Friday, July 23, 2010
The Poker Mask Poker Psychology
Many people in both the world of poker and also in life itself hide, hide behind a mask. While some people in real life have mental illness and a psychological reason for not showing their real self to the world around them, other people have no real excuse for not showing their true colours. Funnily enough, the people who hide behind a mask in the game of life make great actors and actresses and also great poker tournament players. Or do they?
To determine if a person who hides behind a mask is indeed a great player we need to work out why they are hiding. Obviously if psychological illness is involved it is unlikely that the mask is going to help them at a poker table. For the record, I don’t mean those people with mental illnesses such as depression. I mean those people hiding behind a mask due to childhood trauma or the like causing them to snap in the brain, I mean really snap too!
If a person hides behind a mask due to fear of what people think, again they are not going to make the greatest of poker players. Indeed these people who hide behind masks can be over run and slaughtered at a poker table easily. It may be possible though they would go ok playing online poker.
If a person hides behind a mask as they don’t want to know you, if they hide behind the mask to avoid you knowing them as a real person – this is when the good poker player steps in! These people have skill. I have seen it my whole life. They have complete control over which people they show their true colours too. These people can be brilliant poker players; their mask is the greatest of poker strategy. Unfortunately, there are a ton of these people who are far from humanly nice, but hey! Being nice doesn’t come into place while on the felt!
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