The Poker Player's Bible: Raise Your Game from Beginner to Winner
back cover copy* Poker is the most popular card game in the world. It melds knowledge of strategic principles with luck, probability, an ability to discern what kind of hand your opponent has and how he may choose to act on it, and the courage and conviction required to put your money where your mouth is.* Find out about the five most popular poker games played around the world, and master the skills and techniques that will give you the confidence to sit down at any poker game and win. Learn how to identify the best games to play in, which starting hands to hold and which to fold, how to figure the odds, when to play drawing hands and when to avoid them, and how to read and deceive your opponents with or without a poker face.* A ready-reference as well as a progressive tutorial, this is a book you can refer to without reading from cover to cover—if you already know all the rules but want to find out more about advanced strategies . . . or if you want to determine the best starting hands for each common poker variant. But if you want to learn the basics and save the advanced stuff for later, start at the beginning of this book, learn from a master, and wait until you feel ready before you tackle the more advanced concepts.Lou Krieger learned poker at the age of seven, at his father's side during the weekly game held around the kitchen table in the Brooklyn neighborhood where they lived. He has published several acclaimed poker books, and has written more than 250 columns on poker strategy. Lou was recently named one of the most influential gaming writers of the past 100 years byCasino Journal Magazine.He has served as the Dean of Poker School Online, an Internet-based site for learning poker, and currently hosts the Internet site, www.RoyalVegasPoker.com. His writings can be found online and on his web site, www.loukrieger.com. When not writing about poker, Lou can be found playing it in the card rooms of Southern California.