024: Can’t Stop Won’t Stop.

Beyond Poker

Nick Howard has been a professional poker coach. He became known for teaching practical simplifications of well-balanced play on RunItOnce.com as a coach. I️n 2015-2016, Nick documented a notable amount of success on Ignition High stakes in his Run it Once Blog “Achieving Higher Balance,” where he developed many of the independent learning strategies he uses today. Nick is one of the most prominent coaches in the poker world for going on 10 years now.

After experiencing extreme suffering and considering giving up the game forever, Nick surrendered to a larger purpose and made it his life’s mission to develop more simplified strategies than the GTO based ones so that other folks wouldn’t have to go through what he did. Nick Howard founded Poker Detox, an NLHE training company in May 2016. In its first year, Poker Detox produced three major public courses, and Nick began a side project attempting to train a selection of losing players, using a team-training format. By Fall of 2017, that “losers” team had proven itself successful, and Nick had been able to refine his coaching methodologies to a point where he was ready to expand. Poker Detox now functions as one of the most elite application-based staking companies in the industry, containing a crew of mind coaches and language-optimization experts that work to provide a full support system for students. The company achieved a high enough level of methodology that it became possible to tailor the Detox training system for players of different native languages and even different learning types. The result is a powerful combination of training exercises that highlight the necessary concepts while empowering the learner to choose their path toward integration. Applications for new team members are accepted several times per year, and in 2018 Poker Detox became the first training organization to offer guaranteed salaries to its players.

Nick speaks with conviction as he shares his journey through inner turmoil, how he used that pain to drive him forward and create something new, and why he feels that it is absolutely essential that he shares what he knows and what he’s doing with those who want to learn from him. If you feel like you’ve been struggling, or that you’ve hit a wall you just can’t seem to get past, Nick’s words could be the catalyst that sets you on a new and easier path to poker greatness. Today’s episode, we hear about how Nick helped a player turn off his mind at the end of the day.

Key Takeaways

• What’s your definition of productivity?
• Nick explains about energy longevity vs energy bulldoze.
• Chasing the imaginary trophy and the effects of it.
• Nick tells us more on de-loading.
• What does self-aware relaxation mean?
• The importance of asking and answering the honest questions.
• Why does Nick keep his phone out of his bedroom at night?

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