I can’t help thinking Arsene Wenger is a poker player.
One time!
Judging by his comical attempts in the transfer market, I think the Arsenal manager must be!
He wanders around like a lost boy at a school disco; lurching from girl
to girl, asking for a dance and getting refused at every turn.
It is not that Arsene even really wants to dance; it just seems everyone
else is doing it and so he, very unconvincingly it must be said, tries to
do the same.
You just know that Arsene did not really want to spend 42.4 million pounds on Mesut Ozil.
Arsene Wenger gets pot-committed with Mesut Ozil
He was just pretending and then got caught out.
Because this is not the way Arsene wants to do business.
He simply does not see why anyone would spend more than a set of
tracksuits and a free tour of the Emirates for any player.
He has a philosophy.
A set of rules that guides him.
He is sure that his way is the correct way.
And Arsene’s way has been very successful in the past.
No matter that the game has changed.
Or sometimes your ‘rules’ have to change with what is going on around
you.
Or that he hasn’t won anything for eight years.
Wenger: I’m all in!
I think I can be guilty of this kind of thinking in my poker playing.
I often catch myself thinking that this is “right” or this is “wrong”.
I am often sure that my way of playing is the best way of playing on the table.
I stick to my own set of “rules” even when events suggest I shouldn’t.
How can you call me with that?!
Now I am not suggesting that Arsene should start spending money like a drunken WAG at a Harvey Nichols sale.
Or that I should just throw out a load of poker principles learned the hard way over years of playing.
But maybe both of us could stop thinking that we are the only ones that are ever right.
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