Hold'Em Poker for Advanced Players (Advance Player) |
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 795 EAN: 9781880685228 Edition: 3 ISBN: 1880685221 Label: Two Plus Two Pub. Manufacturer: Two Plus Two Pub. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 332 Publication Date: 1999-06 Publisher: Two Plus Two Pub. Studio: Two Plus Two Pub. Features:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Texas Hold em is not an easy game to play well. To become an expert you must balance many concepts, some of which occasionally contradict each other. In 1988, the first edition appeared. Many ideas, which were only known to a small, select group of players, were made available to anyone who was striving to become an expert, and the hold em explosion had begun. It is now a new century, and the authors have again moved the state of the art forward by adding over 100 pages of new material, including extensive sections on "loose games," and "short-handed games." Anyone who studies this text, is well disciplined, and gets the proper experience should become a significant winner. Some of the other ideas discussed include play on the first two cards, semi-bluffing, the free card, inducing bluffs, staying with a draw, playing when a pair flops, playing trash hands, desperation bets, playing in wild games, reading hands, and psychology. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Good Stuff.Maybe not as well known as other books, ie: Super System, but I really enjoyed this book and I like the Authors. Not much more to say. If you want to get good/better at poker without laying all the money out for experience, get this book. Its price is nothing compared to its teachings. Take care and GL to all. Rating:  - Technically PerfectIf I were to write a book, I would hope is was as well organized as this one, which is true to form for these guys. I would venture to guess that the contents of this book started out as a bull session with these two guys passing remarks back and forth with a tape recorder faithfully humming along in the background. And then, after it was transcribed, they went to work on it. If you are a stickler for details, this book will provide them. I have read other books by these two authors, and was glad I came back for more. However, beware, the title really means what it says - unless you truly are advanced, you may begin to wonder what hit you hit you before you finish the first chapter. Rating:  - Good but it never distinguises "Limit" from "No Limit" Poker...This is a good starter book, but inexplicably Skalansky, and Malmuth never make it clear at any time if they are suggesting stategies for "Limit" or "No Limit" games, and as we all know, concepts completely change depending on which game you are playing! I mean, betting patterns and the actions players should take are so different depending on if a game is limit or pot-limit, or no-limit. If anything the book seems more catered toward limit play (which is far less popular), but the fact that there was never a clear distinction at any time, really annoyed me. This book is way overrated, everyone said for me to read it, but I'm sure there's better Texas Hold 'Em books out there. The odds charts are nice, some of the philosophies are helpful, but come on, let's start by explaining if concepts are for "Limit" or "No Limit" thats a huge difference, and a distintion must be made when talking about strategy! Rating: - Love it or hate it, the world wouldn't be the same without Sklansky's books.I feel like people are in two camps about Sklansky, and there are times when these two camps appear to find as much common ground as listeners of Rush Limbaugh and Obama campaign volunteers. Well, maybe a little more than that. Still, there's a lot of difference. One side finds Sklansky too dry, technical, unrealistic about how people really play, and just a bunch of mathematical postulating with little practical value. The other side seems to think that Sklansky is the seer of poker theory, that he has the ability to single-handedly determine the correctness of any poker play, and that all his complicated formulas and theories can turn anyone into a winning player, if they only study his books to exhaustion. I may be overstating slightly, but based on the other reviews for this book, I don't think I am exaggerating too much (btw, I'm not sure which side are the Rush listeners, perhaps both). Well, I'm in both camps about Sklansky, and this book serves as a great example of why. I think there is no doubt that Sklansky's poker theory is virtually unmatched, even in this new age of internet poker players, many of whom could, if they so chose, be associate professors at MIT (but why would they, considering how much they can make playing a card game online.) He does a fantastic job really fleshing out the many details in making proper choices. It does get very complicated, but it has to be in order to take all the details into account. Any attempt to give a correct answer requires an acknowledgement of all those details. Anything short of that is intellectually dishonest, and most likely wrong. On the other hand, Sklansky does not do himself any favors in his manner of writing. His insistence on accurately and fully explaining his recommendations, often do more to cloud his recommendation than to clarify. Great poker theory does have to be complicated, because poker is a complicated game, but it doesn't have to be death to read. Additionally, Sklansky has a particular blindness when it comes to poker, in that he thinks all the theory can, in itself, make you a good poker player. I think it helps to add a dose of Mattew Hilger, whenever reading Sklansky, and it'll make you a more complete player. I've said a lot without saying a lot about the book specifically. So, in brief, this offers a lot of the value that Sklansky's Theory of Poker offers, but with a focus just on Hold'em and with a bit more practical advice, assuming you are advanced enough to know how to implement a numerically-based poker style, and complicated plays within your overall poker strategy. It's a challenging book, but to write it off without putting in a serious effort to understand Sklansky's viewpoints means consigning yourself to a level of mediocrity, because you need to know this stuff when you get to a certain point in your poker career. Take that as you will. Rating: - 2 + 2 publishing will make you a better playerIf you want to become a better poker player and are willing to invest the time and resources (brain power) to do so, this book WILL, without a doubt, serve you well. Those who have read anything from 2 + 2 publishing understand that the foundation for poker is based in probability and expectation. It is for that reason this book is not an easy read. It is a textbook. It is very effective one at that. Sklansky goes beyond the fundamentals to provide insight into specific plays that produce positive mathematical expectations in a variety of circumstances. This book is for the person who is looking to study the game of poker and become a better player. It will not fit the guy who is looking for the fast, easy way to do... well anything. If you are new to the game or are still fine tuning the basics in your home game (counting outs, understanding pot odds and position play) I recommend investing some time in some other books before this one. Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display 
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