Month: December 2011

Al Spath

Are you your worst poker enemy?

Dr. Alan Schoonmaker’s Your Worst Poker Enemy tackles issues associated with logical thinking as it relates to the psychological effect of playing poker. Schoonmaker replicates

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Poker

Watch out for the black swan hands

During a recent $2-$5 game at the Orange Park Poker Room I had an epiphany: Uncertainty in poker can destroy you. There’s a great deal of uncertainty in poker. The observant player avoids situations in which they create more uncertainty for themselves; the observant players destroy themselves less. Poker is full of unusual events, or […]

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