FTR AMA: Zach Elwood, author of Reading Poker Tells - Feb 21st 5.30pm ET

[spoonitnow]

Okay so here's my question after looking through your book:

How has your experience with working towards being unreadable affected how you behave in other aspects of life?

[Zach Elwood]

Okay so here's my question after looking through your book:

How has your experience with working towards being unreadable affected how you behave in other aspects of life?

I'm not sure, to be honest. Sometimes I feel like I'm kind of autistic in some ways, and I'm not sure if that's due to playing a lot of poker or if I'd be like that anyway. I feel as if most of the physical movements I take are very planned-out, and not spontaneous, so that may be due to some influence of thinking about such things in poker. But I've always suffered from anxiety/depression issues, so I mostly think those kinds of issues would be there regardless of poker.

Some days I feel like I'd be happier if I'd never played poker at all. Other days I feel it was a great salvation for someone like me, giving me confidence in something, something I could take a lifelong interest in, etc.