Card games

The reader for whom this new bookis intended should be familiar with thefundamentals of duplicate bridge.

To the magician and to most audiences, card manipulations are the most fascinating type of card trick.

A comprehensive guide to the classic card game of bridge, including an overview of the basics, tips and techniques how to playand strategies to win; perfect for new bridge players and experienced pros alike.

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt des Jassens – des traditionsreichen Kartenspiels, das tief in der Schweizer Kultur verwurzelt ist.

Dieses systematische Poker Buch bietet einen strukturierten Weg zum erfolgreichen Pokerspieler.

Dieses praxisorientierte Handbuch führt systematisch in die Welt des Online Pokers ein und richtet sich sowohl an Einsteiger als auch fortgeschrittene Spieler.

This classic instructional book explains how to recognise and execute 'end plays' in the game of bridge, and is aimed at the average contract bridge player.

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to playing bridge, with information on common mistakes and how to avoid them, simple instructions for improved play, and a wealth of useful little hints and tips.

This antiquarian volume contains an easy-to-digest and novice-friendly guide to learning card tricks, with descriptions and instructions designed to teach the reader a number of shuffling techniques and related tricks.

This vintage book contains an accessible and entertaining guide to playing bridge.

This volume contains full instructions for playing a vast array of different card games ranging from Poker to Irish Loo, as well as chapters on card tricks, the history of playing cards, 'cartomancy', and more.

This vintage book contains a beginner-friendly guide to playing a variety of popular games ranging from bridge to chess.

"e;In writing about poker Jim McManus has managed to write about everything, and it's glorious.

THIS manual debunks the question of bridge systems and gives the information every good player is seeking-the system and tactics which the majority of ranking tournament players really use.

This early works on The Expert at the Card Table is a must have for any card playing enthusiast.

Originally published in London in the 1920s as a revised and enlarged edition based on Hoyle's early works of the 1700s.

This antique text contains a complete catalogue of Solitaire and Patience games, including tips, instructions, tactics, rules, and more.

What are the odds against winning the Lottery, making money in a casino, or backing the right horse?

This book is a comprehensive guide to Canasta, part of the rummy family of card games that originated in Uruguay.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to learning and mastering the game of canasta.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Canasta was all the rage.

Poker has taken over the world.

This text contains the official rules of a huge number of different card games and their variants, ranging from Whist to Poker and including everything in between.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

Expert player Tom Hagen and author Sonia Weiss guide you through the basic rules, and reveal the surprisingly easy tricks the casinos don't want you to know.

Published in 1950, this vintage handbook instructs the reader in 150 variations of the classic game of Solitaire.

This book written by a card detective who tells stories, in a narrative context the moves of card cheating and tricking in real life gambling scenarios.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

"e;In writing about poker Jim McManus has managed to write about everything, and it's glorious.

What are the odds against winning the Lottery, making money in a casino, or backing the right horse?

Originally published in 1897.

This text contains a comprehensive guide to Canasta, a card game of the rummy family.

First published in 1915, this volume contains a fantastic guide to mastering a variety of card tricks.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to mastering the game of bridge.

Limit Texas HoldEm is a simple game when learned and played by rote.

Whether youre a beginner or an intermediate player who wants to move from live games to playing online, The Everything Online Poker Book is your user-friendly guide to the fundamentals of the game, along with tips and techniques that are specific to online play This insiders guide offers step-by-step instructions and real-world tips on: - Setting up an account and making secure bets; - Finding the right site, joining a table, and navigating an online game; - Online poker etiquette; - Figuring out the stakes and other player expenses; - Avoiding cheaters; - Finding poker resources on the Internet.

Real-life all too rarely offers stories that are quite as satisfying as fiction.

This one-stop practical guide will show you how to organise and play over 200 party games for all ages.

Benny Binion was many things: a cowboy, a pioneering casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and founder of the hugely successful World Series of Poker.

Rough sex, black magic, murder, and the science-and eros-of gambling meet in the ultimate book about Las VegasJames McManus was sent to Las Vegas by Harper's to cover the World Series of Poker in 2000, especially the mushrooming progress of women in the $23 million event, and the murder of Ted Binion, the tournament's prodigal host, purportedly done in by a stripper and her boyfriend with a technique so outre it took a Manhattan pathologist to identify it.

Are you ready to take your bridge game to the next level?

From James McManus, author of the bestselling Positively Fifth Street, comes the definitive story of the game that, more than any other, reflects who we are and how we operate.

Texas Hold'Em, the game featured on the popular television programs and dealth at well-known tournaments, has quickly become the one to play - and the one to win.

Win at Bridge is a fun and interactive way to get to grips with the basics of this popular leisure pastime.

Paul Auster's unsettling tale of chance and gambling from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' (Guardian)Paul Auster fuses Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka and The Brothers Grimm in this brilliant and unsettling parable.

It’s fun to play, but it’s even more fun to win.