Need An Excuse to Gamble? Look No Further.

 

Great news! Now we can provide you with the perfect excuse to gamble, it's good for your mental abilities!! Not those mental abilities like telepathy or telekinesis, no we're talking about the everyday functioning of your brain, within the normal realms of behaviour.

 

There is a well known psychological theory when it comes to brain power, and that is 'use it or lose it', meaning that if you want to stay at your particular level of intelligent/ability, then you need to exercise your brain often, without these activities, those neurons die and you lose your abilities. It is well known that giving sufferers of Alzheimer's disease crosswords, and the like, can help reduce the rate of deterioration. And now, you can add card games to the list!!

 

There are a wide variety of activities that you can do in order to help exercise your brain: take an exam, read advanced texts, or even do a little bit of mathematics. But these activities are, for the majority of people, very dull, often solitary tasks. However, the good news is, is that there are plenty of activities you can participate in that are both fun and brain enhancing, and guess what?...Recent studies have found that one of the best ways of improving brain function, and maintaining a young and healthy mind, is to play card games. This means any type of poker, blackjack, baccarat...and the best thing? You don't even need to leave the comfort of your own home to enjoy cards!

 

Two of the main elements that make card games useful brain food are memory and skill training. If either memory or skill sets are involved in an activity, then your brain will begin to start working-out; cards and other forms of gambling have long been considered as a healthy wholesome brain diet, they keep the mind alert, on top form and primed to make intelligent decisions at the drop of a hat.

 

Have you ever played the game bridge? If you have then you probably understand the feeling of walking away from a game more confused than you were when you started, but though this might feel a little disconcerting, it is actually an ideal brain state, because it means you are giving your brain a mental work-out, if you keep going back to the game, then the time will come when the confusion lifts and what remains is a crystallised clarity of the rules of the game.

 

Possibly, if you are familiar with the bridge community, then you will realise that most players do not reach an advanced level until they have trained for at least a year, sometimes more. As it is when you train your body, you need to keep getting on the mental treadmill, the muscles do not come over night, like many things, it takes time.

 

Currently though, leading the race in the brain-training arena, although it doesn't get haled as such, is poker. As with bridge, poker is a game for the person of great stamina (another good excuse for playing- it shows stamina, determination and hard-work!). Poker involves, at the intermediate level and beyond, many mathematical and strategic decisions- the beginner level lays the foundation and so is fundamentally important, but not so strenuous as the subsequent levels- as well as incorporating your memory to a significant degree.

 

Yet because of the excitement of the game, and the longing to win the pot, poker is often overlooked as an important means of brain-training, and many people play without ever realising the benefits, maybe getting told of by their partners, friends, children....without ever giving them this most perfect of excuses to play. The same information also goes for other games such as craps and blackjack.

 

Another area of mental training, and one for which you can win money (see king.com) are the word games, facebooks scrabulous, for example, is taking the social network industry by storm. Word games are mostly training information processing abilities, as well as verbal dexterity- but don't speak too big, people don't like it. Other facets that are trained via word games are cognitive processes, such as language, perception, memorising language structures and some forms of sensory information processing.

 

Great news for teenage boys, and adult men as well, the computer game does actually help to improve brain functioning too. They work-out many of our cognitive processes, such as reasoning ability, inference, reflexive speeds and control, focusing on long-term goal attainment, rather than instant gratification. You could almost argue that they could be helpful for such problems as ADHD, which often sees those affected making snap, spur-of-the-moment, decisions, rather than looking at the bigger picture, taking time to reflect, analyse and chose the most appropriate behavioural path.

 

With computer games that involve such things as car/bike racing, you will also be able to train the visual and spatial parts of your brain...if you want an excuse to play racing games, just crash your parents/partners/siblings car and then tell them to buy you an X-box so you never have to crash their car again, seeing as you can now practice your spatial and visual cortex, and hone the appropriate skills.

 

And the best thing? You can play all these games from the comfort of your own home, adding an extra mathematical feature to the games by playing for money, with the excuse that you need to because it's helping your brain!

 

Give your brain a gourmet meal, play poker online!!

 

 

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