Download or read book Poker Faces written by David M. Hayano and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poker Face Reader written by Sherry Lane and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What to expect and not to Expect From Poker Face Reader (TM) This groundbreaking program focuses on one topic, how to "read" a poker face, This unique system teaches readers to detect, interpret and exploit Poker Face Tells(TM). Players who master this new skill gain a winning advantage in poker. The system introduces players to ways of reading emotions in the face. These emotions appear as micro-expressions. Micro-expressions consist of brief facial movements that appear and vanish in a fraction of a second. Authors Lacey and Lane call the emotions that leak through masks "Poker Face Tells." Readers train their eyes to spot these fleeting expressions. In a poker game no one can conceal his feelings behind a poker face. That's why the authors say, "You can run, but you can't hide from a poker face reader!" By learning how to "read" a poker face, readers penetrate an opponent's false mask. They can even spot bluffs. Readers become expert at interpreting fleeting emotions within a tiny fraction of a second. Your opponents cannot hide expressions such as fear or disgust. Telltale emotional expressions are uncontrollable and unconscious. They are also invisible to most other players. Poker Face Reader focuses readers' attention on seven major emotions. They are Happiness, Sadness, Fear, Anger, Disgust, Surprise, and Contempt. The examples in the book exaggerate each emotion to help readers recognizes them in any poker situation. They reveal the strength or weakness of poker hands. An effective way for readers to become expert is a four-step process. The first step is to study the text and the pictures of each emotion. The second step is to practice observing many faces. Readers learn to practice skills in private meetings as well as with strangers in public settings. The third step is to practice spotting emotions while observing live poker games. The fourth step is to apply knowledge of poker face "tells" in live poker games. Readers will develop enough expertise to become skilled poker face readers. They can win in most small stakes games. The authors avoid distracting readers with discussions of such topics as bankroll management and poker math. When readers learn to read poker faces, they can make optimal use of other poker skills.. Respectfully, Richard A. Lacey, Ed.D. and Sherry Lane
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 Random Spectrum written by Marilyn House and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems with different themes. Insanity, poker Faces, a boat, depressed, notorious tale, masquerade, judging. These are poems about love, friends, being judged, being yourself, being fake, and sadness.
Download or read book Cowboys Full written by James McManus and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From James McManus, author of the bestselling Positively Fifth Street, comes the definitive story of the game that, more than any other, reflects who we are and how we operate. Cowboys Full is the story of poker, from its roots in China, the Middle East, and Europe to its ascent as a global—but especially an American—phenomenon. It describes how early Americans took a French parlor game and, with a few extra cards and an entrepreneurial spirit, turned it into a national craze by the time of the Civil War. From the kitchen-table games of ordinary citizens to its influence on generals and diplomats, poker has gone hand in hand with our national experience. Presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama have deployed poker and its strategies to explain policy, to relax with friends, to negotiate treaties and crises, and as a political networking tool. The ways we all do battle and business are echoed by poker tactics: cheating and thwarting cheaters, leveraging uncertainty, bluffing and sussing out bluffers, managing risk and reward. Cowboys Full shows how what was once accurately called the cheater's game has become amostly honest contest of cunning, mathematical precision, and luck. It explains how poker, formerly dominated by cardsharps, is now the most popular card game in Europe, East Asia, Australia, South America, and cyberspace, as well as on television. It combines colorful history with firsthand experience from today's professional tour. And it examines poker's remarkable hold on American culture, from paintings by Frederic Remington to countless poker novels, movies, and plays. Braiding the thrill of individual hands with new ways of seeing poker's relevance to our military, diplomatic, business, and personal affairs, Cowboys Full is sure to become the classic account of America's favorite pastime.
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Download or read book Liar s Poker written by Michael Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his experiences on the lucrative Wall Street bond market of the 1980s, where young traders made millions in a very short time, in a humorous account of greed and epic folly.
