Isillions

Il n'y a que jouer et jouer dans ma vie je crois.

Hardi sabre au clair
montons aux barricades du plein plaisir
de la vie pleine et entière
J.P. Siméon.

[Isillions @Isilions]

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Your brain is bluffing you every day.

And it’s costing you. Big time.

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They’re a BS detector for your mind.

Most people walk straight into mental traps.
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« Je suis venu vers vous sans savoir mon dessein :
Mon amour m’entraînait ; et je venais peut-être
Pour me chercher moi-même, et pour me reconnaître. »

Racine, Bérénice, V, 7

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Correspondance (1944-1959) : ultime lettre d’Albert Camus à Maria Casarès.

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Book Summary: “Principles”

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Book Summary: “Atomic Habits”

[Poem Heaven @PoemHeaven]

this hits home.

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Book Summary: “The Psychology of Money”

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

What is life?
• Dostoevsky: It’s hell.
• Socrates: It’s a test.
• Aristotle: It’s the mind.
• Nietzsche: It’s power.
• Freud: It’s death.
• Marx: It’s the idea.
• Picasso: It’s art.
• Gandhi: It’s love.
• Schopenhauer: It’s suffering.
• Bertrand Russell: It’s competition.
• Steve Jobs: It’s faith.
• Einstein: It’s knowledge.
• Stephen Hawking: It’s hope.
• Kafka: It’s just the beginning.

Each one must therefore give life a meaning according to how you one perceive.

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— Andrea Gibson

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when kafka said “all the love in the world is useless when there is total lack of understanding” and when richard siken said “if you love me, you don’t love me in a way I understand” and george orwell wrote “perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

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[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

Story time 📖

A few years ago sites started running high buy in, low runner, low ev tournaments where the best in the world swang their dicks around.

I immediately started to try and gauge what the EV looked like and realised playing more tables at lower stakes would make more money. One of my best friends in like Samuel “€urop€an” Vousden decided to go the other route. He played every day against the best in the world, there ended up being many huge hidden benefits that didn’t consider when deciding to play them or not.

1) Smaller fields = more ICM practice. Sam played more bubbles, more FTs, more HUs than anybody and became the best in the world at executing in high pressure spots. Last month he came into the $10k WCOOP FT 4/9 and won it for $1m

2) Building a tolerance to losing a lot of money = I would have a bad Thursday and lose $23k at the same time Sam would have 6 bullets in a $25k! Losing a lot of money and being comfortable to lose a lot of money and disassociate $ to buying as if it’s a computer game is one of the biggest yet toughest skills in MTTs but absolutely crucial if you want to reach the top. Smaller fields actually have a lot less variance so downswings last shorter periods of time but you get used to losing larger sums. Something 85%+ people will never be able to “master”

3) Building tells/feeling on other players = often if you’re in a 300 runner $1k you will play against somebody you’ll never play with again. With Sam the people he played vs would play repeatedly. He would play 100 FTs against the same players. If sam went to play Triton next month he would have played more hands against 90% of the regs even though he’s never played a Triton before. He has the reps vs everybody

4) Self improvement and honesty = when you’re playing in a big field tournament you can get away with playing your C game and just being sloppy/greedy with value. You won’t get punished. When you’re playing only against the other top 15 players in the world then if you’re sloppy you get punished. Sam gets pushed to play his A game every session, if not financially but out of pride. His rate of improvement is so quick because he’s consistently being put in delicate spots where he won’t know the precise answer. He isn’t facing Jackie987 betting the river small and he isn’t stacking CowboyJoe 200bbs deep with a set vs top pair. He’s facing Romeo overbets, Darwin 3bets and Adammo POWERJAMS. The improvement level is through the roof.

I’ve spoken to Sam every day for close to a decade now. In poker there is so much toxicity. Everybody thinks everybody sucks. Everybody is biased that their group is better. Even world class players are doubted and questioned. Sam isn’t. Everybody thinks he’s in the question to be the goat. As his friend I obviously will always stand by him as #1. But maybe instead of questioning his choice to play 0ev/losing games over the last years i should have followed suit. It’s been such a great lesson to me not in regards to game selection but to approaching life and pushing yourself to make decisions with a long term vision and without fear.

[Gareth James @gazelligpoker]

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