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Acknowledgments

I am very lucky to have friends who help me with my books and magazine columns. They suggest topics, offer quotations, and critically review my drafts.

David Sklansky, poker’s foremost theorist, has had an immense impact on my thinking. Over the past eight years, we have discussed a very wide range of topics. He also commented on much of this book’s content when it was aimed at a different audience and had a different title, Business Is a Poker Game.

Mason Malmuth, the author and publisher of many of the best poker books, also read Business Is a Poker Game, and he made dozens of suggestions. Mason’s and David’s published works provided this book’s basic organization.

Matt Lessinger (author of The Book of Bluffs), Barry Tanenbaum (author of Advanced Limit Hold’em Strategy), Dave (“Cinch”) Hench (author of The Poker World According to Cinch), and Tommy Angelo (author of Elements of Poker) are very talented writers who have edited this book and many of my magazine columns. I repeatedly quote them because their ideas are so correct, original, and provocative.

Dr. Daniel Kessler, a clinical psychologist, has contributed many ideas that greatly improved the book, especially the final chapter and appendix C.

Ed Miller is the co-author of four poker books. His expertise in risk management greatly improved the chapter on that subject.

Jim Brier and I talk about poker all the time, and he has taught me a great deal. Jerry Flannigan helped me clarify my thoughts on several subjects.

I’d like to thank all the poker authors whose work I’ve quoted. Their published work and private conversations have taught me a great deal.

The No-limit Discussion Group and the Wednesday Poker Discussion Group have given me dozens of ideas on virtually everything related to poker.

Sharron Hoppe, my personal assistant, helped with both this book and the other tasks I neglected while writing it.

I am grateful to all of them and to the dozens of other people who have talked to me about poker and psychology.