Download or read book The Noble Hustle written by Colson Whitehead and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys • “Whitehead proves a brilliant sociologist of the poker world.” —The Boston Globe In 2011, Grantland magazine gave bestselling novelist Colson Whitehead $10,000 to play at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. It was the assignment of a lifetime, except for one hitch—he’d never played in a casino tournament before. With just six weeks to train, our humble narrator took the Greyhound to Atlantic City to learn the ways of high-stakes Texas Hold’em. Poker culture, he discovered, is marked by joy, heartbreak, and grizzled veterans playing against teenage hotshots weaned on Internet gambling. Not to mention the not-to-be overlooked issue of coordinating Port Authority bus schedules with your kid’s drop-off and pickup at school. Finally arriving in Vegas for the multimillion-dollar tournament, Whitehead brilliantly details his progress, both literal and existential, through the event’s antes and turns, through its gritty moments of calculation, hope, and spectacle. Entertaining, ironic, and strangely profound, this epic search for meaning at the World Series of Poker is a sure bet. Look for Colson Whitehead’s bestselling new novel, Harlem Shuffle!
Download or read book Your Worst Poker Enemy Master The Mental Game written by Alan N. Schoonmaker and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AT THE TABLE, YOU'RE YOUR OWN WORST ENEMY. --Stu Ungar, the world's greatest poker player Do you play hands you should fold? Do you sometimes go too far with hands, hoping to get lucky while knowing that the pot odds don't justify calling? Ever kept playing even when you knew you were off your game because you were losing and wanted to get even? Have you let anger or destructive urges affect the way you play even though you know better? Don't despair! Now, in Your Worst Poker Enemy, psychologist Dr. Alan Schoonmaker shows you how to reap the full benefits of the poker knowledge you already have by helping you to identify and stop psychologically based mistakes. This must-have book also features detailed sections that examine crucial points far beyond the scope of most other poker strategy guides, including: • Using Intuition vs. Logic • Evaluating Yourself and the Opposition • Understanding Unconscious and Emotional Factors • Adjusting to Changes • Handling stress Dr. Schoonmaker will help you to recognize and defeat the often crippling psychological factors that distort your perceptions about yourself, other players, and the game itself and send you on your way to becoming the best poker player you can be! Alan N. Schoonmaker, Ph.D, is the author of the top-selling The Psychology of Poker and is a columnist for Card Player magazine. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from UC Berkeley and has conducted research and taught at UCLA, Carnegie-Mellon, and Belgium's Catholic University of Louvain. He lives in Las Vegas.
Download or read book Poker and Philosophy written by Eric Bronson and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does God play cards with the universe? Do women have better poker faces than men? What’s the most existential poker movie ever made? Is life more meaningful when you go all-in? Is online poker really still poker? Poker and Philosophy ponders these questions and more, pitting young lions against old masters as the brashness of Phil Hellmuth meets the arrogance of Socrates, the recklessness of Doyle Brunson challenges the desperation of Dostoyevsky, and the coolness of Chris Moneymaker takes on the American tradition of capitalist ingenuity. This witty collection of essays demonstrates what serious card sharks have long known: winning big takes more than a good hand and a straight face. Stacking the metaphorical deck with a serious grounding in philosophy is the key to raking it in, because as Machiavelli proved long ago, it’s a lot better to be feared than loved, and lying is not the same as cheating.
Download or read book Getting Inside Your Head written by Lisa Zunshine and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the psychological concept called theory of mind, Lisa Zunshine explores the appeal of movies, novels, paintings, musicals, and reality television. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL We live in other people's heads: avidly, reluctantly, consciously, unaware, mistakenly, and inescapably. Our social life is a constant negotiation among what we think we know about each other's thoughts and feelings, what we want each other to think we know, and what we would dearly love to know but don't. Cognitive scientists have a special term for the evolved cognitive adaptation that makes us attribute mental states to other people through observation of their body language; they call it theory of mind. Getting Inside Your Head uses research in theory of mind to look at movies, musicals, novels, classic Chinese opera, stand-up comedy, mock-documentaries, photography, and reality television. It follows Pride and Prejudice’s Mr. Darcy as he tries to conceal his anger, Tyler Durden as he lectures a stranger at gunpoint in Fight Club, and Ingrid Bergman as she fakes interest in horse races in Notorious. This engaging book exemplifies the new interdisciplinary field of cognitive cultural studies, demonstrating that collaboration between cognitive science and cultural studies is both exciting and productive.
