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Title: Play Poker Like the Pros by Phil Hellmuth Jr. ISBN: 0-06-000572-6 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.26 (61 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Pretty good to get you started
Comment: This is a pretty good book to pick up. I enjoyed it and it was my first book to deal with poker strategy. For me, it was helpful in outlining some of the factors that can affect your success at the table (your hole cards and the types of players you are up against). For me, I was aware of these factors, but not to the extent that each figured into your odds of winning the pot. As a beginner at looking at poker theory, I thought it was a good starting off point, but by no means the end of the journey. I have since looked at books by Sklansky and others which go into more detail with these concepts. But, I feel that the Hellmuth book did help me to have a background mindset in place for handling these more in depth books. I think that Phil had beginners in mind as the target audience as much of the material would be a rehash for people who had already spent more time reading about poker theory and concepts than I had when I bought this book. So for you advanced and intermediate players, I can understand the frustration or let down feeling. I would've felt the same way if I had read this after some of the other books, but I think it is a good place to start to increase your thirst for knowledge about a complex and great game. My rating would be five stars if this was the first book you had read about poker, but probably lower if I had thought this was an advanced strategy guide. Plus I can't bag on the book too much, I met Phil at a book signing and mine is autographed!!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: He draws the outline of a masterpeice for you...
Comment: I've read several other people who have read this book and complained about how Phil doesn't teach anything, and I beg to differ. For most of the people they don't understand that reading a book isn't gonna make you play suddenly better, you need to play poker as Phil constantly points out in his book. He also states at the beginning that you can not read this book in a day and expect to absorb it all. You need to read a section, maybe a chapter at most and play and play until you have adapted his consepts to fit you game, after all each of us plays different. Lots of play will improve you ability to read you opponents, play Phil's guess the opponents hole cards game. This book also does not focus on one type of poker it explains Texas Hold'em Limit/No Limit, Omaha Limit/Pot Limit, Omaha 8's or better, Razz, Stud, Stud 8's or better and Internet Poker. Althought Phil does not dive into the mathmatics (I'm an engineer and sometimes the fourth street mathmatics can be quite complex) the basic ideas of pot odds and pot value are constantly taken in to account. Finally this book is about Phil and he will talk about big hands that he has won and lost.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not just a book, but an investment.
Comment: My exposure to Texas Hold'me having been watching it on ESPN2, I found myself at a 27-man tournament. For two weeks prior, I had done nothing but read the beginner and intermediate strategies in this book. I took notes, I highlighted passages, and, oh yeah, I took first place. Why? Because Phil's advice works. Who am I really going to listen to? A bunch of guys here on Amazon, or someone who's won seven WSOPs? Exactly.
A common complaint I see is that he doesn't tell you what to do on the turn or the river. Well, in fact, he does. If you're a sloppy reader, you might miss it. But for top ten hands, small pairs, K-Q, A-x suited, and suited connectors he explains how to play them pre-flop, post flop, on the turn and on the river. I mean, if you can't figure out pot odds and that if you've made it to the river you should probably call, then you might not be that good a poker player.
Anyway, I see a lot of reviews for people who delved into the book winning a fair amount of money. Then I see a lot of whiners who don't like his "arrogant"(?) style, and they review it poorly. Sorry for the hurt feelings, ladies, but Poker is a man's game. Anyway, the anecdotes are relevant, they illustrate the point he's tryiung to make, and they're very interesting, to boot.
Loved it, took first place, won seven-hundred dollars, and can easily say it's worth the money. Period.
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Title: Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker by James McManus ISBN: 0374236488 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 16 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Doyle Brunson's Super System by Doyle Brunson ISBN: 1580420818 Publisher: Cardoza Pub Pub. Date: 1979 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Hold'Em Poker for Advanced Players by David Sklansky, Mason Malmuth ISBN: 1880685221 Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky ISBN: 1880685000 Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Tournament Poker for Advanced Players by David Sklansky ISBN: 1880685280 Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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