Killer Poker - Softcover

Here it is: Everything you always wanted to know about dominating the game, crushing the competition, and building a bad-ass reputation-with outrageous tactics from a renegade poker master!

Sure, you could be a good, effective poker player. That's fine. Or you can be a great poker player, an animal of strategy and revolutionary tactics that force the competition into making bad decisions and leave them reeling in your wake. Hey, why just win when you can dominate and crush? In this take-no-prisoners approach to the game, leading poker journalist John Vorhaus shows you how to leave your inhibitions at the door, analyze and fix your own flaws honestly and fearlessly, gain confidence, and play some of the best poker of your life-by completely changing your state of mind. Let Killer Poker show you:

• How to turn marginal hands into big winners

• How to use other players' powerful images against them

• How to read minds at the table

• How to energize your game with the self-awareness that winning poker requires

"If General Patton were a poker player, he might have uttered John Vorhaus' very words: 'Don't challenge strong players, challenge weak ones. That's what they're there for.'" -from the foreword by Lou Krieger

It's time to put your cards on the table by manipulating, pressuring, misleading, outthinking, and outfoxing your opponents. (Then you can cheerfully take their money and go home.) Get a Killer attitude and walk away a winner.

John Vorhaus has been writing about poker since 1988. He conducts seminars on Killer Poker and is a popular speaker at gaming conventions. His book, The Pro Poker Playbook, is considered an essential tool for beginning to intermediate players. When not playing poker, Vorhaus works as an international consultant in script writing and television program development. Vorhaus lives in Monrovia, California.