Download or read book Women s Poker Night written by Maryann Morrison and published by Lyle Stuart. This book was released on 2007 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of unique and entertaining stories by women players from all levels of the game - from enthusiastic amateur to top-flight pro. Covering such diverse topics as the history of women in poker, tips on playing, making money, playing in home games, finding love at the table and the pros and cons of women's tournaments versus mixed championships, it's as much about the players as the game itself. Wisdom, humour, insight and advice for women of all levels!
Download or read book Girls Poker Night written by Jill A. Davis and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When cub reporter Ruby falls for her boss, all bets are off. He's a challenge, he's her editor, and he wants her to stop being quippy and clever and become the writer--and the woman--he knows she can be. But what happens when she realizes Mr. Right has his own unresolved past? A bestseller in hardcover.
Download or read book Girls Poker Night written by Jill Davis and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After landing a job as a reporter at the "New York News," Ruby Capote joins three other women for evenings playing poker and finds herself falling for her intriguing and challenging boss, Michael.
Download or read book Poker Pop Culture written by Martin Harris and published by D&B Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-23 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced shortly after the United States declared its independence, poker’s growth and development has paralleled that of America itself. As a gambling game with mass appeal, poker has been played by presidents and peasants, at kitchen tables and final tables, for matchsticks and millions. First came the hands, then came the stories – some true, some pure bluffs, and many in between. In Poker & Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America’s Favorite Card Game, Martin Harris shares these stories while chronicling poker’s progress from 19th-century steamboats and saloons to 21st-century virtual tables online, including: Poker on the Mississippi Poker in the Movies Poker in the Old West Poker on the Newsstand Poker in the Civil War Poker in Literature Poker on the Bookshelf Poker in Music Poker in the White House Poker on Television Poker During Wartime Poker on the Computer From Mark Twain to “Dogs Playing Poker” to W.C. Fields to John Wayne to A Streetcar Named Desire to the Cold War to Kenny Rogers to ESPN to Star Trek: The Next Generation and beyond, Poker & Pop Culture provides a comprehensive survey of cultural productions in which poker is of thematic importance, showing how the game’s portrayal in the mainstream has increased poker’s relevance to American history and shaped the way we think about the game and its significance.
Download or read book 1000 Best Poker Strategies and Secrets written by Susie Isaacs and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poker is currently the hottest card game in America--from novice players involved in poker night to professionals earning millions in nationally televised poker tournaments. 1000 Best Poker Strategies and Secrets is the book readers need to give them the competitive edge over other their competition and help them walk away winners. Packed full of poker secrets, strategies and step-by-step instruction from professional poker champion Susie Isaacs on how to play and win. Including: -- No-limit Texas hold'em -- Limit Texas hold'em -- Seven-card stud -- Seven-card stud high-low split eight-or-better -- Omaha -- Omaha high-low split eight-or-better -- Online poker Featuring a glossary of standard poker terms and poker jargon, as well as the ins and outs of poker protocol and casino etiquette, 1000 Best Poker Strategies and Secrets is a must-have reference for players at all levels.
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 The Bad Ass Girl s Guide To Poker written by Toby Leah Bochan and published by Adams Media. This book was released on 2005-02-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poker continues to be hot—and is increasing in popularity among younger women. One of the first books specifically targeted at female poker players. A woman with sass and style can beat a man in a green visor at the poker table any day—all she needs is the confidence and know-how provided in The Badass Girl's Guide to Poker. From the basic rules to complex strategies, this no-holds-barred guide gives the lowdown on everything badass girls need to win big.
Download or read book Girls Poker Night written by Jill A. Davis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003-02-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissatisfied both with writing a “Single Girl on the Edge/ Ledge/Verge” lifestyle column and with her boyfriend (who has a name for his car and compulsively collects plastic bread ties), Ruby Capote sends her best columns and a six-pack of beer to the editor of The New York News and lands herself a new job in a new city. In New York, Ruby undertakes the venerable tradition of Poker Night—a way (as men have always known) to eat, drink, smoke, analyze, interrupt one another, share stories, and, most of all, raise the stakes. There’s Skorka, model by profession, homewrecker by vocation; Jenn, willing to cross county lines for true love; Danielle, recently divorced, seducer of at least one father/son combo in her quest to make up for perceived “missed opportunities.” When Ruby falls for her boss, Michael, all bets are off. He’s a challenge. He’s her editor. And he wants her to stop being quippy and clever and become the writer—and the woman—he knows she can be. Adding to Ruby’s uncertainty is his amazing yet ambiguous kiss in the elevator, and the enjoyably torturous impasse of he-loves-me, he-loves-me-not. What happens when you realize that Mr. Right has his own unresolved past? Where does that leave the future you envisioned? Ruby knows that happy endings aren’t for cowards, and she hasn’t lost hope that there are risks worth taking. As smart as it is laugh-out-loud funny, Girls’ Poker Night is a twenty-first-century His Girl Friday and a re-freshingly upbeat look at friendship, work, and love.
Download or read book Queens Can Beat Kings written by Susie Isaacs and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part autobiography, part history, part strategy guide. Combining years of personal experience and interviews with top women poker players, Susie Isaacs offers a behind-the-scenes look at the poker careers of women players past and present; insider's tips for winning (especially against men) in two of poker's top games (Texas Hold 'Em and Seven Card Stud) - and details her own personal journey, from playing when women were barely tolerated at tables, to becoming a top player and poker legend.
