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Summary: Good value pokerbook purchase
Review: Just a note I put in all my reviews. I reserve 5 star ratings for only out of this world books. If there were a 4 and a half star rating I would have chosen it for this book.
I was going to wait to review this book after I had fully digested it and put the advice into practice and see what resulted. But since there is so much information it would take me years to do that.
The book delivers what it advertises. A solid piece on Hold'em in the internet environment. If you're looking for information on internet poker tells you can find it here. The author concentrates the work on Limit Hold'em almost exclusively. There are some pages devoted to Pot Limit and No Limit Hold'em, but Limit Hold'em is the star of this piece. The starting hands chart is a great guide for beginners at Hold'em or experienced players who are looking to trim the fine edges of their opening plays. I was also happy to see a section on a topic that many poker players do not know enough about, money management. The numerous hand examples in the book represent a variety of websites and stakes level.
The only thing that kept the book from receiving a full five stars in my mind was that there was not enough information on the emotional aspect of internet poker. No, you can't see the opponent who just bluffed you out of half your stack laughing at you, but emotional control is still an important factor in making profit at online poker. Maybe I'm just looking for that everything poker book. Actually, there isn't any maybe about it.
The final analysis? A good buy. Four and a Half Stars.
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Summary: Yup, you really can win consistently at poker...
Review: After a trip to Vegas, I caught the gambling bug. But, as I soon learned, a little education can go a long way toward conserving your bankroll. Aside from card counting, full-pay video poker, or using coupons and comps, there really aren't any ways to get an edge at casino cames. Until you consider poker.It wasn't really love for the game that first got me to try poker; it was the allure of knowing that a part-time hobby could become a money-generating venture. I studied the game and read some great books (Winning Low Limit Hold 'Em by Lee Jones and Poker for Dummies by Lou Krieger) and quickly learned how to get an advantage in poker. I started winning (modestly) and started to explore other places to play aside from Vegas. That's where Internet poker comes into play. As Matthew Hilger thoroughly and completely explains in this book, you can really up your per-hour winrate by playing online. He takes the worry out of playing online, gives you a group of safe online poker rooms to visit, and he gives you the winning strategy you need to make money online (his basic strategy also works for land-based games). Matthew uses his personal experience to guide you through the learning process. No one will become a winning player overnight. However, with a good library (that includes this book), you can fairly quickly become a winning player -- even with a modest bankroll. Even if you already are well-schooled, this book provides some great advice that even seasoned players will find useful for Internet Texas Hold-Em.
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Summary: A new outlook to this game
Review: As a relatively new player to Hold'em, this book has opened my eyes. I finally understand why they say it takes a minute to learn this game and a lifetime to master. Matthew seems to be a master at taking this complicated game and presenting it to the reader in a very organized and logical manner which is easy to understand. My game has jumped leaps and bounds since reading this book. He fully explains some important poker concepts such as bluffing and slowplaying and when they are appropriate. He discusses each round of Hold'em in a lot of detail. What I like about his approach is that he explains why you should do things, not just what you should do. He gives over 200 hand examples which gives you a unique glimpse into the mind of a pro which helped me greatly into how I analyze different situations. If you are serious about poker you will probably read this book several times. As a beginner, I picked up a lot of new concepts but there is too much material here to fully absorb in just one reading. An overall fantastic book.
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Summary: A bit dry, and narrowly focused
Review: First, I should say I've just started playing Texas Hold'Em about a month ago. I'm a raw beginner.
I have to admit I had trouble with this book. The early and late parts were great, but the meat of the book is a turn by turn examination of various kinds of hands. There's probably a ton of wisdom in these pages, but I kindof kept zoning out reading through it. Each chapter ends with a kind of quiz describing real examples of hands and asking you whether you should fold, call, or raise, and then provides an answer and an explanation. This is probably great stuff for a more advanced student of the game, but I'm still not familiar enough with the jargon to be able to visualize what's going on. When I read:
"You hold the Ks Jd in middle position. An early player calls, you make a weak call, and the cutoff raises. The small blind calls and four players see the flop of Jc Js Th. The early player bets. There is $200 in the pot. What do you do?"
it takes me a long while just to figure out what's going on, let alone formulate a reasonable answer. A visual representation of the hands would've added a lot of value to the book and may have gone some ways towards justifying the $30 list price.
