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Movies
1. Rounders
I must admit, I was among the many who was introduced to the world of no-limit Texas Hold'em through this 1998 movie starring Matt Damon and Ed Norton. There's still no other movie that's about modern-day poker like this one, and the marathon poker session that Damon's character goes through to help save Norton's "the worm" is great. With a cameo by Johnny Chan and some great (though sometimes over-quoted) lines, this is a must-see.
2. Maverick
This movie won't teach anyone how to play poker, but it is a fun film that captures the old-west image of back-alley bars, cowboys, and cards. Maverick, played by Mel Gibson, travels with the original Maverick, James Garner, and Jodie Foster to the biggest poker tournament of the day -- a riverboat five-card draw winner takes all contest.
3. The Cincinatti Kid
A poker classic, famous for its final climatic hand between Steve McQueen's "The Kid," and Edward Robinson's Lancey Howard. The film follows the young card player through New Orleans as he tries to win the title of the best poker player of all time -- which leads him to Lancey Howard, the current title holder. This a great poker-filled flick that also has a great cast featuring Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, and Rip Torn.
4. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
This movie isn't about poker, but it's the high-stakes undergroung game of three card brag that puts the whole movie in motion. After three friends stake the fourth, Eddy, to play in the game with Hatchet Harry, Eddy ends up not only losing all the money they gave him, but an additional half-million pounds. How they try to get the money to pay Hatchet Harry back is a hysterical, action-packed ride, which is well-worth watching.
5. Honeymoon in Vegas
Once again, a plot is put into motion through people cheating at poker when Nicolas Cage loses his girlfriend for the weekend when his straight flush is beat by James Caan's higher straight flush. Now, I would have perhaps suspected cheating here, but thankfully Cage's character isn't that bright, because then we'd miss out on his crazy antics from Hawaii back to Vegas to get the girl back.
6. A Big Hand for a Little Lady
The biggest high-stakes game in the West draws the attention of a man named Meredity, who stakes his whole family fortune to get into the game. His wfe, Mary, a tightwad, is none too happy about it, but when her husband suffers a heart attack during the game, Mary steps in and takes up his hand.
Television
1. GSN's High Stakes Poker
This new show that premeired in 2006 is unique among all poker shows in that instead of a tournament, you get to sit in with the best poker pros in the world, like Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, & Jen Harman, and watch them gamble with their own money -- and a lot of it -- each player MUST buy-in with $100,000 of their own money. The action is very different and you'll see variations and deals you won't see on any other poker table.
2. The World Series of Poker on ESPN
The biggest event in poker is also the biggest event in poker TV. Nowhere else can you see the variety of games (including 7-card stud and Omaha as well as Hold'em) played at the highest level. But the main draw is the Main Event and watching to see who will take home the multi-million dollar first prize in the no limit Hold'em tournament. This show is the nuts of poker TV.
3. The World Poker Tour on the Travel Channel, GSN, and soon Fox Sports
After this show aired in 2003, it didn't take long until it was the Travel Channel's highest rated program -- and with good reason. There's great poker on this show which follows the WPT tournament events as casinos around the country, poker that will get your heart racing as you follow each hand. In 2008, new episodes began airing on GSN, while older ones remain in repeats on the Travel Channel. Next season, it will move to Fox Sports.
4. Celebrity Poker Showdown on Bravo
In my opinion, this show did as much for poker's popularity as the previous two. A whole new audience was drawn in by the appeal of seeing if their fave celebs could act off the set. It might not be the best poker playing on TV, but between the humor and commentary of hosts Dave Foley and Phil Gordon and the joking and jabs between the rotating cast of 5 celebrities -- it is the most fun. Phil Gordon may be replaced by Phil Hellmuth in future seasons, but the fun goes on.
5. Poker Royale: on GSN
This show brings two opposing groups to duke it out on the poker table -- from Boys vs. Girls to the latest, Celebrities vs. Pros. Three from each "camp" sit down to no limit Hold'em tournaments -- and who doesn't want how celebs like Jennifer Tilly and Lance Bass (that's right, of *NSYNC) hold up against pros like Scott Fischman and Kathy Liebert?
6. Poker Superstars on Fox Sports
This fast paced-invitational series of tournaments pits the best pros in the world against each other. The blinds go up rapidly, making some viewers to compare the pace of the action to playing online.
