- ISBN13: 9780452281264
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Product Description
Inside the intriguing world of poker lies a fascinating exercise in strategy and extreme concentration–many of the same principles that underpin the one-thousand-year-old philosophy of Zen spirituality. Zen and the Art of Poker is the first book to apply Zen theories to America’s most popular card game, presenting tips that readers can use to enhance their game. Among the more than one hundred rules that comprise this book, readers will learn to:
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Zen and the Art of Poker: Timeless Secrets to Transform Your Game
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#1 by Anonymous on March 26, 2010 - 8:27 am
But the writer hasn’t really pulled it off. Far from essential for poker players.
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by S. Hale on March 26, 2010 - 9:23 am
Zen is a book you should read when you first start to play cards. It main goal is to get you to understand the attitude you need to play the game. Even though the concept of Zen and poker are close to opposite, Phillips utilizes the the technique of keeping calm and not going on tilt. The book is full of general tips that are sometimes overlooked in the game. Despite the book being a little slow to read, i give it four stars and would recommend it.
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Rating: 4 / 5
#3 by Henry Stephenson on March 26, 2010 - 12:00 pm
Before I recommend this book, let me be blunt about its limitations. I don’t recognize much philosophical weight in the old Eastern schools of Confucianism, Taoism, and Zen (although Neo-Confucianism is quite a bit more substantial). These traditions of parables and riddles are aesthetically pleasing and valuable to a certain extent, but modern Western thought completely overpowers them. Anyone who understands the outlines of Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason,” for example, necessarily understands where Zen tries to lead us and, simultaneously, that the goal is unattainable. So while I am deeply skeptical of the truth that Zen aims for, I do believe that Zen can be useful psychologically as a vehicle for understanding, accepting, and honoring truths that emerge from other lines of inquiry.
And that’s the capacity in which Zen and the Art of Poker is valuable. It helps readers integrate the paramount virtues of discipline and patience into their game-concepts that you don’t need to be a Buddhist monk to appreciate, but that you have to be a little like a Buddhist monk to live by.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by D. Hildahl on March 26, 2010 - 12:25 pm
This is a great book for the beginner to middle player skill level. It starts off like it may be for advanced players but with its redundant reminders of how to play certain types of hands and what to do in case scenarios it drills it into the player. Making it much easier to retain the information.
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by Tyson Nielsen on March 26, 2010 - 2:38 pm
This book focuses on one of the hardest (if not the all time hardest) things to learn at the poker table– keeping your cool and staying in control of yourself, it brings up lots of very interesting points and reads like a story-book, I enjoyed reading it very much, a great book for any poker player.
Rating: 3 / 5