It actually debunks a lot of the leading business psychology about being results-oriented. Once you understand the mathematical aspects of strategy, you can play a hand of poker, lose, yet still have make no mistakes.

The truly successful players are the ones who realize this and continue playing optimally regardless of what their stack size or bankroll looks like. Eventually, they’ll be the ones with all the money while the results-oriented “externalizers” will proceed to rely on false assumptions while going broke.

@Roxy – I’m glad you liked the post. I’ve learned so much from poker that I can apply to my life that it’s scary. The process is where it is at, but it can be hard to keep that perspective, especially when things get rough, but we do our best, right?

@Joey – Thank you, Joey! Poker is taking the world by storm it seems. I don’t know how it has been doing in the last year since I haven’t played. It’s definitely not a walk in the park if you do it for a living.

Thanks for sharing your experience with poker. It certainly helped me put my thoughts together to help me write my most recent post, My Online Poker Addiction.

In my post I referred to playing poker as gambling, but one of the comments said that it wasn’t gambling due to the skill involved (plus a number of other factors). I also notice that you considered poker your ‘job’. Did you consider yourself to be gambling when you played poker? I would be interested to know.

Thanks again,

Peter