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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Traces the rise of the world's most competitive online poker players, profiling a group of former college students who banded together through online communication networks to organize a multi-million-dollar winning team in Las Vegas.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When Milwaukee wife and mother M.J. Boudreaux realizes that her husband Chris seems more interested in spending time at the casino than he does with her, she seeks out an activity that they can do together to reignite their flame, and it seems that poker is her best bet. Although it doesn't give her the quality time with Chris that she'd hoped, M.J. finds she has a natural knack for the game. Increasingly unhappy at home, she turns to the felt of...
Author
Publisher
Cardoza Pub
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
One of the ten greatest books written on poker, this must-have book should be in every player's library. If you're serious about winning, you'll realize that most of the profit comes from being able to read your opponents. Caro reveals the secrets of interpreting tells - physical reactions that reveal information about a player's cards - such as shrugs, sighs, shaky hands, eye contact, and many more. Learn when opponents are bluffing, when they aren't...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In this exciting history of the 2005 world series of poker, the authors introduce colorful--and seemingly fearless--characters and chronicle some of the most gut-wrenching moments to be found in any event of its kind.
28) Cashed in
Author
Series
Poker mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Amateur Texas Hold 'Em champ Belinda Cooley boards a high-stakes poker cruise and loses her cool when her fellow poker pros start disappearing.
29) Molly's game
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A few words for anyone who sits at the poker table with the Kid: Read 'em and weep. Steve McQueen brings his cool fire to the role of a small-timer eager to take his chances in high-stakes poker. He gets his chance when regal, ruthless Lancey Howard, the elite gambler called the Man, accepts the Kid's challenge.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"Peeky Kane, an attractive woman in her 40s, is a prop -- hired to keep shorthanded poker games going at a casino owned by a Native American tribe near Tucson, Ariz. Peeky's life takes a few sharp turns after some crooked dealers find a new way to steal money and make her an unwilling accomplice."--Publisher's Weekly.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the small village of Kilbane in County Cork, for a cuppa tea or a slice of brown bread, you go to Naomi's Bistro, managed by the many siblings of the lively O'Sullivan brood. For a pint or a game of darts--or for the poker tournament that's just come to town--it's the pub you want. One player's reputation precedes him--Eamon Foley, a tinker out of Dublin, called the Octopus for playing like he has eight hands under the table. But when Foley is...
Author
Publisher
SparkPress
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Former White House staffer Maggie Raster is struggling to build her own consulting firm and overcome a recent sexual assault by an ex-boss. Kyler Dawson, a broke former poker champion, desperately needs to gain entry into a controversial but potentially very lucrative international poker tournament. The host nation faces condemnation for the recent murder of a female US journalist, and a pending presidential executive order threatens to prohibit...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"On Friday, May 1st, 2015 a bomb detonates in the infamous Positano Luxury Resort and Casino, a mammoth hotel (and exact replica of the Amalfi coast) on the Las Vegas Strip. Six months prior, a crop of strivers converge on the desert city, attempting to make a home amidst the dizzying lights: Ray, a mathematically-minded high stakes professional poker player; Mary Ann, a clinically depressed cocktail waitress; Tom, a tourist from the working class...
Author
Publisher
D & B Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This new, expanded, fully updated and revised, edition of 'Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker' is a landmark in poker publishing. Originally published in two volumes in 2011 and 2012 this was both a critical and commercial success. Over the last decade, the understanding of poker has changed dramatically and this new edition fully reflects current thinking on the game. This book will give readers a thorough understanding of everything they need...
39) Overturned
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous...
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