hello everyone so I’m alexander
luneau a former poker player
professional and I
almost a decade but everything
first before I go further I’m going
try to clarify what poker is
for those of you who are not
necessarily familiar with this game and also
because it’s a universe where there is
a lot of clichés around that are
conveyed by the media who are not
always true so poker is a game
of strategy and chance and if the share
of chance is relatively important
in the short term
the best player by taking
better decisions than the opponent is going
win over the long term and the
information that a poker player to
take to make those decisions voice of
different natures
it can be based on the history of the
part psychology mathematics
logic or even body language
or game theory and that’s
really a flow of information the
poker player is going to have to manage for
make the best decision possible
the world in which I flew
mainly during my career
and the world of internet poker and sam
have enough particular who is ultimately
a little different from the poker world such
that they can play in casinos
is one of the main differences and
the time available to take the
decisions
typically on the internet we have between
5 and 10 seconds for each decision this
which is a relatively short time
because of the volume of information
available especially at the level
to make the best decision
possible the parts that I played
especially at least during my
career was where the auctions
were the highest these parties
had a nickname
called the wheat wedding the idea behind
this name was that mental violence of
these parties were so strong that they
could theoretically make you
nosebleed and you say
give an idea it was possible
to win or lose in those parts
several hundred thousand dollars
per day or even sometimes on a
decision so this environment denounces
bleed had a lot of pressure a
pressure by the volume of information
available with a pressure of 2 per
the time constraint but also
pressure on issues because the
poker player played his own money
so I will try now from you
give the key points in my opinion to
through the example of poker
who allowed me and others
top players to succeed at
handle this pressure has performed in this
environment of bid wedding parties
which one of the first points and the
preparation so it’s something I
am sure you are pretty familiar with
but that nevertheless many people
underestimate indeed is going really
have to do the best you can
not arrive with a disability in a
environment that is going to be competitive and
difficult to manage
we will have to arrive with a spirit
healthy and in Corsica a holy journey
I hear things as simple as
do sports regularly returns
the right number of hours eat healthy
these things are really going to help you
manage stress and emotional swings
that you may encounter during your
activity where the pressure is high
we must also arrive with a spirit
healthy ie it must not happen
with negativity or emotions
negative poker is very striking
because a lot of players came to slats
with anger
the reason being that by the presence
relatively important hazard on the
short term poker it was possible
for a winning player to chain
several days losing in a row
for even several weeks or even
sometimes several months lose in
rise 8 is the consequence of his on the
mental was really very important
some players felt the
anger frustration and a feeling
of injustice and this is clearly
put across the quality of their
decisions when he arrives at the table and
since for a player
professional on a career he was
statistically extremely likely to
encounter a period of bad luck or
the binder to lose several months of
it was essential for the
level players to come to handle this
aspect there and it was also one of
most important filters that has
prevented very talented players from
not succeed at the highest level in poker
because he arrived with too much emotion
negative at the tables another element
relatively important is going to be
abstraction
it will be done at different levels
first of all at the level of the issues in
these poker games as I mentioned
the zones the auctions is extremely
high and the moment when we started to
realize that we make a decision to
the equivalent of a car or a
house that was bound to impact the
quality our decisions and he was
it is essential to be able to visualize
are played as a kind of currency
virtual as a score we would like
maximize in a video game
abstraction it’s also going to be done at
level of emotions so as I could
a little more evoke it through the
preparation you want to avoid having
negative emotions
however, sometimes they will occur
and you have little control over it and
a relatively strong point that I have
included in my poker career and
other top players have
also seen and that if you strive to
ignore your emotions
positive
when you make a good decision
for fairs to feel joy and
euphoria
if you try to ignore that
it’s going to be a lot easier to
stay in a neutral emotional state
when things go less well
and you have gone to the end a lot
more time in an emotional state
neutral and better perform
the instruction was also done at
body language level I mean
often the idea that through language
corporal it is possible to externalize
from the frustration of anger but if
it may be true in the long run
from my short-term experience
the direct consequence of punching
the sigh table know it will
feed your anger and make you
enter a negative spiral and
really wanted to avoid that it takes
really keep in mind there is a link
loud enough between your singing language
choral is your mental state of the moment
and you have to do the best you can
can to keep body language
associated with performance and work
instruction it ‘s also going to be done at
level of things on which you
have no control in every
middle know different for poker
things we did not have
control who was all the time
