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Summary: Into the winner's side
Review: After one reading, I turned a $40 weekly loss into a $40 gain. This was my first book on Omaha Hi Lo and with the dicipline to follow the guidelines, you can win too. However, you must study another source to learn profitable tournament rules. I do agree with the flaws identifed in earlier reviews: a) somewhat disorganized, b) too much print about "other forms" of poker, and c) leaves some common playing decisions unanswered. But there is enough solid advice to allow you to start getting actual playing time without it costing too much.
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Summary: If you know starting hands already, this book will help you.
Review: Cappelletti is too loose in his starting hand recommendations in my book. That being said, the rest of the material is very useful. I had already played a great deal of winning O8 before reading this book and I had read Zee's book, but was still able to find some great insightful advice to apply to my game when playing. I especially liked how he got into the differences in play between high flops and low flops and the push and pull hands. This book is very informative and will help your game, just don't play as loose as the author does preflop.
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Summary: If you know starting hands already, this book will help you.
Review: Cappelletti is too loose in his starting hand recommendations in my book. That being said, the rest of the material is very useful. I had already played a great deal of winning O8 before reading this book and I had read Zee's book, but was still able to find some great insightful advice to apply to my game when playing. I especially liked how he got into the differences in play between high flops and low flops and the push and pull hands. This book is very informative and will help your game, just don't play as loose as the author does preflop.
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Summary: excellent, play omaha hi online
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Summary: For the Recreational Player, Not how to make big bucks
Review: I was disappointed. I enjoy Mike's magazine articles, but this book is too anecdotal. He correctly explains common mistakes (don't be a fish) and points out how to be a fisherman (I like this better than the shark analogy). There are too few pages devoted to ranking of hands and strategy. There is some but not enough. Too many bad beat stories and not enough "do this" "don't do that". Mike seems to be more interested in fun than profit - - but maybe that is true of all Omaha players. I'll stick to holdem, thank you.
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Summary: Very dissapointing!
Review: I was terribly dissapointed with this book. It struck me as a lazy effort to cash in -- a cut and paste of magazine articles and ego massaging annecdotes -- not a useful product for customers. The content is disorganized. Almost everything presented is vague. Most comments, described hands and annecdotes are about high-stakes tight games, when in the real world most customers are dealing with lower-limit loose games. I still do not have a clear idea from it what starting hands (besides obvious ones) he reccomends being played and from which position in which type of game. And the charts are HORRIBLE! They are obtuse and hard to read, some of them flat out don't make sense -- at least to a common player. There are references to 11 handed play (are there enough cards in the deck for that with the burns? -- I've never seen 11 seats at an Omaha table anywhere online -- nor in the LA card rooms)There are useless odds charts based on all hands going to river (which they don't) and there is almost no information on adjusting to shorthand (when a table has empty seats) or heads up (when playing tournaments)... The author should have figured out if he was writing for typical low/moderate limit players in typical loose games -- or high limit, aggressive pre-flop games. Of course then he wouldn't have enough material to fill out a book. Which is my take on this whole project. Compare it to Phil Hellmuth Jr.'s "Play Poker like the Pros" where step-by-step, beggining or intermediete players are given a set of tools, rules and an organized approach of how to apply, adapt and expand them to different game conditions and experience levels.
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Summary: Disappointment
Review: This book isnt worth its small price. The book is disorganized to say the least, making it difficult to read. Furthermore, there is little real usable information, especially for those who are new to Omaha 8. Whereas a good author would write a solid chapter about starting hands (for example), the equivalent in this book is 7-8 articles on a subject, apparently culled from Card Player Magazine. This leaves a lot of questions unanswered and topics unaddressed. Though some of the individual articles arent bad, its no way to write a book. Based on what I have heard and the other books I have read by 2+2 publishing, I wish I had bought the Ray Zee book instead. Bottom line: This book might be ok for someone who has played a little bit of omaha and wants to learn a little more, especially playing recreationally, but if youre serious about learning omaha 8 or taking your game to the next level, look elsehwere.
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Summary: Good Book, three flaws
Review: This is a very helpful and entertaining book. It aided me in thinking about this potentially very profitable game. Combined with online information by Steve Badger and by Annie Duke, it has been enough to keep my O8 adventures profitable.
The interesting new things I got from this book were the advice to play high flops aggressively, the raise with third nuts to drive out the second nuts (dangerous but very profitable at times) and the advice on table selection (Cappalletti's Number) The flaws:
1: There should be a bit more about starting hand selection. O8 is a starting hand game. You are not often going to outplay anyone post-flop, at least I'M not.
Having re-read the book, I will have to modify this part of the review. He does go into starting hand selection quite extensively but I found his ideas pretty much identical to what I had already picked up from other sources and not surprising or very intersting, although I think that they are correct. So, I didn't think that much about them when I wrote this review. He does seem to give less credence to the "all four cards must be useful" concept than Steve Badger, among others. Playing A2XX when XX are crap is fairly loose by the standards I was taught. However, make XX of ANY value at all and I agree it can be played profitably.
2: He digresses a great deal into hi-limit, pot-limit and other tough Omaha venues. He also gets into Holdem. These are some of the most entertaining moments in the book but won't be popular with those who want technical advice for profitable low-limit O8.
3: He says O8 is fun. Not a matter of taste. He is wrong.
My one other problem is that the one table of O8 that is usually in play at Foxwoods does not, whatever Mr. C's experience there in the past, usually consist of loose enough players to meet his ideal of a good table. On weekdays, especially, the number of people seeing the flop on average can get as low as 4 or even 3.5 I also don't see O8 growing in popularity the way Mr. C. does. It had its growth and I think that we will see a die-back.
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Will in New Haven
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Summary: Very Enjoyable Book¿Now Get To Playin!!!
Review: This was a very Enjoyable Book. It provided important and useful concepts about the game of Poker. I learned new concepts, which identified some leaks in my game. Leaks in your game can come from anywhere!!! Leaks can originate from lack of aggression, overcalling raises, misreading opponents and any other number of ways. So this book helps. Many people look at poker the wrong way. They think to win they need to do all of this super fancy plays and mindblowing stunts. Well folks...there are not that many options in poker...you fold, call or raise. So its really hard to do thinks that will just fool your opponents all the time. To win at poker it is mostly limiting your mistakes and getting all that you can from winning hands and minimizing losses on losing hands...that's it Ive been playing for about 5 years now and love the game. Ive read many poker books and found this one to be very good. So I would suggest you buy this book and maybe a couple others and get to playing. There's really no excuse anymore - since anyone can access the internet. 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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