How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker

How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker
Author: Penn Jillette
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2006-10-03
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780312360689

A guide based on the authors' conversations with a wealthy old-time hustler counsels players on how to profitably cheat during poker games with friends, covering such tactics as marking cards, stashing holdouts, and targeting opponents.

Sock

Sock
Author: Penn Jillette
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2004-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312328054

When a police diver finds the body of his ex-lover in the waters off New York City, he realizes she was the love of his life, so he sets off to find her killer along with her best friend, a gay hairdresser.

The Expert at the Card Table

The Expert at the Card Table
Author: S. W. Erdnase
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2012-05-07
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0486156672

DIVThe one essential guidebook to attaining the highest level of card mastery, from false shuffling and card palming to dealing from the bottom and three-card monte, plus 14 dazzling card tricks. /div

Gambling with the Myth of the American Dream

Gambling with the Myth of the American Dream
Author: Aaron M. Duncan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2015-03-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1317512472

This book explores the rise and increased acceptance of gambling in America, particularly the growth of the game of poker, as a means for examining changes to the American Dream and the risk society. Poker both critiques and reinterprets the myth of the American Dream, putting greater emphasis on the importance of luck and risk management while deemphasizing the importance of honesty and hard work. Duncan discusses the history of gambling in America, changes to the rhetoric surrounding gambling, the depiction of poker in the Wild West as portrayed in film, its recent rise in popularity on television, its current place in post-modern America on the internet, and future implications.

Decide to Play Great Poker

Decide to Play Great Poker
Author: Annie Duke
Publisher: Huntington Press Inc
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2011-07-01
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1935396323

Poker is a game of table position, flop texture, players in a hand, personalities, and so much more. This book teaches you how to identify and analyze those variables, become a great strategist, and have confidence in any poker situation. Decide to Play Great Poker is written by Annie Duke, the world's most renowned woman poker player, with John Vorhaus, himself a winning poker player and prolific author.

The Theory of Poker

The Theory of Poker
Author: David Sklansky
Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1999
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781880685006

"Now, for the millions of poker players who know the basics, but do not fully understand the logic and principles of skillful play, here is a serious, comprehensive guide that shows how to think like a professional poker player"--Page 4 of cover.

Dirty Poker

Dirty Poker
Author: Richard Marcus
Publisher: D&B Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780955169700

Do you: Ever wonder if you have been cheated at poker? Have any idea how much it goes on? Know about collusion, sleight-of-hand, marked cards and chip dumping? Cheating in poker is more common than people care to believe. Although most cheating occurs in private games that do not follow strict gaming procedures, it is also common in regulated card rooms, casinos and even online. There are many ways to cheat, some subtle, some not so subtle. Richard Marcus knows about them all. Ten years ago poker was a minority interest. The advent of online play has changed all that - poker is now big business. Millions of players play every day, both live and online. If you are one of them you will want to ensure that the games you play in are clean. This book will tell you how cheaters operate, what methods they use and how to spot them. Table of Contents: Introduction: Why this book? Chapter One: Poker cheating: It s been going on for ages and not about to stop. Chapter Two: The underworld of legal casino poker. Chapter Three: It happens here, there, everywhere. Chapter Four: Underneath the tournament tables. Chapter Five: The Underworld Series of Poker. The granddaddy of crooked tournament play. Chapter Six: Crooked Fingers in World Series Ring Games. Chapter Seven: Online-Oncrime. Chapter Eight: For those of you who play at home. Beware of best friends who are your poker night enemies. Chapter Nine: The top ten poker scams of all time. Chapter Ten: Where will it go from here. "

Exploitative Play in Live Poker

Exploitative Play in Live Poker
Author: Alexander Fitzgerald
Publisher: D&B Publishing
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2018-11-19
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1909457949

Many poker players can make good decisions at the table with a reasonable frequency. Nevertheless, there are numerous situations where even very experienced players behave in predictable ways. These deeply-ingrained habits lead them to make mistakes. The problem is that these situations won’t often arise at the table by chance – you have to make them happen. Exploitative Play in Live Poker is a ground-breaking work that teaches you how to create the circumstances where your opponents will be likely to blunder and how to exploit them when they do. To achieve this you will need to put to one side starting hand charts, balance and GTO (Game Theory Optimal) play. Instead you will incorporate new concepts that may well place you outside your comfort zone. However, your style will now be forcing the other players at the table outside of their comfort zone and, unlike you, they won’t know how to adapt. Learn how to: Counter the auto-continuation-bettorDevelop a powerful donk-betting strategyUse the overbet, the check-raise and the three-barrel effectively As well as being a highly successful player, Alex Fitzgerald runs a poker consultancy that serves more than 1,000 professional poker players in 60 countries. As part of this work, he has very likely trawled through more hand history databases than anyone else. This gives him a unique insight into how players really play, especially when placed under pressure and forced into unfamiliar situations.

Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!

Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!
Author: Penn Jillette
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-10-29
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0142180270

From Emmy Award–winning, world-famous magician Penn Jillette comes an irreverent, hilarious, and provocative book of essays—the perfect gift for the skeptic in your life. Let's be honest—nobody has more fun than atheists. Don't believe it? Well, consider this: For non-believers, every day you're alive is a day to celebrate! And no one celebrates life to the fullest like Penn Jillette, the larger, louder half of legendary magic duo Penn & Teller, whose spectacularly witty and sharply observant essays in Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday! will entertain zealots and skeptics alike. Whether he's contemplating the possibility of life after death, deconstructing popular Christmas carols, or just calling bullsh*t on Donald Trump, Jillette does not fail to shock and delight his readers. And as ever, underneath these rollicking rants lie a deeply personal philosophy and a generous spirit, which find joy and meaning in family, and peace in the simple beauty of the everyday. Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday! is a hysterical affirmation of life's magic from one of the most distinctly perceptive and provocative humorists writing today.

Strategies for Beating Small Stakes Poker Tournaments

Strategies for Beating Small Stakes Poker Tournaments
Author: Jonathan Little
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-02-24
Genre: Poker
ISBN: 9781508660200

While most poker players dream of winning $10,000,000 on poker's biggest stage, most find it impossible to win at even the smallest stakes. They usually blame bad luck for their failures whereas in reality, they are simply not skilled enough at poker. The secret to mastering poker is not in memorizing hand ranking charts or following a predetermined system. You must learn to think for yourself while at the table in order to adjust your strategy based on your specific opponents. Strategies for Beating Small Stakes Poker Tournaments will explain how. In this guide, two-time World Poker Tour champion Jonathan Little explains numerous strategies he uses that will allow you to crush your opponents, giving you the opportunity to progress to the middle and high stakes.