Author: John Vorhaus
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786019946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this fun and fast-moving mystery, a novice poker player must win the world's biggest and toughest poker tournament in order to solve the murder of his brother, who was a poker professional. Original.
The Strip Poker Kit
Author: John Vorhaus
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN: 9780764178429
Category : Poker
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Here is the ice-breaker to end all ice-breakers, a zany party-starter for sophisticated fun at gatherings where every guest is a close friend. The color-illustrated book explains strip poker's rules, illustrates winning hands, and offers tips and advice on what to wear before sitting down to play, how to persuade friends to play, and how to keep cool when all you're finally wearing is your poker face. A tongue-in-cheek chapter on strip poker etiquette advises on how to keep remarks discreet and gaffs and blunders to a minimum. Players will find special rules for both regular and high-speed strip poker. They'll also learn winning strategies, and get advice on how to cheat successfully. Packaged with the book is a sassy striptease card deck featuring illustrations that leave little to the imagination.
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN: 9780764178429
Category : Poker
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Here is the ice-breaker to end all ice-breakers, a zany party-starter for sophisticated fun at gatherings where every guest is a close friend. The color-illustrated book explains strip poker's rules, illustrates winning hands, and offers tips and advice on what to wear before sitting down to play, how to persuade friends to play, and how to keep cool when all you're finally wearing is your poker face. A tongue-in-cheek chapter on strip poker etiquette advises on how to keep remarks discreet and gaffs and blunders to a minimum. Players will find special rules for both regular and high-speed strip poker. They'll also learn winning strategies, and get advice on how to cheat successfully. Packaged with the book is a sassy striptease card deck featuring illustrations that leave little to the imagination.
Decide to Play Great Poker
Author: Annie Duke
Publisher: Huntington Press Inc
ISBN: 1935396323
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Poker is a game of table position, flop texture, players in a hand, personalities, and so much more. This book teaches you how to identify and analyze those variables, become a great strategist, and have confidence in any poker situation. Decide to Play Great Poker is written by Annie Duke, the world's most renowned woman poker player, with John Vorhaus, himself a winning poker player and prolific author.
Publisher: Huntington Press Inc
ISBN: 1935396323
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Poker is a game of table position, flop texture, players in a hand, personalities, and so much more. This book teaches you how to identify and analyze those variables, become a great strategist, and have confidence in any poker situation. Decide to Play Great Poker is written by Annie Duke, the world's most renowned woman poker player, with John Vorhaus, himself a winning poker player and prolific author.
Under the Gun
Author: John Vorhaus
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786019946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this fun and fast-moving mystery, a novice poker player must win the world's biggest and toughest poker tournament in order to solve the murder of his brother, who was a poker professional. Original.
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786019946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this fun and fast-moving mystery, a novice poker player must win the world's biggest and toughest poker tournament in order to solve the murder of his brother, who was a poker professional. Original.
Liar's Poker
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039333869X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The author recounts his experiences on the lucrative Wall Street bond market of the 1980s, where young traders made millions in a very short time, in a humorous account of greed and epic folly.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039333869X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The author recounts his experiences on the lucrative Wall Street bond market of the 1980s, where young traders made millions in a very short time, in a humorous account of greed and epic folly.
Poker & Pop Culture
Author: Martin Harris
Publisher: D&B Publishing
ISBN: 191286200X
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
Introduced shortly after the United States declared its independence, poker’s growth and development has paralleled that of America itself. As a gambling game with mass appeal, poker has been played by presidents and peasants, at kitchen tables and final tables, for matchsticks and millions. First came the hands, then came the stories – some true, some pure bluffs, and many in between. In Poker & Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America’s Favorite Card Game, Martin Harris shares these stories while chronicling poker’s progress from 19th-century steamboats and saloons to 21st-century virtual tables online, including: Poker on the Mississippi Poker in the Movies Poker in the Old West Poker on the Newsstand Poker in the Civil War Poker in Literature Poker on the Bookshelf Poker in Music Poker in the White House Poker on Television Poker During Wartime Poker on the Computer From Mark Twain to “Dogs Playing Poker” to W.C. Fields to John Wayne to A Streetcar Named Desire to the Cold War to Kenny Rogers to ESPN to Star Trek: The Next Generation and beyond, Poker & Pop Culture provides a comprehensive survey of cultural productions in which poker is of thematic importance, showing how the game’s portrayal in the mainstream has increased poker’s relevance to American history and shaped the way we think about the game and its significance.
