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This was the first poker book I ever read. This one book was enough to turn a losing player into a winning player. It has the most complete and thoughtful coverage of 7-stud hi/lo split with no qualifier that I've read.

All the basics are there in this easy to read primer on high-low poker. It teaches you strategies on when to play your hand, how to bet and describes accurately the more popular variations of high-low poker. You'll see games not described here, but they're the fringe. Can't beat the price, either - four anties in our game!

If your looking for a book that can really teach you all of the specifics of the game, this is not the one to get. It is generally sparce, filled with common, unhelpful information, and redundant.

Avoid this book.

Winning Caribbean Stud Poker And Let It Ride is an invaluable instruction guide and reference book on the card games of Caribbean Stud Poker and Let It Ride. Avery Cardoza also offers critically important information on money management; payout schedules for each game; the basics of play; more than a dozen "action charts"; optimal strategies for doubling bets in Caribbean Stud Poker; optimal strategies for taking down best in Let It Ride; and more! Fun, informative, "user friendly", authoritative, comprehensive, Winning Caribbean Stud Poker And Let It Ride is a highly recommended addition to the card gamers reference shelf.

awsome dude i won 800.00 the first use after i read it.

It is hard to imagine a [price] book being overpriced, but this one is. If you have never played Hold'em at any level, this MAY be a place to start, but even for that it is totally inadequate. There are dozens of better choices available. Save your money.

I find this a very helpful summary of Texas Hold'em. I travel by bus to Atlantic City every couple months to play Hold'em and I carry this book along to review on the bus. I own a lot of poker books and have studied them all. However for a quick summary of Hold'em basics before sitting down to play, this book is what I use. The list of the five decision factors reminds me of where I should focus my thoughts during play. I like to review the tables and charts too.

This is an outstanding overview of Texas Hold'em poker. I wish I had read it before reading longer books on the game. Braids provides a compact and clear explanation of Hold'em and the thought processes needed for each stage of a hand. His discussion of the five decision factors is actually applicable to all forms of poker. The charts and illustrations are helpful. More complex books on Hold'em make much more sense after reading Braid's book. Also if you play poker online, having the chart on page 22 taped above your computer screen is helpful for knowing when to stay in a hand after the flop.

Killer Poker has very little practical information on the mechanics of playing poker. It doesn't advise you when to play, raise, fold, or bluff. Rather, the advise it offers can be boiled down to, play aggressive and always try to be aware of, and fix, your mistakes. If this book had given some method for identifying and correcting mistakes it would have been worthwhile. There are other, much better, books on poker out there.

The advice in Killer Poker is relevant to every person who thinks he already is a top-notch player. It can plug a leak you weren't aware of if you are willing (or capable) of brutal self-examination. I don't recommend this book for fundamentals. Or for those who think compassion is a part of poker. The writing style is a cut above other writers in the genre. I would have given it five stars if it came with a Ben Franklin bookmark.

I've read 5 or 6 poker books. They all deal with details of starting hands and how to play and so on. The problem is not so much that we don't know how to play well, it's that we don't do what we know we're supposed to do. We are victims of our own emotions and bad habits.

John Vorhaus has an easy humorous syle that shows us thru examples and excercises how to get better control of the beast within us that encourages us to play badly.

This is not to say that there is no playing strategy. Luckily,
by simplifying starting hand selection with his "absolut" and "small card poison" ideas, my own play online has improved very noticeably. He has also simplified understanding of the odds so that you can use your mind for playing instead of computing.

He provides many excercises that you can use no matter what methods you currently follow that WILL improve your game. This of course pertains to players that may need to improve their game.
If I were only going to read one poker book before playing this would be it.

Books that concentrate too heavily on strategy treat poker as if it were a strictly mathematical excercise. Poker isn't blackjack. With poker it's decisions within decisions within decisions. Mental discipline doesn't come easy, we need to work at it. For me this is the BEST poker guide to that end.

the price alone speaks not even close of rating doesn't deserve a star either

I was a Slots Player only, until I went searching for some VP advice. I found Video Poker Made Easier to be a step-by-step guide you can use as a jump-start to winning VP.
Now, I play Bonus and Deuces Wild correctly and come home from the casinos with more money. I have not completely given up on slots and will continue to follow the great tips and strategies from Ms. Mitchell and her All Slots Made Easier books.

If you want just the facts with easy-to-understand strategies for all the versions of Video Poker, this book certainly makes Video Poker Easier. 'Mathematical percentage overload' that turns off most readers are minimized here and replaced with useful facts, VP pay schedules and tips. This results in a first-rate concise VP education presented by author, Gayle Mitchell.

I've read worse, but that's not exactly a recommendation.

