Andy Beal is a wealthy Texas banker that started frequenting the Las Vegas card rooms in search of high-stakes poker games around the turn of the millennium. By 2001, Andy, who owns one of the most profitable banks in Texas, would go from a complete unknown to the man who initiated the richest game in…

Mat Lessinger’s The Book of Bluffs: How to Bluff and Win at Poker picks up where Mike Caro’s Book of Poker Tells leaves off, teaching players how to bluff, how to utilize a bluff to make their opponents fold, and how to prevent being bluffed. Lessinger’s opening chapters provide background material: one discusses when one…

The Big Book of Poker, by Ken Warren, is truly a humbling experience for any average poker player. Perhaps the only thing more generic than its title is the author’s sincerity in trying to offer the reader a decent return on their money. Poker is a game that requires extreme mental and physical discipline. It…

“Small Stakes Hold’em: Winning Big With Expert Play” we only released in the last couple of years but it has quickly become a staple in any serious poker player’s library. Ed Miller began his poker career playing $1-$2 and $2-$4 hold’em online. He turned his initial losses into winnings by reading and posting on the…

Seven-Card Stud for Advanced Players entered the poker vernacular in 1989, becoming an instant classic. A century later, Sklansky, Malmuth and Zee updated the tome with 100 pages of new material, including loose games, playing big pairs, playing little and medium pairs, playing three-flushes, playing three-straights, ante stealing, fourth street, fifth street, sixth street, scare…