John Wenzel - The Everything Texas Hold Em Book: Tips And Tricks You Need to Take the Pot

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THE EVERYTHING TEXAS HOLD'EM BOOK

Tips and tricks you need to take the pot

John Johnny Quads Wenzel

Adams Media
Avon, Massachusetts

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Wenzel, John.
The everything Texas hold'em book : tips and tricks you need to take the pot / John Johnny Quads Wenzel.
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To my mother, who knows bridge, who knows writing, but who doesn't have a clue about poker.

Contents

Top Ten Texas Told'em: Quotable Quotes

I don't lose because I have nothing to lose. Including my life. Doc Holiday, Gunfight at the OK Corral

To lose patience is to lose the battle. Mahatma Gandhi

In the thick of the evening when the dealing got rough, She was too pat to open and too cool to bluff. Grateful Dead, Scarlet Begonias y

You call this one and it's all over, baby! Scotty Nguyen before winning the World Series of Poker

Be happy with the world. Be delighted. For there are other games, always another game. There are honest men. And we, my friend we are still alive. the late Nick the Greek

Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur

My wife made me join a Bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday. Rodney Dangerfield

Many the Wednesday evening, escaping from a domestic or professional crisis, I settled at the table as if my noisy buddies would protect me from life itself. author John Updike

Life is like a game of poker. You have to take chances to win. John Red Morrison

Virtually all the greats have gone broke at least once in their careers, and I'm no different. The key is to learn something from the experience. poker champ Daniel Negreanu

Introduction

You've heard the name, bouncing around somewhere in the recesses of your mind. Texas Hold'em. It's some card game, you think, maybe poker. The kids are playing it after school, college students are dealing it in their dorms and frat houses, and now your neighbor's even talking about playing it with his beer buddies. The moms are talking about having girls' poker nights. Folks at work are competing online every day for real money against players from all over the world.

On TV, card sharks are winning millions of dollars, and every night there's a new show: The World Poker Tour, The World Series of Poker, Celebrity Poker Showdown with those movie stars, and more. Ben Affleck won $350,000 playing this crazy-looking game. The bestselling Christmas gift last year was a Hold'em table and chips!