The Mental Game Radio Show

My brand new radio show,QuadJacks “The Mental Game” returned for week number two to another great reception. Today, I opened the show with instruction on how to increase volume, mental endurance, and grind more tables. Then, Dusty “Leatherass” Schmidt stopped by to share secrets on grinding and building a successful career. As always, I answered [...]

WPT Mag: Returning to Poker

September 2011, WPT Magazine Column Open publication – Free publishing – More poker

Preparing for the WSOP: Part 1

Posted On PartyPoker’s Blog Of the thousands of players who compete in the WSOP main event, just a very small percentage of them are physically and mentally prepared for the gruelling task ahead of them. If things go well, you will be playing consecutive 16 hour days with little time to rest and reset your [...]

Getting to SuperNova Elite

I’ve successfully coached eight players (Including Dusty ‘Leatherass’ Schmidt) to the level of SuperNova Elite, as well as what you can do to get to SuperNova or SuperNova Elite yourselves. Black Friday may have derailed your attempts to make SN or SNE, but there’s a lot of info in here, that can help you put [...]

Tracking Your Progress

Tracking your progress is the seventh and last part in my goal setting series(Congratulations, you’re almost there!) This step doesn’t take long to do, but it’s really helpful when you’ve set long-term goals and to help you to prevent falling back into old habits. Only after you’ve accomplished your goal will you know precisely what [...]

Get Inspired

What get’s your blood pumping? Fires you up? Inspires you? Being inspired is often the fuel that leads some people and players to achieve things greater than they could have imagined. As it relates to achieving your goals or your resolutions, inspiration is critical to keeping you on track when you hit some bumps along [...]

Resiliency

Resiliency– is all about finding a way through the things that stand in your way. Finding a way to get back up after getting knocked on your ass. Taking a step forward after taking 5 steps back. It’s not possible to achieve something great without some challenge getting in the way. In the last blog [...]

What Can Stop You

For many of you this is the most important step (by far) in making your resolutions stick. You’ve set goals, maybe even made a plan, but too often that plan doesn’t account for the predictable things that are going to get in your way. When setting out your goals or resolutions, the likelihood that you [...]

How to Get It

In the first two posts of the series on Making New Year’s Resolutions Stick, I talked about what and why. Now we are going to talk about how: the specific actions you are going to take to achieve your goals and resolutions you’ve set this year. Get Down to Details To have any chance of [...]

Know Why You Want It

Last time I talked about the obvious first step to achieving goals, deciding what you want, and mentioned a few things about that decision that isn’t as obvious. The next step is defining why you want it what you want. Most players focus the majority of their time on the “what” and leave the “why” [...]

Decide What You Want

Deciding what you want is the first step in my series: Making New Year’s Resolutions Stick. While this step is simple and pretty obvious, it’s easy to miss why it’s so important: having a clearly defined Resolution or goals narrows your focus on just it. By now, many of you may have already set goals [...]

Making New Year’s Resolutions Stick

Right now, thousands of people around the globe are trying to stick to their New Year’s resolutions to lose weight, exercise more, spend more time with family, and poker players are doing the same thing. They’re also making poker goals to grind a ton this year, to stop Tilting, to move up in stakes, make [...]

Old Dogs Can Learn New Bluffs

World Poker Tour Magazine, Issue 89 With the learning curve in poker becoming ever steeper, it can be tough keeping up with the latest trends. Even modern-day poker editors can find themselves languishing on the sidelines, while the young guns leave them stationary. This month I’m going to focus on how we actually learn as [...]

New Years Resolutions Now

I decided earlier this week that in January I’m going to do a series of blog/articles on how to keep new years resolutions. I’d never personally been into making resolutions because I didn’t make sense to wait for the new year to improve something, but I’ve begun to appreciate the idea more. This morning at [...]

Taking the Next Step

World Poker Tour Magazine, Issue 88 [Click to read PDF] Moving up the poker ladder not only means your skill on the felt has to improve, but your overall strategy for getting better as a player has to step up. Making the jump in stakes is not simply a matter of coping with the increased [...]

Becoming a Grinder

One of 5 articles that appear in Dusty “Leatherass” Schmidt’s book. Dusty is the ultimate grinder, and he’s constantly asked how he can possibly play so much poker. (Over 1 million hands a year and 7 million in the past four years). Some see his as a freakish talent, like some sideshow act at a [...]