ExGamblersEdge

Today, I stand before the ‘HOLIER THAN THOUS’ who don’t gamble.

The ones that are ‘above’ gambling…the ones that would NEVER risk their hard earned dollars on a game of chance…

“Gambling is for ‘degenerates,’ ‘hit it big losers,’ and ’something for nothing’ers’…”

So, THEY say…

The reality is, many of these TYPES, are risking something much more valuable than MONEY…

Enter: RISK TAKERS CONSCIOUSNESS AWARENESS 101…

The common textbook definition of gambling is to stake or risk money, OR ANYTHING OF VALUE, on the outcome of something involving chance.

Two questions for you…

Is time valuable?

Does the outcome of our lives involve chance?

“Yes, yes…on both accounts,” SHOUTS a student of the school of HARD KNOCKS.

I’ve just opened your eyes to the fact, then, that ALL people are gamblers.

Born into a game called LIFE…

Where:

1. We all have the same amount of ‘chips’ (24 hours in a day).

2. Each decision we make, consciously or unconsciously, is a ‘risk’.

3. The ’skilled’ win in the long-run, even though there is an element of CHANCE.

We ‘BET’ our TIME, in the hopes of achieving a certain OUTCOME in our lives.

Time is ’spent’ just like money…

We have all, at some point, traded our TIME for:

A Paycheck.

An Education.

Let’s DELVE a little deeper, now, o Gambler of TIME…

Let me show you how to FLIP THE ODDS in your favor, so you can hit the JACKPOT…

In the game of LIFE, we can make our own luck…

We can ’stack the deck’ in our favor, by thinking, believing, and acting in certain ways.

As human beings, we don’t ‘PLAY LIFE’ only by mathematical calculations, but by GUT INSTINCT…

Here’s where it gets really WEIRD…

The best players in life say that, “There is no such thing as RISK, when you live in a mind-state of abundance’…

These TOP PLAYERS are the ones that ‘risk’ their time investing in:

Personal Development.

Creating VALUE.

Uplifting Mankind.

WE ARE ALL GAMBLERS.

The question then becomes…

Do you have the ‘EDGE’ or not?

Are you ‘up’ or ‘down’?

Are you TRULY staking your TIME in an activity that is going to produce the desired OUTCOME?

The greatest risk you take is to put the outcome of your life in someone else’s hands…

So, congratulations, my ’straight edge’ friend, for not GAMBLING in casinos and sports betting parlors…that’s smart because its almost impossible to put the odds in your favor…

Just don’t get ‘DUPED’ into believing that you aren’t a HIGH STAKES GAMBLER OF TIME…in the GAME OF LIFE…

Risking ‘Ticks and Tocks,’
Chris Bielke
Jugador Del Tiempo

“Define grinder, o student of the FELT,” bellows a far-out, raspy voice!

“Someone who, in the arena of poker, waits patiently for the ’slight edge,’ baby,” proclaims Scotty…

“That is the standard TEXT-BOOK definition, my child. School is out, Scotty. There is a much more ABSTRACT meaning to GRINDER,” sayeth the raspy voice…

“Show me the way, baby”…declares the inquisitive student…

AND show you the way we will…its off into the GAMBLING TWILIGHT ZONE…

It is here that the EXPONENTIAL INSIGHT breaks through…

In essence, a grinder, in these parts, is one who sharpens cutting edges.

Not the edges of knives, but the edges of intellect and consciousness.

Intellect is our dagger. Consciousness, our SWORD.

Here at the EDGE, we borrow some WISDOM from the ‘good book.’

“As iron sharpens iron, one man sharpens another.”

We are grinders of men.

Good news merchants.

Proclaimers of prosperity.

Up-lifters of mankind.

We ‘put a point’ on your intellect, so that it can pierce ignorance.

We ‘put an edge’ on your consciousness, so that it can cut through your FEARS.

We do this by patiently grinding…

Our goal is to awaken minds.

Our goal is to allow players in the MATRIX to pull out their metaphorical SWORD from the stone of LACK, DOUBT, and LIMITING BELIEF…

so that they can knight themselves KINGS, even Aces, in this game we call LIFE.

So, yes…we GRIND…but only with heroes that know they are destined for GRANDEUR…

Grinding Out Winners,
Chris Bielke
Salesman Who ‘Sells People Back to Themselves’

We are throwing down TRUTH, straight from the street today.

El Camino, in espanol, for my Raider Nation, Brown Pride thugs.

We are going to ‘throw down’ real world knowledge, not theoretical jargon, TODAY.

Enter. The. Abyss.

In poker, 5th St. is the last card turned over.

The last chance for you to IMPROVE your hand.

The cold, HARD, reality is that sometimes, your hand still isn’t good enough by the river.

You may LOSE the hand…but you know that the dealer’s shuffle changes everything…

and you are one hand away from a WINNER.

“Action players, cometh forth. Weak-tights, its time to exit the building,” thus sayeth the Poker Gods.

“Time,” shouts a perplexed pawn, who hasn’t played a hand in two hours…

Step outside of the MONEY-GAME MATRIX, for a moment, o fellow risk taker…I know you want the red pill…

Follow me to the dark corner of 5th. St, in our ‘MIND’S EYE’.

Here on 5th and Minds Eye…

The DECK symbolizes the possibilities.

Except you control the shuffle…

The SHOWDOWN crowns a victor,

either your higher self, or the little man inside you that says ‘I can’t’.

Your playing HEADS UP against your own doubts, fears, and limitations.

So, here it is…the SUMMATION…

Remember, that leather ass on the other side of the table called TIME on me, several stanzas ago…

When you fly high with us, OUTSIDE OF the mathematical jailhouse of the gambling system…

“Out of every APPARENT loss, bad beat, and mistake comes a greater state of order.”

