Poker Personalities
Playing poker for a living requires skill… patience… and perhaps most importantly, NERVES OF STEEL! When you work at a “real job”, you get a regular paycheck. Every two weeks or so, a check shows up on your doorstep… like clockwork. Hell, you may even get a BONUS from time to time.
BUT NEVER will your boss call you in his office and say: “You know, your work lately hasn’t been that great… so we’re going to KEEP your paycheck this week, AND we’re going to take $3,000.00 from your bank account…sorry.”
As a professional poker player, you can literally work your ASS OFF all day… only to leave thousands of dollars POORER! There’s no other job like this in the world. It takes an incredibly strong stomach to deal with the intense up’s and down’s… and the different “swings” of luck you’ll encounter. It’s difficult to be able to PREDICT if you’ve got what it takes to handle the emotions of being a pro. The only real way to “know” is to experience it first hand…
To be successful, you’ve got to have an ungodly amount of POISE. Pretty much every successful career player has poise… (despite what it looks like on TV). This means the players are in CONTROL of themselves at almost all times. They don’t get impatient and make silly moves at the table… if they don’t like the way a certain table looks, they WAIT for a new opening. They are LOGICAL about each decision and REMOVE EMOTION from their game.
Let me ask you this simple question:
When is the last time you went on “tilt”?
If you still go on TILT (or within the last 10-15 playing sessions), then you’re NOT ready for a career as a poker pro. Because tilt at the poker table is just a “microcosm” of the “tilt” you’ll feel in LIFE as a poker pro. If three consecutive bad beats sets you off… then just wait for THREE MONTHS of cold cards!
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