Winning at Internet Poker for Dummies
270 pages
From the Back Cover
Find the right site, set up an account, and play to win!
The fun and easy way to take poker online and win!
Passionate about poker? This easy-to-follow guide gives you the lowdown on the hottest games around including Texas Hold 'Em, Omaha, and Seven-Card Stud.
Read up on how to find the best sites, put your money online safely, size up your opponents, and take your poker game to the next level.
Discover how to:
Set up an account
Make secure online bets
Devise a winning strategy
Follow online etiquette
Participate in online tournaments
Product Description:
Five years ago, 50 million people were playing poker recreationally or professionally. Now that number is more than 100 million, including a huge influx of young people. Online betting is up nearly four-fold over the past year, with total wagers running over $30 billion. Winning at Internet Poker For Dummies provides the lowdown on the hottest game around, highlighting the best sites and virtual games and showing how to make secure online bets. The book covers setting up an account, securing funds, navigating a basic online poker game, using Internet abbreviations and lingo, observing online poker etiquette, playing popular online poker games such as Texas Hold 'Em and Omaha, devising a winning strategy, and participating in tournaments.
Authors Mark "The Red" Harlan (Santa Clara, CA) is cofounder of CyberArts Licensing, a company working on the next-generation Internet poker room, gamesgrid.com. During the course of his 20-year Silicon Valley career, he designed eBay's bidding schema, was the Human Interface Evangelist at Apple Computer, and wrote the popular "Notes from the Fringe" column at InfoWorld. Chris Derossi (Henderson, NV) is also a cofounder of CyberArts Licensing and has been an avid poker player for 15 years. His two-decade computer career includes stints at Apple Computer, where he was chief architect of the Macintosh operating system, as well as ePeople, which he founded, and Trading Technologies, where he was CEO. He has written for many computer magazines.
As you can see the authors are not professional poker players so dont think this book is strategy based-it is more for those who are familiar with poker but are new to online poker. This book tells you about the online poker industry, how to deposit & selecting a poker site.
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