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Title: Winning 7-Card Stud: Transforming Home Poker Chumps into Casino Killers by Ashley Adams ISBN: 0-8184-0635-6 Publisher: Lyle Stuart Hardcover Pub. Date: November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: From poor player to rich player
Comment: This was an excellent book to help transition me from a home-game stud player into surviving and winning at the casino. I have played Texas Hold'em for a while and often find myself sitting idly by waiting for a seat. Since I was a regular in the poker room, the floor supervisor talked me into spending my time at the stud table.

My first round I took my beating like all the beginners but my determination win lead me to this book. And I thank my determination. After this book I tripled my money.

If you have played in the casino, you can skip the first chapter. If you are new to casino play, read chapter one. It is accurate and will help ease you into this new setting. The second chapter is the meat of this book. It will no make you a world class stud player, but if you follow the simple strategies and starting hands you will be a money maker.

The remainder of the book goes into more advanced concepts and I found that in the lower limit games that most players start in, these advanced concepts-deception, bluffing, and reading-are not as useful as portrayed in this book. As you continue your development, these concepts will be more useful.

Rating: 5
Summary: Winning 7-Card Stud
Comment: This is an excellent book for the beginner and for players that need to get back to the basics. Ashley just "tells it like it is".

Must reading.

Ken

Rating: 5
Summary: A Good Foundation
Comment: I want to say up front that I consider Ashley Adams a friend. We met on the online poker newsgroup Rec.Gambling.Poker and have also met in person. That said, I think a sceptical person might take one star off my rating (above) as I cannot be ABSOLUTELY certain of its objecitivity myself.

I was a winning stud player before I started playing Holdema and Omaha, so I am not part of the target audience of home-game players who are new to casino poker or holdem players who want to learn something about the other game. However, I saw some very good points in this book that I think will benefit me greatly when I start playing some stud poker again. I think that the target audience will benefit even more. Ashley's clear writing style, sense of humor and straightforward approach to this complex game made the book a pleasure to read.

His section on picking out the right tables would be useful to anyone who wanted to make a profit at any form of poker. His reference to "looking for the bunny slopes" made it clear that one doesn't seek out difficult opponents.

I want to close with one area where I disagreed with Ashley, as all favorable reviews should at least try to maintain a balance.

Frankly, poker players, especially me, do not need the advice that they should follow a bad beat by taking a break and getting something to eat. Taking a break is fine but we don't need any more encouragement to get somethng to eat.

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