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*Alan Schoonmaker is a poker enthusiast, a practicing psychologist, and a published author. He combined his love of poker, his psychology background, and his writing abilities to develop some of the most influential poker strategy books in history.
Looking for Alan Schoonmaker? We found records in 5 states. See Alan’s age, contact number, house address, email address, public records & run a background check. Keith Alan Schoonmaker. Valatie, New York. Open Full Report. 57 year old male. Keith Alan Schoonmaker has lived in Valatie, NY 12184. Son of Robert and Blanch L. Hartwell Hicks Schoonmaker. Schoonmaker 45, the husband of Patricia Schoonmaker and the proprietor of the popular Al’s Diner in Forestport, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, Oct 16, 1999 in his home. He was also current manager of the Forestport Town Water Treatment Facility.by David Sklansky & Alan N. Schoonmaker, Ph.D.Two Plus Two Internet Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 9
Many people have argued that poker should be considered differently from gambling in general. This argument has been made in discussions of legalization and related topics. Their argument is usually that poker is a skill game, while other gambling games are much less dependent upon skill.
We agree, but believe that they have not gone far enough in explaining many of poker’s unique attributes. Poker does not just require skill. It demands and develops many skills and personal qualities which are essential for making all types of decisions, such as choosing a career, investing money, performing a job, and buying a house.1POKER IS A GREAT TEACHER.
Research clearly proves that people tend to repeat rewarded actions and to discontinue punished ones. Poker teaches by rewarding desirable actions such as thinking logically and understanding other people and by punishing undesirable ones such as ignoring the odds and acting impulsively.2 Other learning principles also apply to poker.Learning Depends Upon Feedback.
Rewards and punishments are valuable feedback. The faster and clearer the feedback is, the more rapidly you will learn. Unfortunately, for learning many desirable qualities the feedback cycle is slow or unclear. For example, if you make a mistake with an important customer, you may never know why you lost his business. At the poker table you often get much quicker feedback.
Until fairly recently, most people learned how to play poker primarily from trial and error. Over the past few decades a rapidly expanding body of books, videotapes, DVDs, classes, and coaches has helped millions of players to speed up the learning curve, but there is no substitute for experience. You have to make good and bad plays and get rewarded and punished to learn poker’s most important lessons. The More Frequently You Get Feedback, The Faster You Will Learn.
Most important real life decisions are made infrequently, and some of them - such as choosing a career - may be made only once. Poker players make and get feedback on hundreds of decisions every session, which greatly accelerates the learning process. Lessons Learned In One Situation Often Generalize To Other Situations.
If poker’s lessons applied only to how to play games, we would not have written this article. But its lessons apply to virtually every aspect of life. For example, if you are impatient or illogical or can’t analyze risks and rewards, you will lose at poker, and you will make many mistakes in business and personal relationships. If poker teaches you how to control your emotions, you will be much more effective almost everywhere. Young People Generally Learn More Quickly Than Older Ones.
Poker’s enemies often insist that they are protecting young people from developing bad habits, but they are really preventing them from learning good ones. Young people love to gamble, sometimes for money, often for much more ’things’ such as grades, pregnancy, and even their lives.
They get a kick from taking chances, and some of their gambles are just, plain stupid. They risk dying or becoming crippled by crazy stunts on roller skates, bicycles, and snowboards. They get pregnant or AIDS by taking easily avoided sexual risks. It is as impossible to prevent young people from ’gambling’ (in its broadest sense) as it is to prevent them from experimenting sexually.
Life is intrinsically risky, and learning how to handle those risks is an important part of growing up. Poker teaches you to think of risks and rewards before acting. If it taught nothing else, poker would prevent some young people from making terrible mistakes. More generally, most of poker’s lessons will help young people to make critically important decisions. POKER IMPROVES YOUR STUDY HABITS.
Because you want to be respected, you and nearly everyone else naturally develop high status qualities and neglect low status ones. Unfortunately, status among Americans - especially young ones - is based primarily on physical attractiveness and athletic ability. The highest status people, the ones others envy and want to date, are physically attractive and good at games such as football, basketball, and soccer. Of course, the good looking, athletic children will probably end up working for the more studious ones, but they may not learn that lesson until it is too late.
