Life is like a Poker game

 It seems to me that poker game is an excellent allegory of life.

I’ve been thinking about the things that happened to me during my life, the factors over which I had absolutely no control, and the others that I had the ability to choose from. And have made the important decisions correctly could have radically changed my life.

 

The luck doesn’t exist we lack data to understand it. When we make an important decision, it can go good or bad, but it doesn’t depend on our luck, the result depends on all data that you are gathered during our life experience.

 

There are 103 million Hands of Poker, and only 12% the best hand wins, as a result 88% of the times the Best Player wins.

 

I don’t have a good memory, I’m not able to remember dates and names of historical events, but when I read books and articles, I’m able to understand clearly the ideas behind that, and more important I can able to apply them in real life, especially when I have to make a decision, all this knowledge collected over the years is applied in seconds.

 

A great thinker said “I’m greater believer in Luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”, Thomas Jefferson.

But I prefer this variation “The harder I work, the luckier I get”.

 

No cabe duda de que la suerte desempeña un papel importante en la vida, pero no hay excusa para no hacer todo lo posible con las cartas que te han tocado.

THE MAIN PRINCIPLES ON WHICH I BASE MY THEORY

 

Principle 1. You have to play with the hand you’re dealt.

 

If you’re lucky, you have a good hand with favorable genetics, positive family environment, high society level in a rich country, and so on.

If you’re not lucky you have to negotiate with health problems, growing in a poor country, in a low level of social caste, without access to education, in a broken family, in this situation life can be very harsh. Nothing is wrong with you. Sometimes you get dealt a bad hand… In this case, in the game the wisest choice is usually to fold immediately, but in real life you can’t do that and your only way is to deal with it and try to do your best to improve it. You probably won’t win the game but trying is worth it.

 

Principle 2. Life is like a game of poker, you are dealt a hand, and only you decide what to keep and what to throw away…

There are many important decisions that you have to take during your entire life. Probably the first crucial decision is to choose friends keep ones and throw others.

Many temptations surround you and making the correct choice in your immature youth can make a difference. To be lazy is better that any other thing. Studying in many cases is hard and not interesting when you prefer to play and enjoy yourself with friends. Every time that you overcome your laziness to do something worthy is a little victory in your life.

Thinking about something further than your immediate pleasure is not easy and requires maturity that you can have in an innate way, or if not, you need good advisors.

You may attempt to improve your hand by trading as many cards for new ones from the deck. You can flee from your country of birth and abandon your initial destiny to try to improve it, it sounds desperate but in many cases your initial hand is a complete shit.

 

Principle n. If you don’t put any in the pot, there won’t be any to take out

In poker as in life, one level of understanding builds on the next in the mental development. You can't understand how to evaluate the strength of your hand until you know what beats what. You can't learn to read until you know the alphabet. But when you know the basics you can improve your skills working hard on it.

You have to invest in yourself first to try to recover the profits. Learning and work hard helps a lot to this objetives.

 

Principle n+1. Life in part is like a poker game, where you have to learn to quit sometimes when holding a much loved hand.

 

To poker players, losing is part of a winning strategy. This may seem paradoxical, but real life is not too dissimilar to a poker game. In life, too, we can do all the right things and still lose. The biggest risk in life, is to take no risk at all.

 

It's rare that you regret the things you do. Only the things you don't.


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