Social Falsification

Now, there are a million and one ways to practice your poker face, and a million and two poker faces to practice. For the sake of this blog (at least for now), we’ll be dealing with the natural poker face: i.e. continuing your persona regardless of what happens. I’ll give a few different methods here, and notate what set of Liars each one is best suited for. Of course, you can practice any of them, or all of them, if you just want to become better at keeping your emotions to yourself in general, but…some work better for some groups, others for others. During this post, I’ll go over the PUA poker face, the next post will be the C-Artistry poker face, and then, finally, the Cheater’s poker face.

PUA POKER FACE:
The main objective of the PUA’s poker face is to stop AMOGs, bitch tests, or AA from visibly getting a rise out of you. You want to be able to keep your frame intact, and your control of the situation absolute at all times…thus, you can’t really give someone the ‘I’m gonna kill you you fucking bitch, you’re such a god damn whore’ look in the middle of a set, now can you?

The best, and I mean BEST practice, comes in the field, when dealing with women. So, to practice your poker face: Go outside your normal prowl zone….give yourself a good….I dunno…20 to 30 mile distance from your regular grounds. Go to a bar, and begin to sarge. Now, here’s the catch: Instead of trying to pick up women, try to convince them that you’re gay, and looking for company. Place your persona as near as you can to the frame you’re in while sarging, but don’t hit on the girl. While doing it, you want to be as embarassingly open about ‘your gayness’ as you can, without being outright flamboyant. Talk about other mens asses, talk about the way they walk, etc, etc. (If you’re really uncomfortable with being gay…try going to camden, and pretending you’re a neo-nazi, or go to a lesbian bar, and be a chauvinistic pig…you know…just go do something thats the exact opposite of you). Don’t make any closes, don’t even attempt to close. You just want to talk to them about other mens chests.

Pause here. Many of you are probably blinking, shaking your heads, or calling me full of shit by now. But its okay…I am crazy. What you’re doing, by setting yourself up like this, is exploring the polar opposite of your normal situation…while attempting to maintain the same frame of mind, and the same persona that you do while out sarging. If you take ten approaches with this, and by the end of it, don’t end up cracking up at your own actions, then you’ve gone a good way towards getting that poker face going.

Step two is pretty similar, but much harder. For this, leave the bar you’re at, and change locale. For this next place, you’re going to be completely honest…and I don’t mean ‘honest if she asks you’ honest, I mean honest honest. Tell the girls that you approach that you’re
a PUA, and explain to them everything. Now, some PUAs do this already….and if you’re one of them, and good enough to call yourself a PUA and not an RAFC, then you most likely don’t need this part of the practice. For the rest of you, the goal is to get a close (any kind…but K-closes are kinda cheap here, so I encourage #, @, and F-closes. Remember, despite being brutally honest (and not just about yourself…no pick up lines about her hair, her eyes…anything like that, unless they REALLY strike you.), you have to maintain your usual persona and frame. That pretty much should do it for the night’s practice. I recommend doing these things until you can take the most ridiculous and the most stressful situations in stride.

ADVANCED: For those of you that can already do these things, but still want to up your game a bit:

-Try aiming only at girls with boyfriends (with them). Or married women. All other rules remain the same as above, but this’ll up the chances of dealing with AMOGs and aggression directly.

-Try it at a place other than a bar/club/normal watering hole. Go to an office building and try and pick up the secretary, etc, etc.

Regardless of if you do the advanced work, this practice will make your general game better, and will let you keep your poker face/persona through just about anything the real world may throw at you.

For now, I’m your host Lodinkinni, and you’ve been reading another post from ‘Social Falsification: Tales from the Liar’s Underground’. Tune in next time when I link the challenge I’ll be setting up (on mASF) for these practices, and then, immediately afterwards, for ‘Practicing the Poker Face, Part II’. Good night, and Good Luck.

Recommended Websites:
 http://theplayboyway.blogspot.com/: This is a blog from a fellow PUA. A pretty damn good one. Unlike a lot of those skill-intensive people, he’s still got the love of the game. And thats important as hell. So…check him out, and learn to relax a bit.

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