Poker

Designed to reinforce positive playing habits. Covers mistakes opponents make, the importance of position, playing pairs before the flop, how to play high-ranking speculative hands before the flop, and when to call, raise, pass or fold in a variety of situations. 28 Pgs. 1990

Here is what poker players around the world have been waiting for. A follow up to the hugely successful “Read ‘em and Reap.” Joe Navarro brings us an incredible two hundred (200) of the most often observed tells in poker. This is a must for the amateur as well as the pro. Navarro brings together his experience working with and analyzing poker players as only a world class observer could. This is an ideal and easy to read guide to poker tells. All meat, no fluff, written...

For the beginner or experienced player who needs to get back to basics, Percy’s classic contains experienced analysis and advice on what moves to make in a variety of situations. One of the best books ever written for the low-limit game. Discusses which opening hands to stay with and the odds against catching various hands. 80 Pgs. Spiral-bound 1979

Subtitled "The 101 Most Asked Questions about Texas Hold'em and Poker Cheating". With a long history in casino surveillance, Joseph doesn't assume new players know all the terms, twists and turns of poker. In addition to defining a term, move or situation, he presents examples and illustrations to clarify them. He answers such questions as: How much does the house rake? What is a kill game? What is a string bet? What does pot committed mean? How can cards be marked? How safe are online games?...

Through fascinating and intimate profiles, the authors reveal the ground-breaking strategies and outrageous lifestyles of the games most influential players, including Puggy Pearson, Stu Ungar, Phil Hellmuth, and Chris Ferguson. The authors take you through the evolution of modern poker from shady back rooms to the world of high-tech mainstream entertainment, including tales about legends and street-smart hustlers who stormed the poker rooms of Las Vegas in the 1960s. 281 Pgs. 2006 ...

No-Limit Hold'em is an extremely complex game that is difficult to learn and even more difficult to teach. Many authors have produced works on this topic which are either too simplistic or far too complex to be of any practical use. Hunter Cichy has a unique ability to present advanced concepts in a manner that any committed student can understand and implement. In this cutting-edge work, Hunter outlines a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to poker analysis. His philosophy is built around...

Hold'em is a rather easy game to learn but a tough game to master, partly because the game doesn't always follow a set of rules. Tanenbaum, a professional player and writer, focuses on methods you can apply to dominate your table, including confusing opponents, identifying and dominating weak players, exploiting your position, playing for maximum effectiveness, winning without the best hand, attacking out of position and using card-independent strategies. 247 Pgs. 2007

Hwang uses over 200 hand examples and walk-throughs to reinforce the advanced skills, concepts and strategies in this huge book. Covers short-handed play, 3-betting before the flop without the nuts, value betting the river, small ball, picking off bluffs, deep stack leverage, stack-to-pot ratios, check-raising, bluff raising, positional disadvantage and advantage, playing six-handed or less and other concepts. 534 Pgs. 2009

The final volume in Hwang's three-part series, The Short-Handed Workbook gives players a diagnostic test to gauge their comprehension of Pot-Limit Omaha skills. Includes how to find and plug holes in your game, map out your pre-flop play approach, and apply your skills with over 160 full practice hand quizzes dedicated to short-handed online play at stakes from .25/.50 to $2/$4 blinds with .75 antes. 656 Pgs. 2010

Volume II: Lag Play picks up where Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha Vol. I left off. Key topics include: Variable Ratio Reinforcement; C-Bet Frequency; Opening Fire on the Blinds; Attacking the Limper; 3-Betting vs. Small Ball and more. With nearly 300 hand walk-throughs dedicated to short-handed online play, this book takes Omaha strategy one step further, opening up your game more than ever. 448 Pgs. 2009

Slim, a World Series of Poker champion, offers an entertaining blend of stories, hustles, con men and powerful players from Texas to Nevada and everywhichway. Dinkin spent hundreds of hours interviewing Slim and captures his persona in his drive to find that elusive edge at whatever he played. 270 Pgs. 2003

Bakker writes how poker has changed immensely in the last few years. While once played only in casinos and home-games, it's now exceedingly popular on the Internet and has taken on a completely different aspect in terms of winning strategy. 'Analytical No Limit Hold 'em' provides the tools and theory needed for tough mid-stakes short-handed games, specifically those played online. It examines the latest techniques and strategies used by many of today's top players, and explains what strategic...

