Poker For Dummies (Mini Edition) - Plot & Excerpts
From Mississippi and Michigan to New Mexico and North Dakota, you can find a game in progress everywhere. If you want to play you can find poker played on replicas of 19th-century paddle-wheel riverboats or on Native American tribal lands. You can play poker in two-table, no-frills cardrooms and elegant Los Angeles County megaclubs where 150 games (with betting limits ranging from $1–$2 to $200–$400) are in progress ’round the clock.This book targets readers who are new to poker. Even if you consider yourself to have a pretty good hand at the game, this book is bound to improve it.Before You Put on Your Poker FaceLike a house, poker requires a foundation. Only when that foundation is solidly in place can you build on it. When all the structural elements are in place, you can add flourishes and decorative touches. But you can’t begin embellishing it until the foundation has been poured, the building has been framed, and all the other elements that come before it are in place. That’s our purpose here: to put first things first — to give you a basic understanding of what you need before you begin to play.Planning and disciplineSome poker players (and it’s no more than a handful) really do have a genius for the game — an inexplicable, Picasso-like talent that isn’t easily defined and usually has to be seen to be believed.
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