автор: Peter Thomas Fornatale
Издательство: Broadway, 2005 г.
Твердый переплет, 208 стр.
ISBN 0767921844
На английском языке
Television’s popular Celebrity Poker Showdown, World Poker Tour, and World Series of Poker; the dozens of thriving online poker sites; and magazines like Card Player, whose circulation has doubled recently to150,000, demonstrate that poker has taken the country by storm. Seventy million Americans now play the game. But the only books available for players and fans are dense, serious strategy guides. Until now.
The Poker Aficionado is a Book of Lists for poker enthusiasts. It includes information as basic as a list of the rank of hands, and as amusing as the most bizarre things used as collateral during a game. Filled with lessons learned from some of poker’s biggest names, it features:
Phil Gordon's ten poker commandments
Five ways to cheat—and to spot a cheater
The eight best poker movies
Mike Caro’s nine most common tells
Amarillo Slim's most famous sayings
The best snacks to have at a home game, including recipes
Clonie Gowen on the advantages of being the only woman at the table
Twelve famous players' good luck charms
Six secrets to winning at online poker
A richly detailed and whimsically illustrated potpourri of poker insight, The Poker Aficionado will delight poker fans and give players, old and new, plenty to talk about around the table.
