Beyond Tells: Power Poker Psychology,9780818406485

Beyond Tells: Power Poker Psychology

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ISBN13: 9780818406485
ISBN10: 0818406488
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2005-06-07
Publisher(s): Lyle Stuart
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Summary

Noted psychotherapist and poker columnist James,A. McKenna discusses how players bring their life,stories to the poker table and teaches readers how,to make sense of their opponent's actions and,words and to translate these tells into winning,hands. He does this by describing and analysing,different players in different games and,demonstrating how their behaviour dictates what,sort of player they are. By knowing how to analyse,everything opponents do, a player will be able to,anticipate his opponents' actions and thus know,how to beat them.

Table of Contents

Foreword xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Prologue 1(1)
Scene 1 -- Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
1(1)
Scene 2 -- Las Vegas Poker Lounge
2(1)
Scene 3 -- Man Driving Home in Detroit
3(2)
Destined to Win
5(21)
The Least Mistaken
7(2)
Mistakes and Games of Failure
9(1)
Response-Able Players
10(1)
Beliefs That Will Lead to Responsible Gaming
11(4)
Protection in Beliefs
14(1)
Skills and Information That Make Response-Able Players
15(2)
Permissions Needed to Succeed in Using the Acquired Skills
17(4)
Positioning and People
18(1)
Winning Is a Verb
19(2)
Odds and Chasing
21(1)
Poker Bums
22(4)
Playing Standards
26(10)
Table Talk Beliefs
26(2)
Beliefs About Deception
28(1)
Beliefs About Hiding
29(1)
Beliefs About Chasing and Stealing
30(1)
Beliefs About Being Honest
31(2)
Beliefs About Etiquette
33(3)
Destined to Lose
36(18)
Gaming Scripts
37(5)
How Losers Play
37(2)
How Winners Play
39(1)
How Nonwinners Play
40(2)
Script Themes Played at the Tables
42(8)
``Always'' Players
42(1)
``Almost'' Players
43(2)
``Never'' Players
45(1)
``Until'' Players
46(1)
``After'' Players
47(1)
``Over and Over'' Players
48(2)
Scripts Players Live
50(1)
Life Scripts Analysis
51(3)
Gambling Time Management
54(18)
Time Structure and Safety
55(11)
Withdrawal
57(2)
Rituals
59(2)
Pastimes
61(1)
Activities
62(1)
Psychological Games
63(1)
Table Parents' Games
63(2)
Genuineness
65(1)
Gambling Versus Playing Games
66(1)
Profiling Gamblers
67(2)
Gambling Awareness
69(3)
Distress Profiling
69(1)
Your Tilting Profile
70(2)
Games Within Games
72(17)
Psychological Games or Strategies?
72(1)
Psychological Games Within Games
73(5)
Game Formula
73(1)
Games Between Players
74(4)
Not So Tender Traps
78(1)
Games Without Names
79(4)
Games Within Gaming Industry
80(1)
Games Between Players and Dealers
81(1)
Games Between Players and the Gaming Industry
82(1)
Games Between the Industry and the Regulators
83(1)
The Drama of Games
83(1)
The Cost of Games
84(2)
Fine Whines
85(1)
Images Behind Psychological Games
86(3)
Shows and Tells
89(21)
Body Language
90(7)
Actions Talk
90(6)
Nervous Habits
96(1)
Habit Versus Bluff
96(1)
Players Talk
97(5)
Common Poker Gab
98(2)
Pacing Talk and Actions
100(1)
Player Focus
101(1)
Money Talks
102(6)
Nesting Chips
103(2)
Tight Versus Loose Bettors
105(1)
Informed Versus Intuitive Play
106(1)
Low- Versus High-Risk Players
107(1)
Righteous Versus Tainted Funds
107(1)
Meta-Tells
108(2)
Playing with Good Cards
110(7)
Playing High Pairs (Wired)
112(1)
Playing Rolled Up Trips
112(1)
Playing Three- or Four-Card Flushes
113(1)
Playing Three Cards to a Straight
114(1)
Playing When You've Got 'Em
115(2)
Playing with Bad Cards
117(15)
Responding to Bad Cards
117(1)
Cement of Failures
118(3)
Discounting Problems
119(1)
Discounting Solutions
119(1)
Minimizing Importance
120(1)
Discounting Players
120(1)
Responses Based on Personality Predispositions
121(6)
Thinking-Oriented Players
121(1)
Belief (Opinion)--Oriented Players
122(1)
Feeling-Oriented Players
123(1)
Action-Oriented Players
124(1)
Reaction-Oriented Players
125(1)
Nonaction-Oriented Players
126(1)
Responses Based on Failure Patterns (Scripts)
127(5)
Persisting and Resisting
127(1)
Dependence Versus Independence
128(1)
Denial Versus Realism
129(1)
Accepting Versus Bargaining
130(1)
Blaming Versus Placating
131(1)
Telling Players Apart
132(43)
Players' Perceptions
132(2)
Player Attitudes
132(1)
Assertive Versus Responsive Attitudes
133(1)
Playing Attitudes and Personalities (Styles)
134(10)
Comparing Responsive and Assertive Attitudes
136(1)
Determining Playing Styles
137(1)
Playing Style Traits
138(6)
Determining Your Playing Style
144(1)
Favorite Playing Atmospheres
145(26)
The Hunch Player
150(3)
The High Roller
153(3)
The Party Hardy
156(4)
The Loner
160(4)
The System Player
164(4)
The Boss
168(3)
The Winner (Composite Player)
171(4)
Dealers: The Silent Winners and the Scapegoats
172(3)
Telling Tells Apart
175(43)
Beyond Tells (Meta-Tells)
175(1)
If The Tell Fits . . .
176(6)
Predicting Bluffs
180(2)
Hocus Focus
182(2)
Bluffing Styles
184(5)
Body Language and Personalities
187(2)
Conflicts in Body Language
189(10)
Favorite Bluffing Tendencies
196(2)
Poker Eyes
198(1)
The Winner's Tells
198(1)
Responsive Versus Assertive Bluffing
199(17)
Responsiveness in Bluffs
200(1)
Assertiveness in Bluffs
201(1)
Bluffing Preferences
201(13)
Assessing Grid for Bluffing Styles
214(1)
Dynamic Bluffing Styles
214(2)
The Circle of Winners
216(1)
Attitude and Aptitude
217(1)
Improving Your Playing Powers
218(17)
You Can Always Tell a Poker Player
218(3)
Making Success Happen
221(4)
Changing Belief Systems
222(1)
Acquiring Needed Skills and Information
223(1)
Gaining Essential Permissions
224(1)
Real Power Poker
225(2)
Vowels of Success Formula
227(2)
Changing Interpretations of Cards and People
228(1)
Use of Real Power
229(4)
Core Power Poker
229(1)
Power in Blackjack Versus Poker
230(1)
Other Qualities of Power Players
231(2)
Attitude of Gratitude
233(2)
Epilogue
235(2)
Scene 4 -- Concert in Caracalla, Rome
235(2)
Appendices
237(14)
A: Tells and Player Styles
237(4)
B: Gaming Script Inventory
241(4)
C: Compulsive Gambling Twenty Questions
245(2)
D: Poker Hands
247(2)
Ranking Poker Hands
247(1)
Frequency of Hand Combinations
248(1)
E: Poker Odds
249(2)
Suggested Reading 251

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