Alan N. Schoonmaker Boeken

What Makes Winners Win? Every serious poker player knows there's a big difference between playing well and Winners successfully master specific attitudes and habits. What Do I Need To Win? It's right in your hands. Poker guru Dr. Alan N. Schoonmaker explains the key skills that enable winners to bring in the money. With his expert guidance you can master them, too. You'll learn     • Manage risk and information     • Develop better discipline     • Improve your decision-making processes     • Focus on the right issues     • Choose the information you give others     • Control your reactions to feelings     • Act decisivelyBy mastering the behaviors and skills that Schoonmaker teaches, you'll be able to play more confidently--and win more often. Alan N. Schoonmaker, Ph.D, is the author of Your Worst Poker Enemy, Your Best Poker Friend, and the top-selling The Psychology of Poker; he is also a columnist for Card Player magazine. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from UC Berkeley, and has conducted research and taught at UCLA, Carnegie-Mellon, and Belguim's Catholic University of Louvain. He lives in Las Vegas.

When Jim McManus, author of the New York Times best-seller, Positively Fifth Street, read our manuscript, he wrote, Whenever I read something by David, I never fail to learn new things about the world. The book is fantastically illuminating, well written, works as a kind of autobiography, and Al's input is effective as commentary. You will probably feel the same way by seeing how creatively combining math, logic, psychology, and probability theory can solve problems you might have previously regarded as unsolvable. Your ability to identify and even manipulate other people's thoughts and desires should improve, as well as your ability to understand and resist other experts who attempt to do the same thing. And this book will almost certainly put money in your pocket. The title, DUCY?, was taken from our forums at twoplustwo.com. To encourage people to think better, David would often ask, Do you see why? before fully explaining his conclusions or advice. Forum participants created the acronym and started using it themselves, and it became so popular that the following definition now appears in the Urban Abbreviated form of Do you see why? Commonly used on online forums; originated from the Two Plus Two Poker Community. We believe that the term does a good job of capturing the essence of this book.

Poker erfordert eine Vielzahl von Fähigkeiten und Strategien, die beherrscht und im richtigen Moment angewendet werden müssen. Dazu zählen Handauswahl, Aggressivität, Bluffen, Semibluffen, das Erkennen von Verhaltensmustern, die Auswahl geeigneter Partien und Handanalysen. Diese Fähigkeiten sind nicht selbstverständlich und erfordern unnatürliche Aktionen; einfach „natürlich“ zu spielen, führt nicht zum Erfolg. Der Autor gibt keine strategischen Ratschläge, sondern beleuchtet, wie psychologische Einflüsse das eigene und das Spielverhalten der Gegner beeinflussen. Fragen wie die Gründe für die aggressive oder passive Spielweise bestimmter Spieler sowie die unterschiedlichen Spielstile werden behandelt. Viele Spieler kennen die richtigen Züge, können dieses Wissen jedoch nicht umsetzen. Das bloße Lernen von Strategien garantiert nicht deren angemessene Anwendung. Der Autor empfiehlt strategische Anpassungen zur Optimierung der Ergebnisse gegen verschiedene Spielertypen und persönliche Anpassungen, die helfen, besser zu spielen und mehr Freude am Poker zu haben. Es wird aufgezeigt, warum Spieler so agieren, wie sie es tun, und wie man diese Erkenntnisse für das eigene Spiel nutzen kann.