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Summary: Great beginners guide!
Review: Holdem Poker is a great beginner's guide to limit Texas holdem. Sklansky is recognized as the authority on limit play. His straight forward technical approach in this book not only teaches you the fundamentals, but this book alone can make you a winning player! This is the most popular game being played online, at casinos, and in local card rooms. Learn this game and you can make a living anywhere in the world, online or live!
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Summary: Pick another Sklansky Book
Review: I agree with most of the other reviewers. this book is a bit cumbersome to read. the information is there, but it is like pulling teeth to get it out and into your brain. i have read many of Sklansky's books and admire this man a great deal. However, i would opt for the theory of poker or the hold'em poker for advanced players.If you are a new poker player and would like to start playing poker online at www.partypoker.com - make sure you use the bonus code: "AMAZON25" and you will receive $25 free on your first purchase at www.PartyPoker.com. You can also use the Bonus Code "AMAZON100" and you will receive a 20% bonus up to $100! If you already play at PartyPoker, you can also play at www.Pokerroom.com. Use the promotion code "100BONUS" and you will receive 20% up to $100.
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Summary: good Book
Review: I can't say how good the advice in `Hold'em Poker' is. I haven't tried playing for real yet. There's no way I'd risk money with just this book for preparation. It's hard to read and sometimes doesn't make sense even with repeated readings.
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Summary: There are better books by Sklansky
Review: I found this book very hard to read. The information was poorly presented. I estimate that I read this book three times actually, when you consider the amount of time I spent re-reading the passages trying to understand them. The editor took a month off, I think. The most frustrating aspect was the conflicting information that was presented. Often times Sklansky would teach you a certain way to do things, but then offer alternative scenarios which require the opposite tactic. All this information would be contained in one paragraph. So I was never really sure what the actual advice was. I did, however, also happen to have a copy of Sklansky's "Theory of Poker" which I found to be very easy to read, well-arranged, and organized. I suggest you purchase Theory of Poker. It contains all the information in this Hold-em book anyway. Sklansky has great advice to give. You just need to make sure and buy the right book.
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Summary: Excellent Book for Beginners and Experienced
Review: I have been playing poker all my life but just started playing Texas Hold'em a few months back. This book gives outstanding information for playing Hold'em. It not only helps you with the fundamentals but it helps you to start thinking of the advance playing strategies. I recommend this book, that is, unless your playing at my table.
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Summary: In Awe
Review: I'm writing this review from a background of undergraduate-level knowledge in mathematical theory, specifically, Game Theory. I've been playing Hold 'Em for about six months now. When I started playing, I immediately decided I'd like to try casino poker. Considering I don't turn 21 until about a year from now, I thought I'd do the best I can in learning about the game. Besides playing almost every day, I decided to get a couple of Sklansky's books, recommended to me by a professional player. I'm glad I took his advice. The book presents concepts in a such a clear-cut way. Not to say that the book can be skimmed through and understood easily, for it takes an amount of disciplined study to completely grasp these concepts, but that the book presents these concepts in brutal honesty, revealing both the theories behind the concepts and the results of the practice of these theories. Sklansky is both a brilliant mathematician and poker player and presents this book from both backgrounds, although he sometimes holds back on expressing himself mathematically. All in all, I'm amazed by the book. I don't know what more to say.
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Summary: Must Have Book!
Review: Incredible book! David Sklansky is probably one of the most versed authors on the subject, and has a great series of books on Holdem. I increase my winnings by 150% after implementing the simple system presented in his books. Doyle Brunson's Super Systems has a run for its money as the "Bible" of holdem against this book! If you want to win consistently, you MUST have this book!
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Summary: A very fine treatise
Review: Is the finest book on Hold em' that I have ever read. It has clear tables and info on the odds of improving a hand and money management as well. I highly recommend the book for all serious players
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Summary: Not that good
Review: Maybe my expectations were too high after reading the other reviews, but to say this book is good is an overstatement. While I won't disagree that the information presented in the book is accurate, the statements made in the book and by other reviewers that you need to study this book many times can only be because it is so poorly written. First, there's a well known ranking of hands presented in the book. There's very little explanation as to why hands are ranked the way they are, except for a few obvious examples, so the only way to learn this is to memorize it. I would have preferred a more thorough explanation so I could figure these out on my own. In addition, it would have been nice if these had been presented in some graphical way to make the required memorization easier; in this case they are just a list. Second, the book then moves on to "Flops you want" and a big table of examples of starting cards with Excellent Flops, Good Flops, and Fair Flops. Again, a nice table but no explanation to help a reader figure out WHY a particular flop is "Excellent," "Good," or "Fair." Again, a few obvious examples of Excellent flops are explained but it's up to the reader to figure the rest out (this is why you have to read it so many times to learn anything; you have to figure everything out on your own). This pattern continues throughout the book. An idea is presented along with a fairly simple example, but little explanation is provided with each topic to help a reader understand why a particular concept works and most importantly, when a particular strategy is appropriate. This book is like a flow of the author's thoughts that aren't presented in any logical fasion. He jumps from one example to the next in apparently random order so you just end up confused. Maybe if I just keep reading it over and over I'll get it. Oh yeah, I remember once hearing that if a reader needs to read something over and over that's the author's fault; I think that applies here!
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Summary: Good info but not clearly presented
Review: Sklanky may be a good poker player, but he stinks as a writer. The book is confusing and offers very litte in the way of helping a novice to understand his terms. Someone just picking this book off the shelf with no prior poker knowledge would be lost. If however, you already have some poker knowledge, and don't mind muddling through his poor examples and confusing writing style, then you can get some good advice out of this book. However there are books out there that have the same information that are better and more clearly written.
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