Summary:

Whether you’re at the poker tables in Las Vegas, or just playing for pennies with family and friends, you’ll find all the information you need in Chambers Card Games for Gambling. From high-stakes Baccarat to family-friendly Red Dog, this new collection features fun games that can be played at home without losing your shirt, in addition to casino games requiring a little more skill and a cool head.

The unrivalled amount of detail provided, including the rules and aims of each game, how-to-play instructions with illustrated examples, variants, special requirements and handy hints, makes Card Games for Gambling the indispensable guide to playing and winning at cards.

• Focuses on a range of gambling card games, including games that can be played at home for small stakes as well as casino card games.
• Includes more than 30 gambling card games
• Contains entertaining descriptions plus detailed instructions on how to play
• Comprehensive and thorough, it provides all the information needed to master each game, including examples and illustrations
• Written by card games expert Peter Arnold

About the Author(s):
Peter Arnold is an author and editor, most of whose 50 or so books concern sports and games. He has written histories and encyclopedias of boxing, cricket, football and the Olympic Games, and wrote the official FIFA guide to the 1994 Football World Cup in the USA. He has also worked as editor and main contributor of part-works on boxing and football, and has ghost-written instruction books for a West Indian Test fast bowler and a Canadian world snooker champion.

Peter devised some of the mental games for the television series The Crystal Maze. Several of his books are on table games, including some on individual card games, and he has written three books on gambling, one of which was described by a New York author as 'the best history of gambling'. Many of his books have been published in the USA and in foreign-language editions.

Readership:
General; suitable for families; fans of card games with particular interest in gambling