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Poker books released in September 2009

For Richer, For Poorer by Victoria Coren

For Richer, For Poorer - A Love Affair with Poker by Victoria Coren

Victoria Coren's long awaited memoir is an intensely honest story of 20 years of obsession, of highs and lows, wins and losses, friendships, power plays, loneliness and adiction.

It is a book that takes us from the grimy world underworld of illegal cash games to the high glamour of Monte Carlo and Las Vegas, and gets to the heat of why poker has become the world's most popular card game.

Vicky Coren is Britain's most successful woman poker player and her story, unlike most poker stories, has a happy ending. It is also funny, shrewd and - for a poker player - astonishingly modest and frank. A class act.' - Al Alvarez, author of The Biggest Game in Town

Pass The Sugar by Joe Hachem

Pass The Sugar by Joe Hachem

Pass The Sugar' (Joe's catch phrase after he wins a big pot) takes readers on a journey that many dream of ... from playing home games of Poker with friends to becoming a multimillionaire world Poker champ. Joe's story proves that dreams can come true.

The book gives insights into how Joe plays the cards he is dealt, in life as well as on the poker table.

Faced with adversity which could have ruined his life, Joe turned to the pastime that he loved, and outlayed $10,000 to compete against 5,618 combatants including many of the world's top professionals in the World Championship of the game known as the 'Cadillac of Poker'—No Limit Texas Hold 'em. The prize is the richest in sport...more than Wimbledon, the US Masters or the Tour De France.

Come with Joe from his childhood journey from Lebanon to Australia to the final table at the World Series of Poker Championship at the famous Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas where he made poker history with a 7 of clubs and 3 of spades. Along the way you will learn about perseverance, the importance of family and the workings of a great poker mind.

After his famous victory, Joe still felt the need to prove himself—for validation—and seventeen months after winning the world championship he achieved poker immortality by winning the second richest tournament in the world, The Five Diamonds at the Bellagio, becoming one of only four players in the history of poker to achieve this amazing double feat.

The book also relates stories of Joe's encounters with some of Hollywood's biggest stars, tournaments that he's played around the world and the work that he does to promote Poker internationally and charitable causes at home. It is the story of a man who has scaled dizzy heights but whose feet remain firmly on the ground.

Poker, Gaming And Life Expanded Edition by David Sklansky

Poker, Gaming And Life Expanded Edition by David Sklansky

Expanded edition of a classic work.

A collection of Sklansky's celebrated articles that have appeared over the years in a range of publications.

Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time Volume I by Eric Lynch, Jon Turner, Jon Van Fleet

Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time Volume I by Eric Lynch, Jon Turner, Jon Van Fleet

The books will focus on No-Limit tournament strategy and will be discussed over several books.

The three authors are Eric Lynch, Jon Turner and Jon Van Fleet. Together the three have been to 1,000 final tables and have well over 200 wins.

Lynch plays online and in live tournaments. Over the past two years, he has cashed out seven times at the World Series of Poker. He has had success in live play and in 2006 he took home $494,000 in the Main Event. He has had huge success online as well and has cashed out for more than $1 million.

He has also already tried his hand at book writing. He helped Matthew Hilger write No-Limit Hold'em Tournament Strategy: Expert Strategies for Live and Online Play. It has not been released as of yet.

Van Fleet is also a star player online. He was ranked by InternetPokerRankings one of the top ten internet players. He has cashed out a little more than Lynch online, at almost $2 million.

Turner is also known throughout the online world. His online name is PearlJammer and is usually ranked in the top ten as well. He also has almost $2 million in cash outs.

Whale Hunt in the Desert by Deke Castleman

Whale Hunt in the Desert: Secrets of a Vegas Superhost by Deke Castleman

Whales are not only the world's largest creatures. They're also the world's largest gamblers.

The world's largest gambling whales can make $50,000-$250,000 (US) bets—not cumulatively over a trip, but on every hand, hour after hour, day after day. A whale's wins and losses can top out at $20 million to $30 million during a typical Las Vegas weekend. This can and does impact a huge publicly traded casino corporation's entire quarterly earnings.

Of course, whales don't just swim up to a casino with the tide. With only a handful of them in the world, they're actively hunted by casino marketing executives, also known as hosts. WHALE HUNT IN THE DESERT is the story of one such host, Steve Cyr.

The book delves deeply into the whale hunt — covering the history of the handling of high rollers in Las Vegas—mostly through the saga of this superhost: where he came from; how he employs casino perks such as limos, penthouses, shopping sprees, trips abroad, show-up money, and sex (yes, sex) to hook the big fish.

Synopsis

In pre-1990s Las Vegas, casino marketing executives were all cut from the same cloth; sharply-dressed and smooth-talking with street-savvy. They rose through the ranks of operations - dealer, floor-man, pit boss, shift boss and casino manager. When it was time to leave the trenches, they went "upstairs" into the executive offices, where they hosted a handful of established players according to the unwritten rules of old-school Vegas. Then Steve Cyr showed up... *World Series of Poker and WSOP are trademarks of Harrah’s License Company, LLC (“Harrah’s”). Harrah’s does not sponsor or endorse, and is not associated or affiliated with, www.rivered.co.uk or its products, services, promotions or tournaments.