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You seem to have a lot of gaps

What I need is more in the lines of

On a more serious note, how good is this book compared to WiltOnTilt's Mathematics series ? I've watched and understood that series is there still a lot of maths to be learned from this book ?

I don't like WoT's mathematics and poker sense series very much, but that's because I like academic style.

He just scratches the surface and tells you the common sense dumbed down applications, pop style. It's very practical though and easy to follow.
Also, I don't think variance was properly discussed in the series, if you want a video for that the Tolerance series is way better.

If you don't vomit when you see equations I really recommend the book, I am going through it right now, and if you have DC there is a 30hour video series going through each chapter 1by 1 called Math Attacks. Basically the way I work through it is go through each chapter, try to understand it and when I get frustrated or don't get something I just look at Math Attacks for that chapter. It's done by a chick and she will answer questions and gives homework which is quite refreshing.

I think for your purposes Chapter 2 of the Book and Episode 2 of the series are a must as a start, you don't seem to understand variance and your whines make no sense.

Sounds good, I'll look into getting the book and a DC account.

I think I have pretty good understanding of variance, I've read a lot about it on 2+2, there's many good threads on the topic. I just suck at the game and I tilt A LOT. I know that I suck so I practice a lot and I see no improvement which leads to more tilt and more practice and still no improvement and even more tilt, etc.

How do you measure your improvement though, how do you know you suck? If you measure your skill based on these ultra short term graphs you clearly do not understand variance

i was gonna say this is more tilt than variance, but since you're already aware of that... gj!

read the poker mindset by hilger and taylor. it should give you some solutions to handling the mental game, because honestly, your poker chops don't mean shit if you're a tilt monkey.

http://www.mentalgameofpoker.com/ this one is supposed to be good as well, but i haven't read it yet.

On July 31 2011 08:56 LemOn[5thF] wrote: How do you measure your improvement though, how do you know you suck? If you measure your skill based on these ultra short term graphs you clearly do not understand variance

I don't measure it on any sample at all. Just my overall feeling when playing.

Half the time I'm in a hand I don't know wtf to do and the other half I think I have a perfect read on his range and end up being totally wrong. I think that means I suck.

Basically I feel like the only way I can win is when I cooler people, sets over sets and whatnot. I have no confidence at all i can beat the game.

On July 31 2011 09:00 chogeu wrote: http://www.mentalgameofpoker.com/ this one is supposed to be good as well, but i haven't read it yet.

The Author of this book is the same guy that wrote the psychology part in LeatherAss's book and I though that was a pretty big waste of paper and ink...

I don't think a book can help with handling the mental game. Sure, it tells you not to tilt and how to avoid tilt but it won't make your next rent payment go away and won't take any real life pressure off of you (stuff that makes me tilt). Pretty useless imo.

he doesn't tell you not to tilt but to identify what makes you personally tilt and how to work on that.