There’s an easier way to win at poker than memorizing all the mathematical possibilities of every hand you draw. It’s called “playing smart.” While most people concentrate on deciding what to do with the hand they’ve been dealt, playing smart means paying more attention to what the other players are doing—the choices they make and their personal reactions. Take control of every hand by using these tactics of intimidation and concealment to master the total situation at the table. Learn the subtle clues leaked by even the most poker-faced opponents, as over time they reveal how they develop their strategies, hands, maximize their strengths, and hide their weaknesses. It’s easy to perfect these proven bluffing techniques, and start winning more than you ever thought possible. You even get advice on how to apply your newfound bluff-and-bluster to demand a raise or face down a troublemaker! The author lives in Ithaca, NY.
Lynne Taetzsch is an artist and writer whose contemporary abstract paintings have been shown throughout the world. She has published numerous stories, essays and articles as well as eleven books. Her latest is The Bipolar Dementia Art Chronicles: How A Manic-Depressive Artist Survives Being the Primary Caregiver for Her Father and Ex-Mother-in-Law, a Memoir. View her art at ARTBYLT.COM.
Lynne has lived in Florida, California, New Jersey, Virginia, Kentucky, and now in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of New York State. She's worked as a secretary, a writer, an editor, a publisher, a junior-high English and Math teacher (six months), a business trainer and manager, a Kirby vacuum cleaner salesperson (one week), a leather crafter, and a college professor. In 1992 she received a PhD in creative writing from Florida State University. She taught writing at George Washington University and Morehead State University.
Since 2000 she has lived and worked in Ithaca, New York.
