In November of 2011, not long ago as I write this, I stumbled onto Tommy Angelo’s Eightfold Path To Poker Enlightenment. Tommy told me that I could play poker pain free!
Well, that sounded pretty cool to me, and I listened to Wayne Lively and Tommy banter back and forth. Of coarse, I got the pain free part “not quite right…”
I have always said that life and poker follow similar paths. What Tommy was proposing was a way of looking at poker that was 2,500 years old, long before poker ever came about.
I decided to look deeper into the secrets Tommy was hinting at, and discovered Buddhism and Zen. (Well, I guess Buddha discovered Buddhism)
I can’t be a Buddhist. I like meat, an occasional drink and if a sexy woman picked me up at the table, I probably wouldn’t say no.
But Zen is different. Zen is a philosophy. I still have questions, but that’s the Zen way, too. This will be a chronicle of my path with Zen and poker and self discovery. I hope you enjoy.
