Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai
by Ben Mezrich
[Business] From the author who brought you the massive New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, this is the startling rags-to-riches story of an Italian-American kid from the streets of Brooklyn who claws his way into the wild, frenetic world of the oil exchange. After conquering the hallowed halls of ... Details Buy now!
Texas Hold 'Em Poker: Rules and Tips
by Isabel Croucher
[Sports/Entertainment/Reference] A step-by-step guide to playing one of the most popular Poker game around. Played with a typical 52-card pack, Texas Hold 'Em is popular, not just in casinos and card rooms, but also on the Internet and at home. Details Buy now!
Phil Hellmuth Presents: Read 'Em and Reap: A Career FBI Agent's Guide to Decoding Poker Tells
by Joe Navarro & Marvin Karlins
[Sports/Entertainment] Every great player knows that success in poker is part luck, part math, and part subterfuge. While the math of poker has been refined over the past 20 years, the ability to read other players and keep your own "tells" in check has mostly been learned by trial and error. ... Details Buy now!
Texas Hold'em For Dummies
by Mark Harlan
[Sports/Entertainment] An all-new guide to poker's hottest game, Texas Hold'em has never been more popular--television shows such as ESPN's World Series of Poker, Bravo and NBC's Celebrity Poker Showdown, and the Travel Channel's World Poker Tour draw huge audiences, and an estimated 1.88 million people play online poker every month. Following ... Details Buy now!
Casino Gambling For Dummies
by Kevin Blackwood & Max Rubin
[Sports/Entertainment] Half the states in the U.S. offer some form of casino gambling, and gamblers spent over $2 billion at American casinos in 2004. This hands-on guide shows would-be high rollers how to maximize winnings and minimize losses in the most popular casino games--poker, blackjack, keno, baccarat, craps, roulette, slot machines, ... Details Buy now!
Zen and the Art of Poker: Timeless Secrets to Transform Your Game
by Larry W. Phillips
[Sports/Entertainment] Inside the intriguing world of poker lies a fascinating exercise in strategy and extreme concentration--many of the same principles that underpin the one-thousand-year-old philosophy of Zen spirituality. Zen and the Art of Poker is the first book to apply Zen theories to America's most popular card game, presenting tips that ... Details Buy now!
Thursday-Night Poker: How to Understand, Enjoy--and Win
by Peter O. Steiner
[Sports/Entertainment] You are playing in your regular Thursday-night poker game, dealer's choice, and the game is 7-card stud, high only. You have a pair of Aces showing, the second received as the fifth card. You have been making normal-size bets, and after the seventh card has been dealt, there are still ... Details Buy now!
Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees
by Ben Mezrich
[Sports/Entertainment] He played in casinos around the world with a plan to make himself richer than anyone could possibly imagine--but it would nearly cost him his life. Semyon Dukach was known as the Darling of Las Vegas. A legend at age twenty-one, this cocky hotshot was the biggest high roller to ... Details Buy now!
Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions
by Ben Mezrich
[Business] Ben Mezrich, author of the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, returns with an astonishing story of Ivy League hedge-fund cowboys, high stakes, and the Asian underworld. John Malcolm was the ultimate gunslinger in the Wild East, prepared to take on any level of risk in making mind-boggling ... Details Buy now!
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by David Kushner
[Sports/Entertainment] If you think a gang of real-life geeks can't take on the world and win big ... think again. And whatever you do, don't sit down across a gaming table from Jon Finkel, better known as Jonny Magic. Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids is his amazing true story: ... Details Buy now!
One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey 'The Kid' Ungar, the World's Greatest Poker Player
by Nolan Dalla
[People] Stuey Ungar, the son of a Lower East Side bookie, grew up in a New York of the 1950s and '60s that was straight out of Damon Runyon. By his early teens, he had dropped out of high school and was spending most of his time in the city's underground ... Details Buy now!
Winning at Internet Poker For Dummies
by Mark Harlan & Chris Derossi
[Sports/Entertainment] The fun and easy way to take poker online Five years ago, 50 million people were playing poker recreationally or professionally. Now that number is more than 100 million, including a huge influx of young people. Online betting is up nearly four-fold over the past year, with total wagers running ... Details Buy now!
Poker Nation: A High-Stakes Low-Life Adventure into the Heart of a Gambling Country
by Andy Bellin
[Sports/Entertainment] Journalist and poker fanatic Andy Bellin takes readers on a raucous journey into the shut-up-and-deal world of professional poker. From basement games to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, you'll look over his shoulder as he learns to count cards, read a legendary player's body language, hang in ... Details Buy now!
Phil Hellmuth's Texas Hold'em
by Phil Hellmuth, Jr.
[Sports/Entertainment] Now you can play and win at the world's most popular gambling card game with the help of the "Poker Brat" himself. It makes no difference if you're a novice or a serious player, gambling online, in casinos, or in a friend's basement, Hellmuth can help you elevate your game ... Details Buy now!
Phil Hellmuth's Texas Hold'em
by Phil Hellmuth, Jr.
[Sports/Entertainment] Now you can play and win at the world's most popular gambling card game with the help of the "Poker Brat" himself. It makes no difference if you're a novice or a serious player, gambling online, in casinos, or in a friend's basement, Hellmuth can help you elevate your game ... Details Buy now!
Moneymaker: How an Amateur Poker Player Turned $40 into $2.5 Million at the World Series of Poker
by Chris Moneymaker
[Sports/Entertainment] Chris Moneymaker was just a regular guy working as an accountant in Tennessee, who enjoyed playing online poker--and winning. On a fluke he decided to enter the World Series of Poker, paid the $40 application fee, and, with only three years' experience playing the game, won it all: $2.5 million. ... Details Buy now!
Frommer's Las Vegas 2005
by Mary Herczog
[Travel] You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go--they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it ... Details Buy now!
Bad Beats and Lucky Draws: Poker Strategies, Winning Hands, and Stories from the Professional Poker Tour
by Phil Hellmuth, Jr.
[Sports/Entertainment] Bad Beats and Lucky Draws is your down-and-dirty guide to the world of high-stakes professional poker. Phil Hellmuth, nine-time World Series of Poker Champion and author of Play Poker Like the Pros, presents a blow-by-blow account of many of poker's "clash of the titans" hands from the World Series of ... Details Buy now!
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