Hi Mason.

Had no idea. Thanks for the explanation. This is certainly not my fav thread here anyways. Cannot wait for your new book

Not sure if you’re questioning my integrity or my knowledge of the poker world, but hey, one thing I’m certain of...

You’re still a ****ing clown

I wrote a 259 page book on poker psychology and going by memory, I think you stated that I said that poker psychology was not important.

The problem that upset you, and which you have never addressed, is that the real issue was that I stated clearly that much of the poker psychology stuff that you promoted (at that time which was Dec 2015 -- the date of publication of my book) is worthless. Care to get into why that's the case? Then we can find out who the real clown is. And I would be glad to debate you on your own podcast.

As for your integrity or knowledge of poker, I don't know you at all. But let's say from my perspective you're not off to a good start. And I do question whether someone who "flies off the handle" about something (at least at that time) he knows nothing about should be involved in voting on any type of award.

And one last thing, my poker psychology book, Real Poker Psychology, is mostly based on statistical theory and mathematical modeling which will make your clown argument difficult to support and, unless I have you highly misjudged, will strongly question your knowledge in this area of poker.

Mason

That was, what FIVE (or four) years ago??? You want to talk to me about it, I’m here.

To be completely honest, I had completely forgotten about this. If you ever want to talk to me like a man, reach out. I’m here. Don’t hide behind your forums.

In fairness, I don’t know you either. I also have no recollection of what our “altercation” was about.

You ever want to talk to me like a man, I’m here. You know people who have my contact information.

First, not that it matters much, 3 1/2 years would be more accurate.

I'm more than happy to talk to you. We can do it by phone if you like. Just PM your phone number to me and I'll give you a call. If you don't want to send me your phone number, just say so here and I'll be happy to PM mine to you.

I also just said I'm willing to come on your podcast for this discussion, so don't accuse me of hiding behind these forums. Also, to get the conversation started, here's something I wrote, starting on page 169, in our book Poker and More that addresses much of what you probably don't understand.

Idea No. 3: The components of a game. While this idea is addressed in some detail in Real Poker Psychology I don’t put it in these terms, and by doing so I think it’s a little easier to understand. Basically, you can divide almost any game into two components, the knowledge component and the execution component. And the following is from the “It’s Not What You Eat” chapter starting on page 142:

To understand this better, let’s take another look at tennis. Suppose you’re a good tennis player, are on the court, and your opponent hits the ball over the net and now it’s your turn to hit it back. What do you do?

I believe that two things happen. First, you instantly know what you want to do. That is, you’ll decide what spot on the court you want to hit the ball to, how hard you’ll want to hit it, how much and what kind of spin you’ll want to put on it, and so on.

Notice that so far we’re talking about the knowledge component. Continuing with the excerpt:

Next you’ll have to do this, and that requires timing, speed, and coordination.

And now we’re talking about the execution component. Continuing with the excerpt:

Now let’s look at poker. It’s your turn to act and you have a decision to make. Suppose your opponent has bet and you have to decide whether to fold, call, or raise, and if the game is no-limit how much to raise. Of course, a good player will know what to do in almost all situations quite quickly, and the remaining spots will take a little more time

Clearly, this is the knowledge component of poker. Continuing with the excerpt:

but will he need timing, speed, and coordination to get it done? That answer is no.

And again this is the execution component of poker.

However, notice something interesting, the execution component in poker doesn’t exist, or if it does exist, it must play a minor role compared to the knowledge component, while in an athletic sport like tennis, the execution component is quite important, and in my opinion in many athletic sports it’s probably more important than the knowledge component.

So why is this important? Well, the answer is that when I read the poker psychology books, and I also assume this is true of the coaching/counseling that many of these people sell, there’s a ton of stuff that clearly comes from the execution component of the sports world and is essentially worthless in poker. So we hear about unconscious competence, how it takes 10,000 hours of study and play to be an elite player, taking deep breaths (which I assume makes you more relaxed), and of course being thankful for the hot shower that you took in the morning which has something to do with gratitude which I assume is supposed to reduce stress. But I also don’t see how any of this helps to improve your knowledge of the game which is what you use to make your playing decisions.

Mason

Hey hey we are here to talk about Daniel.. If you have issues get you own thread.

Are we just not going to talk about the fact that Daniel's trouser snake shames Lexington Steele's?
(Or it's stuffed)

So right now on the poker go stream, approx 19:09 stream time. 7:09pm central time. Directly after randell emmett takes down a pot and shows his pocket aces.

Dnegs picks is teeth / mouth, with his right hand fingers, then proceeds to shuffle chips with the same hand.

Thus, spreading that nastiness to the table. Now I know poker chips are disgusting, but d-negs should know better

"Junkgate" analysis has made its way to Twitter. Is DNegs bulge good for the game?

It is quite ironic that DN does not trust Deeb.

Okay. Let's talk about Negreanu. Here's an excerpt from an interview he did that you can find here:

https://cardplayerlifestyle.com/inte...niel-negreanu/

I got into it, not for the first time but for the millionth time, with Mason Malmuth who’s writing a book on psychology and I thought to myself that there isn’t anyone more unqualified to write a book on the subject than he is.

And like Tuchman, this is another example of attacking my psychology book without knowing what it says, and again, since my book is based mostly on mathematical modeling and statistical theory, I'm qualified to write it.

Mason

We are here to discuss DNs dick, not some old ass beef, please no more derails.

To-ma-toe, tomato...

FYP

You are as funny as DNEGS.

Have you ever noticed Dnegs supporters and people who hang around him are just as disgusting as he is?

Poker is a joke.

kinda did actually.

#survivingrenegs

Loving this multi-day Twitter fight dnegs and dweebs are having.

Mason, approximately how much time have you spent each day reading this thread on average during the past couple of years? How much time in the future do you want to be spent reading this thread?

Very little. But because of all the problems we’ve had with Negreanu over the years, it’s a thread I watch.

Mason

dayam...

This is some great drama. I can’t even keep up with it all.