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.

'SICILIAN CARD GAMES an easy-to-follow guide' gives very clear instructions for twelve Sicilian card games, with photographic illustrations. It is the ONLY book of Sicilian card games in print worldwide. Sicily has its own unique deck of playing cards, and a wealth of games exclusive to the island. PACKS OF SICILIAN PLAYING CARDS CAN BE ORDERED ON AMAZON.COM Card games are central to festivities at Christmas, Easter and other family gatherings. Some games are hilarious, and simple enough to be enjoyed by young children yet a great way to make them practise mental arithmetic. Other games are quite challenging. Most village squares have a full-time squadron of old men who play outdoors, smacking their winning cards down like a butcher with a meat cleaver. The games in the book are: Buona sera Signorina, Cavalli, Cu cu , Camicia, Asino, Sette e Mezzo, Trentuno, Centocinque, Briscula, Tresette, Terziglio, Scopa. 'SICILIAN CARD GAMES an easy-to-follow guide' includes an interesting explanation of the origins of Sicilian playing cards. This book makes an entertaining and economical gift for all ages."

This text offers instructors everything they need in a course for new students or experienced players who want to learn modern bridge. Bridge Students:

"Modern Bridge" carefully explains the rationale and principles behind each bidding and play guideline. Most books merely present these guidelines as facts. This understanding will make it easier to remember the guidelines. You will be better prepared to handle the enormous number of different situations that cannot be covered in any text.

After just seven chapters you'll be ready to start playing in most social bridge settings. The last half of the book introduces you to more sophisticated material which prepares you to play with more experienced players. Exercises appear after each new topic so you can ensure that you understand before going on to the next topic. Experienced Players:

This is your opportunity to learn the current American standard the right way - with real understanding of the various bidding and play guidelines. Each chapter contains more than the basic material. The last seven chapters cover more advanced topics such as cue bids, slam bidding, and related conventions. Bridge Instructors:

"Modern Bridge" contains all of the ingredients you need for your class: a great text for your students, sample hands to exercise the topics you just introduced, and lesson plans you can shape to your own style of teaching. Four complete hands with bidding and play commentary (or more appropriate exercises in a few cases) are included at the end of each chapter. Lesson plans for each chapter are available for download. You can use them as they are or modify them to suit your preference.

The larger-than-life true tale of how a few frat brothers from Montana turned a weekly poker game in a dive bar into one of the most lucrative online companies in history

ased on extensive insider interviews, Ben Mezrich--bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House--chronicles the creation of AbsolutePoker.com, including the company's initial operations in the jungle paradise of Costa Rica where its founders lived an outrageous lifestyle of girls, parties, and money; and of the gray area of U.S. and international law in which they created an industry. Soon, the U. S. Department of Justice was gunning for them. . . . Should they fold--or double down and ride their hot hand? Impossible to put down, Straight Flush is an exclusive, never-before-seen look at one of the wildest business stories of the Internet age.

Winning Legal Online Poker teaches those who play or want to play online poker how to turn a consistent profit with their online poker play - on sites that are legally available from the U.S. Proven by thousands of amateurs prior to and since publication, Winning Legal Online Poker includes the exclusive "19 Hand Hold 'em" Mastery system and a Quick Start Play Chart to use while playing online. This chart covers pre-flop through river play in one easy to read chart Winning Legal Online Poker is one of the few proven "fast track" methods for online poker success.

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.

'Life's tough being an ace.' On everyone's list of all-time favorite bridge books is Right Through the Pack by Robert Darvas and Norman Hart. Published just after the end of World War II, the book presents 52 tales using exquisite deals, one for each of the cards in the deck. Now, decades later, Julian Pottage has collected 104 deals - two for each card in the pack. He presents each story through the eyes of the cards, paying homage to Darvas and Hart. Keeping the intermediate bridge player in mind, Pottage takes extra care to have the cards educate while entertaining the reader. "The deals are excellent and the setting pleasantly reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland." - David Bird

Texas hold'em poker skills include the things that for success in this game a player should know, starting hands he should not play, actions he can take, methods or tactics he can use, things he can do, things he should not do, plays or strategies he can follow, points he should know and remember, situations he should avoid, points he should pay attention to, things he should not do, selections he can make, numbers he should remember, places he should not play at, calculations he should make, players he should not play with, reactions he should carefully watch, etc. In this book many of these skills are each individually explained and discussed under a separate number.

A four-lesson course on declarer play designed for true beginners. If your students are ready to get more serious about their declarer play, this course is the perfect 'how to' guide. Students will find that it is surprisingly easy to: * Count winning and losing tricks. * Master three basic techniques for eliminating losers. * Manage entries. * Set priorities. What to do first, second, and so on? * Plan the play. This Teacher's Manual will make your job easy. It's a virtual script for the four lessons found in Playing a Bridge Hand: Just the Basics, and includes table-top examples and practice deals for students.

