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.Dr. Alan Schoonmaker offers a unique combination of academic credentials, commercial experience, and knowledge of poker psychology. Following the completion of a Ph.D. He joined the faculty of UCLA and Carnegie-Mellon University after receiving his Ph.D. in industrial psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. He then moved to Belgium to work as a Research Fellow at the Catholic University of Leuven. Before founding Schoonmaker and Associates, an international consulting firm, he was Merrill Lynch's Manager of Management Development.
With companies such as GE, GM, IBM, Mobil, Xerox, Rank Xerox, Bankers Trust, Wells Fargo, Manufacturers Hanover, Chemical Bank, and Chase Manhattan, he personally taught or counseled in twenty-nine countries across all six continents. The annual sales of his personal clients reach one trillion dollars. He published three research monographs and four books on industrial psychology (Anxiety and the Executive, Executive Career Plan, Selling: The Psychological Approach, and Negotiate to Win), one book on coping with college (A Student's Survival Handbook), and four books on poker (The Psychology of Poker, Your Worst Poker Enemy, Your Best Poker Friend, and Poker Winne). He's a co-author of DUCY with David Sklansky?
He wrote over 150 pieces for publications like The California Management Review, Expansion, Poker Digest, and Card Player, among others. He was the host of his own radio show. In four video series, he wrote and/or starred in the lead role. He created Selling: The Psychological Approach, which was once the world's best-selling corporate computer training package.
At an administrative hearing and lawsuit, he testified as an expert witness on poker psychology. He was a member of Royal Vegas Poker's expert squad and played online. He teaches serious poker players, including pros, about poker psychology, particularly how to analyze and improve their own performance. At alan_schoonmaker@yahoo.com, he welcomes personal messages.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781880685259 |
| ISBN 10 | 1880685256 |
| Title | The Psychology of Poker |
| Author | Alan N Schoonmaker |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Two Plus Two |
| Year published | 2000-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 360 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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