7. Ultimate Poker Challenge
This show hosts a series of no-limit Texas Hold'em Tournaments that will take place at the Plaza in Las Vegas, that started in July 05 and going for 26 straight weeks. That's a lot of poker to watch.
8. Mansionpoker.net Poker Dome Challenge
This unique show is shot in downtown Las Vegas at the "Poker Dome" and pits players in a speed poker tournament where they only have 15 seconds to decide what to do when it's their turn. All the players wear heart monitors which is a fun feature, so when hands heat up, you can see if the players keep their cool.
9. Tilt
The only fictional show of the bunch, this ESPN created drama stars Michael Madsen as Don "The Matador" Everest, a poker player known for drawing the suckers in. I'm not sure if it was the plot or the poker-filled scenes (with real pros popping in from time to time) that drew me in, but I can say I was entertained.
10. E! Hollywood Hold'em
Always wanted to get an invite to one of those insider Hollywood poker games you hear are going on? Welcome to E! Hollywood Hold'em where a celebrity lets you be a railbird at his (or her) home game with some famous and not so-famous friends. Phil Laak dealt and hosted this casual show that lasted sadly only one season.
Books
1. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
Gladwell maintains that we "blink" when we think without thinking. We do that by "thin-slicing," using limited information to come to a conclusion. In what Gladwell contends is an age of information overload, he finds experts often make better decisions with snap judgments than they do with reams of analysis.
Sometimes we over-think things. Sometimes you just have to go with your read.
2. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose - Eckhart Tolle
"Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them."
3. Zen In the Art of Archery - Eugen Herrigel
Through years of practice, an activity becomes effortless both mentally and physically. The body becomes capable of executing often complex, often difficult movements without conscious control by the mind.
"The archer ceases to be conscious of himself as the one who is engaged in hitting the bull's-eye which confronts him. This state of unconscious is realized only when, completely empty and rid of the self, he becomes one with the perfecting of his technical skill, though there is in it something of a quite different order which cannot be attained by any progressive study of the art..."
4. If - Rudyard Kipling
The first few lines of the title poem say it all.
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting...
5. The Bible
The Main Event of literature as far as I am concerned.
Good for bankroll management. "Covet not thy neighbor's ass."
The 23rd Psalm is always excellent to keep in mind when shoving all your chips into the middle of the table.
6. WOODEN: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off The Court
- John Wooden
ESPN's show "Who's Number 1?" ranked Mr. Wooden as the greatest coach of all time in any sport. "Intensity makes you stronger. Emotionalism makes you weaker."
7. Personal Best - George Sheehan, M.D.
I knew George Sheehan. He was either the most normal great man I have ever encountered or the greatest normal man. I wish I had thought to tell him that. He would have laughed. Modestly, of course...
"The memorable thing is not to excel against others but to excel against yourself...The real trophy is within. The real trophy is the self."
8. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
Many professors give talks entitled “The Last Lecture.” Professors are asked to consider their demise and to reflect on what matters most to them. While they speak, each member of the audience can’t help but ponder the same question: What wisdom would I share with the world if I knew it was my last opportunity? If I dropped dead tomorrow, what would I want as my legacy?
Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture. He didn’t have to imagine it as his last, as he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave—“Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”—wasn’t about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (“time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think”). The Last Lecture is a summation of everything Pausch had come to believe. It is about living.
9. The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
Laugh if you will. Come to think about it, those chortling the loudest probably have the greatest need to study these concepts.
According to James Arthur Ray, there is scientific evidence to back up the spiritual practices and laws defined in The Secret. "Science tells us that everything is energy, and so your thoughts are energy. Your body, your cash, your car—everything you think is solid, if you put it under a high-powered microscope, it's just a field of energy and a rate of vibration," he says. "And so are we. So if you think you're this meat suit running around, you have to think again."
One way to describe this energy is by comparing it to radio waves, "The frequency you give out through your thoughts and your emotions is what you have a tendency to manifest in your life," Re. Dr. Michael Beckwith adds. "Whether those thoughts and emotions are conscious or unconscious, it doesn't matter."
If you are sending out the same negative energy over and over—whether thoughts or feelings—you will attract similar energy back to you. Ray explains, when bad things happen people might ask, "Oh, God, why me?"
"Because it is you," he says.
10. Collected Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
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