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Created For Avid Contract Bridge Players And Bridge Teachers Around The World, This Book Makes A Great Gift To Any Bridge Player Who Has Already Learned The Game Of Bridge And Wants To Improve. Author, Ron Feldman, Represented The United States In Three World Championships Of Tournament Bridge. Foreword By Five (5) Time World Champion Bridge Player, Lynn Deas. World Champion Bridge Player, Ralph Katz, Adds: "Ron Feldman Is A Brilliant Bridge Bidding...
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There are many books and articles about how to improve your play, but there are few bridge books like this one. The intention of this book is to present a kind of Reader's Digest of essays and tips that can elevate your enjoyment and help you play with impeccable ethics. In Volume 1, Randy gives invaluable advice including:
- Useful habits to learn
- How to improve your bidding system
- Which conventions to play
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Thousands have paid big bucks to learn winning poker strategies from Angel Largay - one of the world's most consistent winners in maximum buy-in no-limit games. Now, Largay offers a wider audience his poker teaching expertise in No-Limit Texas Hold'em.
Although millions play, only a few have the skill to cash in on the explosion fueled by maximum buy-in no-limit games. Whether you're a novice or a veteran, an online player, casino regular, or home...
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Natural step-by-step method allows you to see the inner logic of game from start. Simple common-sensical chapters on bidding, play and defense, scoring, elementary bridge strategies and how they work. 130 bidding hands and 18 full sample games help you at each step.
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Originally published in London in the 1920s as a revised and enlarged edition based on Hoyle's early works of the 1700s. The book is an illustrated compendium of over eighty games and their varieties including card, billiard and board games. These are fully explained with rules and advice on play. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books...
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My name is Jeff Friend I have 33 years' experience in playing the game of blackjack. I think of this game as a sport, and being a good team player. Having good manners and respect for others is so important. I believe people will enjoy reading this book because it teaches, most miss played hands and good common sense plays, and why we do them. At the end of the day hopefully, you have made some money and gained some friends at the table. In 2010,...
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*UNOFFICIAL GUIDE* Are you looking to download and install the game? Do you often find it difficult to beat certain parts? Would you like to play like a PRO? Would you like to get tons of resources? With our unofficial game guide we can teach you how to master the game! Do you want to install and play the game on any Phone, PC, or Tablet? This guide will also help you install on the Kindle, Kindle HD, Kindle HDX, Any Android Phone/Tablet, PC, Windows...
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Choir Practice is not a how-to-play manual for poker. Rather, author Ray P. McCord explores the origins of the game and how it quickly became the modern American phenomenon it is today. He considers the complex cultural conditions that helped make the game one of the most popular recreational and professional games in our culture. Is poker really gambling or is it something else? Choir Practice is a distillation of McCord's fond remembrances from...
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This text contains a concise guide to twelve different card games, including their rules, tips on playing, and descriptions of their many variants. An easy-to-digest and beginner-friendly guide, this book will be of much value to the novice card player and will also be of interest to seasoned enthusiasts looking to expand their card gaming repertoire. The chapters of this book include: Everybody's Game — Whist, Solo Whist, German Whist, Hearts,...
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When it comes to gambling, there's no better game to beat the odds-and win big-than blackjack. But there's more to it than just doubling down. You will learn about the mysterious-and surprisingly legal-skill of card counting, casino etiquette, single vs. team play, tournament play, variation games, online games, and more.
In this concise but complete manual, blackjack expert Tom Hagen and author Sonia Weiss deal out information on:
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Originally published in 1897. The author was a famous conjuror who many spent many years perfecting the hundreds of tricks and sleight of hand methods described here. Contents Include: SLEIGHTS : The Double Handed Pass; The Force; The Bridge; The Glide; The Color Change, etc. TRICKS WITH CARDS : Magic versus Mnemonics; The Hypnotized Card; Cards Shot Against a Hat; The Demon Envelope; The Obedient Card, etc. PREPARED AND MECHANICAL CARDS : The Changing...
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El mago realiza un truco increíble y, en el público, todos los cerebros se maravillan. ¿Cómo ocurren estas ilusiones frente a nuestros ojos? ¿Qué técnicas utilizan los magos para desviar nuestra atención? Pero sobre todo, ¿qué tiene para decir la ciencia sobre los trucos de magia? He aquí una nueva disciplina: la neuromagia, resultado del cruce entre los últimos y más impactantes avances en el conocimiento de nuestro cerebro y los trucos...
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Do you turn down invites to poker games because you don't know the rules? Then Card Games Properly Explained is the book for you. Arnold Marks's handbook will teach you not only what you need to know to play the game, but how to play to win. He will teach you Whist and its variations: Solo and Napoleon; Poker and its variations like Seven Card Stud and Deuces Wild; Cribbage; Rummy-the forefather of Gin Rummy and Canasta, among others; and more. Written...
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*UNOFFICIAL GUIDE* Are you looking to download and install the game? Do you often find it difficult to beat certain parts? Would you like to play like a PRO? Would you like to get tons of resources? With our unofficial game guide we can teach you how to master the game! Do you want to install and play the game on any Phone, PC, or Tablet? This guide will also help you install on the Kindle, Kindle HD, Kindle HDX, Any Android Phone/Tablet, PC, Windows...
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Playing cards have been a part of many of our lives since childhood. You might have played with your parents or with school friends. Card games for many of us are familiar, even nostalgic. Those that are not raised on such games can be surprised later in life when a pack of cards is introduced to the table and everyone else just seems to know how to shuffle without dropping the cards and the rules to a dozen or more games. Whether you're looking for...
17) Win at Poker
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Stimulating, challenging book - written for beginners and moderately experienced players - offers mathematical and psychological strategies specifically designed to improve your betting odds. Includes basic poker principles and rules, smart ways to use wild cards, and proven betting techniques.
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Classic and comprehensive, this guide to over 350 games is sure to appeal to all ages. From Bridge to Poker and Solitaireto Hearts, card games are a beloved source of entertainment and competition (and they are recession proof!). This authoritative book is ideal for every household, college dorm, family cabin, or neighborhood bar that has a pack of cards. Designed in the style of the popular Ultimate Bar Book, this essential resource provides the...
19) Win at Checkers
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Former Unrestricted World Checker Champion introduces you to the game and lets you in on championship secrets. Shots and traps, opening "blitzkrieg" moves, end game, more.
20) How to Shake the Online Poker Money Tree: Unstoppable Online Poker Strategy for the 21st Century
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This is the very same, classic popular online poker strategy e-book that has been selling online for $39 a copy since 2004. Now in proper Kindle device format (as of January 2012). It has been revised and expanded in this 3rd edition to reflect recent changes in the online poker landscape, including the effects of political events which occurred in both 2006 and 2011. It includes new chapters with specific strategies for popular new game types and...
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