[elysium]

hi everyone

the reason some of the info mike caro provides may seem contradictory, is that the entire content of everything he gives instruction on, is totally insignificant. he lists maybe 30 different tells. well mike will tell you that remembering each and every one of them, doesn't matter. mike knows that the tell being bandied about here, the weak check tell, wasn't given full detail, because it is insignificant. what mike is attempting to do is lay out some type of equation in words that will for once in your life make you click. and mike feels as though he failed. and he did. you will never understand fully mike's contribution to this game, unless you're crazy. with rare form nuerosis. but what mike did do, is he charlie brown christmas treed the entire game of hold em.

mike's personality is such that had he been in sales, and not poker, he would be one of the greats. well, that happened anyway. and that's mike's contribution. everyone reads his books, watches his videos. in the open scene of 'rounders', what happens? same ol' thing. mike sells more books. great salesmaen are like this. they get out of body like that. some of the world's greatest artists ultimately began flinging paint at the canvass just to try to express what was happening in their business lives. and that sold. paint dashed onto a canvass at 20 feet. sometimes with ashes from their cigarette artistically embedded. 'hey, i'm having an out of body experience.', the artist rambles on as he slings. he doesn't know from ash trays. 'when i kick off, i hope this one puts you out of body. here, take that. like i give chit about r.j.r nabisco.' the great minds get even this way.

same with mike. now granted, mike's not wearing diapers slinging paint, with embedded poop on canvass, but mike sells books. the man sells a lot of books. even if mike is wrong on every count in his 30 point thesis of tells, dogonnit, people believe him. if someone today is acting weak because he is weak, forget about what mike writes, look at what mike's done. if the guy looks strong, and he is strong, thank mike. and predictably, these same opponents will vary, with mike caro rhythm and tempo. and so now the game has a pulse, a caro pulse, that is totally predictable. if you breathe with the game's breathing timing. and move with its caro zigs and caro zags. the tells are in constant fluid evolution, reversing and inversing, with controlled chaos. and that's what mike has done. he has given us means of taking the pulse of chaos. so that we may know what course of action is the correct course, as we follow the beat.

forget about the poop and ashes. look at what the artist has created.