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PhilHux wins 3 tournaments in 10 days
Saturday, 01 May 2010

Congrats to ITHer Philhux - Winning 3 Poker Tournaments in 10 days is pretty nuts.

 Philhux:"Well I've got the thirst to grind back since I played the EPT in Berlin and I've won three tournaments.

Stars - 40 turbo - $4,594
Party - 150 - $9,450
Cake - 30r - $2,400

The Stars one was over 7 days ago, so no Triple Crown - but it does mean I've got until Tuesday 8pm UK time to win any tournament on Stars, Tilt, Bodog, ipoker or Absolute.

Day off tomorrow and then operation Triple Crown kicks in. Wish me luck!"

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I received my copy last week. Matthew Hilger, owner of Dimat Enterprises, publisher of Peak Performance Poker asked me to offer my feedback on Travis Steffen’s manuscript back in May. As a person who has been working to decrease my weight and has been reading books, magazines and working out in the gym since 2007, I felt good about reviewing the book. I must admit I was a little concerned about what I was going to read. But after reading the manuscript, I knew he was tapping into something exceptional.

 

I remember hearing an interview a few years ago with Doyle Brunson. To paraphrase what I remember of the conversation, the interviewer asked Mr. Brunson whether he thought he’d win another major poker tournament considering the incredible explosion of popularity in poker and the domination of poker by younger men and women. Mr. Brunson’s comments are basically which got me out of my computer chair and into the gym. He said, once again, as I remember, that he wasn’t worried about being able to continue to play at a high enough level to win a tournament, but that the effects of a grind of playing a week-long tournament on his aging body was the real concern. This is a key idea surrounding Peak Performance Poker.

 

The days of smoke filled rooms, whiskey, cheeseburgers and late nights are gone. I think the new-school poker players – the ones who are dominating the games today – are players who look very different. They’re younger, leaner, and more focused on improving their physical and mental health – and they’re crushing the games.  
- Daniel Negreanu

This is a powerful statement. Certainly players of all shapes and sizes are going to win – and continue to win – a lot of tournament and cash game money, but those players who will consistently win the cash are getting, or staying, in shape. Eating right, exercising, getting enough sleep and getting into the habit of preparing themselves for game day can and does make all the difference in winning or placing yourself on the final table consistently.

 

Certainly, a lot of Travis Steffen’s book could be applied to pursuits and employment outside the realm of poker, but with interviews with poker professionals Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, David “The Maven” Chicotsky, David “Raptor” Benefield, Alec “Traheho” Torelli and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospelier, the bent of the book is definitely on poker.

 

You’ll learn proper eating and exercise techniques as well as rest and recovery tips to condition your body and mind for whichever tournaments or cash games you’ll play while preparing yourself for playing at as high a level as possible. One of the most important concepts is how all of this ties together so as to ensure that you have plenty of energy and stamina to get as deep as you can in a tournament, without losing focus or concentration. Obviously the same concepts apply to online and local cash games as well. What should you eat? What kind of exercising should you be participating in? How much sleep do you need?

 

Peak Performance Poker will teach and inform you on how to prepare yourself and put you into a position to do your best at and away from the poker tables.

 

You won’t find hand examples, final table play strategies or pay structures in Peak Performance Poker. What you will find is how to prepare your mind and body for your next tournament or cash game.

 

Peak Performance Poker is available through Dimat Enterprises at Internettexasholdem.com for $22.95. Order your copy today!

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    Full Tilt Poker offers a deep schedule of Micro and Low Buy-In tournaments on a daily and weekly basis. The tournaments listed here generally convey guaranteed prizepools. Although there are many very good non-guaranteed tournaments each day on Full Tilt Poker, the focus is on the guarantees.

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