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Professional No-Limit Hold 'em: Volume I
Matt Flynn - 2007
Cash games were rarely spread in conventional poker rooms, let alone the Internet. All of that changed when the game exploded on television. No-limit cash games started sprouting up at casinos of all types. No-limit hold em is now the most popular form of poker. Tournaments pushed it to the forefront, and a great deal of money can also be won here despite that fact, many players feel frustrated with their results. They win some money, only to lose it all on one botched hand. This book teaches you how to play and think like a professional. It shows how to size your bets, manage the pot, manipulate your opponents, know when to go all-in, and avoid the big mistake. Do you understand critical no-limit concepts like The REM Process, The Commitment Threshold, and Stack-To-Pot Ratios? If not, this is the book for you.
Salvaged by Water
D.K. Holmberg - 2015
Making a bargain with a Xsa captain leads Elle to learn the depths of the betrayal, and realizes that Falsheim is in greater danger than she imagined. She must strengthen her bond with the elemental, and find a way to stop the attack, or the city—and all of Doma—will fall.Part 3 of Elle’s story, set in the Cloud Warrior Saga.
The Cub
Vasily Mahanenko - 2021
After his seventh reincarnation, he’d begun thinking of it differently, viewing it as nothing more than a slight hiccup in his plans.But he’d forgotten one thing: when those plans get in the way of those higher up the ladder, punishment is soon to follow. And one more death brought faint consolation.Sent to another world, he found himself in a stranger’s body, though the worst part was that he was left with only the memories he’d built since his previous reincarnation. All the mage had learned before that point was gone. Finding himself in that challenging situation, his dilemma was between carving out his place in the sun and throwing up his hands in despair.But giving in wasn’t an option for Leg Ondo. The Brown Bear clan brooked no cowards. If fighting was the way to go, it was a fight to the death, to the last drop of blood. Most importantly, the new world needed to be explored and understood, the local iteration of magic in particular. Let nobody ever say that the youngest of the Bears was unworthy!
Scarlett
Isobella Crowley - 2018
Brilliant humor, specially designed for the avid Anglophile.""So exciting. Can't wait to see what happens next!"
**Set in Bicester (near Oxford) in England, UK, this urban fantasy has a touch of paranormal cozy mystery in it. It's also more of a thriller than one normally expects from this genre.Plus, it is also contains the occasional swear word.And British expressions.(But don't fret about the British, there is a glossary at the front to help you out!)**+++When Scarlett is (seemingly randomly) accused of murder, she has no choice but to take up sleuthing and find a way to clear herself of suspicion.Her only choice is to find the killer before she is arrested.Her efforts are further thwarted by having no recollection of the night in question, and to make matters worse, weird things keep happening around her.Meanwhile, the military police are closing in on her, and what she discovers in her own investigation is far more sinister than she could ever have imagined.Can Scarlett figure out what's going on before the charming, emotionally distant soldier Tim takes her into custody?Read it now, to find out...If you like your protagonists quirky and hilarious, your mysteries confounding, your vampires secretive, and weres dashing, you're going to love everything in the Very British Witch series!Get it now.
Phil Gordon's Little Green Book: Lessons and Teachings in No Limit Texas Hold'em
Phil Gordon - 1980
He has won -- and lost -- in tournaments and cash games around the globe, all the while studying the game and learning from every hand dealt. As the resident expert and cohost of Celebrity Poker Showdown, Phil has quickly become one of the most sought-after teachers of No Limit Texas Hold'em. It's a tough game. But anyone can become a winning player with the right amount of courage, patience, aggression, observation, and, perhaps most important, dedication to becoming a better player. After fifteen years of keeping notes on the things he's learned, the greats he's played with, and the celebrities he's taught, Phil Gordon has poured every single thing he knows about No Limit Texas Hold'em into this little green book. Taking a page from Harvey Penick's bestselling book of golf wisdom, Phil plays the role of both teacher and student, offering up insightful tips on how to think about poker and how to develop a singular style of play. Through philosophy, psychology, strategy, math, and the knowledge gleaned from playing poker with everyone from T. J. Cloutier and Phil Ivey to Hank Azaria and Ben Affleck, Phil breaks down the game into enlightening instructional tidbits and illustrative anecdotes that inspire the kind of persistence and motivation necessary to improve your game. A book to rank with Doyle Brunson's Super System and David Sklansky's The Theory of Poker, Phil Gordon's Little Green Book deserves a spot on the shelf of every serious student of the game.
The Orange Book: The Meditation Techniques Of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Osho - 1980
Meditation is just to be, not doing anything--no action, no thought, no emotion. You just are and it is a sheer delight. From where does this delight come when you are not doing anything? It comes from nowhere, or it comes from everywhere. It is uncaused, because existence is made of the stuff called joy!Meditation is not an Indian method; it is not simply a technique. You cannot learn it. It is a growth: a growth of your total living, out of your total living. Meditation is not something that can be added to you as you are. It cannot be added to you; it can only come to you through a basic transformation, a mutation. It is a flowering, a growth. Growth is always from the total' it is not an addition. Just like love, it cannot be added to you.It grows out of you, out of your totality.You must grow toward meditation.
Wicca: A Modern Guide to Witchcraft and Magick
Harmony Nice - 2019
In Wicca, 21-year-old Harmony Nice--a YouTube and Instagram star with 700,000 followers--offers modern readers a guide to overcoming obstacles and maximizing happiness. She offers practical guidance on:using crystals, wands, tarot cards, and magical toolssetting up an altarintroductory spells for health and protectionfinding your own witchy path--solitary or with a covenWith beautiful illustrations throughout, Wicca offers readers spiritual authenticity, a hint of glamour, and a perfect guide to infusing their lives with spiritual purpose, confidence, and resilience.
