"According to Hoyle" is the card-table synonym for Correct --a definitive guide to the correct playing of all known card games, with full descriptions and explanations of rules and techniques for each game and its variations.

B & W photographs throughout.

Casino games and traditional card games have rich and idiosyncratic histories, complex subcultures and player practices, and facilitate the flow of billions of dollars each year through casinos and card rooms, and between professional players and amateurs. They have nevertheless been overlooked by game scholars due to the negative ethical weight of “gambling” – with such games pathologized and labelled as deviance or mental illness, few look beyond to unpick the games, their players, and their communities. The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader offers 25 chapters studying the communities playing these games, the distinctive cultures and practices that have emerged around them, their activities and beliefs and interpersonal relationships, and how these games influence – both positively and negatively – the lives and careers of millions of game players around the world. It is the first of a new series of edited collections, Play Beyond the Computer, dedicated to exploring the play of games beyond computers and games consoles.

Teaches how to play Texas Hold 'Em Poker for beginners. This title contains terms, definitions, etiquette and rules and shows how poker hands are ranked. It helps you to understand your chances, appreciate the percentages, and master the odds so that your hand improves.

A winning strategy for the game of 21. The essentials, consolidated in simple charts, can be understood and memorized by the average player.

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.