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Andrew Brokos

@thinkingpoker

Poker player, writer, and coach. Co-host of the Thinking Poker Podcast. He/him. https://t.co/UlN6V8NF1V

TBD Katılım Haziran 2009
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Caitlyn Arnwine (Caitlyn Cobb / Amanda Gordon)
I'll be recording @thinkingpoker on Thursday, 3/19. What questions do you want me to answer? About poker, being a Mom of a 1 month old (she will be 1 month on the 19th!), what my poker plans are as a new Mom, playing poker 9 months pregnant, etc- the floor is open!
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Sam Greenwood
Sam Greenwood@SamGreenwoodRIO·
"At the time, everything seemed to make sense, but, once the cards are revealed, the reasoning suddenly looks absurd. That emotional experience is universal, which I suspect is why Greenwood’s series resonates so much with readers."
🃏 David Lappin 🃏@dklappin

“When a pro makes a catastrophic bluff or an ambitious hero call, it reminds the rest of us that the game is difficult for everyone. Focussing on mistakes is Greenwood’s secret sauce.” My latest article celebrates a year of @SamGreenwoodRIO punts! 🖊️ vegasslotsonline.com/news/2026/03/1…

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@catehall your choice to take guidance from those specific people but also the process by which you choose your intellectual influences. Anyone whose podcast is as popular as Rogan's (or Huberman's or The Daily for that matter) is optimizing for something other than intellectual output.
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Andrew Brokos@thinkingpoker·
@catehall Agreed, I don't think read Robert's tweet as directed at Rogan, though. I think it's directed at the millions who look to him as a credible source, careful thinker, or intellectual role model. When the people you follow fail spectacularly, you need to reconsider not just...
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Cate Hall
Cate Hall@catehall·
I really don't care why people who voted for Trump voted for him in the first place, I'm just glad they are changing their minds. You are welcome among the ranks of people who care about freedom, justice and truth! The rest of you can join us anytime!
Robert E Kelly@Robert_E_Kelly

Watching Rogan learn in real time what everyone from center-right to the progressive left knew back in 2015 is darkly amusing and deeply frustating Like, you guys didn't grasp that Trump was incoherent opportunist willing to say anything to win until now? Seriously?

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Sam Greenwood
Sam Greenwood@SamGreenwoodRIO·
My thoughts on "avoiding flips". Don't do it!
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Faraz Jaka@FarazJaka

. @padspoker recently posted a tweet asking how often a good player busts poker tournaments Bluffing / Coolered / Bad Beat / Losing a flip / Calling off dead. The most common response amongst top pros was: losing a flip is 40-60% of their bust outs.

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Peter Clarke
Peter Clarke@Carroters1·
4 leaks that make studying poker a waste of time: 1. Caring about the frequencies in solvers. 2. Memorising what combos do without asking why. 3. Not looking at the next node to see the GTO reaction to your line. 4. Looking at weird and rare spots because they happened to you.
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Danielle White
Danielle White@_danhell·
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.
Jeremy Ausmus@jeremyausmus

When you play poker for a living it trains you to put your feeling aside so you can keep playing well, not letting your emotions effect your decisions. This is very important for a players bottom line. However, recently I've realized that being in the habit of muting your emotions isn't healthy in many other areas of your life. Sure it can give you resilience throughout the day but avoiding these emotions eventually leads to you feeling numb to a lot of things in life. Recently, I'm trying to focus on them more and really feel them and then move on. Maybe at the table isn't the ideal times for this but eventually you need to process these emotions. I'm already finding that being in tune with your mind and body and not shoving feelings to the side definitely has benefits.

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law dog, esq.
law dog, esq.@ggooooddddoogg·
i’ve never seen a cybertruck parked at the library
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Andrew Brokos@thinkingpoker·
@jeremyausmus I've had an inkling about this for a long time, but I've really been feeling it lately myself. Would love to have you on the podcast some time , to discuss this and lots more! If you're interested, please DM or follow me so I can DM you. Thanks!
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Jeremy Ausmus@jeremyausmus·
When you play poker for a living it trains you to put your feeling aside so you can keep playing well, not letting your emotions effect your decisions. This is very important for a players bottom line. However, recently I've realized that being in the habit of muting your emotions isn't healthy in many other areas of your life. Sure it can give you resilience throughout the day but avoiding these emotions eventually leads to you feeling numb to a lot of things in life. Recently, I'm trying to focus on them more and really feel them and then move on. Maybe at the table isn't the ideal times for this but eventually you need to process these emotions. I'm already finding that being in tune with your mind and body and not shoving feelings to the side definitely has benefits.
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VARIEN
VARIEN@varien·
wifi signals detecting your movement through walls without cameras keystroke cadence identifying you faster than a fingerprint your phone's accelerometer logging your gait so precisely it knows which leg you favor ultrasonic beacons in retail stores pairing your devices to your physical location license plate readers logging 99% of urban driving routes within 24 hours behavioral biometrics scoring how you hold your phone to decide if you're you and these are just the ones with published white papers
Sean Hayes@shayes717

@varien what does that mean

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Marc Torrence
Marc Torrence@marctorrence·
Being a state school grad married to an ivy grad is like an infinite money glitch but for eye roll jokes. Do you know how much joy it brings me when I get to say, whoah whoah whoah they didn’t teach us to count that high at Alabama
Westside L.A. Guy@WestsideLAGuy

Prestige aura is extremely powerful. I know a girl who left a $500K/year private equity job to attend Harvard Business School. Why? She did Michigan undergrad due to Ivy rejections & couldn’t get over the insecurity, the giant chip on her shoulders.

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Andrew Brokos@thinkingpoker·
This is also why it's so rare to slowplay preflop. Three new cards coming down will almost always make it possible for you to flop strong hands without carrying stuff like AA forward in your calling range.
Tombos21@tombos21

If you think about it, preflop is actually the "wettest" board texture. There are three cards to come next street so the equity shifts are drastic. Where else in NLHE do you see GTO get it all-in with an SPR of 70+? This only happens because seeing the flop provides so much information that denying it is worth the massive overbet.

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