Author: Hardy Crueger
Publisher: crueger ebooks
ISBN: 3757940954
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Oker, a small river in the middle of Germany. Lush greenery, ducks, anglers and paddlers. An idyll for excursionists and romantics, you might think. But the peace is deceptive, for the breath of death blows across the riverbed: far from the villages, the horse ripper commits his next murder and upstream, a manic man-killer prowls. In Braunschweig, a psychotic stalker desires his victim to the death and in the Oker reservoir a woman finds a terrible lump of meat. Thrilling and full of surprises, Hardy Crueger proves himself a master storyteller in the premium class of fiction – the short story. »Nothing would be more annoying than missing the conclusion of this story.« Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Oker Stories
Author: Hardy Crueger
Publisher: crueger ebooks
ISBN: 3757940954
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Oker, a small river in the middle of Germany. Lush greenery, ducks, anglers and paddlers. An idyll for excursionists and romantics, you might think. But the peace is deceptive, for the breath of death blows across the riverbed: far from the villages, the horse ripper commits his next murder and upstream, a manic man-killer prowls. In Braunschweig, a psychotic stalker desires his victim to the death and in the Oker reservoir a woman finds a terrible lump of meat. Thrilling and full of surprises, Hardy Crueger proves himself a master storyteller in the premium class of fiction – the short story. »Nothing would be more annoying than missing the conclusion of this story.« Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Publisher: crueger ebooks
ISBN: 3757940954
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Oker, a small river in the middle of Germany. Lush greenery, ducks, anglers and paddlers. An idyll for excursionists and romantics, you might think. But the peace is deceptive, for the breath of death blows across the riverbed: far from the villages, the horse ripper commits his next murder and upstream, a manic man-killer prowls. In Braunschweig, a psychotic stalker desires his victim to the death and in the Oker reservoir a woman finds a terrible lump of meat. Thrilling and full of surprises, Hardy Crueger proves himself a master storyteller in the premium class of fiction – the short story. »Nothing would be more annoying than missing the conclusion of this story.« Norddeutscher Rundfunk
The 50 Greatest Stories in Poker History
Author: Marton Magyar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944877521
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944877521
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Queer Luck: Poker Stories from the New York Sun
Author: David A. Curtis
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Queer Luck: Poker Stories from the New York Sun is a book by David A. Curtis. Contents: Why He Quit the Game Freeze-out for a Life A Gambler's Pistol Play Queer Runs of Luck Storms's Straight Flush For a Senate Seat The Bill Went Through Poker for High Stakes and more.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Queer Luck: Poker Stories from the New York Sun is a book by David A. Curtis. Contents: Why He Quit the Game Freeze-out for a Life A Gambler's Pistol Play Queer Runs of Luck Storms's Straight Flush For a Senate Seat The Bill Went Through Poker for High Stakes and more.
Exploitative Play in Live Poker
Author: Alexander Fitzgerald
Publisher: D&B Publishing
ISBN: 1909457949
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Many poker players can make good decisions at the table with a reasonable frequency. Nevertheless, there are numerous situations where even very experienced players behave in predictable ways. These deeply-ingrained habits lead them to make mistakes. The problem is that these situations won’t often arise at the table by chance – you have to make them happen. Exploitative Play in Live Poker is a ground-breaking work that teaches you how to create the circumstances where your opponents will be likely to blunder and how to exploit them when they do. To achieve this you will need to put to one side starting hand charts, balance and GTO (Game Theory Optimal) play. Instead you will incorporate new concepts that may well place you outside your comfort zone. However, your style will now be forcing the other players at the table outside of their comfort zone and, unlike you, they won’t know how to adapt. Learn how to: Counter the auto-continuation-bettorDevelop a powerful donk-betting strategyUse the overbet, the check-raise and the three-barrel effectively As well as being a highly successful player, Alex Fitzgerald runs a poker consultancy that serves more than 1,000 professional poker players in 60 countries. As part of this work, he has very likely trawled through more hand history databases than anyone else. This gives him a unique insight into how players really play, especially when placed under pressure and forced into unfamiliar situations.
