Opere di Nigel Goldman
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This is a short and fairly straightforward guide to playing poker online. It assumes you know the basics of poker, and focuses on strength of hole cards, probability of hitting hands from the flop, and traps that many people fall into. It keeps the maths side fairly simple and has some useful check lists in it. I've found it quite helpful in making me think about poker more logically, but its far from an in depth study.
Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 26
- Popolarità
- #495,361
- Voto
- 3.0
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 7
This isn't a particularly long book, about 250 conventional pages and there are, I think, 10 chapters. Each chapter features a different story, some quite famous, some less so, and they are not all about casinos which I found a little surprising. The stories also cover a wide time range, going from the early days of gambling, right through to the modern day. Everything is well explained and even those who are not familiar with gambling should be able to understand what is going on. There is also a glossary at the back of the book to explain certain terms which crop up in gambling parlance. The writing is quite lively and I found the book easy to read and entertaining.
The only thing I would label as a negative is that a few of the stories are what I would consider borderline related to gambling. For example, there are a few cases of individuals conning people out of money by setting up fake companies or acting as investment bankers. These people then gambled some of that money away and were eventually caught. To me, this isn't a gambling scam, its theft and the gambling is just the end point for the disposal of the funds. These individuals also always led lavish lifestyles so the money went on other things as well.
This was a likeable if unremarkable book.… (altro)