American students score abysmally on tests of math, science, and verbal skills partly because so many of them think that study is unimportant. They are not stupider than Europeans, Asians, and South Americans, but they are taught from birth that they will be rewarded for looking good and playing athletic games well.
Worse yet, they learn that being studious is often punished. Their parents may be delighted when they get good grades, but young people care immensely about their peers’ opinions. Good students are called ’nerds’ and ’geeks.’
This anti-intellectualism continues indefinitely. Americans reward good looks and athletic ability far more than studiousness. Models, actors, and athletes get paid several times as much and have much higher status than scientists, teachers, and scholars.
Young people resist studying math, psychology, logic, risk-reward analysis, probability theory, and many other subjects they will need as adults because these subjects seem unrelated to their lives. They don’t see how learning them matters in the competitions they care about, the ones for status, popularity, and dates. Since people rarely study these subjects after graduation, many Americans never learn them.
Poker quickly teaches them the value of these subjects. The ’nerds’ who study poker and subjects such as math, logic, and psychology crush their more attractive and athletic opponents. They even beat smarter people who are too lazy or complacent to study. Winning increases their status and confidence and makes them much more likely to get dates and influence their peers. Poker doesn’t just develop study habits and other important qualities; it also increases the value people place on them. POKER DEVELOPS YOUR MATH SKILLS.
Americans are terrible at math. Our students get abysmal scores on math tests, and most people don’t even try to learn math after leaving school. Their weaknesses remain uncorrected forever.
Many people are not just bad at math; they don’t even want to get better. They essentially say, ’Who needs it?’ When they play poker, they quickly learn that they need it. The winners understand and apply it, while the losers either don’t try or can’t perform the necessary calculations. After their children started playing poker, many parents have exclaimed, ’I’m amazed. He actually wants to study math.’ POKER DEVELOPS YOUR LOGICAL THINKING.
Many authorities are appalled by Americans’ contempt for logic. Instead of thinking logically, too many of us make poor assumptions, rely on intuition, or jump to emotionally-based conclusions.
Poker teaches you to respect and apply logic because it is a series of puzzles. Since you don’t know the other players’ cards, you need logic to help you to figure out what they have, and then more logic to decide how to use that information well. The same general approach that works in poker will help you to make much more important decisions. POKER DEVELOPS YOUR CONCENTRATION.
The first step toward solving poker or real life problems is acquiring the right information. Without it you will certainly make costly mistakes. Poker develops information-gathering qualities, especially concentration. Every poker player has missed signals, including quite obvious ones, made mistakes, and then berated himself, ’How could I be so stupid?’ We can’t think of a more effective way to develop concentration. POKER DEVELOPS YOUR PATIENCE.
Americans are notoriously impatient, which damages many aspects of our lives. We owe trillions of dollars because we buy things on credit instead of waiting until we can pay for them. Our businesses overemphasize short-term results and lose market share to more patient foreign competitors.
Poker develops patience in the most powerful possible way. If you wait patiently for the right situation, you will certainly beat the impatient people who play too many hands. In fact, for most players poker’s first lesson is ’Be Patient.’ POKER DEVELOPS YOUR DISCIPLINE.
Many people lack discipline. They yield to their impulses, including quite destructive ones. Poker develops discipline by rewarding it highly. Virtually all winning players are extremely disciplined.
Their discipline affects everything they do. They fold hands they are tempted to play. They resist the urge to challenge tough players. They avoid distractions, even pleasant ones like chatting with friends or sexually attractive strangers. They don’t criticize bad players whose mistakes cost them money. They control their emotions. online, free multi hand video poker games. They have the self-control to do the necessary, but unpleasant things that most people won’t do.
Television has created a ridiculously inaccurate image of poker. After seeing famous players screaming and trash-talking, viewers naturally assume that such antics are normal. They are utterly mistaken. Television directors show these outbursts for ’dramatic value,’ and a few players act stupidly to get on TV. You will see more outbursts in a half hour of television than in a month in a card room. Please remember that controlled people are often called ’poker faced.’POKER TEACHES YOU TO FOCUS ON THE LONG TERM.
Impatience is not the only cause for short-sightedness. Learning research proves that immediate rewards have much greater impact on people than delayed ones. For example, most American adults are overweight because the immediate pleasure of overeating is more powerful than its disastrous long-term effects such as heart attacks.
