yet another way of how to use the NLP technique of anchoring in poker

tonight, when playing a game of standard poker with some friends, and
practicing some nlp techniques, basically looking for applications of
the lot like the NLP meta model, submodality work and - my absolut
favourite - timeline work (yes, in poker, and it is sooo much fun!!!),
i came up with some more uses of anchoring, one of which i will put
down now:

there are two kinds of general directions you can go, when deciding,
which emotions to anchor to a specific action: the good ones, and the
bad ones.

as there is so much out there on good anchors and good push yourself
forward til you drop over the cliff-anchors, here is another bad
anchor, put to good use:

you may know this from sight: when someone calls, you have to put your
cards down, to show what you have. now, you can of course put 2 cards
down to show what you have. what you create here is an open loop (see
advanced hypnosis techniques and e.g. Richard Bandlers DVD on "nested
loops"), because the competitor want to know what is in the other
cards. you have a lot of response potential, and a lot of control in
the way that you put the other 3 cards down, aside, hold them, play
with them etc.

now of course, best is when you have good cards still in your hand,
e.g. you put down a pair of 3s and you still have a pair of kings or
so. (and yes, i know about statistics, just for the example here).

you wait. you let the other put his cards down, and it doesnt matter if
he has the better cards, though it will work best if you overwin him
with the second part of your hand, after he thought he would have won.
here is how to establish the anchor:

he puts down his cards. he thinks he has won. he builds good emotions
up. now you create that anchor, e.g. by making a certain statement like
a well timed or well stressed "Well..." or "Aha..." or "That is what
you have..." or "Richard Bandler once won a R&D company in a poker
game, you knew that?" and put down your (superior) cards. what happens
now is that he good feeling collapses into a bad feeling for him, the
better the timing is, the better the anchor will work.

now, next time you are working a bluff, apart from putting your face in
hypnotic stasis, using NLP milton patterns aaaaaall the tiiiiime and
looking at/pacing the competitors breath to see when they speed up and
to pass time, when he goes like "yeah, i have a good hand", you go
"Well..." or "Aha..." or "That is what you have..." (do not go up here
with the voice inflection here, if you did not before- it is about
triggering the anchor, not about asking a question) and totally blow
away his confidence.

stay congruent while doing so, the stasis helps. you might also set an
anchor for confidence you trigger every time you have to look
confident... but that is a different entry.

one of the next entries will be about that one.

one more thing: in our work on the NLP meta program DVD project (How to
see and pace nlp meta programs. the secrets of Your fast and easy
application, we did a free report in which you can test your ability to
find meta programs in the word-by-word-transcript of interviews we did.
it can be found at

http://www.smscoach.com/sales/1article.htm

feedback welcome!

keep evolving!