Winning Poker is a lushly designed guide to everyone's favorite Monday night game. It outlines the major games--Texas Hold 'Em, Omaha, Seven-Card Stud and Five-Card Stud, Five-Card Draw--as well as more outlandish versions like Baseball (and Night Baseball), High-Low, Roll Your Own, Guts, and High/Low Chicago. It also features tons of insider's tips to keep players on their toes, including how to read an opponent's bluff and spot a bluffer, how to analyze a game, decipher poker slang, and much more.
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Dean Matthewson is an avid Texas Hold ‘Em player who lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Angie Diamond grew up in the marshlands outside of Atlantic City and now resides in St. Louis near the banks of the Mississippi, right next to the mighty riverboat casinos.
Angie Diamond grew up in the marshlands outside of Atlantic City and now resides in St. Louis near the banks of the Mississippi, right next to the mighty riverboat casinos.
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Covering a wide range of varients,
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This review is from: Winning Poker: 200 Rules, Techniques, and Strategies (Hardcover)
Winning Poker: 200 Rules, Technique & Strategies is a straightforward guide to mastering gambling card games. Covering a wide range of varients including Texas hold'em, Omaha, Seven-Card Stud, Five-Card Stud, and Five-Card Draw, as well as more unusual variations such as High-Low Chicago, Winning Poker not only describes rules and statistical analyses for calculating odds, but also explains how to read an opponent's tells, analyze a game, decipher poker slang, and more. An invaluable tool for anyone looking to improve their poker game, whether among friends or at a casino, and also a useful resource for better understanding televised poker championships.
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This book is a great book if you're new to poker. It is a quick read, concise, and well worth the price. It doesn't matter if you're just playing a "friendly" neighborhood game, or going to Vegas to try your luck.
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Texas Hold, High Chicago, House Rules, Sample Hand, Whiskey Poker New!
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- The Education of a Poker Player by Herbert O. Yardley in Back Matter
- Big Deal by Anthony Holden in Back Matter
- The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How To Think Like One by David Sklansky in Back Matter
- The Biggest Game in Town by A. Alvarez in Back Matter
- Poker Nation: A High-Stakes, Low-Life Adventure into the Heart of a Gambling Country by Andy Bellin in Back Matter
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