Dealer's Choice: The Complete Handbook to Saturday Night Poker

by James Ernest, Mike Selinker, Phil Foglio

Book Overview

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. We all know that money won is twice as sweet as money... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585676543
• ISBN13: 9781585676545
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

excellent poker night games

I liked the games in this book a lot! This is the book for those evenings when you're playing with your friends for quarters, and everyone calls a crazy game. Some are old favorites that everyone's heard of, and some I have never seen before in my life. The illustrations are funny! Many, many poker nights' worth of fun.

Great basics (plus 200+ Variants)

I was looking for something that would give me some solid basics (House Rules Examples, Low Hand, basic variants) and a "How To". That part of book is solid and useful. Oh yeah, there are are also a boat load of variants that I have only even begun to take in. I will be breaking those out next poker night (about once a month). If your looking for strategy, this isn't really for you, but if you want a book that will make you feel comfortable with basic poker and give you plenty of games to dabble at It's a good purchase.

Clever and Fun Poker Variants!

I have read and used this book at poker parties, and I love it. If you play poker with your friends, you really ought to have it at the table. It is an excellent source of unique poker variants that are both fun and well designed.

Funny, and a whole lot of fun.

If you want to get together with friends for a good relaxing game of poker, you must have this book at the table. It's not for serious hardcore people but for regular humans, who want to unwind with a fun game. The best feature of the book is the list of hundreds and hundreds of different poker games, ranging from the old stand-bys everyone knows (like Baseball), to some truly crazy and entertaining games. My regular table can't survive a night without a few games of Diablo, Frankenstein, and Jane Austen. And it's a hilarious book. Even if you don't play many of the games in it, it's simply a good read.