Product Description

Poker is the most popular card game in the world. It melds knowledge of strategic principles with luck, probability, an ability to discern what kind of hand your opponent has and how he may choose to act on it, and the courage and conviction required to put your money where your mouth is. Find out about the five most popular poker games played around the world, and master the skills and techniques necessary to give you the confidence to sit down at any poker game and win. Learn how to identify the best games to play in, which starting hands to hold and which to fold, how to figure the odds, when to play drawing hands and when to avoid them, and how to read and deceive your opponents with or without a poker face. A ready-reference as well as a progressive tutorial, you don't have to read this book from cover to - if you know all the rules but want to find out more about advanced strategies, or what the best starting hands are for each common poker variant, jump right in there and start reading. If you want to learn the basics and save the advanced stuff for later, start at the beginning and wait until you feel ready to tackle some of the more advanced concepts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #648610 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 256 pages

About the Author
Lou Krieger learned poker at the age of seven, at his father's side during the weekly game held around the kitchen table in the Brooklyn neighbourhood where they lived. He has published several acclaimed poker books, including Hold'em Excellence, More Hold'em Excellence, Poker for Dummies and Gambling for Dummies. Lou was recently named one of the most influential gaming writers of the past 100 years by Casino Journal Magazine. Having written more than 250 columns about poker strategy, he is now a contributing editor to Card Player Magazine, Casino Player, Strictly Slots, Western Player and Midwest Gaming and Travel. When not writing about poker, he can be found playing it in the card rooms of southern California.

Customer Reviews

It's all about Value
Any half decent poker player will tell you that positive expected value (EV) or a good return on your money is a must in a game which is full of varience and where you must try to make money out of any unexpected situation.

This book has plenty of positive EV, it doesn't look like much but it is all you need to take you from absolute novice to comfortably playing in Medium sized games in the casino or the net.

It covers maths, starting hands, bluffing and best of all it does not limit its self to one form of poker (i.e. Holdem) it covers the main games much in the way that "Supersystem" does, i.e Holdem, omaha, stud with the Hi Lo variations, what seperates this book from the rest is price and clarity.

It is much cheaper than most poker books, it offers more to the reader, who can use the book to develop their own style of how to play without being force fed other poker players styles, bad habbits and life stories.

On the whole a very very good book to start you out in the poker world