Speaker 1: So you want to be a those stage question.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: From the Blinds to the River, Stay smooth, stay shuttle,
stack chips, stack skills, Let the fears get muted.
Speaker 1: Welcome to this show.
Speaker 3: Hello, and welcome into a bonus episode of the Lolamit
Cash Games Podcast. I want to thank you for joining
me today for this bonus episode. I'm just gonna be
upfront with you. It's not gonna be any strategy in
today's episode. It's gonna be a little bit different.
Speaker 1: Uh. This is one I've been wanting to record for
Wite quite a while.
Speaker 3: I would think about recording it, that would change my mind,
Then I'll think about doing it again that I will
change my mind.
Speaker 1: And due to some things going.
Speaker 3: On with people I know and also in social media,
I decided to record it. Now there's this thing happening
with poker content online like YouTube. They're just clamping down
on poker channels. Some creators have just stopped making poker
content altogether. Others are having to change what they're doing
to try to survive the algorithm and not have their
channels just get banned. And underneath all this springs up
a bigger question about poker, like how does society really
view poker.
Speaker 1: Is it just gambling?
Speaker 3: Is it destructive? Is it something people should be ashamed of?
Or is there something more to it? As poker a
positive thing for society? And can it even save lives?
And for me at least, the answer to that last
question is yes, which is part of what I want
to talk about today. Of course, I want to talk
about the downsides to poker, because there absolutely are downsides,
but I also want to talk about what the redeeming
qualities of poker are, what it can teach us, what
it can reveal about us, and very personally, what poker
has meant to me in my own life. So let
me take a step back to the very beginning my
first experiences with gambling.
Speaker 1: It was not poker.
Speaker 3: It was blackjack, way back in the late nineties into
the early two thousands. Somewhere in that window, I got
interested in blackjack and I went to the library, I
got a book, and I really there was a strategy
you could use, and supposedly blackjack was quote unquote the
best game in the casino if you know what you
were doing. So I studied basic strategy for a few weeks,
and I mean I had it down cold. I was
very proud of the work. I went in and I
drove about four hours to the nearest casino to me
with three hundred bucks in my pocket. And I didn't
know anything about casinos. I didn't know about table minimums.
I didn't know blackjack was cheaper in the morning that
it is late on a Friday night. Like, I didn't
know any of this stuff. And I walked in on
my three hundred dollars, found the cheapest blackjack table they
had on a Friday night, which was a fifteen dollars minimum,
and I sat down and two hours later I was
up about seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: I was super excited, to say the least. I cashed out.
I stayed that night.
Speaker 3: I woke up the next morning, I had breakfast at
the casino, and I drove back home, thinking, Wow, you
know what, I'm just gonna play blackjack for eleven man.
That was amazing. Of course, I didn't know anything about
blackjack at the time. I did keep going back. I
started reading more. I learned about counting and all this
type stuff, and somewhere along the way, I just realized,
you know, the more you learn about something, you know,
the more you learn, you shouldn't be doing it. And
it became apparent to me the more I studied by Jack,
you needed a very large bankroll to make any amount
of money. You're very likely to get caught counting, like
it's fraught with peril. And somewhere in that time period,
I walked by a Roulette will and Roulette got its
hooks into me. So I've got a mind that loves numbers.
I like patterns, pattern recognition, statistics systems. I've got this
ad D type mind, I've got OCD, and Roulette just
lights up all those parts of my brain.
Speaker 1: It just sets that part of my brain on fire.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen those memes where someone's thinking their
numbers and formulas swirling around their head like they're deep
in thought and they're decoding the matrix or whatever. That's
what it feels like when I'm at a Roulette table.
I started seeing patterns, I started seeing numbers. I start
seeing things that make sense, and I became convinced there
was patterns. You could beat Roulette if you got good
at recognizing them. And the next thing you know, I'm
losing money. I can't afford to lose not huge money
by rich people's standards, but huge money for me, and
to my credit and not to you know, necessarily pat
myself on the back too much.
Speaker 1: But I called on to this very fairly early.
Speaker 3: I realized that if something didn't change, I was going
to have a serious problem gambling with Roulette, like it
just had its hooks into me hard. So I started
looking for other ways to gamble that I could you know,
either break even or make money at. And you know,
stumbled across poker. Coincidentally, right around that time online poker started.
