A guide for beginner and intermediate players to practical wisdom at the poker table

Financial literacy is about much more than balancing a checkbook or understanding a credit card statement. It is the ability to make informed financial decisions throughout one's life. It includes budgeting, saving, investing, understanding debt, recognizing financial risk, protecting against fraud, planning for retirement, and appreciating the power of compound interest. These are life skills every graduate will need regardless of career choice.

Nick "Coach" Wallace never wanted to be an ambassador. He's a retired high school football coach and former Marine who came to the Bahamas with his sons, Ray and Darren, on their sport fishing boat Tiburon. When a survivor from a sunken refugee boat showed up on the dock, that changed everything. Sol de la Torre's testimony exposed a U.S. military operation that blew up a dozen boats and killed at least sixty innocent people. As Nick helped bring that tragedy to justice, he gained favor wi...

In all of sportfishing, Isla Mujeres on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico stands out, not only for its abundance of pelagic and reef species, but also as a location with an interesting history dating back thousands of years.Today Mexico is a rare jewel in the western hemisphere. It has an educated population, much industry, a skilled work force, and natural resources in unimaginable abundance. Among Mexico's most precious resources is the pristine water surrounding it on its east and...

How angry do parents become when their children are at risk from dangerous behavior their kids get into on account of bad associations? It is beyond description. Parents will do anything to kep their children safe. In The Fathers Club, four fathers with the help of a sympathetiic badass sheriff take the law into their own hands when the system lets them down. Just because a crooked judge doesn't want to act, does not mean these angry fathers are without remedies. At times they have to give...

This book may have created a word record for me. I got up one morning and said to myself I want to write a book, edit it, and format it all in one day. But that would be impossible without the help of AI. So I decided on a book of poetry where I would give a subject to ChatGPT and tell it to write a poem. I spent more time deciding on subjects for the machine to write about than the machine took to write the poems. From the introduction to the end, and every page in between was created by ...

Will Tanner spent a couple of million dollars to buy Wave Dancer, a luxury sport fishing boat, but he doesn't know the first thing about fishing or yachts. And he hired Reginald Cordelle, the most incompetent, unscrupulous captain in all of the Bahamas Islands to run it. What else Will does not know is that Cordelle has been approached by international arms smugglers to use Wave Dancer to smuggle very dangerous weapons from Lucaya in Grand Bahamas Island, to an offshore pick-up. But Will c...

In the American criminal justice system thousands of men and women who have broken no laws have been put away and forgotten. Many of these inmates are talented individuals who have contributed much to society. Doctors, artists, professors, businessmen, philanthropists, musicians, attorneys, and people of many other professions, have been wrongly accused and convicted. These men and women ran businesses, employed workers, paid taxes, provided health insurance and retirement plans for many, ...

Kona Kai- When Max Carson agreed to have his boat, Bimini Twist, ferried over to the Hawaiian Islands on board the luxury yacht Felicity, he was expecting to enjoy the summer with his boys P.J. and Gaffer, fishing in the quiet waters off Kona, the blue marlin and yellowfin capital of the world. And in fact the fishing action was everything they expected. Mahimahi, yellowfin tuna and several varieties of marlin were their constant hook-ups in this sport fisherman's paradise. And the new fri...

Only a day trader can understand the adrenaline rush that comes from jumping in and out of the market all day long, watching instantaneous stock prices stream across the computer screen, taking a position and minutes later dumping it. They live a life of high-octane excitement, shaving an eighth of a point here, six cents there, and hoping to finish the day ahead of where they started. Nick Anthony is the owner of a firm in San Diego called Market Makers, where he rents out work stations t...

When young Gaffer Carson takes a temporary job as the captain of the luxurious fishing machine, Wave Dancer, he has no way of knowing that Reginald Cordelle, the previous skipper, was involved in a plot to smuggle weapons from the Bahamas Islands to the coast of Florida. Through some fancy maneuvering between Will Tanner, the yacht’s owner, and the Royal Bahamas Defense Force, Cordelle is reinstated as captain of Wave Dancer. This conspiracy between Tanner and the Defense Force is a setup ...

To be recognized as a living legend a person would certainly have to do something very special. In any profession the legendary players use skill, brains, determination and what luck is handed to them to rise above all others in their field of endeavor. In very few instances could the road to greatness be more difficult to achieve than in the sport/business of big game fishing. Enthusiasts in this sport know all the big names, and the biggest of them have come together to create chapters o...