Publisher: D&B Publishing
ISBN: 191286200X
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
Introduced shortly after the United States declared its independence, poker’s growth and development has paralleled that of America itself. As a gambling game with mass appeal, poker has been played by presidents and peasants, at kitchen tables and final tables, for matchsticks and millions. First came the hands, then came the stories – some true, some pure bluffs, and many in between. In Poker & Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America’s Favorite Card Game, Martin Harris shares these stories while chronicling poker’s progress from 19th-century steamboats and saloons to 21st-century virtual tables online, including: Poker on the Mississippi Poker in the Movies Poker in the Old West Poker on the Newsstand Poker in the Civil War Poker in Literature Poker on the Bookshelf Poker in Music Poker in the White House Poker on Television Poker During Wartime Poker on the Computer From Mark Twain to “Dogs Playing Poker” to W.C. Fields to John Wayne to A Streetcar Named Desire to the Cold War to Kenny Rogers to ESPN to Star Trek: The Next Generation and beyond, Poker & Pop Culture provides a comprehensive survey of cultural productions in which poker is of thematic importance, showing how the game’s portrayal in the mainstream has increased poker’s relevance to American history and shaped the way we think about the game and its significance.
the little book of SITCOM
Author: John Vorhaus
Publisher: Bafflegab Books
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Writing situation comedies isn’t really that hard. So much of what you need to know is already defined for you. You know that your script needs to be a certain short length, with a certain small number of characters. You know that your choice of scenes is limited to your show’s standing sets and maybe one or two swing sets or outside locations. You know how your characters behave and how they’re funny, either because you invented them or because you’re writing for a show where these things are already well established. Sitcom is easy and sitcom is fun. Sitcom is the gateway drug to longer forms of writing. It’s a pretty good buzz and a pretty good ride, a great way to kill an afternoon, or even six months. And now, thanks to comedy writing guru John Vorhaus (author of THE COMIC TOOLBOX: HOW TO BE FUNNY EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT), writing situation comedy is easier than ever. In THE LITTLE BOOK OF SITCOM, you'll find a whole trove of tools, tricks and problem-solving techniques that you can use -- now, today -- to be the sitcom writer of your wildest dreams. Ready to write? Ready to have fun? THE LITTLE BOOK OF SITCOM is the big little book for you.
Publisher: Bafflegab Books
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Writing situation comedies isn’t really that hard. So much of what you need to know is already defined for you. You know that your script needs to be a certain short length, with a certain small number of characters. You know that your choice of scenes is limited to your show’s standing sets and maybe one or two swing sets or outside locations. You know how your characters behave and how they’re funny, either because you invented them or because you’re writing for a show where these things are already well established. Sitcom is easy and sitcom is fun. Sitcom is the gateway drug to longer forms of writing. It’s a pretty good buzz and a pretty good ride, a great way to kill an afternoon, or even six months. And now, thanks to comedy writing guru John Vorhaus (author of THE COMIC TOOLBOX: HOW TO BE FUNNY EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT), writing situation comedy is easier than ever. In THE LITTLE BOOK OF SITCOM, you'll find a whole trove of tools, tricks and problem-solving techniques that you can use -- now, today -- to be the sitcom writer of your wildest dreams. Ready to write? Ready to have fun? THE LITTLE BOOK OF SITCOM is the big little book for you.
Decide to Play Drunk Poker
Author: John Vorhaus
Publisher: John Vorhaus
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
With tongue planted firmly in cheek, noted novelist and poker raconteur John Vorhaus pulls off the devastatingly rare "self-spoof," going to town on his and Annie Duke's bestselling book, DECIDE TO PLAY GREAT POKER. Study the ways of the drunken master (an Ascended Stairmaster). Correlate drinking frequencies to bluffing frequencies. Learn not to drink with Finns. Also contains the complete rules of Hold'em War and important breakthroughs in strip poker. The good news about drinking and playing poker is if you're a really, really, really, really bad player to begin with, drinking won't materially hurt your game. Same with this book: If you have no game to begin with, this won't make it worse.
