Your Worst Poker Enemy by Alan N. Schoonmaker

Author:Alan N. Schoonmaker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 2012-11-22T00:00:00+00:00

Why Do So Many People Believe This Nonsense?

The simple answer is that they want to believe it, and it is extremely easy to convince people of something they want to believe. We have a natural desire to assign reason to randomness, to believe in some sort of order, to deny that events occur just by chance.

“Some players ... have a hard time accepting the fact that the cards come off randomly.... The human mind has a hard time understanding the concept of randomness. The need to seek patterns is a central element of the brain.... Unfortunately, poker features a huge amount of randomness; the patterns that we think we see simply confuse us and cause us to play (or think) badly.”89

This confusion is particularly strong in people who don’t understand statistics and probability. However, some other factors are also involved:

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