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Summary: A Great Read for Novice Player
Review: This is an excellent book for the new player that has not yet mastered the ins and outs of the game. The goes into familiar topics like bluffing, semi-bluffing, check-raising, reading opponents, ect.The writing style isn't the best (which Sklansky readily admits)
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Summary: The best book for general strategy and theory
Review: This is simply the most useful took available for understanding the mathematical underpinnings of poker. It can be a bit difficult to work through, but even if you don't understand all the math in detail, it's still worth a read in order to understand the reasons for playing in a particular way. For instance, most authors of poker books will tell you that it's better to raise or fold and that calling is seldom the right play, but Sklansky explains why (hint: it has to do with comparing the odds of making a particular hand with the implied pot odds of a particular deal). This book will not teach you to play any particular game of poker or tell you which hands to play or how to play specific situations. What this book does is to explain the value of certain types of play and to give specific examples from different games, especially Hold 'Em, Omaha and Seven Card Stud, and to illustrate how the theory changes in practice if you're playing in limit or no-limit games. Most people will probably find the ideas presented here more useful in cash games than for tournaments, and will get better results using them in limit games. It's small comfort to play "correctly" and find yourself knocked out of a tournament! But even for no-limit tournaments, Sklansky's book gets you strategizing correctly and thinking about proper play. My game has improved dramatically since I read this book, and unlike most poker books, this one obviously wasn't written in a couple of weeks. The meatiest, most useful book out there. I'm glad most of my opponents have never read it!
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Summary: All-time poker classic
Review: This is the all-time poker classic. For those with no theoretical background to the game, this book will open your eyes. Evey serious poker player has read this book. I would like the book more if all of the examples in the text were for more common games like Texas Hold'em and 7-Stud than games like Razz.
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Summary: The best book
Review: This is the best poker book ever written. It makes everything that is unclear clear. After reading this i did not have to trust my inuition any more, instead I could apply cold logic into every poker decision.
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Summary: A Textbook on Poker
Review: This reads like a textbook and should be read by any serious student of the game. I'm sure it will be a useful reference for the rest of my poker playing life. Some may find it difficult reading as the style is fairly typical of a textbook or a reference book, and it is a comprehensive and serious book about the probability and expected outcome of the game. The reading isn't recreational, but is a good investment of time with the returns being that you will be a much more astute poker player.
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Summary: Very good enjoyable book ¿ Now Get to Playin
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