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I decided to receive some help with my game so i can move up to harder games. I win 25nl with a decent winrate over a big sample, but when i move to 50nl nit - festival tables i hit a wall. As part of Team Moshman one of the biggest advantages is that you can get in touch with people that have awesome poker minds. So after meeting with Jesse Foster aka entrncd and having my first session am pretty impressed. With only 2 hours with Jesse i got a big boost to my game and confidence. Jesse didn't treat me as a stupid lower stakes player no matter how stupid my questions were... He was able not only to spot leaks and give general advices but provided me solid math proof easy to work on my mind. I can happily say my time and effort were invested wisely and I recommend Josh to anyone out there wishing to take poker seriously.

20 Things Bruce Lee Can Teach You About Poker

"Boards don't hit back."

Bruce Lee is widely considered to be the best fighter of all time.  He died when he was 32 from an allergic reaction to a painkiller, but his philosophy and wise words (which are shockingly relevant to poker) continue to be an inspiration.  Here are 20 lessons you can learn from Bruce Lee.

Mental Toughness

1. Don’t fear failure.
2. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
3. A good martial artist does not become tense but ready.

Tilt & Variance

1. Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. To realize that it’s just an inconvenience [...] is part of waking up.
2. Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose — to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it.
3. The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire — soon it will go out.
4. A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and face the consequences of his own doing.
5. Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain.
6. Walk on.

Adjusting to Your Opponents

1. When the opponent expands I contract and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, “I” do not hit, “It” hits all by itself.
2. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life.
3. You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.
4. Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
5. Truth has no path.
6. Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none.

Improving

1. Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I’m still learning, for learning is boundless.
2. We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy.
3. Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
4. When you’re talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you’d better train every part of your body!

Table Selection

1. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.

Bruce Lee’s words can help you find the path to poker enlightenment.  Next time you’re facing a difficult decision at a poker table, maybe you should just ask myself “What would Bruce Lee do?”

Guys i have no license for this article and it was originally  posted on Mar 11, 2010 by Gugel in Psychology

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This is going to be the soundtrack of the day 
Defected in the house baby

Back to HM1 rocks!!! Gonna grind some 50s today while am still running in god mode, still bumhunting.... cya @ Stars

Set up and ready

Ready to rumble with my new HM2.... thats what i said the last time also, we'll see what happens. Wish me luck

Month Update

Just wake up 7 in the afternoon, so sick i missed my kickboxing session...8,5k hands so far for this month. Today i want to grind out some volume move up a bit in the lader. Its good to feel rest and motivated... See you at the tables ;)

Best Motivational Speach Ever

Hey guys have a look at this video....It helped me a lot through hard times to stay motivated and keep going ;) The last "Rocky" film directed by Sylvester Stallone. This clip features Rocky Balboa's inspirational speech to his son.

Grinding Updates

Long time no blog.... so here we go

Hand of the day : Royal Flush no.6 of my carreer fish sticks them in there with with 7 high flush in a 4 fl cards board... so wp!

 ***** Hand History for Game 76059885058 ***** (Poker Stars)
$25.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, February 22, 11:25:32 ET 2012
Table Orsilocus II (Real Money)
Seat 7 is the button
Seat 1: zeozik111 ( $28.35 USD )
Seat 2: jiusthc ( $12.48 USD )
Seat 3: LordCorwinRU ( $26.26 USD )
Seat 4: eyesJeJa ( $13.31 USD )
Seat 5: Skittles985 ( $63.87 USD )
Seat 6: NathanFe ( $27.51 USD )
Seat 7: CALL-MIKI ( $19.57 USD )
Seat 8: vicdroopy ( $34.14 USD )
Seat 9: djalexlee ( $33.80 USD )
vicdroopy posts small blind [$0.10 USD].
djalexlee posts big blind [$0.25 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to djalexlee [  As Qs ]
zeozik111 folds
jiusthc folds
LordCorwinRU folds
eyesJeJa folds
Skittles985 calls [$0.25 USD]
NathanFe folds
CALL-MIKI folds
vicdroopy folds
djalexlee raises [$0.75 USD]
Skittles985 calls [$0.75 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3s, Ks, Ts ]
djalexlee bets [$1.80 USD]
Skittles985 calls [$1.80 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Js ]
djalexlee bets [$4.75 USD]
Skittles985 calls [$4.75 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Ac ]
djalexlee bets [$26.25 USD]
Skittles985 calls [$26.25 USD]
djalexlee shows [As, Qs ]
Skittles985 shows [9c, 7s ]
djalexlee wins $65.70 USD from main pot

The History Behind 7 Popular Poker Terms

You probably use these 7 poker terms all the time. The origin and history of these words is actually pretty funny…

The Nuts

To have the best possible hand.

There are two possibilities about how this term originated.

1. Back in Old West, players could wager almost anything they had at a poker game. That included the nuts that held their wagon wheels in place. Without the wagon wheel nuts, the player would be stranded and might die.
   To the others at the table, it would seem that a player would only make such a bet with an unbeatable hand. Since many games were played indoors in the winter time, the wagon wheel nuts were often very cold and were sometimes referred to as the “stone cold nuts”.
2. “Nuts” in Old English means “a source of pleasure”.

Grinding

To play a ton of poker. Usually this involves mass-multitabling in games that are typically below your skill level.

Originally, “grinding” referred to using a hand mill to grind grain. You would basically be spinning a wheel and make a couple of bags of flour by the end of the day. It was an extremely boring and tedious job.
Fast forward to the 20th century and the definition of grinding began to take on a much broader meaning. People started to call almost any job “the daily grind”.
In the 21st century, grinding started to be used in videogames. In World of Warcraft, people would spend countless mind-numbing hours to kill weak enemies and level up.

Busto

To lose your entire bankroll.

In blackjack, the goal is get as close to 21 as possible. If you go over, you “bust” and automatically lose the hand.

Robusto

To win lots of money in a short period of time.

There are two possibilities about how this term originated.

1. Cuban Robusto cigars are around $250 each. If you go on a good run, you might open a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne and whip out a Cuban Robusto.
2. Robust is defined as “exhibiting vigor, strength or firmness”. Robusto works as a funny-sounding antonym of busto and the definition fits.

Baller

A successful high-stakes poker player that is flashy with his money and makes insane prop bets.

Originally, a baller referred to someone that’s very successful in basketball. Now, it can refer to almost anyone that’s rich and flaunts their wealth.

Tilt

Playing sub-optimally due to emotional distress.

Pinball started to become popular in the 1930’s. Early machines had a serious flaw – players could lift up a corner of the machine and be guaranteed not to lose. By the 1950’s pinball machines started to penalize players that tilted the machines by making them lose a turn. Some players continued to tilt, kick and punch the machine out of frustration even though it lowered their score.

Texas Hold’Em

A game that started in the South or Southwest United States in the early 1960’s.

It was originally called “Hold Me Darling”, “Tennessee Hold Me” and “Texas Hold’Em”. Predictably, “Texas Hold’Em” is the name that stuck.

Poker

Originally from the German word “pochen” which means to “to brag as a bluff”. The literal translation is “to knock” (that’s why you knock on the table to check). The earliest version of poker in English was called “brag”.

Vanessa Rousso Documentary - An Ordinary Girl

A day in the life of Vanessa Rousso as she plays the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo. Featuring interviews with the people closest to her, including her mother Cindy and husband Chad Brown.