Download or read book How to Dominate 1 and 2 No Limit Hold em written by Sam O'Connor and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alien Mercenary s Bride written by Mina Carter and published by Mina Carter. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stowing away on an alien ship? Idiotic. Stowing away on the Warborne's ship? Suicidal. Marika Ingrassia is desperate. To escape another wedding arranged by her father, she runs. Between a homicidal groom and a ship full of trained killers, she'll take her chances with the mercenaries, thank you very much. Only things don't go quite to plan. Her idea to force them to help her at gunpoint seemed a stroke of brilliance until she's on board and facing down the sexiest mercenary she'd ever seen. She can't think straight, never mind shoot straight. She's doomed for a long walk out of a short airlock until Mr. tall, muscled, and growly agrees to help her escape her father's clutches... by marrying her. Just one problem. This time she wants the wedding to be for real... She's the prettiest thing he's ever seen. And everything a killer like him doesn't deserve. Skinny has been a mercenary most of his life. One of the legendary Warborne, he's killed more men than he's had hot dinners and he's damn good at it. When he finds a scared human female, he doesn't expect his reaction to her, or for her to clock him over the head with a pipe. Unpleasantness aside, when he realizes she needs help, he's all ears. And everything else she needs. Up to and including his hand in marriage to protect her... No plan survives first contact with the enemy. Between an assassination attempt and his past catching up with them... can Skinny convince Marika he's the alien for her, or will he lose her forever? Keywords: alien mate romance, alien romance, space books for adults, sci fi, sci fi books, sci fi romance, sci fi adventure, sci fi series, space marine, alien warrior, alien assassins
Download or read book Alien Mercenaries Warborne written by Mina Carter and published by Mina Carter. This book was released on with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the worlds of the Lathar, as you've never seen them before... Alien Mercenary’s Heart She wanted a coffee and an easy shift. Instead, she got a smart-alec mercenary and commandos trying to kill her… He doesn’t know where he came from, but he knows one thing… his destiny is with her. Alien Mercenary’s Bride Stowing away on an alien ship? Idiotic. Stowing away on the Warborne's ship? Suicidal. She's the prettiest thing he's ever seen. And everything a killer like him doesn't deserve. Alien Mercenary’s Prize Natalia Heath is a survivor. She’ll survive an alien fight pit. No problem. Beauty’s secret could get him killed... not revealing it will mean her death. **This is a boxed set of books 1-3 in Latharian Mercenaries: Warborne series. If you own these titles individually, DO NOT purchase this book.**
Download or read book The Divine Miracle written by E. H. Allen and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Divine MIracle is a science fiction fantasy partially based on 2 movies and a tv comedy show. The rest of the book comes from the active imagination of the author. The author had ideas for the novel for years but decided to put his ideas on paper after the death of an uncle in 2007. The Divine Miracle has many elements including comedy, drama, action and adventure. This is the first book in a four part series. Tevin Evans is an ordinary 12 year old African-American boy living in Indiana in the year 1983. He attends an predominately white elementary school and he is the only black boy and no girls will really talk to him or even consider being his girlfriend. But that changes when he is struck down and nearly killed by a supernautural event on the playground. Several months later girls everywhere are fighting for his attention after he gains the ability to fly like a bird without wings. His whole body later changes down to the subatomic level and then other boys start coming after him for affection as well as girls. Tevin is confused by all the attention and the changes his body went through but he eventually understands. An youthfull looking adult Tevin living in the late twenty-first century tells the story of how his whole life changed and made him a trans-gendered superhero and gave him superhuman children from his marrage to a man.
Download or read book Reason Value and Respect written by Mark Timmons and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 13 specially written essays, leading philosophers explore Kantian themes in moral and political philosophy that are prominent in the work of Thomas E. Hill, Jr., such as respect and self-respect, practical reason, conscience, and duty. In conclusion Hill offers an overview of his work and responses to the preceding essays.
Download or read book The Thoughts of Pawns written by Noah Friz and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following years of struggle, the war-torn Fragmented Plains is dominated by marauder gangs united under a brutal warlord. After nearly two decades of tyranny, the region’s leader is deposed and replaced by an enigmatic stranger known only as The Archangel. The Thoughts of Pawns follows two young marauders, Shenjen and Wrath. as they struggle to tread water in the wake of changing times. Tension and intrigue with neighboring nations arise even as pillaging and wanton rowdiness are replaced by business-like acquisitions and discipline.
