However, when you call a small bet after the flop with four cards of the same suit, you are giving yourself a chance to get lucky and make a flush. When you limp into a pot from early position with pocket aces you are asking to get unlucky. In poker the key is putting yourself in positions to get lucky and minimizing situations where you can get unlucky. Luck exists in any game or sport-a lucky bounce, an unlucky gust of wind.
That doesn’t mean that luck doesn’t factor into poker. It’s the only game in a casino where you aren’t playing against the casino-you are playing against other patrons. I am excited to share with you 15 lessons I learned at the poker table that you can use to be more successful in the world of selling.
It encompasses all the necessary elements: preparation and hard work, disciplined behavior, methodical process, storytelling, negotiation, and winning (or losing). The game of poker is a brilliant microcosm of the profession of sales.
