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For everyone who plays - or is interested in the international
phenomenon that is the world of bridge In RIGHT THROUGH THE PACK
AGAIN, joint winner of the INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE PRESS
ASSOCIATIONS'S 2009 BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, each card tells the
story of its importance in a particular deal and in so doing the
book pays homage to the original concept in the bridge classic
RIGHT THROUGH THE PACK. The Old Master is in a coma and the cards
attempt to bring him back to consciousness, to revive him with
their tales of derring-do. Not only are the deals themselves
entertaining, but they are instructive too. You can test yourself
on the problems and then go to the solution later in the book and
thus improve your own game.
This new "Fast Fact Finder" provides memory - aids for use in bidding and play. It also gives the key numerical rules, which guide players in specific bidding and play situations, an example being the Rule of Eleven used in card play after an opening lead. This flipper has a very wide appeal and should have a considerable continuing sale to bridge players.
UNHOLY TRICKS by Terence Reese and David Bird is a further
collection of bridge tales involving the eccentric monks of St
Titus. In addition to their usual rubber bridge games - and they
play for surprisingly high stakes at the monastery - the monks
become involved in duplicate matches against nuns, visiting
Italians and even the local police.
Considered by many magicians and card sharps to be the one essential guidebook to attaining the highest level of card mastery. Includes author's own systems of false shuffling, false riffling and cutting, dealing from the bottom, palming cards, "skinning the hand"-even three-card monte, plus 14 dazzling card tricks.
Bridge is not difficult once you have jumped the first hurdle, but
that can seem imposing to anyone who hasn't a clue about Bridge or
card games in general. This book strips away the mystery and
presents the basics in a wonderfully clear and concise way. It
explains everything that is needed to understand the game. In less
time than you would imagine you could be playing the wonderfully
entertaining game of Bridge with your friends and family. Written
in a way that is very easy to follow, this book provides the reader
with a very hands on approach to learning the rules and flow of the
game. It is a brilliantly simple read and it provides the
information a player needs to get started playing.
The title says it all. But to provide some background you need to
know that Casino gaming is growing exponentially today. And it's
not Roulette, Baccarat or the traditional games that are being
played. It is Poker and the even more popular Blackjack that are
the big attractions. It's a numbers game and its mathematics are at
the root of winning. So statistics and probability are in the weave
of the text and exciting to the number nuts among us. This title
includes such contents as: Mathematics - Gaming and Blackjack;
Advantage Components; Expert Conclusions - Thorpe, Scarne, Arnold
and Others; The Best Strategy; Two-card Combinations: from the 52
card deck - 1326 hands; Mathematical Distribution - Expectations of
dealer and player over 100,000 hands each; For Dealer and Player -
The expected games analysis, every option analysed; Advanced
Staking; Probability Theory - The misleading fallacy; The Dealer's
Face-up - And all it portends; Comprehensive Tables - Cover every
situation; and, Destroying the Fallacies - Hole-card cheating - The
card counter.
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