Jason Su
@jasonbsu
Author of The Joy of Poker and Poker With Presence | If you like my tweets, I think you'd love my newsletter—it's free to join: http://pokerwithpresence.com
You might like
My new book, The Joy of Poker, is now live on Amazon in paperback and Kindle. I held nothing back. The contents inside have created millions in profits for my clients while having them feel more confident in themselves than ever before—and now you can have that too.
People love to preach "don't complain." But if you do it in your head, that's still complaining, and it's just as miserable. The secret is that the whining stops once you're present with the feelings you're having—because accepting how you felt was the actual problem.
If you rely on "hating to lose," you won't enjoy winning. If you can't enjoy winning, you will burn out. If you burn out, you'll eventually stop playing, and if you stop playing you can't win. This will end your career if you never fix it.
When I run coaching groups, Player A will say: "I wish I had Player B's life—playing that big, winning that much." Player B will then say: "Trust me, you don't want to be me, I hate it. That's why I'm here." Happens every single time.
How I know I made a good YouTube video: "I am 2 min in and this is the worst advice I have ever seen" See for yourself here: youtube.com/watch?v=4lOc2X…
youtube.com
YouTube
5 Brutal Poker Mindset Blunders
Me giving dating advice to a poker player while filming my latest YouTube video. He says he's not going to show this to her—I think this is how you find out if she's a keeper.
The worst thing the mindset coaches came up with is the "reframe": "Don't feel bad and stop thinking about it" As if you can control these things—and so when you try and fail and feel worse, it makes you think there's something wrong with you.
Sometimes a ten hour session flies by while you enjoy each minute. And sometimes two hours at the table feels like five minutes and you desperately want to leave. All just comes down to how present you are.
A client insisted I write this tweet: Being present doesn’t just get you paid more, it gets you laid more too.
The worst deal in poker: You get to win all the money and trophies you want, but never get to enjoy any of it or feel good for more than a minute before "fixing leaks" or thinking about "what's next." That's life when "never good enough" is how you fuel yourself.
The more you learn, the more you can profit. You learn faster when having fun. Having fun is impossible if you're not present with your feelings. But basically nobody in poker is prioritizes being present with their feelings. Which means, great for those who do.
Top pros tell everyone to remember to be grateful. But gratitude is impossible to experience when you're desperately needing to not feel how you feel. Get present with the feelings you're having and nobody needs to tell you—you'll just be grateful.
The reason why you struggle to go for that bluff has nothing to do with something your parents said when you were 7. You just couldn't stay present with the fear, and that old story is very convenient to blame.
For all you poker veterans: Remember, when you first started playing the game, it was fun. If it was once before, it can be again.
If you have a specific level of bankroll, stakes, net worth, or other level that you consistently top out at: There is an emotion you're not facing at that level. Until you do, you will likely keep crashing there—or even if you stick for a while, end up there again.
Every productivity system assumes you have the discipline and willpower to execute it. But those die as soon as your emotions overwhelm you. When you can't stay present through life, no system ever sticks—and that's why you keep getting stuck.
Poker players make a losing decision, then say: "Okay yeah that was dumb, I know better. Won't happen again." But it will, because you weren't present enough to act on what you knew—and the next time you're un-present, you'll do something very similar.
Success that can't enjoy is not success, it's a burden. Eventually the burden breaks you, and you end up having to quit doing something you genuinely love, all because you never learned how to deal with emotions in a healthy way. This is how most poker careers end.
If you are a winning poker player who constantly feels like a fraud or an impostor or unworthy of what you have? You are not winning. And this will only get worse the more money you make, until the day you prioritize a healthy relationship with your emotions above all else.
United States Trends
- 1. ESPN Bet 1,477 posts
- 2. #MichaelMovie 9,314 posts
- 3. Good Thursday 31.7K posts
- 4. Gremlins 3 1,231 posts
- 5. #thursdayvibes 2,512 posts
- 6. Happy Friday Eve N/A
- 7. Madam Speaker N/A
- 8. Joe Dante N/A
- 9. Penn 8,673 posts
- 10. #ThursdayThoughts 1,656 posts
- 11. Chris Columbus 1,147 posts
- 12. #thursdaymotivation 1,586 posts
- 13. Barstool 1,392 posts
- 14. Kneeland N/A
- 15. #LosdeSiemprePorelNO N/A
- 16. VOTAR NO 27.4K posts
- 17. Erik Spoelstra 1,693 posts
- 18. LINGORM LANNA CULTURE 485K posts
- 19. Vatican 11K posts
- 20. Stranger Things Day 8,505 posts
You might like
-
Kevin Rabichow
@KRabichow -
bencb
@bencb789 -
Gary Blackwood
@GazzyB1233 -
DTO Poker Trainer
@DTOPoker -
Michael Acevedo
@GTOPoker -
Venividi1993
@thevenividi1993 -
Uri Peleg
@UriPelegPoker -
EQ Poker
@eqpoker -
Fedor Holz 🐧
@CrownUpGuy -
Alex Foxen
@WAFoxen -
Chance Kornuth
@ChancesCards -
Landon
@LandonTice -
Jonathan Van Fleet
@apestyles -
Nick Schulman
@NickSchulman -
Chris Brewer
@Chris_D_Brewer
Something went wrong.
Something went wrong.