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This book is a step-by-step manual shows beginning and low-limit players -- 95% of the 7-stud players -- how to make making money at seven card stud and helps somewhat experienced players change their results from losers to winners. Clear and concise chapters take the reader from the rules of the game and basics of play, to how to play third through seventh streets in high, low (razz) and high-low variations. Chapters include starting cards, playing position, which hands to play to the end, raising, check-raising, tells, game and seat selection, seven card stud odds, keeping records, pot odds, bluffing, reading hands, psychology of poker and more.. A great book for low limit players.

Best-selling author & poker expert Ken Warren takes you from the basics of poker to the ins & outs of playing & winning at every type of game - cardrooms, casinos, home games, & even on the internet! Learn how to compete in local tournaments 7 multi-million dollar televised events, including the legendary World Series of Poker. You'll also learn how to play hold'em in all its forms, including the exciting no-limit games. In these pages you'll find valuable information on how to bet, raise, checkraise, bliff, semi-bluff, & how to take advantage of position & pot offs. Warren teaches you the this book is packed with poker slang - common & obscure - & its definitions. Whether you're a pro, a newbie, or somewhere in between, The Big Book of Poker will help you cash in on pits & hold your own against the toughest players around. Filled with charts, detailed diagrams, easy-to-read examples, & all sorts of color about the game, this book shows you everything you need to know to play & win at poker.

The History of Poker Presents the origins and evolution the various centuries-old European betting and bluffing card games that eventually fused together to create American-style poker. The book starts with the evolution of playing cards, integrates the history of games like Brag and Pochen which in turn evolved in the French game of "Poke" played in the city of New Orleans in the early 1800's. The book, written in timeline fashion, then adds year-by-year the subtle changes and additions to the orginal game of 1820's Whiskey Poker until it becomes the poker of today that we all recognize. The book is full of interesting tidbits and trivia specifically designed to please the reader who wants something interesting in every paragraph. The casual reader, the historian and the trivia buff will all be excited to read about the famous historical figures involved in the early history of poker all the way up to President Barack Obama's surprise quote about poker.

Written for beginning and intermediate players, Warren's book shows how to play and win Hold 'em, the most popular of the poker variations and the rage in card rooms and private games across the country. Numerous charts, tables, and examples help with explanations and analyses. 35 charts, 10 line drawings.