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The Poker Mindset Table of Contents

The Poker Mindset: Essential Attitudes for Poker Success - Table of Contents 


by Ian Taylor, aka Piemaster and myself (Matthew Hilger)
Chapter 1 – Introduction

Chapter 2 – The Poker Mindset - Identifying the core mental attitudes a poker player needs to succeed.

2.1. Understand and Accept the Realities of Poker
2.2. Play for the Long Term
2.3. Emphasize Correct Decisions over Making Money
2.4. Desensitize Yourself to Money
2.5. Leave Your Ego at the Door
2.6. Remove All Emotion from Decisions
2.7. Dedicate Yourself to a Continuous Cycle of Analysis and Improvement

Chapter 3 – Overcoming Your Instincts - A discussion in how your instincts and life experience may lead you astray in poker.

3.1. Actions and Reactions
3.2. Setting Goals
3.3. Is “Average” Acceptable?
3.4. Risk Aversion
3.5. Greed
3.6. Woolly Thinking

Chapter 4 – Bad Beats and Losing Big Pots - How to cope with losing a big pot or suffering a bad beat.

4.1. What Happens When You Lose a Big Pot?
4.2. Reaction to Losing a Big Pot
4.3. Applying the Poker Mindset
4.4. Bad Beats

Chapter 5 – Downswings - What downswings are, how to handle them, and what pitfalls to avoid.

5.1. Running Badly
5.2. The Reality of Downswings
5.3. Common Bad Responses to Downswings
5.4. Dealing with a Downswing
5.5. Staying in Control
5.6. Downswings and the Poker Mindset
5.7. Improving Your Game
5.8. Downswings and Your Bankroll

Chapter 6 – Tilt - Identifying, managing, and avoiding different types of tilt.

6.1. What Is Tilt?
6.2. Why Do Players Go on Tilt?
6.3. Different Types of Tilt
6.4. Preparing for and Avoiding Tilt
6.5. Detecting Tilt
6.6. Combating Tilt
6.7. Tilt in Tournaments

Chapter 7 – Looking after Your Bankroll - Bankroll considerations with a psychological slant.

7.1. The Biggest Mistake in Poker
7.2. Determining Your Bankroll Requirements
7.3. Why Do Players Go Wrong?
7.4. Moving Up Limits
7.5. Moving Down Limits
7.6. Cashing-out Strategies

Chapter 8 – Into the Minds of Your Opponents - Evaluating your opponents’ tendencies, motives, and levels of thinking.

8.1. The Importance of Observation
8.2. Categorizing Your Opponents
8.3. Different Types of Players
8.4. Getting into Your Opponents’ Heads
8.5. Levels of Thinking

Chapter 9 – Advanced Topics - Miscellaneous topics concerning poker psychology.

9.1. When to Quit
9.2. What about Upswings?
9.3. Tilt and Your Opponents’ Mindset
9.4. When Sub-optimal Is Optimal
9.5. Probability in Action
9.6. Internet and Live Play
9.7. Professional Poker
9.8. Non-Profit Motives

Chapter 10 - Poker and Life - Integrating poker with the rest of your life.

10.1. The Missing Component of the Poker Mindset
10.2. Life Beyond the Poker Table
10.3. Bankroll Separation
10.4. Emotional Separation
10.5. What Can You Learn from Poker?

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