DANGERLION

I’m reading Scott Belsky’s Making Ideas Happen.  There’s a section in there where he says:

Ideas often have the tendency to lie stagnant until we are jolted into action by either excitement or fear…  For this reason, competition — regardless of whether it stems from friendly camaraderie or outright envy — is an extremely powerful motivating force.  It serves as a catalyst for taking action and pushes us to improve our overall level of performance…  The competitive forces around you will display better ways of doing things.  Watch them — and get to know them — rather than pretend they don’t exist…  While it may be against your nature to do so, you should actively seek out competition and be grateful for it.  By embracing competition, you stay at the top of your game.

He might as well be talking about how to get better at poker.  No matter how many training videos you watch, how many books you read, how many hands you post or how many fish you filet, the only way to truly mine the depths of the game is to challenge yourself.  And that will never change, regardless of how tough the games get.  So what if you get your ass handed to you by someone better?  In my book, losing 5 BI to a great player is a good thing.

Now you get to figure out why you lost.  And then beat them the next time.

Check it: http://www.deucescracked.com/fff

Here’s the scoop.  All videos on DC are FREE this week. No joke.  We are opening up our doors to everyone and anyone with an interest in what we’re up to at DeucesCracked, and giving away the farm in what is, as far as I know, the first ever Internet poker training festival.  We’ve even got fireworks!

Festival Highlights (so far):

1) “Coaching Kristy” premiered yesterday, a joint collaboration between DC’s BalugaWhale and Pokernews.com’s Kristy Arnett in which Andrew is teaching Kristy how to crush online poker.  Kristy has interviewed me numerous times throughout my poker career and I’ve always been impressed by how smart her questions are and how good her articles turn out.  I’ve got high hopes for her — Annette Obrestad watch out!

2)If we hit 60k videos watched during the festival (very doable, so tell people!), we’re releasing a special Duel (HU) video – part 1 of a 4-tabling 25/50 NL match I played in 2009 against… Isildur1!: http://www.deucescracked.com/forums/7-Research-Development-/133731-Unlockable-video-Duel-KRA

3) Ask Team DeucesCracked anything about making poker training videos: http://www.deucescracked.com/forums/4-General-Discussion/topics/134101–Ask-Team-DC-anything-abo#posts-1092491

4) DeucesCracked Movie Poster contest!: http://www.deucescracked.com/forums/4-General-Discussion/topics/134161–Festival-CONTEST-DeucesC#posts-1092561

Check out these posters, first submissions from my man 1BYONE:

As DJ Sensei likes to say, boom shake the room.