Card Player: The Total Poker Manual

Card Player: The Total Poker Manual
Author: Eileen Sutton
Publisher: Weldon Owen International
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1681882167

Play like a pro with this guide full of strategies, tactics, and techniques from the experts! Eileen Sutton has been writing about—and winning at!—poker for over a decade. Now she joins with the experts at Card Player magazine to demystify the game and detail everything you need to know, whether you’re sitting down to a friendly kitchen-table game or hoping to compete in the high-stakes world of multimillion dollar tournaments. The Total Poker Manual is packed with the strategies, tactics, and techniques needed to beat opponents in Texas Hold’em, Draw and Stud. From the basics of each type of game and the hands needed to win, to insider tips such as specific strategies for different versions and how to beat the odds, these skills and many more are accompanied by some of the most fascinating poker stories in history, from the riverboat gamblers to today’s international stars players. Detailed sections cover how to play online, in casinos, and in tournaments large or small, as well as how to run a game for fun at home. You’ll also get insider tips from the following poker experts: Vanessa Selbts • Linda Johnson • Matt Matros • Jennifer Harman • Ed Miller • Mario Ho • Xuan Liu • Leo Margets • Jared Tendler • Randy Lew • Tommy Angelo • Brian Rast • Kelly Minkin • James Sweeney Learn something new, improve your poker game and walk away a winner!

Dominate No-Limit Hold'em

Dominate No-Limit Hold'em
Author: Daniel Ashman
Publisher: D&B Publishing
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2016-03-23
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1904468780

No Limit Hold’em is a tough game to play well which is why it is the game of choice for the high-stakes pros. Unless a player has the table covered then at any moment their entire stack is vulnerable. The key to NLHE is understanding and exploiting this fact. Dominate No-Limit Hold’em will reveal the key plays that will enable you to take advantage of this opportunity. Daniel Ashman is a highly successful NLHE high-stakes player. In this book he reveals how the very best players think about the game and discusses many advanced concepts. There are great rewards in NLHE for the successful players. If you want a piece of the action you need Dominate No-Limit Hold’em. The basic ideas and math behind NLHEThe psychology behind hand readingThe skills to understand strategic play in NLHEHow to understand and learn from real life high-stakes handsHow to make sure you understand the concepts involved in NLHE …plus much more!

Small Stakes Hold 'em

Small Stakes Hold 'em
Author: David Sklansky
Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2004
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781880685327

For today's poker players, Texas hold 'em is the game. Every day, tens of thousands of small stakes hold 'em games are played all over the world in homes, card rooms, and on the Internet. These games can be very profitable -- if you play well. But most people don't play well and end up leaving their money on the table. Small Stakes Hold 'em: Winning Big with Expert Play explains everything you need to be a big winner. Unlike many other books about small stakes games, it teaches the aggressive and attacking style used by all professional players. However, it does not simply tell you to play aggressively; it shows you exactly how to make expert decisions through numerous clear and detailed examples. Small Stakes Hold 'em teaches you to think like a professional player. Topics include implied odds, pot equity, speculative hands, position, the importance of being suited, hand categories, counting outs, evaluating the flop, large pots versus small pots, protecting your hand, betting for value on the river, and playing overcards. In addition, after you learn the winning concepts, test your skills with over fifty hand quizzes that present you with common and critical hold 'em decisions. Choose your action, then compare it to the authors' play and reasoning. This text presents cutting-edge ideas in straightforward language. It is the most thorough and accurate discussion of small stakes hold 'em available. Your opponents will read this book; make sure you do, too!

Getting the Best of It

Getting the Best of It
Author: David Sklansky
Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1997
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781880685044

Contains six sections discussing probability, poker, blackjack, other casino games, sports betting, and general gambling concepts. This book contains some of the most sophisticated gambling ideas that have ever been put into print. Included is perhaps the best discussion of the basic mathematics of gambling, yet it is written so that even the most non-mathematical of readers can understand it. Many of the ideas discussed are those that the author himself has successfully used during his career. Topics include expectation, combinations, Baye's Theorem, the eight mistakes in poker, checking in the dark, playing tight, The Key Card Concept, casinos and their mistakes, crapless craps, betting sports, hedging and middling, knowing what's important, the Law of Averages and Other Fallacies, and much more.

Fundamentals of "21"

Fundamentals of
Author: Mason Malmuth
Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2022-05-15
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781880685297

A detailed basic strategy with an easy-to-learn card counting system designed to cut the house edge and turn the odds in your favor.

Quick And Easy Texas Hold'em

Quick And Easy Texas Hold'em
Author: Neil Myers
Publisher: Citadel Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2005
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780818406539

Players can learn the essentials of low-limit Hold'em, from basic concepts to the subtle strategies of reading games and outfoxing their opponents. They'll get comprehensive description and no-nonsense analysis of the most common situations they will encounter at the table.

Fundamentals of Craps

Fundamentals of Craps
Author: Mason Malmuth
Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2004-04-27
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781880685303

The only information you'll ever need for learning to play this exciting fast-paced casino game.

Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications

Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications
Author: Gilles Grimaud (ed)
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2008-08-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 354085892X

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications, CARDIS 2008, held in London, UK, in September 2008. The 21 revised full papers presented, together with the abstract of one invited talk, were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers deal with the various issues related to the use of small electronic tokens in the process of human-machine interactions. The conference scopes include numerous subfields such as networking, efficient implementations, physical security, biometrics, etc.