Texas Hold 'Em Poker: Win Online 
  by Paul Mendelson

The perfect guide to how to win playing poker online!

Most people playing online poker think they are winning players when they're actually losing month after month. But, if you have basic knowledge of the game and follow Paul Mendelson's techniques, you can ensure that you win regularly and consistently.

Find out how to:

• Select the best poker sites for your standard.
• Analyse your opponents and their games.
• Adapt your game to combat the styles of play you meet.
• Counter the costly dangers of 'tilt' and temperament.
• Manage your bankroll and build it into serious money.
• Play to benefit from being alert while others - in another time zone - are exhausted.
• Make the right decisions - and avoid costly mistakes.
• Read your opponents correctly - and keep them guessing about you!

  Texas Hold 'Em Poker 
  by Paul Mendelson

Learn how the game really works. Learn terms, definitions, etiquette and rules. See how poker hands are ranked. Understand your chances, appreciate the percentages, master the odds that your hand will improve.

Read how to judge your opponents and their cards; figure whether you have the winning hand, discover the gentle art of bluff and how it can be used against you! Want to watch Texas Hold ’Em on TV? Appreciate the players’ strategies? It’s all here.

Play with friends at home, or try a flutter online? Move on to a tournament or a casino? Whichever you prefer, you’ll find in Paul Mendelson’s book the best possible place to start.

So don't just begin, begin and win!

  The Top 100 Patience Games
  by Jacqueline Harrod

Did you know there are 100 different Patience games? Actually there are more, but here Jacqueline Harrod has selected all the best and most entertaining ones.

Made popular as Solitaire on computers, these are the real games, played with real cards. Find a flat surface and you can play anywhere. Maybe that explains its enduring popularity – Tolstoy, Dickens and Napoleon are just some of the great names associated with the game.

From simple, soothing repetition to complex strategy games, some will keep the kids quiet while others are sure to test the sharpest adult minds.

Whatever your standard, you’ll find something here to relax, challenge and, sometimes, totally frustrate you. Just remember, you can’t blame your opponent!

  Control the Bidding:
  The Right Way to Secure the Battleground in Bridge
  by Paul Mendelson

Winning demands control of the bidding. Before a card is played you must fight for the high ground or hustle your opponents beyond their safe level. Pro-active and fearless but not reckless in this hugely exciting partnership arena, you must judge every last auction nuance and, terrier-like, destroy your opponents’ communication and confidence whilst enhancing your own. Dodge their snares, resist their ploys but win the high stakes by forcing them to gamble - yourself delivering their misfortunes - and by your willingness to bet on certainty.

Whether you are a masterpoint hunter at congresses or an afternoon rubber bridge player, Paul Mendelson’s entertaining, thoroughly accessible and incisive text guides you, sharpens your zest and wills you to win.

Paul is author of companion volumes Bridge for Complete Beginners and The Right Way to Play Bridge, the leading book for the improving player, and bridge correspondent of The Financial Times. He began by winning the National Championships and now writes and lectures worldwide.

  Bridge for Complete Beginners
  by Paul Mendelson

It is presumed that you start with no knowledge of the game at all. The essence of this book, therefore, is its simplified step-by-step approach.

You are led logically through the key basic principles. You learn about the Acol system of bidding, and how to play a hand, both as declarer and in defence.

Once you have mastered this book, you should have reached the standard of a good ‘social’ player.

While good bridge classes are, of course, of great value, this book is itself the complete tutorial. It is designed to enable you to learn properly without other help.

  The Right Way to Play Bridge
  by Paul Mendelson

This book assumes that you are intent on improving your bridge at a social, or competitive, level. Clear examples expose the detail of modern Acol bidding. From these you learn to plan and reassess your campaign step-by-step and calculate with precision who holds which cards. You also discover when to obstruct with bluff and bombast, how to pinpoint best leads and steal the best contracts, and ways to think strategically under pressure.

Unique at-the-table charts - designed to foster partnership understanding used appropriately at home, club or class - summarise key bids.

Paul Mendelson is the bridge correspondent for the Financial Times. He is a keen tournament competitor, having been National Schools' Champion, as well as the youngest ever captain of a winning Devonshire Cup Team. His first love remains Rubber Bridge however, which he plays successfully all over the world.

  Card Games Properly Explained
  by Arnold Marks

Some people are brilliant 'natural' card players - they learned at their mother's knee, but they cannot begin to explain . . .

With Arnold Marks, anyone can develop such 'card sense'. Step-by-step with rare clarity, he exposes the winning strategies which must underpin the consistent play of the right card at the right moment.

He has selected only those games which are important because SKILL is the telling factor - games which have therefore survived and fascinated for generations. Building around the basic rules of each game properly explained, he challenges you to think for youself - to understand, to reason out the best card to play. Be warned! He will sometimes disarm you with humour but will never demoralise.

Whilst the description of each game is designed for separate study as you learn to play, the whole book is unobtrusively ordered and linked to form a unique foundation in card playing skill.