How playing Fortnite can improve your poker game

Part of loving the game of poker is thinking about it when you’re away from the felt as well as when you’re facing opponents across the poker table. To that end, a lot of other activities help you with your poker game.

The study of mathematics has an obvious benefit to understanding probability and exploiting others’ lack of nous on that subject. Physical exercise is a great way of building stamina to deal with the rigours of long hours playing the game. Finally, playing Fortnite is a great way of improving your strategy at the poker table… wait, what?

Yes, that’s right, if you don’t play Fortnite already and consider the game one for children only then you couldn’t be more wrong. Particularly when it comes to tournament poker, the game has a huge number of ways it can improve your strategic thinking.

Let’s start with a poker player who plays the game of Fortnite very well. Matt Glantz, who currently sits in 162nd place on the all-time money list, with over $7.1 million in live tournament winnings alone. He can also shoot a player in the head while they’re flying a plane above him in Fortnite.