Sep
09
Steven Lubet is a lawyer who’s also a Professor of Law at Northwestern University. He’s written a book titled Lawyer’s Poker: 52 Lessons that Lawyers Can Learn from Card Players. Both Sparky and I really enjoyed it. I couldn’t put it down. It’s fun, interesting, informative and says some insightful, intelligent things about luck, one of my favorite philosophical poker concepts that I’ve grappled with in prior posts on luck (see e.g. here).
In a few days, Sparky will be posting an interview with Steven Lubet. It’s a great interview, packed with a lot of food for thought. To prepare you for the interview, I thought I’d say a few things about the book.
As the title suggests, Lubet presents 52 poker lessons, lessons that lawyers can use in many different aspects of law practice to become better lawyers, and lessons that poker players can use to become better poker players. Many of the lessons are basic and obvious ones, such as the lesson on paying attention, which advises you to pay attention to your opponents at the poker table in order to read them.
But Lubet doesn’t just state the obvious. He fleshes out each lesson with interesting examples, stories and advice. For example, in the lesson on paying attention, Lubet makes reference to Mike Caro’s advice about common tells that are unique to the flop, such as when a player who involuntarily stares at his chips indicates that he likes the flop.
