IIM professor propagates learning through poker
Th♌ere is much debate about poker being a gambling gam🍬e or a skill sport.
An Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode assistant professor, Deepak Dhayanithy, has done something revolutionary in this context🌊 by recognising the pros of the game and inculcating them in his c𝓡ompetitive strategy class at the management institute.
Dhayanithy marvels at the vastness of learning possibilities offered by the game of poker. He poin෴ts out that through poker, players learn to manage their resources in different situatio𝄹ns that occur in the game.
Poker, professor Dhayanithy points𒉰 out, presents myriad situations to pla♏yers, and with time, practice and analytical abilities, players’ reactions to those situations evolve.
🌠Also, players develop discernme🔯nt towards behaviour, motivations, moves and body language of other players. Through poker, you learn to read various intentional or unintentional ways in which competitors communicate a lot of information about themselves.
With all the possibilities of cards and competitors’ moves & intentions, players 🌠have to be on their toes and take adaptive decisions to survive longer and win.
Managers also develop a higher EQ and better decision-making abilit🦩ies with time, under uncertainty and stress.
All these poker teachings pointed out by the IIM professor are highly important for business pe♎rsons to learn to stand out and succeed among competitors.
At a of in Goa, Dhayanithy had discussion with a number of top po🥂ker players to support and propagate his research.
At the event, Dhayanithy also got to p🍎lay a few hands with chess grandmaster and Viswanathan💞 Anand. He felt disarmed by the calm and fun persona of the chess legend, while .
Dhayanithy described the chess m🍨aster as a person with a calm and s꧋harp mind. He appreciated how quickly Anand pointed out correlations between the moves and strategies of poker and chess games.
One great chess insight that Anand shared with Dhayanithy is the after a point of time, one gets aware of their breath, which syncs with that of their opponent’s, and any sharp variation in the opponent’s breathing pattern can suggest an anomaly or opportunity. This 🌺principle can translate to some extent to poker as well, where players have to be completely aware of the behaviour and mannerism of the competitors to take c🙈ompetitive decisions.
Professor Dhayanithy’s poker research and his dedication to evolve his teaching methods by understanding the game in depth attests to how much this game l꧂eans towards being skill and analytics-based.
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