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Lawyers' poker : 52 lessons that lawyers can learn from card players / Steven Lubet.

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Publisher's description: Great poker players are master tacticians. Not only do they calculate odds with lightning speed and astonishing precision, but they also cunningly anticipate and manipulate the actions of their adversaries. In short, they boast skills that every lawyer can envy. This hi...

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Main Author: Lubet, Steven
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Practice of law > United States.
Trial practice > United States.
Poker.
Table of Contents:
  • DIAMONDS : MAXIMIZING YOUR WINNINGS: Lesson 1 : saving bets
  • Lesson 2 : expected value
  • Lesson 3 : don't gamble
  • Lesson 4 : depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember : it didn't work for the rabbit
  • Lesson 5 : opening hands
  • Lesson 6 : drawing hands
  • Lesson 7 : chasing is for dogs
  • Lesson 8 : Yardley's Law (and Darrow's exception)
  • Lesson 9 : losing it
  • Lesson 10 : desperate times
  • Lesson 11 : volatility
  • Lesson 12 :Tsunk costs
  • Lesson 13 : stakes matter
  • CLUBS : CONTROLLING THE OPPOSITION: Lesson 1 : fundamentalism
  • Lesson 2 : know why you are betting
  • Lesson 3 : slow playing
  • Lesson 4 : bluffing
  • Lesson 5 : reverse bluffing
  • Lesson 6 : semi-bluffing
  • Lesson 7 : overplaying
  • Lesson 8 : calling bluffs
  • Lesson 9 : loose wiring
  • Lesson 10 : folding winners
  • Lesson 11 : establishing patterns
  • Lesson 12 : implication and storytelling
  • Lesson 13 : patience
  • SPADES : DIGGING FOR INFORMATION: Lesson 1 : knowledge is power
  • Lesson 2 : taking their measure
  • Lesson 3 : tells
  • Lesson 4 : get what you need
  • Lesson 5 : true lies
  • Lesson 6 : that's acting
  • Lesson 7 : calling bias
  • Lesson 8 : paying attention
  • Lesson 9 : reading value
  • Lesson 10 : total recall
  • Lesson 11 : the unexpected
  • Lesson 12 : local rules
  • Lesson 13 : showing your hand
  • HEARTS : ETHICS AND CHARACTER: Lesson 1 : lying
  • Lesson 2 : cheating
  • Lesson 3 : scamming
  • Lesson 4 : banking the proceeds
  • Lesson 5 : the right stuff
  • Lesson 6 : moral hazards
  • Lesson 7 : self-control
  • Lesson 8 : beginner's luck
  • Lesson 9 : you gotta have heart
  • Lesson 10 : cards speak
  • Lesson 11 : cross-examination does not mean angry examination
  • Lesson 12 : beautiful losers
  • Lesson 13 : poker ain't life
  • Rank of hands.

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