Having confidence when you play poker won’t ensure that you’re a winning player, but when coupled with a good technical and mental game can make a tremendous difference to your win rate. Not only that, but feeling confident about your abilities will make you a happier poker player who’s willing to grind more hours. It will also have flow on effects to other parts of your mental game that will make you more tilt-proof during [...]

One of the key areas I’ve been working on in my recent sessions has been eliminating distractions while I am playing. A few years ago, when I was at the peak of my game, I found it very easy to put in long hours without being distracted by things on my phone, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, browsing the web, looking at my hold ‘em manager or cashier all the time. In the last year as the [...]

Hey everyone, I just wrote a brief guide to Zoom Poker on PokerStars over at LifeFish.net! I’ve been playing Zoom religiously since it was released in late March and feel I’ve developed enough knowledge to share my experiences. Zoom makes poker more convienient and a lot more fun and I hope to see the game grow to a point where high stakes Zoom becomes a reality! Here is an extract… Know Your Table Your table [...]

Now that I’m back from my trip to Perth I really want to hit the ground running and look to put in some pretty solid grinding and working on my game until my next trip (likely to be in August). I’ve come to the realisation that my mental game is not what is used to be and I want to get it back and actually make it even better.  I’m going to look to work [...]

I’ve been playing a lot of Zoom Poker on PokerStars since it was released. They’ve recently introduced the $1/$2 and $2.5/$5 limits and I’ve been having a pretty rough time since after crushing 100nl for a few weeks. I’ve been running terrible, but sometimes only have myself to blame. I think the hand below illustrates what I am talking about, I could just dismiss it by saying “oh I got flush over flushed for 100bb, [...]