THE WORLD'S #1 POKER MANUAL - Card Games

Poker Book, Club Poker
Once John Finn had control of casino and club poker, he dropped most of his short-term ploys for
the more profitable long-range strategy of tough, sound poker based on the Advanced Concepts of
Poker.
When to use unorthodox or bizarre acts and which act to use depend on the game and its players. Such
acts benefit the good player when he is first adjusting to or learning a new game situation--such as
casino or club poker. Once he has the new situation and its players under control, the good player will
find his straight poker skills are more effective than unorthodox or bizarre behavior.
3. Notes on Public Poker
John Finn made the following notes while playing poker in the Gardena card clubs and in the
various Nevada casinos:
1. Advantages of private poker over club and casino poker: (1) No house cut to drain away
available cash and profits. (2) The same players are available week after week for the longrange
manipulation necessary for increasing money extraction and a growing poker
income. (3) Generally weaker players.
2. Advantage of club and casino poker over private poker: The constant supply of fresh
players allows maximum aggressiveness and ruthlessness without fear of destroying the
game. If best strategy dictates, unrestrained action can be directed toward upsetting
opponents. No need to mollify losers. Establish psychological dominance early. Only
limitation -- avoid excessively obnoxious tactics that might alienate club or casino
management and result in banishment from their establishments.
3. The six card clubs in Gardena, California, provide simultaneous action for up to 1680
poker players. Over 400 licensed card clubs in California and more than 80 Nevada casinos
continuously offer thousands of fresh poker players for money extraction, every hour of
every day and night, all year round.
4. Major poker clubs and casinos always offer a selection of games and players. Carefully
select the most advantageous game with the weakest players. Keep aware of the other
games, and promptly abandon any game for a more advantageous game (e.g., more
profitable stakes or weaker players).
5. Seek games with careless players, nervous players, women players, drinking players,
players with tattoos or unkempt beards, and especially players wearing religious crosses or
medals, good-luck charms, astrology symbols, or other mystical amulets. Avoid games with
high ratios of calm, controlled, or intelligent-looking people.
6. Because of his initial confusion and inexperience when first learning public poker, the good
player's statistical game (the mechanical aspects--the figuring of odds and money
management) is weaker than his strategical game (the imaginative and thinking aspects--the
strategy and bluffing). Conversely, the statistical game of most public-game professionals is
stronger than their strategical game because of their greater dependence on mechanical
routines and rules designed to yield statistically maximum investment odds on every play.
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