You know, I found a site called Ultimate Bed. It
was the first poke I ever saw. I downloaded it,
I put some money on there, and I started learning,
and you know, I wasn't that good at it first,
but I bought some poker books, started studying, and you know,
back then, most of the online poker was limit hold them,
so that's something you rarely see today. But I played
a lot of limit hold them. You know, you could
see some some no limit games occasionally.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: As time went on, I downloaded Party Poker and played
and then Poker Stars and then Full Tilt. I played
on a site called Paradise Poker, and you know, somewhere
along the way things started changing. You know, I was gambling,
quote unquote gambling, but now I was winning and I
felt really good about it. You know, poker was being
very good to me, and it was something I really
enjoyed in it. The strategy part of it scratched that itch,
that pattern recognition, that numbers, the statistics, you know, all
that stuff that my brain loves. You know, poker was different.
It rewarded you if you studied. It rewarded discipline. It
rewarded you know, getting better and improving, recognizing patterns and
reading people and understanding people and understanding textures and understanding
you know, just a lot of things. So you know,
I was making reasonable money with the poker I was
playing online, you know, considering the stakes I was playing.
And then in two thousand and five, my life took
a very weird turn. So, you know, I'd moved up
in my career a little bit.
Speaker 1: By then.
Speaker 3: I was making some decent money, and I was playing
more and more poker, and I was working. I love
my career, by the way, loved my career so much.
But this Easter Sunday, two thousand and five Easter Sunday,
some stuff happened that I really won't get into. But
as a result, I got fired in an email, which
is a stupid way to get fired. I still find
it insulting to this day, Easter Sunday fire an email. Coincidentally,
when the email came in the way I read it
was I was playing a poker tournament Ultimate Bed on
Easter Sunday, and you know, you get a five minute
break in those tournaments, and during one of the five
minute breaks, I checked my email and found an email
from my boss saying I was fired. So I mean,
what do you do then? Like I just stress about it.
I'm I'm in a tournament, I'm doing well, and I
just continue playing the tournament. And I wanted it was
about thirty eight hundred dollars or something, you know, not
life changing money, but you know, not bad for playing tournament,
a poker tournament online on a Sunday afternoon, and I thought,
you know what, you know, I'm pretty good at this.
Screw it, I'm just gonna play poker for a living.
Speaker 2: So I did.
Speaker 3: I had a four oh one K. Wasn't a big
four one K by any stretch of the imagination. Like
I didn't know not I have very much money, but
you know, I cashed out the four oh one K,
which is enough money to pay my bills for you know,
I don't remember the amount of time I figured I
could pay bills with my four one gay, but it
was four or five months.
Speaker 1: And then, on top of that, have enough money to.
Speaker 3: Play, you know, reasonable amounts of poker without worrying about
a bankroll. So I was playing tiny steaks online ten cent,
twenty five cent, super multi Tabling, twenty twenty five cent,
fifty cent in a limit hold on Super Multi Tabling.
And then I played these small tournaments, eleven dollars tournaments,
twenty dollars tournaments, you know, thirty thirty threes. They would
be eleven twenty twos, thirty threes, you know, et cetera.
And then I also went through a spell where I
was just grinding sitting goes hard man. Started out doing
nine man sitting goes, and then I started doing six
man sitting goes. And I would have like twenty sitting
goes open on my computer desktop at one time, just
playing all of them, and I was pretty good at them.
So I was just grinding my life away at poker.
I was playing like sixteen hours a day, six days
a week, sometimes seven days a week. But I was
meeting my financial needs in life. At that point, I
was enjoying it. It was a challenge. Then a weird
thing happening. The same company that fired me, well, the
man that fired me, he got fired and somebody that
I had worked with at this business before got hired,
and she liked me and we had always worked well together.
Speaker 1: She called me and asked me to come back. So
I went back.
Speaker 3: Terrible decision, by the way, but I did go back,
and at that point I started moving higher and higher
up in that company in that career, and poker kind
of faded in the background, and I was making pretty
good money. And then we fast forward to twenty and twelve.
Twenty twelve, life happened. That's where my life changed, indirectly
by the way it really changed for my mom. Now,
I don't have a big family. I don't have siblings.
My core family was very small, like my mom, my dad,
my grandma, and me. You know, I have aunts and cousins.
I love a lot, but like my core family very small.
