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Playing 4 Keeps™ Gaming Newsletter for Winners Celebrating Ten Years!
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™ A Gaming News Letter For Winners December 2005 Volume 7 Issue 12 Copyright ©2005 Michael Vernon
"Luck Has Nothing To Do With It When You Are Playing 4 Keeps!"
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Change It! Dice Buster January Coming Events 2006 ***************************************************************
“If you don’t like the direction that you are going in, change it” I wish I had come up with that clever statement. Deborah “Soft Touch” Garcia did. Simple really, just do something different from that which is not working for you. Casino games create a stimulus for excitement and pleasure. I play for the excitement and I take pleasure from those times that I am able to survive the casino edge with a win. No two games are ever the same. If you play enough games, though, you will begin to recognize similarities. A few weeks ago after finishing 6th in a Texas Hold’em tournament, I saddled up in a $4/$8 low limit game. Everyone in the game was well acquainted except for me. That was my first clue that should have alerted me to be on my toes and I ignored it. I had very few starting hands in the two hours of play. When I did enter a hand, I was astonished that when I raised the bet pre-flop that I had so many callers. At the Cities of Gold Casino, the poker game goes by the name “No Fold’em Hold’em”, which explains all the callers staying in the game. I soon found myself hearing a familiar voice. The voice of experience whispered in my ear, “not here, not now and not tonight”. Had I been playing blackjack or craps, the message would have been crystal clear and easy for me to accept and act accordingly. However, as I am in the early stages of becoming a skilled poker player, I could not bring myself to admit to the perception that I was sitting in a lousy card game. Instead, I hit the override key and countered with “I came to play and play I will”. I refused to take in the information and change my course. The element of “energy” that I teach and preach about provides even more of an edge when playing poker. Without the house edge as the silent foe, perceiving the energy of a poker game is much easier when it is player against player. During this session, I recognized the situation of it not being my night and not my game. I consoled myself with, “Hell, I am here. It’s the only table open. What else do I have to do? I am going to play!” I reconciled reality with my desire to play no matter the out come. Eventually, I did not have enough chips in front of me to play, even if I drew a winning hand. I lost and I should have quit much earlier, when I first became aware that I was playing a losing game. I’ve had that well-known perception of losing plenty of times before, at the blackjack and craps table. There was no denying it. There was only ignoring it. Why is it that change does not come easy? Why do we have a tendency to hold fast to the familiar with a fantasy of better cards or dice to come? We repeat the same pattern instead of trusting our perceptions. Comfortable, relaxed, successful people trust their perceptions and then act upon what they have perceived. What is the obstacle that keeps us stuck in a negative game? Is it fear? Is it ego? Is it stubbornness? Or, is it simply not knowing, what to do? My ol’ teacher, Stuart Wilde, use to say, “If you don’t know what to do, then do nothing.” The idea behind this is, if you keep on with the same course of action, eventually you will have enough of it, and become motivated to change it. What does it take for you to change? What motivates you to take a new course of action? Each one of us is different and we each have our particular path of life. The one thing we all have in common is our ability of perceiving reality. That perception comes to us as a feeling. How we feel about life affects us more powerfully than how we think about life. The difference is in how we take action. Doing what you “feel” to be true is healthier than doing what you “think” is true. When it comes to gaming, play with more feeling and less thinking. Play in flow and in alignment with your feelings. Play with an open sense of what is really going on. Have a willingness to change directions if things are not going the way that you would like them to go. You do not have to pay for every lesson by riding out a cold streak and kidding yourself that the dice and cards might eventually improve. You reduce your losses by keeping yourself out of the loosing situations. Keeping yourself out of the loosing situations could mean that you may have to change the way you play the game. Like Soft Touch says, “If you don’t like the direction that you are going in, change it.” Two Dice Busters For The Price of One Plus the Dice Busters Craps Tournament... With Dice Busters you get two for the price of one. Two dice instructional workshops with two experts of the game for the price of just one program. That’s right! The price you would pay for a day with the Professor or Dice Coach is what you pay to get them both with Dice Busters. Even better, by registering with a friend, you can take advantage of a deep discount saving $200 each person. However, time is short on this offer and you must act by December 15th. There is no single gaming program that compares to a day with the Dice Busters. Check out what former clients of Dice Busters have to say of their experience along with complete details of the next program. Click Dice Busters January 14th or 15th! Well, that’s it for this edition of the Playing 4 Keeps™ Newsletter.
See you at the tables Playing 4 Keeps™! Michael Vernon Author and Gaming Instructor *************************************************************** |
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Blackjack Players Craps Players
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Playing 4 Keeps™ enriches a player's experience to become a consistent winner. My commitment to you is empowerment. Learning to employ discipline creates confidence and strengthens intention through metaphysical lessons. I empower students by showing them how to avoid losing sessions. Most importantly I create metaphors that link the knowledge of casino games to winning ways in "the game of life". Michael Vernon
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