A follow-up to the perennial best-seller, 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know, which has sold almost 35,000 copies and has been translated into French, German and Japanese, and won the American Bridge Teachers' Book of the Year Award in 1999. This book uses the same successful format as its predecessor, and will appeal to those who liked the original so much.

The aim of this book is to describe a complete and coherent method of partnership bidding after the opening bidder has announced a balanced hand. Balanced hands are more common than unbalanced hands, so it is important to be able to describe them accurately and efficiently - to show their precise strength and distribution. The scheme proposed here is independent of your bidding system, and so it can be adopted whether you play a natural system such as Acol or Standard American, or a Strong Club system or something more exotic.;Target Market : This title is aimed at the strong improving players and experts.

Using the same format as The Pocket Guide to Bridge, this book will provide a handy pocket summary of the popular SAYC (Standard American Yellow Card) bidding system. In a concise but readable manner, it goes over the basic ideas of SAYC, which is the most popular natural system for online bridge players around the world. The contents are based on Standard Bidding with SAYC, by the same authors.

Shake, stir - or shuffle? Step up to the bar and order your favourite drinks in this cheerful game of cocktails. Collect illustrated cards of 52 iconic drinks and group them into sets of four to win. Perfect for cocktail parties and games nights, Happy Hour also includes short histories and full recipes for each of the 52 drinks. Cheers!

Eddie Kantar's various beginner books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies in ten different languages, not least because of his unique style and the humor that he introduces into the learning process. Modern Bridge Defense is intended to cover the basic concepts of bridge defense, and will undoubtedly be a standard teaching tool and reference work for the next quarter-century. The topics covered here (leads, signaling, second- and third-hand play, and discarding) are handled so thoroughly that even more advanced players will benefit from studying this book. Designed to be used by bridge teachers, or by students learning on their own, this book contains a host of features that help the student to grasp the material: clearly laid-out concepts, margin notes, practice hands, chapter-end quizzes, key-point summaries at regular intervals, and an index. It is intended to be read before the companion volume, Eddie Kantar Teaches Advanced Bridge Defense.

Video poker is one of the hottest games to hit the casino floor! Flashing screens entice players to try their luck at drawing winning card combinations. Although most people believe that winning is a matter of hit or miss, there is actually more to mastering these machines than the luck of the draw. Now author Linda Boyd has written "The Video Poker Edge--a detailed user-friendly guide to help you gain the winning edge over video poker machines. "The Video Poker Edge begins by explaining the basics of video poker. It then presents sound mathematical strategies tailored to each game's specific probability. Throughout the book, full-color illustrations clarify the recommended tactics for various card hands. As an added bonus, the author has included handy strategy cards with valuable tips. These cards can be removed from the book and taken along to the casino for reference during play. If you want the inside info on which video poker games provide the most bang for your buck--if you want to minimize your risk and maximize your winnings--"The Video Poker Edge will revolutionize your video poker experience.

Play Cards and Learn to Identify Birds in the Northeastern United States! Anyone who enjoys nature, wildlife, and the great outdoors will love these cards for playing your favorite games or to use as flash cards. Inspired by Stan Tekiela's popular Bird Identification Guides, this gorgeous deck of playing cards features stylized photographs of 54 of the most fascinating bird species in the Northeastern states of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont, as well as Washington, DC. Each card depicts stylized photographs of such birds as the Northern Cardinal, Indigo Bunting, Bald Eagle, and more--so you can begin to learn what 54 different species look like. Card Features 54 of the most notable bird species Stylized photograph on every card Ideal for card games or as flash cards Play games like blackjack, poker, rummy, and solitaire while learning more about birding. Get Birds of the Northeast Playing Cards for yourself, and you can also give this deck of cards as a fun and thoughtful gift.

Just about every bridge player over forty has read Victor Mollo's Bridge in the Menagerie, a book that is on any list of the all-time top ten on the game. Towards the end of his life, Mollo continued to write stories about the same well-loved characters (Hideous Hog, Rueful Rabbit, Oscar the Owl and the rest), but they appeared in various magazines around the world, and if you weren't a subscriber, you didn't get to read them. This is the fourth and final collection of these lost Menagerie gems, collected for the first time in book form. Previous titles in this series: Bridge in the Menagerie; The Hog Takes To The Precision; Diamonds are the Hog's Best Friend; Swings and Arrows.

