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Summary: Ashley's book will make you a winner!!!
Review: A must read for YOU to win at 7-Card Stud! Ashley's anecdotes and humorous re-enactments guide you through strategies and psychology of casino play and home games. Bet your stack that this no-holds-barred read feels like you're seated at the table, tossing chips and squeezing cards. Buy it! Read it! Do it! 'Cuz I will be at your table taking your money!
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Summary: Build a solid foundation with this book.
Review: For those who are contemplating 7-card stud, this is the book
to own. Adams takes you from your home games, and shows you what
you need to do, to play solid casino stud. What I really liked here, was that Adams covers all the little
questions that a learning stud player would ask, from the betting
rounds to the starting hands with some solid starting card rules. Chapter three of the book, covers what it takes to take your game
up a level, but also offers other books to advance your game, as
this book was not really designed to teach advanced concepts. Since reading this book, I have gone from a hit and miss at 7-card stud, to a guy that walks away from the table ahead, most of the time. Don't get me wrong though, this is no miracle book.
The author assumes you can have discipline, and if you can not, this book will not help greatly. But for those who want to learn
how to win by playing low-limit games, and are willing to play tight, this book will help.
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Summary: For Hold 'Em players wanting to dabble in low-limit Stud....
Review: I am a frequent Hold 'Em (HE) player, both in the casino and online. A recurring problem for me is the wait. At the casino, I frequently have to wait over an hour to get a seat at an HE table. Online, it's not as bad, but just as irritating. I decided one way to start passing the time was to play Stud, which always seems to have seats open. Unfortunately, Stud and HE are VERY different games, and I wasn't making the right adjustments. This book outlines a good basic strategy that I was quickly able to implement with pretty good success. Unlike HE, Stud doesn't allow for a strict set of playable "starting hands", but this book did a good of explaining guidelines to consider when making the most critical decision: what to do on 3rd street. This book does not, and was not intended to, get into advanced and aggressive play. That's for further reading, but this was a good starting point for me. For more experienced poker players, some of the advice might be considered weak-tight, but it's still a good foundation. Warning - this book has a few typos in it. In particular, there is at least one diagram that in no way corresponds to the text beneath.
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Summary: For Hold 'Em players wanting to dabble in low-limit Stud....
Review: I am a frequent Hold 'Em (HE) player, both in the casino and online. A recurring problem for me is the wait. At the casino, I frequently have to wait over an hour to get a seat at an HE table. Online, it's not as bad, but just as irritating. I decided one way to start passing the time was to play Stud, which always seems to have seats open. Unfortunately, Stud and HE are VERY different games, and I wasn't making the right adjustments. This book outlines a good basic strategy that I was quickly able to implement with pretty good success. Unlike HE, Stud doesn't allow for a strict set of playable "starting hands", but this book did a good of explaining guidelines to consider when making the most critical decision: what to do on 3rd street. This book does not, and was not intended to, get into advanced and aggressive play. That's for further reading, but this was a good starting point for me. For more experienced poker players, some of the advice might be considered weak-tight, but it's still a good foundation. Warning - this book has a few typos in it. In particular, there is at least one diagram that in no way corresponds to the text beneath.
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Summary: THE BEST 7 STUD BOOK IN PRINT
Review: I have read this book several times and if you are a poker player or aspire to be one it will pay for itself rather quickly if you follow the advice contained in it. Ashley takes you from the basement home games to the casino environment arming you with everything you need to know before even sitting down. There are many books on holdem but very few on 7 stud written in recent times. Adams presents the reader with and entertaining and informative approach to seven card stud. I have read the few books on 7 stud and can tell you this one is the best. It gives you a gameplan to become a winner. Great for beginners or advanced players. Even Holdem players would find it a useful tool for picking up a new game.
