The Psychology of Poker by Alan N Schoonmaker

The Psychology of Poker by Alan N Schoonmaker

Poker demands many skills and strategies. To be successful, you must be able to master all of them and then apply them at the appropriate times. They include proper hand selection, bluffing, semi-bluffing, understanding tells and telegraphs, and reading hands. These skills do not come easily since they require unnatural actions. You cannot win just by doing what comes naturally, Dr. Schoonmaker is concerned only with the way that psychological factors affect your own and your opponents' ability to play properly. For example, have you ever wondered why some players seem extremely aggressive while others are passive? Why some are tight and others loose? Furthermore, have you ever wondered why some tactics seem to come naturally to you while others don't? This text will answer many of these questions. It will explain why you and your opponents play the way you do. The author also suggests strategic adjustments that you should make to improve your results against different types of players, and he suggests personal adjustments that will help you to play better and enjoy the game more.

Schoonmaker, Alan N.: - Dr. Alan Schoonmaker has an unusual combination of academic credentials, business experience, and poker psychology expertise. After earning a Ph.D. in industrial psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the faculties of UCLA and Carnegie-Mellon University. He then became a Research Fellow at The Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. He was Merrill Lynch's Manager of Management Development before starting Schoonmaker and Associates, an international consulting company. He personally taught or consulted in twenty-nine countries on all six continents for clients such as GE, GM, IBM, Mobil, Xerox, Rank Xerox, Bankers Trust, Wells Fargo, Manufacturers Hanover, Chemical Bank, and Chase Manhattan. His personal clients' annual sales greatly exceed one trillion dollars. He wrote or co-authored three research monographs and published four books on industrial psychology (Anxiety and the Executive, Executive Career Strategy, Selling: The Psychological Approach, and Negotiate to Win), one book on coping with college (A Student's Survival Manual), and four previous books on poker, The Psychology of Poker, Your Worst Poker Enemy, Your Best Poker Friend, and Poker Winners Are Different. He is David Sklansky's co-author for DUCY? His books have been translated into French, German, Dutch, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Japanese, and Indonesian. He published over 150 articles in business and poker periodicals such as The California Management Review, Expansion, Poker Digest, and Card Player. He had his own radio show. He wrote and/or played the leading role in four video series. He developed Selling: The Psychological Approach, which was once the world's best-selling computer based training program for business people. He served as an expert witness about poker psychology in an administrative hearing and lawsuit. He played online as a member of Royal Vegas Poker's team of experts. He coaches serious players - including successful pros - about poker psychology, especially analyzing and improving their own play. He welcomes personal messages at alan_schoonmaker@yahoo.com.

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ISBN 13	9781880685259
ISBN 10	1880685256
Title	The Psychology of Poker
Author	Alan N Schoonmaker
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Two Plus Two
Year published	2000-05-01
Number of pages	360
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