Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Poker written by Andrew N. S. Glazer and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pokeraspires to be the most informative, entertaining, and valuable book that introduces the rapidly growing number of beginning and intermediate poker players to this extremely popular card game. Readers will learn strategy, etiquette, money management, odds, and classic opportunities and pitfalls of a game that already claims more than 50 million players in America alone. Poker player and pundit Andy Glazer teaches readers primarily through easy-to-follow examples and anecdotes that make the book fun to read and the lessons easy to remember. Readers not only learn the technical side of the game, but also the very important and richly entertaining human element. Readers will play along with the author during step-by-step analysis of sample hands, and, through exercises, be asked to note their own proposed play before the best and worst options are discussed.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Gambling Like a Pro written by Stanford Wong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yours"re no idiot, of course. Yours"re always looking for a way to make some easy money-and you figure gambling canrs"t be that hard. But yours"ve discovered that some things are easier said than won ... Donrs"t cancel that trip to Vegas! Let The Complete Idiotrs"s Guidereg; to Gambling Like a Pro, Third Edition, give you a (winning) hand-with surefire strategies for winning at blackjack, the slots, roulette, and more. In this Complete Idiotrs"s Guidereg;, you get: --An idiot-proof introduction to the psychology of gambling. --Superlative strategies to increase your odds of winning-no matter what your game is. --Expert advice on how to play poker and other card games-and what it takes to win. --A fool-friendly explanation of the mathematics of gambling.

Download or read book The Pocket Idiot s Guide to Texas Hold em written by Randy Burgess and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete, revised guide to the Texas Hold'em game of poker takes readers step by step through the fundamental principles and strategies of the popular card game, covering the rules of the game, the art of betting, Hold'em lingo, and more. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Download or read book The Pocket Idiot s Guide to Poker Bets Bluffs written by David Apostolico and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All bets are on! Most how-to-win poker books leave out two of the most important tools of the game: effective betting and bluffing. Now, a poker expert extraordinaire gives readers the quick and dirty inside information so readers can hone these skills. Readers will learn about the art of value betting, weighing value against risk, the power of chips and position, and much more. -Features effective bluffing techniques including how to figure out an opponent's bluff -Well-known expert author

Download or read book The Pocket Idiot s Guide to Casino Comps written by David Apostolico and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always a winner! Before you lay down a lot of money at the tables and machines in casinos, you should also consider all of the freebies you can get from simply being there. Casinos give away over one billion dollars a year in free stuff to valued customers. From the high-roller level of suites, meals, and credit to the small-time repeater gamblers with discounts on meals, transportation, and shows, there are hundreds of ways to make a visit to the casino profitable—without spending a dime. Dave Apostolico, poker and gambling expert, explains how gamblers can get paid to play, which casinos have the best comps, inside rules that work to your advantage, and the ideal games for comps, special promotions, discounts, and credit.

Download or read book The Pocket Idiot s Guide to Poker Tells written by Andy Bloch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read your opponent . . . and rake in the chips. The world’s best poker players can read their opponents’ most subtle expressions and behaviors—no matter how hard their opponents try to hide them. A tapping foot, a change in vocal tone, and countless other clues “tell” an informed player what cards the opponent is holding and how they’re likely to be played. The Pocket Idiot’s Guide® to Poker Tells explains everything amateur poker players need to start interpreting tells and using them to develop poker intuition. In this Pocket Idiot’s Guide®, you get: • Foolproof tips to help you recognize all kinds of tells. • Game-saving advice on avoiding tells yourself—and recognizing fake ones. • Surefire strategies for dealing with the five different types of player personalities. • Idiot-proof techniques for sharpening your tell-spotting skills.