I feel very mixed about this book. On the one hand the author's smug writing style and arrogant assumption of superiority grate (TJ Cloutier is a world champion and he doesn't write this arrogantly!). On the other hand, the book does offer some good advice on poker psychology and the attitudes one needs to win. It can also be quite amusing in places when Daniel tells some of his own poker annecdotes. I guess I'd say, if you have a tiny poker library and are looking to expand, this is probably not the book to go to; but if you already have most of the basic books, this could be a useful place to expand your perspectives.

As one who makes his living playing poker, I can honestly say this is a poker book like no other. It is no replacement for the basic literature on poker strategy. However, Mr. Daniel gives us a guide to playing poker on a personal level: "people poker." His advice on poker strategy, sizing up one's opponents, and sizing up one's self will be of use to poker players at all levels--beginner to expert. The book also includes an excellent set of appendices on poker odds, etc.. Finally, this book is not dry like most of the standard poker literature. (With all due respect to the brilliant authors of this literature, let's be honest--it can be a tedious, boring read.) The author's humorous, anecdotal style makes this book a pleasure to read. A real gem. Highly recommended.

I very much enjoyed the movie "Rounders". So much in fact that I thought I'd grab a copy of the book written from the screenplay. I was very disappointed. The book adds nothing to the movie. With the exception of the first chapter, the author seems to have simply cut and pasted the dialogue from the screenplay. There is nothing here that is not in the movie. See the movie and don't waste your money on the book. According the back of the book, Kevin Canty has written other books that are quite good. He must be quite embarrassed to have his name attached to this one.

I was surprised to discover there was a "novelization" of the movie. I really enjoyed it, and it was by far the best novelization I have ever read -- not that I've read many. (I only picked this up because I like reading books about poker.) But this is a serious literary book that just puts the movie into words, and in doing so, I though made the movie and the charcaters much fuller. I only give four stars because it is not an origional story.

Straight out of the mouth of teddy kgb himself, this book rocks

The article McDonald wrote was well written in Fortune magazine but unfortunately is not much more informative in the 100+ page book that follows. McDonald attempts to connect phenomena (games, economics, business, & war) to concepts in which he feels cross between disciplines. However, the writing style of his book swtiches back and forth between making assertions and stating examples that are so broad that at some point becomes unrelated to the whole point of the book. One example even tries to describe the chemistry of ideal gases and how it's related to pure competition! I was expecting that the book would dive into deeper aspects of how poker was related to investing as he described in the article but mainly talks about concepts already written in standard college textbooks. I suspect that McDonald tried to rush his writing of the book and grabbed straws to fill out the pages. My recommendation is to read the article and not the book!

This book is really a study of games - specifically strategical games such as poker. Strategical games are those where information is imperfect. The author uses poker as a model for describing strategy in business, war, and politics - Three of life's other strategical games.

He correctly deduces that the optimal strategy in poker is not to have one - that is, to vary unpredictably. Poker playing requires deception, and to do that, the poker hand "must be concealed behind a mask of inconsistency," as he puts it. This is critical poker knowledge, but you don't have to buy the book for that.

He makes the important observation that the winning strategy in general is to have better information than one's opponent. Thus, poker players bluff representations of strength and weakness, in order to deny information about their hands to their opponents. People involved in capital markets try to get better, faster information (e.g. "real time quotes") because that is the only way to win.

Don't buy any poker books besides this one. It has everything you need. Don't buy any other gambling books - no sense wasting more money on games you can't win. As for business, war, and politics, this book describes a good "mindset" for thinking about these fields.

This book is really a study of games - specifically strategical games such as poker. Strategical games are those where information is imperfect. The author uses poker as a model for describing strategy in business, war, and politics - Three of life's other strategical games.

He correctly deduces that the optimal strategy in poker is not to have one - that is, to vary unpredictably. Poker playing requires deception, and to do that, the poker hand "must be concealed behind a mask of inconsistency," as he puts it. This is critical poker knowledge, but you don't have to buy the book for that.

He makes the important observation that the winning strategy in general is to have better information than one's opponent. Thus, poker players bluff representations of strength and weakness, in order to deny information about their hands to their opponents. People involved in capital markets try to get better, faster information (e.g. "real time quotes") because that is the only way to win.

Don't buy any poker books besides this one. It has everything you need. Don't buy any other gambling books - no sense wasting more money on games you can't win. As for business, war, and politics, this book describes a good "mindset" for thinking about these fields.

I can't believe all of the glowing praises that make up the blurbs in the front of this book-- two pages worth! I'm guessing most of them are out of context. I also can't believe the positive reviews here on Amazon. Did I read a different book or something?

The Poker Club is awful in every way a book can possibly be-- I don't know where to begin. The tremendously bad dialogue? The offensive sterotypical characters who refuse to display any kind of development? The annoyingly predictable plot? The startlingly bland writing style? Joe Lansdale has more engaging prose in one paragaph than I could find in this whole novel.

