Download or read book How to Be a Lucky Player written by Matthew Thomson and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a lucky player ? It is no co-incidence that the best players are lucky players. You can become a "better" player by improving your bidding system with your partner and by improving your play technique, however this will not make you a lucky player. How can you become a lucky player and a winner? In this book, illustrated with hands from actual play, the author demonstrates how to become a lucky player. Lucky players evaluate their trick winning potential, recognise and grab opportunities, maximizing their score over all the likely distributions of the cards.
Download or read book The Biggest Bluff written by Maria Konnikova and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book “The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she learned both about human nature and herself.” —The Washington Post It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor. But she knew her man: a famously thoughtful and broad-minded player, he was intrigued by her pitch that she wasn't interested in making money so much as learning about life. She had faced a stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on the role of chance had led her to a giant of game theory, who pointed her to poker as the ultimate master class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled and what can't. And she certainly brought something to the table, including a Ph.D. in psychology and an acclaimed and growing body of work on human behavior and how to hack it. So Seidel was in, and soon she was down the rabbit hole with him, into the wild, fiercely competitive, overwhelmingly masculine world of high-stakes Texas Hold'em, their initial end point the following year's World Series of Poker. But then something extraordinary happened. Under Seidel's guidance, Konnikova did have many epiphanies about life that derived from her new pursuit, including how to better read, not just her opponents but far more importantly herself; how to identify what tilted her into an emotional state that got in the way of good decisions; and how to get to a place where she could accept luck for what it was, and what it wasn't. But she also began to win. And win. In a little over a year, she began making earnest money from tournaments, ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. She won a major title, got a sponsor, and got used to being on television, and to headlines like "How one writer's book deal turned her into a professional poker player." She even learned to like Las Vegas. But in the end, Maria Konnikova is a writer and student of human behavior, and ultimately the point was to render her incredible journey into a container for its invaluable lessons. The biggest bluff of all, she learned, is that skill is enough. Bad cards will come our way, but keeping our focus on how we play them and not on the outcome will keep us moving through many a dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our way.
Download or read book Mr Lucky s Favorite Poker Games written by Steve Maricic and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr Lucky, a tough teddy bear from Bayonne, NJ, journeys around the world and through the tunnels of time learning over a hundred poker variations from many fascinating characters.
Download or read book Caro s Secrets of Winning Poker written by Mike Caro and published by Cardoza Publishing. This book was released on with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and expanded, this classic guide to winning at poker just got better! Let Mike Caro, the world's foremost authority on poker strategy, psychology and statistics, show you the real secrets of winning money. MIKE CARO, the legendary "Mad Genius of Poker," is the world's foremost authority on poker strategy, psychology and statistics. Page after page of this book is packed with tips and strategies to reveal poker's most profitable winning secrets! These are the same long-guarded secrets Caro teaches to world-class players at standing-room-only seminars!
Download or read book Pamphlets on Biology written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Borderland of Science a Series of Familiar Dissertations on Stars Planets and Meteors written by Richard Anthony Proctor and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Borderland of Science written by Richard Anthony Proctor and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Littell s Living Age written by Eliakim Littell and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Red Book of Luck written by Chronicle Books and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated guide to good fortune shares lucky charms, symbols, and traditions from around the world—plus advice on avoiding curses and bad omens. In The Red Book of Luck, you will discover the potential luck in everyday things; learn to decipher the auspicious meanings of numbers, colors, clothing, and the days of the week; find new ways to be lucky in love; and encounter superstitions and practices from around the world. Author Amy Treadwell uncovers fascinating details, such as why ancient peoples used acorns to ward off lightning bolts, and what an ant colony might have to say about your financial security. Lively illustrations enhance the text as it ranges from lucky talismans to birthstones to movies about luck. With The Red Book of Luck, you’ll be able to create your own good fortune no matter what fate sends your way.
Download or read book How Gamblers Win written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government and the Transformation of the Gaming Industry written by Richard McGowan and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1990s the gambling industry transformed its image by referring to itself as the gaming industry . While critics of the industry scoffed at this transformation as merely a meaningless name change, it has had profound effects on the business and public policies that face the newly transformed gaming industry. The book is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the historical and cultural forces that have shaped the new gaming industry. Emphasis is placed on the two types of games (agon games of skill, and alea games of chance). It is shown that the types of games a society embraces have a significant impact on whether gambling is permitted to enter the mainstream of the entertainment industry. The second part of the book analyzes how each segment (pari mutuel betting, lotteries and casinos) competes in the new industry. The political and social implications of gaming are the focus of the final part, which concludes with a series of recommendations that will enable the industry, public policy officials and anti gambling activists to construct policies that mitigate some of the problems associated with gambling. The book will be of particular interest to students, practitioners and scholars in public policy. It will also be pertinent to readers in economics, political science and business.
Download or read book The Bunco Book written by Walter Brown Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Lucky You Can Be written by Buster Olney and published by ESPN. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 2008, Northern State University men’s basketball coach Don Meyer stood on the brink of immortality. He was about to surpass the legendary Bobby Knight to become the all-time NCAA wins leader in men’s basketball. Then, on a two-lane road in South Dakota, everything changed in an instant. In How Lucky You Can Be, acclaimed sports journalist Buster Olney tells the remarkable story of the successive tragedies that befell Coach Meyer but could not defeat him. Laid low by a horrific car accident that led to the amputation of his left leg below the knee, Coach Meyer had barely emerged from surgery when his doctors informed him that he also had terminal cancer. In the blink of an eye, this prototypical 24/7 workaholic coach—who arrived at the gym most mornings before 6 a.m.—found himself forced to reexamine his priorities at the age of sixty-three. A model of reserve, Coach Meyer had sacrificed much of his emotional life to his program. His wife, Carmen, felt disconnected because of his habitual reticence, while his three children—all now well into adulthood—had long had to compete with basketball for his attention. With sensitivity and skill, Olney shows how Coach Meyer mined his physical ordeal for the spiritual strength to transform his life. In the months that followed his accident and diagnosis, he reached out to family, friends, and former players in a way he had never been able to do before, making the most of this one last opportunity to tell those close to him how he felt about them—and in turn he received an outpouring of affirmation that confirmed how deeply he had affected others. Sustained throughout an often painful recovery by his love of basketball, he would return to the court once more—with a newfound appreciation for the game’s place in his life. The inspirational story of a life renewed by unimaginable hardship, How Lucky You Can Be proves that it’s never too late to start making changes—and reminds us that fortune can smile upon us even in our most trying hours.
Download or read book Webster s Poker Book Glorifying America s Favorite Game written by Harold Tucker Webster and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advances in Computer Entertainment written by Anton Nijholt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment, ACE 2012, held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in November 2012. The 10 full paper and 19 short papers presented together with 5 papers from the special track Arts and Culture and 35 extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 140 submissions in all categories. The papers cover topics across a wide spectrum of disciplines including computer science, design, arts, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and marketing. Focusing on all areas related to interactive entertainment they aim at stimulating discussion in the development of new and compelling entertainment computing and interactive art concepts and applications.
