The Poker Party is Over: What Will You Do Now? - Softcover

Alan N. Schoonmaker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1886070393 ISBN 13: 9781886070394

Publisher: ConJelCo, LLC, 2012

Synopsis

Poker is much more than knowing the right strategies; it's also knowing how to actualize those strategies. The game is full of losing players who know how to play, yet can't seem to induce themselves to consistently make the right plays.

"Black Friday" and the current state of the U.S. economy have changed the sub-culture in which we live and play. The dynamics of the poker world have drastically changed. Internet poker is not the cash cow it used to be, thereby changing the face of live poker. The games got tougher as Internet pros gravitated to the live action, the only action they can currently find.

As players we must find ways to adapt to our new realities. For the Internet player looking to become a major winner in live poker this involves changes in skill sets and mindsets. For the B&M players it involves adjusting to the skills and styles of former online players. The Internet game and the live game, though related, have very different fundamentals, not to mention all the innumerable different nuances. And, because there are fewer weak players, everybody must adjust to tougher games.

The Poker Party is Over will teach things about developing into a great poker player. You'll learn how train your mind to adjust from Internet poker to live poker, or - if you're a B&M player - to adjust to internet players. You'll ascertain how to become an expert on "tells", learn how to effectively manage your bankroll, and be taught how to guide your mind through poker logic. You'll discover how to prepare yourself for survival in our dog-eat-dog world and much, much more.

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About the Author

Dr. Alan Schoonmaker has an unusual combination of academic credentials, business experience, and poker psychology expertise. After earning a Ph.D. in industrial psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the faculties of UCLA and Carnegie-Mellon University. He then became a Research Fellow at The Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. He was Merrill Lynch's Manager of Management Development before starting Schoonmaker and Associates, an international consulting company. He personally taught or consulted in twenty-nine countries on all six continents for clients such as GE, GM, IBM, Mobil, Xerox, Rank Xerox, Bankers Trust, Wells Fargo, Manufacturers Hanover, Chemical Bank, and Chase Manhattan. His personal clients' annual sales greatly exceed one trillion dollars. He wrote or co-authored three research monographs and published four books on industrial psychology (Anxiety and the Executive, Executive Career Strategy, Selling: The Psychological Approach, and Negotiate to Win), one book on coping with college (A Student's Survival Manual), and four previous books on poker, The Psychology of Poker, Your Worst Poker Enemy, Your Best Poker Friend, and Poker Winners Are Different. He is David Sklansky's co-author for DUCY? His books have been translated into French, German, Dutch, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Japanese, and Indonesian. He published over 150 articles in business and poker periodicals such as The California Management Review, Expansion, Poker Digest, and Card Player. He had his own radio show. He wrote and/or played the leading role in four video series. He developed Selling: The Psychological Approach, which was once the world's best-selling computer based training program for business people. He served as an expert witness about poker psychology in an administrative hearing and lawsuit. He played online as a member of Royal Vegas Poker's team of experts. He coaches serious players - including successful pros - about poker psychology, especially analyzing and improving their own play. He welcomes personal messages at alan_schoonmaker@yahoo.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: ConJelCo, LLC
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1886070393
• ISBN 13: 9781886070394
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256