Gorman also has this irritating habit. Habit? No, it's a part of his "style", I guess. He writes one-sentence paragraphs that are meant to give a dramatic pause to the flow of the, and I use the term loosely here, narrative.

But he does it at least three times on every page.

And it quickly becomes irritating.

You'll want to throw the book against the wall.

I'm at a loss to say anything positive about this near 400-page paperweight. Well, I can't use it for that-- then I'd have to look at it. The thing's not even good enough for a doorstop-- it's too light. I think I'll use it to weigh down the trash.

I have to admit, I stuck with this book to the end. Not because I was enjoying it, mind you. I was fascinated with its complete badness. It's a lesson in how to *not* write a book.

Please, steer clear of this pathetic excuse for a book.

I beg of you.

To call "The Poker Club" a horror title is a grand misnomer. I totally agree with another reviewer that this really should have been listed as a crime title.

To it's credit "The Poker Club" is a very fast and easy read. What a pity that there was no real payoff by the novel's conclusion.

What suprised me most was Mr. Gorman's use of every ethnic and racial sterotype imaginable. Our hero, Aaron Tyler tells us himself through his clumsy first person narrative that he is the token WASP, Curtis is the token black, Neil is the token Jew and Bill is the token Catholic. Or that's what he'll have you believe that's what they call themselves to one another. Do you know of anyone who would actually talk like that?

The sterotypes don't stop there. We read them when describing the residents of "rough" neighborhoods in Aaron's small Midwestern town and in describing the carnies working at the fair. If as much thought went into the plot as the racial profiling, there might have been a nub of a tale worth telling.

Detective Patterson apparently knows what went down with the men, yet does no real police work to get them to talk. "When you're ready to tell the truth..." "Stop lying to me..." make up a major portion of her speaking lines. Any police officer out there reading this novel would be insulted by her poor procedural tactics.

Aaron and his friends are supposed neighborhood saints turned sinners. There is nothing redeeming or memorable about any of these men. I half-expected these dreaded six words after the final sentence . . . "And we lived happily ever after." That's the sort of feel the novel has by the end.

There are plenty of other good novels out there that will, no doubt, entertain you more. Leave this one on the shelf.

It doesn't matter whether or not you've ever read the short story that formed the basis for this novel -- Ed Gorman's "Out There in the Darkness." No matter what, this novel is totally chilling. Is it horror or crime? Doesn't matter -- it's both. In fact, people who enjoyed Sam Raimi's flick "A Simple Plan" or the book it's based on will enjoy "The Poker Club." Put simply, it's a fast-moving disturbing tale that shows how easily supposedly every-day "normal" people can see their lives shredded by making a couple of bad judgments in a short timespan. Gorman's one of the finest writers out there, and "The Poker Club" proves it. By the way, the original short story is considerably different from the novel, so if you've read the story, pick up the novel as well.

I must admit after reading some of Sklansky's other books I was a little disappointed. As other reviewers pointed out this book seems more for beginners than for "advanced" players. If you are a beginner this is certainly a book for you. However if you have read some other books on poker and tournaments in general and have played some tournaments then this book will not be very helpful

I play a lot of tournament poker-- about a hundred small- to large-buyin live tournaments, and hundreds online, each year.

David's book has excellent, easy-to-understand explanations of key tournament concepts. His description of why the value of a chip changes during a tournament is clear, concise, and spot-on, and what he calls the "gap concept" is something that every solid tournament player understands intuitively.

"Advanced Players" is a misnomer, though. If you've played a few dozen tournaments, you probably know most of what is in this book. I was hoping to see a mathematical analysis of such things as tournament equity, all-in equities, and special considerations for different games and tournament formats, and it wasn't there. I think the book is moderately good, though technically light.

David isn't really a tournament expert, and it shows. He places far too much emphasis on moving up the payscale, and not nearly enough on playing to win. I understand that he gave exactly this sort of performance in the 2002 WSOP main event-- getting into the money, then basically blinding off his stack without playing many hands.

If you're serious about tournament poker you should read this book, but you should do so with a critical eye-- I believe it does contain some misinformation. It's certainly better than the first embarrassing tournament offering from Two Plus Two.

The ambiguity in the name of this book is something that confuses a lot of people, including some reviewers. The target audience of this book is ADVANCED poker players who have NOT played much in tournaments. Experienced tournament players might get something out of it too, or use it as reference, but they are NOT who the author had in mind. So, if you are looking for advanced tournament tips, skip this one, save some money and aggravation, and drop me a "thank you" note. :-)

This said, the book accomplishes what it is set to do rather well. There is a large number of very solid poker players who almost never play in tournaments simply because the price of learning tournament basics through first-hand experience is rather high. On the other hand, explaining tournament basics to an advanced player is easy, or at least Sklansky makes it seem this way. If you are a good player thinking of playing tournaments, read this book -- it has answers to most of your questions.