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Author : David M. Hayano
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520050679
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Poker Faces written by David M. Hayano and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gaurav Malhotra
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (874 download)
Download or read book Unravelling the Poker Face written by Gaurav Malhotra and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-10-19 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thought processes, personality factors, emotional states, cognitive biases—poker, a simple card game, can reveal so much about human behavior through the decisions players make. A hundred such psychological tendencies plague each individual, and the secret to winning in poker (and life) is to be aware of them—especially before opponents find out and use these to their advantage! This book, engaging tools from mathematics, psychology, economics, and other domains, provides a theoretical foundation for how to decode human nature through the lens of poker, and reveals how these can be leveraged to keep the pot growing, both on and off the table.
Author : Katy Lederer
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307566080
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Poker Face written by Katy Lederer and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The intricacies of family and the complexities of the games they play mingle wonderfully here in a memoir quite unlike any other.”—George Plimpton, author of Truman Capote Katy Lederer grew up on the bucolic campus of an exclusive East Coast boarding school where her father taught English, her mother retreated into crosswords and scotch, and her much older siblings played “grown-up” games like gin rummy and chess. But Katy faced much more than the typical trials of childhood. Within the confines of the Lederer household an unlikely transformation was brewing, one that would turn this darkly intellectual and game-happy group into a family of professional gamblers. Poker Face is Katy Lederer’s perceptive account of her family’s lively history. From the long kitchen table where her mother played what seemed an endless game of solitaire, to the seedy New York bars where her brother first learned to play poker, to the glamorous Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, where her sister and brother wager hundreds of thousands of dollars a night at the tables, Lederer takes us on a tragicomic journey through a world where intelligence and deceit are used equally as currency. Not since Mary McCarthy’s Memories of a Catholic Girlhood has a writer cast such a witty and astringently analytic eye on the demands of growing up. An unflinching exploration of trust and betrayal, competition, suspicion, and unconventional familial love, Poker Face is a testament to the human spirit’s inventiveness when faced with unusually difficult odds.
Author : Sherry Lane
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781795853286
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Poker Face Reader written by Sherry Lane and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What to expect and not to Expect From Poker Face Reader (TM) This groundbreaking program focuses on one topic, how to "read" a poker face, This unique system teaches readers to detect, interpret and exploit Poker Face Tells(TM). Players who master this new skill gain a winning advantage in poker. The system introduces players to ways of reading emotions in the face. These emotions appear as micro-expressions. Micro-expressions consist of brief facial movements that appear and vanish in a fraction of a second. Authors Lacey and Lane call the emotions that leak through masks "Poker Face Tells." Readers train their eyes to spot these fleeting expressions. In a poker game no one can conceal his feelings behind a poker face. That's why the authors say, "You can run, but you can't hide from a poker face reader!" By learning how to "read" a poker face, readers penetrate an opponent's false mask. They can even spot bluffs. Readers become expert at interpreting fleeting emotions within a tiny fraction of a second. Your opponents cannot hide expressions such as fear or disgust. Telltale emotional expressions are uncontrollable and unconscious. They are also invisible to most other players. Poker Face Reader focuses readers' attention on seven major emotions. They are Happiness, Sadness, Fear, Anger, Disgust, Surprise, and Contempt. The examples in the book exaggerate each emotion to help readers recognizes them in any poker situation. They reveal the strength or weakness of poker hands. An effective way for readers to become expert is a four-step process. The first step is to study the text and the pictures of each emotion. The second step is to practice observing many faces. Readers learn to practice skills in private meetings as well as with strangers in public settings. The third step is to practice spotting emotions while observing live poker games. The fourth step is to apply knowledge of poker face "tells" in live poker games. Readers will develop enough expertise to become skilled poker face readers. They can win in most small stakes games. The authors avoid distracting readers with discussions of such topics as bankroll management and poker math. When readers learn to read poker faces, they can make optimal use of other poker skills.. Respectfully, Richard A. Lacey, Ed.D. and Sherry Lane
Author : Melissa Pearl
Publisher : Forever Love Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Poker Face written by Melissa Pearl and published by Forever Love Publishing Ltd. This book was released on with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Held captive for her ability to read people’s true emotions, Caitlyn is forced to work for a ruthless man who never gives up what he considers his. Caitlyn’s ability to see the true emotions beneath the masks has finally caught up with her. She’s now a prisoner, forced to use her gifts to advance the shady business dealings of rich and powerful casino owner, Santiago Gomez. As his captive, Caitlyn witnesses illegal deals and meets his criminal connections, and she soon realizes that Santiago will never let her escape—she’s seen too much, and she’s making him too much money. Her only hope is her boyfriend Eric and the scribbled note she left him before she was dragged into this mess. Eric knows something bad has happened to Caitlyn, and he’s positive she didn’t really want to break up with him like she’d written in her note. But she’s disappeared without a trace and he has no idea where to search for her first. Panicked and desperate, Eric follows a tenuous lead to Las Vegas, not caring that his rescue attempt might cost him his life. All he knows, is that he has to find Caitlyn before it’s too late… This explosive ending to the Masks series is packed with gripping tension and a nail-biting conclusion that you won’t see coming. ★★★★★ "This was an amazing end to a truly terrific series." Katie J, reader review ★★★★★ "The romance, the suspense, that gut wrenching thrill of this adventure with Eric and Caity, there's just no word to describe it... you have to read the book yourself and experience the ride to feel how it felt. I was so immersed into the story that it didn't feel like I was reading it, it felt like was there…" Shy Unique, reader review
