How To Set Up Your Environment: The 3 Most Important Non-Poker Areas That You Need To Fix!
1. Are you being disturbed while playing (by partner, children, neighbors)?
Having your own space is super important.
We have had students who did everything “perfectly” but only succeeded after we eliminated the biggest form of distraction – the NOISE of the family.
You need to be absolutely crazily demanding here. Make sure that everybody around you respects this rule 1000%. Anytime they don’t obey your rule you have to react in a very strict way – NO MATTER WHAT!
I have personally kicked out my girlfriend from our shared apartment for 3 days because she “wanted to ask me a quick thing”. People usually don’t mean any harm, but sometimes you have to be an asshole.
Rest assured, I was never disturbed again when the door in my home office was closed.
If you’re too weak to do this, then don’t complain when people disrespect your time and rules. Also – don’t complain if your progress is slower.
2. Are your basic biological needs taken care of?
No, I’m not talking about “making love”.
I’m talking about food and shelter. Do you have your meals planned out and your refrigerator filled?
One reason why many players tilt is because they have bad eating habits.I’m not talking about eating fast food (that’s another story), but about food in general.
Many players play for 6 hours, then don’t find anything to eat at home at 11 pm, eat some chips and cookies and then wonder why they are on monkey tilt at 3 am.
By good eating habits, I simply mean:
- Eating regularly: have your meals roughly planned
- Always have a snack available that is READY TO EAT in case you have a longer session and need to eat NOW
- The famous pee-bottle. You don’t want to quit a good session or fishy opponent because, well, you know what!
3. Is your family/partner/friend supportive?
We have had a VERY talented player, one of the most talented ever.
He was “perfect” in most aspects, but his partner did not support him playing poker.
He did play but constantly had to fight battles outside of the poker tables. This made him weaker at the table and ultimately resulted in him quitting poker.
It is YOUR life and you live only once. Don’t let weaklings tell you to “find a compromise”. People will try to manipulate you by saying you are very “egotistical” when in reality THEY are – why else would they want to influence what YOU are doing?!
Here is the good type of compromise. Rovar, one of our successful students and BPC heroes, has a very supportive wife.
She supported him when he started CFP in every way possible. She did not complain about “poker”. Rovar made sure to take her regularly on “dates” like dancing and other stuff she enjoyed.
At the end of the day, if your partner/family does not support you 100%, why are you wasting your time with them?
Do you really want to be with a person who has a problem with you playing a game? Do you have no self-respect? The irony is that you will be LESS respected if you don’t follow your own dreams!
We do what we teach. BPC even offers poker players the chance to live together and support each other.
Our infamous Maribor poker house out-competed the rest of the group by a lot!
If you are young and independent and want to succeed at poker, we highly recommend you to move into a poker house. The changes in your results will be nothing short of phenomenal.
