Perform Like a Poker Pro (How to Make Better Decisions)

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  • Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2024

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  • @PhilGalfond
    @PhilGalfond  8 месяцев назад +2

    Thanks for watching, all! This video concept first appeared in my newsletter, where I'm sharing weekly poker deep dives and giving away my Poker Mindset Strategy ebook. Get yours at: philgalfond.com/mindset-yt
    You can get it all FREE. Enjoy!

  • @crabbyclink5777
    @crabbyclink5777 Год назад +52

    Probably a weird comment but my god the audio quality on these videos are cinema level

    • @vader6203
      @vader6203 Год назад

      🐐

    • @fluffysheap
      @fluffysheap Год назад

      Have you been to the movies lately? This could be taken as an insult 😊

    • @PhilGalfond
      @PhilGalfond  Год назад +4

      I might be about to up my audio quality!! Should be in some videos coming out in 1 month or so.

    • @PhilGalfond
      @PhilGalfond  Год назад +8

      Really appreciate your appreciation, though. I’ve had some trouble with audio in past videos and I’m trying so hard!

    • @crabbyclink5777
      @crabbyclink5777 Год назад +2

      @@PhilGalfond oh, I wasn't being facetious.. the audio is amazing

  • @Flypigeonz
    @Flypigeonz 9 месяцев назад +2

    Phil's AMA on Two Plus Two changed the way I looked at poker and myself as a poker player, SO enjoying that he's taken to teaching "full time". He's the best at explaining the nuts and bolts strategy in an easily digestible way, but he's the ONLY one who touches on the meta beyond the math and cards themselves, another brilliant bit of insights from Phil. Thank you!

  • @c0l3slaw
    @c0l3slaw Год назад +8

    Such good advice. I swear, every time I'm having some kind of existential crisis as an online poker player I watch one of your videos like this and just have some truth hammered home. It's uncanny. Though maybe not really, as you've experienced so much more than me as a nearly two decade pro LOL. At any rate, just wanted to say this video hit home hard for me. I'm in the midst of a big downswing, a combination of variance and bad decisions. But I've learned from your content and elsewhere to have a bankroll to withstand such downswings. And having these kinds of lessons reiterated has been super helpful to me, and it's continued to help me grow my bankroll and keep moving up in stakes in spite of all the adversity. Keep doling out these helpful videos, micro/low stakes grinders like me are gaining a lot from your wisdom!

    • @PhilGalfond
      @PhilGalfond  Год назад +4

      Thank you so much! This is exactly why I make videos like this one even though they’re not as popular. I’m glad it connected with you and I really appreciate you letting me know.

  • @kevinclement3120
    @kevinclement3120 9 месяцев назад +2

    I have so much difficulties to find a good coach I actually love hearing while i'm playing. I tried so hard to lisen to J little but can't lisen to his fast paste and cutting words. I'm so happy I discoverd your channel. Learning alot and keep up the amazing work!

  • @Cardfishphotos1
    @Cardfishphotos1 Год назад +9

    Phil,
    1. (Needless to say) your this and other segments overall are very helpful and informative;
    (a) the reframing of power/edge attributes and how they dynamically change over time or during intra-session
    (b) default and trigger rules
    are excellent and timely for me and others.
    (2) Timely example : yesterday I lost my stack due to me ignoring those default and trigger rules and ignoring my decreased ratings of those “attributes elements “
    So I got involved in a hand where I made a series of fundamental and thus cascading bunch of mistakes even though I had fair enough of an ace/q offsuit hand :
    (a) played out of position
    (b) did not challenge the opponent Preflop even though I knew he had less than a marginal hand
    (c) was impatient and tired and ignoring I was slightly fatigued combined with being card dead the last few hours
    (d) ignoring a basic rule to then stack off only with top pair and top kicker on a dangerous board on the flop when I was more than 150 blinds deep (I shoved). Opponent flopped two pair 9/7 suited.
    [3] hours earlier while I was bright, focused and fresh, I stacked 2 people due to me being in position- opponent 1 flopped 7/5 flush, opponent 2 flopped two pair (and he ignored the monotone flush flop) while I called in position with the flopped nut flush (fresh , focused and with my computer gaming reframing attributes at about 9/10 level)

  • @PoliteAF
    @PoliteAF Год назад +1

    Was losing sight of the how dynamic my play is. I needed this 3 weeks ago, but I'm glad it's here today :)

  • @geoffin99
    @geoffin99 Год назад +3

    To a large extent this meshes with one of the key qualities that most if not all winning players possess, and that is being introspective. This video is great because it basically points out how to be productively introspective.

