To be successful, you have to live a balanced life. All of those players who just sit in front of their computers all day long, seven days a week, will simply burn out and not really enjoy what life is all about. To succeed in today’s poker world, you must be disciplined enough to separate [...]
Categories: Poker Players
Tagged: discipline, Hilger, life
Poker is closest to the Western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents, and where — at least in the short run — the important thing is not what happens but what people [...]
Categories: Poker in General
Deep down inside, poker is what I do, and it’s what I live for, so if I knew I wouldn’t be able to win another poker tournament again, I would quit and my life would have no meaning anymore.
Annette Obrestad – 11/2009 – In PokerNews
Categories: Poker in General
Tagged: life, Obrestad, tournament
Does poker rule your life? Or does it exist in the context of a conscious, well-balanced, self-aware existence? It may surprise you to learn that the less obsessive you are about poker, the better your game will be. Why? Because if poker is all you have going on in your life — if getting that [...]
Categories: Poker in General