Author : Ulvis Alberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789984764658
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (646 download)
Download or read book Poker Face written by Ulvis Alberts and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria Konnikova
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525522646
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The Biggest Bluff written by Maria Konnikova and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book “The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she learned both about human nature and herself.” —The Washington Post It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor. But she knew her man: a famously thoughtful and broad-minded player, he was intrigued by her pitch that she wasn't interested in making money so much as learning about life. She had faced a stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on the role of chance had led her to a giant of game theory, who pointed her to poker as the ultimate master class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled and what can't. And she certainly brought something to the table, including a Ph.D. in psychology and an acclaimed and growing body of work on human behavior and how to hack it. So Seidel was in, and soon she was down the rabbit hole with him, into the wild, fiercely competitive, overwhelmingly masculine world of high-stakes Texas Hold'em, their initial end point the following year's World Series of Poker. But then something extraordinary happened. Under Seidel's guidance, Konnikova did have many epiphanies about life that derived from her new pursuit, including how to better read, not just her opponents but far more importantly herself; how to identify what tilted her into an emotional state that got in the way of good decisions; and how to get to a place where she could accept luck for what it was, and what it wasn't. But she also began to win. And win. In a little over a year, she began making earnest money from tournaments, ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. She won a major title, got a sponsor, and got used to being on television, and to headlines like "How one writer's book deal turned her into a professional poker player." She even learned to like Las Vegas. But in the end, Maria Konnikova is a writer and student of human behavior, and ultimately the point was to render her incredible journey into a container for its invaluable lessons. The biggest bluff of all, she learned, is that skill is enough. Bad cards will come our way, but keeping our focus on how we play them and not on the outcome will keep us moving through many a dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our way.
Author : Aaron Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118161106
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)
Download or read book The Poker Face of Wall Street written by Aaron Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wall Street is where poker and modern finance?and the theory behind these "games"?clash head on. In both worlds, real risk means real money is made or lost in a heart beat, and neither camp is always rational with the risk it takes. As a result, business and financial professionals who want to use poker insights to improve their job performance will find this entertaining book a "must read." So will poker players searching for an edge in applying the insights of risk-takers on Wall Street.
Author : Marilyn House
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3730946595
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Random Spectrum written by Marilyn House and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems with different themes. Insanity, poker Faces, a boat, depressed, notorious tale, masquerade, judging. These are poems about love, friends, being judged, being yourself, being fake, and sadness.
Author : Caroline Andrew
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773515130
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (151 download)
Download or read book Femmes Et L'Žtat Canadien written by Caroline Andrew and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays presented at a conference to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the release of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, Women and the Canadian State both celebrates and critically assesses the Report. Women bureaucrats, activists, and academics consider the impact, successes, and failures of the Report from a variety of viewpoints and reflect on the experience of Canadian women since its publication in 1970.
Author : James McManus
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429990686
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Cowboys Full written by James McManus and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From James McManus, author of the bestselling Positively Fifth Street, comes the definitive story of the game that, more than any other, reflects who we are and how we operate. Cowboys Full is the story of poker, from its roots in China, the Middle East, and Europe to its ascent as a global—but especially an American—phenomenon. It describes how early Americans took a French parlor game and, with a few extra cards and an entrepreneurial spirit, turned it into a national craze by the time of the Civil War. From the kitchen-table games of ordinary citizens to its influence on generals and diplomats, poker has gone hand in hand with our national experience. Presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama have deployed poker and its strategies to explain policy, to relax with friends, to negotiate treaties and crises, and as a political networking tool. The ways we all do battle and business are echoed by poker tactics: cheating and thwarting cheaters, leveraging uncertainty, bluffing and sussing out bluffers, managing risk and reward. Cowboys Full shows how what was once accurately called the cheater's game has become amostly honest contest of cunning, mathematical precision, and luck. It explains how poker, formerly dominated by cardsharps, is now the most popular card game in Europe, East Asia, Australia, South America, and cyberspace, as well as on television. It combines colorful history with firsthand experience from today's professional tour. And it examines poker's remarkable hold on American culture, from paintings by Frederic Remington to countless poker novels, movies, and plays. Braiding the thrill of individual hands with new ways of seeing poker's relevance to our military, diplomatic, business, and personal affairs, Cowboys Full is sure to become the classic account of America's favorite pastime.