Download or read book The Casino Card and Betting Game Reader written by Mark R. Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casino games and traditional card games have rich and idiosyncratic histories, complex subcultures and player practices, and facilitate the flow of billions of dollars each year through casinos and card rooms, and between professional players and amateurs. They have nevertheless been overlooked by game scholars due to the negative ethical weight of “gambling” – with such games pathologized and labelled as deviance or mental illness, few look beyond to unpick the games, their players, and their communities. The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader offers 25 chapters studying the communities playing these games, the distinctive cultures and practices that have emerged around them, their activities and beliefs and interpersonal relationships, and how these games influence – both positively and negatively – the lives and careers of millions of game players around the world. It is the first of a new series of edited collections, Play Beyond the Computer, dedicated to exploring the play of games beyond computers and games consoles.
Download or read book Toxic Masculinity Casino Capitalism and America s Favorite Card Game written by Andrew Manno and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poker is a centuries-old American game. Why has it become so popular in the twenty-first century? What does current interest in the game tell us about ourselves and some of our most pressing social issues? In this timely and thought-provoking book, Andrew Manno offers important insights into the intersection of gaming, gender, and capitalism that illuminate how the shift to a casino capitalist economy—combined with a culture of toxic masculinity—impacts workers and how it has led to the rise of populism in the United States that manifested in the 2016 election of Donald Trump.
Download or read book How to Become a Poker Queen written by Rebecca McAdam and published by Ryland Peters & Small. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to know How to Become a Poker Queen? Professional poker player Rebecca McAdam has competed at the highest level on the world poker circuit, playing against men and women, so who better to guide you through the basic rules, the hands and the subtle art of bluffing? Rebecca shows and tells you how to get to grips with a number of poker formats, focusing on the phenomenally popular Texas Hold’em, so before long, you’ll have the skills and wiles to equip you for anything, from a poker night with friends to a high-stakes, high-pressure tournament. You’ll learn all the poker parlance, so you’ll soon know your big blind from your top kicker and your river from your royal flush. Learn how to read ‘tells’ – the expressions and gestures that reveal what you’re holding, and how to conceal your own. Whether you’re a beginner or have some experience, Rebecca will show you how to hone your instincts and intuition and use your femininity to your advantage!
Download or read book Not My Boy written by Kelly Simmons and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who will you cross to protect your own? When Hannah packs up her past and moves to the cottage next-door to her sister, she hopes the luxe neighborhood and close family ties will be the perfect escape for her son and the shadows that trail them. But when a young girl goes missing days after they unload their final boxes and her son is quickly thrown under suspicion, Hannah must do whatever it takes to protect her child. Even if that means pointing the blame her sister's way instead. With investigators swarming and neighborhood scrutiny closing in, the divide between two sisters grows. As one fiercely defends her husband, the other shields her boy from the crime, keeping quiet the secrets that might unravel it all. And all the while, one young girl has vanished, and someone is to blame.
Download or read book Gambling and Gender written by Deborah K. Phillips and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two distinct strands in the literature on gambling: one that focuses on how to play and win the various games of chance and one that focuses on gambling compulsion and addiction. Gambling and Gender forges a new direction, studying gambling as more communication than compulsion, more recreation than deviance, more sociology than psychology. Within that framework it seeks to explore several aspects of gender: How do the gambling behaviors of men and women differ? How have women adapted to and/or changed the historically male dominance of the gambling arena? What gambling activities have women claimed as their own and used to develop uniquely female relationships? How have recent trends in technology and mass media changed the ways in which men and women claim - or reject - their gender identities? The authors use a variety of research strategies, including content analysis, survey research, interviews, and participative observation, to shed new light on this fascinating subject and to suggest ways to explore it further.
Download or read book Block Parties and Poker Nights written by Peggy Allen and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how to foster neighborliness with block parties, holiday festivities, and intimate gatherings, with dozens of recipes, tips on entertainment, and suggestions for organizing special neighborhood events.
Download or read book She Folds written by Shawn Henri Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She Folds is a classic "Who Done It" that takes a normal gathering of long-time friends with dark secrets and double lives, their families, and high-stakes yet friendly poker night that ends in a death. You and the players will need to figure out the killer before the police arrive. Are you up to the challenge? Will their friendships survive the revelations that will be discovered along the way. Read on, if you dare to learn about yourself, your friends, and who you can really trust.
Download or read book Stiletto Network written by Pamela Ryckman and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2013 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past few years, professional women's groups have been coalescing in every major American city, collaborating to achieve clout and success--calling themselves "Power Bitches," "Brazen Hussies," and "S.L.U.T.S.: Successful Ladies Under Tremendous Stress." This new girls' network is alive and set to hyperdrive! Stiletto Network is the first book to highlight this groundbreaking movement of these trailblazing women. However, these pages are not only about celebrating these extraordinary women--from captains of industry to aspiring entrepreneurs--who have come together to celebrate, unwind, debate, and compare notes. They're also about what happens when these women leave the table--how they mine their collective intelligence to realize their dreams or champion a cause, how they lift up their friends and push them forward, how they join forces to ensure each woman gets whatever it is she needs to accomplish her goals. Sharing story after story of extraordinary women banding together to help other extraordinary women, Stiletto Network is both a celebration and a call to action to a better way of doing business.
