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This is why, at professional poker tournaments, you will often see sunglasses and other methods used to hide the person’s expressions and reactions.
Third, a good poker player may know what is happening from a Future Intuitive perspective. This includes a sense of what’s going on in the hands of all the players, and what might be coming on the next turn of the cards. This is where the feeling of luck comes in.
After either winning or folding, a good poker player will often say, “I just knew it was going to turn out that way.” This “knowing” may be based on patterns (Past Intuition) or picking up energies from other players (Present Intuition), or knowing the future (Future Intuition) but it is generally well beyond the capability of the rational mind, especially as one makes critical bet, raise, hold or drop decisions.
I’ll never forget a personal poker game where, for some reason, I was able to personally predict a winning hand prior to the deal. This has only happened once in my life, but it gave me an inkling of the power of great poker players. And the power of our intuitive mind.
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