Aces and Kings

Aces and Kings
Author: Michael Kaplan
Publisher: Wenner Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-05-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781932958003

Poker is hotter than ever and Aces and Kings takes readers behind the phenomenon, providing the first and only comprehensive look at the game's top players, how they win, and what you can learn from them oker has emerged from America's backrooms to evolve into one of the country's most popular mainstream games. On-line poker sites are exploding with new players, casinos across the country are adding floor space to accommodate tournaments, celebrities like Tobey Maguire and Ben Affleck jockey to be seen at the big tables, and World Poker Tour ranks as the Travel Channel's top-rated show.

Aces and Kings

Aces and Kings
Author: Michael Kaplan
Publisher: Wenner Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-05-10
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781932958607

Now in paperback, Aces and Kings takes readers behind the poker phenomenon, providing the first and only comprehensive look at the game's top players, how they win, and what you can learn from them The recent poker craze shows no sign of letting up. Online poker sites continue to explode with new players, casinos across the country are adding floor space to accommodate tournaments, and celebrities like Tobey Maguire and Ben Affleck jockey to be seen at the big tables. Aces and Kings is the perfect book for this ever-growing group of poker players -- beginners and aficionados alike. It tells readers everything they need to know about the game through fascinating intimate profiles of the game's greatest players, including World Series of Poker winners Doyle Brunson, "Amarillo Slim" Preston, Chris Moneymaker, Howard "the Professor" Lederer, and Chris "Jesus" Ferguson. The authors have received unprecedented access to poker's top practitioners, and this book provides thrilling moments, valuable insights, and how-to advice taken from real-life moments at the highest-stakes tables.

Aces and Kings

Aces and Kings
Author: Michael Kaplan
Publisher: Robinson Publishing
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2006
Genre: Poker
ISBN: 9781845292980

Charts the evolution & practice of poker through fascinating profiles of its most influential players, including valuable nuggets of how-to advice.

Terrified and Defenseless

Terrified and Defenseless
Author: Dan Grant
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2013-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1481734709

Terrified and Defenseless is a story about one man's crusade to dish out his own form of vigilante justice. But his aim is not at child molestors or rapists or arsonists or someone who has harmed him personally. His aim is at those who willingly participate, fund or support cruelty towards animals. With his new found wealth, he has dedicated his life to not only helping those who can't help themselves, not only to avenging the torture and murder of animals, but to try to make a change. He believes that there are good organizations trying to do good things for animals. However, no matter how many petitions, no matter how many peaceful protests, no matter how many celebrities cry out for clemency, unless one is willing to die for a cause, or better yet, kill for it, nothing will change. Fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein once said: "Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms." In short, if you want to change something, you have to be willing to kill for it.

All-in

All-in
Author: Pete Hautman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2012-02-07
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1442433361

"You know how they say you can't climb out of a hole till you hit bottom?" "Yeah?" "I'm trying to find the bottom." At seventeen, Denn Doyle isn't old enough to gamble legally, but thanks to his talent for reading tells, he's made a fortune -- and along the way, he's upset some of the most notorious Texas holdem players in Las Vegas, including Artie Kingston, who had already lost his nightclub to Denn. But now Denn's luck has run out and he's just about broke. His only chance is a million-dollar, winner-take-all tournament at Artie's new casino, but Denn can't play unless he comes up with the $10,000 entry fee. Denn's future all comes down to one hand of poker. National Book Award-winning author Pete Hautman introduced Denn Doyle in No Limit, of which School Library Journal said, "Fast paced and powerfully delivered...as taut and suspenseful as a high-stakes game." Here he deals another hand of love, luck, and greed in the high-stakes world of poker.