Poker – Interview with Juan Zubiri, PLAYER PROFILE: Poker, like politics, is a game of seduction.














According to the medical expert and many politicians are sharp in the game. Explains the psychology of poker, the reasons boom, the benefits and risks .

- What explains the current boom of poker


- First we must recognize its merits: the truth is that it's a fun game! A large majority of those who come first are excited, and they play with chips fantasy. It also has a very strong song of sirens. It is not uncommon that started the game and feel that this is not no secret to him.


- Then you take your hand and feel confident.


- Claro. They say: "The only thing I need is a little more experience and capital. I'm able to face anyone." On the other hand, poker is perfectly adapted to technological advances. Left the niche of being a game once a week at home with friends or clandestine booths to reach the general public and expand online. Needless to mention television. The hidden cameras which let you see the cards that each player as a caring French were exposed to view. It turned out that the poker is also very media.


- The Costa Rican Humberto Brenes, one of the best in the world, said that poker is a good way to combat mental illness such as Alzheimer's because it exercises the brain.


- Life expectancy is increasing and, according to recent studies, the best way to keep the mind clear is exercised. It seems true that the brain is a muscle. Mental activity reduces or slows cognitive decline. And the poker holds high dose of intellectual activity. But not only that, the high flying poker is much more than a mental challenge: to test other capabilities inherent in man. Demands much from the emotional sphere: self-control, ability to think under pressure and resistance to frustration.


- How many people live poker


- Very little. First we define a professional is one whose sole source of income for living is the practice of the game. So a guy from 20 years living alone or with her parents' home is much easier to be a pro, so, for example, a mother of three children and only living from home. Here you have a clear example of the emotional fortitude to play. Imagine a woman who discovers that this is too big for the game. It is a complex decision to leave his job and devote himself to poker.


- Sounds risky and, in turn, is frowned upon, right?


- Could be. Because to be a serious player you should be willing to dedicate full-time. " If you want to be a true player you have to have breakfast, lunch and snack poker. This is like any other sport. There is a professional tennis player who works eight hours a day at the office and in the spare time you take a plane to play in the professional circuit.


- What proportion of poker depends on chance and how much on the skill of the player


- That question is squarely in the heart of the game. Poker 100 percent dependent on the skill. Luck is not at all. "What?" I say to the thousands that many times the lot of them tended traps and all sorts of "bad beats" (losing ugly: hand that carries a clear win and the letter has no leave, leave). OK, we all lose touch passes and incredible top row. Not one, two or three, ¡ten! So we came to distrust the website, the dealer or that ours is a tragic destiny.


- What influences the psychology


- It is a fundamental aspect. One is that everyone knows and even overestimate the reading attitudes and gestures of a rival. Winning poker is a matter of reading the opponent and the most macho in the moment of truth. But the most important psychological aspect is an internal. It relates to the temple to adverse situations, eg, negative gusts of which we spoke earlier. It has to do with patience and learn to master the impulses and emotions. With self-control and inner strength. That happens to me, the real value of psychology in the game.


- Are there ways to cheat the opponent


- Basically two ways. One is the best known: "bluff." Pull a bluff is to bet when you think the game is inferior. The only intention is to go to rival the deck. The other is the reverse: to crouch or go fishing. Is not to bet, do it in decibels minimum, or directly see what the other bid for a major at the end, when it is loaded. As it tries to convince the opposition that has little or nothing. There is another more subtle: bad play or a different style to which we adopt, at the beginning of this game. Conditions, then, are twofold. A: what is at stake is low. Two: they see the cards we had. It's called "propaganda." Sell a false image to be pasted on it.


- Are there cheats in tournaments


- Very few people do cheat and if he does nobody has learned. Cheating is very difficult and also the atmosphere that is breathed during a tournament is camaraderie. There can be discussions and a few altercations, very few who reach higher. But in my experience, the poker player is a kind of code: clad in the traditional way.


- As with most games that are in casinos, poker is perceived as something negative that creates addiction.


- I entirely agree, when playing poker you must be very careful. It is very similar to what happens with the drink. Many people know her and enjoy drinking in moderation. It is also true that a fraction of the universe of drinkers suffer from addiction problems. But going by. Must be separated from other poker casino games. Between 10 and 30% of poker players are winners. ¿Poco, right? But on the other casino games, ¡the number of losers is 100%! I refer to customary casino players. Not those who were one day, had luck, and never won again.


- How is poker and politics


- There are roads that are found. The foundations that underpin the development of expertise is nurtured, both from the same roots. To be successful in poker as in politics is necessary intelligence. But not enough. The mind can not cloud the key moment: when all the chips will be in front and hold the gaze of the rival. High dose is essential for resistance to think under pressure and a high emotional control. It is unfortunate in the case of politics, but when it comes to lying, both have to be convincing. In short, the politics are like poker games of seduction, of incomplete information, where each player tries to convince the other, to anticipate what they're thinking, and thus to benefit from this advantage.


- Politicians often are good poker players then, huh


- (Laughter) One of the qualities that stand out in Barak Obama is his ability to mediate and closer. What was the place that allowed him to weave the fabric that stood out as a conciliator and brilliant from the rest? Long evening poker sessions between Democratic and Republican senators. It is not necessary to go that far. Here in Argentina, many politicians in sharp art of poker. Names emerging in print in newspapers caps. I find myself in one of these tables: the amounts involved are prohibitive.


His two passions


Juan Zubiri has 47 years, is a physician who graduated from the University of Buenos Aires that specializes in diagnostic imaging, is married with four children and is a fan of poker. He learned to play the boy, and in the last ten years, games have become an excuse to meet weekly with a group of friends. But there was one problem: each of three meetings, two went missing. "Then I realized I was a loser," he says. It was a mixture of passion and competitiveness that drove him to investigate. This found that there was no literature in Spanish rioja that could help better player. Had to rely on books written in English. His penchant for reading and refined his obsession led him to evolve rapidly, so much so that today is not only a professional player who became a winner among his friends and in various tournaments, but also wrote "Poker. The path of winner "(Albatros). In this book, based on the most popular game, the no limit hold'em, Zubiri describes general principles, probability, chance and, in turn, describes the bodily gestures of the players, among other things. Zubiri noted that the chance is a recurring theme in his life. "Not in the sense of the game says, but a deeper look almost existential. I'ma passionate advocate of the theory of evolution by Darwin and the theory of evolution explains everything and work was the result of chance. Will be possible? God plays or does not play dice with the man? "Well, Darwin's theory of games, another topic that fascinates me, and poker are intertwined."


JUAN IGNACIO PEREYRA

ipereyra@netkey.com.ar




JUAN IGNACIO PEREYRA



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