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[QUOTE="aliengenius, post: 722222, member: 11924"]
[B]SUMMARY OF POKER'S BENEFITS[/B]

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[*]     Poker Is A  	Great Teacher.
[*]     Poker Improves Your Study Habits.
[*]     Poker Develops Your Math Skills.
[*]     Poker Develops Your Logical  	Thinking.
[*]     Poker Develops Your Concentration.
[*]     Poker Develops Your Patience.
[*]     Poker Develops Your Discipline.
[*]     Poker Teaches You To Focus On The  	Long Term.
[*]     Poker Teaches You That Forgoing A  	Profit Equals Taking A Loss (And Vice Versa).
[*]     Poker Develops Your Realism.
[*]     Poker Teaches You To Adjust To  	Changing Situations.
[*]     Poker Teaches You To Adjust To  	Diverse People.
[*]     Poker Teaches You To Avoid Racial,  	Sexual And Other Prejudices.
[*]     Poker Teaches You How To Handle  	Losses.
[*]     Poker Teaches You To Depersonalize  	Conflict.
[*]     Poker Teaches You How To Plan.
[*]     Poker Teaches You How To Handle  	Deceptive People.
[*]     Poker Teaches You How To Choose  	The Best "Game."
[*]     Poker Teaches You The Benefits Of  	Acting Last.
[*]     Poker Teaches You To Focus On The  	Important Subjects.
[*]     Poker Teaches You How To Apply  	Probability Theory.
[*]     Poker Teaches You How To Conduct  	Risk-Reward Analyses.
[*]     Poker Teaches You To Put Things In  	Context And Evaluate All Variables.
[*]     Poker Teaches You How To "Get  	Into People's Heads."
[/LIST] 1 We  assume, of course, that you will not become obsessed with poker or  play for higher stakes than you can afford.
 2  These rewards and punishments may not be instantaneous. It may take a  while for things to average out.
 3 [I]Future Shock[/I], New York, Random House, 1970, Page 4
 4[I]ibid[/I],  page 14 
 5  Adjusting to varied players was the primary theme of Alan  Schoonmaker's book, [I]The Psychology of Poker[/I], Henderson, NV,  Two Plus Two Publishing, 2000.
 6  Barbara Connors, "Poker Play" in Maryann Morrison's [I]Women's  Poker Night[/I], New York, Kensington Publishing, 2007, p. 26.
 7 "A semi-bluff is a bet with a hand which, if called, does not figure to be the best hand at the moment, but has a reasonable chance of outdrawing those hands that initially called it." David Sklansky, [I]The Theory of Poker[/I], p. 91.
 8  "Ten lessons poker teaches great investors," by Christopher  Graja, Bloomberg's [I]Personal Finance[/I], June, 2001, p. 56
 9 See "Multiple level thinking" in David Sklansky and Ed Miller, No Limit Hold 'em: Theory And Practice, Henderson, NV, Two Plus Two Publishing, 2006, pp. 168-175.
 10  Alan N. Schoonmaker, Negotiate to win. Englewood Cliffs, NJ,  Prentice-Hall, 1989, p. 76
 11  "The Fundamental Theorem of Poker" is explained on pages  17-26 of The Theory of Poker.
 12  David Sklansky, "The Fundamental Theorem of Investing,"  Card Player, August 16, 2002, pp. 34-36
 13  ibid.
 14 Dale Carnegie How To Win Friends and Influence People, NY, Simon and Schuster, 1936, copyright renewed 1964, P. 37. The italics were in the book.
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