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> Another issue with poker - at least Texas Hold'em - is that the best strategy is folding 90% of the time, which is just boring. That's what I always apprecia

• bena 8y ago
  Oddly enough it's a good way to learn both. Or at least putting cash on the line gives you the incentive to do so. Another game I like recommending is Fluxx. It teaches you how to lose. The game is very chaotic and there are things that can happen which cause you to just lose. Or just win. There is some amount of skill involved, but you can be forced in a situation where you cause someone else to win randomly. You learn to divorce your efforts from the immediate results and to accept loss and move on. Partly because the games are pretty quick.
• splonk 8y ago
  "emotional regulation" is not exactly a term I would use to describe the majority of professional poker players, although I think it is more prevalent within the better ones. Patience and discipline are probably present within anyone who manages to survive as a pro for more than a couple years, but it's not a guarantee. There's a reason the term "degen" (for degenerate) gets thrown around so much in gambling circles. I've played thousands of hours against mid/high/nosebleed stakes pros who've played many more thousands of hours of poker than I ever will, and it's always a surprise how many of them are children throwing a temper tantrum whenever they lose any hand where they were a favorite. (This includes multiple people who each have multiple WSOP bracelets.)