Product Description

Because of television, the game of choice for most new poker players is no-limit Hold'em. This has led to changes in the game. With so many players trying to emulate their TV heroes, they tend to play too many weak hands, call too many bets with marginal to poor holdings, and try to make too many big bluffs. Today's skilled player must learn to adapt to these changes in this complex game.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #592878 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

Best introduction / intermediate guide to NLHE cash game.
Having converted to No Limit Holem from limit I have struggled to find a guide which wasn't dangerously simplistic or only applicable in tournaments (usually championship level). Fox and Harker have produced what in my experience so far is an excellent work which is easy to read, comprehensible and insightful. It covers the essentials, pot odds, bet size, pre-flop and post flop strategic thinking and an especially useful section on playing from the Blinds. They provide a useful hand guide which is actually tailored to your position and, unlike many other hand guides,the action ahead of you.

Not as strategically comprehensive or as sophisticated as Dan Harrington or as theoretically advanced as Sklansky it is an excellent primer and easier to read.

Inaccurate and misleading in places
It's good to see a book dedicated purely to No-Limit Hold'em as opposed to most poker books which seem to look at either Limit Hold'em or a mix of the whole myriad of poker variants. It was also good to see a book focussed on cash games as opposed to tournaments.

The book starts well and is well structured into suitable sections.

However, as you move further through the book the suggestions becomes somewhat questionable. In the section on Position, odds are incorrectly calculated and the strategies that surround them are highly suspect.

A lack of attention to detail and some poor assumptions eventually make you question the credibility of this book.