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Stakes Hold'em: Winning Big With Expert Play by Ed Miller, David
Sklansky, Mason Malmuth.
For really making money at online poker there is only one game.
Not Omaha or draw or any other variation of poker available in
some Internet
casino sites. And that game is Texas Hold’em.
Everyday there are literally tens of thousands of poker games played
and while the rules are simple and easy to learn, most people
end up leaving their money on the table and walking away with
a lighter
wallet.
While this book starts off as others talking about basic strategies
of online poker, where it takes off is showing that aggressive
yet calculated style of play at the low stakes tables can lead
to a great
profit. To that end there are numerous examples of poker hands
and poker situations the author takes you through to show how
this style
of play works.
The advantages you will learn by reading through this book are
to recognize the weakness in the beginner poker player at the
lower stakes games and learn when to press and when to let things
glide.
In other words you are taught how to think like a professional
poker
player in an amateur world of Texas Hold’em.
A lot of poker books assume incorrectly that the lower stakes
tables are played with strict holding opponents. Small Stakes
Hold'em: Winning
Big With Expert Play dispels that myth and teaches that these
tables have a different feel and need to be approached differently.
With example after example the book takes you though various
trials where you are shown a situation and asks what your decision
would
be. Then the authors take you through the right decision based
on their winning experiences. You learn when and how to bet,
fold, call,
all leading to a profitable time at the table your next time
online.
A word of risk though. This book assumes a basic level of poker
knowledge and stirs the more advance player to hone their skills
towards the
low stakes tables. This should not be your first poker book.
However if you have some skill already and are looking to forward
your thinking
to a level beyond the normal and exploit these poker situations,
this is a great book to start there.
The point of the book being to re-evaluate how you count a winning
night. Basically setting you up to win fewer pots than you might
like but the size of the pot will make up for your patience and
in the end, that’s what it is about, right?
Maximizing
the hands you do stay in and minimizing the damage from losing
hands.
Low stakes games are inherently filled with young and inexperienced
players and the poker skills you bring to the table with the
help from this book will allow you to master the game to its
fullest potential.
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