Step by step guide to poker for newbies.
By RP, February 24, 2006
The “How to….for Dummies” series of self-teaching books has more admirers than critics across the broad range of skills and subjects that this entertaining and valuable genre has addressed, from operating a computer to building houses. So the global popularity of poker perhaps made it inevitable that the latest title is Poker for Dummies.
Written by poker expert and writer Lou Krieger and lawyer and poker buff Richard Harroch, the new publication is reported to be ideal for newbies, with step-by-step instruction on “….how to get, bluff, and play your way to the top, from seven-card stud and high-low splits to Omaha and Texas Hold’em.”
Whether you’re looking for an edge in a friendly weekly game or aiming for the championship in a local poker tournament, the fun and friendly guide shows you how to play and how to win, covering poker rules, popular games, how to be poker-faced, reading opponents, tournament play and how to succeed in VP and online poker games.
Priced at $16.99 it’s a fun read with valuable information.