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Originally Posted by Alternate Identity
Not sure how a book six years in the making can be considered to be hurried to press. You first announced the book in 2009 thread devoted to Elements of Poker. Also, many of the essays seem to be reprints of earlier published works.
Hi AI:
This isn't accurate. Over the years, and this is much more than six, I had accumulated a fair amount of material that would come under the heading of real poker psychology. Some of it was sitting in my
Poker Essays books, but this stuff needed to be rewritten with the emphasis changed more for poker psychology. And some of it was just sitting on my computer, such as the chapter on "A Mathematical Model for Tilt -- Cause and Cure" which was first published in our
Two Plus Two Online Poker Strategy Magazine about five years ago.
However, I only had enough material for about half a book. So even though I occasionally talked about writing
Real Poker Psychology no active work was being done. But then, thanks to one of Jonathan Little's websites, I stumbled onto Patricia Cardner and immediately knew that If I got her book (written with Little) there would probably be enough material for me to finish my book, and I wasn't disappointed.
I also felt that it was now important to get this book out as soon as possible and with hindsight it was rushed. But now we have another book soon to hit market which has some additional psychology stuff from me that serves to smooth out some of the rushed edges in
Real Poker Psychology. An example is a more gereral definition of "pseudo tilt" is now given, and for those just reading here, pseudo tilt is something very different from tilt, and it's also a state which players can enter into that the current group of Poker psychology coaches don't seem to have any awareness of.
Best wishes,
Mason