| Playing Poker to Win: A Comprehensive Guide to No-Limit Texas Hold'Em for Beginners and Improvers |  | Authors: Andrea Shavick, Dan Shavick
Publisher: How To Books Ltd
Category: Book
Buy New: £49.98
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 350,418
Media: Paperback
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1845281055
EAN: 9781845281052
ASIN: 1845281055
Publication Date: March 31, 2006
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Still my favourite poker book May 13, 2010
D. S. Michaels
This book has everything. While others show you how to play poker well (a la Harrington, Super System) this book shows you how to play at the kind of levels us mortals play at. It also includes sections on bankroll management and, my biggest leak, managing yourself (e.g. tilt, variance). The best thing going for this book is it is written by an English couple so the tone is a bit more suited to us Brits and is less serious and dry than the likes of Sklansky and others. Be aware it is 100% no-limit but it is good for any hold 'em players.
INSTANT RESULTS!! (well almost, you do have to read it first!) June 25, 2009
I. Lomas (England, UK)
I started playing no limit Hold Em over 8 years ago and taught myself using the play money option on a well known online poker room. I thought I had mastered the basics and my play reached a plateau (steadily loosing!)
A couple of months ago I bought a book from charity shop on advanced Hold Em and another on the psychology of poker. The psychology book helped a lot. The advanced book didn't, why? It was too advanced and made too many asumptions about my play and experience.
I was playing a lot of Sit N Go tourneys at the time so I bought a book from amazon about them, again no help. Then while searching amazon for some thing else amazon recommended Playing Poker to Win: A Comprehensive Guide to No-Limit Texas Hold'Em for Beginners and Improvers.
WOW! The books starts with the fundamentals rules etc. Fully explains the thinking behind betting. Building ever upward the authors explain clearly how to make winning plays and also point out potetnial pit-falls. There are also lots of quizzes to illustrate a skill that you need to learn. Great hand ranking and odds tables which are of immense value by themselves.
Its a great book written in a non condecending light stlye that is easy to follow. As I read each chapter I noticed where I had been doing the right things and, more importantly, where I had been making mistakes.
As I said above it gave (almost) INSTANT RESULTS!
Hope this is of help to you, see you at the tables!
Iain
Does just what it says on the tin (well cover really) August 1, 2007
Mickey (London, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I took up poker about a year ago, learnt the rules and began playing the occasional game. I have been playing no limit hold 'em cash games online fairly heavily for about 6-8 months and I have picked up most of the basics fairly well. I have read a fair amount of professional tips on poker websites such as Full Tilt, as well as reading many articles in poker publications. Over the past month I felt that my basic skills could really do with brushing up, as I was making plays but couldn't be sure they were correct, or if they were I could not explain why. Basically I couldn't justify many of my decisions at the table.
To help brush up on the fundamentals, I decided to buy a few books. The first of the books I purchased was "The Theory of Poker" by David Sklansky, as this seemed like a logical place to start. I didn't class myself as a "beginner" due to the sheer amount I have played over the past 6-8 months, so decided upon the book by Sklansky as it seemed to be aimed at the intermediate or above level. However, it wasn't solely aimed at no limit hold 'em - which is all I am playing at the moment. While I have picked up some very useful tips from Sklansky's book I decided to invest in Playing Poker to Win as I believed it would be more focused on hold 'em - particularly no limit, and really help me to nail the fundamentals.
Having read the book from cover to cover over the space of a few days I can safely say that it was worth the investment - in both time and money. Not only has it brought a fair few new ideas to light, but it has also clarified upon many things which I had been beginning to do and think at the tables. I will certainly be reading over many of the chapters multiple times in the near future so that the theory can really sink in as I play. I believe that with lots of practice, this book and a few choice articles, you can become a very sound poker player with the ability to win in the long-run at the cash tables.
I would certainly recommend this book to either complete beginners (as everything is so well explained, much better than the Sklansky book I first read) and intermediate no limit hold 'em players who have been playing for a while but haven't yet read a lot of literature on the game. I think once you have all the basics in your head (there is a lot to take in, as you may know poker is an extremely complex game!) you can develop your own style. This book will help you learn most of the things you need to do this.
Yeah - what everyone else said. August 5, 2006
Danny Briggs
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I havent got anything to add except my own weight to the praise for this book. Excellent.
Best beginning and intermediate poker book avaliable July 5, 2006
B. J. Hunter (Uk, Newcastle)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Hello
Ok first of all if you new to poker BUY THIS BOOK!! and if you've been playing for a while but have never very seriously studied the game BUY THIS BOOK!
Now i had been playing no limit texas holdemn for just a few weeks yet i had learnt quite alot from studying and played comfortably at the lower limits online turning a healthy profit.
But this book is sheer genious and the authors really do need a pat on the back this will as quoted from the cover take you from that guy who pretends he knows whats going on to the guy who rules the table, although its not the only book you'll ever need if you take the time to study this books, you'll be playing great poker.
The book is also great value and light hearted in tone which is refreshingly nice to read, as if the authors are standing talking to you. The book leads you by the hand in a way which is very well structured first teaching you the rules etc in the best way i have seen presented then tells you some great theory, eventually explaining what you would do in different situations and why (with regards to the relative strength of your hand) later it goes on to tell you how you arrive at this information (since obviously you dont have it).
All in all this makes for a great book and i would recommend it to most people, i think even some more experienced players will find many great parts in this book to help their play. So really BUY THIS BOOK!! for a great grounding in no limit holdem.
Thanks alot
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