Today Barry and I release Tournament Poker Study Simplified.
It's a new video course which breaks down the fundamentals of poker while also giving you a framework for how to study poker on your own, without a coach.
Details in thread below
New blog! Taking a break from
#aussiemillions
to give my take on the latest comments from
@RealKidPoker
on who is and isn’t “good for poker”
Retweets/comments/shares appreciated always
Blonde girl wandering barefoot in Paris screaming into her phone
“DON’T GIVE ME THAT BULLSHIT. YOU WERE LITERALLY BALLS DEEP IN HER ASS WHEN I CAME INTO THE ROOM”
#VegasThings
WSOP day 4 preparation
❌ Meditation
❌ Write in gratitude journal
❌ Exercise
❌ Healthy breakfast
✅ Scroll Twitter to see what people are saying about you
@AllenKessler
Limp.
Before the next player acts ask the dealer why there are three blinds.
When told you're not the big blind, start crying and ask if you can take your blind back.
When told you can't, call floor for a ruling.
There’s an old Jewish saying that we all die twice: first when we die ourselves, then when the last person who knew us dies so our name is never uttered again.
WSOP main event players also die twice: when they get eliminated themselves, and when their last swap does.
Yesterday
32 years ago today, I made the single best decision/read of my life when I married a crazy Frenchwoman I hadn't known very long.
Most of my friends thought we were both crazy and it wouldn't last.
Over the years we have gotten crazier but it did last.
Not to be. 8th. Massive ty for all the rail and messages. Definitely had the best rail. Ran well to get there so no complaints, the older I get the more I appreciate these days as you never know how many more there will be, but happy to be still in the mix well into my 50s
Our youngest son turned 30 today
He’s a lot happier now than when I wrote this blog about the challenges we faced raising him
A lot of the credit for that goes to my wife and other activists who campaigned hard to increase awareness and support
18/109 overnight in the Irish Open main event
If I keep running as well as I did post bubble today I might win the damn thing!
Humbled by the incredible levels of support for me in person at the venue and online, thank you all!
The best way to cheat would not be wearing glasses that relay info back to someone with access to a solver relaying GTO solutions back in real time. Pretty much pointless at this point of WSOP main in that field.
The best way to cheat would be relaying the info back to one of
Conversation with my French sister in law after she sees photo of me as a goalie when I was young
“Oh. One of my grand uncle’s played in goal too”
“Cool”
“And he also wrote books like you”
“What did he write?”
“L’etranger”
“L’etranger? The Stranger? Your grand uncle was Albert
The eagle has landed...my 6th book with
@barrycarter
is out!
"Beyond GTO: Poker Exploits Simplified" takes the approach of using solvers to identify the best exploits to common player leaks I see, and comes with a foreword by master exploiter Andy Black
My latest blog "Life is good: the Jan Suchanek story" is my very personal tribute to my close friend and business partner,
@PerpetualCzech
, who left us all too soon
Retweets/comments/likes/shares appreciated as ever
RIP Sean Ua Cearnaigh (1933-2020)
Irish language activist and published author, committed Tipperary hurling fan, historian and my father
Go n-éirí an bóthar leat
That QQ fold by Tamayo on the
@wsop
FT bubble….people have been asking me about it since a few seconds after it happened…
Here are my thoughts, and more importantly my sim
I had a queen and another queen and wagered all my chips in a rather big poker tournament 100 from the money. I got snap called by a man who also had a queen, with an ace. Doublefisting his beer, he gleefully predicted an ace would appear. It did.
Once again the WSOP main has
I strongly agree with Patrick Antonius that scarves should be banned in poker but not for the same reasons. It’s impossible to wear one without looking like an absolute tosser
Million in lifetime live cashes on the Hendon Mob is up. I could never have dreamt this possible when I learnt how to play a decade ago
#MondayMilestone
Make mine a triple: shipped tonight’s 888 Megadeep and Ipoker’s Championship to add to Tuesday’s Big 55 completing the ninth
@PocketFives
Triple Crown of my career
"Scammer alert!"
New blog at on some of my own personal experiences being scammed, how to identify the signs, and how it can even happen.
Retweets/shares/likes greatly appreciated
FREE GIVEAWAY!
