Other people enjoy the game. Other play the game for money. But why should they? Not a lot of people know the answer for this question but in a nutshell, one can say that these two are practically the reasons why people play the game of poker.
Poker is serious business. It is a game where frequent and industrious study, deliberately trying to enhance your skills and knowledge, and extreme hard work pays off. There is no poker equivalent of having frequent golf lessons that can make some faces of your game better, but that would screw up those very few things you currently do well. Probably the only close parallel in the aggregate learning proves included in poker is more something like, once you learn how to successfully bluff, then you still need to have enough patience and force yourself not to bluff every single hand that you can.
But beyond the most basic levels, enriching yourself as a better poker player can also prove to be very difficult. If you observe a couple of player, you can observe that this is particularly true. You can even say, with ease, that "going on tilt is bad, so don't do it" but that's just because you are not the one playing. Not on player out of ten can manage to keep tilt to a trivial level. In the rest of their lives, people are incapable to handle equally obvious concepts: there is no point licking lamp posts, avoid putting your hand on a stove burner, don't wear your clothes inside and out. Players, particularly men, cannot prevent their anger, machismo and stubbornness from ruling their play and get the most of them. This then, becomes extremely dangerous and unhealthy for any poker player.
Going back to the point, a lot of players just do not accept that fact that poker is a hard, complicated game that demands too much from its players.
It is easier to believe in ghosts and fairies than it is to engage in hard work that you need to win. Say "change the deck" and you will feel that it is very easy. But studying your rival's tendencies and managing your play to apply to your opponent's strengths and weaknesses is way too hard and complicated. You can do all things amateurish like crying, whining, blaming dealers, flinging cards or saying that the game is rigged. That's perfectly natural as they exist in all poker games because they are easier to do than studying and having the patience to do so.
The lust for shortcuts and easy money overwhelms a lot of poker player, even seasoned ones. These players are urged to find easy answers to very complex problems. They do not have the patience to learn the skill-and they want answers fast. Little do they know that phantom knowledge brings everything but success.
So the next time you step on a poker table, do not let anything overwhelm you. Try to keep your composure and maintain your cool. You are in control and you should be for the rest of your game.
Poker is serious business. It is a game where frequent and industrious study, deliberately trying to enhance your skills and knowledge, and extreme hard work pays off. There is no poker equivalent of having frequent golf lessons that can make some faces of your game better, but that would screw up those very few things you currently do well. Probably the only close parallel in the aggregate learning proves included in poker is more something like, once you learn how to successfully bluff, then you still need to have enough patience and force yourself not to bluff every single hand that you can.
But beyond the most basic levels, enriching yourself as a better poker player can also prove to be very difficult. If you observe a couple of player, you can observe that this is particularly true. You can even say, with ease, that "going on tilt is bad, so don't do it" but that's just because you are not the one playing. Not on player out of ten can manage to keep tilt to a trivial level. In the rest of their lives, people are incapable to handle equally obvious concepts: there is no point licking lamp posts, avoid putting your hand on a stove burner, don't wear your clothes inside and out. Players, particularly men, cannot prevent their anger, machismo and stubbornness from ruling their play and get the most of them. This then, becomes extremely dangerous and unhealthy for any poker player.
Going back to the point, a lot of players just do not accept that fact that poker is a hard, complicated game that demands too much from its players.
It is easier to believe in ghosts and fairies than it is to engage in hard work that you need to win. Say "change the deck" and you will feel that it is very easy. But studying your rival's tendencies and managing your play to apply to your opponent's strengths and weaknesses is way too hard and complicated. You can do all things amateurish like crying, whining, blaming dealers, flinging cards or saying that the game is rigged. That's perfectly natural as they exist in all poker games because they are easier to do than studying and having the patience to do so.
The lust for shortcuts and easy money overwhelms a lot of poker player, even seasoned ones. These players are urged to find easy answers to very complex problems. They do not have the patience to learn the skill-and they want answers fast. Little do they know that phantom knowledge brings everything but success.
So the next time you step on a poker table, do not let anything overwhelm you. Try to keep your composure and maintain your cool. You are in control and you should be for the rest of your game.
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