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I've read a number of poker books the last 8 months and thought I'd try something a bit different. About half way through I gave it up. The author is a moronic half wit who can barely tell a story.
Really funny.
Common sense delivered in an amusing fashion. Use more as cautionary tales than as practical advice.
Holy cow, this is a terrible book. I'm not sure if it's really true or an outright hoax (I lean toward hoax), but either one isn't pleasant:1) Jillette helped a narcissistic criminal publish a book boasting about his exploits, or2) Jillette decided to write a book about an enormously unpleasant man and pass it off as fact. If you want to learn about cheating at cards, I'd recommend Scarne on Cards. While this book occasionally mentions techniques, it's mostly a man bragging about how he cheats p...
I don't really need this to cheat my friends out of their hard earned monies, that would be akin to stealing the pot of a born blind beggar really. It's amusing to see the thought processes of a crazy person who thinks themselves highly clever. Probably to stoke their own intellectual vanity, really.
Ick. First off, you're not going to learn how to cheat from this book. This didn't bug me, cause I'm not really looking to. If you want to, go get "The Expert at the Table". This is told as a semi-memoir by a guy named "Dickie Richards". There's some dispute in reviews, but I'm inclined to believe the people that say he didn't really exist, and this book is wholly fictional.There are lots of cheating "tips", but they mostly come down to "steal money wherever you can".If you were a total sleaze,
What a trudge this was and I still think it's 90% B.S. which should have made it less taxing for readers. Some things are only funny to ourselves.
I'm still laughing about this book and I read it months ago. If you think you would enjoy listening to a cynical sociopath con-man's autobiography about screwing people over and loving it you must read this book. My favorite part is when he hires some hookers to come to a poker game and get the guys to play strip poker and then he steals all of their clothes along with their wallets and cash! Priceless.
I picked this up on a whim a bookstore one day. I thought it would be about harmless tricks to prank one's friends during a friendly game. I couldn't have been more wrong. See, the title is not accurate. This book isn't about "cheating" but "making money", it doesn't involve "friends" but "con marks" and it doesn't really have much to do with poker either. Poker just happens to be the medium that the first two work through. I would call this book "How to make money by scamming strangers who play...
I'm a big fan of Penn Jillette. I absolutely believe the introduction in this book, which basically says Penn is putting this book out under his name to make good on an IOU. So, while this is edited and put together by Penn Jillette, I have no trouble seeing this as the warped brainchild of (the eloquently chosen pseudonym) Dickie.That being said, this struck me as a morbidly fascinating read. I don't really think there's any "wisdom" to be taught. Dickie here wants to brag about his exploits, a...
This book is perfect for someone who has 8-16 hours a day practicing card control and slight of hand. While cheating at cards is dishonest at its heart, Dickie Richards seems like a worthless human being who is just looking to cheat people out of everything he can. Whether it’s a poker pot or someone’s wife, Richards comes across as having absolutely no redeeming qualities and his advice isn’t much more than what the average person could come up with if they wanted to be completely self centered...
This book tells you nothing that you don't already know. It is peppered with stories about how Dickie Richard goes about lightening peoples wallets. There is no instruction. Penn Jillette is nothing more than a carney talker...
Wow! Not sure if this is just a well-written fictional account of a fake card shark portrayed by Penn Jillette (the talky half of the Penn & Teller duo), or if he’s really recounting biographical life details of a real an anonymous source, but either way, it’s a good read. Lots of adult content, though. The main character isn’t a nice person. He cheats for a living. Forewarned is forearmed.
Not based on a true story. Also, not really a story about how to cheat at poker. Also, not really a story.
I bought this book (with a bag of books at a library sale thank god) because Penn Jillette was on the cover and it was about poker. I should have paid attention to the first several pages which warn the reader that if you bought the book for the reasons I did and don't really want to learn how to cheat, or don't really want to read about the adventures of a narcissistic a-hole, then this isn't the book for you. I don't even want to donate this book to the goodwill as I would hate to subject some...
