Basic
- Professional Attitude
- Stop-Loss Limits - Pulling the Ripcord
- How can you protect your money from tilt?
- Gambling addiction - Cause, outcome and a way out
- Tells in Online Poker
- Neuropsychology of Poker (1) - Under the Hood
- Neuropsychology of Poker (2) - Serotonin and Mood
- Metagame - What It Is, and Why It’s Important
- Away from the table
- Common Learning Errors
- Mindmapping
- Setting and reaching goals (1): From a vision to concrete goals
- Psychology Beginners Learning Path
- Psychology material overview
- About Tilting
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The importance of psychology
Poker psychology takes two forms, one is understanding the motivations and traits of your opponents. The more you understand these mental poker tells, the more you can exploit them for your own profit.
The second, arguably more important element, is understanding your own mindset. Poker has a lot of variance in it, and many players struggle to deal with the fact that it is a game where you can do everything right and still lose. Bad beats can cause even the best players to go on poker tilt, which can be the most costly leak in your game.
Thankfully we take poker psychology very seriously here at PokerStrategy.com and have a number of poker psychology videos from our top pros, as well as our regular mindset coaches {communitylink=ErikStenqvist+level} and {communitylink=Schnitzelfisch+level}.
We also have lots of content from {communitylink=JaredTendler+level} and our editor {communitylink=BarryCarter+level}, who co-authored The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, the definitive book on understanding poker psychology.
Before you embark on our poker psychology videos, it is much more important to work on the fundamentals of poker like the rules, the maths and the strategies. However when you have those mastered, and in particular if you are struggling to cope with the variance or are feeling the effects of poker tilt, then you should start to watch our poker psychology videos and articles.