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[david @davejaliman]

@tritonpoker @DanSmithHolla Congratulations Dan!

[Jason Su @jasonbsu]

The people I feel for the most in poker aren’t the ones dumping huge amounts of money.

It’s the cash grinder who has to keep watching people with less knowledge and skill move past them, the tournament player who works hard on their game but can never find a big score.

Always resenting the success of others.

Wishing it was you instead.

Making enough to get by, but never taking the leap to the level that you know you’re capable of.

The people dumping tons of money all the time don’t care about any of this—they just go and play and get the results that deep down they know they deserve.

But the dedicated player who can’t break through?

That’s real suffering.

And it gets prolonged when you keep trying to do the same stuff to get different results–hit the lab, run the sims, study the charts, review more hands with friends, get more coaching sessions, always just cramming more knowledge into your head.

But then people who know less than you keep passing you by.

So clearly more knowledge isn’t the problem.

The problem is that you never learned how to build the confidence in yourself to do something just because you want to, because you feel it's right in that moment.

Because if you fail doing that?

It’s all on you.

You don’t get to blame it on the chart, the solver, or what your friends or even coach would have done—you’ve gotta wear it and own it, and that’s uncomfortable.

But look around.

There are tons of people out there who are incredibly mediocre when it comes to understanding poker at a deep level, but this is the one thing that they do have—total confidence in their ability to make a decision based on how they feel in the moment, and not have that confidence shaken if things go poorly.

And a lot of them win big, especially in live poker.

The thing is:

You can have that ability too.

And if you add that on top of having more knowledge than your opponents, it becomes pretty unstoppable.

If you don’t?

Your knowledge and your instincts will always be fighting one another. You’ll never know what real confidence at the table feels like—just instead always doing what you're "supposed to do" while getting results that keep you always wishing you were further along than you are.

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The above is what was on my mind when I created the program for my upcoming group coaching series that starts August 15th, where I'll be teaching a group of 12 players for one month in the art of learning how to build real confidence in trusting your instincts.

The kind of confidence you can feel.

The kind that will finally let you break through by letting your knowledge and your instincts work together for the first time ever.

So you can win more, move up, and enjoy the game more than you have in a really long time.

If you're interested, shoot me a DM, I've got one spot left for the live coaching portion and other options for people interested just in the course content.

[david @davejaliman]

@DanSmithHolla 🤣

[david @davejaliman]

@JustinBonomo Super impressive. Obviously

[david @davejaliman]

@DanSmithHolla Completely agree. Fantastic novel. I’ve also been enjoying the series. Happy they didn’t try to compress it into a 2 hour movie

[david @davejaliman]

@SahilBloom Thanks for sharing!

[david @davejaliman]

@roshanpateI @waInuthq @peachypay Congratulations! Keep up the good work!

[david @davejaliman]

@ItsBennyBlanco Great song

[Sea Radiance @SeaRadianceSkin]

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