Publisher: John Vorhaus
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
With tongue planted firmly in cheek, noted novelist and poker raconteur John Vorhaus pulls off the devastatingly rare "self-spoof," going to town on his and Annie Duke's bestselling book, DECIDE TO PLAY GREAT POKER. Study the ways of the drunken master (an Ascended Stairmaster). Correlate drinking frequencies to bluffing frequencies. Learn not to drink with Finns. Also contains the complete rules of Hold'em War and important breakthroughs in strip poker. The good news about drinking and playing poker is if you're a really, really, really, really bad player to begin with, drinking won't materially hurt your game. Same with this book: If you have no game to begin with, this won't make it worse.
Bet the House
Author: Richard Roeper
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569766118
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
During the course of 30 days in early 2009, Richard Roeper risked more than a quarter million dollars on practically every method of gambling in America. This title both celebrates and details the pitfalls and lures through Roeper's stories about his lifelong affair with gambling.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569766118
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
During the course of 30 days in early 2009, Richard Roeper risked more than a quarter million dollars on practically every method of gambling in America. This title both celebrates and details the pitfalls and lures through Roeper's stories about his lifelong affair with gambling.
Lucy in the Sky
Author: John Vorhaus
Publisher: John Vorhaus
ISBN: 1470088266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
A coming-of-age tale set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1969, Lucy in the Sky lightly touches on such weighty issues as the meaning of life, the purpose of art and the existence of God. For those interested in answers to The Big Questions or just keen to revisit a simpler time, Lucy in the Sky promises a fun and compelling trip - and that's trip in every sense of the word. Gene Steen is an earnest, intelligent, truth-seeking teen stuck in the cultural wasteland of his suburban home. He wants to be a hippie in the worst way, but hippies are scarce on the ground in the forlorn Midwest of Gene's 15th year. Then, propitiously on the Summer Solstice, his life is turned upside down by the arrival of his lively, lovely, long-lost cousin Lucy. She's hip beyond Gene's wildest dreams and immediately takes him under her wing. Lucy teaches Gene that being a hippie isn't about love beads and peace signs, but about the choices you make and the stands you take. Yet for all her airy insights into religion, philosophy and "the isness of it all," Lucy harbors dark secrets - secrets that will soon put her on the run, with Gene by her side.Lucy in the Sky resonates of such classics as Summer of '42 and Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and invites the reader into a richly detailed vision of the '60s, as realized by Vorhaus's sure-handed prose and authentic sense of place and time. With frank talk about sex and drugs, Vorhaus pulls no punches about the realities of the era, yet delivers an uplifting message about personal power and the path to enlightenment. A rewarding read for young seekers and old geezers alike.
Publisher: John Vorhaus
ISBN: 1470088266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
A coming-of-age tale set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1969, Lucy in the Sky lightly touches on such weighty issues as the meaning of life, the purpose of art and the existence of God. For those interested in answers to The Big Questions or just keen to revisit a simpler time, Lucy in the Sky promises a fun and compelling trip - and that's trip in every sense of the word. Gene Steen is an earnest, intelligent, truth-seeking teen stuck in the cultural wasteland of his suburban home. He wants to be a hippie in the worst way, but hippies are scarce on the ground in the forlorn Midwest of Gene's 15th year. Then, propitiously on the Summer Solstice, his life is turned upside down by the arrival of his lively, lovely, long-lost cousin Lucy. She's hip beyond Gene's wildest dreams and immediately takes him under her wing. Lucy teaches Gene that being a hippie isn't about love beads and peace signs, but about the choices you make and the stands you take. Yet for all her airy insights into religion, philosophy and "the isness of it all," Lucy harbors dark secrets - secrets that will soon put her on the run, with Gene by her side.Lucy in the Sky resonates of such classics as Summer of '42 and Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and invites the reader into a richly detailed vision of the '60s, as realized by Vorhaus's sure-handed prose and authentic sense of place and time. With frank talk about sex and drugs, Vorhaus pulls no punches about the realities of the era, yet delivers an uplifting message about personal power and the path to enlightenment. A rewarding read for young seekers and old geezers alike.
The California Roll
Author: John Vorhaus
Publisher: Broadway Books
ISBN: 0307463184
Category : Swindlers and swindling
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Radar Hoverlander has been a grifter since childhood. Now he's hunting bigger game and traveling around the world rippinG off anyone who doesn't see him coming.
Publisher: Broadway Books
ISBN: 0307463184
Category : Swindlers and swindling
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Radar Hoverlander has been a grifter since childhood. Now he's hunting bigger game and traveling around the world rippinG off anyone who doesn't see him coming.