    • @PhilGalfond
      @PhilGalfond  Год назад

      Well said, and thank you so much 🙏🏻

  • @Ginzaloon
    @Ginzaloon Год назад +6

    Love the gems you’re dropping but having the self discipline to execute on these tips are so crucial. Especially in PLO, I personally notice when holding myself accountable & being disciplined, the only person who can beat me is myself! Definitely need to set more default rules. Thank you for sharing this Professor G

    • @PhilGalfond
      @PhilGalfond  Год назад +1

      Agreed, and you’re very welcome!

    • @aaronsmith4806
      @aaronsmith4806 Год назад +1

      Yes! I was always far more skilled than a friend but he never played above means and cashed our more frequently than myself

  • @markcummings3146
    @markcummings3146 Год назад

    Phil is the best go to source of guidance when it comes to Poker but one of the things I attribute to my poker success is definitely taking breaks, avoiding playing when tired, mentally fatigued or with alcohol, they will give you a big edge long term!

  • @jasonfullerton7763
    @jasonfullerton7763 Год назад

    The "poker player as a game character" is a great way to conceptualize the dynamic state of anyone's game. From now on I'm a Red Wizard, practicing white magic (sound theory-based play), black magic (exploits), and combat (live reads). Player stats, XP, buffs ... all fit right in with managing my game in the moment.
    Fortunately, live tournaments somewhat level the effects of mental/physical exhaustion and length of session related impacts on everyone's quality of play, although some players will suffer more decline than others. The downside is that they do not do facilitate impromptu breaks, so learning to play through without punting once a trigger has been identified is a key skill.

  • @garrydye2394
    @garrydye2394 Год назад +2

    I started to improve a great deal in poker when I went on the days where I could "take it or leave it." I was much more relaxed. Wanting to go play...and really can't waiting to go play...is really a negative for me. I'm to impatient on these days. Same with drinking an energy drink. Another no for me. I don't want to be in the mindset where I am "ready to play (gamble)" because I end up trying to make things happen more than I should versus just being okay with whatever the day brings. The best time for me to play poker is when Im really bored and just happy to be out of the house...and I'm okay if the game or my cards ends up coming my way slowly. I'm not a great poker player...but I have turned into a winning poker player. And I have no intentions of quitting my real job.

  • @vlad1mir100here
    @vlad1mir100here Год назад

    Great stuff, Phil!
    As always. Thank you.
    When I translate your videos into text articles for other people, your advice is still very useful and valuable in that form.

  • @Antzzz_Manzzz
    @Antzzz_Manzzz Год назад +1

    Your poker content is first rate. Thank you 🙏🏼

  • @TheSpencerHaines
    @TheSpencerHaines 3 месяца назад

    Great advice. I find that i usually make money early on, lose focus and end up losing money by the end of the session. Im gonna start focusing on recognizing when this happens and how to avoid it

  • @stelianpavel1667
    @stelianpavel1667 8 месяцев назад

    Thank you sir!!! Just what I needed 😅!! Great video your help is tremendeus!!! Keep doing it!!!

  • @micahworld
    @micahworld Год назад

    This is so very well said and thoughtful insight of things I have been going thru and tried to kinda break down and see what type of energy I even have at tables. I have been playing for a living over a decade off and on and what he is saying is so on point it’s like a A.I breaking down a problem that human kind can’t amazing true respect!

  • @BrettCusdin
    @BrettCusdin Год назад

    This might seem unusual but I am learning graphic design at the moment
    and found your rules to be universal over different facets of life.
    I've tilted on design projects, creativity dropped by the 10th hour,
    I feel implementing your rules for this will help me tremendously.
    Thank you very much for all your work for all your content.

  • @badfdsify
    @badfdsify 11 месяцев назад

    Phil! You should release the mindset strat book as an AUDIOBOOK! I would pay good money for it as I’m sure many would

  • @samfayez
    @samfayez 10 месяцев назад +1

    Man you’re a fucking legend, I love your videos, what a person

  • @johnm7489
    @johnm7489 Год назад +2

    Love the gamer analogies :)

  • @CorporateSmitty
    @CorporateSmitty Год назад

    Good video Phil I try to do a self assessment of myself every half hour or so at the table and I have been a victim of addressing the symptom and not the actual fact that I’m tilted or tired etc I like that thought about potentially sacrificing 2 “bad” quits for 4 good ones

  • @CJ.1998X.Y.Z
    @CJ.1998X.Y.Z Год назад

    Dude? You’d make a great therapist. Soothing as hell voice. Best positivity. Love this video.