Magickal Riches: Occult Rituals For Manifesting Money
Damon Brand - 2015
This proven magick works safely, without wands, herbs, incense or candles. There is no need to pay the spirits, and there is no karma or spiritual backlash. You get what you deserve, you get it fast and you get to spend it any way you want. Where the Magickal Cashbook gave just one method for attracting a small burst of money, and Wealth Magick worked on long-term career enhancement, Magickal Riches contains practical rituals that continually manifest money. Developed from ancient knowledge and modern occult technology, the major workings in this book have never been published before, in any form. The secrets of Magickal Riches have been crafted by The Gallery of Magick during the past thirty years. You will discover: *The Master Money Ritual, using a sigil that contains a pattern of magickal symbols. *How to find your Secret Source of Money, to provide new streams of unexpected income. *A Ritual To Increase Sales, for anybody who sells a product of any kind. *A Ritual For Buying and Selling that ensures that you get the best deal when you are buying or selling anything, from a small item to a house or business. *A ritual to Get Somebody To Pay Up. When you are owed money, use magick to get what belongs to you. *The Genius Rituals, with a set of unique sigils to call on intelligent and helpful spirits. *A ritual to Attract Money Through Perception, for trading shares, or to find out the best course of action in any money-making situation. *The Chance Money Attraction ritual, employing the power of Nitika in harmony with other genius spirits, to bring money out of the blue. *The Gambling Ritual, to increase your luck in lotteries and games of chance. *A secret technique, never revealed until now, for adding extra energy to your magickal workings. Damon Brand says, 'Creating money with magick is one of the most direct and exciting ways to experience the raw power of the occult.' If you are completely new to magick, be assured that this magick is safe and effective. It will work whether you believe in it or not. If you are an experienced occultist, you will discover many new secrets for manifesting money. This exceptional work gives you all the knowledge, techniques, images and secret words that you need to unleash a flow of riches into your life.
Demons of Magick: Three Practical Rituals for Working with The 72 Demons
Gordon Winterfield - 2017
Demons will demolish enemies, enrich bold ventures, satisfy material desires, and provide you with wisdom, charisma, healing and persuasive dignity.The beauty of demonic magick is that spiritual growth arises from material pleasure. If these are works of darkness, they bring great light.Demons of Magick provides you with three rituals for working with the seventy-two demons of Goetia.The first method is a way to petition for a simple result. The second method is Connective Evocation, where you sense the presence of the demon, to obtain knowledge.The third method provides you with the instructions for a Full Evocation, with the demon brought to visible appearance.Each of the seventy-two demons is proficient in several areas, and all of their powers can be used alone or in combination. You have thousands of sophisticated powers at your disposal.Gordon Winterfield says, 'My intent in creating this book has been to offer something genuinely original, and unobtainable elsewhere, based on the wisdom of experienced, practicing occultists. I have no interest in peddling the same weary methods that can be found elsewhere. It is therefore unavoidable that the contents of this book will challenge much of what has been said on the subject. The magick in this book is a modernized, workable method, and will violently contradict many beloved theories and beliefs. This book may offend you, but if you are open-minded, I believe you will find a method that works for you quite readily.'You will discover: The secret Evocation Keys for attracting the demon to you.The names of 288 angels used to constrain the demons.144 demonic and angelic seals.72 colored sigils for working the rituals.The Ritual Opening that calls on five archangels.Words of Power for achieving altered states of consciousness.The safest and simplest methods for evoking demons.
The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
Chris Gosden - 2020
But magic - the idea that we have a connection with the universe - has developed a bad reputation.It has been with us for millennia - from the curses and charms of ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish magic, to the shamanistic traditions of Eurasia, indigenous America and Africa, and even quantum physics today. Even today seventy-five per cent of the Western world holds some belief in magic, whether snapping wishbones, buying lottery tickets or giving names to inanimate objects.Drawing on his decades of research, with incredible breadth and authority, Professor Chris Gosden provides a timely history of human thought and the role it has played in shaping civilization, and how we might use magic to rethink our understanding of the world.
Blood and Sand
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - 1908
Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
The Mercury Retrograde Book: Turn Chaos into Creativity to Repair, Renew and Revamp Your Life
Yasmin Boland - 2019
The Mercury Retrograde Book is here to flip these beliefs on their head. Bestselling author of Moonology Yasmin Boland and astrology expert Kim Farnell explain:- that the retrograde is actually a chance to revisit, revise and revamp- if you can understand how the retrograde cycle works, you can harness it in your favour- how to place the retrogrades in your personal astrological chart and work out their effect on your elemental and zodiac sign
Tempted by Demons
Lidiya Foxglove - 2018
I didn’t realize that I would be the only guest of three sexy demons hungering for a mate... Social media addict Edie can’t remember the last time she spent time in the sun or hung out with anyone but her geeky roommates. The curated life of her feed is so much better than reality. But after getting trolled by an online creep, she's determined to detox. Her summer vacation spot has no phone service or internet--just ocean views and the old-fashioned charm of Marchcliff Manor--plus, three smoking hot guys that weren’t listed on the brochure. Scholarly Alistor, rugged Van, brooding Dante: ferociously protective demons who can take monstrous forms and offer unimaginable pleasures…with a catch. They're cursed, forever bound to the island unless they can find a bride strong enough to handle more than her fair share of sexy supernatural men and surrender her human life. Well, the love of three demons might be just the thing to distract a girl from the internet, and the ferry won’t return for two weeks. Edie will have to decide…is a human life worth keeping if you barely had one to begin with? Tempted by Demons is a standalone reverse harem romance with plenty of steam on the way to happily ever after.