Dear Loyal Followers and Readers,
I had the pleasure of meeting Mitchell Cogert through Twitter and I hope of course to meet him in Vegas next year. I actually bought his book before I knew him, and was really impressed with the "no filler" approach to the book. After all, I don't think anyone likes reading a book where the same thing is said over 200 times for 200 pages or the fact that a book could be condensed down to 50 pages but it is 180 pages long.
I like that he has a short intro, and gets right to the point. He also has boiled away the non essentials and left you with exactly what you need to start to use the moves right away. A great book with "no fillers". Too many books out there regurgitate the same things over and over again, and quite frankly you cannot get through them. One book that comes to mind is Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. It is a fantastic book for the first chapter. Then it basically says the same thing over and over for the remaining chapters! I couldn't actually finish the book without going insane.
The great part about Mitchell's book is that the moves are excellent, but there are 101 of them. How many of them can you remember to utilize in a tournament? 5? 10? 25? In the past with poker books I would take my favourite parts out and really know those well, and there would be other tools that I could have used for very specific situations, but would not have used them because I simply could not recall all of the information.
I am here to say that this is no longer an impediment. The hardest part will be to organize his information into images that I can cycle through in a live game. Once I do, the actual memorization will probably take about an hour or less, and then I will have the entire contents of the text in my head ready to utilize it for a live game.
Can you imagine memorizing entire volumes of the key information in every text to utilize at a table whenever you choose? How long do you think it would take you to memorize all 101 Tournament moves without training your memory? It would be months, perhaps even the majority of a year to know it cold. I will know them all IN ORDER in less than an hour. I know this seems impossible, but to a trained poker memory artist it is child's play. If you have seen any of the videos I have posted in the last week you know people have memorized far greater amounts of information that just 101 moves.
One day soon I hope to run into Mitchell and he will test me on the spot - "what is move number 65?". I will respond with the appropriate move written in the text.
So starts my goal to commit texts to memory. I would invite you to purchase his book and read it because the information is very valuable. I would also encourage you to train your memory in order to keep it in your head, for that is also very valuable. After all, what good is the information if you can't take it with you?
Until next post, train hard and recall well,
Bennett Onika
I had the pleasure of meeting Mitchell Cogert through Twitter and I hope of course to meet him in Vegas next year. I actually bought his book before I knew him, and was really impressed with the "no filler" approach to the book. After all, I don't think anyone likes reading a book where the same thing is said over 200 times for 200 pages or the fact that a book could be condensed down to 50 pages but it is 180 pages long.
I like that he has a short intro, and gets right to the point. He also has boiled away the non essentials and left you with exactly what you need to start to use the moves right away. A great book with "no fillers". Too many books out there regurgitate the same things over and over again, and quite frankly you cannot get through them. One book that comes to mind is Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. It is a fantastic book for the first chapter. Then it basically says the same thing over and over for the remaining chapters! I couldn't actually finish the book without going insane.
The great part about Mitchell's book is that the moves are excellent, but there are 101 of them. How many of them can you remember to utilize in a tournament? 5? 10? 25? In the past with poker books I would take my favourite parts out and really know those well, and there would be other tools that I could have used for very specific situations, but would not have used them because I simply could not recall all of the information.
I am here to say that this is no longer an impediment. The hardest part will be to organize his information into images that I can cycle through in a live game. Once I do, the actual memorization will probably take about an hour or less, and then I will have the entire contents of the text in my head ready to utilize it for a live game.
Can you imagine memorizing entire volumes of the key information in every text to utilize at a table whenever you choose? How long do you think it would take you to memorize all 101 Tournament moves without training your memory? It would be months, perhaps even the majority of a year to know it cold. I will know them all IN ORDER in less than an hour. I know this seems impossible, but to a trained poker memory artist it is child's play. If you have seen any of the videos I have posted in the last week you know people have memorized far greater amounts of information that just 101 moves.
One day soon I hope to run into Mitchell and he will test me on the spot - "what is move number 65?". I will respond with the appropriate move written in the text.
So starts my goal to commit texts to memory. I would invite you to purchase his book and read it because the information is very valuable. I would also encourage you to train your memory in order to keep it in your head, for that is also very valuable. After all, what good is the information if you can't take it with you?
Until next post, train hard and recall well,
Bennett Onika
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