Angelo Poker
The Live Poker Rulebook. Running Bad Can Be Cured. Raise Your Score By Folding More Blinds. The Happy Loser (about trading and poker) A Tipping Story (featuring Babs McDerty) 2016. The Cause Of All Your Problems. Practice Makes Perfect. Poker Nicknames Extravaganza! The View From Inside the Aquarium. My Name is Freddy the Floater and I Am. Legendary poker player, author and coach Tommy Angelo joins us this week for a discussion about his new book, Painless Poker. The book is focused on mental game and dealing with pain in poker, using an imaginary poker clinic featuring characters who embody seven archetypes of poker players.
The Blue Marble
I was 14 years old in 1972 when astronaut Harrison Schmitt aimed a Hasselblad camera out the window of the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the moon and took a photograph of the full earth from 25,000 miles up. NASA dubbed that photo “The Blue Marble.” It showed the world the world, with
Read moreShould I Stay or Should I Go?
Dear reader: I wrote this in 2008. Sometimes an even-money bet can have big consequences, so it still matters which side you pick. Here’s a great example of that, from the $10/10/20 blinds no-limit hold’em game at Lucky Chances. The lineup − what we lovingly call The Breakfast Club because the game starts at
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My Love Relationship With Tightness
Tommy Angelo Poker
I wanted to be a rock. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, to be called a rock was the highest achievement in poker. I craved that badge of honor, and the promised riches. A rock was a solid player, imperturbable, aggressive, fearless, and above all − tight. The player who mastered tightness also mastered patience. And back