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Most poker books and training videos on tournaments and Sit 'n Gos are by professional poker players who play at the highest stakes. Whereas you can learn a lot from studying them, they won't always be as useful to you when you're mainly playing at the low stakes. Playing low stakes games against beginning and recreational players requires a whole different strategy and approach than playing high stakes games against the best of the best. The Crushing Low Stakes Poker series is focused specifically on low stakes play and teaches you the proper strategy to consistently crush low stakes Sit 'n Gos. Volume 2: Heads-Up Volume 2 of the series deals with heads-up play and covers heads-up fundamentals, theory and strategy. We will take a close look at important topics such as hand reading, manipulating ranges and post-flop play on different board textures. We will also cover common playing tendencies of low stakes opponents and how to take advantage of them. Becoming familiar with your opponents' weaknesses and learning how to develop effective counter strategies, will give you the edge you need in low stakes games. Improve Your Tournament Results Heads-up skills are essential to achieve good tournament results. There is a significant pay jump in tournaments from second to first prize so mastering heads-up play will make a big difference to your win rate. Heads-up is not the easiest form of poker. It requires you to play a lot of hands and you will often face difficult post-flop decisions. This book explains heads-up strategy in a practical and easy to follow manner, providing you with the tools you need to master those tough one-on-one poker battles. So whether you play heads-up Sit 'n Gos or multi-player SnGs/tournaments, Crushing Low Stakes Poker Volume 2 will be of value to you. Includes Push-Fold Charts and Example Hands Included in the book are push/fold charts for heads-up play. These charts let you make mathematically correct endgame decisions so you can maximize your winnings. Throughout the book you will also find multiple example hands with detailed analysis to illustrate important concepts and strategy.
This book will take you through an extremely tight set of starting standards to be able to win the Poker Room Jackpot. The author Peter Sloan starts his readers off with a set of guidelines to play nothing less than trip's or better. Almost all of the straight draws are played with at least a top pair in your hand or a double draw, trying to make both a straight and flush at the same time. We go over briefly how to turn a flush or straight draw into the jackpot hand with a straight flush. After waiting in for our up and down straight draw our reader is surprised to find out that he has made a straight flush and not only that beat four of a kind and won the jackpot. The last section of the book we start almost all of our hands with a set and when our hand improves to four of a kind and we beat out a lower four of a kind our reader wins the Bad Beat Jackpot and goes home with ten's of thousands of dollars.
An amusing, lighthearted examination of the crazy world of rubber and duplicate bridge, and the men and women who populate that strange milieu - with a heavy but hilarious accen on the tricks and ploys employed by dedicated bridge fiends to win games, master points, and/or money.
This book is all about learning to play and enjoy the game of bridge. The bridge book is an introduction to the most popular bridge system played in the United States today. The system is called Two-Over-One (2/1). The book is for serious beginners and includes many of the conventional bids used by players around the world. All phases of the world's greatest card game are included, You will learn to bid accurately, play like a pro, and defend like a champion. Learning to play bridge will provide years of enjoyment in a social atmosphere where fun, competition, and individual challenge are all in play.
A convention used to allow opener to open light in third and fourth chair with safety.
With Four-Suit Transfers available, traditional three level responses to 1NT have become obsolete. Try some new options.
With the publication of Sixpack, six keycard RKCB has come of age! As soon you identify a double fit, don't ask for keycards - just "launch" and tell. In most cases, you can find out about keycards - all six - below the game level. Part I of the book lays out a set of basic rules for any casual partnership to apply quickly and easily. Part II gets more advanced and complex, but operates along the same principles. Apply Sixpack throughout your notrump structure and expand it to a wide range of standard bidding situations. With many examples and four extensive quizzes for partners to practice the convention together, Sixpack gives the reader the experience and confidence to use the convention effectively at the table.
Duplicate bridge is a different game. It's true that you can get by if you play exactly the same way as you would in a home social game or a team match. Duplicate pairs is a highly competitive game, though, and few contestants are happy just to 'get by'. They want to win - not just once in a while but regularly! To be successful at duplicate pairs, you must adjust your bidding. You must know when to compete vigorously, taking a risk in doing so. You must also know when it is right to bid conservatively. You have to understand which contract to choose in various situations. In the play and defence you meet similar dilemmas. Should you risk the contract for a lucrative overtrick? Should you risk giving away an extra trick in defence, hoping that you can beat the contract? This is a book that every novice bridge player needs to read before that first pairs game at their local club.
Texas Hold'em Poker Strategy by 1 Gambler is a handbook that includes a strategic overview of the game of poker and pointers to become a successful poker player. The purpose for this handbook is to introduce the game of Texas Hold'em Poker to those who desire to learn to play the game and to enhance the skills of those already playing Texas Hold'em Poker.
Why are the world's top players so successful? They make very few basic mistakes! Players at a less exalted level often make the same mistakes over and over again throughout their bridge careers. In this book you will see 52 of the most frequent mistakes - in bidding, play and defense. The chapter on each mistake will contain several deals where the original player went wrong. It will end with some tips, to help you avoid making such errors yourself. In the first section, Mistakes in the Bidding, the author has used deals from high-level tournament play, including world championships. The cardplay and the defense in such events are usually excellent but it's amazing how often experts surprise the kibitzers with a bid or call that seems to be a clear mistake. Experts make such errors less often than the rest of us but you will find it instructive to look at these wayward decisions. Try to analyze why the bid was wrong before reading the author's thoughts on the matter. When it comes to declarer play and defense, expert mistakes are rarer. These errors will be illustrated with constructed deals, or examples from a lower level of play. Every time you eradicate one of these 52 common mistakes from your game, your results will improve. Avoid all of them and... who knows what may happen?
Four years ago I started playing videopoker. As a lark I started to analyze hands and came up with my crib notes which I am sure help to get a winning hand. But unfortunately the machine has the last say. I studied the most common videopoker games but not all. My family felt I should include these in a book and so I have. I tried to put my knowledge on paper so it could be easily understood but I am not the best of writers. This book includes the best strategies for playing different poker hands for twenty -four video poker games.
A 40-page manual to support the popular Learn Bridge in a Day? introductory seminar. Includes basics of point counting, opening, responding, scoring and play of the hand. Perfect for true beginners - fast, fun, fundamental.
Another space saving convention, Kickback allows greater ease in minor suit slam key card auctions. In general it provides more room to garner information when trying to decide Slam or Grand Slam.
Be Right by Not Doing Wrong The inimitable Professor Gaston Gitane-Gauloise demonstrates his unique Inverted Bridge Teaching Method, showing you by example what not to do in Bridge, thereby allowing you to improve your game by avoiding the commonplace (and some not-socommonplace) errors to which all are prone. In his humble and self-deprecating manner Professor GG-G wheezes his way into your bridge acumen, and improves it. MIKE DORN WISS is also the author of the acclaimed book Shadow in the Bridge World. Nowadays he divides his time between summers in Victoria, Canada and winters in Thailand, assiduously avoiding any hint of the snows under which he was weaned in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. |
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