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Brunson, Gordon, Helmuth, Moneymaker, Duke, we’ve watched them all time and again in poker tournaments. How is it that the same handful of poker players, the pros, always seem to make it to the final table? As an expert on the human mind, consciousness, and also a gambler, I asked myself that question many times.
I finally decided to find out and started to study them. They are all smart people, there is no question of that, but there are millions of smart people who play poker and with all due respect to the great poker players I just mentioned, I don’t think they are all physicists. So it isn’t that they are smarter than everybody else.
Is it because they know more about the game than anybody else? Once again, I am sure they know a lot about poker, but so do a lot of other people. There are people out there who read every book there is in print about poker and they still can’t beat the pros. Maybe you, yourself, have red books on poker. They probably helped you to improve your play, but did they make you great? I was watching a poker tournament and they interviewed the winner, a sharp young guy who had been winning more than his share of big tournaments. They asked him how he had become a poker player and what his training and preparation was. He said he read Doyle’s book and then started to play and practice.
That’s right, he read one book, okay the best one, but still, just one book and he became a pro. So read all the good books you can on the subject, but it will take more than that to be a great poker player. So I still hadn’t figured out the secret to being a winning poker player.
Because I am a behavioral therapist, I decided to watch them and follow their moves to understand what makes them great while other players who try really hard are just mediocre. I watched and followed hundreds of hours of play. I finally realized there was something uncanny going on. The more I watched the more I understood what was going on.
In situation after situation they knew when to lay down their cards or when to stay in a pot. I watched them closely and discovered the secret. Those great poker pros can read another person in just a few seconds. It doesn’t matter if the other person wears dark glasses or even pulls a hood over his head as in the case of “the Unabomber.” They read you like a book and are seldom wrong.
This is where my knowledge of the mind and the subconscious comes in handy. I understand how they do it and here is the interesting part, they don’t consciously do it. It is simply too much to do consciously. The conscious mind only processes 50 bits of information in a second, but the subconscious processes 50,000. These great pros are all doing the same thing. They simply sit back and go into what is known as the “alpha” brainwave pattern and there “instincts,” otherwise known as “gut feelings,” kick in. They just sense what the other player is up to.
The few really great pros either consciously or accidentally stumbled upon this amazing ability that all human beings have, the ability to relax and go into the alpha state and let the super powerful subconscious mind take over and solve very difficult problems. I had worked with professional athletes before and helped them to acquire the ability to go into the “zone.” Now I was watching professional poker players enter their own version of the zone. They had the ability to remember every move in a hand, and rely upon their instincts at the critical moment to play a brand of super knockout poker, that nobody else could match.
At that point I knew the secret and started to work on a way to help other people tap into their own subconscious to get in the zone.
Wil Langford, R. Hy., is a 54 yr. old. Clinical Hypnotherapist, Integrated Energy Therapist, author, and Gambler. He is the author of, “Your Loved Ones, Your Self; finding and Raising the Family Within.” A guide to the parts of the human Mind, human consciousness.
He is a lifelong student of metaphysics and applies physics and metaphysics to developing winning gambling strategies like Super Knockout Poker Power.
April 1, 2008
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