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Improve Your Play with These Gambling/Gaming Books!

Become a master player and money-maker with these fun and informative gaming books. Choose from rules guides for assorted card and board games, as well as over a dozen poker titles.

Our Poker Book selection includes works by masters of the game such as Mason Malmuth, author of over 500 articles and 14 books, Brad Daugherty, a World Series of Poker million-dollar winner, and Tom McEvoy, widely regarded as the world's best tournament player.

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Bridge Books

The Bridge Book (Volume Three) - Frank Stewart and Randall Baron offer another look at the game of bridge for Advanced Users with Volume 3. This book offers advanced techniques to any bridge lover to challenge him into thinking like an expert. The Bridge Book also contain quizzes to ensure your understanding of the material. 191 pages. Paperback.

The Bridge Book Volume Three For Advanced Bridge Players

General Card and Board Game Books

Bicycle's Official Rules of Card Games

Fun! Informative! Entertaining! Whether you're an experienced card player or have never played before, this comprehensive guide contains what you need to know! The "Bicycle Official Rules of Card Games" is much more than just a rule book. Families will enjoy finding old favorites and new games to play, serious card players will value the book as a definitive resource, novices will pick up the basics quickly and easily, and trivia buffs can browse for interesting stories. Designed for ease of use and ready reference, the guide includes unique diagrams that illustrate, almost at a glance, the basics of a specific game. 338 pages. Paperback.

Hoyle's Rules of Games

This definitive book on games offers rules, strategies, and odds for more than 250 games including: Scrabble, Bridge, Chess, Backgammon, Minesweeper, Freecell, Gin Rummy, Canasta, Poker, and more. 264 pages. Paperback.

150 Solitaire Games

Here are 150 different solitaire games, ranging from simple to fiendish, using one, two, or three decks of cards. Everyone knows how to play simple Canfield and double Canfield. But do you know how to play Royal Families? San Juan Hill? Shah of Persia?.

If you like to play cards — by yourself or with others — this is the book for you. 142 pages. Paperback.

Poker Books

Bicycle's "Poker, Official Rules & Games"

Master the game of poker with this handy, in-depth guide. Great for new and seasoned players alike, this book includes a review of rules and laws of the game, poker ethics, poker strategy, and information on more than 100 poker games, including Seven Card Stud, Lowball, and Texas Hold 'Em. 130 pages. Paperback.

Championship Hold'Em by Tom McEvoy

Learn hard-hitting Hold'Em the way it's played today in both limit cash games and tournaments. Get killer advice on how to win more money in rammin'-jammin' games, kill-pot, jackpot, shorthanded, and other types of cash games. Learn the thinking process before the flop, on the flop, on the turn, and at the river. 20 illustrated hands with play-by-play analysis. Specific advice for rocks in tight games, weaklings in loose games, how hand values change in jackpot games, when you should fold, check, raise, etc. Tournament strategies for small buy-in, big buy-in, rebuy, incremental add-on, and other major tournaments. Easy-to-read and conversational, if you want to become a lifelong winner at limit Hold'Em, you need this book! 318 Pages. Paperback.

Hold'Em Poker by David Sklansky

David Sklansky's Hold'Em Poker is a must-read for anyone planning to play in Nevada, California, or any place else where Hold'Em is offered including a home game. This was the first definitive work on Hold'Em poker, and it was originally published in 1976. Yet, Hold'Em Poker is still one of the best-selling poker books available. The text is designed for someone relatively new to the game, but it still contains much sophisticated material. The text is probably best known for the Sklansky Hand Rankings, which made the game much simpler to quantify and understand. Some of the topics include the importance of position, the first two cards, the key "flops," strategy before the flop, semi-bluffing, slowplaying, check raising, head-up on fifth street, and how to read hands. Not only was this text, which is Sklansky's first work, a major contribution to the explosive growth of this game, it is also a book that should still be read by all serious players. 113 Pages. Paperback.

Hold'Em Poker For Advanced Players by David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth

Texas Hold'Em is not an easy game to play well. To become an expert you need to be able to balance many concepts, some of which occasionally contradict each other. In 1988, the first edition of this text appeared. Many ideas, which were only known to a small select group of players were made available to anyone striving to achieve expert status, and the Hold'Em explosion began.

It is now a new century, and the authors have again moved the state of the art forward by adding over 100 pages of new material, including extensive sections on "loose games," and "short-handed games." Anyone who studies this text, is well disciplined, and gets the proper experience should become a significant winner. Some of the other ideas discussed in this 21st century edition include play on the first two cards, semi-bluffing, the free card, inducing bluffs, staying with a draw, playing when a pair flops, playing trash hands, desperation bets, playing in wild games, reading hands, psychology, and much more. 332 pages. Paperback.

