Original PrimatePoker Essays

Original Essays...from the Thinktank.

These essays are published to encourage and advance the evolution of the game, and those who play it.

8/27/2004: Coaching and Poker. Poker is a sport and coaching makes players think..and improve. Coached players get serious, plug leaks, and rapidly improve. Where do you start? Try www.PokerCoaching.com.

8/27/2004: Poker and Consciousness. Does poker encourage you to raise your level of awareness and perception? Does poker in fact force you to make full use of your perceptive powers, and develop them further? Are certain winning players more conscious as a result?

8/23/2004: Style Part 2: Making Intentional Choices. An overall poker system based on your personality, situation and temperament will help get the chips. Random choices will get you random results. Know thyself.

8/19/2004: Style Part 1: Style and Stamina. One challenge for all players is the development of tournament staying power. Anyone who wants to win a poker tournament has to have it. This essay explores the relationship between style and staying power.

8/13/2004: Women and the Future of Worldwide Poker Culture. Women players used to be rare. No more. Kathy Liebert won a million dollars via the Party Poker Million. It's time to wake up and get a sense of where this may be headed.

06/11/2004: Hand History Harvesting. The relatively new online poker medium is rich in dangers and opportunities. But not the kind you might expect. This essay argues that poker is rapidly evolving. You'll need to make the proper adjustments.

06/06/2004: Is There an Ideal Poker Personality Profile? Personalities come in 16 flavors. Which personality type is predisposed to playing winning poker? Are you the winning type? What if you aren't? Speculations on poker, personality and the current state of academic research in this area.

06/04/2004: Poker and Introverts. Which personality type does best in poker? Learn about the link between introspection and winning poker...then take the personality test and see where you're at.

06/01/2004: The Inner Game of Poker. Learn about the link between poker and market trading...then read about the advances in personal trader psychology, and apply these advances to your poker game.

"What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture. That was present in the apes long before the brain began to develop. Nor is it the use of tools. It is something altogether new, a previously unknown quality: self-awareness."

- Erich Fromm (1900–1980), U.S. psychologist.