Poker players quickly learn that a bad play can have good results and vice versa, but that making decisions with positive, long-term expectation (EV) is the key to success. If you make enough negative EV plays, you must lose. If you make enough positive EV plays, you must win. It is just that simple.
If people thought more of the long term, some of our most serious problems would be solved or become less troublesome. Because of short-sightedness, millions of children drop out of school or get pregnant, and millions of adults neglect their health and finances. POKER TEACHES YOU THAT FORGOING A PROFIT EQUALS TAKING A LOSS (AND VICE VERSA).
Economists call lost profits ’opportunity costs’ and they have written extensively about them. Unfortunately, most people haven’t read their works, and, if they did, they probably wouldn’t agree. They would much rather pass up a chance to make a dollar than risk losing one. They therefore miss many profitable opportunities.
Poker teaches you that lost profits are objectively the same as losses. For example, if the pot offers you 8-to1, and the odds against you are 5-to-1, you should call the bet. Not calling is the same as throwing away money by making a bad call when the odds are against you. POKER DEVELOPS YOUR REALISM.
You and everyone else deny unpleasant realities about yourself, other people, and many other subjects. You believe what you want to believe. Poker develops realism in the cruelest, but most effective way. If you deny reality about yourself, the opposition, the cards, the odds, or almost anything else, you quickly pay for it.
Hundreds of times a night you must assess a complicated situation: your own and the other players’ cards, what the others are going to do, the probability that various cards will come on later rounds, your position, and many other factors, especially your own and the other players’ skill and playing style. If you are realistic, you win. If you deny reality, you lose. POKER TEACHES YOU HOW ADJUST TO CHANGING SITUATIONS.
Most people don’t ask themselves, ’How is this situation different?’ They just do whatever they have always done. Poker demands adjustments because the situation is always changing. One card can convert a worthless hand such as a four flush into an unbeatable one. The player holding the flush and all the opponents should adjust immediately. The player with the winning hand should do whatever will produce the most profit, and the others should cut their losses.
Other things are changing as well. One hand after being in the small blind, the worst position, you have the button, the best position. Every time someone quits and is replaced by a different type of player, the game changes. Every time someone surprises you by folding, checking, betting, or raising you should re-evaluate the situation and adjust to the new information.
Adjusting to real life changes has always been necessary, but it has become much more important because the pace of change has accelerated enormously. We now experience more changes every year than our ancestors encountered in decades. Technology, the economy, social and moral attitudes, and a host of other factors change so dramatically that Alvin Toffler: ’coined the term ’future shock’ to describe the shattering disorientation we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.’3 He argued, ’Change is avalanching upon our heads, and most people are grotesquely unprepared to cope with it.’4 Poker can help you to cope with our constantly changing world.POKER TEACHES YOU TO ADJUST TO DIVERSE PEOPLE.
Most people - especially younger ones - have little experience with diverse people. They live in relatively homogenous towns and neighborhoods and usually relate to people who are fairly similar to themselves.
In online and casino poker games, you have to play with whomever sits down. You must compete against very different kinds of people: aggressive and passive, friendly and nasty, educated and uneducated, quiet and talkative, intelligent and stupid, emotionally controlled and uncontrolled, and so on.
You therefore learn how to understand and adjust to people who think and act very differently from you. The faster and better you do it, the better results you will get. Since you will certainly meet diverse people in more important situations, learning how to relate to them is extremely valuable.5POKER TEACHES YOU TO AVOID RACIAL, SEXUAL AND OTHER PREJUDICES.
Prejudice is always wrong, but it is especially destructive at the poker table. It causes you to underestimate your opposition and make expensive errors. To play well, you should be ’gender-blind, color-blind, and just-about-everything else-blind, because in the end, winning is based on merit.’6
Poker provides an extremely ’level playing field.’ In no other popular competition is everyone treated so equally. You can’t play golf against Tiger Woods, but you can sit down at any poker table. You can play against anyone from a novice to a world class player, and you will all be treated as equals. If you get the cards and play them well, you will win, no matter who you are. POKER TEACHES YOU HOW TO HANDLE LOSSES.
