Cooke's Rules of Real Poker
Roy Cooke is generally acknowledged to be the most consistent hold'em player in the world in a career that spans over 30 years, and is a master of limit hold'em, having one of the best records over time at the middle limits. By his forty-fifth birthday, Roy had played some 60,000 hours of poker--sixteen years as a professional--from the Florida Keys to Puget Sound, from San Diego to New England, in bowling alleys, strip joints and private homes. But mostly he has played in the public cardrooms of Nevada, California and the Northwest. He has, since 1993, been a featured columnist for Card Player magazine. His first book, Real Poker, The Cooke Collection sold out. His second book Real Poker II, The Play of Hands is available from sellers of gambling books. He has three more books in development. He has also been a consultant to Planet Poker, the Internet poker site. Roy lives in Las Vegas with his wife Misty and daughter Krystle. Roy and Misty have a successful real estate and mortgage brokerage business. John Bond is a retired attorney and free-lance writer with thousands of hours in both private games and public cardrooms. He has also run private games. His travel articles are regularly featured in the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. He is a former weekly newspaper editor and real estate columnist for the Miami Herald and has his Master's in Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Florida International University. He has taught Creative Writing at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Florida International University in Miami, and Journalism at Nova University in Fort Lauderdale. He brings to this effort knowledge of how laws and regulations are written. He is currently at work on a novel and screenplay set in the poker world. John lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with his wife, Jeannie Deininger, and their two shih tzus, Mookie and Riley.