A friend of mine asked me a thought-provoking question this weekend: What is the single skill one can have (or lack) that most strongly affects success (or failure) at poker? This is an interesting question to me not so much because of the answer I gave --- I think it's the ability to never come unhinged at the table, and to quit playing the moment you feel yourself becoming so --- but because of what my answer told me about the nature of poker in comparison to other card games or competetive activites.
A hard way to make an easy living
A hard way to make an easy living
A hard way to make an easy living
A friend of mine asked me a thought-provoking question this weekend: What is the single skill one can have (or lack) that most strongly affects success (or failure) at poker? This is an interesting question to me not so much because of the answer I gave --- I think it's the ability to never come unhinged at the table, and to quit playing the moment you feel yourself becoming so --- but because of what my answer told me about the nature of poker in comparison to other card games or competetive activites.