Many people can’t cope with losses. A lost job, argument, or - God forbid -romantic relationship is a massive tragedy. They can’t accept the loss and may even obsess over it. It takes over their lives, making them look backward rather than forward.Alan Schoonmaker Modelo
Poker teaches you how to cope with losses because they occur so frequently. You lose far more hands than you win, and losing sessions and losing streaks are just normal parts of the game. You also learn that trying to get even quickly is a prescription for disaster. You have to accept short-term losses and continue to play a solid, patient game. You can’t be a winner - in poker or life - if you don’t learn how to get over losses and move on. POKER TEACHES YOU TO DEPERSONALIZE CONFLICT.
Many people take conflicts too personally. They may want to beat someone so badly that they ’win the battle, but lose the war.’ Worse yet, if they lose, they may take it as a personal defeat and ache for revenge. Anyone who has seriously played games with painful physical contact (such as football, boxing, and soccer) is less likely to take conflict too personally. Getting hurt teaches some athletes that conflict is just part of the game and life. Alas, many people never learn that lesson.
Poker teaches you to depersonalize conflicts because it is based on impersonal conflict. The objective is to win each other’s money, and everyone’s money is the same. It doesn’t matter whether you win or lose to Harry, Susan, or Bob. Everybody’s chips have the same value, and everybody’s money spends the same.
Poker quickly teaches you that being bluffed, sandbagged, outdrawn, and just plain outplayed are not personal challenges or insults. They are just parts of the game. Poker also teaches you that taking conflicts personally can be extremely expensive.
If you ache for revenge, you may act foolishly and lose a lot of money. Beating ’your enemy’ can become so important that you play cards you should fold, try hopeless bluffs, and take many other stupid, self-destructive actions. The Chinese have a wonderful saying, ’If you set out for revenge, dig two graves: one for him, and one for you.’ Poker teaches that principle to every open-minded player. POKER TEACHES YOU HOW TO PLAN. Alan Schoonmaker
Many people don’t plan well. Instead of setting objectives and planning the steps to reach them, they react impulsively or habitually. Poker develops your planning ability for an extremely wide range of time periods:
*This betting round
*This entire hand
*This session
*This tournament
*This year
*Your e
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*Alan Schoonmaker Modelo
*Alan Schoonmaker
*Alan Schoonmaker Negocie Y Gane
*Alan Schoonmaker Poker
*Alan Schoonmaker
*Alan Schoonmaker Books
*Alan Schoonmaker Wikipedia
*Keith Schoonmaker’s Reputation Profile. 2 Profile Searches. Court Records found View. Lawsuits, Liens or Bankruptcies found on Keith’s Background Report Criminal or Civil Court records found on Keith’s Family, Friends, Neighbors, or Classmates View Details.
*Alan Schoonmaker is a poker enthusiast, a practicing psychologist, and a published author. He combined his love of poker, his psychology background, and his writing abilities to develop some of the most influential poker strategy books in history.
Looking for Alan Schoonmaker? We found records in 5 states. See Alan’s age, contact number, house address, email address, public records & run a background check. Keith Alan Schoonmaker. Valatie, New York. Open Full Report. 57 year old male. Keith Alan Schoonmaker has lived in Valatie, NY 12184. Son of Robert and Blanch L. Hartwell Hicks Schoonmaker. Schoonmaker 45, the husband of Patricia Schoonmaker and the proprietor of the popular Al’s Diner in Forestport, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, Oct 16, 1999 in his home. He was also current manager of the Forestport Town Water Treatment Facility.by David Sklansky & Alan N. Schoonmaker, Ph.D.Two Plus Two Internet Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 9
Many people have argued that poker should be considered differently from gambling in general. This argument has been made in discussions of legalization and related topics. Their argument is usually that poker is a skill game, while other gambling games are much less dependent upon skill.
We agree, but believe that they have not gone far enough in explaining many of poker’s unique attributes. Poker does not just require skill. It demands and develops many skills and personal qualities which are essential for making all types of decisions, such as choosing a career, investing money, performing a job, and buying a house.1POKER IS A GREAT TEACHER.
Research clearly proves that people tend to repeat rewarded actions and to discontinue punished ones. Poker teaches by rewarding desirable actions such as thinking logically and understanding other people and by punishing undesirable ones such as ignoring the odds and acting impulsively.2 Other learning principles also apply to poker.Learning Depends Upon Feedback.
Rewards and punishments are valuable feedback. The faster and clearer the feedback is, the more rapidly you will learn. Unfortunately, for learning many desirable qualities the feedback cycle is slow or unclear. For example, if you make a mistake with an important customer, you may never know why you lost his business. At the poker table you often get much quicker feedback.
