A guide to over 250 card games. It includes games from all over the world, such as Blackjack, Boonaken, French Tarot, Bid Whist, Crazy Eights and Schwimmen. It guides new players through the rules and strategies of play, with insights into the history and development of the game.

The Ayahuasca diaries is a vine-entangled tale of shamans, jungles, psychedelic substances, a broken-hearted poker player, a few pretty girls (and a couple who aren't) and several dark temples where smoking and spitting are encouraged ... if only to ease access into the spirit world.

Games are played everywhere: from economics and online auctions to social interactions, and game theory is about how to play such games in a rational way, and how to maximize their outcomes. This VSI reveals, without mathematical equations, the insights the theory can bring to everything from how to play poker optimally to the sex ratio among bees.

Shows how nearly every business and personal interaction has a game theory component to it. This book looks at questions such as whether the winners of reality-TV contests are instinctive game theorists or if big-time investors see things that most people miss and what great poker players know that the average person doesn't.

No one paid any mind to Jack McCall as he unloaded a .44 calibre slug into Wild Bill Hickok's brain at point-blank range. Deadwood's legendary gunslinging marshal was dead, holding a poker hand of aces and eights. What the law wanted to know was if McCall was a hired killer.

Offers frugal advice for recreational gamblers who want to stretch their money and fun in casinos. This book presents techniques for navigating the fast-growing and constantly changing casino scene.