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Notes from the poker trenches
Tikay10
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"Notes from the poker trenches" is an e-book by Sky Poker regular @SR23 , summed up on Amazon as follows;
Hero sets out on a journey. Hero faces obstacles. Hero triumphs. Hero (and everyone) is happy.
Simply google the book title & it takes you to the Amazon Link.
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Okay, £1.99 is decent. Might flick in the few big blinds at some point.
Having never used Amazon (I know, I know)....can you get this on a I phone/Tablet?
PS....he is never 23
Managed to find a better synopsis on Amazon Books;
Have you ever read the following story?
Hero sets out on a journey. Hero faces obstacles. Hero triumphs. Hero (and everyone) is happy.
Overdone, isn't it?
And not only overdone, but not really like life.
Life is a bit more like this: hero sets out on a journey, hero flaps up a bit, hero has some success and resolves to have more, hero learns stuff, hero unlearns stuff, hero spews, hero vows not to spew, hero spews again, hero drinks, hero smokes, hero wins, hero loses, hero wins again, hero isn't really sure if they are winning or losing, hero thinks their journey will have a definitive ending, hero is wrong.
This is that story, set over 86 poker columns and 86 weeks. Includes annotations.
Ive called a shove at the spinups.
Written with a self effacing sense of humour, Notes from the Poker Trenches is a compendium of a weekly poker column that dissects the tactics, nuances and psychology of the game of skill that is poker. You follow the author on a journey from complete novice to competent poker player and experience all of the lessons learnt along the way. If you are interested in the dynamics of the game, are curious about what it takes to become a competent poker player or have an interest in somnolent stoat-based onanism, then this is definitely the book for you.
Now that's a specialist hobby...
(That's the brag bit. The beat bit is that my book has slipped to 81,277 in the Amazon bestsellers list.)
This collection of columns about the experience of a man clicking his mouse into the world of online proves three things about the author: he knows the game, he can write, and he steals titles like an artist. It is therefore entertaining, moving and honest. I was an online poker pro for a decade and I felt like I was reading an account of my thirties.
The author, like me, found himself attracted to poker because of an independent streak. The game is a battle of wits played in a meritocracy. It can be very attractive to people who have a somewhat underdeveloped collection of marketable experience. ‘Notes from the Poker Trenches’ explores, over eighteen months, one man’s experience of the conflict between self-determinism and self-sabotage.
The author’s raw honesty causes the writing to reach a high level: the book contains far more than the frustration and the euphoria provoked by the game. Few poker writers admit that, when you are not playing, the world away from the highs and lows provoked by a pack of cards can seem somewhat grey by comparison. Even fewer writers produce work that imagines the author talking to an Old Testament-styled God who is threatening to punish an unfocused poker player by rousing a grizzly bear.
It is concepts such as the above that broadens the appeal of the collection beyond poker lovers. The author takes us on a chariot ride that threatens bewilderment and bankruptcy but It could also offer enlightenment and enrichment. It explores why we take risks and how they can have a psychological cost.
It also describes of one of the most unusual poker plays I’ve read.
I’m therefore all-in on the probability that the author’s inverted madeleine moment is seeing hole cards of a king and a four.
Wonderful.
Step aside, Hemingway.
i'll buy this
it better be good
I expect to see you in Brighton?