| How Good is Your Limit Hold'em? |  | Authors: Byron Jacobs, Jim Brier
Publisher: D&B Publishing
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1904468152
Dewey Decimal Number: 795.412
EAN: 9781904468158
ASIN: 1904468152
Publication Date: June 2, 2005
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 Superb book for developing your limit skills September 19, 2006
Splossy
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is excellent for aspiring Limit Hold'em players. You need to understand the game already to get much out of it but anyone with a few thousand hands and a grounding in poker theory fundamentals will benefit. The reason I say this is that you need to understand WHY you make certain plays for the advice to mean anything to you.
The book is primarily aimed at middle-limit online poker. As the author points out, you cannot just be a solid by-the-book player and win at middle limits - you need to mix your game up, be deceptive and play at your opponents' observable weaknesses. This book helps you do that. The main meat of the text is a series of hands played from pre-flop to the end. You are presented with your cards, position, profiles of opponents and hypothetical plays. You then decide what action to take at each stage, much of the right play is based on these opponent profiles (eg weak, passive, unimaginative). You are informed of what the author considers to be the right play and why. This is a good way of getting your mind to operate like a pro player - playing the player not just reacting to cards.
Because it is aimed a middle limit play, most hands get 2-3 handed at the flop (because good players know not to play weak hands). So I think this makes the book great for short-handed play - like 6max. Very low-limit full-ring play looks very different to this book with many more weak players calling so it's advice would need to be adapted accordingly.
 Identify and fix the leaks in your game December 31, 2005
Mr. Kevin M. O'shaughnessy
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Not for beginners - this is aimed at players trying to move up from low limit games to middle limit games. As Byron writes that many poker books "make the assumption that all of your opponents are of identical skill or all play exactly the same game" but this book accounts for all the information in the game that you should be aware of. For me it has highlighted several areas of weakness in my game and will help me to improve.
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