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THE WORLD'S #1 POKER MANUAL - Card Games

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Poker Book, Opponents<br />

NT Home Page::The Precursors to Neo-Tech<br />

Poker: A Guaranteed Income<br />

for Life<br />

Search WWW Search neo-tech.com<br />

Neo-Tech Home Page<br />

The Ultimate Leverage for Riches<br />

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PART FOUR<br />

OPPONENTS<br />

In poker, all opponents are potential financial assets. The good poker player first gets his opponents<br />

involved in the game, then he exploits them to win their money.<br />

XVI<br />

Involvement (81)<br />

As players become emotionally and financially involved in a poker game, they become easier to exploit<br />

and their chances of quitting the game decrease.<br />

1. Emotional (82)<br />

Emotional involvement can result from gambling impulses . . . and most poker players are gamblers.<br />

[ 24 ] When a gambler loses, he keeps on playing in an attempt to recover his losses. When a gambler<br />

wins, he forgets his losses and concludes that he has finally learned how to win. The gambler's<br />

subconscious desire to punish or destroy himself emerges as an abiding, irrational optimism. The good<br />

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