We aren't really sit n go players, but that doesn't mean we don't get it. The popularity of Sit n Go tourneys is huge, and players everywhere are looking for an edge against the competition. And how can you get that edge? Sit n Go Strategy by Collin Moshman, thats how. This book will help layout the strategies, and more importantly the reasoning behind the strategies that you will want to employ in sit n go tournaments.
Here's what a reader on Amazon had this to say about the book:
Sit `N Go Strategy is one of the best poker manuscripts ever published, and a major contribution to poker, as there has been relatively little literature on SNG tournament strategy. It is a well written, fairly comprehensive guide to playing low and medium buy in, one table tournaments. Sit 'n Go Strategy is logically divided into sections on Low Blind Play, Medium Blind Play, and High Blind Play, as well as a chapter, titled Sit `N Go Career Play which covers some additional concepts.
You'd better get your hands on this bad boy, because if you don't your opponents surely will.
The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide: Tournament Edition
We've seen enough ads from Full Tilt to make us a little sick at the name recognition, but regardless of the un-ending promotion of this poker website, folks have been saying that this book is actually quite good. If you are a tournament player, and you are looking for more to feed your ravenous studies, the Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide: Tournament Edition should be right up your alley.
From the publisher:
The professionals of Full Tilt Poker include the best and most famous poker players in the world. Their accomplishments are unparalleled, with countless World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour championships to their names and well in excess of $100 million in winnings in private games. Now, this group of poker legends has banded together to create THE FULL TILT POKER STRATEGY GUIDE, which will stand as an instant classic of the genre and is sure to become the industry standard.
The holidays are just around the corner, and we know that its important that you get your shopping done early. For those of you with poker lovers in your life, we have scoured our past entries to pull together some of the coolest poker gifts for you to consider. So sit back, relax, stretch out that scroll wheel finger, and take a gander at these great poker gift ideas.
While we're on the Daniel Negreanu kick, we'd be remiss if we didn't point out his book, Hold'em Wisdom for All Players.
Here's the editor's blurb:
For beginning and novice players who want to play and win at Texas hold¿em¿95% of the card-playing market¿this is the perfect antidote. The book is designed for those players who want to learn right now and enjoy instant success at the tables. Fifty quick sections focus on key winning concepts, making learning both easy and fast.
For our part, we feel that Daniel is a solid player, and his record cannot be argued with. As we've just noted, we also think that he's more than just a good player, hes taking advantage of the current poker climate, and his celebrity status to parlay his success. His book may not be the most in depth on the market, but it still has some gems that make it worth a read.
We haven't read this book ourselves yet, but if the reviews on Amazon are any indication, Harrington on Hold'em is a winner. It has over one hundred and seventy five-star reviews. Here is a snippet of one of them:
No limit hold'em, obviously, is a complex game. So complex that there has never been a good comprehensive treatment in a book form; I had thought that this was because it involves more "table feel", experience and intuition that can't be easily taught or expressed in a useful format.
Harrington and Robertie have done just that. Harrington is the 1995 world champion, and the only player to make the final table in both 2003 and 2004, overcoming the two biggest fields in World Series history (839 and 2,576 players, respectively). Robertie is a top backgammon player and author of several excellent books on that game.
Among the top players, there are drastically different styles of play, from conservative to super-aggressive. One problem I expected was that given Harrington's solid, fairly conservative style, he wouldn't be able to give much useful information on playing at the other end of the end of the spectrum, styles such as those employed by Daniel Negreanu and Gus Hansen.
I was wrong. The book does a fine job addressing the relative merits of various styles, playing against each type of opponent, and even choosing one for yourself. This makes sense; no matter his own style, to be successful he has to have spent a lot of time thinking about, observing, and combatting all different types of players. Further, a playing style isn't cast in stone; even the most conservative players have to switch gears and become much more aggressive at times, and vice versa.
This is definitely a book we need to get our mitts on!
Often we see poker books that are about the other player. How to identify their tells, how to play against their cards...etc. This book offers us something new, how to set our OWN mind to be in the right frame to win. This may be as important a defense against your own tells, and against your own misjudgements, as any book on tells, or pot odds.
The Poker Mindset deeply explores vital topics that most poker books only touch upon:
- Tilt: What it really is, why and when you are most prone to it, and how you can avoid it.
- Bankroll: A complete examination of bankroll management from a technical, but more importantly, from a psychological and emotional viewpoint.
- Opponents: How to determine your competitors' mental and emotional processes so that you can dominate, out think and outplay them.
- Downswings: Every poker player experiences them, but you will truly understand and be armed against low ebbs when they occur.
- Bad Beats: The Poker Mindset will enable you to overcome the trauma of bad beats and losing big pots.
Sounds like a valuable weapon in our poker book arsenal.
Phil Gordon has put together a nice collection of little books to help guide you to upping your poker playing potential. All of you know that Phil is a world-class player, and he doesnt hold back in his set of books. You can get each one individually if you like, but we like this little box set on our library shelf.
The black book begins with the basics, but with some sound observations from the poker pro. Then the green book guides you into being a better player overall, with its methods for staying ahead and profitable. The blue book brings it home, helping you turn from amateur to pro. Deffinitely a must have in your poker library
Before you answer that question, think about this. There is no magic key that unlocks the door to poker. You might be able to pinpoint a leak or two in your game, but you may be surprised to find that there are many more lurking under the surface.