I'd i'd lost my father in twenty ten, I lost
my grandmother in early twenty twelve, so it's just basically
me and my mom.
Speaker 1: That was basically my core.
Speaker 3: And then in late twenty twelve, my mom was diagnosed
with stage three covarian cancer, and not just that, but
a very aggressive form of it. And you know, we
tried to be an optimistic about it, tried to fight it,
tried to do everything right. But things went just bad
almost immediately. Like I remember her having pneumonia for nine months,
chemod rector immune system, her lungs got damaged, her body
was trying to fight cancer, and there's treatments, there's infections.
It was just right out the gate immediately. She didn't
have very good responses to the chemo, and you know,
I knew cancer, and I did a lot of study
on her cancer specifically, and I knew her five year
survival rate, which was probably about the best she could
hope for unless something really went exceptionally positive for her.
And I knew she was gonna, you know, need me
through that journey, and I started immediately started taking time
because we just basically had each other. And thankfully my
work where I worked, they allowed me to start working
from home, and so I was working from home on
a laptop remotely, I could log in. It was interesting
because I could log in, you know, from my laptop
or desktop from the house and directly access the desktop
at work and use all the software and programs and
stuff remotely.
Speaker 1: And you know, I was doing my job remotely.
Speaker 3: And they seemed really cool about it at first, but
after a few weeks went by, they were They just
kept started calling me, asking me when I was coming back,
when I was coming back. And one day the owner
of the company called me, the owner who lived two
states away by the way, you know, they had different
parts of this company all over in different states, and
he calls me and asked me when I said, look, man,
my mom is my first priority.
Speaker 1: I'm the only thing she has. You know, if you're
going to.
Speaker 3: Press me about it, I'll just leave or whatever. And
you know, I quit, I left the job. There's really
no decision to make there. My mom is the most
important thing in the world to me, and so we
dove into that. And my mom's cancer journey, you know,
as predicted, lasted about five years. And during that time,
I started an online business and I worked on it
whenever I had fair moments I had, you know, I
tried to take care of my mom, but you know,
a lot of times she tried to be independent. She'd
stay on her own for like the most of the journey,
as a matter of fact. So basically I was just
you know, trying to call and check on her. I'd
go stay at her house. Some she'd stay at my house. Some.
I drove her to all of her appointments, all of
her doctor appointments, all of her hospital visits.
Speaker 1: I was in the hospital with her every time she
was in it. I didn't leave her side.
Speaker 3: But then any other time where stuff like that one's happened,
I was online building this online business, and I was
working sixteen hours a day at it, many many days,
and became very successful at it, made a lot of
money at it, and about two months before my mom died,
I actually sold it, sold the company. And I remember
telling my mom, who was getting pretty weak by that time.
I remember telling her that I sold the company and
what I sold it for, and like, like, I don't,
you know, I don't have a huge number of positive, amazing,
memorable moments in my life, but I remember my mom's
were actually going wow, you know, she was just she
was very impressed. For how much we sold it for anyway,
her cancer journey ended. Now, when my dad died, it hurt.
It did when my grandma died, it hurt. But when
my mom died, it literally broke me. Like she was
the closest person I'd ever been to in my entire life.
Speaker 1: She was my rock. And not just that.
Speaker 3: Anybody that knows my mom knew she She was just
the sweetest, kindest, most loving, giving, selfless person that ever existed.
And not just to me and not just the family,
she was that way to complete strangers. She just was
that person. And watching her go, watching cancer rip her
away and the brutal, horrible, just terrible ways it does it,
it was hard to watch man and hard to not
be able to do anything. And it was the worst
thing I'd ever been through at that point, and it's
the worst thing I'll ever go through. She shuffered so much,
and sometimes even through all of it, you know, tried,
she was just positive, like she just was so positive,
Like you know, you can't, I can't lie to you
and say my mom was positive seven days a week,
twenty four to seven, because there were definitely times she
would just be beat down, beat down from pain. I
learned when my mom's cancer journey, what it's like when
a person is in pain every day, all day, how
much it affects you. It just grinds you down mentally
and emotionally. And some days it would get my mom
down so much, but she would rebound from it in
a day, or she'd sometimes rebound from it in hours,
and sometimes it would go on for two days. But
my mom never stayed in that place long. She was
just amazing. She would be back on the positive, thankful,
I'm blessed side of it.
Speaker 1: Of anything I'd ever seen, she just was amazing. Anyway.
