Decide to Play Great Poker: A Strategy Guide to No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em

Annie Duke · John Vorhaus

Jul 2011 · Huntington Press Inc

About this ebook

Poker is a game of table position, flop texture, players in a hand, personalities, and so much more. This book teaches you how to identify and analyze those variables, become a great strategist, and have confidence in any poker situation. Decide to Play Great Poker is written by Annie Duke, the world's most renowned woman poker player, with John Vorhaus, himself a winning poker player and prolific author. 

About the author

Annie Duke has established herself as one of the best poker players in the world. In 2004, Duke beat out an assembly of 234 players in the WSOP $2,000 buy-in Omaha Hi/Lo Split and won her first WSOP bracelet. In August of the same year, Duke knocked out eight of the worlds' greatest poker legends and won $2 million in the No-Limit Texas Hold 'em winner-take-all, invitation-only WSOP Tournament of Champions. Duke now not only serves as a consultant for the online poker site UB.com, but she also acts as the Executive Vice President and League Commissioner for the new professional poker league, Federated, Inc. John Vorhaus is best known as the author of The Comic Toolbox: How to be Funny Even if You're Not. An international consultant in television and film script development, Vorhaus has worked for television networks, film schools, and production companies in 30 countries on four continents, including half-year stints in Romania and, God help him, Russia in winter. In another corner of his ADD multiverse, he is the author of the six-volume Killer Poker series, plus miscellaneous other books on the subject, including the novel Under the Gun, a "how-to whodunit" set in the world of high stakes tournament poker. His other novels include The California Roll and The Albuquerque Turkey. Vorhaus is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University and a member of the Writers Guild of America.