Dealing poker is one of the best jobs in the world. It is definitely one of the best paying jobs you can get without a college degree or even any certified training. Poker devotees will love learning the ins and outs of the game from the dealer chair and improving their game by observing thousands of hands and a multitude of player types.With the help of instruction, diagrams, photos and exercises, this book will help you learn the procedures, rules and techniques required to become a poker dealer. The book also provides inside tips on where to work, how to land a job, how to conduct yourself at the table and what to expect once you're a dealer.

Recognizes that the poker industry has recently grown at a phenomenal rate. It wasn't that long ago that only a few places had small poker rooms. But times have changed. Today there are many locations throughout the country that offer poker, including several giant poker facilities. This explosive growth has created a need for quality dealers, which is immediately apparent to anyone who either plays poker or works in the industry. Dealing poker is an occupation that looks easy when performed by a top quality dealer. In fact, the best dealers not only perform their job in a seemingly effortless manner, they enjoy what they are doing. We hope that this text will establish a standard for the industry. It will assure that poker continues to grow and prosper. It is the ultimate book for anyone interested in a career as a professional poker dealer.

Robert P. Mills is the CEO of Pro Poker Consultants, LLC established in 2012. Mr. Mills began his training in the gaming industry in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1979. He trained as a blackjack and craps dealer at the Nevada Hotel and Casino. While residing in Las Vegas, he worked the table games at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino, Gold Spike Casino, Slots of Fun Casino and the Rainbow Casino in Henderson, Nevada. For more than three years, Robert studied Casino Management at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He interned at the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino where he learned many facets of daily gaming operations which included Race and Sports Book Management, Slot Operations, Blackjack, Craps, and other table games. Robert also interned at the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino where he received training in surveillance, and later he was employed as a surveillance agent for the Arizona Charlie's Hotel and Casinos. After returning to Detroit, Michigan, Robert took a position as an instructor at the Casino's Wild School for Professional Dealers. He also worked for the Frosty Dog Casino Dealing School in Westland, Michigan as head instructor where he was responsible for training of individuals from Michigan and the Midwestern United States.

The first volume in a series, the book reviews a collection of poker hands played from the button, cutoff, and hijack positions which illustrate concepts to help improve the reader's poker game.

Hello my name is Bob and welcome to my book. In this book I will be telling you all of my greatest secrets that I have learnt in casinos dealing to the players from 1/2 USD to the highest stakes imaginable. The topics of the book that I will cover are as follows 1.Developing a correct mindset for poker In this chapter I will detail what should be the correct mindset of a poker player right from the initial stage of selecting a table, stakes, a game, the correct expectations, being aware of the transactions costs like rake and other expenditures, and more. This is crucial because most players today lack this information and set themselves up for failure and a cascade of losses. I will also be sharing several secrets for example when a player plays at a stake that is meaningless in form of money to him, he is already winning. And a player who is playing at a stake in which money means dearly to him he is already begun losing. The cause is when a person plays with a thing dear to him he is actually gambling and cannot play the game as skillfully if he had been playing at a stake that was unimportant. 2.The Truth About Casino Side Games You already know it but I will be sharing several secrets for example. When you play in casino side games for example Black Jack you can become tilted when you lose an amount significant to you and you can end up donating even more money, people have blown all their pay checks and tax refunds the same day due to tilt. Hence it is important to not go to casinos with your debit cards or credit cards, otherwise you can get in a gambling trap and lose a lot of money quickly. Casinos know that most people will quit after they go on a heater but will continue playing when losing, hence they can offer players free rooms, drinks and even food. 3.The Biggest Secret In this I will share with you what exactly takes to turn from a Fish to a Super Pro! 4.Tournament Secrets Ok most now already know the M Ratio and Q Ratio. Do you really know what it takes to be a consistent winner like a top WSOP money maker? 5.Pot Limit Omaha Secrets The secrets that I am going to tell you will prevent you from making a lot of mistakes and help you learn how the game should be played, how you can take advantage of the freerolls that are in this game. 6.No Limit Hold'em Secrets Do you as a player always put money when you are ahead and your opponent is a 4 to 1 dog, if not then you are losing money. Still there is lot of hope for you because by learning these secrets you will be playing when you are way ahead, be avoiding the marginal situations and will be crushing the donks for thousands of dollars every month at your local casinos. Sounds fun? 7.Hand Reading and Constructing Ranges Like A Boss This is important Phil Hellmuth once said that he made 20 million dollars because of hand reading, he actually has made 20 million dollars and he does hand read. 8.Is Poker Gambling? The truth from a poker dealer!

