Product Description

This is the latest most up-to-date poker book around, from one of the UK's foremost card games authors. Priced to suit the tightest budget, it gives all you need to know to get started and win at home, in casinos, in tournaments and online. With top tips and plenty of encouragement, players with one or two games under their belts are also sure to improve their game.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4666 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-08
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Synopsis
Teaches how to play Texas Hold 'Em Poker for beginner. This work contains terms, definitions, etiquette and rules and shows how poker hands are ranked. It helps understand your chances, appreciate the percentages, and master the odds that your hand improves.

From the Publisher
So you want to play Texas Hold 'Em?

There's no denying poker's universal charm is irresistible and the daddy of poker games, Texas Hold 'Em, is everywhere - TV, the internet, in the press, on the big screen. But what's the best way to get started ? More to the point, what's the best way to get started...and win? Texas Hold 'Em is incredibly easy to learn and you can be playing before you know it, but you need a lot more than just the basics or you'll end up as fodder for the pros who really know what they're doing.

That's why Paul Mendelson, our most popular card games author (and self-confessed poker fan) has written this, the latest most up-to-date poker book around. Priced to suit any budget his easy to read guide gives all you need to know to get started and hit the ground running. Of course you'll learn the essentials of the game, the hands and their values, the mechanics, the terminology, the odds and percentages, the betting and money management. There's a full glossary and Paul's top ten tips for beginners. But you'll also understand the etiquette, the ritual, the audacious bluffs, tells and all those other subtleties that most new players only discover when it's too late! And with the benefit of Paul's experience at the Vegas poker tables you'll be ready for live games with friends, at casinos and even tournaments.

Don't miss out on the game everybody's enjoying. It's time to join in the action. And with Paul as your guide you'll begin and win!

About the Author
Paul Mendelson is one of the UK's foremost card games authors, with several bridge books for Elliot Right Way. He is also bridge correspondent for the Financial Times. Regularly covering Las Vegas and gaming, most of his live poker has been played at the Vegas tables. A self-confessed Texas Hold 'Em fan, Paul has also worked as a consultant to various online casinos.

Customer Reviews

It's TRUE but.....
OK like a few people have stated on here .... follow the rules and you DO INDEED win. BUT and there is a but ..... one of the things stressed in this book is patience. The reason being is that if you follow the rules you will play maybe 1 hand every 10-15 minutes. The play in the book is very tight. It basically takes some hands that on average will allow you to win more often than you lose and that's the simple maths. You can't fault the book. The only problem I found is when I moved to bigger stakes tables people are far more likely to do the things that the book will tell you to fold for, and so your win average is cut to the bone. So you might say "Who cares...I'm winning" Well simply put if you want to play maybe 6 hands an hour and win 4-5 of them and that may mean just the pre-flop pot for a few dollars then go ahead. Most people play poker to win LOTS of money and for excitement. This is neither. Not sure where I go from here....maybe an advanced book or maybe something in tournament play.

the title is "Begin and Win",it should be just "Begin"
this book is so basic,it's not for someone that knows the rules of texas hold'em,that is about all that is in this book,what bet means call and so on, with it being such a small book and I do mean small 128 pages that might sound not that small but the introduction takes up to 10 pages, the glossary takes up another 10,that leaves enough space for the rules and thats about it,if you have not played before and would like to know how too play this would be ok but for anything else look else where!

Absolutley fantastic
I do online gambling, just for fun, although I know the addiction rate to this is sky high. I have developed my own strategy of stopping if I lose twice in a row. This book was an instant help to the way I roughed up some online poker players and won a reasonable sized pot. So have to buy the author a drink if ever he's in Wales.