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Dr. K

Dr. K

@drkamikaze.bsky.social

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Filmmaker, theorist, & poker player ~ 7x (S)COOP champ. PhD, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz. The impact is the intention. Dream bigger, demand more. ~ https://pokermix.ca ~ http://discord.gg/WZaX5RKSma

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Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 1d

Just an easy 700% roi/$350 per hour session (9pm start, 1am finish).

Obviously that's not my actual hourly at a $50-60 avg buyin, but playing small short sessions with few tables does seem to be very good for the ROI and hourly both.

Max late reg and short sessions for the win!

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 1d

We really need to stop letting the world be run by psychopaths.

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 1d

Sundays my way.

First online session since crushing fall COOP. Got up very late, did chores, watched TV, ate delicious leftovers, had a cup of hot cocoa, took a nap, max late regged the Sunday special tournaments at 9pm (4 MTTs total).

1 cash, 1 ft, 1 win!

Fun times! 🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 3d

seriously? yikes, that sounds... inappropriate. But maybe it's just fun and harmless and I'm a sour puss lol.

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 3d

If I cared the slightest bit about baseball, this would be a great day for me as someone from Los Angeles currently living in Toronto.

But I don't, so it's just unpleasantly loud and crowded lol.

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UyenThi @utranmyhre.bsky.social · 5d

#FoodBankChallenge

Can we get to $5000 to start? With SNAP running out in Nov if the shutdown continues, more folks will be turning to food banks - which are already struggling since the administration cut $500 MILLION in deliveries back in the spring.

teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participant/...

I'm supporting Feeding America!

To feed America’s hungry through food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger

teamfeed.feedingamerica.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

My friend told me that her 14 year old son started doing laundry on Sundays for some of his elderly neighbors. He doesn't charge for the labor. And now he is the most popular person in the building and has non stop pies, cookies, and cake. The 14 year old should be our model of modern masculinity.

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

The nazis biggest teachers were US slavers and colonizers.

The US has never not been fascist, has never not been genocidal. And I really wish everyone would stop pretending not to know this.

And let's also remember that Zionists have been leading the way this time around, in the US and out.

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

I've watched for decades, and saw memes this week, as liberals laud Obama for being the deporter in chief, giving zero shits about what happens to migrants when Dems are in power, but endless handwringing as soon as it's republicans.

It's ahistorical to pretend this all isn't American as apple pie,

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

What's happening is awful and egregious, but there is a vast prison, jail, and punishment industry that has millions more ensared and that our constitution says anyone "duly convicted of a crime" is legally a slave? And that there have been migrant camps for decades, built and filled under Democrats

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

I have no interest in a smart toilet, but bidets are awesome and I don't want to live without mine. And I wish they were everywhere.

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

It's a unique game and we are all unique people who bring different skills (and limitations) to the table.

As with everything in life worth being great at, there's no one right way to do it. And, in fact, trying to mimic others is probably a losing strategy in the end.

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

I have zero chance of being a competitive athlete in physical sports at this point in my life.

And maybe, with my physical limitations, there's lots of ways I won't be able to be competitive in poker either. But it's not zero chance. It's not remotely the same thing.

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

For example, can physical fitness help in poker? Sure it can and does.

Is it as important to a poker player as it is to a sprinter or tennis player? Do incremental physical gains make as big a difference on the felt as on the track or field? Obviously not.

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

I'm about 2 years into my decision to primarily focus on mental game, and I've come to realize that, while there are always things to learn from other fields, conceptualizing poker performance too similarly to sports or even chess can be counterproductive.

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

Spending lots of energy thinking about mistakes and replaying hands in my head while playing or just after made me miserable.

It made me a "misreg". I was probably a misreg for faaaaaarrrrrr too long. It made me constantly want to quit.

Now I remember: it's just a game! Let's have fun!

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

I don't see anything wrong with leaving a session smiling and feeling confident. I often find myself saying "I played perfectly tonight."

But what I mean by that was I did the best I could in the moment and had a good time doing so. I leave wanting to come back for more, and that's a good thing.

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

For me, that doesn't mean don't self-reflect or eschew accountability. But now I focus on doing that at the appropriate time and with generosity and care, focusing on curiosity about how to improve and maximize efficiency and effort. I want to learn and do better always, because improvement is fun.

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

They're not actually. The older I get, the more I know I need to learn from kids: don't worry about the past or future, focus on the present, make time for play, and have a good time.

Spending my life with internal and/or external critics constantly barking in my ear only brings misery.

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

I don't know about you, but I've had enough of people - and I put myself at the top of the list! - telling me that I'm bad and wrong and fucked things up.

Almost everything in this sick world lines up to tell us that we should be different and do things differently, that our instincts are wrong.

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

But it's a game. And, in poker and in life, I don't HAVE to do anything!

And everything is a lot more fun when I remember that.

And the more fun I have, the better I play, and the better my results. It's a virtuous circle because great results are fun too! Winning is fun!

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

I studied all the time and had all these voices in my head telling me what I should be doing while I played, which got in the way of my own intuition and creativity, and pretty soon I'm making huge calls because "I'm at the top of my range" and "I can't fold this in theory" when I know I'm beat.

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

It's a game. And what is the point of games? To have fun!

It's so simple, but it's so easy to forget. I got into poker because it was fun. But then I got good and I started thinking about money and all these other things more and I forgot how to have fun playing. And then I wasn't so good any more.

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

Leaving a session feeling like I played great, dodged bullets, and extracted the maximum by making fantastic deviations is fun.

Focusing on all the mistakes I made as I leave ruins the fun and isn't helpful at all.

But reflecting with curiosity and studying later is also fun!

Dr. K @drkamikaze.bsky.social · 7d

Counterpoint: no.

There's a time and a place for identifying leaks, and before, during, and after a session is not it.

Perfectionism is the opposite of helpful; it's debilitating, and was the biggest thing holding me back for years.

It's a game. Enjoy crushing and study later.