Why do we play poker? But especially why do you play poker? This might strike you as an odd question but it is very important for your future success in the world of poker. The reason why you play poker is at least as important as the way you play poker.
We can categorize somehow the reasons why we play poker, we can properly analyze them and after that we can use them to improve our actual gaming style.
If we could ask several hundreds of players Why do you play poker? the odds are quite big that their answer would be For the money. But if we could access their last year statistics we would see that some just didnt win any money at all, or at least that they didnt win more that they lost. If money is the only reason these people play poker they why do they keep on doing it? Of course, there are many more answers that they dont really want to admit. This happens because there are many other motivations that push us to play poker just as great as the desire to win many, but many of them are even greater.
And when you come to think about it, you can surely find many many reasons: fun, the love of the game, competition, making friends, the desire to beat the...