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    <title>The Mental Game</title>
    <description>Discuss the mental aspects required to refrain from tilting</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Got Mental Game Questions?</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2020 05:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (Dr. Tricia Cardner)</author>
      <dc:creator>Dr. Tricia Cardner</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi all!<br />
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I&#039;m Dr. Tricia Cardner, author of Peak Poker Performance and Positive Poker &amp; co-host of the Poker on the Mind Podcast. Recently, I was asked by one of your moderators if I would be interested in fielding some of your mental game questions and here I am!<br />
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I&#039;m an avid poker player as well as a licensed psychotherapist &amp; former psychology professor. My specialty area is peak performance psychology &amp; I have extensive training in positive psychology and sport psychology, too. I work...<br />
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      <title>Doctor! Doctor! Give me the News.</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2018 19:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (noman)</author>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[What is the psyche of a person competing in a game of chance, (poker. BJ), even with the deceit that a higher understanding of the possibilities provides an edge, over using that same superior knowledge in a non chance competition such as Chess or Bridge.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Mental Trap: Sense of Entitlement</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2018 20:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (Monkeysystem)</author>
      <dc:creator>Monkeysystem</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This past weekend I witnessed an event from behind the players in the tournament I played in that could put any student of this game on tilt.<br />
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An elderly lady was obviously in over her head. She needed one of the other players to help her add up her hand totals while she was making her playing decisions. In this tournament if you placed more chips than the max bet in the betting circle, you forfeited the extra chips.  She did this multiple times and forfeited a significant amount. There was...<br />
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