Until fairly recently, most people learned how to play poker primarily from trial and error. Over the past few decades a rapidly expanding body of books, videotapes, DVDs, classes, and coaches has helped millions of players to speed up the learning curve, but there is no substitute for experience. You have to make good and bad plays and get rewarded and punished to learn poker’s most important lessons. The More Frequently You Get Feedback, The Faster You Will Learn.
Most important real life decisions are made infrequently, and some of them - such as choosing a career - may be made only once. Poker players make and get feedback on hundreds of decisions every session, which greatly accelerates the learning process. Lessons Learned In One Situation Often Generalize To Other Situations.
If poker’s lessons applied only to how to play games, we would not have written this article. But its lessons apply to virtually every aspect of life. For example, if you are impatient or illogical or can’t analyze risks and rewards, you will lose at poker, and you will make many mistakes in business and personal relationships. If poker teaches you how to control your emotions, you will be much more effective almost everywhere. Young People Generally Learn More Quickly Than Older Ones.
Poker’s enemies often insist that they are protecting young people from developing bad habits, but they are really preventing them from learning good ones. Young people love to gamble, sometimes for money, often for much more ’things’ such as grades, pregnancy, and even their lives.
They get a kick from taking chances, and some of their gambles are just, plain stupid. They risk dying or becoming crippled by crazy stunts on roller skates, bicycles, and snowboards. They get pregnant or AIDS by taking easily avoided sexual risks. It is as impossible to prevent young people from ’gambling’ (in its broadest sense) as it is to prevent them from experimenting sexually.
Life is intrinsically risky, and learning how to handle those risks is an important part of growing up. Poker teaches you to think of risks and rewards before acting. If it taught nothing else, poker would prevent some young people from making terrible mistakes. More generally, most of poker’s lessons will help young people to make critically important decisions. POKER IMPROVES YOUR STUDY HABITS.
Because you want to be respected, you and nearly everyone else naturally develop high status qualities and neglect low status ones. Unfortunately, status among Americans - especially young ones - is based primarily on physical attractiveness and athletic ability. The highest status people, the ones others envy and want to date, are physically attractive and good at games such as football, basketball, and soccer. Of course, the good looking, athletic children will probably end up working for the more studious ones, but they may not learn that lesson until it is too late.
American students score abysmally on tests of math, science, and verbal skills partly because so many of them think that study is unimportant. They are not stupider than Europeans, Asians, and South Americans, but they are taught from birth that they will be rewarded for looking good and playing athletic games well.
Worse yet, they learn that being studious is often punished. Their parents may be delighted when they get good grades, but young people care immensely about their peers’ opinions. Good students are called ’nerds’ and ’geeks.’
This anti-intellectualism continues indefinitely. Americans reward good looks and athletic ability far more than studiousness. Models, actors, and athletes get paid several times as much and have much higher status than scientists, teachers, and scholars.
Young people resist studying math, psychology, logic, risk-reward analysis, probability theory, and many other subjects they will need as adults because these subjects seem unrelated to their lives. They don’t see how learning them matters in the competitions they care about, the ones for status, popularity, and dates. Since people rarely study these subjects after graduation, many Americans never learn them.
Poker quickly teaches them the value of these subjects. The ’nerds’ who study poker and subjects such as math, logic, and psychology crush their more attractive and athletic opponents. They even beat smarter people who are too lazy or complacent to study. Winning increases their status and confidence and makes them much more likely to get dates and influence their peers. Poker doesn’t just develop study habits and other important qualities; it also increases the value people place on them. POKER DEVELOPS YOUR MATH SKILLS.
Americans are terrible at math. Our students get abysmal scores on math tests, and most people don’t even try to learn math after leaving school. Their weaknesses remain uncorrected forever.
Many people are not just bad at math; they don’t even want to get better. They essentially say, ’Who needs it?’ When they play poker, they quickly learn that they need it. The winners understand and apply it, while the losers either don’t try or can’t perform the necessary calculations. After their children started playing poker, many parents have exclaimed, ’I’m amazed. He actually wants to study math.’ POKER DEVELOPS YOUR LOGICAL THINKING.
Many authorities are appalled by Americans’ contempt for logic. Instead of thinking logically, too many of us make poor assumptions, rely on intuition, or jump to emotionally-based conclusions.
