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Title: Internet Texas Hold'em: Winning Strategies from an Internet Pro by Matthew Hilger ISBN: 0-9741502-0-7 Publisher: Matthew Hilger Pub. Date: July, 2003 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It's a must read..
Comment: This is a great book and if you ever need any questions answered you can always talk to Matthew on his website.. I recommend this book for the beginning player or an advanced player.. One problem.... I wish it had more information on NL hold em, almost everything is directed towards limit.. You can however take some of the information and apply it to both.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent all around hold'em book!
Comment: When I first started playing hold'em online about six months ago I realized that if I didn't study the game I would just become another gambling statistic. Though I like poker I'm risk averse at heart, so I hit the books hard, picking up reading recommendations from the 2+2 forums. The most frequently recommended trinity of hold'em poker books to start with seem to be: Winning Low Limit HOLD'EM [WLLH] (Lee Jones), The Theory of Poker [TOP] (David Sklansky), and Hold'em Poker for Advanced Players [HPFAP] (David Sklansky/Mason Malmuth). I've been through all of these, the latter two several times as they are particularly good.
However good TOP and HPFAP are I felt there was something subtle lacking which made the advice more difficult than necessary to put into practice. Not until I stumbled upon a copy of Matthew Hilger's Internet Texas Hold'em by chance did I realize what it was: hand examples! Remember learning subjects like math? Very difficult to solidify the concepts by simply reading theorems. Most people require the repetition of doing many examples to use the theorems with any facility.
Poker is no different and the "Test Your Skills" sections at the end of each chapter in this book are worth their weight in gold. The "answers" to the examples are perfectly concise and there is no pretension that they are set in stone. You will be challenged just enough to think about each situation without feeling bogged down. For this reason Hilger's book serves as more than just another book on hold'em theory. It is "workbook" that will help you to start thinking through typical hand situations rather than simply memorizing tables of starting hands and odds. Overall, your ability to recall strategies for common hold'em situations will be much better having thought through the carefully chosen examples Hilger presents up front.
For the beginning/intermediate player (I can't really comment on expert players...yet), Hilger's is the best single book on the subject. Make no mistake, Hilger's books is comprehensive enough to take you into the tougher, higher hold'em limits and I envision coming back to it many times in the future for a refresher. In comparison, Jones' WLLH (the most often recommended introductory low-limit text) feels threadbare: very few examples, loose starting hands, and not nearly enough on post-flop play. Do yourself a favor and substitute Internet Texas Hold'em for WLLH in the trinity. You will have to do much less experimenting at the tables and will be well prepared to integrate the topics covered in HPFAP and TOP.
Rating: 2
Summary: Yet Another Book On Basic Holdem Strategy
Comment: Let me be perfectly clear: This is not a bad book on how to successfuly play holdem. I would have no problem recommending this book to anyone who is interested in LEARNING how to play.
However, as a book that advertises itself as how to play and win online it is no better than anything else out there. Which is to say: it is a disappointment. 80% of the book is dedicated to the basics of holdem play and strategy. The remaining 20% offers sometimes useful insight into playing online but nothing that is particularly insightful or revolutionary.
I bought this book based on the overwhelmingly positive reviews that are listed here. I can only assume after having read the book myself that most, if not all, of the reviewers are personal friends of the author and are jazzing it up so that he can sell a few more copies.
If you want to win holdem on the internet I think that I can offer you a little advice and save you the price of this book (and the other internet books). First, if you already know how to play well then just keep playing, practice makes perfect. In other words, follow good strategy, be patient and don't go on tilt. Second, if you don't know how to play well then buy a few books (most of them say the same things), read them carefully and practice alot. Third, don't play over your head. Stay at low limits for a while and then graduate to no limits at small blinds. That is where you will make the money. Fourth, go back to your books frequently and follow the strategies, they do work.
So far the best internet poker book that I have read is "Killer Poker Online" It starts out assuming that you already know how to play and then outlines the basic differences between b&m joints versus online play (higher hands per hour and the lack of visual tells). I would also recommend a book on pure advice of philosophy like "The Tao of Poker"
Finally, don't buy this book in search of the "secret" to winning on the internet. It is simply not any better or different than anything else out there. It's a good BASIC book on holdem, nothing more, nothing less. I wish I could get my money back, maybe I'll sell it used.
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Title: Winning Low-Limit Hold'em (2nd Edition) by Lee Jones ISBN: 1886070156 Publisher: Conjelco Pub. Date: 16 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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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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Title: Killer Poker Online: Crushing the Internet Game by John Vorhaus ISBN: 0818406313 Publisher: Lyle Stuart Hardcover Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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