Speaker 3: When she passed, I went into this depression that I
can't describe in words, like I was in a place
where I didn't have to work because I'd sold my
company and so I didn't really have any responsibilities. I
didn't have any appointments, I didn't have anything to do,
and so I would just lay in bed with depression
for days and days. I would eat and lay in bed.
Sometimes I would get up and drive to the convenience
store near my house and just feel the bag as
full as I could with little debbe snack cakes and
junk food, and I would come back home, and I'd
get in bed and I would throw those that bag
full of little Debbie snack cakes to my side, eat
until I'd go into a sugarcomb and pass out, sleep
for twelve hours, wake up, eat another ton of them,
pass out like I would just do this for days
on end. I would sleep for a day. Sometimes sometimes
I would sleep for two days. You know, that was
my life for a pretty good while. And then you
know this grief was it was initially it was grief,
and it morphed into something even worse than grief. It
turned into self hate and regret and just beating myself
up over.
Speaker 1: Not being there better for my mom. I started remembering things.
Speaker 3: I started remembering every decision she made that I made,
that we made together, every moment, every little thing I
wish I'd done better, every little time that You know,
when you're when you're a person needing care and a
caregiver and you're trapped in a room with each other
seven days a week, twenty four to seven. No matter
how much you love each other and how kind you
are and how compassionate you are, there will be little
schisms that happened. Now, now, we never yelled each other
or falter. I don't want you to get the wrong imprision.
It was nothing like that. But we would just have
a little, just a little disagreement sometimes, And I remembered
every single one of them. And there wasn't a ton
of them, by the way, in her five year cancer journey,
they may have been two or three like that just
wasn't us. But you remember every one of them when
she's gone, and she just had this angry form of
aggressive cancer. And the main chemo. You know, I don't
know how much you know about cancer, but they starts
you out on the very best chemo for the kind
of cancer you have, and.
Speaker 1: Eventually it will stop working. That's first line.
Speaker 3: Then they'll move you to second line therapy and this
is the second best chemo that they have for year,
and they hope that it works.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it doesn't do anything.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it does a little bit, but whatever, it's the
second best option they have, and so you move to it,
and you move it. It'll either work a little bit
and they'll say we'll keep trying it. And basically this
goes on throughout your journey. Eventually the cancer becomes versus
that chemo, and now you go to the third line treatment,
which is the third but you know, and each time
you go it's less and less effective. To the point
she had no more chemo options and that you know,
it had been fighting it off to where she was.
You know, I would say sixty percent of the time
she was leading a pretty normal life and forty percent
of the nime could have been complete. Hell, it just depended.
There'll be periods of time like when she had a
bowel obstruction and she was hospitalized for like three months
with that and nearly died and they gave her a.
Speaker 1: Five percent chance of survival.
Speaker 3: So, you know, it's hard to describe the journey, but
like when when horrible things like that weren't happening, you know,
the times that were left over were like sixty percent
decent and forty percent hell or whatever.
Speaker 1: But it was coming to an end.
Speaker 3: And so finally they had this experimental drug that she
was qualified for, and their doctor's likes, this is your
last best chance is this drug, and you qualify for
it medically, we just got to get your insurance to
pay for it. And so the insurance fought it and
for her to start taking the drug. She could not
take chemo anymore, So she had to stay off chemo,
and she was on the last line chemo they had.
It was the very last option. There would be no
more options. So it wasn't like it was that helpful anyway,
but you know, it did a little bit of something.
You know, it calmed it down from being an aggressive
spreading level ten into maybe aggressive spreading level seven, like
it was still spreading aggressively, but it slowed it down
a little bit. But she had to stop taking it
because to qualify for this drug, you couldn't take chemo, like,
you had to be off the chemo.
Speaker 1: And so she's off the chemo and we're waiting and
waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting.
Speaker 3: In two weeks, and three weeks and four weeks go by,
and five weeks and finally, you know, finally they approved her.
And then they send us this medicine in the mail.
And by the time we get at my mom has
declined to the point that she's skinning poems. She's bedridden,
she can't really walk anymore. You know, long story short,
she didn't.
Speaker 1: Live long after that. Yeah, it was four or five weeks,
so my mom was gone.
Speaker 3: And after she died, I just tortured myself with all
these memories and questions I talked about before, and it
just tormented me.
