How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker The Wisdom of Dickie Richard

Name: How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker The Wisdom of Dickie Richard
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ISBN: 9780312360689

ISBN-10: 0312360681

ISBN-13: 9780312360689

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Authors: Penn Jillette, Mickey D. Lynn

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Poker-mania is sweeping the nation, from the World Championship of Poker to internet poker and power poker. But home poker games shouldn't just be about winning: they're about stripping your opponents bare without their ever suspecting a thing. Teaming up with Mickey Lynn, Penn Jillette gives a home poker player everything he needs to know in one tidy volume. Lousy with attitude, stylish with swagger, How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker delivers a lifetime's worth of card-shark knowledge, including how to: --pick your marks --mark cards --use "shiners" to keep track of other player's hands --cut cards --stash holdouts This is not a book about how to play poker-the shelves are already full of…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 10/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Penn Jillette is a magician, comedian, illusionist, juggler, and writer known for his work with fellow illusionist Teller in the team Penn & Teller. He is an advocate of atheism, libertarian philosophy, free-market economics, and scientific skepticism. His books include Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends, Penn and Teller's How to Play In Traffic, How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker: The Wisdom of Dickie Richard, and God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales.



Disclaimer


Introduction



You're Not Playing a Game



Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, It's Off to Work I Go



Slang



Finding the Line (or, Good Money from Bad People)



Advantage Play for Weasels



Playing the Cards-You Can't Buy Practice


Hit the Brief


Shifting


Shuffling, But Not Really


Dealing From Anywhere


Palm Beating


Holding Out


Slugs


Cold Decking



Why Home Games?



How to Make Your Home Poker Game Cheat Proof



Finding Games



Making It More Interesting



Working Your Friends



Math: 1 in 1 is Better Than 1 in 2, or 10 to 1



Making Your Marks



Paper-Working-"Ahhh, The Six of Diamonds"



High Card Beats a Pair



Shiners



Do You Kiss Your Mother with that Mouth?



Tips and Tricks



Chips Ahoy!



Avoiding Problems



Burning



Coring the Apple



Take the Money and Run



Games People Play



Taking the Hit



Slamming the Pot



Sharking



Nuts



Live and Learn



Shilling



Cheating in the Twenty-First Century



The Temptation to Play Fair-Julia Roberts is Still a Whore


Acknowledgments


Glossary



Rank of Winning Hands and Odds Chart



Ten Ways to Make Your Home Poker Game Cheat Proof


Index