The follow-up to Diary of a Mad Poker Player. Richard Sparks went on a wild roller coaster ride to the World Series of Poker, and when the dust cleared, he saw one thing was true: his game needed help. World Champion of Poker Tom McEvoy signs on as his pe

Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott has taken the poker world by storm since beginning to play at the age of 16. A world-class player, he is one of the most feared players on the ever-burgeoning global poker circuit. The Devilfish is a working-class man from Hull who was a petty criminal at 16, a safe-breaker who spent his 21st birthday in prison, and then a pawnbroker in Hull who’s turned his gambling hobby into a hugely lucrative career. Dave Ulliott was the first British player to win a $500,000 poker event in the US, won the first Late Night Poker series on Channel 4, and is the face of Ultimatebet.com, one of the biggest online poker sites. This powerful and revealing book uncovers the amazing world of professional poker in Britain, and for the first time tells the extraordinary stories of the country’s top poker professionals. It is a must-read for anyone who is part of, or fascinated by, the growth of professional poker from yesterday’s illegal back-street card games to the cyberspace and television phenomenon of today.

Accompanied by an instructional DVD and drawn from the same principles introduced in Quick and Easy Texas Hold'em, this step-by-step guide features to-the-point lessons and an abundance of examples specific to Hold'em hands that will help players improve their game dramatically. Original.

The author of Big Deal tests his card skills against the changed world of poker in the twenty-first century at a worldwide tournament that pits promising first-timers who have never played except on the Internet with long-standing professionals who are finding themselves outmatched. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Destined to become “the new poker classic, a must-read” (Mike Sexton, top poker player and promoter), Ghosts at the Table is the game’s first definitive history. With verve and wit, internationally renowned poker personality Des Wilson traces poker’s Wild West origins in Deadwood, South Dakota-where “Wild” Bill Hickok was said to have been shot holding aces and eights-to the annual World Series of Poker and amazing high-stakes games of modern-day Las Vegas. It’s a story full of unforgettable characters-riverboat gamblers, Texas rounders, roadside hucksters, and living legends-who have helped make poker the world’s most popular game.

This is not like other poker books. It is not a how-to book. This book provides a unique system for improving one's poker game through more focused awareness of play, strategy and opponents. "The Original Poker Diary" comprises hundreds of journal pages for players to write on in order to keep track of "Memorable Hands," "Player Notes," "Bad Beats," "Tells," and more. Instructions for use, along with a sample diary entry, are described in the first few pages, followed by over 300 journal entry pages divided into two sections; tournament play and online/live casino play. This one-of-a-kind book concludes with a comprehensive glossary of poker terminology and slang. "The Original Poker Diary," if used consistently, will become an indespensable handbook to help you devise your own strategy for learning from the game...and winning.