Product Description

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!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2941 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 423 pages

About the Author
Eric 'Rizen' Lynch

Eric 'Rizen' Lynch is recognized as one of the top tournament players in the world in both live and Internet play. In just two years at the World Series of Poker, he has seven cashes, including a 2nd and 3rd place finish. He finished 26th in the 2006 main event, winning $494,000, his biggest prize so far. His lifetime total for cash finishes in live tournaments is a little shy of $1 million. Online, Eric has over 50 wins, made 300 final tables, and has won over $1.5 million. In 2007, he won one of the major Sunday tournaments, beating out thousands for a prize of $156K.

Jon 'PearlJammer' Turner

Well-known for his online prowess, Jon 'PearlJammer' Turner, who also plays online under the name 'PearlJammed', actually got his start playing live games in Raleigh, NC, and then later in Las Vegas. He won the 2007 Internet Player of the Year award, tracked by InternetPokerRankings, after a 3rd place finish in 2006. Over the last couple of years, PearlJammer has amassed an impressive online resume: He has over 100 wins, made 600 final tables, and won almost $2 million. In 2007, he placed second in one of the major Sunday tournaments to win his biggest online cash prize of $100,000.

Jon 'Apestyles' Van Fleet

Jon 'Apestyles' Van Fleet started playing professionally in 2004 after graduating from college, and quickly moved up the ranks in the online poker world. He ranked in the top 20 in both 2006 and 2007 at InternetPokerRankings. Jon has made close to $2 million playing in tournaments online, including over 350 final tables and 70 wins. His biggest online cash to date is $135K when he finished 2nd in a major Sunday tournament.

Customer Reviews

Best book I have found for online MTTs
I have been a fan of Rizen since I watched his Million win recording on PokerXFactor, so this book was an obvious one to try. I have read about half so far and it is excellent.

The book consists of detailed analysis of around 200 hands played in online MTTs by three of the most successful online players. They each analyze their own hands. I have not yet got to the last section where they each give their take on the same hands, played by the editor Matthew Hilger.

They all write clearly and interestingly, explaining the reasons for their actions very well. They assume the reader understands basic theory such as pot odds etc, so for someone like me who owns lots of poker books there is plenty of new food for thought. Their styles are noticeably different, which adds to the interest.

This book covers the phases before the tournament bubble, with a second volume planned to deal with the in-the-money period.

Strongly recommended for experienced online players, but not for beginners.