Holding Aces And Eights

Author : Loren D. Estleman
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429911757
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aces & Eights written by Loren D. Estleman and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Man's Hand No one paid any mind to Jack McCall as he unloaded a .44 caliber slug into Wild Bill Hickok's brain at point-blank range. Deadwood's legendary gunslinging marshal was dead, holding a poker hand of aces and eights, a dead man's hand. The question the law wanted to know: was McCall a hired killer or did he kill Hickok to avenge his brother's death? Find out in Loren D. Estleman's Aces & Eights. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Ralph Estes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493049631
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aces and Eights written by Ralph Estes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our images of the big names and places of the Old West often come from the tales of gunfights and violence that were sensationalized by dime novels and yellow journalism in the 19th century and the myths that came from those stories live on today. But in reality many of these fabled characters of the Wild West were gamblers first and gunfighters second— more invested in poker than in the momentary fury of the shootout. Aces and Eights tells story of the role of poker in the lives of these legends, and offers a portrait of the places where they lived and frequently died. This book offers both the “facts” of these lives and the true tales of the game and the gamblers—and the entertaining “tall tales” that have survived to this day.

Author : Martin Harris
Publisher : D&B Publishing
ISBN 13 : 191286200X
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poker & Pop Culture written by Martin Harris and published by D&B Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-23 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced shortly after the United States declared its independence, poker’s growth and development has paralleled that of America itself. As a gambling game with mass appeal, poker has been played by presidents and peasants, at kitchen tables and final tables, for matchsticks and millions. First came the hands, then came the stories – some true, some pure bluffs, and many in between. In Poker & Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America’s Favorite Card Game, Martin Harris shares these stories while chronicling poker’s progress from 19th-century steamboats and saloons to 21st-century virtual tables online, including: Poker on the Mississippi Poker in the Movies Poker in the Old West Poker on the Newsstand Poker in the Civil War Poker in Literature Poker on the Bookshelf Poker in Music Poker in the White House Poker on Television Poker During Wartime Poker on the Computer From Mark Twain to “Dogs Playing Poker” to W.C. Fields to John Wayne to A Streetcar Named Desire to the Cold War to Kenny Rogers to ESPN to Star Trek: The Next Generation and beyond, Poker & Pop Culture provides a comprehensive survey of cultural productions in which poker is of thematic importance, showing how the game’s portrayal in the mainstream has increased poker’s relevance to American history and shaped the way we think about the game and its significance.

Author : Ronald Fagin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262562003
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reasoning About Knowledge written by Ronald Fagin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-01-09 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reasoning about knowledge—particularly the knowledge of agents who reason about the world and each other's knowledge—was once the exclusive province of philosophers and puzzle solvers. More recently, this type of reasoning has been shown to play a key role in a surprising number of contexts, from understanding conversations to the analysis of distributed computer algorithms. Reasoning About Knowledge is the first book to provide a general discussion of approaches to reasoning about knowledge and its applications to distributed systems, artificial intelligence, and game theory. It brings eight years of work by the authors into a cohesive framework for understanding and analyzing reasoning about knowledge that is intuitive, mathematically well founded, useful in practice, and widely applicable. The book is almost completely self-contained and should be accessible to readers in a variety of disciplines, including computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, and game theory. Each chapter includes exercises and bibliographic notes.

Author : Joseph G. Rosa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok written by Joseph G. Rosa and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eulogised and ostracised, James Butler Hickok was alternately labelled courageous, affable, and self-confident; cowardly, cold-blooded, and drunken; a fine specimen of manhood; an overdressed dandy with perfumed hair; an unequaled marksman; and a poor shot. Born in Illinois in 1837, he was shot dead in Deadwood only 39 years later. By then both famous and infamous, he was widely known as Wild Bill.

Author : Marshall Trimble
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146714049X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arizona Oddities: Land of Anomalies & Tamales written by Marshall Trimble and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arizona has stories as peculiar as its stunning landscapes. The Lost Dutchman's rumored cache of gold sparked a legendary feud. Kidnapping victim Larcena Pennington Page survived two weeks alone in the wilderness, and her first request upon rescue was for a chaw of tobacco. Discover how the town of Why got its name, how the government built a lake that needed mowing and how wild camels ended up in North America. Author Marshall Trimble unearths these and other amusing anomalies, outstanding obscurities and compelling curiosities in the state's history.

