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Hold'em poker is fast becoming one of the most popular poker games in America. Read the first page
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Required reading for starting players.,
By Chris Moneymaker (LAS VEGAS, NV) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hold'em Poker (Paperback)
A book to be familiar with if for no other reason than the fact that any serious player you sit down with will have read this. Sklanskys famous list of 72 starting hands for LIMIT hold'em. Sound advice based on mathematical analysis. Useful formulas for play in limit hold'em with interesting reasoning for these. All advice is sound and can be applied to almost any game (limit or high limit). Awesome first book for starting players or those looking to get into the mathematical aspect of this game.----------------- If your interested in internet poker I recommend PARTYPOKER.COM. It's the biggest poker room in the world. You also get a 25$ bonus on your first deposit with the code "AMAZONPOKER" at signup. ----------------- Keep Flopping ACES
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
There are better books by Sklansky,
This review is from: Hold'em Poker (Paperback)
I found this book very hard to read. The information was poorly presented. I estimate that I read this book three times actually, when you consider the amount of time I spent re-reading the passages trying to understand them. The editor took a month off, I think.The most frustrating aspect was the conflicting information that was presented. Often times Sklansky would teach you a certain way to do things, but then offer alternative scenarios which require the opposite tactic. All this information would be contained in one paragraph. So I was never really sure what the actual advice was. I did, however, also happen to have a copy of Sklansky's "Theory of Poker" which I found to be very easy to read, well-arranged, and organized. I suggest you purchase Theory of Poker. It contains all the information in this Hold-em book anyway. Sklansky has great advice to give. You just need to make sure and buy the right book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Medicine that doesn't go down easliy,
By A Customer
This review is from: Hold'em Poker (Paperback)
A good editor would have been the spoonful of sugar Sklansky's book needs. Priceless information is contained in this volume for beginners. However, the format it's written in is cryptic and it's appended with useless asides, footnotes and references to other points in the book that are so obvious they are distracting such as p.30's "See the probability chapter". Who would buy the book and not read one of the most important chapters? If you buy this book, it will be too difficult to finish and it will sit on your bookshelf and you'll continue to lose money at the poker table. Buy Lou Krieger's book instead of this one and you'll get the same information for half the effort. You'll learn more about the game in less time and you'll find you're also winning more often. I'm not knocking Sklansky. I'm cheering for the beginner to intermediate poker player who just wants to learn how to play better. An editor would have made this book a much easier read and much more visually appealing. Sklansky's gamble at remaining the only name to receive payment from its sales sorely degrades the overall value of having this book in your collection. A good re-write would make it a much better read and a more popular book. And he probably would have made more money in the end with his publishing career.
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