I'm not knocking the book, though. I just think its not for rank beginners like me. I did pick up some good tips about bankroll management and things like that, and some vague direction on actual play, but I feel I'd need to become more learned in the terminology to really get full value out of a book like this.
I may come back to it in the future and reread it, though another slight failing is that it covers only 10-hand Limit Texas Hold'em and I'm finding I prefer the "Sit and Go" No Limit games. Nothing on the cover of this book indicates it doesn't touch Pot Limit or No Limit games or short-handed games.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: I am new to Hold'em but have already read a dozen books. I keep coming back to this one. It is full of information. I can re-read it and gain something new every time. It is much more readable than the Sklansky books and contains more substance than many others. A good buy.
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Summary: Extremely good book!
Review: I bought this book and have been winning Internet Poker ever since. I still re-read it often for reminders and learn things new every time! Great book!
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Summary: Absolutely agree
Review: I can't add a lot to the other reviews except to say that I think this book is great. Already I have started winning and can't wait to continue learning more about the game from this book.
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Summary: Deceivingly Advanced
Review: I was a beginner to Texas Hold'em when I purchased Matthew Hilgers, Internet Texas Hold'em, Winning Strategies from an Internet Pro just over 5 months ago. I had a few ideas of how to play poker (K9 suited....awesome, I'll raise!) I bought Hilger's book because it looked like a good book for a beginner. I learned a lot of basic principles that helped me find direction in my poker oddessy. Now, I've become a more advanced player, and thanks to Matthew's teachings, have risen in limits. Then, I've searched for some more advanced titles, and was dissapointed. Thats where I realized something. Hilger has accomplished writing a "Beginner" poker book thats is deceivingly advanced. His skill of writing seamlessly bridges the gap between simple and more complex topics, that it makes it very easy for a novice player to grasp these concepts. I'm not saying you'll go from a home game donation machine to a Vegas Millionaire just by reading the book. However, read the book once, pick out the major topics, and you'll improve. Wait a month, read it again, you'll pick up a few more advanced teachings you didn't quite understand the first time around. Hilger's book has become my poker desk reference. While I have 7 poker books around the house, most look like they are fresh out of the Amazon bubble wrap. Except for Hilger's work. It looks like its been used and abused rather frequently, thats because its that good. So...go ahead and purchase Hilger's "Internet Texas Hold'em." No matter what level player you are, you'll gain some valuable insights that will earn you more than a few Big Bets down the road.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I was somewhat disappointed by this book, not because the advice was poor, but rather simply because I don't think it added too much to the existing poker literature...the book bills itself as a guide to helping you beat the internet poker games, but most of the advice is simply generic poker strategy advice (and if that's all you're looking for, there are certainly more accomplished authors, i.e. sklansky, malmuth, jones) to look to first. I also think the book could and should have devoted more time to the very real differences between the internet games and live casino play. The recent surge in poker's popularity has led to a HUGE influx of very poor players into the online poker sites, and I think the author could have taken some time to explain strategy variations that are effective in the different style of play you find online - if you do open an account online, though, search around for a sign-up bonus code to use when you sign up - another post here led me to pokercroaker.com, who keeps theirs updated fairly frequently. That being said, the advice is fairly sound, and written in an easy-to-understand style - just not all that much different than can be found in more popular books, by the authors mentioned above.
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Summary: Kudos! Very Useful Book Here!
Review: I've looked at other poker books. The Texas Hold Em books by Skansky are supposed to be classics and are useful for the advanced player. The writing is bit dense, though, and I'm a beginner. Hilger's books fills in the gap after beginner Texas Hold Em and then some. There's any number of Beginner Texas Hold Em books that tell you what cards you should play and when. Hilger does this, too, and goes further: he explains what you should play in the Blinds and when you should call from the Blinds. Hilger explains how to play Flushes and Straight draws, Trips, Sets, and Overpairs and Underpairs. If you get J 8 suited, and the flop is: Qspades Tdiamonds 3clubs (from quiz on page 194) Hilger explains what the issues are and how to play this. There are chapter summaries. Overall, a very thorough, dense, but very readable book. Get this book after you've read a general beginner book. There is simply tons of information in this book. By the way, I think this book is very useful even if you're not playing online (although he does share internet play observations).
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