Author : Luke Murphy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781926997940
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Man's Hand written by Luke Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What happens when the deck is stacked against you..." From NFL rising-star prospect to wanted fugitive, Calvin Watters is a sadistic African-American Las Vegas debt-collector framed by a murderer who, like the Vegas Police, finds him to be the perfect fall-guy. ."..and the cards don't fall your way?" When the brutal slaying of a prominent casino owner is followed by the murder of a well-known bookie, Detective Dale Dayton is thrown into the middle of a highly political case and leads the largest homicide investigation in Vegas in the last twelve years. "What if you're dealt a Dead Man's Hand?" Against his superiors and better judgment, Dayton is willing to give Calvin one last chance. To redeem himself, Calvin must prove his innocence by finding the real killer, while avoiding the LVMPD, as well as protect the woman he loves from a professional assassin hired to silence them.

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0151012776
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Man's Hand written by Otto Penzler and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If ever a subject begged to be associated with crime it is gambling, writes Otto Penzler in his introduction to this collection of short stories set at the poker table and beyond. In Walter Mosley's Mister In-Between, a bagman is sent to collect from a rigged poker game, but soon begins to wonder who the real mark is. In One Dollar Jackpot, Michael Connelly's detective Harry Bosch finds himself looking for tells when facing off against a professional poker player in the interrogation room. And a young woman learns how to bluff the hard way in Hardly Knew Her, by Laura Lippman. In these and others stories, aces of the mystery-writing world--including Joyce Carol Oates, Alexander McCall Smith, Jeffery Deaver, John Lescroart, and others--combine to form a winning hand.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907338052
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quotable Poker Player - Funny Poker Quotes from Stud to Hold Em written by and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Comic Collection of 1500 Humorous Poker Quotations from Five Card Stud to No Limit Texas Hold 'em, from the World Series of Poker (WSOP) to the European Poker Tour (EPT), from 'The Cincinnati Kid' to the Poker Brat, from Phil Ivey to Gus Hansen, from Victoria Coren to the Hendon Mob, from Online Poker to Home Games, from 'Aces & Eights' to 'Rounders'. The Quotable Poker Player includes the funniest poker-based sayings and quotations from professional players, poker celebrities, authors, humorists and journalists, as well as a selection from literary sources and film & TV characters. It especially celebrates the fun-side of poker encompassing a transatlantic theme across both American and European views of the game. A special chapter Poker Media covers humorous reviews and comments about Poker Books, Poker Movies, Poker TV Shows and Poker Songs. "The Quotable Poker Player is a thorough compilation of over 1500 poker quotes from pro players, celebrities, films, historical figures, etc. With over 1500 references, there's a lot of exhaustively researched material packed between the pages. Overall, this is a great flip-through book that makes for an interesting browse. What I was particularly impressed with was the eclectic nature of the quotations. The special treat was the movie quotes and lines that related to poker, as well as music lyrics, etc. There are some really, really funny quotes in here! And given the recent publication date, it's pretty up-to-date with 2009 and 2010 references." Book Review by ANDREW KICAK on SmokePoker.com

Author : Des Wilson
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781845962081
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts at the Table written by Des Wilson and published by Mainstream Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destined to become the most widely debated poker book ever, Ghosts at the Table is the definitive history of the game, compellingly told as a detective story. Des Wilson traces poker's development in the Old West during the nineteenth century and takes us to Deadwood, South Dakota, to question whether 'Wild' Bill Hickok was really shot while holding aces and eights; to Tombstone, Arizona, where it is claimed that the longest poker game ever was played; and to California to chart the rise of poker palaces. Moving on to the twentieth century, Wilson drives the 'white line' in Texas and talks to every one of the remaining road gamblers, including the game's godfather, Doyle Brunson. Many extraordinary stories of violence and drug taking are recounted from this era, when the game was being played illegally all over the state and the phenomenon of Texas hold 'em emerged. Wilson examines the popularity of poker in the twenty-first century and uncovers some amazing high-stakes games being played in Las Vegas. He investigates the infamous World Series confrontations, questions the credibility of poker's Hall of Fame and reveals the shocking truth about Benny Binion, founder of the World Series of Poker. Finally, he profiles poker's contemporary stars and charts the game's phenomenal rise on both the Internet and television. Full of unforgettable characters, great confrontations, mysteries and myths, Ghosts at the Table is a gripping account of the history of the game that will intrigue fans and novices alike.