{"id":1523,"date":"2005-01-25T20:08:58","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T20:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1523.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:15","slug":"richard-d-harroch-lou-krieger-poker-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/01\/25\/richard-d-harroch-lou-krieger-poker-for-dummies\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard D. Harroch, Lou Krieger &#8211; <i>Poker For Dummies<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not as basic an introduction to the game as the authors would like you to believe.  Yes, it does give a plain description of the fundamental rules of poker in general, and the specifics of the most popular games (Texas Hold&#8217;em, 7-Card stud, Omaha), but it does make some assumptions about your knowledge of cards and betting in general.  The first few chapters can be quite confusing if you don&#8217;t know how a &#8220;betting round&#8221; works, because they never explain it.  The &#8220;rah-rah!&#8221; Dummies-style of cheerleading also gets tiresome after a while, especially when you just <em>know<\/em> that if you step up to a table armed purely with the knowledge in this book, you&#8217;re going to get fleeced all the way to Nebraska.  As quick-start guide, though, it does the job of setting you on your way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not as basic an introduction to the game as the authors would like you to believe. Yes, it does give a plain description of the fundamental rules of poker in general, and the specifics of the most popular games (Texas Hold&#8217;em, 7-Card stud, Omaha), but it does make some assumptions about your knowledge of cards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_3_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}