Hold’em Poker for Advanced Players
Hold’em Poker for Advanced Players, by David Sklansky
Another great book by David Sklansky that discusses several Texas Hold’em poker startegies and ideas for the advanced poker players.
The book includes extensive sections on loose games and short-handed games. It also includes ideas to play on the first 2 cards drawn, such as: semi-bluffing, the free card, inducing bluffs, staying with a draw, playing when a pair flops, playing trash hands, desperation bets, playing in wild games, reading hands, psychology and more.
A very interesting book to read .. Get the Hold’em Poker for Advanced Players
Poker Quotes
Poker also has its share of quotes and sayings. Read these fun quotations about Poker:
- The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius. [Julius “Big Julie” Weintraub]
- Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. [Steven Wright]
- Poker exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. [Walter Matthau]
- Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom. [V.P. Pappy]
- Old card players never die, they just shuffle away.
Read more quotes about Poker and other topics at Laph.com
Yahoo! Poker Games
Yahoo! games include several online free poker games if you wanna practice your poker skills or have some fun.
Backdoors.To is a nice website that includes backdoor links to Yahoo! poker games:
Texas Hold’em Poker
http://www.backdoors.to/yahoo/holdempoker
Poker Deuces Wild
http://www.backdoors.to/yahoo/pokerdeuceswild
Poker Double Down
http://www.backdoors.to/yahoo/pokerdoubledown
This website is very useful to get into your favorite Yahoo! game room when the room is full, or when you want to join the game room if you got disconnected.
The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky
The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How To Think Like One - by David Sklansky
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It explores the Fundamental Theorem of Poker and its implications. It also explores 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 and how they affect the poker game.
Read more about The Theory of Poker
Highest Poker Hand
What is the highest ranking hand in a poker game?
The Royal Flush, an ace-high straight flush (such as: A, K, Q, J, 10 of the same suit, any suit), is the highest ranking poker hand.
All the suits have the same rank, but in case of an even hand then the highest suit is most often the Spades, followed by the Hearts, Clubs and Diamonds.
