Different Intelligence Types

What level of education or vocational ability is necessary? Some jobs are more difficult to do than others are and require a long apprenticeship or extensive study and practice. Many people do not approach poker in the same way they would their career, and do not realize the extent to which it is a game of skill.

Be careful when profiling this aspect of an opponent's chosen profession. The correlation between specialization in a person's job and their skill in poker may not be very high. I mentioned earlier in the text that people play poker for many different reasons and some have nothing to do with their abilities in their career.

One clue you can observe (sometimes through listening to a person pronounce his `theories') is how much a person believes the element of skill determines success at the table. If you can match a high level of vocational or educational background with a strong belief that skill determines fate at the tables, you are likely to find an opponent talented in many facets of play.

Likewise, if a person believes that `luck' is more important, it almost does not matter what level of career achievement they have reached, they will usually be poor players. Of course, beware of the players that talk all about `luck', but quietly contemplate the skill of the game in order to deceive their opponents.

Does their job require quick thinking or measured thinking? Certain tasks require measured thinking, and big, complicated problems are sometimes best left in the hands of this type of person (nuclear physics comes to mind). Poker is a game dominated by people that think quickly and accurately.

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