I got the idea for this post while reading a book called Talent is Overrated.  It’s similar to Outliers in that it refutes the myth of innate talent and ability and instead favors the idea that 10,000 hours of practice will make you an expert at anything (an idea which I subscribe to, by the [...]

December has been a pretty shitty month thus far.  I moved up, played a ton, and proceeded to drop 60 buyins at the super turbos, which is like 100 of my previous average buyins.  Despite all this, according to an EV analyzing program (which I may talk about in more detail as well as some [...]

from the collection of Scott Seiver:

If you missed the last one, I posted a story from T. J. Cloutier that got some positive responses, so I’m posting another.  This one is for my buddy StefanProdan.
TROY INMAN, THE “PROTECTOR”
The first time I went to Dallas to play poker, I played at the AmVets. A very notorious guy named Troy Inman was [...]

I moved a few months ago and only within the past month have I gotten around to fully unpacking everything. I had boxes of books just sitting in the middle of my bedroom floor. When I finished getting everything on bookshelves I realized I had far too many poker books, most of which [...]

I recently finished reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (who also wrote The Tipping Point and Blink).  The book is essentially a critique of those rags-to-riches stories which we all love here in America.  It is very popular to put the self-made man on a pedestal and say that so-and-so would be successful no matter when [...]