Publisher: D&B Publishing
ISBN: 1909457949
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Many poker players can make good decisions at the table with a reasonable frequency. Nevertheless, there are numerous situations where even very experienced players behave in predictable ways. These deeply-ingrained habits lead them to make mistakes. The problem is that these situations won’t often arise at the table by chance – you have to make them happen. Exploitative Play in Live Poker is a ground-breaking work that teaches you how to create the circumstances where your opponents will be likely to blunder and how to exploit them when they do. To achieve this you will need to put to one side starting hand charts, balance and GTO (Game Theory Optimal) play. Instead you will incorporate new concepts that may well place you outside your comfort zone. However, your style will now be forcing the other players at the table outside of their comfort zone and, unlike you, they won’t know how to adapt. Learn how to: Counter the auto-continuation-bettorDevelop a powerful donk-betting strategyUse the overbet, the check-raise and the three-barrel effectively As well as being a highly successful player, Alex Fitzgerald runs a poker consultancy that serves more than 1,000 professional poker players in 60 countries. As part of this work, he has very likely trawled through more hand history databases than anyone else. This gives him a unique insight into how players really play, especially when placed under pressure and forced into unfamiliar situations.
The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told
Author: DC Comics, Inc
Publisher: Dc Comics
ISBN: 9780930289362
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"A celebration of last laughs and deadly crimes as written and drawn by many of the greatest writers and artists ever to grace the comic art medium! The companion volume to The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told!"--Cover, page 4.
Publisher: Dc Comics
ISBN: 9780930289362
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"A celebration of last laughs and deadly crimes as written and drawn by many of the greatest writers and artists ever to grace the comic art medium! The companion volume to The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told!"--Cover, page 4.
Positively Fifth Street
Author: James McManus
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374706204
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Rough sex, black magic, murder, and the science-and eros-of gambling meet in the ultimate book about Las Vegas James 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 outré it took a Manhattan pathologist to identify it. Whether a jury would convict the attractive young couple was another story altogether. McManus risks his entire Harper's advance in a long-shot attempt to play in the tournament himself. Only with actual table experience, he tells his skeptical wife, can he capture the hair-raising brand of poker that determines the world champion. The heart of the book is his deliciously suspenseful account of the tournament itself-the players, the hand-to-hand combat, and his own unlikely progress in it. Written in the tradition of The Gambler and The Biggest Game in Town, Positively Fifth Street is a high-stakes adventure, a penetrating study of America's card game, and a terrifying but often hilarious account of one man's effort to understand what Edward O. Wilson has called "Pleistocene exigencies"-the eros and logistics of our primary competitive instincts.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374706204
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Rough sex, black magic, murder, and the science-and eros-of gambling meet in the ultimate book about Las Vegas James 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 outré it took a Manhattan pathologist to identify it. Whether a jury would convict the attractive young couple was another story altogether. McManus risks his entire Harper's advance in a long-shot attempt to play in the tournament himself. Only with actual table experience, he tells his skeptical wife, can he capture the hair-raising brand of poker that determines the world champion. The heart of the book is his deliciously suspenseful account of the tournament itself-the players, the hand-to-hand combat, and his own unlikely progress in it. Written in the tradition of The Gambler and The Biggest Game in Town, Positively Fifth Street is a high-stakes adventure, a penetrating study of America's card game, and a terrifying but often hilarious account of one man's effort to understand what Edward O. Wilson has called "Pleistocene exigencies"-the eros and logistics of our primary competitive instincts.
Life's a Gamble
Author: Mike Sexton
Publisher: D&B Publishing
ISBN: 1909457582
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: D&B Publishing
ISBN: 1909457582
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Dead Man's Hand
Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0151012776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
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 is. In One Dollar Jackpot, Michael Connelly's detective Harry Bosch finds himself looking for tells when facing off against a professional poker player in the interrogation room. And a young woman learns how to bluff the hard way in Hardly Knew Her, by Laura Lippman. In these and others stories, aces of the mystery-writing world--including Joyce Carol Oates, Alexander McCall Smith, Jeffery Deaver, John Lescroart, and others--combine to form a winning hand.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0151012776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
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 is. In One Dollar Jackpot, Michael Connelly's detective Harry Bosch finds himself looking for tells when facing off against a professional poker player in the interrogation room. And a young woman learns how to bluff the hard way in Hardly Knew Her, by Laura Lippman. In these and others stories, aces of the mystery-writing world--including Joyce Carol Oates, Alexander McCall Smith, Jeffery Deaver, John Lescroart, and others--combine to form a winning hand.
