Poker With Presence

The biggest winners aren't the smartest or most knowledgable people—they're the ones who can continually press their advantage without others catching on and adjusting, a painful and expensive lesson I had to learn in my early years.

When you create an agreement with yourself from one state of mind, it's going to be hard to enforce it from a completely different one. To bridge those two states, you need presence.

Get familiar with these experiences at the table and you'll be able to save yourself a whole lot of pain, frustration, and money.

The way that you approach small decisions that have very little consequence either way determines how well you're going to be able to stay connected and solid when you find yourself facing a very big decision that will matter a lot.

Presence can take you far beyond making more money at the poker table. And once it does, you'll make even more money at the poker table.

Depending on what state you're in, you might be seeing what's actually there, or you might just be making up a whole bunch of stories in your mind and then acting on them.

When you don't feel respect your opponents as human beings, you can't understand where they're coming from, and worse—you lose your ability to deal with the variance that comes with playing against them.

The key to winning in any game is always staying one step ahead

It might look like they're doing a lot of different things, but it's really just one.

When you think you're bored, it's likely that there's much more going on behind the scenes.