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| How Good is Your Limit Hold'em? | ||
| Jim Brier and Byron Jacobs | |||
| Look over an experienced poker player's shoulder as he takes you through a series of actual hands from online middle limit ring games. Card by card and street by street, you get to choose your action, then compare it with the author's choice and read about the thought process behind his decisions. | |||
| $19.95 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| The Mathematics of Poker | ||
| Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman | |||
| A comprehensive guide to the theory of the game, from the simplest "toy versions" of poker on up to advice you can apply at the table. Optimal bluffing ranges, bet sizing, and more. Retail price $29.95! | |||
| $24.95 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Improve Your Poker | ||
| Bob Ciaffone | |||
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Essays on common weaknesses in the intermediate poker player's game and how to adress them. The two-word summary: disciplined agression! Choose your moments carefully and then attack forcefully. Half of the book covers general principles, the other half is a series of chapters devoted to each form of the game: Limit and Big-Bet Holdem, Omaha, Stud, Lowball. | |||
| $20.00 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Middle Limit Holdem Poker | ||
| Bob Ciaffone and Jim Brier | |||
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If you want to learn by looking over the shoulder of an expert as he plays hundreds of tricky hands, this is the book for you. Every chapter is full of examples drawn from real play. Organized by hand type and street; a whole chapter just on how to play overcards on the flop, for instance. No pretty pictures or fancy charts in this book -- just solid advice cover to cover! Slightly shopworn. Cover shows wear, all pages are in excellent condition. A bargain. Regular retail price $25.00. | |||
| $17.50 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Pot-Limit and No-Limit Poker | ||
| Bob Ciaffone and Stewart Reuben | |||
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A collection of essays, most of them originally published in Card Player magazine, organized to cover every aspect of big-bet poker. The differences between pot-limit and no-limit; why the same hand might be played 3 different ways depending on whether you have a short, medium, or deep stack in front of you; the importance of not drawing to second-best hands;and more. Half the book covers concepts applicable to all games, the other half looks in more detail at Holdem, Omaha, Stud, and Lowball in turn. | |||
| $25.00 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Professional No-Limit Hold'em | |||
| Flynn, Matt | |||
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| $29.95 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Harrington on Hold'em, v. 1: Strategic Play | ||
| Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie | |||
| A world champion of poker explains how to survive in the brutal world of no-limit hold'em tournaments. Covers both the general approach, and the specific of each hand type, position at the table, and betting street. Examples drawn from real tournament play in every chapter. | |||
| $29.95 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Harrington on Holdem: Expert Strategy for Tournaments: v.2, Endplay | ||
| Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie | |||
| The most thorough guide ever written to strategy late in poker tournaments when tables become short-handed and the blinds begin to eat a significant portion of your stack. Over 450 pages of advice on how to make it into the money! | |||
| $29.95 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Winning Low Limit HOLD'EM | ||
| Lee Jones | |||
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Covers it all from the basics of hand selection and pot odds through to more advanced concepts like the semibluff. Highly recommended as a first book of hold'em for a serious beginner. After reading this you'll be ready to tackle low limit games and move on to Miller's Small Stakes Hold'em for your second book.
2nd edition, 2000. | |||
| $24.95 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Gambler's Guide to Taxes: How to Keep More of What You Win | ||
| Walter Lewis | |||
| Articles on what records to keep, what forms to file, what paperwork is involved with winning jackpots of a given size, and more. Everything you need to know. Includes essays by leading gambling law authority Nelson Rose and many other tax and legal professionals. | |||
| $12.95 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Gambling Theory and Other Topics | ||
| Mason Malmuth | |||
| A collection of classic Malmuth essays covering a wide range of topics. The meat of the book is the key mathematical ideas behind successful gambling: how to estimate your win rate, standard deviation, and bankroll needs. Also includes essays on a host of other topics from coping with tilt to comparing California and Nevada card rooms. | |||
| $29.95 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| No Limit Hold'em: Theory and Practice | ||
| Ed Miller and David Sklansky | |||
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The definitive guide to no-limit poker. Everything from starting hands to continuation bets, bluffing frequencies, and how the depth of your stack affects your strategy. This may well be a classic on par with The Theory of Poker within a few years! | |||
| $29.95 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Small Stakes Hold'em: Winning Big with Expert Play | ||
| Ed Miller, David Sklansky, and Mason Malmuth | |||
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An outstanding treatment of how to get the most out of low-limit holdem games. Heavy emphasis on postflop play. Excellent discussion of pot equity and counting effective outs when you aren't guaranteed to win if your draw comes in.
A big quiz section at the end of the book to reinforce all the theory you learn in the earlier chapters. | |||
| $24.95 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| The Professional Poker Dealer's Handbook | ||
| Dan Paymar, Donna Harris, and Mason Malmuth | |||
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A complete look at all the skills you need to be a professional poker dealer, from how to handle the cards, to advice on keeping track of your chip rack's contents, to how to prepare for an audition in a casino.
Intended as a textbook to accompany a dealers school course. Plan to spend some time practicing with cards and chips, not just reading the book! | |||
| $19.95 | By special order only | ||
| The Psychology of Poker | ||
| Alan Schoonmaker | |||
| A guide to understanding your opponents and keeping control of your own game. Two chapters devoted to each of the common types of poker players -- one on how to improve your own game if you exhibit these tendencies, and one on how to take advantage of opponents who show them. | |||
| $24.95 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Seven-Card Stud for Advanced Players | ||
| David Sklansky, Mason Malmuth, and Ray Zee | |||
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The experts walk you through every aspect of 7-card stud, from starting hand selection to when to complete and raise on 3rd street all the way through to the last card. Special sections explaining theoretical concepts like the free card and the semibluff, and a very large question-and-answer review of all the key points in the back. 4th edition, 1999. | |||
| $29.95 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Hold'em Poker for Advanced Players | ||
| David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth | |||
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The poker book read by so many players that the authors had to rewrite large sections of it in the latest edition to reflect how people's playing styles had changed! Coverage of advanced poker tactics, from understanding implied odds to using game theory to understand how often you should bluff on the river.
Latest edition, 2002. | |||
| $29.95 | By special order only | ||
| Sklansky on Poker | ||
| David Sklansky | |||
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| $29.95 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| The Theory of Poker | ||
| David Sklansky | |||
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One of the classics of poker. An exposition from the masters, explaining such concepts as implied odds, the semi-bluff, and the 'five reasons for raising.' Examples drawn from Texas Hold'em, Seven-Card Stud, and Lowball.
Latest edition. | |||
| $29.95 | By special order only | ||
| Ken Warren Teaches Texas Holdem | ||
| Ken Warren | |||
| A first book of poker that will get you off on the right track and teach you to play tightly, keep records, and think about the basic ideas of the game. After you've read this you'll be ready to get your feet wet and try a low-limit game. | |||
| $26.95 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| 7 Card Stud: 42 Lessons How to Win at Medium and Lower Limits | ||
| Roy West | |||
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| $19.95 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Weighing the Odds in Hold'em Poker | ||
| King Yao | |||
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As the title suggests, a book devoted to helping you get a solid grasp of concepts like expected value, pot odds, implied odds, fold equity - and how to combine these with your knowledge of your opponents' styles to improve your results at the table.. Readers have reported that the chapters on the neglected topic of shorthanded ring game strategy alone are worth the price of the book. | |||
| $24.95 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
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