Full-time professional poker player. Full-time family man. Part-time golfer. Part-time insane person.
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Eric Crain retweeted
The curse of discipline is that every day looks the same. The curse of indiscipline is that every year does.
Eric Crain retweeted
I’m in love with this sentence:
“One of the most underrated skills you can learn is the ability to ignore your mood and stick with the plan.”
Eric Crain retweeted
Brazilians have reportedly been spending 6.5% more on staple foods since sports betting was banned in the country.
A month ago, Lula signed an order banning fixed-odds sports betting, a move he said was designed to tackle the problem of families falling into debt.
Now the President of the Brazilian Supermarket Association says that since the ban, sales of essential foods such as rice, oil, coffee, and noodles have grown by 6.5%.
Eric Crain retweeted
Doing chores as a kid predicts how your life turns out better than your IQ does.
Harvard followed 456 boys from Boston's poorest neighborhoods from age 14 all the way to 47. The ones who worked hard as kids, chores, odd jobs, whatever, grew up mentally healthier and had better relationships. That mattered more than how smart they were or how much money their family had.
Kentrell kind of explained why without meaning to. Coolest man on earth, but hella structure.
A Berkeley psychologist named Diana Baumrind spent the '60s studying exactly that combo. Parents who were warm and strict at the same time raised the most capable, independent kids. Strict with no warmth did worse. So did fun with no rules.
Look at his dad's list. Out the door by 6:50am. Homework gets checked, no excuses. No dishes left in the sink. In bed by 10. Plus a four-week deep cleaning rotation that ends with him hosing down the outside of the house.
Then look at what he gets back. Friday after 6 is his once chores are done. Saturday he can be out on the block till 10 and home by 11. And the Sunday laundry line says Dad will help if he's not working.
Pretty much every rule on there earns him something. An 8-year-old can understand that deal.
When you start matters too. Marty Rossmann at the University of Minnesota went back through 84 kids from Baumrind's research. The ones doing chores at 3 or 4 were doing the best in their mid-20s, and it predicted that better than IQ did. Kids who didn't get chores till 15 or 16 mostly resented them, and it backfired.
Most of us grew up with this. In a 2014 survey of 1,001 American adults, 82% said they had regular chores as kids. Only 28% make their own kids do them.
A kid who was 10 when that survey ran is 22 now. Some of the people in these replies are about that age, saving a stranger's dad's chore list so they can run it on themselves.
Eric Crain retweeted
There is an unwritten rule to life that most people never get told. After every long stretch of hardship and uncertainty, a period comes where you make quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life at once. It happens all at once, and it happens because of everything you survived before it. The only requirement on your end is simple. Do not give up on yourself before that period arrives.
Eric Crain retweeted
Restart again. Find your spark again. Set goals again. Forgive yourself again. Be a kid again. Trust your guts again. Show up again. Step by step.
Eric Crain retweeted
Underrated life advice: Be careful what you normalize around your kids. How you speak to your spouse. How you treat your body. How often you complain. How you talk about others. What feels ordinary in your house becomes how they'll act as adults outside of it.
Eric Crain retweeted
If you're a cash pro who wants to make the most of poker without wasting their life you're chasing roughly 0.5 to 1 Buy-ins EV for your daily grind.
IMO if you aren't reaching these or can't access games where this is possible do not try and get into poker as a way to make money.
ONLINE BENCHMARK:
5-10bb/100
250 hands/hr
𝟏𝟐.𝟓-𝟐𝟓𝐛𝐛/𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫
20 hours of volume (weekly) = 2.5 to 5BI
Monthly EV = 10-20BI
You can either play a ton of tables at 100-200nl or play 500nl+ and make $100k+ EV annually with a 20-30 hour work week and some months offs.
LIVE BENCHMARK:
15-50bb/100
25 hands/hr
𝟑.𝟕𝟓-𝟏𝟐.𝟓𝐛𝐛/𝐡𝐫
20 hours of volume (weekly) = 0.75 to 2.5 BI
You need to be playing at least 5/10, texas deepstack 5/5, ideally 10/20 so you don't have to be glued to the table.
THE GRINDER TRAP:
<5bb/100. You play more hands, but mostly on autopilot (a functional necessity of the high volume approach).
Since you need 2-5k hands a day and are playing 6+ tables, you are training skills that will not serve you well above 200nl online where there are less games running.
Live players fall into this the most because they can always find a profitable game but may have no time or energy left to really work on their game > and the live environment does nothing to offer feedback/learning opportunities.
Solution for both is carve out and commit to your learning away from the table. Record hands and questions that arise. Seriously work to answer them. Get serious about ranging people and challenging your assumptions on review.
Making it a non-negotiable, and actually enjoying the deeper work of analyzing the game and how you + others perceive it.
Easier when you have a group of peers/mentors you can trust so you can get an outside perspective. Can be hard to know what assumptions are true (this guy always has it here) vs something we're projecting (this guy always has it here) otherwise.
Eric Crain retweeted
A friendly reminder that Carl Jung believed life doesn’t truly begin until your 40s. Everything before that is just research and development.
Eric Crain retweeted
ESPN turning sports betting into a colorful, cartoon-style tutorial is an utter disgrace.
espn.com/espn/feature/story/…
Eric Crain retweeted
This guy is sharp guy. He says it’s not 724 bots but in fact 12,000.
Interesting.
QQPK MTT bot investigation (July 16 – October 11, 2026):
-24M player-hands across 3.78M hand histories.
-I estimate that roughly 17.5M of those hands (over 70%) were played by bots.
-Approximately 12,000 bots in total.
-Full list of 11,469 nicknames belonging to accounts I'm virtually certain are bots in the reply below.
Eric Crain retweeted
NEW: UCLA head coach Bob Chesney on his goals for the 2026 season and whether they've changed:
"Goals are for people that want to win once. Process and standards are for people that want to win longterm."
(via @3xOptionShow)
on3.com/news/bob-chesney-on-…
Eric Crain retweeted
I once introduced Ditka at a charity event in Calgary. In the intro I told him we'd have had more people there but he'd traded away 12 of them for Ricky Williams. He laughed and said, Smart Ass.
His entire speech was scribbled on a single sheet of paper with swirls and dashes and arrows pointing all over the place. When he spoke he was succint. "If you want to fail, no one will get in your way. They'll hold the door open for you. "
But if you want to achieve "you'll have the wind in your face all the time. It's hard work keeping going. But understand that the resistance is the sign that you're achieving." RIP Iron Mike
