Your Brain On Poker and Decision
Your bankroll increases when the LEFT brain gets good at telling the RIGHT brain what to do.
How does it help to know that you're literally "of two minds"? The Limbic RIGHT and Analytic LEFT.
"My brain made me re-buy!"
The one lives in the United States of unconsciousness—on insta-call and auto-pilot. The other lives in Singapore, a happy dictatorship of rules and reason. So what should our nervous system do?
Analysis is Paralysis
Think Long. Think Wrong.
The money-making potential of this idea in your game should not be underestimated. Your bankroll increases when the left brain gets good at telling the right brain what to do. If you can name your demon, you have a chance to banish it.
What motivates you to call or fold, or go all in—fear, or disgust? What inspires you—the desire to gain something new and exciting—or maybe you just have the stone cold nuts?
Expecting The Unexpected
The characteristic conceit of our species—to see Order in chaos.
Holdem is too random to be left up to chance!
Poker is about partial information and uncertainty. That means we're constantly having to choose actions without knowing what the outcome will be.
Denial just ain't a river in Vegas
Poker players have to be masters at reframing, otherwise they couldn't handle the sting of losses.
Some in therapy call this denial. We can expect a kind of botox for the brain to smooth out any cognitive wrinkle temperaments to our poker losses and even our accelerated learning on how to play better under conditions of uncertainty.