Loading...Editor's pick
Interesting Life Lessons from the Poker Table
Product
Poker As Life by Lee Robert Schreiber
Hits
- Short easy chapters detailing each life lesson
- Humorous tone makes for an easy read
- Lessons apply to more than just the poker table
Misses
- Not a strategy book
- Must have some basic knowledge of poker
Review
The beauty of this book is that you don't even have to like poker to get something from it. It's not about odds and strategies; instead it is more about life strategies in general that will work to improve your game and improve your life.
Poker As Life: 101 Lessons from the World's Greatest Game was an easy and fun read, and one can see that following the advice in the book could potentially improve your game. In this case, it's more about a shift in attitude and personal mental strategies rather than memorizing odds or what starting hands you should play in what position.
Because it's not actually about how to play poker, the book assumes you already know how to play. Thus, readers should use it as an additional tool to help build their game, rather than a foundation on which to build.
The advice is great, though. Take tip No. 5 for example: Never complain, never explain. Nobody wants to hear about your bad beat stories or your run of cold cards at the poker table. The same holds true for health problems or other issues you feel like opening up about at the table.
It's best to just keep your mouth shut and not become the whiner at the table. That's also true in regular life. Only a psychologist or a doctor wants to hear about your problems - everyone else has enough of their own without having to worry about yours.
Nearly all of the advice is along those lines where there is a clear application in poker, but it's not just limited to use at the poker table.
Another good part about this book is that it's easy to just pick up and read in small parts when you have the time. Each life lesson is its own short chapter, and they aren't necessarily connected so that you have to remember what you read in the previous chapter in order to understand the next.
If you're looking for a book on how to play poker, this isn't the book for you. But if you want an entertaining read about poker's life lessons, pick this one up.
Details:
- $9.95
Paperback
Hearst Books
239 pages
