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Your Worst Poker Enemy

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"AT THE TABLE, YOU'RE YOUR OWN WORST ENEMY."

?Stu Ungar, the world's greatest poker player

Do you play hands you should fold? Do you sometimes go too far with hands, hoping to get lucky while knowing that the pot odds don't justify calling? Ever kept playing even when you knew you were off your game because you were losing and wanted to get even? Have you let anger

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Paperback, 336 pages
Published May 1st 2007 by Lyle Stuart
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In many ways this might be the most important poker book you will ever read. This is the book that demands that you to be honest with yourself about your abilities, expectations and motivations. The objective, logical approach eschewed by Schoonmaker might just save you from self-destructive behaviour that could destroy far more than your bankroll.

If you are an even slightly experienced poker player you probably already know enough to play a winning style. The problem is that almost...more
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This book has helped me in many ways. I have noticed myself going on tilt less and thinking more logically as a result of reading it. I highly recommend it.
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Alan Schoonmaker earned his Ph.D. in industrial psychology at U of California, Berkeley. He taught and did research at UCLA, Carnegie-Mellon, and Belgium's Catholic University of Louvain. After running management development at Merrill Lynch, he worked as a consultant in twenty-nine countries on all six continents. His clients included the world's largest corporations such as IBM, Mobil, GE, GM, a...more
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