  • @XxGeneralxX
    @XxGeneralxX Год назад

    Galfond... more like Gandolf. My dude out here casting spells! Love the content

  • @Oque.Nos.Somoss
    @Oque.Nos.Somoss 10 месяцев назад

    Great explanation Phil!

  • @YoungGunny
    @YoungGunny Год назад

    You’re all Madden Phil!

  • @NotInAsia
    @NotInAsia 9 месяцев назад +1

    This guy is so much more likable and more sincere than Doug Polk. Polk has a nasty streak where he can be quite vindictive and malicious. But Galfond is just a genuinely nice guy.

  • @dennisje2925
    @dennisje2925 Год назад

    Love your content and love this specific video. I agree with everything. One sitenot: some people (myself included) are very good in stopplaying when the first sign of tilt, bad run happens. Its also important to work on those mental issues so you can play longer without having to stop after every bad beat.

  • @rhainc2263
    @rhainc2263 Год назад

    Great suggestion on creating a rule book!

  • @derekdeese6130
    @derekdeese6130 Год назад

    Man this video helped me so much.. I really needed to hear what you said about the warning signs of needing a break. Huge ah-ha moment.

  • @mcxi
    @mcxi Год назад

    Best one yet. Thank you :)

  • @TheAlmightyHulester
    @TheAlmightyHulester Год назад

    I really enjoy your vids, cheers sir!

  • @losyart
    @losyart Год назад +3

    Too bad these rules kinda doesnt apply to tournaments bcs you can't quit until you out or make a break.U have to deal with your emotions and anxieties till the end of session

  • @stephan3199
    @stephan3199 Год назад

    You earned a sub great content!

  • @tee.time89
    @tee.time89 Год назад

    Great content! Thank you! 🙂

  • @thomaseychenne2430
    @thomaseychenne2430 Год назад

    The player who inspired me the most in my career, thanks Phil

  • @pokerforaliving447
    @pokerforaliving447 Год назад

    Thank you so much for this life changing content my man!

  • @cristiangyorgyharastasan6703
    @cristiangyorgyharastasan6703 Год назад

    I didn't saw you anymore at the televised cash games, are you playing live games or just online?

  • @ag0n1an
    @ag0n1an Год назад

    Most excellent video.

  • @LarsonsHunter
    @LarsonsHunter Год назад

    I can’t find the way to download the actual audio book through your website unfortunately.. is it not on any of the apps or Audio store? I looked up your name and title of book but nothing came up

    • @PhilGalfond
      @PhilGalfond  Год назад

      It's not an audio book, just an e-book. (Great idea, tho!)
      You can download the book here, for free: www.philgalfond.com/mindset

  • @rikardqvarsebo5468
    @rikardqvarsebo5468 Год назад

    Good vid!

  • @WinningStek
    @WinningStek Год назад

    Found myself mentally drained while grinding today. Remembered your video and quit.
    Fantastic advice, bro.

  • @michaelfosco2531
    @michaelfosco2531 Год назад

    Phil, multiply your numbers my 5 for me lol. Personally around hour 12 is your 1 hour. I start to get really locked in and focused, seeing things I didn’t see 12 hour before. 24 hours in start to trail off, 30 hours+ rarely ends well

  • @roflcopter3870
    @roflcopter3870 Год назад

    The best channel.

  • @jovanmaric6160
    @jovanmaric6160 Год назад

    Great video

  • @jacekkepa2355
    @jacekkepa2355 9 месяцев назад

    TY, GL

  • @michaelholys5147
    @michaelholys5147 Год назад

    Thanks for the videos Phil. I’ve done a lot better since learning from your insight. Would definitely like to see some PLO advice! I have recently final tabled an online wsop event and I really want to win my first bracelet. If you would be interested in a chat sometime I would be grateful! Take care

  • @TheBroLounge
    @TheBroLounge Год назад

    Phil any recommendation on where to look for a life coach or mindset coach?

