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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
By: Michael Lewis
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In fiction there was Bonfire of the Vanities; in reality, there is Liar's Poker--the fascinating insider's account of what really happens on Wall Street. This irreverent and hilarious birds-eye view of Wall Street's heyday will appeal to anyone intrigued by the allure of million dollar deals. Now in trade paper. First serial to Manhattan Inc.

The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide: Tournament Edition
By: Andy Bloch
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The professionals of Full Tilt Poker include the best and most famous poker players in the world. Their accomplishments are unparalleled, with countless World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour championships to their names and well in excess of $100 million in winnings in private games. Now, this group of poker legends has banded together to create THE FULL TILT POKER STRATEGY GUIDE, which will stand as an instant classic of the genre and is sure to become the industry standard.

The Theory of Poker
By: David Sklansky
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The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky discusses theories and concepts applicable to nearly every variation of the game, including five-card draw (high), seven-card stud, hold ?em, lowball draw, and razz (seven-card lowball stud). This book introduces you to the Fundamental Theorem of Poker, its implications, and how it should affect your play. Other chapters discuss the value of deception, bluffing, raising, the slow-play, the value of position, psychology, heads-up play, game theory, implied odds, the free card, and semibluffing.

Many of today?s top poker players will tell you that this is the book that really made a difference in their play. That is, these are the ideas that separate the experts from the typical players. Those who read and study this book will literally leave behind those who don?t, and most serious players wear the covers off their copies. This is the best book ever written on poker.

Phil Hellmuth Presents Read 'Em and Reap: A Career FBI Agent's Guide to Decod...
By: Joe Navarro
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very great player knows that success in poker is part luck, part math, and part subterfuge. While the math of poker has been refined over the past 20 years, the ability to read other players and keep your own "tells" in check has mostly been learned by trial and error.

But now, Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer specializing in nonverbal communication and behavior analysis?or, to put it simply, a man who can tell when someone's lying?offers foolproof techniques, illustrated with amazing examples from poker pro Phil Hellmuth, that will help you decode and interpret your opponents' body language and other silent tip-offs while concealing your own. You'll become a human lie detector, ready to call every bluff?and the most feared player in the room.

Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time Volume I
By: Eric 'Rizen' Lynch
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Want to win poker tournaments?
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Meet PearlJammer, Rizen, and Apestyles. These top guns of tournament poker are frequent winners in today's highly competitive online scene, as well as in live tourneys. Their collective experience and track record is staggering: more than 35,000 tournaments played, more than 1,000 final tables made, over 200 major wins, and more than $6,000,000 in cashes. They regularly outplay fields consisting of other top professionals victories that are documented by detailed online hand histories.
Are you ready to learn winning ways from today's true tournament experts?
The authors are not only consistent winners, but powerful teachers as well. Step-by-step, they reveal their decision-making processes, using hands drawn from actual play not examples contrived to fit a particular poker theory.
Reading this book is like attending a master class in tournament poker.
You'll see the way cutting-edge pros use their wisdom and incredibly extensive experience to analyze almost every poker situation imaginable. Deep-stacked or short-stacked, against single or multiple opponents, you'll learn the skills that will make you a winner, including:
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Poker is a fun game, but it's even more fun when you win.
If you want to become a great tournament player, shouldn't you be learning from the best? NOW You can!

• My brother starts playing in the World Series of Poker today. Good luck Mike!
My brother starts playing in the World Series of Poker today. Good luck Mike! • Executive Draw Poker
Executive Draw Poker This game plays lightning fast compared to the Big Screen Poker & Ex Calibur Black Jack I purchased. It is my new favorite & I can't put it down! I've even improved my game a little already with the tutorial feature (holding 2 face cards in ... Executive Draw Poker Now!!! ShareThis • WSOP Main Event: Cannibalism
Chris Moneymaker pulled out the only empty seat at Table 3 as he lamented his draw. "What a beat," he said. In the two seat sat Russian Team PokerStars Pro Alex Kravchenko. Two seats around the table was 2004 WSOP champion Greg Raymer. "Just kidding," Moneymaker said, and walked away to his real chair two tables away. "That would have been a good feature table," Raymer said. "Chris, Alex, me, and six guys who can kick our ass." While it might have made for some good television, i • TOUR RESULTS FROM MONACO
ASTANTA - CLARITY NOW, OR LESS CLEAR THAN EVER? Today Lance Armstrong took the bold but unenviable step of leading out his team?s squad in the Individual Time Trial in Monaco. Perhaps he thought getting out so early he would likely snag - albeit possibly temporarily - the top spot on the leader board. And he did. For several minutes the lead was his, and by a tidy half a minute over some nameless riders he?d thoroughly thrashed. Then his position started to slip. Every couple of minutes • Lori Petty's Directorial Debut to Hit Screens on July 17
Hearing about a mixture of Lori Petty and David Alan Grier immediately brings to mind the wonderful '90s, when Petty was the tough-as-nails Tank Girl in a post-apocalyptic water-hungry world and Grier was one of the big names of In Living Color . But now the two have teamed up, and it's not for some quirky bit of comedy, but rather a super-heavy drama that's finally going to hit the big screen. Variety reports that Phase 4 Films has picked up the U.S. rights to The Poker House , which

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