POKER isn’t just a way of enhancing your bank balance… it can also enhance your life!
That’s the opinion of PokerStars ambassador Jennifer Shahade, who firmly believes that games like poker and chess can help anyone make better life decisions. Exclusive PokerStars Bonus
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And if anyone can attest to that, it’s Shahade.
The highly-ambitious 42-year-old became a National Master at just 16, claimed two US Chess Women’s Championship titles and a Silver Olympic medal.
Shahade has Poker career earnings of over £379,000, scooping her largest prize of £100,000 when winning the Open-Face Chinese Poker World Championship High Roller event.
She’s convinced that Poker is a microcosm of life, and can benefit players of all abilities with risk, money and outlook. PokerStars ambassador Jennifer Shahade at the EPT in Monaco Credit: @jenshahade In a hugely exciting year for the PokerStars community, she told SunSport: “Poker teaches you a lot of life skills.”It’s a microcosm of life. It teaches you how to interact with people, learn about money and the value of risk.”If you take too many risks you’ll lose all your money very quickly, if you don’t take enough risk – you’ll lose all your money very slowly. Check out our tips for playing online poker “You can’t always risk everything or be too patient by waiting for the perfect moment.”Another really important lesson from Poker is how to separate the result from the decision.”A lot of the time you make great decisions and you lose. Sometimes you make a bad decision and you win. POKERSTARS CASINO REVIEW “Try to be less results orientated in life and don’t blame yourself if you did something that didn’t work out that you really didn’t have any control over.”These are lessons for everyone, but there’s a great imbalance in poker with women making up just 5 percent of the 100 million poker players in the world. Jennifer Shahade reveals her best […]
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