Quando comecei a jogar poker, me disseram que a sorte acontece em Streaks.A vida também - especialmente se você ler Peter AlsonRomance infundido com pôquer A única maneira de jogar.
O livro começa com nosso personagem em alta (o que eu pensei inicialmente era estranho para um romance de poker ... os personagens não devem começar a sorte e seguir em direção a uma trajetória para cima?) E é justo dizer que este livro está adequadamenteimprevisível.É difícil saber exatamente o que está por vir.Novamente, como a vida.
Alson tece em cenas de vários clubes de pôquer em Nova York com a vida em casa cotidiana.Um dos meus pontos de reflexão favorita no livro foi o seguinte: “De uma maneira estranha deslocadora, tudo parecia carregar o mesmo peso - o Facebook Feeds que justapôs as férias de alguém em Boca com um terremoto no Haiti, ou uma cirurgia plástica de celebridade com estupro em massano Congo. ”
Absolutamente.O pôquer muda seu relacionamento com dinheiro (US $ 12 por um café com leite ridículo! Mas vamos dobrar para US $ 20), mudando assim seu relacionamento com a perspectiva.Alson dá esse passo adiante no mundo das prioridades.
This book is truly made for people who live and breathe the game
He paces the book well and it’s a fair balance between card clubs and the real world. If you like poker stories but shy away from strategy books, A única maneira de jogar may just be a winner. It’s definitely relatable in terms of “pokerbrain” — what it feels like to be winning, praying for playable cards, thinking about life expenses secretly as you place that c-bet. He doesn’t dumb down the poker talk either — this book is truly made for people who live and breathe the game.
My favorite parts were the moments of analysis. Like this thought point here: “I rarely had these thoughts when I was winning. But during a prolonged downswing like the one I’d been going through, it was all too possible to believe that my assumptions were wrong, that I had merely developed elaborate rationales and constructs surrounding my skill and mastery and level of control over my destiny. Maybe poker was my drug, my way to avoid confronting my inability to truly connect or commit, to live passionately or feel deeply, to be open to hurt and pain.”
Or, even simpler, “I worried constantly about how to make this crazy world a better place for Hannah, but I couldn’t even seem to get a handle on my own small problems.”
Haven’t we all felt that way? How are we supposed to do X when we can’t accomplish Y?
What makes poker an even greater medium for exploring life’s questions is that all of our decision-making is amplified.
As the author writes, “We liked to think we were in control. Certainly, we wanted to be. Sometimes we were. You could look back through your life and replay things a thousand times, trying to figure out what might have happened if you had done one thing differently. Poker players always did that, especially after a loss. It might not change the outcome, but it did provide a way to think about the future.”
Alson realmente prega que poker e vida são simplesmente uma série de decisões.Então o resto está no convés.
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