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Poker has never been more popular. It's played in all sorts of
places - in serious international tournaments, at the casino,
socially with friends and, of course, online. If you don't know how
to play it, you're missing out, and here's where this book comes
in! It gives you all the information you need to go off and play
your first poker game. In clear, easy-to-follow text, backed up
with helpful diagrams and amusing cartoons, and concentrating on
the most popular poker variant, Texas Hold 'Em, the author shows
you how to set up a game, how to bet (when to raise and when to
fold), the values of the different hands, and the different
versions of poker you can play. It also covers the essential
psychological skills used by the best players. Armed with the
information in this book, you'll become an expert poker player - in
extra-quick time!
*Fancy yourself as a bridge player? This essential little book will
show you how - in just 10 minutes. *Introduces the basic rules and
techniques for bidding, declarer play and defence. *Useful
bridge-table diagrams and quirky illustrations help the information
stick.Bridge can sometimes look incredibly complicated and opaque.
But that really isn't the case: it is a very easy game to learn. By
the time you've read this invaluable little book, you'll be
equipped with all the knowledge you need to take your partner and
play your first game. In clear, easy-to-follow text, backed up with
useful diagrams and illustrations, the author shows you exactly how
bridge works, including bidding, defence, declaring and trumps. The
book then goes on to more advanced strategies, including how to use
your opponent's bidding to your advantage, and discusses the finer
points of etiquette and conduct during a bridge game. Armed with
the information in this book, you can go on to become a star bridge
player - in double-quick time!
Always wanted to play chess but haven't much time to learn? This
dinky little book will show you how - in just 10 minutes. Covers
all the pieces and how they move, plus simple tips and tricks.
Informative chessboard diagrams and quirky illustrations help the
information stick. Most people think chess is a difficult game to
learn. But that really isn't the case. By the time you've read this
helpful little book, you'll have absorbed all the information you
need to know to go off and play your first game. In clear, simple,
humorous text, backed up with useful chessboard diagrams and
illustrations, the author shows you round the board, introduces the
pieces and how they move, and lets you into the secrets of special
moves such as castling. It finishes off with some invaluable advice
on how to marshal your troops and win the game: why you need to
avoid the sides of the boards, and how to see every threat as an
opportunity, and every opportunity as a a potential minefield.
Armed with the information in this book, you'll become a real chess
player - in super-quick time!
The classic board game backgammon has been called 'the perfect
combination of skill and luck'. It may look complicated on first
glance, but this absorbing, fun game really couldn't be simpler.
This helpful little book gives you all the information you need to
go off and play your first game. In clear, easy-to-follow text,
backed up with helpful board diagrams and illustrations, the author
shows you around the board, explains how to set up your checkers,
the basics of running, blocking and hitting, and an impressive
array of handy tips and hints to help you win the game. It also
covers how backgammon notation works, how to score and the best
places to play backgammon online. Armed with the information in
this book, you'll become an expert backgammon player - in
super-quick time!
A compilation of the funniest cartoons from the much-loved Chloe
& Co. Specially selected by Gray Joliffe, Chloe & Co
features many of his best laugh-out-loud cartoons. Featuring Chloe,
Angela and their friends, Chloe & Co enjoys a reputation for
being uniquely naughty for a national daily newspaper. Now in its
twentieth year, Chloe & Co appears each day in the Daily Mail
and is syndicated worldwide. CHLOE, twenty something, bachelor
girl, party girl, is more interested in 'Mr Right now' than looking
for Mr Right. A money-motivated shopaholic, she likes expensive
restaurants and drinking bubbly in bars with her girlfriends, loves
being a man magnet and thinks cooking is a town in China. ANGELA,
on the other hand, is intelligent, insecure, and usually into diets
and fads which never work. Her self-obsession and over-sensitivity
get in the way of her finding love with a nice man, and she resents
Chloe getting more than her fair share of food and fellas. Angela's
love life has gone missing.
From the worldwide phenomenon Sir Terry Pratchett, via the
unquestionable wisdom of the Amazing Maurice, herein is contained
everything you'll ever need to know to identify the real,
unadulterated cat. The Unadulterated Cat is becoming an endangered
species as more and more of us settle for those boring
mass-produced cats the Ad Men sell us - the pussies that purr into
their gold-plated food bowls on the telly. But the Campaign for
Real Cats sets out to change all that by helping us to recognise a
true, unadulterated cat when we see one. For example: real cats
have ears that look like they've been trimmed with pinking shears;
real cats never wear flea collars . . . or appear on Christmas
cards . . . or chase anything with a bell in it; real cats do eat
quiche. And giblets. And butter. And anything else left on the
table, if they think they can get away with it. Real cats can hear
a fridge door opening two rooms away . . . Featuring fifty
illustrations and artwork from the creative minds behind the
Amazing Maurice film, rediscover Sir Terry's wit and wisdom and
re-educate yourself on how to separate Real Cats from the riff
raff.
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