Poker Brain Trainer
Introduction
Feeling tired? Feeling old? Think you’re losing your memory? If any of those things describe you then perhaps it’s time you took to playing more poker, rather than just sitting in front of the fire with your slippers on and watching TV. Whilst the TV adverts would have us think that the only way to stave off dementia is to rush out and buy a Nintendo DS or whatever, think again as most surely all the skills required for such a device – little more than a bit of math and logic, are also what is required for playing poker.
Exercising your brain at poker
Hey Grandpa - looking good and ready to play some poker?
Unless you’ve actually never played poker at all – you’ll already know that poker really is far more of a game of skill, than the chance one that some US gambling regulators would have the population believe. I guess you could sit there, receiving cards and innocently and blindly play a few poker hands without understanding what’s really going on. However, the chances of you actually winning at poker are probably as remote as the ‘infinite monkey theorem’ – that a monkey sat at a typewriter could, by chance hitting of the keys, type a Shakespearean play! No, to stand any sort of chance of winning you actually need to have the skill and ability to understand and calculate the poker odds and know the poker bets worth making, not to mention the ability to concentrate possibly for hours on end, to keep your wits about you and, don’t ever forget, keep your sense of humour.
Does brain training work?
However, the fact of the matter is that none of these so called ‘brain trainers’; be it a Nintendo electronic gadget, cross-word puzzles, Scrabble or even playing the poker table – can actually have any impact in protecting us from Alzheimer’s disease – if it’s in your genes, it’s in your genes! So, bearing that in mind what are you going to do? Cosy up in front of the TV after all or get yourself down to the local casino or hooked up to an online poker website and start having some fun? Even if you’re not actually exercising your brain by playing poker – you’ll surely be keeping it active, trying to both outwit your opponents and having a laugh with them too.