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« Reply #30 on: January 10, 2013, 04:50:58 PM »

Cheers. Enjoyed the first book, trust you both let rip here and spill all the beans mental game wise.
Poker shelf is bowing certainly room for this though.
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« Reply #31 on: January 11, 2013, 01:07:33 PM »

Looking forward to the new book the first one I am reading at the moment and it is really good. I certainly see why everybody recommends it
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« Reply #32 on: January 13, 2013, 07:46:10 PM »

OK - I'm going to have a go at getting this thread to work in the way I set out on Page 1.  The difficulty is that there is sooooo much good stuff in each chapter, on each page, that it hard to summarise, but also I do not want to just plagiarise the whole text.

The process I go through when working on things like this in my game is to read the chapter, then go back through it taking notes, and then I work from those notes working concepts into my game.  Sounds a little long-winded but it works for me.

Chapter One

Is an Introduction to Mental Game.  To sum it up in the most succinct way I can - mental game is much like your poker game.  You can work on your deficiencies if you can address what they are and get the right information.  Luckily for us, Jared Tendler & Barry Carter are the right information.  I will quote two lines from this opening chapter which illustrate this point and an other big message in the opening chapter:

'Tilt, fear, motivation, and confidence do not happen for random, illogical, or irrational reasons.  If you think that you simply lack the skill to see how it's predictable and rational'.

'Actions, thoughts, and emotions lead you to play your best or worst.' - I will come on to this second message further in the next chapter where we discuss something called The Process Model.

There is a list of Mental Game fish traits - thankfully I don't do any of these (any more).  A classic mistake would be 'reading a poker book cover to cover and think you know everything in it'.  A classic tilt 'get frustrated when a bad player plays badly and even educate them as to why they are bad'.

There is also a dispelling of myths, which I think many people will have believed at some point, such as 'emotions are a problem and need to be blocked out at all times', or 'you should always quit if you think you are about to tilt'.

The close is a 'How To Use This Book'.  Of course, it takes time to achieve mental game growth so you must work systematically and methodically as I have set out to do ITT.  Look at the quick fix smaller issues first so you can make some progress quickly, then work through most cost, most frequent, and those that cause the most emotional turmoil.  The most important tip I took was to do what works; we are all different.

I'll be back in a week or two with the first few pieces of work we can do to improve our mental game:

The Adult Learning Model - how we learn new skills to a competent level
Inchworm - an approach to improving our poker game
The Process Model - the stages we follow pre-game, in-game, and post-game

Of course, anyone who wants to follow this journey should buy the book or get the audio free from Jared's website will the offer remains.

Please join in now with any comments, queries, or questions.


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« Reply #33 on: January 19, 2013, 12:31:22 AM »

Bought the book tonight after seeing this thread a few days ago so will be able to pass comment a little bit more when I have started reading it, but I am hoping for BIG things from it in helping me work and understand my game more and more!!
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« Reply #34 on: June 01, 2013, 06:12:00 AM »


Advice number one is stick with this thread


Apologies for bumping an old thread but it looks like you haven't been able to follow through on this.

I don't want this to appear like a rub in any way, the reason I ask is because I have massive problems with this as well. I get an idea, I half-heartedly follow through on it for the next few days or weeks but it inevitably fizzles out relatively soon. Are you still working on the book but have just failed to update the thread?
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« Reply #35 on: June 01, 2013, 10:43:58 AM »

Hi wazz.  Yes - and thanks for bumping this.

I guess at the time I was trying to do quite a lot in one go and reaching out to different forums to try and amass as much involvement and feedback as I could.  I was a little unsure of how to proceed and probably discouraged when not too many people posted to say they would be interested in joining me on this.

I then got lazy with some coaching and mental game work and was finding it hard to play 2 nights and also study 1 due to stuff at home, etc.

I have a mate who has just got TMGOP and is interested in doing something.  Maybe skype would work better, but I'm not against using this post again.

I'll look at my calendar and see if I can reschedule coaching and mental game work back into my weekly, or even fortnightly poker diary.

If you ever fancy the crack on skype - I'm mark.luis.varela.  Look me up.
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