The first step to being businesslike is learning the business. While Bykofsky and Sander include the usual stuff about query letters, book proposals, agents, and contracts, they also offer assistance on settling on a subject, information on how manuscripts become books and how books get into stores, and advice on keeping your book in the stores once it gets there. They augment their own publishing wisdom with that of their colleagues. When choosing a topic, don't be put off by a seemingly saturated market; Ben Dominitz of Prima Publishing claims that two of the best reasons to publish a book are "one, because no one has published a book on that topic, and two, because everyone has published a book on that topic." Never settle for a first offer from a publisher; says author and former lawyer Tim Perrin, "You should always say, 'Oh? Is that all?' ... It's never failed for me." And lastly, how does one land that coveted appearance on Oprah®? "All you have to do," says La Jolla-based publicist Arielle Ford, "is call ... the Prayer Line." Scoff if you dare, but two of Ford's clients got booked after leaving prayers. The book provides the phone number, as well as other useful ones. --Jane Steinberg
]]>While other highly touted books on hold-em poker offer enough tips to turn a committed beginner into a moderately successful player, none offers the strategies needed to turn an experienced player into a consistent winner-until now. This guide even goes one step further by exposing exactly what the pros don-t want you to know. -My only worry is that they have given away too much information.--Matt Lessinger, author of The Book of Bluffs
Revealed within these pages are the actual techniques-equally effective for virtually all poker games-that professional gamblers use to win consistently. You-ll find out how to quickly recognize and capitalize on betting patterns, how to develop a table image that pays big dividends, advanced bank management techniques, and why the cards you hold are often less important than the way you play them, plus:
<UL><LI>Why folding more can lead to winning more
<LI>How betting limits dramatically impact the way you should play your hands
<LI>Why women have an innate edge
<LI>Telltale signs to look for when choosing a casino table
<LI>Why it-s smarter to be the one who bets and not the sucker who calls
-Easy to understand, helpful, and fun to read.--Dave Scharf, author of Winning at PokerTake that next step-armed with the secrets of the pros!
A popular columnist for several magazines, including Bluff and Fifth Street, the newspaper The Nevada Sunday, as well as the author of seven top-selling books on poker, Lou Krieger is one of gaming-s biggest names. In 2000, he was dubbed -one of the most influential gaming writers of the past hundred years- by Casino Journal-an honor bestowed on only four others worldwide.
]]>Other games and sports have official rules of etiquette, but until now, no such single book has been accepted in the world of poker. Through interviews, research and personal experience, with a dash of fun and a lot of authority, Lou Krieger and Sheree Bykofsky offer to the world of poker THE book that will settle poker arguments and allow players to concentrate on the business at hand--scooping up large sums of money.
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