the concept of "professional poker player" entered my mind, an inextinguishable fire was lit. The world Wallace painted was glorious to me, and still is.