present were the results in the short
term indeed when I take a
decision
there was an extremely correlated
weak between the quality of my decision
is the result that followed five
seconds later is nevertheless as
that being human is obviously
extremely tempting to want to watch
the result
following our decision and yet he
was important not to look at him
because the moment we did it we tied
of importance to his room and we
affect emotionally and that we
left less time for us
focus on the elements on which
we control and which has not even
As time than that available to
take into account
you see in the end through the
preparation and abstraction
what am I trying to do in my
career is really giving me the
better chance of having a level of
very high concentration because it’s
really through a reconcentration
that we can best perform the best
think nevertheless we are all
human beings and
as good confides it’s in
concentration abilities we are not going
never spent 100% of our time in
a state very high concentrations but
Norman is possible to improve
a pretty important idea had
been given a few years ago by a
mental coach
pierre gauthier who has coached many
top athletes and player
poker and his vision was the following
of one it is important to realize that
when you are no longer focused and
you are aware of that if you
wish you can iron
instantly in a state of
concentration
nevertheless the whole challenge is
to be able to spot when you
no longer concentrated because by
definition ie to have a
governance of that moment
nevertheless this same possible to come to
However identify perhaps
instantly but you can by having
aware that it is important to
spot when you’re no longer focused
it’s possible to identify these
moments there and if today on average
or not it may be in a
environment that I have is from
perform ten minutes per hour no
focused on finding the
moment you are no longer focused and
return to a state of concentration
this can reduce those ten minutes to
maybe three minutes mean in
pass by hour in a state of no
concentration and this a clear
consequence an impact on the quality of
your overall consumption and your
performance
it’s been more than six months since
I retired from poker and
I am often asked a lot of questions
by my career quite original and
one of them is to know
what are the most
interesting that I could pull my
career is often my answer it’s a
little what I tried to explain to you
today to know to have developed
skills allow us to better
manage the pressure in
harsh environments and what’s worth
Besides, I use my activity
current activities mined at least that’s
also something that it allows the
daily to be more in the moment
present and I hope that maybe for
you too stifle or ideals since
I was able to give you today in
stoxx you will find ways
to improve your performance or the
pressure but also maybe to be
more often in the present moment in
everyday life thank you
[Applause]
luneau a former poker player
professional and I
almost a decade but everything
first before I go further I’m going
try to clarify what poker is
for those of you who are not
necessarily familiar with this game and also
because it’s a universe where there is
a lot of clichés around that are
conveyed by the media who are not
always true so poker is a game
of strategy and chance and if the share
of chance is relatively important
in the short term
the best player by taking
better decisions than the opponent is going
win over the long term and the
information that a poker player to
take to make those decisions voice of
different natures
it can be based on the history of the
part psychology mathematics
logic or even body language
or game theory and that’s
really a flow of information the
poker player is going to have to manage for
make the best decision possible
the world in which I flew
mainly during my career
and the world of internet poker and sam
have enough particular who is ultimately
a little different from the poker world such
that they can play in casinos
is one of the main differences and
the time available to take the
decisions
typically on the internet we have between
5 and 10 seconds for each decision this
which is a relatively short time
because of the volume of information
available especially at the level
to make the best decision
possible the parts that I played
especially at least during my
career was where the auctions
were the highest these parties
had a nickname
called the wheat wedding the idea behind
this name was that mental violence of
these parties were so strong that they
could theoretically make you
nosebleed and you say
give an idea it was possible
to win or lose in those parts
several hundred thousand dollars
per day or even sometimes on a
decision so this environment denounces
bleed had a lot of pressure a
pressure by the volume of information
available with a pressure of 2 per
the time constraint but also
pressure on issues because the
poker player played his own money
so I will try now from you
give the key points in my opinion to
through the example of poker
who allowed me and others
top players to succeed at
handle this pressure has performed in this
environment of bid wedding parties
which one of the first points and the
preparation so it’s something I
am sure you are pretty familiar with
but that nevertheless many people
underestimate indeed is going really
have to do the best you can
not arrive with a disability in a
environment that is going to be competitive and
difficult to manage
we will have to arrive with a spirit
healthy and in Corsica a holy journey
I hear things as simple as
do sports regularly returns
the right number of hours eat healthy
these things are really going to help you
manage stress and emotional swings
that you may encounter during your
activity where the pressure is high
we must also arrive with a spirit
healthy ie it must not happen
with negativity or emotions
