When I first began to see signs in the cards while playing poker, I couldn’t understand why God would want me to use the skill in that way. I wasn’t comfortable ignoring the logical, mathematical approach to the game and couldn’t forget the fact that the book which taught me the meanings of the cards says that you should not use the deck of playing cards which you use for tarot to play games. I felt greedy imagining that I was unlocking a special skill that could lead to a huge poker win and silly for thinking that intuition could beat logic in No Limit Texas Hold’em. Then, one day, I realized that I could use the Sociological research skills I gained in college to compile data about whether or not the cards predict player behaviors and/or the outcome of a hand… and, in the blink of an eye, the conflict I had felt about mixing tarot and poker was gone.

From that moment on, I understood my purpose and started to compile data. I immediately started analyzing hands between poker pros and developing a system for evaluating and recording information. After realizing how long it would take to analyze the hundreds of thousands of poker hands needed in order to compile enough data to consider the results significant, I began to devote more time to playing poker intuitively in case my personal poker achievements are meant to be the proof. Last year, I began inviting people who purchase my Fortune Telling Tiny Art Playing Cards to answer a 16-question survey about whether or not the message on the card spoke to them. I also started leaving them around Las Vegas for people to find in order to offer the opportunity to take the survey to random strangers. Recently, I began to share the most interesting pro poker hands I’ve analyzed to date on my YouTube channel.

One of the first comments I got on my vlog was, as expected, “Hang on… is this a joke?” This post is my long-winded way of responding, “Absolutely not. I’m very serious.”

Stay tuned to learn more about the specific data I’m compiling and what information I’ve gathered to date. I’m still fine-tuning the way I record data on the pro poker hands I’ve analyzed, and I only have six responses to the survey so far – five believers and one skeptic – but I hope to have enough data to warrant a progress report sometime this year.

Go here to watch me explain the meanings of the cards as they fall in the most interesting pro poker hands I’ve analyzed to date.

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