Poker teaches you to respect and apply logic because it is a series of puzzles. Since you don’t know the other players’ cards, you need logic to help you to figure out what they have, and then more logic to decide how to use that information well. The same general approach that works in poker will help you to make much more important decisions. POKER DEVELOPS YOUR CONCENTRATION.
The first step toward solving poker or real life problems is acquiring the right information. Without it you will certainly make costly mistakes. Poker develops information-gathering qualities, especially concentration. Every poker player has missed signals, including quite obvious ones, made mistakes, and then berated himself, ’How could I be so stupid?’ We can’t think of a more effective way to develop concentration. POKER DEVELOPS YOUR PATIENCE.
Americans are notoriously impatient, which damages many aspects of our lives. We owe trillions of dollars because we buy things on credit instead of waiting until we can pay for them. Our businesses overemphasize short-term results and lose market share to more patient foreign competitors.
Poker develops patience in the most powerful possible way. If you wait patiently for the right situation, you will certainly beat the impatient people who play too many hands. In fact, for most players poker’s first lesson is ’Be Patient.’ POKER DEVELOPS YOUR DISCIPLINE.
Many people lack discipline. They yield to their impulses, including quite destructive ones. Poker develops discipline by rewarding it highly. Virtually all winning players are extremely disciplined.
Their discipline affects everything they do. They fold hands they are tempted to play. They resist the urge to challenge tough players. They avoid distractions, even pleasant ones like chatting with friends or sexually attractive strangers. They don’t criticize bad players whose mistakes cost them money. They control their emotions. online, free multi hand video poker games. They have the self-control to do the necessary, but unpleasant things that most people won’t do.
Television has created a ridiculously inaccurate image of poker. After seeing famous players screaming and trash-talking, viewers naturally assume that such antics are normal. They are utterly mistaken. Television directors show these outbursts for ’dramatic value,’ and a few players act stupidly to get on TV. You will see more outbursts in a half hour of television than in a month in a card room. Please remember that controlled people are often called ’poker faced.’POKER TEACHES YOU TO FOCUS ON THE LONG TERM.
Impatience is not the only cause for short-sightedness. Learning research proves that immediate rewards have much greater impact on people than delayed ones. For example, most American adults are overweight because the immediate pleasure of overeating is more powerful than its disastrous long-term effects such as heart attacks.
Poker players quickly learn that a bad play can have good results and vice versa, but that making decisions with positive, long-term expectation (EV) is the key to success. If you make enough negative EV plays, you must lose. If you make enough positive EV plays, you must win. It is just that simple.
If people thought more of the long term, some of our most serious problems would be solved or become less troublesome. Because of short-sightedness, millions of children drop out of school or get pregnant, and millions of adults neglect their health and finances. POKER TEACHES YOU THAT FORGOING A PROFIT EQUALS TAKING A LOSS (AND VICE VERSA).
Economists call lost profits ’opportunity costs’ and they have written extensively about them. Unfortunately, most people haven’t read their works, and, if they did, they probably wouldn’t agree. They would much rather pass up a chance to make a dollar than risk losing one. They therefore miss many profitable opportunities.
Poker teaches you that lost profits are objectively the same as losses. For example, if the pot offers you 8-to1, and the odds against you are 5-to-1, you should call the bet. Not calling is the same as throwing away money by making a bad call when the odds are against you. POKER DEVELOPS YOUR REALISM.
You and everyone else deny unpleasant realities about yourself, other people, and many other subjects. You believe what you want to believe. Poker develops realism in the cruelest, but most effective way. If you deny reality about yourself, the opposition, the cards, the odds, or almost anything else, you quickly pay for it.
Hundreds of times a night you must assess a complicated situation: your own and the other players’ cards, what the others are going to do, the probability that various cards will come on later rounds, your position, and many other factors, especially your own and the other players’ skill and playing style. If you are realistic, you win. If you deny reality, you lose. POKER TEACHES YOU HOW ADJUST TO CHANGING SITUATIONS.
Most people don’t ask themselves, ’How is this situation different?’ They just do whatever they have always done. Poker demands adjustments because the situation is always changing. One card can convert a worthless hand such as a four flush into an unbeatable one. The player holding the flush and all the opponents should adjust immediately. The player with the winning hand should do whatever will produce the most profit, and the others should cut their losses.
