Hi Everyone:
We have a new book:
Bad Beat Therapy; How To Become a Better Poker Player and Person by Dr. Robert Samuels. Here's a link to the Amazon page:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1880685655...s=books&sr=1-1
and here's the "Table of Contents:"
Preface v
About Robert Samuels vii
Chapter One: Introducing Bad Beat Therapy 1
...There is No Poker God 1
...Are you Addicted? 2
...Being Self-Aware 3
Chapter Two: Lying about Lying 5
...The School of Pain 8
...Blame and Shame 9
Chapter Three: Thinking about Thinking 11
...Selling Magical Thinking 11
...Listening to Experts 13
Chapter Four: The Psychological Reasons for the Biggest Mistakes 15
Chapter Five: The Five Essential Bad Beat Concepts 19
...Repression 19
...Addictions and the Pleasure Principle 20
...Magical Thinking 21
...The Reality Principle 22
...Transference 23
Chapter Six: Poker, Emotions, and Non-Reciprocal Information 27
...Blame and Victimhood 28
...Non-Reciprocal Information 30
...Poker Experts and the Information Economy 31
...Group Dynamics 32
Chapter Seven: The Psychopathology of Everyday Players 35
...Narcissism at the Table 35
...Borderline Personalities 36
...Online Poker, Boredom, and Focus 37
...Online Problems 38
...Why You Cannot Sleep 39
...Analysis of a Poker Dream 40
Chapter Eight: Why People Play Irrationally 43
Chapter Nine: How to Overcome Cognitive Biases 47
...Avoiding Missing Information 47
...Group Delusion 49
...Not Knowing What You Do Not Know 51
...Being Negative 52
...Focusing on Results 52
Chapter Ten: Common Bad Advice 55
...Bad Play Syndrome 57
Chapter Eleven: How to Play a GTO No-Limit Hold ’em Strategy 59
...Seeing the Elephant 59
Chapter Twelve: The Psychology of Tournaments 63
Online 64
Chapter Thirteen: What the Brain Sciences Tell Us about Poker 67
Chapter Fourteen: The Psychology of the Player Types 71
Chapter Fifteen: Improving Your Poker Memory 75
Chapter Sixteen: What Makes NLHE Poker Instructional Material Effective 79
Chapter Seventeen: What is Poker Addiction? 83
Chapter Eighteen: Poker Threshold Concepts 87
Chapter Nineteen: Beyond GTO: Why Computers Will Beat Us at Poker 93
...What Does the Solver Want? 94
...From Online to RTA 96
Chapter Twenty: Psychoanalyzing The Biggest Bluff 99
Chapter Twenty-one: Why Losers Continue to Play 103
Chapter Twenty-two: How to Deal with Bad Beats and Coolers 107
...Desensitization 107
...We Need Bad Beats 108
...Understanding Randomness 108
...Selective Memory 110
Chapter Twenty-three: The Curse of Knowledge in Poker and Life 111
Chapter Twenty-four: Debating Malmuth’s Real Poker Psychology — Expanded Edition 115
Chapter Twenty-five: Superstition in Poker 119
Chapter Twenty-six: So Sick!: Advanced Bad Beat Therapy 123
Chapter Twenty-seven: Why You Cannot Improve on Your Own 127
Chapter Twenty-eight: Conclusion: Having the Right Perspective 129
Index 133