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The goal of this e-book is to provide players of poker with a comprehensive resource that will help them improve their skills and develop tactics that will increase their chances of winning. This e-book is intended to serve as a functional guide for players of all experience levels, from novices who are just getting started with the game to seasoned veterans who are looking to push their abilities to the next level.
The contents of the e-book are...
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1852... On a trip westward, Betsy Lawrence has just lost both parents to a cholera epidemic. Arriving at Fort Laramie, she's told she can't continue with the wagon train and must marry a man she's never met. "He's a good man", everyone tells her. Betsy thinks he's full of demands, but he's also full of promises.They sound good, but will he keep them? Will she be able to survive as his bride? Then...A sick infant belonging to a Sioux chief,A poker...
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You can drastically increase your edge and boost your winrate at the poker table without spending hours studying ranges and hands.
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By putting your energy and bankroll into the most profitable poker niche, have a clear purpose of why you are playing and prepare more before each session than your opponents.
This short audiobook will help you become the biggest winner you can be in the games you play (online and/or live poker) by giving you insight...
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Summary of Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker is the story of the investment banking firm Salomon Brothers during the tenure of CEO John Gutfreund, lasting from 1978-1991, and to a lesser extent, a description of the wider financial world of the 1980s. The growth of Wall Street firms like Salomon Brothers was boosted by government deregulation which allowed for the growth and creation of risky mortgage-backed securities and high-yield junk bonds during...
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Hit the jackpot with stories from Michael Connelly, Laura Lippman, Walter Mosley, Alexander McCall Smith, and more superstars of mystery. If ever a subject begged to be associated with crime it is gambling, writes Otto Penzler in his introduction to this collection of short stories set at the poker table and beyond. In Walter Mosley's Mister In-Between, a bagman is sent to collect from a rigged poker game, but soon begins to wonder who the real mark...
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During the gold rush, a young Chinese concubine arrived by horse in Idaho gold country, where a white gambler soon won her in a poker game. She became Polly Bemis, the winner's legal, beloved wife. Polly emerged into public view only in 1923, a tiny old woman on horseback, her identity and story known only to a few old-timers.
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"DJ Diamond's partnership with Sadie Montclair is purely professional. But when a high-stakes poker game DJ organized turns violent, Sadie refuses to leave his side. Hiding out in a snowbound cabin gives them a chance to explore the feelings they've kept from each other...and makes them an easy target for the gangsters who want them dead."--
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P.K. Pinkerton volume 3
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G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
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[2014]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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In 1860s Nevada, master-of-disguise P.K. Pinkerton uncovers a sinister plot when he takes a case that calls for him to shadow his friend and mentor, Poker Face Jace.
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