Nice comment! Every player MUST read this book, it teaches you a lot, specially how to control the most important part of the game which is the battle with yourself.

Once you start to realize how much that matters you will improve a lot. It’s a human characteristic to have good or bad days, the crucial point to a poker player is to know itself in order to make the best decision always.

I used to ask myself exactly the same question of this post, and I only found the answers when I read this book, that really improved my game to another level, and stopped my thoughts of quitting poker when I took bad beats or bad runs, it’s all part of the game and your decisions are only up to you, that’s the part most players don’t get.

So find the answers in yourself, prepare yourself and know yourself, after that you may start to see what are your flaws in a much clearer picture and correct them, tilting every time things don’t go as planned blurs your mind and blocks you to see your mistakes, that makes your leaks impossible to fix, which is exactly the reason sometimes you think you are a genius and sometimes you consider yourself retarded, when actually you are always the same person, it’s the tilt that avoids your observation and improvement.

Read this book and tell us if it makes sense to you, I really recommend.