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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 ...

Is there really such a thing as a professional gambler? The answer is an unequivocal, "Yes!" This book's authors are but two examples. Many thousands of people around the country make a good living exclusively from gambling. It is not easy, but it can be done. The key is to understand which games are beatable and know how to beat them. David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth have spent many years writing about the finer points of poker, blackjack, and other beatable games. As you will see in the book, those other "games" are horses, sports, progressive slots and video poker, casino tournaments, ...

This book replaces Hold 'em Poker for Advanced Players. Limit 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 now made available to anyone who was striving to achieve expert status,and the hold ’em explosion had begun.In 1999, this book went through a major expansion, called the 21st Century Edition, where an additional 100 pages were added which ...

This book is an effort to lift up the Restoration's distinctive principles that invite us to renounce violence and proclaim Christ's good news of love and peace to a world that desperately needs it. Proclaim Peace seeks not to promote any particular ideology, but to invite listeners, especially the rising generation, to reflect on the interpersonal, ethical, and social dimensions of Christian discipleship.

Maternal love takes a sinister turn, when a young man discovers that his mother is not quite what she seems. An ancient legend looms over a local street, as the neighborhood children search for their missing friends. And a woman awakens to the ultimate nightmare, after her bad taste in men leads to a horrifying predicament.…

Small stakes no-limit hold ’em games usually feature several players who play quite poorly. To achieve best possible results in these games it becomes necessary to exploit your opponents to the maximum, which is much different from the Game Theory Optimal (GTO) approach that is advocated by most players and poker instructors. This doesn’t mean that a GTO approach won’t win in today’s small stakes games, but it does mean that a highly exploitive player, providing he follows the right strategies, can do even better. Topics include “Making Them Play Bad,” “Smallish Stacks/Buy-Ins...

They stalk their prey from deep in the menacing shadows, poised and ready to strike at the penultimate moment. Their victims unexpectant, unaware, until they wake in dark rooms, dank basements, or on chilly floors stained with the rotting blood of other hapless victims. The stench fills their nostrils and permeates their pores, the bile rising up in their burning throats. They scream and try to escape, but all attempts are futile. Fear dances like spiders down their spines as they hear ominous footsteps approaching - their eyes spread wide in horror as they realize the end is near.

In this collection of classic science fiction tales you'll hear if a ship captain seeking vengeance on a space beast, out of control advertising, co-workers suggesting murder, crossing the void on the bridge of bones, and many other exciting concepts.

Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" by Chill Subs Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill Subs Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal rights, and defining your "purpose." It's time to go deep in search of truth! If ...

Poker is a game of many different concepts and ideas, and the relative importance of these ideas has changed over the years as different forms of poker gain and lose popularity. But the underlying theory of how to approach poker, and in particular no-limit hold ’em, still remains the same. Since 2005, David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth have each been writing four essays a year, covering a variety of topics, for the monthly Two Plus Two Online Poker Strategy Magazine. Some of these essays are easy reading, while some of them address the more challenging aspects of advanced poker theory, but ...

Highlighting the key events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this fresh and lively book provides a concise history of the continent from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on the enduring theme of revolution, David S. Mason explores the political, economic, and scientific causes and consequences of revolution; the development of human rights and democracy; and issues of European identity and integration.

Today’s modern poker rooms are certainly run better than many poker rooms were years ago. But there are still a large number of issues that need to be addressed which should help to produce good games that will allow cardrooms to maximize their business, and at the same time will be beneficial to the players. To accomplish this, poker room managers will need to understand certain concepts that will help to produce good games. And good games attract players. This includes regular players, some of whom are highly skilled, and recreational players who still need to win often enough so that ...

Seven-card stud is an extremely complex game. Deciding on exactly the right strategy in any particular situation can be very difficult. Perhaps this is why very few authors have attempted to analyze this game even though 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 now made available to anyone who was striving to become an expert, 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 ...

On April 29, 1992, three shots are fired from a long-range sniper's rifle, and Hussein and two other men are killed. When the American Defense Intelligence Agency discovers the plot and puzzles out each element, who recruited the assassination team, how they managed to get into Iraq, how they succeeded in penetrating the defenses of the most challenging target in the world, the story emerges, step by stealthy step.

When the City of London police raided the home of boiler room suspect and stockbroker mason's home in 2011, what came next was a roller-coaster ride from hell taking this former city boy into the bowels of one of Europe's most notorious prisons. Housing murderers, rapists, cartel members and this middle-class boy from Essex. Not Another Prison Diary tells you what happened in the aftermath of the UK's first "Wolf of Wall Street" style conviction. "Want to see inside? What about "Inside"!

Theyyam is a Dravidian ritual art form of Kerala, India - God's own country. Like the Blues in the Mississippi Delta, the Thottam and Theyyam use song and dance to express the melancholy of the Dravida, natives of God's Own Country, submerged under the 5000-year-old Chaturvarnya caste system. A truly divine rebellion against mighty, unjust systems, Theyyam stories, and art pluck a string in our own hearts today. This book offers comprehensive insights into the authentic Theyyam as fashioned five centuries ago by Manakkadan Gurukkal and King Kolathiri. It showcases stunning images, videos, ...

Really True Fiction is a podcast scouring famous works of fiction to swim through the real life lessons, thoughts, wisdoms, insights and ideas therein.

Most animals are more clever than people realize...especially mice and their friends...even if it does happen to be a lion! And they became friends almost by accident.

An interesting collection of short stories, poems, and a short play or two. The perfect book for journeys, use it to clear your mind and relax over a coffee - your comfortable bedside companion. You don't even have to remember what you are up to!

Spies, agents, amateurs, and fools. They're all there, not always working together. As the locations change, so does the pace begin to heat up. A "happy ending"? Possibly. it is a long way from a burglary in a small town to a shootout in Albania.