Dave Martino is a new and upcoming card game authority with his debut book, This Isn’t Your Granddaddy’s Card Game Book to pave his way. A Christian and family man, Dave grew up in the Chicago area in an Italian-American family that made card playing a daily pastime. He was shuffling a deck of cards before he could talk, and in high school he was known as the guy who always had a twenty-dollar bill and a deck of cards in his pocket. That still holds true today. He graduated from Northern Illinois University with a B.A. in Criminology, where he spent more time playing cards than studying. Learn strategies for Poker, Hearts, Spades, Oh Hell!, and many of your old favorites, as well as 37 never before published card games.