Why Comfort is Your Biggest Poker Enemy
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- Phil Galfond explains how discomfort at the poker table can be used in your favor (and to exploit other poker players!) in this poker mindset strategy video.
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“What do taking the escalator and poker have in common?”
Long time high stakes poker pro Phil Galfond is here with advice for how to exploit discomfort (and comfort) at the poker table.
Whether you’re playing low stakes live poker or you are trying to jump into high stakes online poker games, you’re going to find poker players of every level or game format have degrees of comfortability at the poker table (including yourself!)
It might seem counterintuitive, but playing comfortably at the poker table and searching out comfortable lines is a common thought process poker leak that might be stunting your growth (and bankroll) as a poker player (and that other poker players can exploit!)
As Phil Galfond says in this poker mindset strategy video - humans often opt for the more comfortable path, even at the detriment to their own health (or to the detriment of their poker strategy!)
It’s commonly understood when you’re looking for emotions to exploit at the poker table that fear can lead to big folds, excitement can lead to huge over plays and big gambles, while comfort is often ignored.
Phil Galfond believes that comfort leads to more emotional mistakes at the poker table than fear or excitement, especially for competent poker players.
While competent players won’t make the common beginner poker mistakes of huge over folds or wild gambling calls, competent poker players often make comfortable plays that are just a little bit easier than the alternative.
For that reason, Phil Galfond believes that comfort is the NUMBER ONE poker leak creator amongst the emotions that we have at the poker table.
It might not be clear why from this description but will be clear after watching the video, but behind discomfort is where you find growth and the ability to plug huge leaks in your poker game.
Like the Austrian poet Rilke (almost) said, “Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our coolest poker plays.”
Through the rest of the video Phil has excellent advice for how to face discomfort, how to exploit comfort and discomfort in other poker players, and how to stop the pattern of playing comfortably being exploited against you.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Why Comfort is Your Biggest Poker Enemy
00:20 Story Time: Vancouver Walks
01:36 Opting for the Comfortable Path
01:53 Mistakes caused by Emotions
02:51 When does Comfort or Discomfort Cost You Money
04:45 How do We Use this for Our Advantage and Improve?
06:45: Apply this to Poker and Win More 
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Living in the comfort zone is the #1 leak for an amazing life.
love this comment :)
Makes a good calendar slogan on your bedside table, but in reality for most people going after an amazing life leads to the loss of their beloved comfort zone and dangerous destabilization of their functioning basic lives.
being curious and self-aware about the emotions you experience in life is golden. Phil out here extending poker psychology to everyday life ❤️
This is so, so, so good. Lots of poker channels provide value in various forms. But in terms of unique insight and therefore unique value, you are miles ahead of anybody else.
Came here to compose a similar comment 🎉🎉. Love the general ideas rather than solely hand histories speaking to ultra specific situations.
Woah the contrast on this video is wild, your editor went nuts with the color grading.
Makes me uncomfortable
@@timvavuris1881😂😂 who watches videos that are this format where the audio is all that matters, rather than just listening?
How is it you always know exactly what I need to hear or work on right when I need it most? Talk about soul reads! Thank you as always for your thoughtful, kind encouragement.
This was one of the best topics on this channel, I hope it continues.
Insightful and thoughtful.....impossible not to love someone who has considered all of these things. Respect.
All in all ine of the most intelligent guys to listen to about any topic. Clear thoughts, good analogies, strong reasoning,, very easy to follow. Thanks for it!
Weird Comment Alert: Stepping out of my comfort zone, I am not even gay and I would let this guy do what he wants to me. I am joking, but serious too. I always had this thought experiment of if I were a woman, what type of man would I trust. I was not surprised at all to see this guy wearing a wedding ring. I am an older guy who has acquired some wisdom over the years so nothing in this video really stood out to me, but I would love to see more videos like this because this younger guy could probably teach me to look at some things in life differently.
This was a good one, thanks Phil 🙏
Thanks for posting. I will do my best when I play in the WSOP circuit event net week.
Nice, thanks Phil. Feels like a thing I was missing on my game
This is absolutely excellent man
I just had my 1st double up session at 1/2 no limit using some of your range and position tips from laster years low stakes strategy videos!!! Thank you ! Id love more low-stakes strategy or tips videos!
Great topic, deep thoughts
Phil, I've been following you and listening to your material for over 10 years. Member of bluefire and RIO. There is general wisdom at the bottom of a lot of the things you speak about. As a person with a deep interest in philosophy and religion it would be very interesting to hear more about your personal sources of inspiration and life philosophy. Sort of detached from poker for once. Where you get your ideas, schools of thought, what you admire, what you read etc.
Thank you very much! Daniel
Bro stop making so mutch sense. Love thank you subbing
Great advice as always Phil!
I'm headed to Parq now. Wish me luck 😄
GL!
thanks for these videos
My pleasure!
thanks Phil I really love your mental game vids
Thank you so much!
I like the way you articulate this Phil. Really, we all like to think we are making emotionless decisions at the tables, but often times we are just labeling a decision that’s most comfortable to us in that moment as the “right” or “smart” decision, when we are really just playing into avoiding being put into potentially uncomfortable spots.
Well thought out video - just like PH white magic, but properly explained!
Great content
Greate video, one of the best.
Thank you so much!
