Texas Hold'em for Dummies

Don't flop at the poker table! Increase your know-how and increase your chip stack!

Royal flush? The river? Big slick? Are these code names for some spy or superhero movie? Nope - they're terms you'll hear thrown around the table when you're playing Texas Hold'em, the most popular poker game at casinos and online sites. Get to know how to use the lingo and draw your way to winning hands with this book. Updated to include expanded information about online poker and improving your mental poker game, it provides insight to game play, winning strategies, and how to take your new skills to the Internet, a friendly game with neighbors, or to the mysterious poker room at the casino.

Inside...

• Ranking the hands of poker
• Taking in the basic rules
• Applying betting strategies
• Improving your player reads
• Adding bluffing to your game
• Finding the online site to fit your skill
• Braving a poker room
• Adding meditation to your mental game

Mark "The Red" Harlan is an avid poker player and co-creator of the first company to offer legal online poker in the United States. Along with his hours at the poker table, Mark has also spent time as a software developer for leading Silicon Valley companies.