KreativeVein back at it again, and today I’ll be going over 3 of the main life lessons I’ve
learned from playing poker.
I can see some of you saying this is hypocritical because gambling is a bad habit, but the point
here is that this game can teach you a lot about psychology, managing money, and managing
your mindset.
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So the first lesson I’ve learned from playing poker is reading other people.
While I’m definitely not a pro, after analyzing players at the table you can get a pattern
that will help you make informed decisions.
You will see if some players bet on every card they get, or if some cower.
For the first person, you would wait until you had a good hand, wait for him to raise
and then you would profit.
For the scared player, you would simply be more aggressive.
Normally, most people just profit off one or two players that are weak and predictable,
and that’s the same with life.
If you can understand people and their objectives and weaknesses, you will hold tremendous power
at the end of the day.
The second lesson is that you have to manage your money well.
For me, when I began playing poker online, I was pretty decent but most likely also very
lucky.
I’d grown my free $10 into about $500 within a few days.
However, never play above what you can afford.
I didn’t know that and played in a higher stakes tournament and lost all that money.
And that doesn’t mean if you have $1,000 in your bank account that you gamble $1,000,
but it’s whatever doesn’t affect you in the long run.
For instance, when I play with friends, $5 is nothing, but is enjoyable either way.
Anything under $100 is fine because it doesn’t change my life in any way if I lose.
However if I were betting $10,000, then that wouldn’t be affordable at all.
So managing your bankroll in poker and life are the same thing, and even learning with
fake money (I stopped playing real money online) can help you.
The final lesson is just on your own mindset.
Poker is a game where luck can get you, even if you have a 90% chance of winning and “deserve”
to win.
But just like life, shit happens.
Rather than allowing that to give you an excuse to not work, you play in a process-oriented
way rather than a results-oriented way.
What I mean is, in life, if you work hard as fuck for a sport, and you’re improving
into one of the best players in the state, but then on the day of try-outs for an elite
team you have an off day and don’t play that well, that doesn’t mean you should
quit.
You follow the process, today the results said that you didn’t do well but in reality
you are improving.
Just like in poker, if you make the best play and some unlucky event happens where the almost
guaranteed loser gets lucky off you, don’t get mad, you have other hands to play.
Just like the basketball player will continue to work and try-out for another team.
Play your cards correctly, and if you play enough without giving up, you’ll win.
Those are just a few of the lessons I’ve learned from poker, and if you ever want to
play with me, hit me up in the group chat down below.
I have a few free sites that I still check up on every once in a while.
KreativeVein, peace.