Tommy Angelo

Tommy Angelo: Project Phone Fruit Discover how your smartphone can be a strategic tool at the poker table, helping reduce tilt, increase patience, and enhance your overall gameplay whi...

Only Angelo can take on the dreaded cell phone with so much wisdom. www.poker.org/poker-strate... @tommyangelo.bsky.social

"When we aim our eyes and ears at a screen, we starve our analytical mind--a mind hungry for intel on each opponent--and we deprive our intuitive mind, a mind that only functions properly when glutting on info." -- @tommyangelo.bsky.social for @pokerorg.bsky.social

Missed information in a cash session "is like money lost. Money that can never be recovered. Consider the gorgeous geysers of information that we call showdowns. Each time I miss one due to distraction, it feels like my net worth just took a hit." @tommyangelo.bsky.social for @pokerorg.bsky.social

Tommy Angelo: Painless preferences Discover how poker pro Tommy Angelo conquered emotional tilt by mastering the art of painless preferences, transforming his game and mindset one hand ...

Hats off to Poker.org for featuring Tommy's work. Such a joy to read! www.poker.org/poker-strate... @pokerorg.bsky.social @recpokerjim.bsky.social @bluffdu.bsky.social

Reciprocality: The Cause of Profit at Poker This often-cited masterwork by Tommy Angelo continues to blow minds and grow bankrolls.

Long, inspired, and worth it. www.tommyangelo.com/reciprocality/ @tommyangelo.bsky.social

Breathing slowly on purpose is breathtaking.

Why meditate? To make things better. Why daily? To make sure.

Quitting takes years of disaster to master.

I see every flop with larceny in my heart.

My fault-finding mind lusts for the perception of imperfection.

A mindful breath doesn't need to be deep or long. Most breaths are short and shallow. You can be aware of those too.

There must have been a time when I was so green at poker that I didn’t even know when to get upset. That lasted, like, a week. Now, fifty years later, I can touch that innocence, but without the ignorance, and the only word for it is bliss.

Your best shot for finding time every day to be unplugged is to do it before you first plug in.

Why meditate? To reduce unhappiness.

Graceful winning and graceful losing both sound the same at the table.

When the loser of a cooler keeps their cool, it creates a shell of silence that no one dare shatter, out of respect for the pain surge being endured. For the uninjured bystanders, it’s a time to say a quiet prayer of thanks: There but for the grace of variance go I.

How many songs are in a piano? That’s how many ways there are to meditate.

It’s never too late to start stopping.

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Here’s something I’ve never heard anyone say: “I started paying attention to my breathing and it made things worse.”

I’m playing poker right now which means life is provably awesome.

Every instance of waiting is an opportunity to hone your waiting skills.

Folding the blinds a lot is not a strategy decision. It’s a lifestyle choice.

Meditation is the rising tide that raises all boats.

When you know anything at all about your current breath, you are breathing mindfully. Mindful breathing never just happens on its own. That’s why it helps.

To create time for meditation, wake up before your world.

After a painful hand is a good time to assess your combustibility. Only you can prevent soul fires.

Mindfulness is a game that you win by playing.

Doing home yoga is like playing music. You don’t need to know all the chords to be awesome.