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the good player's techniques and from "being savvy" to his tricks. They quickly let themselves forget
that his techniques and deceptions continue to extract money from them.
Yet any loser at any time can choose to use his mind[ 44 ] to make himself a winner. The mind is the
instrument required to use the Advanced Concepts of Poker Winners make themselves winners by
choosing to effectively use their minds. And losers make themselves losers by choosing to default on the
effective use of their minds. Responsibility for the results of poker rests squarely and solely on the
individual.
3. Why Does the Author Reveal the Advanced Concepts of Poker?
In addition to the answer above (that revealing the Advanced Concepts of Poker will not diminish the
good player's profits), the author gives two additional answers:
1. Compared to playing poker and extracting money from a limited number of players, the potential
profit is greater for selling the Advanced Concepts of Poker to 47,000,000 poker players
domestically and to an estimated 75,000,000 poker players worldwide.
2. After writing the Manual and identifying the nature of winning poker as a highly profitable but
time-consuming, nonproductive activity that requires bringing out the worst in opponents, the
author stopped playing poker.
Poker can work against the good player's self-esteem and happiness no matter how much money he wins
since the source of self-esteem and happiness lies in being productive,[ 45 ] and poker is a
nonproductive activity. Also, in the long run, a person will almost always earn more money by pursuing
productive routes rather than nonproductive or destructive routes.
Furthermore, in poker, the good player must strive to surround himself with losers--with people who are
constantly defaulting on the use of their minds--the opposite kind of people whom the good player could
respect and enjoy. That poker is not a very satisfying or rewarding way for him to consume large,
irreplaceable portions of his life.... The good player, therefore, may be the biggest loser in the game.
And the superior professional player is perhaps the biggest loser in poker, especially in public poker.
Constantly surrounded by losers, he consumes his intelligence and time in a situation that provides a
guaranteed income, but offers neither an interesting nor a productive future.
4. John Finn's Notes on Private Poker
(See Chapter XXVII for John Finn's notes on public poker.)
1. Beat opponents through their personal weaknesses- through their irrationalities. Smoking, for
example, is a self-destructive irrationality that represents a vulnerability--a lack of discipline and
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