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| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Standard Bidding with SAYC | ||
| Ned Downey and Ellen Pomer | |||
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Limited time offer, regular price $17.95! Every checkbox and convention on the Standard American Yellow Card explained by two of the Internet's leading bridge teachers. The most comprehensive guide to standard bidding since Bill Root's Commonsense Bidding. Do you really know what you are agreeing to when you sit down with a stranger and ask "SAYC, pd?" After you read this book you will! | |||
| $15.00 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Swiss Team Tactics | |||
| Harold Feldheim | |||
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A detailed look at how Swiss Teams strategy differs from longer knockout teams matches and from pairs play. Special sections on how to cope with exceptionally weak or strong opponents. This is a very underrated book, very readable, and the bidding and delcaring advice is excellent in general even if you don't play Swisses particularly often. A very popular item. Out of stock as of 28 May 05 and a difficult book to find. If I can find a supplier I will get as many of them in as I can! | |||
| $10.95 | By special order only | ||
| The Modern Losing Trick Count | ||
| Ron Klinger | |||
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List price $20! If you are ready to look beyond the high-card point and refine your bidding judgment, this is the book for you. One of the great books on hand evaluation. The Losing Trick Count is a simple yet surprisingly accurate hand evaluation method, known in the 1930s but temporarily forgotten in the enthusiasm for point count bidding in the 40s and 50s. It has several advantages over HCP: it accounts naturally for the importance of having fitting rather than scattered honors; and because it forces you to think about counting tricks rather than points, it makes adjustments to the raw count simple -- instead of memorizing rules like subtracting a point for an unguarded face card, you simply count a card that the bidding tells you is unlikely to win a trick as a loser and vice versa! | |||
| $16.99 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Easy Guide to Defensive Signals | ||
| Julian Pottage | |||
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How to choose which spot card to play, and how to tell what your partner's signals mean, broken down situation by situation: signals on partner's lead, signals on opponent's lead, discards, and so on. Many suit layouts and example hands; quiz and summary at the end of each chapter. New. Slightly shopworn cover. Retail price $16.95. | |||
| $12.50 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Blocking, Unblocking, and Safety Plays | |||
| Terence Reese and Roger Trezel | |||
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A collection of hands where suit combinations need to be played in nonstandard ways to achieve the best result, and advice on how to recognize the common situations. From the simple (when it is right to lead high from Qxx/Kxx for instance) to the very obscure.
Out of print. Once my last copy goes it is gone! | |||
| $8.95 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Two-Minute Bridge Tips | |||
| Frank Stewart | |||
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A collection of Frank Stewart's favorite hands (and puns) from his daily newspaper bridge column.
Shopworn cover. Retail price $8.00. | |||
| $5.00 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
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