How To Play Winning Poker by Avery Cardoza

This new and expanded edition shows playing and winning strategies for all major poker games: Five & Seven Stud Games, Omaha, Draw Poker, Hold'Em, and High-Low, both for home and casino play. Readers learn the 15 winning concepts of poker, how to minimize losses and maximize profits, how to read opponents and gain the edge against their style, and use pot odds, tells, position, and leverage. 160 Pages. Paperback.

No Limit Texas Hold'Em by Brad Daugherty and Tom McEvoy

Two World Champions of Poker, Daugherty and McEvoy, show you how to join the elite ranks of million-dollar, no-limit Texas Hold'Em tournament winners and cash game players. They begin by outlining the winning principles of no-limit Texas Hold'Em and then fill in the blanks by teaching you the four major skills you must master to win at no-limit. 288 Pages. Paperback.

Seven Card Stud For Advanced Players by David Sklansky, Mason Malmuth, and Ray Zee

Seven-card stud is an extremely complex game. Deciding exactly what the right strategy should be in any particular situation can be very difficult. Perhaps this is why very few authors have attempted to analyze this game despite the fact that it is widely played.

In 1989, the first edition of this text appeared. Many ideas, which were only known to a small select group of players, were made available to anyone striving to achieve expert status, and a major gap in the poker literature was closed.

It is now a new century, and the authors have again moved the state of the art forward by adding over 100 pages of new material, including an extensive section on "loose games." Anyone who studies this text, is well disciplined, and gets the proper experience should become a significant winner. Some of the other ideas discussed in this 21st century edition include the cards that are out, the number of players in the pot, ante stealing, playing big pairs, playing little and medium pairs, playing three-flushes, playing three-straights, randomizing your play, fourth street, pairing your door card on fourth street, fifth street, sixth street, seventh street, defending against the possible ante steal, playing against a paired door card, scare card strategy, buying the free card on fourth street, playing in tightly structured games, and much more. 326 pages. Paperback.

Small Stakes Hold'Em, Winning Big with Expert Play by Ed Miller, David Sklansky, and Mason Malmuth

For today's poker players, Texas Hold'Em is the game. Every day, tens of thousands of small stakes Hold'Em games are played all over the world in homes, card rooms, and on the Internet. These games can be very profitable - if you play well. But most people don't play well and end up leaving their money on the table.

Small Stakes Hold 'Em: Winning Big with Expert Play explains everything you need to be a big winner. Unlike many other books about small stakes games, it teaches the aggressive and attacking style used by all professional players. However, it does not simply tell you to play aggressively; it shows you exactly how to make expert decisions through numerous clear and detailed examples.

Small Stakes Hold'Em teaches you to think like a professional player. Topics include implied odds, pot equity, speculative hands, position, the importance of being suited, hand categories, counting outs, evaluating the flop, large pots versus small pots, protecting your hand, betting for value on the river, and playing overcards. In addition, after you learn the winning concepts, you can test your skills with over fifty hand quizzes that present you with common and critical Hold'Em decisions. Choose your action, then compare it to the authors' play and reasoning.

This text presents cutting-edge ideas in straightforward language. It is the most thorough and accurate discussion of small stakes Hold'Em available. Your opponents will read this book - make sure you do, too! 369 Pages. Paperback.

Tournament Poker by Tom McEvoy

Tom McEvoy teaches you how to win each of the eleven games in the World Series of Poker, including No-Limit Hold'Em, Pot-Limit Hold'Em, Limit Hold'Em, Seven-Card Stud, Omaha, and Omaha High-Low. This book is essential for any player who wants to be in-the-know. 245 Pages. Paperback.

Tournament Poker for Advanced Players by David Sklansky

Although, from a distance, tournament poker may look like a typical poker game, it is very different from standard ring game poker. There are numerous factors that players must be familiar with. Understanding these factors and developing proper strategy are critical to your success in Tournament Poker. This text is the first book ever written that explains tournament strategies - strategies that only a small number of players have mastered.

Tournament Poker for Advanced Players assumes that you already know how to play poker well, but aren't knowledgeable of tournament concepts and when and where to use them. Some of the ideas discussed include the effect of going broke, The Gap Concept, how chips change value, adjusting strategy because the stakes rise, all-in strategy, the last table, making deals, The "System," and much more. 245 Pages. Paperback.

Fundamentals of Poker by Mason Malmuth and Lynne Loomis

This book, The Fundamentals of Poker, discusses various aspects of the many different types of poker that are popular in casinos and public cardrooms. In today's cardrooms, the limits range from very small to extremely large, where thousands of dollars can cross the table in the course of one hand.

The Fundamentals of Poker is a hard-hitting guide to the best strategies for the most popular casino poker games, with added insight into winning. 67 Pages. Paperback.

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