“The intricacies of family and the complexities of the games they play mingle wonderfully here in a memoir quite unlike any other.”—George Plimpton, author of Truman Capote Katy Lederer grew up on the bucolic campus of an exclusive East Coast boarding school where her father taught English, her mother retreated into crosswords and scotch, and her much older siblings played “grown-up” games like gin rummy and chess. But Katy faced much more than the typical trials of childhood. Within the confines of the Lederer household an unlikely transformation was brewing, one that would turn this darkly intellectual and game-happy group into a family of professional gamblers. Poker Face is Katy Lederer’s perceptive account of her family’s lively history. From the long kitchen table where her mother played what seemed an endless game of solitaire, to the seedy New York bars where her brother first learned to play poker, to the glamorous Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, where her sister and brother wager hundreds of thousands of dollars a night at the tables, Lederer takes us on a tragicomic journey through a world where intelligence and deceit are used equally as currency. Not since Mary McCarthy’s Memories of a Catholic Girlhood has a writer cast such a witty and astringently analytic eye on the demands of growing up. An unflinching exploration of trust and betrayal, competition, suspicion, and unconventional familial love, Poker Face is a testament to the human spirit’s inventiveness when faced with unusually difficult odds.

Product Description 52 Tips for No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em picks up where 52 Tips for Texas Hold 'Em left off. The first 52 Tips book focuses primarily on looking at your own hand and providing general rules for how to play it at various points in the progression of the hand. It is a wonderful specific beginning primer. This book assumes that you have much of that beginning knowledge, particularly which hands to play in what position, and adapts those strategies to no-limit. The book focuses on your hand and stack size relative to others at the table and shows how to adjust your play to those situations. No-limit hold 'em is primarily situational, concerned more about what the other guy has and who he is than about your own hand. Here are fifty-two tips that will improve your no-limit hold'em game. Enjoy. Review 'I loved the limit tips book and was so glad you followed up with a no limit version.' --James Woods, actor 'I highly recommend this book to poker players of any skill level . . . makes improving your poker game easy and fun.' --Phil Hellmuth, Poker Icon and winner of ten WSOP bracelets About the Author The publisher of Card Player magazine, (the world's most widely read poker magazine), Barry Shulman, has recently released a book on Texas hold 'em strategy entitled 52 Tips for Texas Hold em Poker, released by Card Player Press of Las Vegas. Shulman brings expertise not only of a journalistic variety, but practically speaking as well, Shulman has made a name for himself in professional poker. His reputation of an expert player was certainly not hurt by his success at the 2001 World Series of Poker (WSOP), from which he took home a world championship gold bracelet. The book was written with the assistance of another renowned poker professional, Mark Gregorich, the associate editor of Card Player. Together they have managed to cover a wide range of Texas hold em topics broken down into fifty-two tips that explore every phase of the game, not only from a mechanical standpoint, but a mental one as well.

Miserable at an elegant day school for girls, Victoria Coren finds an escape in the mysterious world of poker. Twenty years later, she has won a million dollars and forgotten to have children. What price adventure? This is a true story of happiness and heartbreak, smoke and mirrors, bright lights and shady characters. It is a memoir of friendship and belonging, love and loss. It might also teach you how to win a million . . .