Mozaa is a colorful combination between domino and mosaic. It is the edge matching game that brings out the artist in you. The box contains sixy-four cards, which all have a unique color combination. Take a playing card from the stack and place it next to the cards on the table, in such a way that the colors on the edges match. The one who creates the most and largest color fields wins the game.

A playing card deck by Linda Runyon, with photos and descriptions of 52 different edible plants. Ideal for hikers, campers, survival experts, and gourmet cooks. Includes plastic belt ring for easy portability.

Your favourite characters from Dunder Mifflin Paper Company have assembled to appear on this unofficial deck of high-quality playing cards. If you don't love The Office, the chances are you don't actually have a pulse and should seek immediate medical treatment. It's the greatest sitcom ever made, period. That's why we're making these celebratory (and practical) playing cards, to immortalise our undying love for The Office. Printed on high-quality card material, this deck is a standard poker set, with the four classic suits. Each suit celebrates our favourite The Office characters. Regional Manager Dwight Schrute is spades; the lovebirds Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly represent clubs; Ryan Howard takes diamonds; and Michael Scott is hearts because, well, we just love to love him. But of course, it's Creed Bratton himself who is the joker of the deck.

This is a comprehensive handbook to over 250 card games from beginner to more advanced levels of play. It includes games from all over the world, such as Blackjack, Boonaken, French Tarot, Bid Whist, Crazy Eights and Schwimmen. It clearly and simply guides new players through the rules and strategies of play, with fascinating insights into the history and development of the game. The games are grouped logically, so it is easy to find fun family games as well as advanced games. The straightforward illustrations provide an invaluable visual guide, making it simple to follow the rules and quickly get started on each new game. It is beautifully illustrated with more than 1200 colour photographs and diagrams. This expertly presented book gives all the information needed to begin playing cards, with advice on the rules and strategies of over 250 games. The first section, Card Games, covers fun games for families and friends such as Six-Card Cribbage as well as advanced games, such as Brag. The second section, Poker, guides you through all the basic information needed to begin playing poker. This section outlines the recent origins of poker as part of the colourful American Wild West culture, along with memorable games and notable players. For every game there is a complete explanation of the type of pack required, ideal age, playing and scoring, and plenty of diagrams of sample games in play to make the instructions easy to follow.

Audrey Grant does it again with an amazing new book, Popular Conventions, the third book in the series, covers everything from playing at a party table to a tournament table. Popular Conventions teaches you the core conventions that will strengthen your game for sure. It introduces you to the Stayman convetions, Jacoby transfer bids, the strong artificial two club opening, Blackwood and Gerber. This book gives you a chance to get ahead and win!

Poker is the ultimate game of skill, bluff, deception and luck. This practical professional book provides all the information the intermediate player needs to beat the odds and improve their game.

The fun and easy way to take poker online Five years ago, 50 million people were playing poker recreationally or professionally. Now that number is more than 100 million, including a huge influx of young people. Online betting is up nearly four-fold over the past year, with total wagers running over USD30 billion. Winning at Internet Poker For Dummies provides the lowdown on the hottest game around, highlighting the best sites and virtual games and showing how to make secure online bets. The book covers setting up an account, securing funds, navigating a basic online poker game, using Internet abbreviations and lingo, observing online poker etiquette, playing popular online poker games such as Texas Hold 'Em and Omaha, devising a winning strategy, and participating in tournaments. Mark "The Red" Harlan (Santa Clara, CA) is cofounder of CyberArts Licensing, a company working on the next-generation Internet poker room, gamesgrid.com. During the course of his 20-year Silicon Valley career, he designed eBay's bidding schema, was the Human Interface Evangelist at Apple Computer, and wrote the popular "Notes from the Fringe" column at InfoWorld.; Chris Derossi (Henderson, NV) is also a co

First published in 1988, this book has been out of print for several years. It's a mystery and a bridge textbook all in one, and accomplishes both exceptionally well. Based on the author's own experiences, and set in and around a Manhattan bridge club, the story includes many real-life characters whose names will be familiar to readers. First in a set that includes I Shot my Bridge Partner.