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On each of these pages you'll find 1stop's Book List, featuring over 150 books on many aspects of gaming and gambling, as well as novels, biographies and stories. The featured books link to Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk - so you can order with confidence from the net's leading online book source.

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Harrington on Hold 'em

Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments by the masterful Dan Harrington.

Comments from buyers:
"Top notch"
"...truly a magnificent book..."
"a must"
"This is a great book."

Pit Boss' rating: 5 star rating from the Pit Boss.

 

Weighing the Odds in Hold'em Poker

"This book by Yao (a former derivatives trader) is masterful. It includes the best quantitative discussion that I have seen on calculating pot odds and on starting-hand match ups, with an excellent discussion of which hands play well against few hands and which play better against multiple-hands."

"explains the math the clearest out of any poker book I've read."

"information for both early stage players as well as advanced players"

Pit Boss' rating: 5 star rating from the Pit Boss.

 

Internet Texas Hold'em: Winning Strategies from an Internet Pro

On any given night, thousands of players are playing poker for real money on the Internet. This book is an excellent tool for players at all levels to be successful at limit Texas Hold'em with specific topics focused on Internet play.
A comprehensive overview of Texas Hold'em is presented including general poker concepts such as probability and odds, bluffing, raising and check-raising. Various deceptive tactics are also discussed such as free cards, slowplaying, and inducing bluffs and calls. You'll learn the correct strategies for starting hand play as well as playing on the flop, turn, and river. You'll learn the intricacies of playing on the Internet and the differences in strategies between Internet and live play. Finally, you'll be able to practice all of these strategies on over 200 actual Internet hands.

Poker is a fun game, but it is even more fun when you win. This is a book for players who want to improve their game to win more money. If you only play a few hours a week or strive to take your game to an advanced level, this book should serve as a reference for many years to come and help you become a consistent winner!

"Best comprehensive Hold'em book on the market"

Pit Boss' rating: 5 star rating from the Pit Boss.

 

Profiling Poker "Nitwits"

Haven't you always wanted to understand what the 'nitwits' at your table are thinking to make them play the way they do? This book gives you the tools that experts employ to 'profile' poker opponents, like the F.B.I profiles criminals. You will also be able to use these techniques to quickly, accurately pinpoint tendencies in your opponents and profit from them.

"If you play poker, and your goal is to make money, your opponents had better be worse players than you are..."

Amazon.com only.

Pit Boss' rating: 5 star rating from the Pit Boss.

 

Poker on the Internet

Over the past five years Internet poker has gone from an industry very much in its infancy, enjoyed by a few hundred regular "play money" players to a multi-million dollar business, in which thousands of players around the world take part in real money games every day. With numerous major sites in fierce competition for the online poker market, and new cardrooms being launched every few weeks, poker players nowadays face an unprecedented (and potentially bewildering) range of choices. Whether you are a newcomer to online poker or already play regularly, this book will provide you with the information you need to survive in the Internet poker jungle. Topics covered include: choosing an online cardroom, comparisons of online and "live" play, collusion and cheating, improving your online play, newsgroups, and much, much more.

Pit Boss' rating: 5 star rating from the Pit Boss.

 

Small Stakes Hold 'em

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, 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.

"Best book yet for the small stakes/low limit player"

Pit Boss' rating: 5 star rating from the Pit Boss.

 

Winning Low-Limit Hold'em (2nd Edition)

Since its first publication in 1994, Winning Low-Limit Hold'em, by Lee Jones, has become the major reference on playing Texas Hold'em at the lower limits. However, poker has changed over the several years and Lee has continued to study the game. The result is this revised and expanded second edition.

If you play low-limit Hold'em, or would like to learn to play Hold'em, this book is for you. It won't teach you a lot of advanced poker theory, but it will give you a solid foundation with which you can be a winner at low-limit Hold'em.

"A must for beginners, a great refresher for veterans"


Read this book, study it carefully, and be disciplined: you'll be able to beat any 1-4, 3-6, or 1-4-8-8 Hold'em game you join.

Pit Boss' rating: 5 star rating from the Pit Boss.

 

Professional Poker: The Essential Guide to Playing for a Living

"Most people think that in order to play poker professionally, you just need to be a great player. Mark Blade shows you how much more to it there really is. This is the best poker career guide ever written, and if you're thinking about playing poker for a living, please don't quit your day job until you've read Mark's book. "Professional Poker" is a must read for anyone considering poker as a career." Lou Krieger - Author of Poker For Dummies, Hold 'em Excellence, and More Hold 'em Excellence


"It is well-written, excellently organized, highly informative, very accurate, and a needed addition to poker literature." Bob Ciaffone - Author of Middle Limit Holdem Poker, Improve Your Poker, and Pot-Limit & No-Limit Poker


"I've written many popular poker books over the years and I've read over 400 more. Professional Poker by Mark Blade is the best book on the subject of poker ever written." Ken Warren - Author of The Big Book of Poker and Ken Warren Teaches Texas Hold 'em

Pit Boss' rating: 5 star rating from the Pit Boss.

 

Winning Secrets of Online Poker

Get ready to enter the world of online poker! "Winning Secrets of Online Poker? teaches you the basics of online poker through tested strategies designed to help you win the game. No prior knowledge of poker necessary. This book offers plenty of concise coverage of the fundamentals before moving on to more thorough coverage of advanced topics. ?Winning Secrets of Online Poker? offers a unique style to mastering the Internet game by combining the how-to-play-the-game basics with proven winning techniques. More than just a rules guide, "Winning Secrets of Online Poker" encourages you to analyze your playing style while adapting the techniques to your own personal risk-taking comfort zone. ?Winning Secrets of Online Poker" is a fun, accessible, and affordable guide that helps you ace your online poker game.

Pit Boss' rating: 5 star rating from the Pit Boss.

 

Hold'Em Poker for Advanced Players

Texas Hold 'em is not an easy game to play well. To become an expert you must balance many concepts, some of which occasionally contradict each other. In 1988, the first edition appeared. Many ideas, which were only known to a small, select group of players, were made available to anyone who was striving to become an expert, and the hold 'em explosion had begun. 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 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, and psychology.

"Can be complex, but very helpful"

Pit Boss' rating: 4 star rating from the Pit Boss.


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