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Books > Sport & Leisure > Hobbies, quizzes & games > Indoor games > Card games
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.
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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.
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