Download or read book Pocket Idiot s Guide to Texas Hold em written by Randy Burgess and published by Alpha Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Know when to hold'em. With unprecedented media coverage, the game of poker has exploded ;and Texas Hold'em is the poker game every new fan wants to learn. This book gives the legions of new players a head start in learning how to play ;and how to win. Introducing the fundamental concepts and strategies, The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Texas Hold'emgives you the rules for playing and betting, quizzes, odds tables, Hold'em lingo, and tips to avoid beginner's mistakes. " Texas Hold'em has become hugely popular with the World Poker Tour(Travel Channel), World Series of Poker(ESPN), and Celebrity Poker Showdown(Bravo and NBC) " Pocket-size edition gives players the information they want without overwhelming them

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Bridge written by H. Anthony Medley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning bridge isn't like learning poker or blackjack - where the basic rules can be explained in a few minutes. Entire books have been written on the bidding aspects alone, and learning the language of bridge is like, well, learning a new language! But 60 million bridge players worldwide is evidence enough that people don't seem to be discouraged by the game's challenging rules and concepts. And why should they be when there's The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bridge, Second Edition, to teach them the game in a fun and easy-to-understand format? This new edition includes up-to-date bidding techniques and examples to make learning the game even easier. In addition, one of world's top bridge players, Michael Lawrence, has been brought in to contribute to both the instruction and marketing of this book.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Homemade Ice Cream written by Bobbi Dempsey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scream for ice cream! Homemade ice cream has a special taste that money can’t buy, and it is a family activity and summer tradition in many homes. But for the novice, homemade ice cream isn’t as simple as it seems, and even families that have been making it for years look for new recipes and ideas to challenge their skills and delight their taste buds. • More than 200 fully tested recipes, ranging from the simple to the sublime. • Step-by-step instructions for making ice cream, sherbet, sorbet, frozen yogurt, and gelato, as well as frozen and ice cream–based drinks. • Topping and serving recipes and ideas.

Download or read book Poker For Dummies written by Richard D. Harroch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em Poker is America’s national card game, and its popularity continues to grow. Nationwide, you can find a game in progress everywhere. If you want to play, you can find poker games on replicas of 19th century riverboats or on Native American tribal lands. You can play poker at home with the family or online with opponents from around the world. Like bowling and billiards before it, poker has moved out from under the seedier side of its roots and is flowering in the sunshine. Maybe you’ve never played poker before and you don’t even know what a full house is. Poker For Dummies covers the basics. Or perhaps you've played for years, but you just don’t know how to win. This handy guide will help you walk away from the poker table with winnings, not lint, in your pockets. If you’re a poker expert, you still can benefit – some of the suggestions may surprise you, and you can certainly learn from the anecdotes from professional players like T.J. Cloutier and Stu Unger. Know what it takes to start winning hand after hand by exploring strategy; getting to know antes and betting structure; knowing your opponents, and understanding the odds. Poker For Dummies also covers the following topics and more: Poker games such as Seven-Card Stud, Omaha, and Texas Hold'em Setting up a game at home Playing in a casino: Do's and don'ts Improving your play with Internet and video poker Deciphering poker sayings and slang Ten ways to read your opponent's body language Playing in poker tournaments Money management and recordkeeping Knowing when and how to bluff Poker looks like such a simple game. Anyone, it seems, can play it well – but that's far from the truth. Learning the rules can be quick work, but becoming a winning player takes considerably longer. Still, anyone willing to make the effort can become a good player. You can succeed in poker the way you succeed in life: by facing it squarely, getting up earlier than the next person, and working harder and smarter than the competition. Foreword by Chris Moneymaker, 2003 World Series of Poker Champion.

Download or read book The Pocket Idiot s Guide to Tournament Poker written by David Apostolico and published by Alpha Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of tournament poker is growing at an amazing rate, and one of the most significant areas of growth has been the increased interest in no-limit hold em tournaments. Hold em, as opposed to standard stud poker games, has boomed in popularity and so have related tournament events including much larger, no-limit events than ever before including the four no-limit hold em events at the World Series of Poker. Tournament play is changing. Most tournaments in the United States are nonsmoking, more novice and intermediate players are playing in no limit games, and more players are playing on the Internet and via satellite than ever before. While tournament rules still aren t standardized, some keys to tournament play and strategy can help players be more effective. Readers learn how to how to make the best use of their breaks, how to study the blind levels ahead of time to prepare for play, tricks for calculating chip stacks quickly, and how to adjust play for stacks and round timing.

