Do you play for fun or thinking that one day you're going to start a great tournament?
Hey. In truth, poker is an intellectual game. For me, poker and chess are on the same scale. And yet why poker and how it happened. Once in a deep youth, the rules were explained to me and we began to play. I noticed that the game shows signs of nervousness and emotional joys and disappointments. The game was on candy wrappers, pebbles - they did not do any good for us - because the same paper could be recruited at home and pebbles collected on the nearest beach - the essence was venturesome and the desire to become the best and the first to go on for a long time. When we grew older interest in stones and other nonsense disappeared, we began to play for money mostly on small things. This added adrenaline because in life much is tied up on the days. In my first youthful big win, I realized that in fact, poker for me is not for money and not for the prize place - in the first place this is a way of self-monitoring and analysis of what is happening - poker is more than finance is a whole brain process that can simultaneously relax you , to strain and so on, that is, a diverse list of emotional outbursts. When it turns out to control emotions, the results are always prose, which is even more pleasing because the main prize is not money but skills in self-control. But money is still not an integral part of the game, it gives a kind of meaning - it is a raisin on the cake with cherries
One post on such a question does not answer - the fact. Sometimes I think, and the book is not enough to describe the whole point.