Colton B

gotta give it to jay z. not sure how he managed to get his nickname on all of the carpool signs, but he’s a legend for that

@_danhell Wonderfully said, I actually started going to therapy about 3 years ago dealing with this exact thing. I didn't feel much emotions outside of poker, and I felt like that was a problem. It's been a work in progress, but I've made great progress in my emotional intelligence since

I was raised by two poker players. In my teens, I was essentially taught that my emotions were inconvenient and unimportant. Obviously, suppressing my emotions became a useful skill when I started playing poker in my 20s, but by my 30s I had developed anxiety. As someone who’s been on both sides of this experience, I can tell you that emotional suppression and emotional resilience are not the same thing. Resilience requires experience. It demands that emotions be felt. Resilience requires far more strength, and the benefit is a life with far more depth, connection, and richness than anything I could have ever imagined before therapy. Suppression, on the other hand, forces emotions to be carried with us for years and can lead to mental and physical health problems later in life. I would imagine that a solid majority of poker players struggle with this. I highly recommend seeking a therapist who can help you learn to access and reprocess suppressed emotions, as well as help you develop the tools to process your emotions in real time. This has been the best gift life has ever given me - a life rich with emotional depth and emotional intelligence, so that every single one of my relationships have improved, and I am better able to show up for myself and the people in my life. And if you’re concerned that your emotions will hurt your game, I’d like to add this: some of the highest performing players I know are also some of the most emotionally intelligent people I know. Initially, it may hinder your game, but eventually it should turn around, and the benefit you’ll find in every other area of your life is well worth it.

Woe is Me open.substack.com/pub/cballboy/p…

TOM KIM MAKES A HOLE-IN-ONE AND JUPITER'S NOT OUT OF IT YET!!!

“Well that was cooool”

@Mike_kim714 Waste Management Phoenix Open!

Final holiday giveaway! Tickets to ANY Pgatour event. Players, WM Phx open, Pebble, you name it, I’ll get you 4 tickets to the event. You can even caddie for me in the pro am IF you want. Comment which event you might want to go to (not final), repost, like to enter.

@VenetianPoker Legend

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@_GordonBombay Haha nice! and thanks!

@_GordonBombay #8 is always a fun hole

Final 2 tables of the Arizona State Poker Championship 👇🏽 These 18 players (including former 2x champ Ryan Stiner) are guaranteed $18,300. Next pay jump at 17: $23,700 Final table GTD: $52,600 @the_real_stiner @cballboy @VegasHayls @read_poker

@TRZpoker I did the same a few months ago, really enjoyed it

Just binged Arcane in a few days, great show

@TheMannheim @25kfantasy @padspoker @chaiteraid Thanks for taking a shot on my friend Lawrence. Helluva guy, and helluva poker player! He was in good company with the team. Congrats on the podium and the amazing summer

Summer's over and our @25kfantasy Handsome Horses team made the podium again! Huge props to my partners @padspoker and @chaiteraid and most importantly the 7 other amazing players we drafted. Gained a ton of respect for them and made new friends while deepening existing friendships. In the end we had the most cashes among the top 5 teams, 12 FTs and shipped 2 live + 1 online bracelet. Huge props to @25kfantasy and @RealKidPoker for putting this on every summer - it makes the WSOP experience even more fun. Back next year!

🔥 Ready for breakout stars at #WSOP2025? Watch for @racener, @cballboy, @AllinVinKidd, Michael Esquivel, Valentin Vornicu, Ben Tollerene, @brandonwpoker, Clemen Deng, Eric Blair & Christopher Park to make waves! 🏆 #Poker #WSOP pokerlistings.com/news/2025-worl…

Perhaps the real #Suns blockbuster trade was the friends we made along the way

Kept their word

@jackabet @padspoker Ah shoot, wasn’t meant to be thin 🤪

@cballboy @padspoker Thin brag

Obviously all of nachos friends (including me) will defend him, the haters will hate. Nobody will actually know so no point arguing about that. The unarguable has to be that GTOW needs to have a delay, it’s needed a delay for so long but surely it needs to happen before wsop this summer. I didn’t fire any wsop online last year and don’t play the venom, I literally love online poker and tournaments more than 99% of people. If I won’t play because of GTOW imagine how many hundreds/thousands don’t play because of it?

@Jake11291 6 for me 🤪

Did anyone else make it to 8 bullets in the Prime?

Voters, just remember, whatever happens.......Costco will still sell a hot dog/drink combo for $1.50. They can't take that away from us

Getting knocked out of the @WSOP Circuit Main Event Final Table at @TVPokerRoom, a story in 4 parts. Sorry @cballboy 😢 📸 @beautyincadence