Is the world's Hottest Game
Every day thousands of people match wits in this fast paced, Complex, and subtle game. Whether you're an expert or a first-time player, this concise and meticulously researched book helps you play this immensely popular game with confidence. For beginners, you'll learn the rules of texas hold'em, basic strategy, and how to play in cardroom. More advanced player will benefit from statistical charts, vignettes from actual poker game and detailed information on how the social and psychological aspects of the game determine strategy.
Reader also get a comprehensive analysis of online poker, including how to use your computer to play poker on the internet, and concise profiles and addresses of 15 online cardrooms.
Look inside for some of the forms, charts, and information-in highly usable formats -you can put the use right now :
• Probabilities for improving a hand
• Minimum Pot Size of correct pot odds
• Game observation form for online texas hold’em
• Odds for Multiple Pocket pairs
• Over card Probabilities
• Strategic grid
• Location and contact Information for 220 cardrooms in the U.S and Canada
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SAM BRAIDS, Physicist and author, has a life-long fascination with games that combine strategic thinking and psychology. For decades he has studied and played poker and chess. He also holds a doctorate in experimental physics and has taught advanced physics and mathematics. His Combined interest in social behavior and mathematics is reflected in his upcoming second book, Loans, Income, Investments and other Financial.
Decisions : Mathematical Deceptions that cost you Money. He lives near Baltimore, Maryland
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The Game of Texas Hold'em
Discussion of how to play texas hold'em, covering the rules of the game, the actual conduct of games in public cardrooms, and online poker rooms.
If you are completely new to Texas Hold'em, It is a poker variation that will seem strange at first. People with little knowledge of poker usually have a familiarity with stud and draw variations because of their portrayal in popular culture. Stud games “Five-Card stud” and “Seven-Card stud” are the most popular versions) deal hands that are a mix of cards known only to the Hold'em and cards seen by everyone. As cards are dealt and bets placed, only the player has complete knowledge of his or her hand, but others make guesses based on partial knowledge from the exposed cards. For draw games (Five-Card Draw is the most popular), there are no exposed cards. Only betting patterns and the number of cards drawn for improvement provide information to the other players.
Texas Hold'em is in a completely different class of poker variants known as flop games. Flop games have elements of both stud and draw games. Like draw games, the cards dealt to the players are not exposed and are known only to them. Like stud games, hands are improved though exposed cards. The twist is that the exposed cards belong to everyone. The use of shared (or community) cards to complete a poker hand is the defining characteristic of flop games. Some of the other flop variants (Omaha, Omaha Eight or Better, and Pineapple) are described in Appendix I. Of the flop games, Texas Hold'em is the most intricate and challenging to play. The annual World Series of Poker uses Texas Holdem to determine the champion. This book specifically addresses Texas Holdem. While some of the information presented is relevant to the other flop games (and poker in general), the correct strategy and tactics for a game such as Omaha are different from Texas Holdem, even though on the surface the games look remarkably similar.
Opportunities to play Texas Holdem are more widespread than most people realize. Aside from the obvious locations (Atlantic City and Las Vegas), there are public poker cardrooms throughout California and the Northwest, on Native American reservations throughout the United States, and on riverboats up and down the Mississippi River system in the country’s heartland. Chapter 2 describes what to expect in a public cardroom and how to conduct yourself. To locate a public cardroom near you-or near a place you plan to visit –check the listing in Chapter 10 for public cardrooms in the United States and Canada. The listings are sorted geographically and contain locations and contact information for 220 cardrooms.
The Internet has actually provided unlimited opportunity to play Texas Hold'em because of the growth of online poker games. Chapter 10 also profiles 15 online cardrooms where you can compete for real money. Chapter 3 discusses play in online cardrooms and the differences between playing poker “in person” and over the Internet against remote opponents.
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