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Originally Posted by chrisshiherlis
Sports and Exercise? I'm Scottish mate, that's fighting talk :P
I'll look into Cardners stuff a bit more.
I did see your name pop up there in Cardrunners. I know emotion is the big topic in psych nowadays and would be interested on your thoughts on that Cardrunners link I posted.
Gl with the pokerz and studies.
Chris:
When I began to look and understand what people like Cardner, Roe, and Tendler were advocating, what I noticed that much of it came from the sports world and was designed (in the sports world) to improve things like speed, timing, and coordination.
I've played tennis since I was a kid, and that's over 50 years with a lot of time on the tennis court, and as an example I've known for years that a good diet will improve my timing a little bit. So a serious competitive tennis player will certainly want to eat well.
But poker, being a game of mostly knowledge, is not a game of speed, timing, and coordination, and while you need to pay attention, having the type of focus to return a 120 mph serve doesn't happen either. So I concluded, and it wasn't hard to do, that these people had very little worthwhile to offer to poker players.
I can also go into much detail with similar conclusions on much of the other stuff they advocate, if you have any specific questions.
Best wishes,
Mason