Synopsis
From Beyond Tells, which integrates personality types and poker tells, to Beyond Bluffs, which unravels the mysteries of what happens when players use NLP (Neuro-Linguistice Programing) to enhance their game, the author has gone beyond both to Beyond Traps. In this book, James A. McKenna answers the question of why the same top players seem to continue to make the final tables.
This book demonstrated the qualities of consistent winners and what sets them apart from the average poker player. These characteristics are available for players to enhance their own games and improve their own characters. By describing the attributes of consistent winners, McKenna shows how such winners avoid the distressing script patterns of losers and those who just break even.
Beyond Traps will show how consistent winners use different bait for different prey. They trap and avoid traps by noticing the difference between players who are pigeons and who are fishes. Different approaches are needed for different personalities and such traps as these are revealed:
Pigeon Traps, Fish Traps, Speed Traps, Net Traps, and Mixed Traps.
In this anatomy of success, the author reveals the head, the shoulders, and the foundations of consistent poker winners. How winners think differently, how they manage what they have, and the belief systems of consistent players will be revealed.
A major difference between consistent winners and players who do fairly well is the mastery of when and how to make moves. Many players will play the cards. Consistent winners will use cards to plays their opponents and make moves designed to reach their goals. For many, the goals are to win the most pots. For consistent winners, their main goal is to play their best game all the time, whether it’s good times or bad times.
This book will take a serious look at the difference in how consistent winners hold onto the things that bring success and losers refuse to let go of the things that bring them failure. Conditions of failure are demonstrated by errors in folding, playing position, using odds, bluffing, checking, in betting. Consistent winner demonstrate their conditions of success in how they bet, manage their money, and think. Winners know how to handle success.
Finally, being human consistent winners can get into the distress of success. For that reason, McKenna has included a section on "Life after Winning." Besides consistent winners’ traits (including their destinies, their skills, their luck, their beliefs and their permissions to use and be all that they can be), McKenna discusses what happens when people can’t handle success.