Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Los Alamos, New Mexico, July 16, 1945
Los Alamos, New Mexico, July 16, 1945 in a flimsy wooden hut, on an old wooden kitchen table, a poker game is in progress. It’s late, being well past 4 o’clock in the morning. Playing in the poker game are eight young men. Not ordinary young men, not regular poker players, not folks like you and me. This poker game is between brilliant scientists. These men were brought together by special request from the United States Government. They were assembled from University physics departments all around the Free World. They were gathered together to do something that had never been done before, to do something that might be impossible. Their assignment was to construct a military weapon with more power than the world had ever seen. They were there to harness the hidden force of the atom. They were to design and construct the very first atom bomb. A weapon that was to become the nightmare of all humankind, a weapon that they hoped would shorten World War II, a weapon of mass destruction, a weapon designed for saving tens of thousands of
Poker Stories with Winning Lessons
Poker Stories with Winning Lessons American lives. And, on top of every thing, they had to do it FAST, they had to beat the Germans, they just had to! The thought of an atomic bomb in Hitler’s arsenal was beyond comprehension. They were to make an atomic weapon that would bring, for once, and for always, an end to world war.