Are you a lucky player ? It is no co-incidence that the best players are lucky players. You can become a "better" player by improving your bidding system with your partner and by improving your play technique, however this will not make you a lucky player. How can you become a lucky player and a winner? In this book, illustrated with hands from actual play, the author demonstrates how to become a lucky player. Lucky players evaluate their trick winning potential, recognise and grab opportunities, maximizing their score over all the likely distributions of the cards.

This is the greatest bridge problem collection ever Any Questions? Julian Pottage has developed a well-earned reputation as a great problem constructor. His answers are sharp, to the point, and usually make you say, "of course." Problem collections usually contain 50-100 deals. This one has almost 200, each fresher than the last. Try one problem each night before you go to bed. No sleeping until you get it right.

Julian is an Associate Editor for Mr. Bridge, publisher of "Bridge" and contributes to many bridge magazines.

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.

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.

1NT Forcing is the keystone to the 2/1 Game Force system of bidding. It is the one convention you should learn going forward.

Use Unusual vs. Unusual to combat the advantages that your opponents gain when using Unusual 2NT to interfere in your auctions.

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There are over 1001 basic strategy drills to test your knowledge . Every drill and question in this book is presented visually to help you memorize the basic strategy rules. It is organized into specific sections for hard hands, soft hands, and pairs. In just a short time you will be a master of basic strategy, and will be able to decide what every player at the table should do for every hand dealt.

In addition to clearly stating the rules of basic strategy, this book presents practice drills and exercises which will reinforce your learning. The visual exercises will feel like you are sitting at the blackjack table with the dealer, looking at real cards, and playing real blackjack.

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Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a number of useful conventions, explaining them carefully along with numerous examples and quizzes to help the reader understand what is being learned. Included in this book: Strong Hands, Reverses, Jump Shifts, 2NT Rebids by Opener, Strong 2C and 2D Waiting, Cuebidding Controls, Gerber, Blackwood and Practice Hands. PATTY TUCKER (Dunwoody, Georgia) is an ABTA Master Bridge Teacher and co-founder of Whirlwind Bridge and Atlanta Junior Bridge. Her success at the bridge table culminated in her victory in the 2000 Baldwin Flight A North American Open Pairs with long-time bridge partner Kevin Collins. Patty and Kevin were married in 2006.

THE WINNING BRIDGE CONVENTIONS SERIES Competitive Bidding Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a number of useful conventions, explaining them carefully along with numerous examples and quizzes to help the reader understand what is being learned. Included in this book: Weak Two Bids, Preemptive Bidding, Michaels Cuebid, Unusual 2NT, Sandwich NT, Unusual vs. Unusual, Cuebidding in Competitive Auctions and Good/Bad 2NT. PATTY TUCKER (Dunwoody, Georgia) is an ABTA Master Bridge Teacher and co-founder of Whirlwind Bridge and Atlanta Junior Bridge. Her success at the bridge table culminated in her victory in the 2000 Baldwin Flight A North American Open Pairs with long-time bridge partner Kevin Collins. Patty and Kevin were married in 2006.

Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a number of useful conventions, explaining them carefully along with numerous examples and quizzes to help the reader understand what is being learned. Included in this book: Forcing NT, Inverted Minors, Two-Way Checkback, Fourth Suit Forcing and 2/1 Review Hands. PATTY TUCKER (Dunwoody, Georgia) is an ABTA Master Bridge Teacher and co-founder of Whirlwind Bridge and Atlanta Junior Bridge. Her success at the bridge table culminated in her victory in the 2000 Baldwin Flight A North American Open Pairs with long-time bridge partner Kevin Collins. Patty and Kevin were married in 2006.

Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a number of useful conventions, explaining them carefully along with numerous examples and quizzes to help the reader understand what is being learned. Included in this book: Serious 3NT, Cuebidding Controls, Roman Key Card Blackwood (with Specific Kings) and Kickback Key Card. PATTY TUCKER (Dunwoody, Georgia) is an ABTA Master Bridge Teacher and co-founder of Whirlwind Bridge and Atlanta Junior Bridge. Her success at the bridge table culminated in her victory in the 2000 Baldwin Flight A North American Open Pairs with long-time bridge partner Kevin Collins. Patty and Kevin were married in 2006.

ADVANCED / EXPERT Anybody can make straightforward contracts. THE ART OF DECLARER PLAY is about how to handle the rest. If you already have a good grasp of declarer-play technique, the blocking and unblocking plays, the eliminations and the squeezes, then this is the book for you. Bourke and Corfield begin where most of the other books finish, and reveal what goes on inside the mind of an expert, explaining how to anticipate the likely distribution, how to use logic and visualization, how to listen to the cards, and many other ways to make 'impossible' contracts. By understanding the thought processes that lead to a successful strategy in the most challenging of contracts, you will be able to replicate them for yourself, and bid with the confidence that comes from expert-level declarer play. If you want your cardplay to improve out of all recognition, If you want to learn the secrets of expert-level technique, If you are not afraid to challenge yourself, Then read on...