This book shows you the sixteen most common errors in poker, and how to avoid them. You will learn the keys to finding the leaks in your game and plugging them for good.
Stepping away from the table and watching others play incorrectly is the best path to understanding your own mistakes. You’ll learn why these errors are so bad, and why they cost you money over and over. Recognizing these errors in your own game can be painful, but the rewards of revealing them are well worth it.
If you’re ready to admit that you’d like to lose less and win more, then you need this book!
"Of all the guys in poker you've never heard of, Russ and Scott are two of the smartest. They are long-time winning poker players, and have done a great job of putting that knowledge into this book to help you become a better player. I believe this book will help make anybody who is willing to work at his game into a winning player."
This book sounds like the perfect way to identify those common pitfalls, and learn how to avoid them. Count us in! Check the book out at Amazon
Every great player knows that success in poker is part luck, part math, and part subterfuge. While the math of poker has been refined over the past 20 years, the ability to read other players and keep your own "tells" in check has mostly been learned by trial and error.
But now, Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer specializing in nonverbal communication and behavior analysis—or, to put it simply, a man who can tell when someone's lying—offers foolproof techniques, illustrated with amazing examples from poker pro Phil Hellmuth, that will help you decode and interpret your opponents' body language and other silent tip-offs while concealing your own. You'll become a human lie detector, ready to call every bluff—and the most feared player in the room.
Head over to Amazon to read more reviews and to pick it up yourself.
So you didn't get what you wanted this year? No problem, here's a book we KNOW you had on you wish list. The Mathematics of Poker by Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman.
Here's the Publisher's Description:
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the bond an option markets were dominated by traders who had learned their craft by experience. They believed that there experience and intuition for trading were a renewable edge; this is, that they could make money just as they always had by continuing to trade as they always had. By the mid-1990s, a revolution in trading had occurred; the old school grizzled traders had been replaced by a new breed of quantitative analysts, applying mathematics to the "art" of trading and making of it a science.
Similarly in poker, for decades, the highest level of pokers have been dominiated by players who have learned the game by playing it, "road gamblers" who have cultivated intuition for the game and are adept at reading other players' hands from betting patterns and physical tells. Over the last five to ten years, a whole new breed has risen to prominence within the poker community. Applying the tools of computer science and mathematics to poker and sharing the information across the Internet, these players have challenged many of the assumptions that underly traditional approaches to the game. One of the most important features of this new approach is a reliance on quantative analysis and the application of mathematics to the game. The intent of this book is to provide an introduction to quantitative techniques as applied to poker and to a branch of mathematics that is particularly applicable to poker, game theory.
There are mathematical techniques that can be applied for poker that are difficult and complex. But most of the mathematics of poker is really not terribly difficult, and the authors have sought to make seemingly difficult topics accessible to players without a very strong mathematical background.
Sounds like just the thing to spend those Amazon gift cards on :)
Today's easy gift is for that history buff / poker player you know. Sucker's Progress is a book that will tickle that player's brain like no other.
Here's the Editor's Review from Amazon:
"Originally published in 1938, Sucker's Progress is a complete look at old-time gamesmanship in America. From Midwestern riverboats to East Coast racetracks, Asbury explores the legal, and illegal, history of gambling in pre-World War I America. With a keen eye and acerbic voice, Asbury defines the world of gambling as one of "sharpers" and "suckers": those who excel at the games by cheating, and their victims. From notorious gambling havens like Chicago and New Orleans to lesser-known outposts in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Cincinnati, Ohio, Asbury examines the gambling houses, big and small, which peppered the American landscape. Also included are photographs and details of the lives of some of America's most famous gamblers, including Mike McDonald, John Morrissey, and Richard Canfield, as well as their infamous counterparts like "Canada Bill" and "Charley Black Eyes," who made their names as grifters and con men. Asbury also details the games these men played, describing the rules and origins of a number of dice and card games. From one-dollar lottery tickets to thousand-dollar poker antes, America's love of gambling thrives today, but it was during Asbury's era that gambling was established as an American passion."
Boy have we got something special for you today! For that poker fan in your life that has EVERYTHING, here's something they will LOVE. Its a DVD of chip tricks that you can learn yourself, all explained and performed by Rich Ferguson.
Here's the Blurb:
"This DVD is packed with 20 of the hottest stunts and tricks you have seen on television or at a poker game - all explained in detail by Rich! You'll see tricks like Chip Shuffling, Pull Over, Sweep and more!! Also included are bonus tricks never been revealed to the public until now!"
Ok.. maybe it sounds a little over the top, but c'mon, how could it NOT rule!
And while you're at it, you can pick up the Card Stunts trainer too!
Here's a pair of books that are sure to light up that poker player's eyes on Christmas Morning. Doyle Brunson's Super System and Super System 2. Doyle has been playing cards since those who love the current craze were just twinkles in their monthers' eyes. And his first Super System isn't knows as "The Bible" for nothing. it covers all kinds of poker games, and it will tell you all you ever wanted to know about the game of poker. Super System 2 is a more recent book, not quite as seminal of a read as the first, but still something the poker player in your life will love having in their collection.
Harrington on Hold 'em Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments
We've covered this book before but just finished reading it. Really good. The different play methods covered is excellent and it's well written. Give it a try.
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