Finding 110%

by Jared on July 29, 2010

A couple weeks ago, in my ‘I suck at social networking’ blog I referenced a quote by George Steinbrenner that was my first post on twitter. I’m still enamored by the quote and am devoting this blog to fully explain why I love it so much, and why I think you should too.

The video unfortunately is no longer available on ESPN.com. Basically, George was talking about what made him successful and he said, “ I believe there’s 110% in each person, there’s 10% they didn’t know that’s there and that’s what I want to get into. Maybe too much.” [click to continue…]

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Baby Steps

by Jared on July 20, 2010

My cousin invited me to run a 4 mile race through central park on Saturday. It was my first race since developing tendinitis in my Achilles earlier this year. It wasn’t a long run as races go, but with the heat and having recently gotten back into running, the race was tougher than expected and offered some surprising insight. [click to continue…]

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Tweeting to Distraction?

July 15, 2010

With the rise of poker players using Twitter, and having started posting there myself(can’t yet bring myself to say tweet yet), it makes me wonder – what effect posting on Twitter when playing a tournament has on a players’ performance?
Barry mentioned this to me the other day and I thought it was a brilliant observation. [...]

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I Suck at Social Networking

July 13, 2010

Ironically it took admitting this yesterday for me to finally do something about it. The truth is I just didn’t really understand how to use the medium to add value to my coaching, but with the help of some friends, and a little research it’s starting to sink in.

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SNE Project Update

July 11, 2010

After 5 sessions with Jeff, I’ve started going through the recordings to put together the videos series for all of you. As Jeff has written, he’s made some great strides over the past several months in his mental game and I’m looking forward to piecing together parts of our sessions along with some instruction, [...]

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Participate in a New Video

July 10, 2010

As the title says, I’m putting together a new video series that all DragTheBar.com members (you don’t have to be paying member) are open to participating in. [Btw, for those wondering about the SNE Project videos, I'll be posting an update about it tomorrow.] This isn’t just a new series, I’m also trying out a [...]

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Vegas

June 28, 2010

I’m sitting in the airport a few minutes from heading out to the Vegas for a few days. When I went to the world series a few years ago I was really new to poker and in many ways overwhelmed by how much I was learning. Though my work in poker is very [...]

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115 Hours!!

June 9, 2010

I’m amazed. Not shocked, but thoroughly impressed by what Phil Laak pulled off this week playing 115 hours straight of poker.
The subject of sleep deprivation is one that’s recently been on my mind since heading over to the Big Game with the intent of helping Dusty play 48 hours straight, so I [...]

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Performance Drugs and Poker

June 3, 2010

My bull **** detector seems to perk up whenever I read or hear about a new study that’s getting attention in the popular press. Many times the research is solid, but often, really too often, the claims made by the study are headline grabbing, misleading and in some cases down right irresponsible. In [...]

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Trip Report Part 2

May 7, 2010

As many of you know through Dusty’s blog, we were caught up in the greatest aviation disruption in history, which didn’t work out so well for him being away from his family…but worked out pretty well for me. The first week we were there was jammed with poker stuff, and felt like a resident [...]

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