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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 795.412
EAN: 9781880685327
ISBN: 1880685329
Label: Two Plus Two Pub.
Manufacturer: Two Plus Two Pub.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 369
Publication Date: 2004-07
Publisher: Two Plus Two Pub.
Studio: Two Plus Two Pub.
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For todays poker players, Texas hold em is the game. Every day, tens of thousands of small stakes hold em games are played all over the world in homes, card rooms, and on the Internet. These games can be very profitable if you play well. But most people dont play well and end up leaving their money on the table.
Small Stakes Hold em: Winning Big with Expert Play explains everything you need to be a big winner. Unlike many other books about small stakes games, it teaches the aggressive and attacking style used by all professional players. However, it does not simply tell you to play aggressively; it shows you exactly how to make expert decisions through numerous clear and detailed examples.
Small Stakes Hold em teaches you to think like a professional player. Topics include implied odds, pot equity, speculative hands, position, the importance of being suited, hand categories, counting outs, evaluating the flop, large pots versus small pots, protecting your hand, betting for value on the river, and playing overcards. In addition, after you learn the winning concepts, test your skills with over fifty hand quizzes that present you with common and critical hold em decisions. Choose your action, then compare it to the authors play and reasoning.
This text presents cutting-edge ideas in straightforward language. It is the most thorough and accurate discussion of small stakes hold em available. Your opponents will read this book; make sure you do, too!
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I have tried several times to read this book and my copy has numerous bookmarks to show my attempts. The editing and grammar are jokes, but more than that the advise, according to one fellow I played with in Vegas, gave him the knowledge to buy in over and over five times (while I played with my same money). This fellow said I could never understand Sklansky--Boy, was he was right! He left the table penniless, while I played all night on my initial stake.
Sklansky needed an editor, somebody to make an index, and (in general) somebody who knows how to make a good read even if his advise is horrible...
Skip this book by all means. A real waste of money...
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This isn't a full review, but merely an important observation for would be buyers.
I bought this as my first poker book, and found it to be extremely valuable, and I was indeed able to use what I learned from it to make money at online low stakes play.
However, I had to alter the advice given in the book considerably. The main problem is that online poker tables simply do not in any way match the play described in the book.
According to the book, loose games will have 6-8 players seeing the flop, while tight games will have 3-5 players seeing a flop.
However, even in the lowest stakes online play, you'd be lucky to find a table with 3-5 players seeing a flop. More typical would be 2-4.
As a result, most if not all of the examples given in the book don't apply to online play, as they all assume you're going to be having 7 people seeing the flop, whereas online you're more likely to have 3.
The book should be rewritten to take this into consideration.
Apparently one of the authors played online a lot during the early days of online poker, when low limit tables were almost as loose as live low limit poker tables. This is no longer true, and hasn't been for years.
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I have been very satisfied with the breadth and quality of instruction in this book. When I purchased it, I (like some of the other reviewers here) did not know that it was written for fixed-limit games, as there is nothing in the title to indicate this. I play no-limit sit-n-gos almost exclusively and was a little disappointed when I found out this was a limit book. However, I decided to give it a try and I'm glad I did. As someone who has only been playing for 16 months, the sections on hand rankings (monster, very strong, strong, good speculative, marginal, trash), hidden outs and redraws, slowplaying, and post-flop play have been very helpful in getting my game up to speed. I'm only about 2/3 done with the book but have already learned a lot, and some of it has applied to no-limit as well. Each section has at least 2 good examples to help reinforce the material. The only reason I give it 4/5 stars is because it's very dry reading (as most Sklansky books are). If you are an intermediate player who wants to learn poker concepts the right way, I strongly recommend this book, even if you don't play fixed-limit. Long-time players and grinders probably know this material already, so if you want to get to their level, you should too.
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Loved this book. It gives you tables of starting hands based on position, which greatly improved my game - I lost my money alot slower - then eventually i started winning more. If you play small stakes (under 10/20) this is a great book.
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If you know anything at all about hold-em this is not the book for you. It does help with learning how to figure odds but everything else it covers can be picked up with a few hands at the table. The book assumes that you are playing with less than mediocre players, and its advice varies greatly depending on how talented your competition is. It is not an easy read.
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