Education of a Poker Player

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Yardley, Herbert O.

Puzzles & Games

HarperCollins Distribution Services

The American Black Chamber (Cryptographic Series)

This book is a classic in nonfiction literature. When published in 1931, The American Black Chamber was an instant sensation and quickly became a best-seller. Erle Stanley Gardner termed the book "one of the most interesting books I have ever read." For those interested in real-life spies, intelligence, breaking codes, and especially intrigue, The American Black Chamber is one of the most absorbing nonfiction books ever published.

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Aegean Park Pr

Looks at an era in American cryptography by detailing the top secret activities of a group of code breakers charged with deciphering military and diplomatic communiques from 1917-1929

Both an autobiography and a poker-playing manual which seeks to expose the cynical reality behind the "American Dream". Yardley describes many poker games and characters who include railroad men, travelling salesmen, speculators, drunks and no-hopers.

Oldcastle Books Ltd

The Education of a Poker Player

Orloff Pr

The Education of a Poker Player: Including Where and How One Learns to Win

Simon&Schuster

During the 1920s Herbert O. Yardley was chief of the first peacetime cryptanalytic organization in the United States, the ancestor of today's National Security Agency. Funded by the U.S. Army and the Department of State and working out of New York, his small and highly secret unit succeeded in breaking the diplomatic codes of several nations, including Japan. The decrypts played a critical role in U.S. diplomacy. Despite its extraordinary successes, the Black Chamber, as it came to known, was disbanded in 1929. President Hoover's new Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson refused to continue its funding with the now-famous comment, "Gentlemen do not read other people's mail." In 1931 a disappointed Yardley caused a sensation when he published this book and revealed to the world exactly what his agency had done with the secret and illegal cooperation of nearly the entire American cable industry. These revelations and Yardley's right to publish them set into motion a conflict that continues to this day: the right to freedom of expression versus national security. In addition to offering an exposé on post-World War I cryptology, the book is filled with exciting stories and personalities.

The American Black Chamber (Bluejacket Books)

History

Americas

Naval_Institute_Press

Today when every major nation of the world is doing their best to spy on each other and break each others secret codes, it is difficult to believe that there was once a US Secretary of State who declared “Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.” Yet it was this statement by US Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson in 1929 that led to this book because the result was that the chief codebreaker for the USA Herbert O. Yardley lost his job and was cast out on the streets. Having no way to make a living other than playing poker, Yardley decided to pick up some cash by writing this book, which proved to be a great success. If somebody in Yardley's position were to write a book like this today, he would have to flee the country and seek the protection of a foreign government as Edward Snowden has done. However, Yardley was able to write this book and get away with it, but just barely as his next book was seized by the US government and not allowed to be published. This book contains invaluable information on codes and code breaking, including how to make a code and how to break a code. We learn fantastic things. For example, a married woman might write a letter in code to her lover to prevent her husband from finding out about it. If the code is intercepted and broken, it might appear to be a simple and harmless love letter. However, that might conceal a deeper code hidden within it that reveals military secrets. Another aspect of code breaking is finding the foreign government's code book. This may be accomplished by the use of a Mata Hari, a woman who pretends to fall in love with the official of the foreign government, who sleeps with him and thus is able to get access to his code book. One would think it would be difficult to find a woman willing to do this kind of work. However, according to Yardley, there are many upper-crust women willing to do this. Almost all of them will do it. The risk is that after being assigned to the task of falling in love with the man, she really does fall in love with him and thus stops transmitting his coded messages to Yardley.

The American Black Chamber

Ishi Press

This is the Bible of Poker, the book that every serious poker player has read and studied. Walter Browne, chess grandmaster and professional poker player, read and studied this book. Herbert O. Yardley, whose training in, and mastery of, the subtleties of poker made him just the kind of agile thinker whom you would expect to crack the Japanese Diplomatic Code (he did) and to write the classic book on codes, ciphers and spies (The American Black Chamber) Here is what the boys in back will have: This book talks about poker and people the way poker players talk about poker and people. It is lusty, funny, cool and knowing. The anecdotes are probably not for your Aunt Hermine. The poker instruction is for anyone (possibly including your Aunt Hermine) who likes to walk away from an all-night session a winner. Each chapter begins with a superb poker story story. Then comes a scientific analysis of the type of poker that was being played. (For example, the story of the corn grower who bets his farm against a circus tent show at Five-Card Draw, Deuces Wild – and wins under the fortunate circumstance of no longer being alive at the time – is followed by a brilliant analysis of how to play your cards at Five Cards Draw, Deuces Wild.) The author's tales of his early training in poker (in his teens when he was the protege of the celebrated Monty, who ran the only clean game in the only clean saloon in his section of the old West) amount to a professional education in the theory and practice of winning. His adventures in the Orient (in between assignments as a secret agent Yardley relaxed his mind – and in a sense repaid his debt to Money - by teaching a young Chinese boy strategic poker) are a post-graduate course in the art of the bluff – how to manage it artistically and successfully – whether the stake is a nest of Nazi spies or a big pot in Seven-Card Stud, Hi-Lo, plus just about every other poker variation you could name. Open the book. You'll know as soon as you read a few paragraphs and get Yardley's tone of voice, that the man knows what he's talking about. His stories are great. His advice could easily turn a steady loser into a steady winner. Yardley tells everything he knows about the art and science of the game of poker in The Education of a Poker Player. How good is his advice? Here is what the New York Herald Tribune says about this book. “It should be part of every father's investment portfolio for his son – or for himself. What Goren and Vanderbilt have done for the bridge player, Yardley has now done for that submerged four-fifths of American manhood that plays poker. He has given us dignity, wisdom and philosophy.

This is an amazing account of nearly forgotten episodes in American history which led to the breaking of the Japanese Codes that were instrumental in the ultimate US victory during World War II. This book was obviously written in 1942, well before Herbert Yardley's death in 1958. It is probable that the publication of this book, The Chinese Black Chamber, did not take place until 1983 for fear or because of what had happened to Yardley's previous works. Herbert O. Yardley is one of the legendary figures in the history of espionage. He founded and directed the famous 'American Black Chamber' in World War I. In 1938, Chiang Kai-shek, fighting his desperate, retreating war against the Japanese, sent a message to Yardley to come to Chungking to set up a Chinese version of the signals intelligence operation that Yardley had headed in Paris and New York. Yardley accepted. Until June 1940, he worked in the remote, bomb-torn capital of Chungking. This book is the account of his intelligence exploits and a vivid description of a strange, mixed society under fire... a world where nobody was exactly what he or she pretended to be. European traders, generals' mistresses, Japanese spies, journalists, politicians, and many other types peopled the city where Chiang Kai-shek ruled.

The Chinese Black Chamber An Adventure in Espionage

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Education of a Poker Player

The American Black Chamber (Cryptographic Series)

The American Black Chamber (Cryptographic Series)

Education of a Poker Player

The Education of a Poker Player

The Education of a Poker Player: Including Where and How One Learns to Win

The American Black Chamber (Bluejacket Books)

The American Black Chamber

The Education of a Poker Player

The Chinese Black Chamber An Adventure in Espionage