Other things are changing as well. One hand after being in the small blind, the worst position, you have the button, the best position. Every time someone quits and is replaced by a different type of player, the game changes. Every time someone surprises you by folding, checking, betting, or raising you should re-evaluate the situation and adjust to the new information.
Adjusting to real life changes has always been necessary, but it has become much more important because the pace of change has accelerated enormously. We now experience more changes every year than our ancestors encountered in decades. Technology, the economy, social and moral attitudes, and a host of other factors change so dramatically that Alvin Toffler: ’coined the term ’future shock’ to describe the shattering disorientation we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.’3 He argued, ’Change is avalanching upon our heads, and most people are grotesquely unprepared to cope with it.’4 Poker can help you to cope with our constantly changing world.POKER TEACHES YOU TO ADJUST TO DIVERSE PEOPLE.
Most people - especially younger ones - have little experience with diverse people. They live in relatively homogenous towns and neighborhoods and usually relate to people who are fairly similar to themselves.
In online and casino poker games, you have to play with whomever sits down. You must compete against very different kinds of people: aggressive and passive, friendly and nasty, educated and uneducated, quiet and talkative, intelligent and stupid, emotionally controlled and uncontrolled, and so on.
You therefore learn how to understand and adjust to people who think and act very differently from you. The faster and better you do it, the better results you will get. Since you will certainly meet diverse people in more important situations, learning how to relate to them is extremely valuable.5POKER TEACHES YOU TO AVOID RACIAL, SEXUAL AND OTHER PREJUDICES.
Prejudice is always wrong, but it is especially destructive at the poker table. It causes you to underestimate your opposition and make expensive errors. To play well, you should be ’gender-blind, color-blind, and just-about-everything else-blind, because in the end, winning is based on merit.’6
Poker provides an extremely ’level playing field.’ In no other popular competition is everyone treated so equally. You can’t play golf against Tiger Woods, but you can sit down at any poker table. You can play against anyone from a novice to a world class player, and you will all be treated as equals. If you get the cards and play them well, you will win, no matter who you are. POKER TEACHES YOU HOW TO HANDLE LOSSES.
Many people can’t cope with losses. A lost job, argument, or - God forbid -romantic relationship is a massive tragedy. They can’t accept the loss and may even obsess over it. It takes over their lives, making them look backward rather than forward.Alan Schoonmaker Modelo
Poker teaches you how to cope with losses because they occur so frequently. You lose far more hands than you win, and losing sessions and losing streaks are just normal parts of the game. You also learn that trying to get even quickly is a prescription for disaster. You have to accept short-term losses and continue to play a solid, patient game. You can’t be a winner - in poker or life - if you don’t learn how to get over losses and move on. POKER TEACHES YOU TO DEPERSONALIZE CONFLICT.
Many people take conflicts too personally. They may want to beat someone so badly that they ’win the battle, but lose the war.’ Worse yet, if they lose, they may take it as a personal defeat and ache for revenge. Anyone who has seriously played games with painful physical contact (such as football, boxing, and soccer) is less likely to take conflict too personally. Getting hurt teaches some athletes that conflict is just part of the game and life. Alas, many people never learn that lesson.
Poker teaches you to depersonalize conflicts because it is based on impersonal conflict. The objective is to win each other’s money, and everyone’s money is the same. It doesn’t matter whether you win or lose to Harry, Susan, or Bob. Everybody’s chips have the same value, and everybody’s money spends the same.
Poker quickly teaches you that being bluffed, sandbagged, outdrawn, and just plain outplayed are not personal challenges or insults. They are just parts of the game. Poker also teaches you that taking conflicts personally can be extremely expensive.
If you ache for revenge, you may act foolishly and lose a lot of money. Beating ’your enemy’ can become so important that you play cards you should fold, try hopeless bluffs, and take many other stupid, self-destructive actions. The Chinese have a wonderful saying, ’If you set out for revenge, dig two graves: one for him, and one for you.’ Poker teaches that principle to every open-minded player. POKER TEACHES YOU HOW TO PLAN. Alan Schoonmaker
Many people don’t plan well. Instead of setting objectives and planning the steps to reach them, they react impulsively or habitually. Poker develops your planning ability for an extremely wide range of time periods:
*This betting round
*This entire hand
*This session
*This tournament
*This year
*Your e
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