How hard are you prepared to work to improve your No Limit Holdem?The Education of a Modern Poker Player documents the efforts of a serious amateur as he pursues his ambition of rising through the stakes from NL10 (10 game) to NL100 (100 game) and beyond.John Billingham is an English maths professor, and a keen player of games. In the summer of 2009 he discovered online poker and was hooked. A year later he decided to trick a couple of impressionable young poker pr...

From a semi-professional poker player, a guide to playing and winning the biggest game in town.If you’ve never tried Pot-Limit Omaha, you’re missing out on the most exciting, most lucrative cash game around. Omaha has long been the most popular form of poker in Europe, and now it’s spreading like wildfire throughout North America. The reason is simple: Omaha offers more action and bigger pots than Texas Hold ‘em. Isn’t it time you got in on it?...

What are the odds of winning at poker if you don't know the odds in poker?Practical Poker Math provides a complete andeasy-to-understand explanation of the basic odds, probabilities andexpectations in Hold'Em and Omaha. All the formulations are completelyopen and are demonstrated via easy-to-follow, colour-codedcalculations.Pat Dittmar has aimed this book at beginning throughsemi-pro players who want to improve their results and who know that thereis not much chance of improvement without ...

Tournament poker is a tough game to play, but the rewards for success can be huge. Even regular online tournaments offer substantial prizes running to hundreds of thousands of dollars.If you want to win big at the tables, then you must buy this book.In "Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker: Volume 1," you will learn the fundamentals of play and how to handle varying stack sizes. You will learn:Why tournaments are the most profitable form of poker...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD • This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits.“Few [books] become essential manuals for business and living. The Power of Habit is an exception.”—Financial TimesA WALL STREET JOURNAL AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn The Power of Habit, award-winning busines...

Now a major motion picture, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin and starring Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, and Michael Cera—the true story of "Hollywood’s poker princess" who gambled everything, won big, then lost it all.Molly Bloom reveals how she built one of the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the world for the Hollywood elite and Wall Street titans—an insider’s story of excess and danger, glamour and greed.In the l...

Catering specifically to no-limit Texas Hold Em sit-n-go (SNG) online poker players, this is the essential guide for those looking to master the game without having to learn complex and confusing theories. Based on a group of university students' experience playing and winning at online poker, this handbook illustrates how to take a small initial investment and turn it into hundreds of thousands of dollars by following specific steps and guidelines. Instead of bogging players down in the m...

Rolf Slotboom and Rob Hollink join forces to produce THE definitive guide, to short-handed Pot-Limit Omaha (tables with six or fewer players).Do you know Pot-Limit Omaha is one of the fastest growing forms of poker?Do you know that the biggest games online (in money) are Short-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha?Rolf and Rob will tell you how to:Gauge the optimum size of the buy-inDecide whether to check-raise or bet into the raiserRepresent big...

The most complete guide ever to taking up poker and winningComprehensive and easy to follow, The Mammoth Book of Poker enables even those new to the game to begin and win at home, in casinos, in tournaments and online.Written by leading card games author Paul Mendelson, and packed with top tips, this invaluable new guide helps you understand your chances, appreciate the percentages, and master the odds that your hand improves.All aspects of...

Outperform The Competition At Any LevelIn Lessons from the Pro Poker Tour, David Apostolico explored the tournament strategies that have taken professionals like Doyle Brunson, T.J. Cloutier, and Billy Baxter to the very top. Now he shows you how to apply those advanced techniques and tactics to all kinds of no-limit hold'em tournaments--multi-table, single table, online, satellites, sit and go--so that you can win at every level in every arena, from freer...

Are you still stewing over last week's bad beat? Does the game you love raise your blood pressure? Do you cost yourself money with tilted bets?Painless Poker addresses these sources of poker pain and more. Tommy Angelo, esteemed author of Elements of Poker, reveals extreme pain from his own life and those of seven agitated players – and shows how to end that pain. Drawing on his 20 years as a professional poker player and elite coach, Angelo demonstrates effective...

Martha Frankel grew up in a warm, loving family of diehard gamblers, where her father?s poker games and her mother?s mah-jongg blended happily with big pots of delicious food and endless gossip. As kids, she and her cousins bet on everything?from which of their Weight Watching mothers would lose the most to who could hold their breath longest underwater or eat the most matzo. But once Frankel left for college and later became a successful entertainment journalist, gambling didn?t factor mu...