The Poker Mindset Essential Attitudes For Poker Success
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The Poker Mindset Essential Attitudes for Poker Success
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.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars good to review before a tournament
This book helps keep your head together, where it should be. It goes through up’s and downs. Covers emotions and decision making. Long term to continually work on dealing with thought process. Good to read and keep.
5 Stars Got me “over the hump”!!
I have read countless strategy guides and spent thousands of hours at the tables and have become quite a skilled player over the years. I feel I have a deep understanding of the game and can read players extremely well. However, after all my study and efforts, was only slightly better than marginally profitable. I was beginning to doubt whether, with all the bad plays gone good, it was possible to make a real profit at poker. Could all the so called “Pro’s” be media creations? I knew the biggest leak in my game was my emotional control, but had no idea how to plug it. I read “The Psychology of Poker” and “My Worst Poker Enemy” and found them very helpful, but still struggled. This book was like shining a light into a dark room. The authors intoduce concepts that should have been obvious, but somehow eluded me. The indepth analysis of “tilt” and discussions on long term success and bankroll strategies were amazing. I saw immediate results in my attitude at the table, even before finishing the book. A bad beat that normally would send me into a tailspin no longer bothers me. One of my regular opponents noticed and remarked “how are we going to beat you if we can’t put you on tilt anymore?” In the four weeks since recieving the book I have increased my bankroll by over $4000, playing 1/2 NLHE! (no BS) Its not that I haven’t had losing sessions, I just seem to lose less when I lose and win more when I win! I highly reccommend this book for anyone who has a good grip on the skills and strategies of the game but can’t seem to get “over the hump”. Just be careful who you tell, it may be like “knocking on the glass” and waking up the fish!
5 Stars One of the best poker books I’ve bought
I have about 15 different poker books, and I would put this in the top 3.
2 Stars Very good for begginers
I have already learned most of the concepts described in this book just by practicing, but is good anyway that somebody state things as clear as in this book.
4 Stars Poker Player, know thyself (and thy opponent)
I’ll start this by saying something a little contradictory. In poker, the inner game within the game is both overrated and underrated. I think people put too much stock in reading people and psychoanalyzing the play. Meanwhile, the crucial aspects of mentally preparing yourself to play are often overlooked. I don’t know if this is because they seem obvious, or if it’s just because they’re not particularly sexy.
Whatever the case, The Poker Mindset does an admirable job of taking on this seemingly basic aspect of the game and making you realize it’s not as basic as you thought. As much as we all talk about tilt, bankroll, and preparing yourself to play, I’m sure most of us haven’t considered the true ramifications of that and how that could be affecting our long-term prospects for profit.
As some people have said on here, this book feels elementary. In fact, it is written in a way that is a little repetitive and even simple. That does not mean that what it says should be glossed over. The simplicity is part of its brilliance. It raises important points and practical suggestions in language that is easy to understand and use in your own game. I felt like I was hearing for the first time things that I had always been thinking. This book make have been able to have been written in 50 pages rather than 274, but since we don’t buy books by the page, that’s not really a concern, is it?
My one argument with the book is the section on bankroll management. It specifically acknowledges that other books do a better job of outlining bankroll management, but then still goes on to give some pretty specific recommendations that perpetuate some of the same over-simplified thinking that gets a lot of people into bankroll trouble. I would recommend Mark Blade’s Professional Poker as a helpful companion to this so you have a more sophisticated view of bankroll management. Still, all things considered, this book is a must have if you plan on playing poker at any significant level of stakes.