    • @ThePokerCats
      @ThePokerCats Год назад

      Tommy Angelo is a great resource

    • @Pokerfarhang
      @Pokerfarhang Год назад

      Tommy Angelo
      Eliot Roe
      Jared Tendler

  • @jasonhounsell3297
    @jasonhounsell3297 Год назад

    Phil, that might have been the geekiest comparison I’ve ever heard 😂 “Taking a break is like casting a spell that boosts attributes” 😂

  • @thomasobrien8199
    @thomasobrien8199 7 месяцев назад

    Great video but can I make one suggestion, those shapes begins you are not spaced properly and equal. I won't lie it is bugging me😂

  • @kitsune090
    @kitsune090 5 месяцев назад

    Fear of losing is a trigger too? When I run too hot for a few days or a couple weeks, I get suspicious that a huge downswing is just awaiting on the corner, as a result I stop playing for a few days and when I play, I do it scared... it seems to happen 100% of the time after a big upswing, a downswing happens always!! So my brain has learned that I should be afraid of playing everytime I win a certain amount... it happened so often that I'm convinced that I should withdraw all my bank after an upswing take a long brake and return little by little to make sure I won't be in a downswing again... it's frustrating winning a lot just to lose all back right after that and having to start from 0 again... why I always have a huge upswing followed by a huge downswing? Why I can't have different kinds of runs? Why always the same pattern? I win non-stop for a while, then at some point I can't win 1 single hand, everything I do loses... nothing I do seems to work, and my opponents see this and understand they can play 100% of their hands against me cause they know I can't win at all... I lose with 99.5% equity 3 times in a session... and I always reach around the same amount (100-150buyins) and after that I can't go any further and then start lose non stop again... almost if it was programmed for that... like if there was a button to turn on a good run and a button to turn on a bad run... It's happening to me that way since 2023... and If I cashed out everytime I reach that X amount and restart little by little like i said, I'd have money to pay my bills for 1 year or/and climb the stakes... instead I still playing the same stakes as I'm always building 100 plus buy ins bankroll, just to lose it all and re-building again just to see the same thing happening again and again and again... I can't escape this cycle... I feel so stupid, cause If I'm seeing the same thing happening over and over again in the same way, why I couldn't come up with a plan to avoid this... I don't do anything about it... I just keep seeing the same shit happening to me and do nothing about it... If I withdrew my bankroll after an upswing every single time, I would have to restart from 0 or re-deposit a small amount just like I did when I went broke, but the difference is all that money I lost would be in my bank account at least... of course I wouldn't know this if this happened only once or twice... but that happened over 20 times in 1 year!!! How I can't learn it? I'm tired, if that happens again this time I swear I will quit before it's too late... I don't need to go through the entire downswing until the end just to know I'm in a downswing... I can see when it starts and quit early and not have to experience that in its full extent saving me time, money and energy... I'm done with this doomswitch... I won't allow that shit again... I know it's like a snowball there's no way it won't get bigger... I paid to see it the whole 2023 over 20 times and it happened exactly the same way... I'm 100% sure that's exactly what's going to happen again... cause it's been happening for over 1 year, so why I would be so stupid like I'm being to believe that things will be different this time, if that's never ever the case? After hitting around 100 buy ins upswing there will always be a downswing to make you give it all back... so if I know this for sure, when I reach that amount, I will quit for a while... like if I went broke, but the money will be saved and I can return from where I stop... it's fucking unbelievable... I wouldn't believe it if this didn't really happen... I don't know why I keep trying to play this game... it has no future... you can't keep going further, there's a gatekeeper that will send you back from where you started every time tou try to cross the limits...

  • @luckymaggie6594
    @luckymaggie6594 Год назад +2

    What to do if we are losing motivation to play poker?

    • @berdyderg900
      @berdyderg900 Год назад +1

      If it's your job then it doesn't matter how motivated you feel, if it isn't your job then it doesn't matter how motivated you feel

    • @Pokerfarhang
      @Pokerfarhang Год назад +1

      ​@@berdyderg900I think it matters a lot when it's your job

  • @andershaggbom2721
    @andershaggbom2721 7 месяцев назад

    Been playing 20 years hobby playing mostly bigger field tournamnets and it messes with my head cause you loose so much you loose 30 bink 1 after a longer break i play good, or what I call gladly take necessary risks especially if i run hot in the beginning then as time goes and bad bets comes i play more and more scared and i take a break and the pattern Repeats..

  • @seedingzen622
    @seedingzen622 Год назад

    "You're a Wizard, Phil."

  • @virtualjoker9036
    @virtualjoker9036 Год назад +1

    Phil, any words to a man that just seems to run bad over and over in this game? I try to enter every tournament with a positive mind set, live and online but when the same crap keeps showing up, either losing those flips being ahead or just seeing the same suck outs time and time again, it's to the point where I'm calling out what's gonna come. It's been like this all year, is it really possible to be this unlucky at something. I know we all have bad beat stories, these aren't really bad beat stories just a bad batch of being unlucky I guess time and time again, my girl says then quit playing but it's an addiction playing. It's a sad time.