negative poker is very striking
because a lot of players came to slats
with anger
the reason being that by the presence
relatively important hazard on the
short term poker it was possible
for a winning player to chain
several days losing in a row
for even several weeks or even
sometimes several months lose in
rise 8 is the consequence of his on the
mental was really very important
some players felt the
anger frustration and a feeling
of injustice and this is clearly
put across the quality of their
decisions when he arrives at the table and
since for a player
professional on a career he was
statistically extremely likely to
encounter a period of bad luck or
the binder to lose several months of
it was essential for the
level players to come to handle this
aspect there and it was also one of
most important filters that has
prevented very talented players from
not succeed at the highest level in poker
because he arrived with too much emotion
negative at the tables another element
relatively important is going to be
abstraction
it will be done at different levels
first of all at the level of the issues in
these poker games as I mentioned
the zones the auctions is extremely
high and the moment when we started to
realize that we make a decision to
the equivalent of a car or a
house that was bound to impact the
quality our decisions and he was
it is essential to be able to visualize
are played as a kind of currency
virtual as a score we would like
maximize in a video game
abstraction it’s also going to be done at
level of emotions so as I could
a little more evoke it through the
preparation you want to avoid having
negative emotions
however, sometimes they will occur
and you have little control over it and
a relatively strong point that I have
included in my poker career and
other top players have
also seen and that if you strive to
ignore your emotions
positive
when you make a good decision
for fairs to feel joy and
euphoria
if you try to ignore that
it’s going to be a lot easier to
stay in a neutral emotional state
when things go less well
and you have gone to the end a lot
more time in an emotional state
neutral and better perform
the instruction was also done at
body language level I mean
often the idea that through language
corporal it is possible to externalize
from the frustration of anger but if
it may be true in the long run
from my short-term experience
the direct consequence of punching
the sigh table know it will
feed your anger and make you
enter a negative spiral and
really wanted to avoid that it takes
really keep in mind there is a link
loud enough between your singing language
choral is your mental state of the moment
and you have to do the best you can
can to keep body language
associated with performance and work
instruction it ‘s also going to be done at
level of things on which you
have no control in every
middle know different for poker
things we did not have
control who was all the time
present were the results in the short
term indeed when I take a
decision
there was an extremely correlated
weak between the quality of my decision
is the result that followed five
seconds later is nevertheless as
that being human is obviously
extremely tempting to want to watch
the result
following our decision and yet he
was important not to look at him
because the moment we did it we tied
of importance to his room and we
affect emotionally and that we
left less time for us
focus on the elements on which
we control and which has not even
As time than that available to
take into account
you see in the end through the
preparation and abstraction
what am I trying to do in my
career is really giving me the
better chance of having a level of
very high concentration because it’s
really through a reconcentration
that we can best perform the best
think nevertheless we are all
human beings and
as good confides it’s in
concentration abilities we are not going
never spent 100% of our time in
a state very high concentrations but
Norman is possible to improve
a pretty important idea had
been given a few years ago by a
mental coach
pierre gauthier who has coached many
top athletes and player
poker and his vision was the following
of one it is important to realize that
when you are no longer focused and
you are aware of that if you
wish you can iron
instantly in a state of
concentration
nevertheless the whole challenge is
to be able to spot when you
no longer concentrated because by
definition ie to have a
governance of that moment
nevertheless this same possible to come to
However identify perhaps
instantly but you can by having
aware that it is important to
spot when you’re no longer focused
it’s possible to identify these
moments there and if today on average
or not it may be in a
environment that I have is from
perform ten minutes per hour no
focused on finding the
moment you are no longer focused and
return to a state of concentration
this can reduce those ten minutes to
maybe three minutes mean in
pass by hour in a state of no
concentration and this a clear
consequence an impact on the quality of
your overall consumption and your
performance
it’s been more than six months since
I retired from poker and
I am often asked a lot of questions
by my career quite original and
one of them is to know
what are the most
interesting that I could pull my
career is often my answer it’s a
little what I tried to explain to you
today to know to have developed
skills allow us to better
manage the pressure in
harsh environments and what’s worth
Besides, I use my activity
current activities mined at least that’s
also something that it allows the
daily to be more in the moment
present and I hope that maybe for
you too stifle or ideals since
I was able to give you today in
stoxx you will find ways
to improve your performance or the
pressure but also maybe to be
more often in the present moment in
everyday life thank you
[Applause]
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