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Poker as Life: 101 Lessons from the World's Greatest Game
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 795
EAN: 9781588166852
ISBN: 1588166856
Label: Hearst
Manufacturer: Hearst
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: February 05, 2008
Publisher: Hearst
Studio: Hearst
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Editorial Review:
Where else but at the poker table can you discover all in one place the principles of finance (money management, risk and reward); mathematics (probability and odds); sociology (getting along with disparate, sometimes odious, personalities for the good of the game); literature (playing by the book); and, above all, psychology (in which the perceptive, intuitive, and observant student of human nature will usually be materially rewarded). Poker As Life is a primer for success. If you lie but never cheat, play the hand you’re dealt, and make your own luck, then you’ll never go bust.
As a bonus, there are dozens of entertaining and edifying life lessons provided by poker pros and other famous folk.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A good book about life not poker
If you are looking for a book to improve your poker game...this is not it. If you are looking to understand life as a whole...this may be it.
Rating:  - TERRIFIC BOOK
This is a terrific little book...filled with gems of game wisdom that carry over to "real life. Highly recommended!
Rating: - You don't have to love poker...
You don't have to love poker to enjoy this book. I'm a mediocre player myself and will never confuse a card game with real life, but this book is so damned readable -- smart and provocative and memorably snarky -- that I savored it the way I'd savor the conversation of a wise, battled-tested old pro in virtually any walk of life. The hundred chapter epigraphs alone are worth the price of admission and constitute, taken together, a nice little primer on the game.
Rating: - Four Aces
This is a wonderful read--brisk, blunt, sarcastic, witty, even a little nasty. But, at all times, extremely well written and engaging. It not only offers the reader valuable tools to psych out other poker players, but also provides a playbook for out-foxing all those troublesome competitors, foes and rivals that we encounter in life. Highly recommended!
Rating:  - A bit different
All of the other poker books I've read up to this point have focused on a combination of gameplay and history. Poker as Life is the first to address the rest of the world in table terms.
I am the type of person who finds it strange if someone doesn't gamble, and even stranger if they don't play cards. For me games of chance hold a special place in my heart and have taught me much about myself and others. The author of this book must feel the same, because in the 101 rules that make up ... Read More
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