Poker Winners Are Different:

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Alan N. Schoonmaker. Poker Winners Are Different:

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Books by Dr. Alan N. Schoonmaker

Anxiety and the Executive

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Nolan Dalla, the media director for The World Series of Poker, has been reporting on tournaments for many years. He wrote, “One of the most troubling aspects of the tournament circuit is seeing how many players are constantly broke. I’m not talking about bad poker players or novices. I’m talking about names and faces everyone would recognize.”3

They are broke because of poor emotional control, an inability to evaluate themselves objectively, a need to challenge tougher players, and many other reasons. An important, but rarely discussed reason is that they are not much better than their opponents. “Your success at poker depends, not on how well you play, but on how well you play in relation to your opponents.”4 If most players in a game have approximately equal abilities, the small differences in abilities will have little effect. It is an extremely well-verified statistical principle. For example, research proves that Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT) scores are poor predictors of grades in elite colleges because they accept only the highest scorers.

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