Download or read book The Pocket Idiot s Guide to Texas Hold em written by Carl Baldassarre Baldassarre and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The how-to-win guide for the blue chip of poker games.Texas Hold́em, the game featured on the popular television programs and dealt at well-known tournaments, has quickly become the one to play ́ and the one to win. In the context of teaching readers the basics of Texas Hold́em, this revised edition covers "No Limit" strategies and tournaments, and the basics for winning bigger cash pots. Although the dynamics for this versionof the game are similar to its low-limit cousin, "No Limit" strategy is quite different. This revised book covers no-limit in much greater detail, as it relates to cash games, online games, and tournaments.

Download or read book Winning Texas Hold em written by Matt Maroon and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All you need to play is a chip and a chair--and this straight from the start guide to the hottest, most popular form of poker around. Ben Affleck plays it, Allision Janney plays it, even Jason Alexander plays it. It's the game as big as all Texas, and the so-called "Cadillac of poker." With shows like Celebrity Poker Showdown winning an avid audience, it seems everyone wants to get dealt in. Don't let the fun pass you by, because every rule and trick is explained in this first-ever truly complete guide to success in today's Texas hold'em games. Written by a professional player, it reveals everything you need to know to beat cash games for thousands of dollars. Begin with the most general concepts and move on to pot and implied odds; betting; bluffing and semi-bluffing; deception; flop, turn and river play; and other techniques of the table--including some advanced ones. And, because it's less about the cards you've got in your hand than your ability to psych-out your competitors--there's also plenty of advice on honing that skill, too.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Family Games written by Amy Wall and published by Alpha Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Family Games is a compilation of the games people play -- a lighter-hearted, easier to read introduction to game playing than the perennial Hoyle's. It provides rules, strategies, tricks, and mistakes to avoid for dozens of games, from poker to chess, checkers, Old Maid, darts, Ultimate Frisbee, Go-fish, bridge, dominoes--even Yahtzee! The book includes games that are sure to be popular with family members of varying ages, as well as games strictly for the kids or more popular among adults.

Download or read book The Pocket Idiot s Guide to Poker Bets and Bluffs written by David Apostolico and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All bets are on! Most how-to-win poker books leave out two of the most important tools of the game: effective betting and bluffing. Now, a poker expert extraordinaire gives readers the quick and dirty inside information so readers can hone these skills. Readers will learn about the art of value betting, weighing value against risk, the power of chips and position, and much more. -Features effective bluffing techniques including how to figure out an opponent's bluff -Well-known expert author.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Buying Foreclosures Second Edition written by Bobbi Dempsey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One person's loss is another person's gain. This invaluable guide explains everything readers need to know about finding and financing foreclosed and soon-to-be foreclosed residential properties with the highest potential return. Completely updated, this new edition reflects recent changes in the way banks and the government dispose of foreclosed properties, covers new laws, and advises how to steer clear of scams. ? First edition sold more than 30,000 copies in a year and a half ? The national residential foreclosure rate rose to from .75% to 1.16% (of all mortgages) by the end of 2006-the biggest jump in 30 years ? Foreclosures are expected to continue to increase as interest rates rise and monthly payments on short-term variable rate and interest-only loans make homes unaffordable

Download or read book The Pocket Idiot s Guide to Home Inspections written by Bobbi Dempsey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-05-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For home buyers and home sellers. Here is the first how-to that addresses the needs of both buyers and sellers, making it the perfect companion to the bestselling The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Buying and Selling a Home. The buyer will depend on this guide to determine whether a house is worth buying. The seller will need it to determine which repairs are necessary before listing or signing anything. Readers will learn to troubleshoot all areas of a home, including its structure and foundation, windows and doors, plumbing, heating and air conditioning, insulation, electrical systems, and the roof, just to name a few. In this Pocket Idiot’s Guide®, you get: • What to look for when inspecting the electrical system, the roof, and other parts of the home. • Simple advice on what to do if the results of your inspections aren’t good. • Expert explanation of what you can expect during and after the inspection. • Easy ways to tell if a home is worth buying—or if it will need extensive repairs before you put it on the market.