Sublime

Play Long-Term Games with Long-Term People

JARED MASON GRIFFIN III, aged 35 (too late to become an interesting character like you!) Nephew of an earl-level Equity Lord (don't you envy him?) Married to that sunken bitch on his right They go on these little escapades to escape their own crippled lives. (why are you here?) Hackworth looked down and tried to read the placard on his own chest bu

playing to win.

if you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you must be the sucker. I don’t think this is quite true: it may be that the game doesn’t have any suckers. It is emphatically the case, however, that if you can’t spot one or two bad players in the game, you probably shouldn’t be playing in it. In poker, the line between succe

There was Jeremy Griffith, the card junkie from Los Angeles; Xavior Spade, the no-bullshit sleight-of-hand master from New York City; and Chris Ramsay, the bearded and tatted-up YouTube pioneer—the guy who had gotten me into this mess in the first place.

great clients—high-functioning people who want to go from good to great.

if there’s ever a time to tread a bit more carefully when you’re not quite sure where you stand, it’s the Main. You should, generally speaking, be a little less trigger-happy in calling off light for your tournament life—that is, in making a marginal call that will end your run. Because, generally speaking, people won’t be putting you to that decis

Black Hat zone,

Trust everyone, but cut the cards. Or, in the present instance, Let them try whatever they like, but teach them how to protect themselves. I call this principle The Dealer's Choice, because as a consultant, you're dealing the cards. Your clients have to be in the game, but you can stack the deck for them by helping them establish a series of defens