One last push for this, then I'll shut up about it
Giving away a free copy of this (or if you have it already any of my other videos) to one person who retweets and likes either this tweet or the original tweet
If you like and retweet both you double your chances
New blog! "The company you keep" is about the importance of choosing wisely who to spend time with in poker, and those I spent time with in Vegas this summer
Retweets/comments/likes/shares appreciated as ever
#poker
#blog
#wsop
I was the first Irish poker pro on Twitter all those years ago.
My peers all laughed and scoffed.
Well today I passed 10k followers and they’re not laughing any more (mainly because they’re all dead obviously)
Felt a bit burned out after SCOOP so took it easy this week online, but back with a vengeance tonight. Some satellite wins, 8th in BIig Fish, 3rd in Cooldown, 2nd in Neptune and shipped a Summer Series (after three way chop)
#poker
#pokeronline
#pokerpro
#25knightdecent
Guy playing every hand including limp calling 43o utg triples off on a J High board and gets called down by 66
“I ain’t berating nobody but that’s so bad. Oh my god so bad. You keep doing that buddy, you got no hope. I know what I’m talking about, I got 18th in this tournament
If you're good at poker, the best approach is to play as much as possible to allow variance to level out
If you're bad at poker, the best approach is to play as little as possible and hope it doesn't level out
#mrsdoke
: How did Rio go?
Me: Bricked everything. Lost 15k
“Oh well, it happens”
15 minutes later after she’s unpacked my suitcase:
“THERE IS A SOCK MISSING! YOU DO THIS EVERY TRIP! WE AREN’T MADE OF MONEY!!!!”
New blog! "Let's talk about dealers" is my take on the topless dealer controversy in Malta, as well as more general dealer mistreatment in the industry
Retweets/comments/shares/like appreciated as ever
Delighted to announce that I signed a new deal to continue to represent
@UnibetPoker
as an ambassador
@dklappin
and I are both thrilled that we get to represent one of the most reputable and committed to player experience brands out there, and the show (
@thechiprace
) goes on
As surreal experiences go, getting your photo taken with one of your heroines while she’s holding your book just after she’s told you that you look like a younger healthier and still alive Devilfish is right up there
.
@daraokearney
just gave me a signed copy of his new book
#PokerSatelliteStrategy
! I do believe it is the only book dealing with satellite strategy and I’m very much looking forward to reading it!
Card dead for so long today I’m pretty sure I’d be bust if this was any other tournament, yet somehow I bagged up more than starting stack in
#WSOPMainevent
First hand of 10k seniors I raise button and cbet.
Bb eyes my patches
“Do you coach Jaka or does he coach you?”
“I’m one of the coaches on
@jakacoaching
“
“In that case I fold”
#patchequity
Anyone paying any attention to me probably knows by now I just released my fifth book with
@Barry_Carter
“Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy”
If you’re playing a big mystery bounty soon but don’t want to read a whole book (or pay for it) I give away the most important tips for free
Arriving at new table I sit down and close my bag
Guy across from me smiles and says “I guess you’ve read the book Poker Satellite Strategy”
Figuring he must be someone who knows me I give him a fist bump
“I saw it in your bag”
Turns out he doesn’t know me
Now I just feel stupid
Long but very profitable Sunday grind.
Online going ridiculously consistently well right now...not had a losing day in three weeks since coming back from London which isn’t really supposed to happen in tournament poker!
I’ve done a deep dive recently into the math of PKOs to work out strategy from first principles like I did with satellites back in the day and....instant result.
I shipped the Gladiator PKO for almost 8k
My first poker strategy book (written with
@Barry_Carter
), "Poker Satellite Strategy" is finished and finally available to order on Amazon:
Paperback
Kindle
You should be able to find your preferred version on your region's Amazon
At the start of my career every time I sucked out on someone online I got some salty variation of “Bet we won’t be hearing about that one in the blog!” in chat
These days this is what I typically get 👇
Thanks to everyone for all the support and my sidekick for the constant social media coverage. It’s nice to prove I can still run deep in these in the second half of my fifties
Already looking forward to trying again next summer
Today is the last day of my contract with
@UnibetPoker
. For 6 years, I’ve done my best to be an ambassador for the players, always keeping their best interests to the fore. It’s been a great partnership + I’ll always be grateful for their unwavering support of
@thechiprace
…
New blog! It's a very personal tribute to my father, who we said a sad "slán go deo" to this week, as I saw and remember him
Retweets and shares appreciated as ever