The Noble Hustle
Author: Colson Whitehead
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0345804333
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys • “Whitehead proves a brilliant sociologist of the poker world.” —The Boston Globe In 2011, Grantland magazine gave bestselling novelist Colson Whitehead $10,000 to play at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. It was the assignment of a lifetime, except for one hitch—he’d never played in a casino tournament before. With just six weeks to train, our humble narrator took the Greyhound to Atlantic City to learn the ways of high-stakes Texas Hold’em. Poker culture, he discovered, is marked by joy, heartbreak, and grizzled veterans playing against teenage hotshots weaned on Internet gambling. Not to mention the not-to-be overlooked issue of coordinating Port Authority bus schedules with your kid’s drop-off and pickup at school. Finally arriving in Vegas for the multimillion-dollar tournament, Whitehead brilliantly details his progress, both literal and existential, through the event’s antes and turns, through its gritty moments of calculation, hope, and spectacle. Entertaining, ironic, and strangely profound, this epic search for meaning at the World Series of Poker is a sure bet. Look for Colson Whitehead’s bestselling new novel, Harlem Shuffle!
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0345804333
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys • “Whitehead proves a brilliant sociologist of the poker world.” —The Boston Globe In 2011, Grantland magazine gave bestselling novelist Colson Whitehead $10,000 to play at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. It was the assignment of a lifetime, except for one hitch—he’d never played in a casino tournament before. With just six weeks to train, our humble narrator took the Greyhound to Atlantic City to learn the ways of high-stakes Texas Hold’em. Poker culture, he discovered, is marked by joy, heartbreak, and grizzled veterans playing against teenage hotshots weaned on Internet gambling. Not to mention the not-to-be overlooked issue of coordinating Port Authority bus schedules with your kid’s drop-off and pickup at school. Finally arriving in Vegas for the multimillion-dollar tournament, Whitehead brilliantly details his progress, both literal and existential, through the event’s antes and turns, through its gritty moments of calculation, hope, and spectacle. Entertaining, ironic, and strangely profound, this epic search for meaning at the World Series of Poker is a sure bet. Look for Colson Whitehead’s bestselling new novel, Harlem Shuffle!
Famous Gamblers, Poker History, and Texas Stories
Author: Johnny Hughes
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475942170
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
You have a great writing style, very credible, and entertaining. Those were dangerous times. Almost all of the guys are gone. A great book!... Doyle Brunson, Poker Hall of Fame, author. Hes as good a writer as he is a player. When it comes to poker tales...Johnny Hughes is your man.... Anthony Holden, London, President of the International Federation of Poker, author ... a captivating raconteur and avid historian...brings them to life with a unique flair and panache...(He) paints word pictures with witty, lush brush strokes reminiscent of Tom Wolfe... Paul Dr. Pauly McGuire, author ..the William Manchester of poker historians...a Hughes narrative is like lighting a lantern into the darkest recess of pokers subculture...provides the very best portrait of these unique real-life characters of anyone on record... Nolan Dalla, Media Director. World Series of Poker, author. ...the true story...of the beginnings of the phenomenon that poker has become... Crandell Addington, Poker Hall of Fame. Reading...is only paralleled by listening to him tell those stories in real time...like putting yourself in the same room as it all unfolded...when the mob ruled Las Vegas...the real stories... Ryan Sayer, OnTilt Radio, C.O.O.,and Host. www.JohnnyHughes.com
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475942170
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
You have a great writing style, very credible, and entertaining. Those were dangerous times. Almost all of the guys are gone. A great book!... Doyle Brunson, Poker Hall of Fame, author. Hes as good a writer as he is a player. When it comes to poker tales...Johnny Hughes is your man.... Anthony Holden, London, President of the International Federation of Poker, author ... a captivating raconteur and avid historian...brings them to life with a unique flair and panache...(He) paints word pictures with witty, lush brush strokes reminiscent of Tom Wolfe... Paul Dr. Pauly McGuire, author ..the William Manchester of poker historians...a Hughes narrative is like lighting a lantern into the darkest recess of pokers subculture...provides the very best portrait of these unique real-life characters of anyone on record... Nolan Dalla, Media Director. World Series of Poker, author. ...the true story...of the beginnings of the phenomenon that poker has become... Crandell Addington, Poker Hall of Fame. Reading...is only paralleled by listening to him tell those stories in real time...like putting yourself in the same room as it all unfolded...when the mob ruled Las Vegas...the real stories... Ryan Sayer, OnTilt Radio, C.O.O.,and Host. www.JohnnyHughes.com