MindfulPoker

MindfulPoker is a tool that can help both poker players as well as many different types of professional risk takers stay mindfully connected and stay in their comfort zone as they face the challenge of poker playing or their career. MindfulPoker helps one learn how to manage risk and challenge safely and comfortably. It serves as a method for achieving better performance in dealing with many types of threat and challenge and for actively managing the anxiety, confusion and lack of focus that can lead to bad decision making.

Are you:

Making decisions when you are pressured by the competition?

Losing your focus in the course of playing the game or doing your job?

Acting impulsively, rather than in a calm and clear manner?

I can help.

When playing poker, skill, luck and awareness are the three primary factors of success. While the level of one's skill is probably the most significant of the three, awareness of oneself, or mindfulness, is the factor that offers the greatest opportunity for most players to improve their game. Most often a player will make a mistake or not take advantage of an opportunity because he or she has become triggered by a challenging situation, another player or an environmental factor. Once triggered, players lose their focus and make card playing decisions that are not specifically related to the game in front of them. In this situation, a player is automatically and unconsciously preoccupied with managing his or her own reactions and loses sight of the strategic poker decision before them. Learning how to identify triggers and how to regain focus elevates one's poker play more powerfully and quickly than developing increased knowledge of and skill in the game.

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Bob Silverstein, M.A., L.C.S.W., the creator of mindfulpoker.com, is a skilled amateur poker player. He has won a number of local charity tournaments as well as the Milwaukee Best Lite qualifying tournament for the main event at the 2008 No Limit Texas Hold 'em event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). He has steadily improved his play as he has learned how to mindfully regulate his attention to his internal state as he plays poker.