    • @PhilGalfond
      @PhilGalfond  Год назад +1

      I wrote a post about this just this week: newsletter.philgalfond.com/p/cant-break

  • @split317
    @split317 9 месяцев назад

    Im like that dark souls build with all 0s and maximum luck

  • @brettblaster
    @brettblaster Год назад

    Legend

  • @downupsidetoside
    @downupsidetoside Год назад

    ❤❤❤❤❤
    TY PG

  • @davidkeegan5545
    @davidkeegan5545 Год назад

    Why did my number go up yesterday?

  • @steveterry5139
    @steveterry5139 Год назад

    Can we play some d&d if we ever meet? 😊

  • @joewhite9475
    @joewhite9475 Год назад

    A stop loss at 10 buy ins is 100% something a plo player would say haha most level headed holdem players would leave after 4

  • @gustavouribe518
    @gustavouribe518 Год назад

    anyone name Phil is good at poker 🤔

  • @willinnewhaven3285
    @willinnewhaven3285 Год назад

    At Foxwoods, we used to joke, the players who had played all night, that the guys who came in at 9am, freshly shaved and looking human, shouldn't be allowed at our table. Not much of a joke, really.

    • @LowTide941
      @LowTide941 Год назад

      What’s up fellow Connecticut internet person!

    • @willinnewhaven3285
      @willinnewhaven3285 Год назад

      @@LowTide941 Retired in Florida now
      Miss New England autumn
      Don't miss New England winter

  • @gwcgwc1
    @gwcgwc1 Год назад +2

    next up......how to fold pre

  • @webguy943
    @webguy943 Год назад

    Im a 99 rating poker player

  • @mattlogan1
    @mattlogan1 Год назад +1

    If Phil is an 86 I’m a 2

  • @evingmadeez5008
    @evingmadeez5008 Год назад

    What if I think I'm a God & am going to nail every flop & river 😉😉... Seriously those biggest flaw is saying to myself 10 hr me is 1 hr me

  • @johnthepalm
    @johnthepalm 7 месяцев назад

    casting spells? What am I? A god damn witch?

  • @DAWEAP1
    @DAWEAP1 Год назад +1

    Phil the camera switching from front to side made me dizzy. Don’t think it really helps the video at all.

    • @fluffysheap
      @fluffysheap Год назад

      Yep you should only change the camera if necessary to present information or to call attention to an important point. Changing for the sake of changing is annoying.
      But it's less annoying than obnoxious background music, so I can only complain a little 😅

    • @PhilGalfond
      @PhilGalfond  Год назад

      He’s probably changing it because I screwed up and changing angles covers the edit 😬

  • @jondorsey1715
    @jondorsey1715 Год назад

    Best poker decision you can make is only getting all in when your opponent is drawing dead

  • @aaronsmith4806
    @aaronsmith4806 Год назад

    Idk if you are in recovery from anything but as a drug counselor, you are talking a lot like we’d teach in groups.

  • @user-sd8bz2zr5j
    @user-sd8bz2zr5j Год назад

    Challenge people heads up. If down 30 buy ins switch to your own site and win 31 buy ins in final day on your own software and win the challenge. This isn't suspicious at all.

  • @ZachAnsley
    @ZachAnsley Год назад

    What do you suggest you do when you are in games that require a minimum play time/hand count/call time to leave but you find yourself tilting?

    • @fluffysheap
      @fluffysheap Год назад

      I have never heard of any game where you can't leave when you want to. Maybe on a live stream?
      I guess I would suggest avoiding these games.

    • @ZachAnsley
      @ZachAnsley Год назад

      @@fluffysheap Home games with finicky whales and anti hit and run measures in online clubs

  • @kotsoskotsou8864
    @kotsoskotsou8864 Год назад

    Quiting a session when you feel bad might hurt you if you are an MTT pro.

  • @speedosam5221
    @speedosam5221 Год назад +1

    This is why meth is your friend

  • @instahewko7103
    @instahewko7103 Год назад

    It’s great stuff, however when you’re out playing for a night or even online and playing, it can be extremely hard to quit even when you notice these triggers, etc. Do you have any tips or ideas that can be implemented to make quitting easier? Btw I have read your ebook and it is great stuff as well. Thanks for all the great content.

    • @garrydye2394
      @garrydye2394 Год назад +1

      I quite playing when I realize I have stopped paying enough attention to what is going on. If I start to forget to count the money in the pot or forget who raised what preflop...I call it a night. It has helped.

  • @nimasharifi9904
    @nimasharifi9904 Год назад

    Thank you very much, master ❤
    We learn things from you that are rare and extremely useful 🤍

  • @mattdempsey8173
    @mattdempsey8173 11 месяцев назад

    Great vid