Texas Hold'em for Dummies
Author(s): Mark Harlan
This is 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 in the bestselling tradition of "Poker For Dummies" more than 165,000 copies sold this handy, value-priced guide shows people how play Texas Hold'em to win. Covering rules, betting, odds, etiquette, and lingo for limit, no-limit, tournament, and online play, it provides basic instruction on how to play each stage of the hand the preflop, the flop, the turn, and the river. For more advanced players, it provides insider tips and strategies to help avoid mistakes, read opponents and rake in the chips. Mark "The Red" Harlan (Santa Clara, CA) is an avid poker player, the cocreator of the well-known online poker game at Gamesgrid.com, and the coauthor of "Winning at Internet Poker" (0-7645-7833-2).
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Introduction.Part I: Everything's Bigger in Texas: Welcome to Texas Hold'em!Chapter 1: A Bird's-Eye View of Texas Hold'em.Chapter 2: Ranking and Reading a Hand.Chapter 3: Just Tell Me How to Play: Texas Hold'em Basics.Part II: Texas Hold'em: Play by Play.Chapter 4: Beginning with Two.Chapter 5: Flopping 'Til You're Dropping.Chapter 6: Taking Your Turn.Chapter 7: Dipping in the River.Part III: Movin' On to Higher Stakes: Advanced Strategies of Hold'em.Chapter 8: Playing the Players.Chapter 9: Bluffing: When Everything Isn't What It Appears to Be.Chapter 10: Maximizing Your Win: Check-Raising and Trapping.Chapter 11: Camouflaging Your Play and Dodging Traps.Chapter 12: Considering Mathematics.Chapter 13: Advancing Your Knowledge.Part IV: Casinos, Card Rooms, and the Internet: Places to Play Hold'em.Chapter 14: There's No Place Like Home: Playing in Private Games.Chapter 15: Opting for the Internet: Online Games.Chapter 16: Harrah's, Here I Come: Playing in Card Rooms.Chapter 17: Competing in Tournaments.Part V: The Part of Tens.Chapter 18: Ten Differences between Online and Real-World Play.Chapter 19: Ten (Or So) Common Mistakes.Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Improve Your Home Game.Chapter 21: Ten Bad Beats.Chapter 22: Ten Things You Can Do to Improve Your Hold'em Game.Glossary.Index.
General Fields
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- : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
- : wiley
- : 0.366
- : 29 September 2006
- : 239mm X 163mm X 16mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Mark Harlan
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 795.412
- : 288
- : illustrations