Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #618239 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780818407239
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

A must read any serious poker player, tournament or cash.
When I browsed the table of contents before my purchase, I saw many topics as a poker player that were of interest.
When I purchased the book and read it, I was not disappointed. Incidentally, I am now on my third reading. This does not mean the book is confusing or unreadable. On the contrary, the "good stuff", i.e. the entire book, is dense with very useful material that requires study, not just a cursory read.

The explanations of probability, the binomial theorem, player hand distributions and how to react to them (my favorite), player tracking software, cEV, mEV, ICM (Ihave seen this in other books, but this is the best explanation I have seen), N-Up, and CPD are detailed and in my opinion absolutely necessary for any poker player seeking excellence.

Anyone who intends to improve their poker and who does not recognize or understand the abbreviations in the previous paragraph, e.g. cEV, ICM, etc, had better read this book.

Good math book, but it won't fix your tournament leaks
This book uses a favorite math method -- to reduce unsolvable problems to solvable ones that yield reasonable approximations.

Fair enough. But I think he treats multi-table tournaments like one-table sngs. If he could prove that equivalence, he'd have written a great book. but he can't. In fact, he doesn't try. MTT not = SNG, sorry.

He also emphasizes playing tiny edges in mult-table tournaments. That is very position-, stack- and opponent-dependent.

See the Poker Tournament Formula for another view -- math with guts -- as well as the three Harrington on Hold'em tournament books. For a hand-by-hand retelling of a pro player winning a big live tournament, see Gus Hansen's wonderful Every Hand Revealed. (I believe Hansen's book was so hard to write, that it will seldom, if ever, be equalled.)

P.S. Guerrera's other book Poker by the Numbers is a better, rigorous text on cash games.