Subtitled "A Guide to Understanding Theoretical Sound Poker". One of the most daunting moments in a poker player's career occurs when he realizes his knowledge of how to play a specific hand well is incomplete without the additional understanding of how to play every other hand in his range well. This task would be impossible if a player had to actually think about every other hand in his range, but by understanding theoretical sound poker, he can quickly design balanced ranges using the...

This card is meant to give you a start on learning how to play 7-Stud. However, only experience in actual play and additional study can make you an actual player.

Subtitled " The Biggest Mistakes Made by Low-Stakes, Live-Action No-Limit Hold'em Players", “Beat the Donks” is a book about the lowest stakes No-Limit Hold’em cash games played in Las Vegas. These games are filled with “Donks” that are easy to beat as long as you can recognize and exploit their mistakes. This book defines a Donk as an experienced player who makes the same mistakes over and over again, unwilling to adapt. This stubbornness makes the Donk very predictable and, therefore, easy...

Wiese provides the ultimate poker book that gives you an unparalleled edge at the poker table. After the huge success of "Eat Professional Poker Players Alive!', he decided to write this book that focuses strictly on No-Limit Cash Games. If you like to build up your chip stacks considerably, destroy the other players at the No-Limit Cash Games, then this is the book for you. 239 Pgs. 2011

A modern poker classic (out of print for a while) that tells the tale of a year in the life of biographer Holden, who took off to experience the life of a professional poker player. He recounts his days and nights in poker rooms in Las Vegas, Malta, Morocco, and at sea. Holden rubbed elbows with the greats of the game, sharpened his skills and aimed for the ultimate in pokerdom, the World Series of Poker championship. 384 pgs, paperback, 2002

From the moment he wins $10,000 in a tourney pitting journalists against three world champs, Holden hits a hot streak, spiriting readers to an instructional camp in Vienna and the World Cup of Poker in Spain before returning to Las Vegas to compete with 8,772 other hopefuls in a WSOP "crapshoot." With Congress restricting Americans' ability to play poker for money online, the semipro invasion might have peaked, but Holden still has a gift for finding the romance in holdem. 291 Pgs. 2008

Packed with concepts and advice on how to evaluate the strength of your first three cards and how to anticipate what your opponent may be holding. 32 pgs, paperback, 1989

Designed to help serious players recognize other players' tells such as changes in voice, eye contact, the body leaning forward, the way an opponents smoke, or the way he tosses his chips or counts them before calling or raising. These tells are often indicators to whether a player has the nuts or is bluffing. This revised and updated version of Caro's much-sought-after seminal work contains over 50 pgs of new material, plus an expansion of material covered in the first edition. One of the ten...

One of casino poker's pioneers, Mike Caro, The Mad Genius of Poker, has been teaching people his brand of winning since the 1970s. He was a major contributor to Doyle Brunson's Super System, and is the creator of the first videos on poker tells. In this title he continues with his lessons on Hold'em by revealing some previously unpublished, secret strategies, including rankings and anatomies of all 169 categories of holdem starting hands. Chapters cover the concepts of bluffing, image,...

In this revised version of his classic guide, Caro takes the reader into territory not covered in his previous version including new strategies for hold'em, basic fundamentals many people neglect, evaluating your game for profit potential, essential secrets to tells, psychological tactics to throw opponents off, and practical ways to read opponents, bluff, manipulate position, get free cards, figure pot odds, and win tournaments. 182 Pgs. 2008

The Grand Old Man of Poker, Johnny Moss was among the most respected, feared and winning poker player anywhere. This biography concentrates primarily on his experiences as a gambler, his philosophies, plus some expert advice and strategy about play. 214 Pgs. 1981

Who won, who lost, and how it happened at the final table of the WSOP from its genesis in 1970 through 2008. The cards played heads-up in the final hand are pictured with what happened; all players at the championship table, how they placed and how much they won; photos of the champs; vintage photos, interviews, and interesting highlights of every tournament, including Hall of Fame inductees. A great research tool. 198 pgs, paperback, 2009

Have you ever sat against a monster bet wishing that you knew what was coming on the river? Wonder if this is even possible? Over the years, hustlers and card mechanics have developed hundreds of techniques to create a poker environment where even sharks become prey. Cheating does occur, and the serious player 's best protection against it is to understand how it works. Whether you are simply curious, an avid card player, or someone interested in dabbling on the darker side of poker, Cheating...

