Product Description

Superstar poker player Daniel Negreanu provides 50 easy-to-read and right-to-the-point holdem strategy nuggets that will immediately make you a better player at cash games and tournaments. His wit and wisdom makes for great reading; even better, it makes for killer winning advice. Conversational, straightforward, and educational, this book covers topics as diverse as the top 10 rookie mistakes to bullying bullies and exploiting your table image.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #101862 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

About the Author
Daniel Negreanu, three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, 2004 Player of the year, and Super System 2 contributor, has won more than 40 tournaments worldwide and amassed over $8 million in career tournament earnings.

Customer Reviews

Good for a beginner's crash course, not much depth.
Having read all 3 volumes of `Harrington on Hold-em' (must read material if you're serious about playing hold-em well) I thought I'd also give this book a go.

The book brushes on a number of concepts and theories that HOH and other books go into, (suited connectors, pot odds, etc) but in nowhere near as much depth. To be honest, having read the book there's wasn't really much else, if anything that I felt I'd learned. And although Daniel Negreanu is considered one of the best poker players around, and has far more experience of the game than I do, I would argue that some of his theories are somewhat strange, especially how he advises beginners to stick to fixed, very large raises when they pick up a hand (almost robotic like).

In summary, if you're very new to the game and want a crash course in some useful theories you can read in a day or two then go for this. If you have more patience and really want to scratch beneath the surface go for the HOH series (volume 2 if I had to pick one of the three).

A weak holding
I've been playing social and online poker for about 15 years with moderate success, and have read at about two dozen poker books, including the Harringtons, Sklanskys, Phil Gordons and so on.
I am a great fan of Daniel Negreanu in both his player and pundit roles, but I'm afraid this was a highly disappointing book. It's more like a scrap book of ideas and comments, cobbled together with no particular structure and barely any depth. Also, don't be fooled by the page count. Many of the pages are half full with the various "pearls" of the wisdom mentioned in the title. I finished the whole thing in a few hours and didn't feel I'd learned anything of particular substance. I'm sure the publishers and Daniel were happy to cash-in on the name Negreanu, but that's exactly what this book felt like - a cash-in. I really wouldn't waste your money on these "pearls".

great if your a beginner
I thought this book would include some kind of special game plan thought of by Daniel, he is a great player but doesn't really show it in this book.