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The point is this: it's virtually impossible to be a good player WITHOUT being able to remain in control.

if you have tilt-issues where you play rags for multi-bets pre-flop, or bad bankroll management, or blow all your winnings on coke, etc etc then you are just cancelling out (and probably exceeding) any card-skills that you might have.

lots of so-so players with decent talent could say the same thing regarding emotional control. It's common.

The result will be roughly the same as someone with poor card-skills. They will not succeed.


"I'm good as long as I stay in control."

Well...no-freaking-duh!!

That bit about playing your cards correctly is only a fraction of the equation towards being a good poker-player.

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I think I agree with you then.

But then again, that's part of why i really dig this book. It's a picture of a typical poker player, a guy like me and my friends. After I read it I am energized with the feeling that someone understands me, that someone is honest about the real poker experience.

And I think it really improved this very detrimental, and very difficult to fix aspect of my game: staying off tilt, the consequences of tilt.

I feel that other poker writers are too insecure to write a charachter who doesn't make every perfect decision.

And the book wouldn't work if the guy was an idiot. It mainly works because (I'd say) the guy is talented with his analysis.

I guess it shows how different book preferences can be, because I (and apparently some others) love this book, and then some hate it.