Poker is a game of cards, but winning poker is a game of decisions.What the Cards Don't Tell You: Practical Poker Wisdom looks beyond starting hands, percentages, and complicated theories to explore the human side of the game: patience, discipline, observation, position, aggression, and knowing when to walk away from a hand.Much of modern poker instruction focuses on mathematics and Game Theory Optimal strategy. Those concepts have value, but most players do not lose becaus...

Richard Vale is out of the White House, but the consequences of his presidency are only beginning.A new administration has taken power with a simple promise: justice will follow the evidence, wherever it leads.For Attorney General Rebecca Sloan, that evidence begins with money.An investigation into suspicious financial transactions leads to Port Sterling, where luxury towers bearing the Vale name attracted hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign buyers. What fi...

Five years after leaving office, former Secretary of Defense Caleb Mercer steps off an international flight expecting a car, a meeting, and dinner. Instead, federal marshals are waiting.The warrant comes from a Caribbean nation accusing Mercer of responsibility for a secret military campaign that killed hundreds at sea. His arrest opens a door Washington thought had been permanently closed.Soon investigators are following evidence that reaches far beyond Mercer: into the Ju...

In this thrilling new chapter of the Bimini Twist Adventure series, Max Carson and his teenage sons, P.J. and Gaffer, find themselves off the coast of Mexico on the vibrant island of Isla Mujeres. What begins as a sportfishing trip quickly turns into a high-stakes mission when the Carsons intervene in the attempted kidnapping of a young woman—none other than the daughter of influential rancher Miguel Castillo.Their daring rescue earns them deep gratitude and trust from Cas...

Four Dudes is the sixth book in the Bimini Twist Aventure series. In this story the Carsons, Max and his two sons, PJ. and Gaffer discover a sunken 42 foot Freeman that has only been under water for a coule of weeks. They acquire title to the boat and go about restoring it to like new condition. There are great fishing scenes throughut the story, and a fun romp through the ins and outs of boat building and marine supply. Great detail is given to the makeup of the Freeman plus the later add...

Nick "Coach" Wallace never wanted to be an ambassador. He's a retired high school football coach and former Marine who came to the Bahamas with his sons, Ray and Darren, on their sport fishing boat Tiburon. When a survivor from a sunken refugee boat showed up on the dock, that changed everything. Sol de la Torre's testimony exposed a U.S. military operation that blew up a dozen boats and killed at least sixty innocent people. As Nick helped bring that tragedy to justice, he gained favor wi...

Financial literacy is about much more than balancing a checkbook or understanding a credit card statement. It is the ability to make informed financial decisions throughout one's life. It includes budgeting, saving, investing, understanding debt, recognizing financial risk, protecting against fraud, planning for retirement, and appreciating the power of compound interest. These are life skills every graduate will need regardless of career choice.

How angry do parents become when their children are at risk from dangerous behavior their kids get into on account of bad associations? It is beyond description. Parents will do anything to kep their children safe. In The Fathers Club, four fathers with the help of a sympathetiic badass sheriff take the law into their own hands when the system lets them down. Just because a crooked judge doesn't want to act, does not mean these angry fathers are without remedies. At times they have to give...

In all of sportfishing, Isla Mujeres on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico stands out, not only for its abundance of pelagic and reef species, but also as a location with an interesting history dating back thousands of years.Today Mexico is a rare jewel in the western hemisphere. It has an educated population, much industry, a skilled work force, and natural resources in unimaginable abundance. Among Mexico's most precious resources is the pristine water surrounding it on its east and...

This book may have created a word record for me. I got up one morning and said to myself I want to write a book, edit it, and format it all in one day. But that would be impossible without the help of AI. So I decided on a book of poetry where I would give a subject to ChatGPT and tell it to write a poem. I spent more time deciding on subjects for the machine to write about than the machine took to write the poems. From the introduction to the end, and every page in between was created by ...

Will Tanner spent a couple of million dollars to buy Wave Dancer, a luxury sport fishing boat, but he doesn't know the first thing about fishing or yachts. And he hired Reginald Cordelle, the most incompetent, unscrupulous captain in all of the Bahamas Islands to run it. What else Will does not know is that Cordelle has been approached by international arms smugglers to use Wave Dancer to smuggle very dangerous weapons from Lucaya in Grand Bahamas Island, to an offshore pick-up. But Will c...

Only a day trader can understand the adrenaline rush that comes from jumping in and out of the market all day long, watching instantaneous stock prices stream across the computer screen, taking a position and minutes later dumping it. They live a life of high-octane excitement, shaving an eighth of a point here, six cents there, and hoping to finish the day ahead of where they started.Nick Anthony is the owner of a firm in San Diego called Market Makers, where he rents out work sta...