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Dealer's Choice: The Complete Handbook of Saturday Night Poker - Signed!
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Manufacturer: Overlook Duckworth
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Dealer's Choice: The Complete
Handbook of Saturday Night Poker
by James Ernest, Phil Foglio & Mike Selinker
Illustrated and SIGNED by Phil Foglio
We all know that money won is twice as sweet as money earned, and there
are plenty of books to help you if you want to mortgage the house to
take
on the $30-60 table at the Mirage or the Taj Mahal. But most of us are
looking for a friendlier species of the game, a chance to test our luck
in the
company of friends, and--if we are favored with good fortune and they
are
not--to really, really rub their noses in it. Dealer's Choice is
the
ultimate guide to the world of low stakes poker, where fun and
bragging rights count as least as much as the final tally.
Starting with the elementary principles of the game every beginner will
need
to know before swimming with the sharks--betting, bluffing, and the
hierarchy
of hand values--Dealer's Choice features invaluable tips on how
to
host the perfect poker evening (the relative merits of chips vs. coins,
what
food to serve) and more than 200 varieties of poker, from established
favorites
like Baseball and Follow the Queen to truly esoteric mutations of the
authors'
own invention such as Frankenstein, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and
Hamlet (i.e. Jacks are low, Queens are wild, Kings--dead). Phil Foglio
has
enlivened the text throughout with spectacular line drawings.
"There's lots of books about how to play serious, hardcore,
high-stakes
poker. This is not one of them. This is a book on how to play idiot
poker
with your buds--the core of the book is a list of more than 200
different
poker games. I've been playing poker for over 25 years, and whenever
anybody invented or thought of a new variation, I wrote it down. I've
been
planning on doing a book for years, but it took James to actually get
the
darn thing done. But done it is." --Phil
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