Poker (and chess?) might be some of the best ways to practice making lots of decisions in a short amount of time.
You have to assess, decide, and then execute on your conviction – with significant potential losses – and under a time constraint.
Like everything else, it’s like a muscle that gets stronger the more it is used…
Some crazy hands come out:
Every poker hand requires making at least one decision (to fold your starting cards or play them), and some hands can require up to twenty decisions. During a poker game in a casino card room, players get in about thirty hands per hour. An average hand of poker takes about two minutes to complete, including the time it takes for the dealer to gather, shuffle, and deal the cards between hands. Poker sessions typically last for several hours, with many decisions in every hand. This means a poker player makes hundreds of decisions per session, all of which take place at breakneck speed.
-Annie Duke, Thinking In Bets (Amazon)