Put that in your pipe and SMOKE IT…

Flying high, naturally,
Chris Bielke
The Gambling Morpheus

–WARNING– The following excerpt is written from the mind of a man who played for a living, not for FUN…

The poker gods told me that in order to win, I had to VALUE BET.

They chanted:

“Put him on a hand. Maximize the bet as high as you can, while making sure he’ll call. Walk away a winner.”

Fast forward to THE NOW.

I was tricked. I had been conned. I had been BRAINWASHED.

They took the word VALUE and smeared it.

What value is there in putting chips in the pot, in hopes of getting them RIGHT BACK, plus some?

Wait! I know what SOME of you are thinking…because you are trying to make money, dumbass!

Let me EXPLAIN something to you, pal. We are of a higher MINDSET, here at the Edge. This isn’t just about making money, anymore.

Value is something to be cherished. Value is a key concept in enlightened BUSINESS.

We give value, for money…which is a symbol for the energy that it took to CREATE the value.

We even TIP our customer, by OVERDELIVERING…because we are cool like that.

We don’t give the ‘illusion of more chips’ to our customer…in hopes of snatching it all back and leaving them with nothing…

That not how we ROLL…

We are focused on providing VALUE to our fellow man…not allowing the casinos to pit us up against each other any longer…

Let’s end it like THIS:

Appraise your own VALUE, your own self-worth, by how much your ACTIONS are profiting and uplifting mankind.

There is nothing wrong with sowing seeds…and expecting a harvest. Keyword: Seeds (valuable) not poker chips…

Admiring the GREATNESS in you,
Chris Bielke
Value Connoisseur

This is the Edge. The edge of reality. The razor edge.

We cut deep into the issue, deep into our experience…

Even if the experience is deemed as ‘inappropriate.’

This is my RESUME. You don’t like it, that’s fine…

I’m not asking you to HIRE me…I’m saying you should FOLLOW ME.

Our mess is our message…

Yes, I have GAMBLED.

Yes, I’ve taken stupid risk.

Yes, I have sacrificed the good things in life for the THRILL of a BIG POT.

Yes, I have qualified as a “PROBLEM gambler”, after checking every single one of their ‘Bubble Tests.’

Yes, I have stayed up for almost two days STRAIGHT playing cards, while drinking and smoking cigars.

Extreme. Crazy. Abnormal. PATHOLOGICAL.

I don’t regret it. I’ve learned from it.

I don’t wallo in the dark part of my past…I EXPOSE it, so as to impart my wisdom into others.

I don’t call myself a ‘RECOVERING Problem Gambler’…I’m a RISK TAKER, who wasn’t managing his risk properly…

Pressing on. Moving forward, out of the abyss, into the light…

The new vision for the ambitious, hit it BIG quick, gambler is THIS:

We are shuttling our ‘JUICE’ into worthy endeavors.

Our risks benefit mankind, from now on.

We leave ourselves OUTS.

We take our pizazz and our panache and shuttle it into providing VALUE.

We sow seeds of PROSPERITY, INNOVATION, and INSPIRATION into others.

We aren’t trapped in a MONEY-GAME anymore. We are FREE.

We free other entrepreneurial spirits, trapped in the MONEY GAME GAMBLING MATRIX…

We reap the rewards of our EFFORTS.

Cards aren’t dealt to us anymore, we DEAL ourselves the hands, through the power of our subconscious THOUGHTS…

There is no such thing as RISK, when you live in a mind-state of ABUNDANCE…

Daring Greatly,
Chris Bielke
Gambler Philosopher

This is poker after dark. We aren’t playing cards, we are discussing cards.

I’m flipping your world upside down. This is like the twighlight zone, its like COAST TO COAST AM.

We are an underground group of people with poker experience, that relate our experiences with the FLOP, TURN, AND RIVER, to life…

I want to put you to a DECISION.

For ALL your chips.

We aren’t playing limit. We are going to the OUTER LIMITS…so this example will use the game of NO-LIMIT.

You’ve been there…someone with dark shades on and a TREMBLING hand (that your not sure is real or fake), shoved ALL-IN on you…and you don’t have the NUTS.

You’ve been pressed to make a DECISION. There is a sense of urgency because you know that someone might call TIME on your ASS!

You study him, you play out the scenerio in your mind, you do ‘the math,’ and you might even seek inner guidance from your intuiton…To sum it up, you DO YOUR DUE DILLIGENCE…

Maybe you make the call, maybe you don’t…the choice is YOURS.

The decision is key. Critical. It is monumental in your SUCCESS or FAILURE. It determines your DESTINY.

If you make the wrong decision, you LOSE…

or do you…REMEMBER you are playing poker.

Its a game. Its a subset of a greater game called LIFE…Its an extention of a system that has taught you some lessons, that you must use in LIFE.

So here it is, in all its GLORY.

We base our decisions in life, on incomplete information.

It is only after a decision is made, that we learn whether we were right or wrong. Any other way of living would be BORING, a DRAG.

Forging into the unknown is EXCITING. Bad asses make CORRECT decisions, with incomplete information…Up and coming bad asses, remember their incorrect decisions, so that they can make the RIGHT one in the future.

We take all of our past decisions (which is our wisdom) and PARLAY them into, hopefully, correct decisions in the present. Each decision, whether correct or mistake, eventually gives us INFORMATION that we can use to better our lives.

This is ‘Sage’ information from a poker player. So today, instead of chanting, “May your pots be big and your hands be monsters…”

We proclaim…”May your past decisions be INFORMATION, may your DESTINY reflect your own wisdom.”

Wanna be philosopher, with poker experience,
CB