Bad Beats and Lucky Draws: Poker Strategies, Winning Hands, and Stories from the Professional Poker Tour

By Phil Hellmuth, Jr., HarperCollins, October 2004 

Nine-time World Champion of Poker Phil Hellmuth, author of Play Poker Like the Pros, offers an instructive and entertaining table-side look at the world of high-stakes poker.

Bad Beats and Lucky Draws is a blow-by-blow narrative of many of the pivotal poker matches between today’s top players. Phil provides every gory detail, includes Phil’s own take on what they (and in many cases what he) should have done differently, from the hand that won him his record-tying ninth bracelet at the 2003 World Series to the heart breaking play that knocked him out of the “Big One.”

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Book Description:

"Ebook Extras: ONE: Phil at the Tables. TWO: Stories from the Tables of the 2004 World Series of Poker THREE: Poker Quiz

Bad Beats and Lucky Draws is your down-and-dirty guide to the world of high-stakes professional poker. Phil Hellmuth, nine-time World Series of Poker Champion and author of Play Poker Like the Pros, presents a blow-by-blow account of many of poker's ""clash of the titans"" hands from the World Series of Poker, the World Poker Tour, and the European Tour. Phil provides insights into what the players were thinking and includes his own take on what they (and in many cases what he) should have done differently. Highly entertaining and instructive, Bad Beats and Lucky Draws gives you a seat at the table with the best bluffs, reads, and over-the-top plays such as the hand that won Phil his record-tying ninth bracelet at the 2003 World Series to the heartbreaking play that knocked him out of the ""Big One.""

Bad Beats and Lucky Draws also includes special contributions by

• Doyle Brunson
• Johnny Chan
• Annie Duke
• Howard Lederer
• Daniel Negreanu
• Ted Forrest
• Jennifer Harman
• Layne Flack
• Men Nguyen
• John Bonetti

About the Author:

Phil Hellmuth Jr., voted the "Best Poker Tournament Player in the World" in 1997 by his peers, is a nine-time World Series of Poker Champion and a WSOP leading money winner. His first book, Play Poker Like the Pros, was released in 2003 and has quickly become the essential text for mastering poker. A contributor to Gambling Times magazine and Card Player, he lives with his family in Northern California.

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