Ask Mental Game Coach Jared Tendler

JARED simple questions here, Fulltilt for dummies online poker play book not sure if you read it, but is this book a good source to draw from for like an overall online poker experience or just FullTilt? Last question- I get deep in a ton of tournments, I always get 99's or 8'8s some mid to small pocket pair and play them wrong. when should I play these hands and why? thanks Buddy

Jared speaks on the mental aspects of poker, not beginning strategy.

Post some hands in the HH section. Mid PP in MTTs are so specific to position, relative stacks, tourney stage etc. that a single answer here is absolutely impossible, except maybe to say dont play em if they always bust you. Find out what you are doing wrong first.

IDK that book so cant comment.

That book ^ is not relative to 'Fulltilt site',.. it's an ok book (look it up online & check the table of contents in it).

Not in a reply to anything I wrote, but its funny the things that trigger responses. When I read that ^^^ part of your reply, I asked myself what are my poker goals....easy...to make a buck. But the 2nd part of that , the WHY I'm (or anyone is) motivated by those goals is the tricky part.

After spending a few minutes pondering that, I came to the simple realization that I need to follow one of my oldest tenants of life.......Be Prepared (Boy Scout 101)! I need to improve my game so that I can be prepared for whatever game I find myself in.

I used to play live with short stacks with the mindset that it was a social way to waste some time (not money). I made money easy at the time of an incident where I found myself playing HE against someone who in my current mind might have been Freddy Deeb, short and less than handsome, He saw me for the fish I obviously was. I did not know the rules for HE at the time and he saw that. Cleaned me out of $100 pretty quickly, and the rest of the table mostly sat and watched him do it. I left that casino with a rather bad taste in my mouth for live ring poker, and my inability to cope with with all the (unknown to me) permutations of the game. Plainly I got my ass handed to me on a platter and I was embarrassed.

This was before online poker, and I really didn't get much opportunity to improve my game till online came along. I might have tried a live ring game in Reno since then, where I broke even and considered it an entertainment value.

Still no fan of ring, not sure I will ever get over that, but I did prepare myself enough so that I could handle a social ring game fairly well....or so I delude myself.

I prefer tourney's and SnG's. While I haven't got rich over the years I have never had to RE-deposit at any site, and have only gone busto at bodog, where I won a freeroll to get any BR at all there. I consider that a no loss scenario.

All that as premise to this question..... Do you think, or am I right in thinking that the games (ring/tourney) are different enough (approach wise), that I should stop worrying about trying to be good at the ring version and feel OK about my tourney preferences?

So I have a Kobo ereader now & understand that I will be able to read your book in ebook format (Adobe PDF DRM .. I believe) if I also download Adobe Digital Editions.
I can also pay for it using PayPal (although it'll be going thru someone else's paypal as I've already paid them on Stars, lol). Do you take VisaGiftCard? .. or MasterCardGiftCard? (< these are typically easiest for me).
I also won a $50 Amazon GiftCard here on Cardschat but going to their site I noticed that the ebooks are only available for 'Kindle' (which I'm not sure if that is compatible for my ereader 'Kobo').

I also tilt easily when trying to read directions for stuff (ie. give me a new tv, surround sound & a dvd player with instructions for all 3, asking me to hook them up & you will see someone building to a rage).

Had another suckazz day in the donkaments, feeling some sense of 'entitlement' when I get other player (both sitting Top10 of ~200 left in large-field donkament) to actually 7ball ai on me vs my AA... "weeeeee!!!".. showing 'QQ'.. flop brings a 'Q' & 'poof'... I'm out, LOL. I got exactly what I wanted... but wasn't too happy with the outcome, lol (this also seemed to have come after a long string of stinging b.s. in succession... perhaps looked at from a slightly biased/prejudiced viewpoint... but ffs.. LOL). Bringin' in the NewYear losin' 80/20's like they were 20/80's & wondering "when is my 1-time?"

I need to read this book
(hopefully I'll be able to figure out how to get it this week & get it onto my Kobo)
tks again Jared, the stuff you've written here in this thread has been very helpful for me. Sometimes I feel like I haven't progressed that far but do know I'm working on it & probably if I were able to look back a year or so thru a crystal ball, I'd be shocked at seein' how bad I was compared to now.

Jared, one of my goals in 2011 was to overcome tilt.

I did it!!!!!!!

One of my goals for 2012 is to learn to be honest with myself.....

Remains to be seen.

Happy New Year.

Store where you've been purchasing coffee mugs will be needing to adjust their purchase orders for 2012.

Jared,
Thanks for coming out and helping us out. I have a problem and that caused me a few tournaments so far from getting first. I have a temper problem...and when that happens, I don't give a damn anymore and just shove all in without thinking. At that point I get blank out....and all I wanted to do is beat someone up physically. I have been controlling that by shoving all in and keep quiet ignoring everyone thing and everyone around me. How can I overcome this temper to focus the hand at play?