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A concise and meticulously researched guide to Texas Hold’em Poker. Teaches the rules of Texas Hold’em, basic strategy, and how to play in a card room. More advanced players will benefit from statistical charts, vignettes from actual poker games, and...

Wallace’s poker book is all about getting edges on weak players. The book focuses on a home game where the main character, John Finn, continually takes advantage of a regular cast of mediocre and degenerate poker players. Unbeknownst to the regulars ...

Texas Hold ’em is not an easy game to play well. To become an expert you must balance many concepts, some of which occasionally contradict each other. In 1988, the first edition appeared. Many ideas, which were only known to a small, select group of ...

“A believable and frightening tale of a near-future San Francisco… Filled with sharp dialogue and detailed descriptions…within a tautly crafted fictional framework.” Publishers Weekly, starred review“

Involving HMKV (Germany), Projekt Atol (Slovenia), the Arts Catalyst (United Kingdom), C-TASC (Canada), and Lorna (Iceland), this collaboration focuses on the global, cultural, and ecological significance of the polar regions. These zones are causing...

Quinn Wilde spends a formative year studying at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and living in Fife Park, the cheapest student residence in the UK. Along the way, there are mistakes and faux pas, damages and destruction, passions and revelati...

"Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellow men bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must ...

This free ebook introduces the concepts you need to be a financial winner and presents them in a step by step format. Action items are provided at each stage in the process so that you will know exactly what you need to do.

The numbers on a royalty statement are actuarial, not actual. They represent a kind of best-guess approximation of the copies shipped, sold, returned and so forth. Actuarial accounting works pretty well: well enough to run the juggernaut banking, ins...

Mike started his working life as an astrophysicist and made his way into tourism via the scuba diving industry. He built one of Australia’s first backpacker hostels.

A free ebook about the different ways to protect your house against armed robbers. Written for the South African market it may sound extreme to the rest of the world but gives valuable guidance which is applicable everywhere. Statistics show that eve...

Today, there is a large subset of telephony that is served by Asterisk. Tomorrow, who knows what the limit might be? So, what are you waiting for? Read, learn, and participate in the future of open telecommunications by joining the Asterisk revolutio...

As a creative director, business owner or manager of a creative team, the chances are you already coach your people to an extent – and you may be better at it than you realize. But there’s also a fair chance that you have received little support in d...

The treatment of textile wet processing effluent to meet stringent governmental regulations is a complex and continually evolving process. Treatment methods that were perfectly acceptable in the past may not be suitable today or in the future. This b...

In each generation an idea is born that alters mankind’s perception of itself, life and all that is about. There is an awakening from ignorance which once initiated alters the hopes, fears and aspirations of those who experience it. Such an idea has ...