{"product_id":"2940016742298","title":"Winning at Texas Hold 'em: Winning Strategies For Beginners","description":"Discover the best tips for playing and winning online Texas Hold-em.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's becoming almost as big as baseball, football, hockey, and other sporting events. Television has increased its popularity. With the Internet, it's coming into our homes at a lightning fast rate. The rage that's sweeping the nation, poker!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough the game has been around for years played in family recreation rooms, smoky bars, casinos, and even retirement homes, these days, poker has become the game of choice for hundreds of thousands of people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, we'll explore different ways to play the game\u003cbr\u003eonline to maximize on your buy-in. We'll touch on tournaments as well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnline poker can be fun and even profitable when you play smart and follow the advice of those in the know. Whether you're playing for fun or for money.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s becoming almost as big as baseball, football, hockey, and other sporting events.\u003cbr\u003eTelevision has increased its popularity. With the Internet, it’s coming into our homes at a\u003cbr\u003elightning fast rate. The rage that’s sweeping the nation – poker!\u003cbr\u003eAlthough the game has been around for years played in family recreation rooms, smoky\u003cbr\u003ebars, casinos, and even retirement homes, these days, poker has become the game of\u003cbr\u003echoice for hundreds of thousands of people.\u003cbr\u003eFamily game night used to mean getting out the Monopoly board and battling over Park\u003cbr\u003ePlace and Broadway. Now, family game night is more likely to be characterized by\u003cbr\u003ebreaking out the poker chips and battling each other for the best hands.\u003cbr\u003eMore and more people are talking about their bad beats, their great hands, and their\u003cbr\u003eprowess for play. Popular on college campuses, fraternal clubs, and even retirement\u003cbr\u003ehomes, poker has become our new game of chance, and our new game of choice.\u003cbr\u003eWhat has led to the rise of this game? Most likely, it has been television and the media.\u003cbr\u003eOn any given evening, the average person can flip on the TV set and find a poker game\u003cbr\u003ebeing aired.\u003cbr\u003eThe World Series of Poker, Celebrity Poker Showdown, and Ultimate Poker Showdown\u003cbr\u003eare rising in the ratings as we tune in to see professionals battle it out and compare our\u003cbr\u003eplay to theirs.\u003cbr\u003eNearly every home these days has at least one computer. The Internet has become our\u003cbr\u003elifeline, in ways, for information, contact with the outside world, and – yes – our portal to\u003cbr\u003ethe world of poker beyond our kitchen table. Now ordinary people can log on and play\u003cbr\u003epoker with people other than our parents, kids, and friends. Many professional players\u003cbr\u003esponsor online website where they are required to play allowing Average Joe to match his\u003cbr\u003epoker skills with the likes of Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson.\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps the biggest rise in poker popularity – specifically online poker – stems from one\u003cbr\u003eman’s $40 online buy-in leading to the Cinderella story of the industry. Chris\u003cbr\u003eMoneymaker qualified for The World Series of Poker main event through a small buy-in\u003cbr\u003esatellite event at Poker Stars.\u003cbr\u003eAt the Series, he outlasted a field of 839 entrants – the largest in World Series of Poker\u003cbr\u003ehistory at the time. He pitted heads against some of the most well-known poker\u003cbr\u003eprofessionals in the world – and won! Moneymaker’s first-place finish netted him $2.5\u003cbr\u003emillion dollars, which wasn’t bad considering it was his first live tournament.\u003cbr\u003eMany people looked at Moneymaker’s win as monumental. After all, he was just an\u003cbr\u003eaverage guy. He could be anyone’s next door neighbor or co-worker, and he went up\u003cbr\u003eagainst the pros and won. Chris Moneymaker opened the door for everyday people to\u003cbr\u003edream about being the next professional poker player.\u003cbr\u003eIn fact, the 2004 World Series featured triple the number of players over the 2003\u003cbr\u003eturnout. At least four players in the WSOP final table won their entry through an online\u003cbr\u003ecard room. Like Moneymaker, 2004 winner Greg “Fossil man” Raymer also won his\u003cbr\u003eentry at the Poker Stars online card room.\u003cbr\u003eThere are a myriad of tips and tricks for playing the game of poker. Everyone seems to\u003cbr\u003ehave an opinion on the best way to play the game.\u003cbr\u003eTrue, poker is a game of chance, and many would argue that there really is no secret to\u003cbr\u003ewinning the game. However, there is a best way to play. As Kenny Rogers sang in “The\u003cbr\u003eGambler”, you’ve got to know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em. Know\u003cbr\u003ewhen to walk away, and know when to run.\u003cbr\u003eThere are many variations on the game of poker, but the one most popular today has got\u003cbr\u003eto be Texas Hold ‘Em. It’s a relatively simple game, but like all poker, it can change\u003cbr\u003ewith the deal of every card. In this book, we’ll explore different ways to play the game\u003cbr\u003eonline to maximize on your buy-in.","brand":"Laiftllc.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101570285808,"sku":"2940016742298","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016742298_p0.jpg?v=1763640916","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016742298","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}