Speaker 1: It just tormented me. I decided to get an RV.
Speaker 3: So one of the things I did, you know, when
my mom would be staying with me or i'd stay
with her, and like I wasn't trying to work on
my business, I'd look at YouTube videos and stuff, and
I stumbled across van life, right, this van life, and
they make it look so romantic and amazing and beautiful.
And my mom would look at stuff with me and
I would say, hey, look at this. Look they took
the little van. And look where they're waking up this morning.
They're opening in the back doors of their van, and
they're on the bank of some stream coming down on
the mountain. I'm like, anyway, I decided it was about
eight or nine months after she died, to get an RV,
And you know, I went to some places like that,
but for some reason, poker came back to my mind,
and I used the RV to travel from state to
state to state.
Speaker 1: Playing poker rooms.
Speaker 3: And the first time I stepped in a poker room
and played and sat down, my mind stopped doing the
thing it was doing I for I didn't blame myself
for my mom's death. I didn't remember every single time
something went it went wrong, Like the grief stopped, the
regrets stop, the question stopped, Like my brain was at
peace for the first time and forever, my brain wasn't
attacking me.
Speaker 1: It was working.
Speaker 3: It was focused on poker decisions. And you know, then
when I'd leave the poker room, it would all come back.
But that's when poker became the only thing that could
turn my brain off. So I started playing more and
more and more. And I'll be honest with you, there
was hundreds of days where I would wake up and
I would be sitting there in the morning and I
would have to physically decide, mentally and physically decided, sitting
only as your bed, feet on the floor, do I
want to keep living today?
Speaker 1: Do I want to keep living today? And there was
two things during that time that kept me alive.
Speaker 3: There's two things that are the reason I'm still here,
and the reason I'm recording this podcast is one of
those reasons. So reason number one was this aunt. She
was an aunt who I was very close to in
my youth. When I was very very young. You know,
as I got older and of my thirties and older
than that, we you know, we weren't as close because
I didn't live there.
Speaker 1: I'd moved to another state.
Speaker 3: But then when I came back and my mama got six,
I was there a lot right because my mom lived
right next door to her, so I was seeing her
a lot again. And there was two people in the
hospital room at that two am or in the morning,
whenever it was when my mom passed. Two people were
in the room with me, two and she was one
of them. And she just stepped right in. After my
mom died, and every day she would text me tell
me she loved me, and asked me how I was doing.
Speaker 1: And those texts kept me alive. Those texts.
Speaker 3: Many many days when I would think, you know what,
I just don't want to be here anymore, I would
just get a text.
Speaker 1: And the only thing that kept me alive was poker.
I knew if I.
Speaker 3: Could get up, shower and get dressed and just get
to a poker room somehow, that my brain would turn
off and the depression and the grief and the you know,
horrible thoughts would just go away. Now I'm not glamorizing it.
I'm not saying poker as a treatment or a cure
or a salvation. Poker hurts many people too, people who
have gambling addictions and addictive personalities. That damages lives. It
causes financial problems, It breaks up relationships and marriages. And
I'm not saying it's good for everybody. But poker was
good for me. It wasn't a roulette will wasn't a
slot machine. It was something I could do to turn
off the internal monologue, and you can win.
Speaker 1: You can win playing poker.
Speaker 3: So fortunately I had the history with poker and I
understood poker, so it started working out for me pretty well.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: You know, I never stopped playing poker. You know, when
I went back to work in two thousand and six
or two thousand and seven or whatever, it was like
I would still play poker, but it'd be like once
a month or something. You know, it wasn't all the
hours I was doing before. So it's not like I
never really left poker. But now it's back full blown
where I'm just playing tons of the time. So yeah,
poker isn't a panacea, it isn't a cure all, but
for me, it was, and for a lot of people
it was. And if you approach it the right way,
you can get better and improve, and poker can return
many things to you. Poker's a microcosm of life, right.
It teaches you discipline, It teaches you emotional control, It
will if you let it. By the way, there I
see many people who poker doesn't teach them many lessons
because they don't allow it. But you learn from laying
poker a lot of valuable lessons that translate to life.
How to stay calm when things aren't going your way.
