Inside the Poker Mind


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Poker is a game of many skills and to become an expert poker player you need to master them all. They include selecting hands, playing position, projecting the proper image, and reading hands. However, many players who have mastered most of these skills still do poorly--at best they are small winners at lower limits. When they step up in limit and challenge the better players, they almost always fail. You see, having the skills is one thing, putting them all together is another. As the text will show, winning poker requires a lot of thinking as well as a thorough and systematic approach to the game, and that is what this book is about.




The Mental Game of Poker


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The Poker Mindset


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The Poker Mindset has transformed the games of tens of thousands of poker players becoming one of the most popular poker books of all-time. The success of the book quickly spread around the world and is currently translated in eight different languages. Are you ready to look at poker in a different way and transform your own game? What "secret" separates top poker players from poker wannabes?Is it zen-like mind-reading skills, a computer-like brain or thousands of hours of play? No. It is a series of established approaches and behaviors that enables these experts to bring their "A" game to the table session after session, regardless of short-term results.In this groundbreaking book, Taylor and Hilger lay bare the secrets of the Poker Mindset seven core attitudes and concepts that ensure you have the optimal emotional, psychological, and behavioral framework for playing superior poker.The Poker Mindset deeply explores vital topics that most poker books only touch upon: - Tilt: What it really is, why and when you are most prone to it, and how you can avoid it.- Bankroll: A complete examination of bankroll management from a technical, but more importantly, from a psychological and emotional viewpoint.- Opponents: How to determine your competitors' mental and emotional processes so that you can dominate, out think and outplay them.- Downswings: Every poker player experiences them, but you will truly understand and be armed against low ebbs when they occur.- Bad Beats: The Poker Mindset will enable you to overcome the trauma of bad beats and losing big pots.Poker is a fun game, but it is even more fun when you win. The Poker Mindset may be the most valuable poker book you will ever read. Embrace its concepts and you can overcome the unseen obstacles that are limiting your success at the table.When you make the Poker Mindset your mindset, you will take control of your game and walk away a winner.




The Poker Mind


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Make your own luck with proven poker strategies to up your game Looking for ways to consistently improve your poker prowess? The Poker Mind is your go-to guide for gaining a deeper understanding of the complex world of poker through mindful insights and simple techniques. Begin your journey toward harnessing your psychological poker powers by developing your fundamentals and thought process. Figure out how to put that process to use, and learn how to build and maintain your confidence. From creating your table image and reading the room to spotting tells in other players, The Poker Mind provides real-world situations, exposed secrets, and practical explanations to up your card-playing skills. The Poker Mind includes key aspects like: 5 Fundamentals—Discover the basic essentials for developing your poker mind: How Learning Happens, Emotional Development, Examining Your Self-Discipline, Improving Your Decision-Making, and Visualizing Goals. Insightful illustrations—Helpful infographics demonstrate talking points that allow for quicker comprehension of strategies. Poker slang—A beneficial glossary defines card-playing terms like Bad Beat, Auto Muck, Big Blind, and others so you can talk the talk. Gain a deeper understanding of poker with The Poker Mind.




The Making Of A Poker Player


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Matros teaches readers his tricks to winning poker through his experiences on the felt. Readers meet eccentric and generous poker players in addition to the cardsharps, angle-shooters and outright cheats that make up this fascinating subculture. This is the first book to teach poker through narrative which means that concepts like pot odds and expected value will seem completely natural because they are used in the context of Matros' stories. The tension and surrealism of Casino poker is vividly recounted and he teaches the knowledge necessary to win excellently.




Jonathan Little's Excelling at No-Limit Hold'em


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Excelling at No-Limit Hold'em is a sensation in poker publishing. Renowned poker professional and author Jonathan Little brings together 17 of the greatest no-limit experts in the world to discuss all aspects of the game. These experts include superstars such as Phil Hellmuth, Chris Moneymaker, Mike Sexton and Jared Tendler. In Part 1 strategies are analysed for topics such as understanding the fundamentals, satellite play, lower-buy in events, analysing tells and moving up in stakes Part 2 sees a thorough technical breakdown of the game including sections on range analysis, game theory optimal play, short stack strategies, value betting and final table play. As any serious poker will confirm, the technical side is only half the battle and so Part 3 deals with mental toughness, psychology and understanding tilt. Excelling at No-Limit Hold‘em provides all the tools that an aspiring player needs to understand no-limit hold‘em. It is a must buy for anyone who is serious about wanting to improve their poker.




Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory


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Your poker face is set. Now train your brain with memory-strengthening exercises that will increase your odds of winning. Going beyond the common poker strategy book, this one-of-a-kind guide utilizes basic memory techniques designed to enable a player to easily keep track of poker statistics during a live game. A variety of engaging imagery is provided, teaching players how to remember approximately 10 to 100 times the information an untrained player would have at a tournament. Covering everything from how often a player plays to memorizing tells, this is the ideal companion for both serious amateurs and professional card sharks.




Caro's Book of Poker Tells


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One of the ten greatest books written on poker, this must-have book should be in every player's library. If you're serious about winning, you'll realize that most of the profit comes from being able to read your opponents. Caro reveals the the secrets of interpreting tells-physical reactions that reveal information about a player's cards-such as shrugs, sighs, shaky hands, eye contact, and many more. Learn when opponents are bluffing, when they aren't and why-based solely on their mannerisms. Over 170 photos of players in action and play-by-play examples show the actual tells. These powerful ideas will give you the decisive edge.




Moorman


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Zen and the Art of Poker


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Inside the intriguing world of poker lies a fascinating exercise in strategy and extreme concentration--many of the same principles that underpin the one-thousand-year-old philosophy of Zen spirituality. Zen and the Art of Poker is the first book to apply Zen theories to America's most popular card game, presenting tips that readers can use to enhance their game. Among the more than one hundred rules that comprise this book, readers will learn to: *Make peace with folding *Use inaction as a weapon *Make patience a central pillar of their strategy *Pick their times of confrontation Using a concise and spare style, in the tradition of Zen practices and rituals, Zen and the Art of Poker traces a parallel track connecting the two disciplines by giving comments and inspirational examples from the ancient Zen masters to the poker masters of today.