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Old 04-10-2008, 07:59 PM     Post subject: Thoughts on Elements of Poker by Tommy Angelo #1 (permalink)  
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I just picked this up because I Tommy. If you aren't familiar with him, check out his website: http://www.tommyangelo.com/ And especially my favorite article of his, recommended by Fnord a long while back: http://www.tommyangelo.com/articles/folding.htm

I'm only 40 pages into Elements of Poker, but so far the book is basically what I expected... very little p0ker strategy but a lot of poker psychology. Tommy looks at the game with a very zoomed out lens, and I love it. Here's a great excerpt from the book:

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Originally Posted by Tommy Angelo
All of my good streaks and all of my bad streaks of every length and depth have had one thing in common. They did not exist in your mind. They only existed in my mind. And this is true for everyone's winning and losing streaks. None of them actually exist. They are all mental fabrications, like past and future. Everything that ever happens happens in the present tense. But how can you have a "streak" in the present tense? You can't. And therefore, if you are in the present tense, which, in fact, at this time, you are, then at this moment there is no streak in your life. There is no inherent existence to streaks. The streak is there when you think about it, and when you stop thinking about it, it goes away. It blossoms and withers, all in your mind. And when your mind invents a streak, you believe it exists, because you believe what your mind tells you. But the truth is there is only the hand you are playing.
I'll post more in this thread as I keep reading.
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