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This colourful card game is the perfect gift for lovers of card
games with an eye for design. Chances are you have played
'shithead' sometimes. Mezza is a quirky and fun variation of this
popular card game: a game that requires you to be fast, dynamic and
strategic. Discard all the cards in your hand as fast as possible,
start playing your face up cards and become the first to get rid of
your cards! This variation has an exciting new element: the unique
1/2 card ('mezza' means 'half' in Italian) is key. It is the lowest
card in the game, in a combination it can suddenly become the
highest. Play Mezza in a group of 2 to 5 and dazzle your opponents
with tactics and speed.
What are the hallmarks of the expert player? Why do some players
appear regularly at the top, winning rubber after rubber? By
studying the techniques involved, you will be able to develop your
skills in card-reading and card sense, mental rehearsal, the
application of logic, mental concentration and relaxation, the
assessment of probabilities, imaginative defence and when to employ
deceptive plays - all are considered and used by the expert mind to
achieve above-average results.
Create the longest line, flip your opponent's plan or just enjoy
the puzzle: it's up to you to choose a winning strategy. Each card
in the game is unique, so it's not easy to form the longest line.
Win or lose, you always create a compelling pattern with Linjaa.
Linjaa is a multi-player edge-matching game. When adding a new card
to the playing field, you gather points when finishing a line or a
'circle'. Cards can only be combined when the lines on your card
match the lines on the cards already in the field. Concentrate on
your own plan or sabotage the plans of your fellow players: it's up
to you to choose which line to take. Whoever succeeds in finishing
the most and the longest lines, wins the game.
So, you want to get better at poker? You are committed to this and
you are prepared to spend time on it. You ask advice and what do
people tell you? Probably something along the lines of "just keep
working on it and you'll get there." ----- This is wrong. "Just
working on it" will not help you. Randomly analysing hands,
watching poker on TV or vaguely looking at equity equations won't
cut it. The only approach that will work is the right sort of
practice based on a relatively new area of psychological
investigation - the science of expertise. ----- This book
identifies precisely what this "right sort of practice" entails. It
is based around what has become known as purposeful practice.
Purposeful practice is the gold standard for anyone who wishes to
take full advantage of the remarkable adaptability of the human
brain and is the fast track route to improving your poker skills.
----- This book will give you: ------ * A clear theoretical
understanding of the science of purposeful practice - * Numerous
techniques by which this can be adapted to improvement at poker - *
Specific exercises designed to create an infallible Plan for Poker
Improvement
The official book of the 2021 World Bridge Championships in
Salsomaggiore, Italy, will be published to coincide with the start
of the 2022 World Bridge Series in Wroclaw. The principal
contributors are Brian Senior, Barry Rigel, Mark Horton, Marek
Wojcicki, Daniel Gulyas and Ron Tacchi. The book is in full colour
thoughout, featuring many photographs from the championships,
sample hands and games, a full list of results and extensive
coverage of the major championship events.
In Bob Mackinnon's bestseller, 'Bridge, Probability and
Information', he drew on his professional background in mathematics
to introduce readers to the mysteries of information theory and
Bayes Theorem, and their surprisingly practical applications for
bridge players. In this sequel, he takes these same ideas further,
exploring the application of the concepts of conditional
probability to opening leads, declarer play, bidding theory, and
the correct strategy at different forms of scoring.
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