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Summary: A Good Foundation
Review: I want to say up front that I consider Ashley Adams a friend. We met on the online poker newsgroup Rec.Gambling.Poker and have also met in person. That said, I think a sceptical person might take one star off my rating (above) as I cannot be ABSOLUTELY certain of its objecitivity myself. I was a winning stud player before I started playing Holdema and Omaha, so I am not part of the target audience of home-game players who are new to casino poker or holdem players who want to learn something about the other game. However, I saw some very good points in this book that I think will benefit me greatly when I start playing some stud poker again. I think that the target audience will benefit even more. Ashley's clear writing style, sense of humor and straightforward approach to this complex game made the book a pleasure to read. His section on picking out the right tables would be useful to anyone who wanted to make a profit at any form of poker. His reference to "looking for the bunny slopes" made it clear that one doesn't seek out difficult opponents. I want to close with one area where I disagreed with Ashley, as all favorable reviews should at least try to maintain a balance. Frankly, poker players, especially me, do not need the advice that they should follow a bad beat by taking a break and getting something to eat. Taking a break is fine but we don't need any more encouragement to get somethng to eat.
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Summary: this book is great
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Summary: A Wonderful Introduction
Review: If you're looking to learn the basics of 7-Card Stud, I can't imagine you'll find a better book (or a better value) than this one. Unlike most poker books, it's actually a pretty entertaining read and all the material is well-presented and organized.
I was already a profitable low-limit online Stud player before reading this book, but this book still helped my game quite a bit. There's some good advice in here regarding how to play in live casino games (especially if you're a newbie), game selection, identifying and playing against different types of players, etc.
As one of the reviews below mentions, this is a book for beginning and intermediate-level players and the advice is really only applicable for lower-limit games. You may also find that some of the advice on third street play in particular isn't really applicable to certain types of low-limit online games due to their betting structure.
But these are just minor nitpicks. Overall, this is an excellent book and a wonderful introduction to the game. If you're a new player, start with this book!
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Summary: Straight Up
Review: In your face how to play Stud. This is a REAL gem with great advice and real world dialogue. This is NOT some pro writing what has been written a hundred times before to make a buck. This is a pro telling you what he knows, and he doesn't hold back. Far and away the best stud book you can buy.
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Summary: A Well-Written Poker Book
Review: It is difficult to write "how-to" texts well. There are many non-literate poker books out there. They have good information but it is hard to find the good stuff hidden among the complex sentences and fractured paragraphs. Unlike the many, Ashley Adams' Winning 7-Card Stud is both informative and well-written. It begins where every good book should begin, at the beginning. It moves its readers from the basics of card-room seven-card stud through intermediate playing levels and includes some advanced tools, like reading other player's hands and poker psychology. This book should be read as author says. Read it first from cover-to-cover then study it one chapter at a time. There are three main sections: Ch. 1 - Review of card-room basics
Ch. 2 - Low limit beginner's tactics
Ch. 3-6 - Intermediate techniques Chapter 1 contains all the stuff we already know about B&M card-rooms. It also contains all the stuff we have forgotten about B&M card-rooms. It is worth re-reading and would probably help many of us if we read it once a year. Chapter 2 should be re-read carefully; especially by folks who play other kinds of poker and want to add seven-card stud to their playing list. In addition to tight fundamentals, it includes an excellent description of the tactical playing differences between low structured limit ($3/$5) and low spread limit ($1--$5) games. The rest of the book does a good job of presenting and reinforcing some of the more advanced techniques like slow-playing and check-raising. I especially like the way Adams presents his "odds" information. These chapters should be re-read separately and carefully. There is a lot of good information in them and it will take most of us some time absorb all of it. Like the earlier material, there are nuances discussed in the last four chapters that can benefit even sophisticated players. There are some proof-reading mistakes (for example, the text on pages 21-22 does not match the diagram on page 21) but I could not find any technical poker errors. I look forward to Ashley Adams' next offering. I hope he will share his thoughts about on-line seven-card stud with us then. Read Winning 7-Card Stud once for fun, and then read it again and again for information.
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