In the study of sound waves and optics, the term transmission loss refers to how a signal grows weaker as it travels across distance and between objects. In this book, Chelsea Jennings reimagines the term in poems that register attenuated signals, mark presence and loss, and treat the body as an instrument sensitive to the weather of immediate experience. Threading together landscapes, abstract paintings, family heirlooms, maps, manuscripts, and photographs, these poems follow the seasons and traverse the spectrum of visible light. Vivid and precise, Transmission Loss brings us to the boundary between inside and outside, ""As if what the hand knows / could be held in the hand.

Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott has taken the poker world by storm since beginning to play at the age of 16. A world-class player, he is one of the most feared players on the ever-burgeoning global poker circuit. The Devilfish is a working-class man from Hull who was a petty criminal at 16, a safe-breaker who spent his 21st birthday in prison, and then a pawnbroker in Hull who's turned his gambling hobby into a hugely lucrative career. Dave Ulliott was the first British player to win a $500,000 poker event in the US, won the first Late Night Poker series on Channel 4, and is the face of Ultimatebet.com, one of the biggest online poker sites. This powerful and revealing book uncovers the amazing world of professional poker in Britain, and for the first time tells the extraordinary stories of the country's top poker professionals. It is a must-read for anyone who is part of, or fascinated by, the growth of professional poker from yesterday's illegal back-street card games to the cyberspace and television phenomenon of today.

Test Your Skills with real-game situations!
Includes bonus chart of which starting hands win the most!
The Illustrated Guide to Texas Hold?em takes you from novice to skilled player fast. This low-limit Texas Hold?em book puts you in the game, giving you actual situations where a decision must be made, and you make the next move.
Author and former gambling pro Dennis Purdy shows you the right answer to each hand with a clear explanation about whether you chose correctly-or not.
Whether you?re an absolute beginner or an experienced player looking to hone your skills, The Illustrated Guide to Texas Hold?em will have you betting smarter-and winning more money-in no time!
Dennis Purdy moved to Las Vegas at the age of 25 to undertake a career as a professional gambler. Although he retired from full-time professional gambling in 1983, he still uses his skills to supplement his income. Dennis lives in Tacoma, Washington.

This is a practical guide to improving your game. It is a comprehensive guide to every aspect of playing bridge at both intermediate and advanced level. It offers world-class instruction and advice from David Bird, with more than 250 clear photographs and diagrams. It describes the history of world bridge championships, and the players who have popularized and developed the game we know today, including Terence Reese, Charles Goren and Omar Sharif. This is an expertly presented guide for players of all levels, written by one of the world's leading bridge writers. Biographies of the world's most famous players detail their contributions to the game, passing on their top tips for good play, alongside many entertaining anecdotes. Here is an essential source of reference points, with sample deals, tips and professional strategies for intermediate and high-level players. There is a history of the game of bridge that will interest every reader. This is a book with a practical focus on how to play bridge and improve your game, whatever your level, from skills to tactics, both in bidding and card play.

The Russian language edition of Reading Poker Tells, which has been described as the best book on the subject of poker tells. There are physical and verbal tells in every live poker game. Knowing how to recognize and understand these tells can give you a significant edge on the competition. This book will teach you how to analyze opponents' physical gestures, facial expressions, body posture, and verbal statements for clues about their hand strength. This book includes: The common poker tells shown by amateurs The more subtle tells that some experienced players may have Situations where tells are likely to be displayed Common verbal statements and their likely meanings A practical way to categorize and remember tells Methods of psychological manipulation and deception How to recognize and avoid angle-shooting Strategies for becoming unreadable

Le mental est peut-etre encore plus important au poker que dans n'importe quelle autre forme de competition. C'est un des seuls jeux au monde ou vous pouvez jouer parfaitement et perdre - encore et encore. Des centaines de joueurs de poker se sont tournes vers le coach mental Jared Tendler et son approche revolutionnaire pour les aider a jouer leur meilleur poker, quelle que soit l'intensite de leur bad run. Dans ce livre vous trouverez des instructions simples, "etape par etape," ainsi que des techniques prouvees permettant de resoudre de facon permanente des problemes comme le tilt, faire face a la variance, le controle emotionnel, la confiance, la peur et la motivation. Les parties devenant de plus en plus difficiles, il est temps d'aborder ces problemes de front. Decouvrez le travail sur le tilt le plus abouti qui ait jamais ete fait. Lisez les temoignages de huit joueurs qui ont fait des progressions majeures en utilisant les techniques de Jared. Motivez-vous avec des methodes utilisees par des SuperNova Elites. "

Like the author's first book (A First Book of Bridge Problems, named Book of the Year for 2011 by the American Bridge Teachers Association), this sequel comprises 50 problems in declarer play and defence for the beginning or near-beginning player, presented in approximate order of difficulty. The problems are slightly more advanced than those in the first book. Experienced players recognize certain standard situations without having to work them out. This does not apply to novices who spend a lot of mental effort on them. The aim of the book is to get novices to develop their recognition of these situations. The idea is to present bridge hands as the reader would encounter them playing at the table. Unlike in a textbook, where topics are introduced systematically, there is no clue as to what type of play is required.