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(continued from Part 1 ) Stay Healthy I'm not exactly sure of the perfect model for living a clean and healthy life, but I've gotten a lot better over the years as I've learned how important it is to keep your body healthy in order to keep your brain fucntioning at a high level. If you have followed my advice in Part 1, you can actually take your baseline test and see how well you do on days when you haven't gotten enough sleep, have had too much to drink the night before, or are

We're all looking for an edge at the tables; that's what the game is all about. In any competitive endeavor, it's important to get a leg up on the competition any time you can (within the rules, of course). One of the ways I get an edge is to make sure my brain is always functioning at a high level when I play. If I run into a player who is just as smart as I am, and has studied just as hard, I need a new edge to beat him. My edge often comes from the fact that while we may have the same

In the first few years of my poker career I was bitten badly by Fancy Play Syndrome (FPS). It took a lot of mathematical analysis of poker hands, along with talking to other pros whose game I respected, to help me realize that the standard play was usually correct. Sure there are still times when I will check a monster hand on the flop or check-raise an opponent on the river, but they are few and far between. I’m more likely to succeed with a donk-bet bluff these days than trying to slow play a big

When Double or Nothing sit-and-go tournaments, commonly known as DoNs, first appeared, I did a little research in to how they should be played with an ICM calculator. I knew tight play would be correct, but I was surprised at exactly how tight the correct starting hand standards really were. The very flat payout structure is the reason that such tight play is correct. The more a payout structure is slanted toward the top in a tournament, the closer you should be to cash game play and the more risks