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heh, for sure man. I have never taken any psyc courses at all but I wish I have/did and might actually consider going to do some out of interest in the near future.
The Poker Mindset by Matthew Hilger is definately a must read. It talks alot about tilt, types of tilt, downswings etc, and also goes into goal setting and the +'s/-'s of certain types of goals and what will be most beneficial to your poker game and overall mental state. I won't go too much further than that on it, it's a pretty simple read but it's definately +EV.
Also, I read this article on how to achieve emotional control, not sure how it helped, but I feel it has somehow indirectly. It was posted in iopq's operation awhile back so give him the credit: http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl12.shtml You may or may not have gotten into this stuff with your courses (I'm sure you have in some way but at least this will probably be in a different writing style which is always good for the brain).
Psychology of Poker by Alan Schoonmaker: I haven't read this one yet, I don't even own it yet, but I guess it seems like a decent read. Probably worth it, I find even the worst poker books have at least some value in them so there's definately no harm in getting your hands on more reading material. Dranger7070 read both this and The Poker Mindset and he said it wasn't as good, though still had value.
It's hard to put a specific value on reading stuff like this. I think some people will get more out of it than others, so if you decide to do the readings I hope you get as much as you can out of them.
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