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Books > Sport & Leisure > Hobbies, quizzes & games > Indoor games > Card games
In bridge, a 'falsecard' is a card that is played in attempt to
deceive one or more players at the table. Falsecards are not
unethical. You can falsecard as much as you want, although prudence
is invariably the golden rule for success. The only type of
falsecarding that is banned is purposeful falsecarding that a
partnership has agreed to use in certain situations. This is the
definitive book on (legally) pulling the wool over your opponents'
eyes. There are times at the bridge table when playing a misleading
card is essential if you are to have any chance of an optimum
result. This new edition of a classic bridge book from Mike
Lawrence includes a number of ideas that are new since it was
originally published. Skill Level: Intermediate / Advanced. Revised
and updated for the first time in 20 years.
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.
Seagram and Bird's previous book Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand
(ISBN 978 1897106 51 8; August 2009) was named Book of the Year in
2010 by the American Bridge Teachers' Association. It introduced
the basic concepts of how to go about making a plan as declarer for
beginning and improving players, and is a popular text for bridge
teachers. This sequel extends the plan to more complex situations,
and covers ideas such as safety plays, avoidance play, trump
control, dummy reversal, and endplays. It will appeal to players
who have a good grasp of the basics of declarer play, and are
looking to improve from there.
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.
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