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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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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! | |||
| $17.95 | 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 popular out-of-print item. Only one left in stock! | |||
| $10.00 | 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. Cover price $24.95. | |||
| $15.00 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| Gamesman Bridge | ||
| Eddie Kantar | |||
| A rarely seen early Kantar book, from way back in 1972. The story of a beginner named Stanley's journey to becoming a strong bridge player. Is it a bridge novel, or a lesson series taught with the classic Kantar wit sprinkled through it from beginning to end? | |||
| $7.00 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| The Drawing of Trumps and its Postponement | |||
| Fred Karpin | |||
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If you are looking to improve your declarer play, this is one of the best books you could possibly choose to read. One half of the book covers when and how to pull trumps with minimal loss of tricks, reviewing how to play common card combinations, discussing when to refuse a finesse with eight trumps or take one with nine. The other half covers all the common reasons to not pull trumps, a chapter for each reason: needing to ruff losers first; planning a cross-ruff; needing to take a fast discard on a side suit first; situations where it is right to pull some but not all of the trump; and so on. Every chapter is full of example deals. Out of print; this is a first edition copy, excellent condition except for a worn cover. | |||
| $8.00 | Available now and ready to ship | ||
| 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 | ||
| Encyclopedia of Card Play Techniques | ||
| Guy Levé | |||
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Perhaps the most complete catalogue of declarer-play techniques ever assembled. It opens with a summary of planning the play, then describes and shows an example of every known declarer play maneuver, from the mundane like suit establishment and the different kinds of finesses, through all sorts of endplays and coups to two dozen different kinds of trump squeezes. A great reference for the serious student of the game.
List price $34.95! A fantastic collection of hands; I'd hate to see the cover price keep you from reading it. | |||
| $29.95 | 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 | ||
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