Let Others Win the Battles…

The saying goes “he won the battle, but lost the war.” Most people don’t realise that their egos are ‘running the show’ and as a result are attached to the immediate small win that appears to be the world in the moment and yet miss out on the longer game and bigger win. Letting others win is the key in negotiation in business, in relationship longevity and an essential at the Poker table. I’ve expressed before how the Great players will contest nearly every pot they’re in. Now, there’s never really a situation when they’ll let a pot go to an opponent, but there are ways to winning with a Winner’s finesse. Allowing opponents to think that you made a bad play, got lucky or are just better than you are all keys in actually winning in the long-term. It sounds adverse, yet it is the exact opposite that yields you the returns in the long-run. 
 
 Think about it. If you were playing a game for fun and also in a lot of cases, to win, who would you prefer to play? A player who makes you feel bad when you lose to them, that you feel is definitely a better player or the guy who got lucky on you, who appears to have misplayed against you, the guy that is singing your praises despite you happening to lose the hand to them? Obviously the latter and yet it the overriding tendency of the ego to want to rub salt in the wound and even worse, end up educating your opponents both that they improve their play but also that they might now choose to avoid you. Well done ego, you win the battle every time, but the war, that’s the one that others are winning. The guys running home-games behind closed doors. The guys who run private games with whales that you never even meet. These guys get players in their game because they never win the battles. They are the perfect hosts. They always let the other guys have the ego and the battle wins, maybe cos they’re too busy counting the money at the end of the day rather than getting caught in the ego-play themselves!

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