Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time Volume I
by Eric 'Rizen' Lynch, Jon 'Pearljammer' Turner, Jon 'Apestyles' Van Fleet
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Author: Eric 'Rizen' Lynch, Jon 'Apestyles' Van Fleet, Jon 'Pearljammer' TurnerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-20
ISBN: 0974150274
Number of pages: 423
Publisher: Dimat Enterprises, Inc.
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- ISBN13: 9780974150277
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Book Review: Groundbreaking book for moving from advanced to expert poker
Summary: 5 Stars
I started playing poker intensively about a year ago, but I've been a professional games player and expert class at both bridge and backgammon. This book isn't for everyone, but for tournament players who are (really) advanced, it is the best written so far.
Harrington's books, in my view, set the pace - and while there are advanced concepts in those, this book is largely all advanced concepts.
First level thinking as a poker player is considering your own hand, is it strong enough to call, raise, fold. Super basic, lesson one, don't play AJo under the gun, but play it from the button or cutoff.
Second level thinking brings in more context, my table image, my opponents table image, stack sizes, etc.
Third level, in my view, begins to think about opponents and ranges, and how they'd play those ranges, how you fare against those ranges, and how you optimise given your view on your EV in a particular hand. It brings in game theory.
Fourth level, you could say, is concerned with future developments and how your hand will fare - which cards will be awful (either lose your market on a good hand, or lose your money if he improves) - this opens the door for 'bluff-outs' - it is more complex because you need to parse an opponents range, and then consider where various cards will put him psychologically and materially (EV).
Fifth level is thinking about his thinking. Which level is he? Is he capable of advanced thinking? If he is, they how do you use that to optimise? It brings in meta games, opponent history, and multi-hand considerations for how to play.
Sixth level - thinking about your thinking about his thinking? Too far?
The three authors provide a hand by hand illustration of how to THINK at all those levels during a tournament poker hand. While other books offer prescriptions: if you have such and such, you ought to do this and not that... The joy of this book is the nuance - some of the hands are straightforward, but many of them (in the hands of experts) will generate hot debate.
One reviewer objects that the author's hands sometimes hit miracle cards, but that happens all the time, and optimising (getting stacks) when that happens is key. Others object they don't say how hands turn out - well they shouldn't, or if they do, there should be a short appendix in the back laying it out. I'm curious whether the series of bubble-play hands offered resulted in a win, but (again) results don't matter, thinking does.
Advanced poker is not so much about having the right answer or being sure all the time (it is too hard), but it is about making sure you have the right thought process. This book is first rate at doing that.
As one pro said to me after I gave him a hand where I'd stacked off - "your play was probably correct, ONLY if you made it for the correct reasons and had the correct thought process...". In other words, (I had KK), if all my money went in because of level 1,2, or 3 thinking, then I was a fish. But if it all went in, having reasoned correctly, then I was learning and starting to play well.
I'm a profitable $100 buy-in tournament player but make many too many errors, but am confident that this book will add considerable $$$ to my account and I'm grateful for those 3 guys (who afterall don't need the money!) for taking the time to write it.
Cant wait for Volume II.
Paul Gibbons (paulgibbo online), [...]
Summary of Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time Volume I
Want to win poker tournaments?Now you can learn exactly how consistent winners REALLY do it!
Meet PearlJammer, Rizen, and Apestyles. These top guns of tournament poker are frequent winners in today's highly competitive online scene, as well as in live tourneys. Their collective experience and track record is staggering: more than 35,000 tournaments played, more than 1,000 final tables made, over 200 major wins, and more than $6,000,000 in cashes. They regularly outplay fields consisting of other top professionals victories that are documented by detailed online hand histories.
Are you ready to learn winning ways from today's true tournament experts?
The authors are not only consistent winners, but powerful teachers as well. Step-by-step, they reveal their decision-making processes, using hands drawn from actual play not examples contrived to fit a particular poker theory.
Reading this book is like attending a master class in tournament poker.
You'll see the way cutting-edge pros use their wisdom and incredibly extensive experience to analyze almost every poker situation imaginable. Deep-stacked or short-stacked, against single or multiple opponents, you'll learn the skills that will make you a winner, including:
- When and how to play aggressively or tightly
- When to make moves
- When to make continuation bets and when to hold back
- How to induce and pick off bluffs
- How to accumulate chips without constantly risking your tournament life.
Poker is a fun game, but it's even more fun when you win.
If you want to become a great tournament player, shouldn't you be learning from the best? NOW You can!
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