Poker Advice For Fools

“Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

- Sun Tzu (III. Attack by Stratagem, #18)

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Many poker players read Sun Tzu on the Art of War and they say it helps in their poker game, so I am going to post quotes from the book. This is from Chapter 2 : Waging War, Part 7.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

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