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Thread: New Book Review

  1. 02-13-2005 #1
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    I've just finished reviewing The Psychology of Poker which you can read at the following URL if you are interested:

    http://www.pokerforums.org/index.php?page=books
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    Good review, sounds like an interesting angle on this game we play.




    Just as a sidenote, it seems there's no way to get to the reviews (book and site) from the forums, or any way back to the home page from the forums page. I have the homepage bookmarked but invariably come straight into the forums. As a result I miss most of the other stuff linked from the homepage. Anyway additional links could be added at the top of the Forums homepage (or a single link back to www.pokerforums.org)?

    This is an excellent site, well maintained and with a great community, please don't take the above as criticism, it's a tiny thing.

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    Hi Rex,

    Actually I personally use the link at the bottom right hand corner of every page to go to the front page (PokerForums).

    I will keep your suggestion in mind though
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    Thanks Kid,

    I hadn't noticed the bottom right link

    Bit like I miss double-gut-shot draws.
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    Good Review,
    Its a GR8 book, If you dont have it YOU NEED IT!!
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    Its ok.. i just finished it myself last week... nothing too earlth shattering in it... good book though, definatly worht the read.
    Marm is back, maybe. Been off for 3 years. Rusty as Hell.

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    I thought the first chapter or 2 was spectacular, the rest was totally useless and redundant. the same thing over and over and over.
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    Steve, that's almost exactly my take on it and what I tried to portray in my little review. I also found it somewhat annoying how he stated many times in the beginning that he wouldn't try to talk about strategy, but does so pretty much in the last 80% of the book.. I know this wasn't his intention, but it became quite redundant...

    But the first 40 or so pages are really really good, and although I like to say that I already had most of those things realized, the one thing I didn't until I read his book was: accepting responsibility - and this changed my tournament game around completely.. immediately after I read that section, I had those great tournament results, and this may sound ignorant to say, but I seriously have a different attitude towards poker regarding beats.. I very rarely get the slightest upset anymore.. they will hit their 6-outer, and I'll say 'nh' and leave and I won't be bottling up anything inside.. at most I'll sigh...
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