Painless Poker - Softcover

Angelo, Tommy

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ISBN 10: 0996464808 ISBN 13: 9780996464802

Publisher: Tommy Angelo Operations, 2017

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Are you still stewing over last month's bad beat? Does the game you love raise your blood pressure? Do you cost yourself money with tilted bets?

Painless Poker addresses these sources of poker pain and more. Tommy Angelo, esteemed author of Elements of Poker, reveals extreme pain from his own life and those of seven agitated players – and shows how to end that pain. Drawing on his 20 years as a professional poker player and elite coach, Angelo demonstrates effective strategies to make poker – and life – less painful.

In Painless Poker, you’ll learn how to:

− Lessen the depth, time, and frequency of tilt

− Win the war of words at the poker table

− Reset yourself after any beat, however piercing

− Gain reciprocal advantage over your opponents

− Steadily improve any aspect of your game

With Angelo’s trademark humor and insight, Painless Poker is as entertaining as it is informative.

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About the Author

Once, during a poker discussion in Las Vegas, several top strategists were debating how to play pocket kings under the gun. Then Tommy Angelo popped in with “I can tell you the best way to play two kings. Decide in advance that no matter what happens, you won’t go on tilt!”

Insights like that are what drove the popularity of Angelo’s first book, Elements of Poker, a tome highly regarded for its fresh and practical perspectives. Since he began offering coaching in 2004, over one hundred students have paid for his candid advice, wanting more of what they found in his 100 articles and 18 videos.

In 2017, Angelo completed Painless Poker. “I have no words left,” he wrote to his mailing-list fans. "I put them all in here.” Painless Poker combines sections of Angelo’s own history with a fictional poker-coaching seminar featuring seven suffering poker players, in an innovative combination of memoir, fiction, and poker instruction.

When at home in Oakland, California, Angelo writes, cooks, reads, and makes music, as part of what he calls his “urban monastic lifestyle.” He cohabits with two cats, and Kay, his wife.

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