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| After buying a poker book, how many times do you read it? |
| I don't read poker books. |
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5% |
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| I read a book once |
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20% |
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| Two or three times |
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45% |
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| So many times the book falls apart |
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30% |
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Doc T River
Joined: 21 Jun 2007
Posts: 328
Location: amongst my poker books or somewhere playing poker
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 Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:03 am Post subject: Burn After Reading (poker books)? |
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| A poll about poker books and how many times you read them. |
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Stew21
Joined: 03 Oct 2006
Posts: 999
Location: Orlando, Fl
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:08 am Post subject: |
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I don't know if it's just me, but I need to read a book more than once to get as much as I can from it.
Oh, and I should state more than two to three times.  |
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Fumseck
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Joined: 17 Jun 2005
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Location: Quebec, Canada
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:35 am Post subject: |
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One quick read and after a more in dept read with paper pencil and my trusty Poker Stove  .
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Raisindye
Joined: 19 Feb 2007
Posts: 353
Location: Maryland
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:36 am Post subject: |
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more now, than ever before, have i caught myself highlighting concepts in the books and then returning to reread these particular areas of interest. typically after i've done something stupid, or think i have, i'll try to find one of my highlighted notes pertaining to what/where i made the error and see if it helps me patch that hole.
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Taardvark
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Joined: 14 Feb 2007
Posts: 1137
Location: Fremont, CA
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't do it with all books but there are several that I consider on the high end of instruction that I reread pretty regularly in parts. |
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ciaran
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Joined: 10 Sep 2004
Posts: 4781
Location: Alpharetta, GA
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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I read at least some sections of good books multiple times.
I thought this thread was going to be about which poker books were worth more as kindling than poker advice, though. I've got a few of those around... |
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Doc T River
Joined: 21 Jun 2007
Posts: 328
Location: amongst my poker books or somewhere playing poker
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:57 am Post subject: |
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| ciaran wrote: | I read at least some sections of good books multiple times.
I thought this thread was going to be about which poker books were worth more as kindling than poker advice, though. I've got a few of those around... |
The main title of the thread comes from the new Coen brothers movie as I thought it would make for a cute title to use for this subject. I also thought about calling it Farenheit 451.
The impetus for the thread came from something Mason Malmuth said over at the 2plus2 forum. He said that he only reads books once. The two implications being that he did not need to read books more than once to retain their teachings and that this is the way everyone reads books.
At this point, I would say the response is too small to refute the latter implication, but I think common sense does that already. |
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toronexti
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| my personal approach is to not read books, but to have someone who has explain what's in it. Then you both learn and u save a bunch of time by skipping the reading. |
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