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Title: How to rip off your mates.
Review: This "how to win" book focuses on the host of home games. It sets out to explain how to exploit personal relationships and pretend friendship in order to win from less experienced players. There is little or no advice as to the play of the cards. Examples are based around some remarkably dumb cardboard characters. So much so that it is hard to relate the advice to real situations. Most of its advice is of the "get them drunk" nature, and has very little to do with poker as such. Even if you are as unpleasant a person as the book's protaganist, it would be hard to find the mugs to exploit. Basically the book's implicit moral position is highly questionable. Its redeeming feature is that you can read it as a cautionary tale, just to make sure that you are not slipping into some of the traps described.
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