Poker And The Art of Negative Visualization

At a time when a positive mental attitude is all the rage, Lee Davy, proposes that we take the contrarian view and instead think about all the things that could go wrong when we sit down for a game of poker.

Somewhere in the universe another life form finally takes an interest in us. They create an Android and send him into the masses to figure out what makes us tick. The first person the Android meets is a professional poker player.

After spending weeks with the poker player, the Android is asked to send an update to its Mothership, and it looks a little something like this.

“Humans are walking, talking contradictions.”