Author : Martin Harris
Publisher : D&B Publishing
ISBN 13 : 191286200X
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Poker & Pop Culture written by Martin Harris and published by D&B Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-23 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced shortly after the United States declared its independence, poker’s growth and development has paralleled that of America itself. As a gambling game with mass appeal, poker has been played by presidents and peasants, at kitchen tables and final tables, for matchsticks and millions. First came the hands, then came the stories – some true, some pure bluffs, and many in between. In Poker & Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America’s Favorite Card Game, Martin Harris shares these stories while chronicling poker’s progress from 19th-century steamboats and saloons to 21st-century virtual tables online, including: Poker on the Mississippi Poker in the Movies Poker in the Old West Poker on the Newsstand Poker in the Civil War Poker in Literature Poker on the Bookshelf Poker in Music Poker in the White House Poker on Television Poker During Wartime Poker on the Computer From Mark Twain to “Dogs Playing Poker” to W.C. Fields to John Wayne to A Streetcar Named Desire to the Cold War to Kenny Rogers to ESPN to Star Trek: The Next Generation and beyond, Poker & Pop Culture provides a comprehensive survey of cultural productions in which poker is of thematic importance, showing how the game’s portrayal in the mainstream has increased poker’s relevance to American history and shaped the way we think about the game and its significance.
Author : Robert Hanna
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191552178
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Embodied Minds in Action written by Robert Hanna and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Embodied Minds in Action, Robert Hanna and Michelle Maiese work out a unified treatment of three fundamental philosophical problems: the mind-body problem, the problem of mental causation, and the problem of action. This unified treatment rests on two basic claims. The first is that conscious, intentional minds like ours are essentially embodied. This entails that our minds are necessarily spread throughout our living, organismic bodies and belong to their complete neurobiological constitution. So minds like ours are necessarily alive. The second claim is that essentially embodied minds are self-organizing thermodynamic systems. This entails that our mental lives consist in the possibility and actuality of moving our own living organismic bodies through space and time, by means of our conscious desires. The upshot is that we are essentially minded animals who help to create the natural world through our own agency. This doctrine—the Essential Embodiment Theory—is a truly radical idea which subverts the traditionally opposed and seemingly exhaustive categories of Dualism and Materialism, and offers a new paradigm for contemporary mainstream research in the philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience.
Author : Ralf von Appen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317052692
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music written by Ralf von Appen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existing books on the analysis of popular music focus on theory and methodology, and normally discuss parts of songs briefly as examples. The impression often given is that songs are being chosen simply to illuminate and exemplify a theoretical position. In this book the obverse is true: songs take centre stage and are given priority. The authors analyse and interpret them intensively from a variety of theoretical positions that illuminate the song. Thus, methods and theories have to prove their use value in the face of a heterogeneous, contemporary repertoire. The book brings together researchers from very different cultural backgrounds and encourages them to compare their different hearings and to discuss the ways in which they make sense of specific songs. All songs analysed are from the new millennium, most of them not older than three years. Because the most widely popular styles are too often ignored by academics, this book aims to shed light on how million sellers work musically. Therefore, it encompasses a broad palette, highlighting mainstream pop (Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, Lucenzo, Amy McDonald), but also accounting for critically acclaimed ’indie’ styles (Fleet Foxes, Death Cab for Cutie, PJ Harvey), R&B (Destiny’s Child, Janelle Monae), popular hard rock (Kings of Leon, Rammstein), and current electronic music (Andrés, Björk). By concentrating on 13 well-known songs, this book offers some model analyses that can very easily be studied at home or used in seminars and classrooms for students of popular music at all academic levels.
Author : Graham Sharpe
Publisher : Portico
ISBN 13 : 1910232319
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Poker's Strangest Hands written by Graham Sharpe and published by Portico. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romping through crooked games, dodgy players, exotic venues and incredible hands, 'Poker's Strangest Hands' celebrates the strange history of Poker's most celebrated tournament, its World Championship event and the characters who have graced it with their presence, compiles some of the strangest things said about the game and fully records the details of the strangest Poker Year yet, 2006. The Poker world is divided between those who believe the game to be the most skilled contest ever devised, and those who believe that success in the game relies on pure luck. Sharpe's thorough excavations through long forgotten archives of the game have uncovered the first ever Poker cheat, who was literally making a spectacle of himself in 1829; has unearthed the game which reportedly lasted for 24 years; exposed the US President who gambled away the White House crockery; and discovered that a certain member of the Royal family was very much amused by Poker. Whatever your view this book will appeal to the novice player who can barely tell his flops from his nuts, and equally to the connoisseur of the subtleties of Poker who has developed and matured his or her skills over many years.
Author : Herbert Bielawa
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300411317
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Enough About Me written by Herbert Bielawa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-17 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Bielawa is a composer, but he is also a pianist, conductor, and professor as well as a husband, father, and friend. He has created music compositions, electronic and computer projects, and clever mechanical gadgets. The stories cover all of these aspects of his long life. Many are humorous, some are poignant, and all are interesting.
Author : Anon
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514460769
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Mr. Beaston’S Guide to Commuting on the London Underground written by Anon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at public transport in London, its proper use, and much more. Here are the men who built the early tubes, fraud, rivalry, crime, accidents, ghosts, and the supernatural on and off the Underground, travelling in short skirts and other essential information for the professional commuter. But London and London Underground do not exist in a vacuum. So this book also looks at anarchists and terrorists, observations on economics, housing, sexuality the rural situation and overseas to Georgia, Cossacks, and more. This book is not for the squeamish, neither is London. This is proper London.
