Writing a book?

[Katie Dozier]

A lot of good info in this thread, I don’t have a ton to add besides to pay a lot of attention to how you chose to organize your book. Also, whenever I embark on a book project I try to make it one that fills a perceived void in the market. I always want there to be a solid reason for something I help to create to exist in the first place as opposed to being a slightly different version of the same old thing if that makes sense.

Best of luck! [emoji4]

 

[BoyNamedSude]

Not really... personally, I enjoy listening to people who claim they don't care about environmental issues, explain it away as a "Moral Issue", and then point a finger someone else for being morally corrupt. Have you considered the environmental impact of playing cards online as compared to "live"?

 

[LarsLucidor]

Not really... personally, I enjoy listening to people who claim they don't care about environmental issues, explain it away as a "Moral Issue", and then point a finger someone else for being morally corrupt. Have you considered the environmental impact of playing cards online as compared to "live"?

I'm not saying you're morally corrupt. You're morally more sensitive than me. I don't have refined feelings like you. Im saying that if you really want to change people's ways, and change the world (or whatever reason you may have) you're doing it wrong. People don't change because someone is telling them how not to do something. You're just projecting your feelings without making it constructive in any way.
If environmentalists think that moralizing over other people's behavior on the internet is the best way to save the planet, then we are lost, for real.
If you're telling me for example that live poker is worse for the environment and that I shouldn't do that just because they use plastic cards or whatever... well, I don't care.

 

[finaltable1]

So, I've been collecting my CardsChat posts in a Word document as a start towards writing a book on Poker. I'm up to 250 pages now, so I think that's a good starting point and was thinking about giving it a go. Now, I am NOT a professional and my win/loss stats are actually horrible. However (most of) my poker tips are based on how you should play and not how I actually play. So, I have three thoughts. First, I could post under another name like a lot of authors do. However, I feel this would be deceptive with a book on poker tips and don't like the idea. Second, I could just write it and not tell people I'm a rank amateur. Finally, I could post a disclaimer at the very beginning of the book where I come clean about my lack of success, but why I think people may find the book useful anyway.

My question is, which of those 3 options would you be most inclined to buy the book (without knowing anything else about the book)? Or, would you completely ignore any book not written by a pro?

And for bonus points, if you have any strong opinions on whether or not my posts are good enough in general to be the starting point of a book, let me know. All feedback is welcome here.

You can write a book about psychological manipulations used by poker companies to attract and keep players at the tables. You can start with explanation of the rake and write your interviews with pokersites representatives... Just ask them such questions - What's the difference for their servers when they're hosting a) $1.1 b) $22 c) $109 MTTs. Do their servers, I mean computers really consume energy or traffic when 1000 players are playing $109 tourney compared to same 1000 players playing $1.1 tourney?

You can go on and explain to the world manipulations used in the poker TV shows, and use other types of TV shows or movies where viewer associates himself with main character that he likes.

You can also write about mathematical part of poker, which exploits feelings of those who think that they're smart and can "change their life" by playing poker and not lifting the bottom from a chair..

Be provocative creator and bring a fresh new, and ! objective ! look, instead of being a follower and trying to write something that has already been written many times by many other authors.

Any hype is good, bad or good - doesn't matter. Bad hype spreads much faster and much better.

Name it something like "101 reasons to never play online games if you want to become a millionaire" and there you go... 400K people will spend a dollar to buy your book, so that you can buy yourself a top Tesla for the roads and a small boat for the waves :wavey:

 

[finaltable1]

1. I will not be buying any books. Its bad for the environment.
2. Being deceptive is the best way to sell anything... Including a weak hand or pharmaceuticals. Its called bluffing.
3. The better option is to use YouTube, or some other venue, and develop a completely misleading and sensational title, like "How I Won a Million Dollars by Internet Poker in a Week."
It does not matter that people won't like your vid... once they click, u will be paid.

People who don't read books have low iQ level, those who have low iQ are usually doing more damage to the environment than others. Plus it's strange that you know about YouTube and Brics Bank, but haven't heard about e-readers like Amazon Kindle.

The best way to sell anything is to create a nice product, what you're trying to say up there, is called "re-selling someones product". When you've designed a product of your own, if it's good then it will sell by itself. People will spread word about it and such are the first sales. Other advertising tools will increase sales, but in order to advertise something you have to provide explanation and proof that your product is good or better than competitive products. I never wanted to sell some of my engravings until my guests saw them and proposed me a good price and asked for more. Begging someone to buy something from you isn't a good strategy.


And LOL, I've got several YouTube channels, one with my original content and few more with "copy/edit and paste" content. You can forget about "sensational titles" for past 3-4 years, and surely forget about such BS in the future, YouTube's algorithms will never let video with poor and not original content but with "sensational title" to be popular.