Some of the biggest cash game pots and most important tournament pots I’ve ever won have started with the thought “oh boy this is gonna get ugly”, fully grasping that, and then just strapping in for the mental ride and leaning entirely on logic and reason
"if you lost interest in the last part you are the person it's most important for" I hope some of your listeners hear you when you say this ❤ I love how you're trying to help people in more important ways at the same time that you're giving poker advice.
You're absolutely right, no one likes to take risk, but this is a game where risk is necessary.
Hi phil, do you think play style should change when going from from online to live poker. And how so if yes
Thanks Phil
This is interesting. I'm not really a poker player but interested in generally usable info like this. Eg..like what it takes to obtain expertise in poker that could also be applicable to everyday folk.
There's quite a number of lessons in poker that are applicable to normal life. Solid poker players are like Street psychologists, it's a very mind oriented game
Woah water refill station in the studio!?!? Pretty sick
The only thing I wasn't expecting to see at your video, was a video from the underground station in Greece (2:35)😅
Not where I thought the escalator metaphor was going, I thought everyone was scared of escalators. Final Destination ruined them for me. ☠
Infelizmente não falo inglês. Seus ensinamentos são muito comentados aqui no Brasil. Saúde e paz para você e sua família.
I mean just.... Phil Galfond for President! ❤
Now that the BERRI SWEET vs AmSoGood match resumed please do another hand review! Already lots of interesting hands posted on 2+2!
Absolutely golden video cause apart from poker i like psychology as well
I feel a strong urge to post a second comment on this. The internet is filled to the brim with advice along the lines of "you really don't want to re-open the betting" with, say, draws on the turn where you can be priced out by a reraise, and marginal made hands on the river. My inituitive and natural state of game play is, or rather always was, to allow myself to step outside the comfort zone, as you talk about. But the be careful about re-opening advice has sneaked, to the point of becoming a giant leak.
I've readjusted and tried it out in MTTs, despite mainly being a cash game player. 4 final tables in 20 MTTs w 1k+ runners. Cannot wait to get to the cash tables.
If I ever run into you in Vegas, I'm buying you the biggest beer, there is to be found!
Subscribed. Downloaded. Shared. Commented. This is one of the best poker videos I have ever watched and I'm not going to get cocky and say that I was capable of processing it in one go. Fantastic video and insight and greatly appreciated🔥💪💯
Thank you 😊 I'm very glad to hear you enjoyed it!
poker coach and therapist!
the level of u searching into poker player soul is v impressive . this is the kind of content truly touch my heart as a poker player
what's funny is living in nyc has made me 100% okay with confrontation. I used to be a west coast softie, but now if my order is completely wrong I will definitely say something. not in an aggressive way, but just to get the right thing and give feedback about how they didn't get it right. same thing goes for seeing something on the street and speaking up. I also thought it was funny that you brought up escalators, my mom refuses to ever take an escalator (even at airports lol!) and has definitely worn off on me. a lot of times it can be faster even.
Hey Phil, is there anywhere I can buy that shirt? I looked around for it but couldn't find anything but a closed runitonce apparel store.
Unfortunately not :( But the apparel store might make a comeback one day!
@@PhilGalfondThanks for the reply! Really cool shirt, ill be buying one for sure if the store reopens :)
I love to bluff ,I think it's the best part of playing poker, other than flopping quads on the flop😊
Real ones know the Vancouver Starbucks story from Phil’s newsletter 😊
Soul reading me, and we're not even at the tables. I'm always bluff shoving the river "next time".
You’re forgetting one key factor. Escalator is fun!
Lord send me this video.
I'm uncomfortable when I need lay down big hands.
Or when need to find a call on bigger games
It’s definitely a meditation video.🤣
Those 5 rectangles on Phil's shirt. Is Phil wearing a poker shirt inside-out?
I don't like star box...
So essentially… I have to fuck around and find out? 😂😂😂
phil did you run out of content for shorts?
6:40 Sorry, I wasn't paying attention
Akshually...You should have shown people walking UP steps. I worked with some orthopedic surgeons who have told me going DOWN steps is one of the worst things you can do to your knees, in terms of ordinary daily activities.
Love your dedication to poker 🤣
@@stephenkimber5557 I love your empathy. And I love how a lot of people are not going to fully understand this exchange between us. I take that back. It is kind of sad that they won't. But on the other hand.... $$$$
please relax with the saturation and clarity with the editing
A poker seat should be uncomfortable. A player should never sit easy.
Phil, this is far too introspective and self-aware and thought-provoking. Instead, can't I just open-shove every flop and hope to suck out? This other way sounds exhausting.
your first mistake phil is not going to Tim Hortons instead lol
Living in the comfort zone keeping u big as hell
Comfort zone protects your bankroll.
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How can you leave out Laak?!
I knew I was missing someone haha@@BeegYoshi24
Just shove and don't think about anything, you won't be stressed 🤔
🥗 salad and first
Uncomfortable? Hmm the thought of getting married…
Starbucks blows
This video made me uncomfortable. 😮
Comfort is also how you go broke. Nice try though
taking the stairs is NOT healthier than the escalator. going up and down stairs too much takes a serious toll on your knees. this "more excercise is always better" fallacy needs to die. we like comfort because comfort is actually healthier most of the time.
I usually love your videos but you lost me here..
Vancouver BC literally has some of the best specialty coffee shops in the world, it’s a disgrace that you went there especially knowing you had so much income