How you can't have a melt time meltdown every time
there's a bad beat or something that's twenty percent chanced
to happen comes in. Can't let frustration turn you into
a worse version of yourself. And poker reveals that stuff
to you, and it reveals it to everybody else around you,
by the way, and you get to decide whether you
want to work on You want to let it teach
you something. You want to let it teach you patience
or discipline. You want to let it teach you learn
how to wait, to deny your worst impulses, to learn
that not every situation is worth than entertaining to learn
that you can make all the right decisions every day,
all day and still get a bad result.
Speaker 1: That's just like life.
Speaker 3: You learn how people act when they're strong, weak, scared, confident, tilted, pretending.
You learn how to sit with people that you may
not like, let's still get along with them. All these
things that matter in life, like poker is such a
beautiful microcosm in life in so many ways. But the
biggest thing poker teaches you is resilience. Because in poker,
you can do everything right and still lose. You can
make good decision after good decision and good decision and
still have a losing session. And if you can learn
to accept that and handle it with grace, handle it
with joy, handle it with cheer, it will translate into
your life because life works the exact same way. You
can wake up every day, do the very best, make
all the right decisions, do all all the hard work,
and things still go badly for that day, for that week,
even for months. But just like in poker, in life,
if you keep making good decisions and you keep waking
up every day and showing up and doing your best,
and you don't let the bad results destroy the process,
destroy your mind, destroy your drive. Eventually, the rewards for
this will come at some point. It might not be today,
might not be the end of the week, but they
will come. Look, I don't know if you're as passionate
about poker as I am. Like you subscribe to the pod,
so obviously you like poker a lie. But at this point,
I'm still all these years later, and you know, my
mom died like eight years ago. I'm still just full
bloom poker. I love it so much. I recently recorded
what will be the first episode of the year twenty
twenty seven. Because I record things in advance and I
schedule them out in advance. But when that episode hits,
that will be the eighth season of this podcast. Eight seasons.
That's crazy to think about. So not only has poker
been very rewarding to me, this podcast has been one
of the most rewarding things I've ever done. I've met
so many great people. I've had the opportunity to help people,
and something I didn't expect was so many of the
people that I've joined the podcast, that I've met in
the coaching tier, people that participate in the discord, They've
helped me they've helped my game, They've helped my enthusiasm
for the game, my passion for the game, like it's
been a mutual exchange, and the whole thing, Poker, the podcast,
it's all.
Speaker 1: Been very, very very good to me.
Speaker 3: And again, I'm not trying to sell poker as some
kind of romanticized cure all for everything.
Speaker 1: It's not a miracle. It's not for everybody. But for
some people it can be sure. For other people, it
can be dangerous.
Speaker 3: But for me, poker gave me a place to put
my mind when my mind was destroying me from the
inside out. It gave me structure when my life was empty.
It gave me purpose when I didn't have a purpose.
It gave me people, gave me new friends. I would say,
some of the people that I like most in this
world right now are people I'd never met before ever
before my mom died, and I just like them a ton.
I had decided this even kind of happened before my
mom passed, Like I had had a relationship go bad
right before my mom passed, and I'd kind of decided,
you know, I'm not gonna love anybody else, like if
I don't already love you, I'm not adding any new
people that I love. And then when my mom died
that was so devastating, I doubled down on it. I'm like,
I'm just not gonna love anybody knew. It's so painful,
it's risky, it's hurtful. But poker brought somebody into my
life that I loved again. This person is like now
one of the top I don't know what the number is,
top three or four people that I love and care about.
And I would climb mountains and fight bears and do
anything for this person. I met this person through poker.
I would have never gotten to know this person without poker.
Like the gifts poker has given me, it's pretty crazy
when I think about it. And of course there's the game,
the game that keeps teaching me, humbling met, challenging me,
rewarding me. You know, when I hear people dismiss poker
as just gambling, you know, I understand why they say it,
But I also know they're missing out on something so
much deeper, right. They're missing out on the discipline, the resilience,
They're missing out on community, they missing out on connections,
They're missing out on the way the game can reveal
who you are to yourself, the good and the bad,
and help you fix the bad and improve if you
so choose to. Poker really did save my life. It
was a key component of saving my life. And that's
the reason I recorded this episode. Not strategy, but it
came from a real place. It's something I wanted to
say for a very long time. So thank you for
being here, thank you for subscribing, and get me through
seven years or a poker podcast, something I never dreamed
I would ever do ever. I'm so glad that you're
here to share this with me and allow me to
share it with you, and I'll be here with another
episode soon.
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