So, when you're trying to write a "quality post", please double check the quality

 

[goaldriversv]

typically a book comes from a position of authority and experience. if you have neither, then your credibility is shot. think about it this way, if you saw the contents of your book on the web, would you pay for the book yourself? my guess is no. that said, there are tons of self published books that come from authors who have no business writing them, but yet they are still bought or downloaded. do what you feel you're comfortable and you'll eventually see whether the hours and hours you put in was worth the effort. you're taking the biggest hit out of any consumer

 

[M13A13]

When you finish writing your book, post it here so we can read it. Poker is a game of skill and experience as well as a game of chance.

 

[Newzooozooo]

Hi.
The CardsChat community is a huge source of information. I think that each of us, if he so desires, will be able to accumulate enough material to write a book. Overall, I think writing a book is a good option that can benefit both you and others.
Good luck.

 

[Gloria_Legenda]

Read above that buying books is a waste of money, some of them are true, but nothing compares to just bought, freshly printed book!Think with this many will agree.And eyes while a pleasure to read.

 

[MattRyder]

Is this a prank thread? Sorry, but .......

 

[This Fish Chums]

Is this a prank thread? Sorry, but .......

Actually, no, it wasn't. I went the start a blog/website route. I asked and can't share in this forum, understandably though. Unpaid advertising and all.

 

[prizzy711]

Good luck on your endeavor. Look forward to buying it!

 

[Bozovicdj]

So, I've been collecting my CardsChat posts in a Word document as a start towards writing a book on Poker. I'm up to 250 pages now, so I think that's a good starting point and was thinking about giving it a go. Now, I am NOT a professional and my win/loss stats are actually horrible. However (most of) my poker tips are based on how you should play and not how I actually play. So, I have three thoughts. First, I could post under another name like a lot of authors do. However, I feel this would be deceptive with a book on poker tips and don't like the idea. Second, I could just write it and not tell people I'm a rank amateur. Finally, I could post a disclaimer at the very beginning of the book where I come clean about my lack of success, but why I think people may find the book useful anyway.

My question is, which of those 3 options would you be most inclined to buy the book (without knowing anything else about the book)? Or, would you completely ignore any book not written by a pro?

And for bonus points, if you have any strong opinions on whether or not my posts are good enough in general to be the starting point of a book, let me know. All feedback is welcome here.

Firstly, I am reluctant to believe that your tips about the strategy of the game, in the book would be good and of good quality if picked up from the site specifically.
I mean, almost everything you read here comes from amateurs, recreational players etc.
Also, if someone is to buy a book on poker for the purposes of learning, everyone would go for books written by famous profitable poker pros.

Secondly, Yes, I would definitely not buy a book written by someone who isn't a pro or who doesn't have a proven profitable record.

Lastly, I believe that there is room for writing a book on personal opinions about the game.

Some common question on the site are:
-How did you first start playing?
-What made you play the game?
-Would you turn pro or not?

With this in mind, I would like to read a book written by a complete amateur that would not have any tip, but just observations and situations regarding the very beginning. How you got better if at all. What did the first place you played live looked like etc.

We can already see something similar in the form of VLOGs where recreational players or some lower stake grinders are making videos about what they are doing, how they are playing, some are about the hands, some are about life, some about the casinos.

 

[David macdonald]

Firstly, I am reluctant to believe that your tips about the strategy of the game, in the book would be good and of good quality if picked up from the site specifically.
I mean, almost everything you read here comes from amateurs, recreational players etc.
Also, if someone is to buy a book on poker for the purposes of learning, everyone would go for books written by famous profitable poker pros.

Secondly, Yes, I would definitely not buy a book written by someone who isn't a pro or who doesn't have a proven profitable record.

Lastly, I believe that there is room for writing a book on personal opinions about the game.

Some common question on the site are:
-How did you first start playing?
-What made you play the game?
-Would you turn pro or not?

With this in mind, I would like to read a book written by a complete amateur that would not have any tip, but just observations and situations regarding the very beginning. How you got better if at all. What did the first place you played live looked like etc.

We can already see something similar in the form of VLOGs where recreational players or some lower stake grinders are making videos about what they are doing, how they are playing, some are about the hands, some are about life, some about the casinos.

It's a good idea and I congratulate you on doing this, the problem is that even if we know we are good players sometimes we don't get the luck a pro does. If you are writing a book on poker you need to ask yourself what is it based on? Maths, percentages, stats, reading opponents or actual events that happened? Also a book written by an amateur doesn't excite me (sorry just being honest) I have read many books on poker. I think you can Base the book on something else but some of your points of view in it, if it's math then perfect you don't necessarily need to be a pro. Why don't you write it and when you improve your game use it as a draft to make a better book? Anyway good luck

 

[Nathan Williams]

I have written 3 books about poker. When I released my first book back in 2011 I was a largely unknown small stakes online pro.

So, you do not need to be some famous live pro on TV all the time in order to write a popular poker book. If it is high quality, then people will buy it.

GL, feel free to shoot me a pm if you have any questions.

 

[reylandzoren]

This allows effective decision making.