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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Live Dangerously
Part I: Poker’s Life Lessons
1. Seven Lessons in Philosophy You Already Learned Playing Texas Hold’em
2. Karl Marx Meets Texas Dolly
3. Knowing the Unknowable: Aristotle, Sklansky, and the Humility of Wisdom
4. Poker and the Game of Life
5. The Existential Gambler: Dostoevsky and the Gambler’s High
Part II: Dude, What Were You Thinking?
6. Thinking about Thinking about Thinking about Thinking (about Poker)
7. Don’t Play on Tilt! Avoiding Seven Costly Critical Thinking Errors in Poker
8. Probability as a Guide to Poker
9. The Irrational Game: Why There’s No Perfect System
10. “I Should Have Known It!”: Gilbert Ryle and Poker Knowledge
Part III: Lying, Bluffing, and “Friendly” Pummeling
11. Bluffing, Lying, and Bullshitting
12. Poker Lies: Keep Your Friends Close and Your Ethicists Closer
13. Online Poker: Is it Bluffing when No One Sees You Blink?
14. Power Poker: Machiavelli and Brunson’s Super System
15. Why My Daughter Plays Poker (and How I Learned to Deal)
Part IV: Three of a Kind: Texas, Vegas, and Hollywood
16. Jewish Philosophy Wins the Pot: How Stu Ungar and Emmanuel Levinas Coralled the Texans
17. Civilization amidst Wilderness: Hobbes, Poker, and Classic Westerns
18. Annie Duke Takes on Hollywood: Girl Power at the Poker Table
19. “The Cheating Game”: Poker’s Culture of Violence
The Players
Index
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