The Book That Made Las Vegas Change the Rules Over 1,000,000 Copies in Print Edward O. Thorp is the father of card counting, and in this classic guide he shares the revolutionary point system that has been successfully used by professional and amateur card players for generations. This book provides: o an overview of the basic rules of the game o proven winning strategies ranging from simple to advanced o methods to overcome casino counter measures o ways to spot cheating o charts and tables that clearly illustrate key concepts A fascinating read and an indispensable resource for winning big, Beat the Dealer is the bible for players of this game of chance. **Bring these strategies into the casino: Perforated cards included in the book**

We all know that money won is twice as sweet as money earned, and there are plenty of books that will help you if you want to mortgage the house to take on the $30-$60 table at the Mirage or the Taj Mahal; but most of us are looking for a friendlier species of the game, a chance to test our luck in the enjoyable company of friends, and, if we are favored with good fortune and they are not, to really, really rub their noses in it. Dealer's Choice is the ultimate guide to the world of low stakes poker, where fun and bragging rights count as least as much as the final tally. Starting with the elementary principles every beginner will need to know before swimming with the sharks-betting, bluffing, and the hierarchy of hand values-Dealer's Choice also includes invaluable tips on how to host the perfect poker evening (the relative merits of chips versus coins, what food to serve) as well as fascinating sidebars (great poker hands in cinema, trivia, unspoken laws of the game) and hilarious profiles of archetypal poker characters-the kinds of oddball one is bound to encounter sooner or later across the green felt. Every conceivable variety of poker is discussed in each of its variants, from established favorites like Baseball and Follow the Queen to truly esoteric mutations of the authors' own invention such as Frankenstein, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and Hamlet (i.e., Jacks are low, Queens are wild, Kings dead). Renowned illustrator Phil Foglio has enlivened the text with spectacular line drawings. With worldwide interest in poker at unprecedented peak, Dealer's Choice gives casual players the chance to re-create, right in their living rooms, the excitement of the World Series of Poker... except without the five million dollar jackpot-but pizza and beer aren't bad either.

A New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book “The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she learned both about human nature and herself.” —The Washington Post It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor. But she knew her man: a famously thoughtful and broad-minded player, he was intrigued by her pitch that she wasn't interested in making money so much as learning about life. She had faced a stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on the role of chance had led her to a giant of game theory, who pointed her to poker as the ultimate master class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled and what can't. And she certainly brought something to the table, including a Ph.D. in psychology and an acclaimed and growing body of work on human behavior and how to hack it. So Seidel was in, and soon she was down the rabbit hole with him, into the wild, fiercely competitive, overwhelmingly masculine world of high-stakes Texas Hold'em, their initial end point the following year's World Series of Poker. But then something extraordinary happened. Under Seidel's guidance, Konnikova did have many epiphanies about life that derived from her new pursuit, including how to better read, not just her opponents but far more importantly herself; how to identify what tilted her into an emotional state that got in the way of good decisions; and how to get to a place where she could accept luck for what it was, and what it wasn't. But she also began to win. And win. In a little over a year, she began making earnest money from tournaments, ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. She won a major title, got a sponsor, and got used to being on television, and to headlines like "How one writer's book deal turned her into a professional poker player." She even learned to like Las Vegas. But in the end, Maria Konnikova is a writer and student of human behavior, and ultimately the point was to render her incredible journey into a container for its invaluable lessons. The biggest bluff of all, she learned, is that skill is enough. Bad cards will come our way, but keeping our focus on how we play them and not on the outcome will keep us moving through many a dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our way.

For decades, the highest level of poker have been dominated by players who have learned the game by playing it, road gamblers' who have cultivated intuition for the game and are adept at reading other players' hands from betting patterns and physical tells. Over the last five to ten years, a whole new breed has risen to prominence within the poker community. Applying the tools of computer science and mathematics to poker and sharing the information across the Internet, these players have challenged many of the assumptions that underlay traditional approaches to the game.'

This book is intended to be an introduction to the poker game, emphasizing on the online poker, the betting structure, poker variants, poker strategy and specific poker tournaments. Online poker is the game of poker played over the Internet. Online poker rooms tend to be viewed as more player-friendly and allow the players to play for very low stakes. It has been partly responsible for a dramatic increase in the number of poker players worldwide. While the practice of comping players with free meals, hotel rooms, and merchandise is quite common in B&M casinos, online poker rooms have needed to develop new ways to reward faithful customers. The most common way of doing this is through deposit bonuses, where the player is given a bonus code to enter when placing money into an account. One common feature of the online poker sites is to offer tournaments called satellites by which the winners gain entry to real-life poker tournaments. Online poker rooms reward customers through deposit bonuses, where the player is given a bonus code to enter when placing money into an account.