Mention the name Matusow to poker players who watch televised tournaments and youre likely going to get one of two reactions, neither of which is on the fence. He appears to be brash, selfish, arrogant, disruptive, snide, clever, deceptiveand he is all thatbut those characteristics make him one of the best tournament players on the circuit. Until this autobiography, however, few people understood what makes The Mouth what he is. Here he examines his life from trailer park to wealth, divulging...

Told from the viewpoint of a self-described competition junkie, this is a look at the psychology behind the competitive drive and the sociological ramifications of acting on competitive impulses, plus advice on how to channel those impulses for personal gain in business, sport, and in life. In his personal journey, Apostolico draws parallels between personal competition and competition in the business world, and gives advice on how to use your competitive drive to win at everything you do. 272...

McManus has documented the history of poker to create a remarkably literate work that's sure to appeal to an audience beyond, but not excluding, poker fans. Spanning the earliest days of the game to modern times, the book includes politics, lies, scandals and rumor, computers, and Internet poker. 314 Pgs. 2009 Hardcover

Learn How to Play Smart, Stay Safe, and Have Fun with Online Poker "Under the gun, I had a nut flush draw on the flop, so I go over the top back into the small blind, the guy on the button smooth calls, and I catch the boat on fifth street!" The above quote may not sound intelligible to you now, but it actually makes perfect sense to dedicated poker players. Deal Me In! will have you talking the talk and walking the walk in no time. Whether you're playing with "funny money" or real stakes,...

Ask any great poker player how they'd play a hand and the answer is always 'It depends.' That answer can be infuriating. But guess what? It really does depend. The key to becoming a great poker player is in knowing exactly what it depends on. At last there's a book that gives you that answer. Poker is a game of so many variables: table position, flop texture, bet sizing, pocket holdings, players in a hand, personalities of the players, and so much more. 'Decide to Play Great Poker' teaches you...

No-Limit Hold’em is a tough game to play well which is why it is the game of choice for the high-stakes pros. At every moment every player’s entire stack is vulnerable. The key to NLHE is understanding and exploiting this fact. 'Dominate No-Limit Hold’em' will reveal the key plays that will enable you to take advantage of this opportunity. Ashman is a highly successful NLHE high-stakes player. In this book he reveals how the very best players think about the game and discusses many advanced...

Donkey Poker: Crushing Low-Stakes Live NLH Volume 1: Preflop teaches you how to crush the low-stakes live no-limit hold'em games you will find in Las Vegas. These "Donkey Games" play much differently than high-stakes live games or even low-stakes online games, so the optimal strategies are often much different. Donkey Games are filled with players who make the same mistakes over and over again and who are very exploitable. Donkey Poker teaches a small-ball brand of exploitive and low-variance...

Donkey Poker is a soup-to-nuts description of how to crush low-stakes Vegas no-limit hold���em. Volume 2: Postflop teaches you everything you ever wanted to know about postflop strategy, from the flop to the river. It also covers other important topics, such as variance, bankroll management, GTO strategy, moving up in stakes and exploiting live reads. Many statistics are discussed, including those from online and live NLH. Statistics from Vegas $1/$2 and $2/$5 games are published for the first...

The hand reading process in Volume 3 is optimized for low-stakes live no-limit holdem. It teaches you how to incorporate actual live-action stats into your hand reading skills to maximize your profit. Many examples take you through the hand reading process step-by-step using Flopzilla. 194 Pgs. 2017

Excelling at Tough No-Limit Hold'em Games is a must-have if you have ambitions to move up the stakes. Renowned poker player and leading coach Jonathan Little brings together ten No-Limit experts to provide cutting-edge information for the keen student. All the authors are established coaches for pocarr.com, the prominent backing company. Pocarr has helped numerous players to climb the poker ladder and succeed at the highest levels in events such as the WCOOP (World Championship of Online...