Tommy Angelo Presents: A Process of Illumination

Editor's note: In advance of a new audio-book version of Tommy Angelo's classic Elements of Poker, the poker author, coach and player shares this last "element" that encourages another way of looking at our favorite card game.

During bad times, we get unhappy. Let's say we wanted to be less unhappy during bad times. We could train ourselves to do it, if we were to use our bad times as opportunities to practice getting better at getting over bad times. The ideal arrangement would be if we had lots of bad times to practice on, so that we could get better even faster.

So, to help us accelerate the process of learning how to handle bad times, we decide to invent a new game. We call it: Bad Times.…