Secrets of Winning Bridge

Humor & Entertainment

Rubens, Jeff

Puzzles & Games

Penguin Putnam~childrens Hc

If you've played bridge a while and read most of the standard books, you probably consider yourself a pretty knowledgeable bridge player. This book will show you how limited your knowledge may really be. It gives more expert advice on topics most other books treat cursorily, or not at all, than you may have thought possible. Once you master this advice, you will have more insight into bridge judgment than almost 99% of all other players. The reason for this is that this book puts into print what master players have been doing at the table for years.

The Secrets of Winning Bridge

Sports & Outdoors

Dover Pubns

Poker is a game of percentages, and in the long run every player gets his fair share of good cards — but some players win more consistently than others, and in this fascinating book card expert Jeff Rubens tells you why. Win at Poker assumes no previous poker knowledge. It starts out with fundamentals — the rank of hands, the mechanics of betting — and moves step-by-step to topics of greater complexity: how to play draw and stud poker; variations on these games and why they were created; how to play seven-card stud, high-low, spit in the ocean, anaconda, etc.; and most important of all, how to adapt yourself to any poker situation. Dozens of sample hands and brief quizzes simulate actual poker practice and sharpen your ability to formulate winning betting strategies. A full discussion of money management (i.e. betting) techniques enables you to distinguish favorable bets from unfavorable ones. In the long run, you can't do worse than break even at poker if you follow the guidelines set out for you here. Other exciting features of this book include: insights into poker ethics and etiquette; sidelights on poker history and traditions; a special Appendix outlining "The Modern Laws of Poker," and an immensely useful Glossary and Index. This handy feature contains all the poker terms, both slang and technical, you need to know — ante, bicycle, case card, sandbag, showdown, and many more. This book does more than teach you how to play poker — it teaches you how to play winning poker. If you're a novice seeking a clear practical guide to the fundamentals, you'll find Win atPoker invaluable. If you're an experienced player looking for expert advice on how to increase your winning percentage, you'll gain new insights and improve your play.

Win at Poker

Dover Publications

1968 Hardback edition. Bright clean boards have very slight fading around edges, other than that, no wear. Text is perfect. Bright clean dust jacket edge wear, slight rippling, light chipping, rubbing, shelf wear. Same day shipping from AZ.

Win at poker

New York : Galahad Books

Bridge : Test Your Play As Declarer Volume 2

Devyn

The first part of this book is about opening leads in contract bridge. Defense is by far the most difficult part of contract bridge and the first lead - which must be made without sight of the dummy - is the most difficult part of defense. There are two aspects of opening-lead skill: (1) improving your judgment as to which suit will be the best lead; (2) maintaining, with your partner, the most effective set of conventional understandings as to the information conveyed by your leads. To those interested in improving their lead judgment we strongly recommend Bob Ewen's Opening Leads (Prentice Hall, 1970). It is an informative, accurate and complete work which will be enjoyed by players on all levels. We do consider judgment and give numerous lead examples, but we address ourselves primarily to methods that is, to the agreements between partners regarding the meaning of the opening lead. As late as the early sixties, there was a firmly entrenched tradition of opening-lead conventions, the so-called ' 'standard table of opening leads. " This table was held almost sacred. Every so often a slight modification was suggested and adopted by a few players, but by and large everyone followed the standard table. Why? Certainly not because they themselves had considered the alternatives and selected the one that seemed to them best. Rather, it is because of the lazy attitude that what has been done in the same way for so many years must be pretty good, otherwise people wouldn't keep doing it. But traditions are not necessarily for the best. Our everyday life is full of traditions so ingrained we do not give them a second thought, yet so inane that a visitor from Mars, observing them, could conclude only that our world was being run by a bunch of nincompoops. Just a few examples should suffice. English spelling and pronunciation are irretrievably snarled, to no gain whatsoever be pronounced in over a dozen different ways.

Journalist Leads

Rosler, Lawrence

Pando Pubns

Two famous internationalists teach you how to analyze and play out the difficult hands that separate the neophytes from the prize winners.

Test Your Play As Declarer

Lukacs, Paul

Squeeze Books

Swiss Match Challenge

Lawrence & Leong Pub

Perhaps the world's most prestigious bridge magazine, 'The Bridge World' each month features a column entitled 'Test Your Play', which consists of two difficult problems in declarer play for readers to solve. In this book, Jeff Rubens has collected some of his favourite hands from this column, and presents them as a compendium for those who like a serious intellectual challenge. There is a steady market for problem books of this kind and this collection is guaranteed to be of high quality.

The Bridge World's Test Your Play

Master Point Press

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