Did your grandmother use to gather her friends for a good game of poker and some strengthening beverages too? To many, poker seems like a game that, in order to succeed requires both a certain set of skills and a specific kind of personality not to mention a taste for expensive whiskey. But how skilled was grandma Ruth and her buddies really? Will the grandma Ruth of the future be gathering her friends in an online poker room and keep her whiskey to herself? Perhaps they are already out there.

Bluff magazine and ESPNs number one player of the year Micheal Binger is 32 years old is has earnings of $5,558,685. He’s a University Ph.D in Theoretical Particle Physics at Stanford University in 2006. Poker players he respects include Allen Cunningham and Chris Ferguson. It is interesting to note that Micheal Binger is 4th in the poker player rankings for 2008.

The really good players of poker will tell you that one of the must haves for being a good poker player is patience. Patience is required to hang around in a game until you get just the hand you were waiting for. A good player also needs to be disciplined enough to know which games he can play and which he should quit early. A disciplined player will quickly realise when the edge is lacking, would bother to take notes of how each hand transpired and would take steps to ensure mistakes are not repeated. When you have both of these almost half the skills required to be play poker is acquired.

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