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This is a great book for any poker player. Rather than focusing on formulas, plays, moves and strategy, this book focuses on one's attitude and state of mind while playing poker. It's a quick read, and has a fair amount of filler in the form of quotes, but I found that it helped my game immediately.
I read them, and lost big at the tables (including books by Brunson, Caro, and Negreanu). I watch them on Full Tilt Poker After Dark. I love the greats, and I've read most of their books. Then I picked up this little book again and everything changed. I read their blogs. And I have watched the Full Tilt instructional videos.This book alone has helped me win more games, more consistently, than any other book I've read, hands down.This book teaches Westerners like me how to yield, how to wait, how to be consistent and a force of nature when it comes to consistency and inevitability at the table.I purchased it, read it a little, didn't ascribe much practical value to it, and set it aside for other books. I realized that the biggest problem I was having at the tables was not my luck, but it was ME. Now I'm on the right path again.This book may be my lifelong poker Bible.
This book focuses on one of the hardest (if not the all time hardest) things to learn at the poker table-- keeping your cool and staying in control of yourself, it brings up lots of very interesting points and reads like a story-book, I enjoyed reading it very much, a great book for any poker player.
The book states this much more clearly. When youre folding well, youre playing well.
They tend to be very dry and difficult to apply the specific theories to the game. Im not a big fan of poker books.
It is mostly a book about folding and how to fold well. This book is simply explains another way to look at the game.
It is very easy to apply to the game after reading. Folding well implies betting well.
Overall a great book for any poker player.
This book's advice (Poker Rule #3) is that "If you've been folding a lot, for a long time in the game, and you're starting to think that maybe it's time you got in a played a few hands again. This is not the best book to buy if you are just learning how to play poker (try Sklansky or Harrington), but if you are an advanced beginner or intermediate player, this book offers a whole new approach to the game that will radically improve your play. Most beginning players find themselves playing too many hands, and with disastrous results (hitting top pair with a weak kicker, or hitting second pair). Keep folding." It counsels patience, emotional detachment, and selective confrontation. In a world of big egos, players on tilt, and WPT wannabees, this book will help you find a calmer, more profitable path.
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