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Mapping Your POKER Destiny- Part 1 - "HOW DID YOU DO IT?"

Many players have approached me with the same question, "HOW DID YOU DO IT?"

Mapping your poker destiny will enable you to live out your dreams. Making a living by competing at poker tournaments takes a lot of hard work, preparation and determination. It’s like any goal you set for yourself, including the most important thing of all, attitude and belief. No matter what hurdles you face, you have to be willing to jump even higher.

The sport of poker is evolving everyday to such a point that players now hit the big time without even winning a major event. I am a living proof of this and would really love to share with you all how I made it possible for me. Companies in the poker software development industry are starting to see potential in these players. Being a part of this new look into poker is exciting and will surely secure the dreams of many players.

Over the following weeks I would love you to travel with me down the poker road to discovery using my destiny map, in a hope that one or many of you will continue to strive and achieve your goals in a constructive positive way, moving forward with my suggestions and your determination. Your input and comments while we travel are very important as multiple minds are always better than one especially involving our amazing poker game.

Stay tuned for part.2. – Do you have the key for the Map?

THE BATTLE FIELD - Prevent Missing the Poker Action

Imagine a battle field full of enemy waiting to pounce on your first move. Hiding in the bushes you set your sights on movement in the foreground. While channeling your energy in pin pointing your mark, you are out flanked and end up losing the battle and getting permanently injured in the process.

Now take this image to your poker game. I am sure you will now see you poker strategy in a new light. You need to take the awareness of your surroundings as the action on the table and the flop as the movement in the foreground. You poker opponents are the enemies ready to pounce on your poker play. If you concentrate on only one aspect of the game you will limit your ability to win the battle. Channeling your energy to the whole battle field during poker tournaments gives you the ammunition to take down you opponents hands down and emerge victorious.

As on a battle field it is just as important to watch your opponents every move and be ready for their action. For example if you only pay attention to the flop in a poker game, you will be missing the action surrounding you, leaving fewer opportunities for you to strike. Open your senses to the whole field, improve your poker strategy and this way you are prepared for the whole battle , giving you the upper hand.

Don’t go missing the action.

BE THE ACTION!

BEING POT COMMITTED

“Admitting defeat to fight the next battle is sometimes hard to do”

One of the interesting sides to poker is where players bet into a pot on the hope of winning a hand. During the play cards are flopped, turned and finally the game ends with the river. At any stage your hand can go from being the best too far behind. In a poker game knowing when to give up on a hand is a test in itself. Often players will continue in a hand sticking to the hope that their hand will improve allowing them to take down the pot. It is heard regularly throughout poker tournaments players saying “I’m pot committed now” so they call and even go all-in while feeling their hand is still behind or maybe in front. No one is ever pot committed!

Why do we need to just commit our chips during an online poker tournament? It’s to do with emotions becoming the main driving factor behind our poker strategy. We start to get more and more involved in a hand as each card is turned and each bet is made. The people that play poker see the pot rise to where they start to feel the thirst of victory. This is where players need to take control of their poker strategy and find the strength to admit defeat, fold their hand, and give up the chips already committed. This way you will be able to fight the next battle which may in fact chip you far beyond the hand you laid down previously.

Next time you are in a hand and the chips are flying, think should I stay or should I go. There is no rule saying stay be beaten or sucked out on. It is up to you to live another hand in the hope to chip up safely.

I am happy to admit defeat and pack the sting later.

How about you?

ANALYSE THIS AND THAT! - “Do I have the Nutz?”

You have been playing poker for hours and have just heard those sweet words to your ears “FINAL TABLE”. This is now where you are in the money and the possibility of taking down the poker game.

By this point your game has been like a yo-yo, your chips floating from low to medium, emotions bad good and ugly. Heading to final table carrying your poker strategy and iron emotion branded face you realise your play now needs to be of experience and domination in all forms to take down this game.

Every position from now on eliminated in this texas hold em poker game is one step closer for you to more money and the ultimate championship prize of first place. The aim is to constantly know where your chip stack compares to your opponents, while not entering into pots that you do not need to be in, allowing opponents to knock each other out of the poker game.

Risking your tournament without the NUTZ is the fastest way to the rail from here on in. This is where all your poker strategy and experience kick in without allowing your emotions to play the game. Analysing this and that while having the NUTZ is a sure way to last man standing.

Enjoy your final tables and SHIP IT!

HIVE OF DREAMS - “Queen-Beez Journey” -Part - 2

While learning how to play poker from my son I realised that I had achieved my actual goal: reconnecting with my son! I did not realize, however, that at this point it was also mapping my future. We spent hours laughing and chatting and exchanging notes and I was truly learning something from my son I was falling in love with: poker strategy.

James, my son, found the time and location of a free roll league that played in our area and was keen for his parents to attend. I was so not ready to experience this poker game with live players, especially strangers so soon and I declined. Hours later James returned with his father who was showing an amazing grin of success; he placed second. The following week, nerves-tensed, stern-faced I walked into a new world of free poker players battling for minimal prizes that didn’t matter; it was the game that drew them together. At that point, my brain was mush; I had forgotten everything I’d been learning, adrenaline kicked in.

Then I won my first pot! It was then that I was hooked and my poker strategy paid off. It was like: wow, I want that experience again! It was fantastic!

For me a true passion was born and I was now thirsty to learn everything! Even poker rules from scratch to really strive hard and perform well in this poker world. I had found my destiny and my goal from there on was to become the best poker player I could be. That was hardly over two years ago and look where I am today!

You can make your poker dream a reality like I did mine. Stay tuned for incidents and stories regarding how I achieved mine, which I sincerely hope may inspire you to follow your dreams and desires. Please feel free to comment as we go along.