About Me

Poker chose me to be her slave when I was but a boy. For the first 15 years of servitude, I complained bitterly about the pain and injustice of it all. Then I became a professional poker player in 1990 and over the next 15 years, I started to see that everything is always fair. And now I thank poker, my tormentor, for this and hundreds more life lessons.

In 2004 I started a comprehensive one-on-one poker coaching program called T I L T L E S S. Since then I have coached 80 people, about half of them full-time professional players, and some of them are really good and rich and famous. (They were already like that when I met them.)

In 2007, I wrote and published Elements of Poker which apparently lots of people liked. Encouraged, I made another book in 2011. It's called A Rubber Band Story and Other Poker Tales. And now (2011), I am working on a third book called Painless Poker.

I live in Palo Alto, California, near San Francisco. I used to play poker almost daily at the card rooms around here. Gradually I did less and less playing and more and more coaching and writing, until now my favorite thing to do is work on my various writing and publishing projects.