Championship Tournament Poker [Paperback]

Tom McEvoy (Author)

Book Description

Series: Championship | Publication Date: March 2, 2004

Endorsed by more than five world champions and rated by pros as the best book on tournaments ever written, this is a must for every player's library. Packed solid with winning strategies for all 11 games in the World Series of Poker, with extensive discussions of 7-card high, high-low, lowball and razz, limit, pot limit and no limit hold'em, Omaha high, high-low and pot limit. Also includes re-buy, half-half, satellites, supersatellites, and mixed game, and strategies for each stage of tournaments, big player profiles, and answers to frequently asked questions about handling difficult situations in tournament play.

Editorial Reviews

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Nobody knows how to win poker tournaments better than McEvoy. -- Russ Hamilton, 1994 World Champion of Poker

So you want to win the World Series of Poker? Read Tournament Poker and then just do it! -- Brad Daugherty, 1991 World Champion of Poker

Tournament Poker is the world's most definitive guide to winning poker tournaments. -- Phil Hellmuth, Jr., 1989 World Champion of Poker --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

The 1983 World Champion of Poker, Tom has won four World Series titles. Formerly a 9-to-5 accountant, he quit his day job in 1979 to join the high-pressure poker tournament circuit. In 1995 he wrote the acclaimed Tournament Poker, "one of the most important poker books of all time" according to Gamblers Book Club in Las Vegas. McEvoy also is the co-author of the "Championship Series:" Championship No-Limit & Pot-Limit Hold'em, Championship Stud, Championship Omaha and Championship Hold'em.

Product Details

• Paperback: 412 pages
• Publisher: Cardoza; 3 edition (March 2, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580421237
• ISBN-13: 978-1580421232
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #531,535 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The 7-2 Offsuit of Poker Books, March 28, 2004

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J. Fuchs "jax76" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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I don't know who this book is supposed to be for. Certainly not someone who wants to learn any of the featured games. It's assumed you already know the games well. Certainly not anyone already playing much tournament poker. Perhaps the delusional player who is just starting to play in tournaments and wants to play in every available event at once. The book is just silly. There are a grand total of 20 pages on no-limit hold 'em for example, and most of those are repetative. In other words, Tom easily could have put 10 pages that say the same thing into the fine book he co-wrote with T.J. Cloutier. The "advice" mostly consists of Tom rephrasing the very problem you probably wanted answered. In the brief section on strategic concepts, for instance, Tom repeats in several different sections the need to stay calm and guard against making errors based on personal dislike of an opponent. He says things like take a deep breath after a bad beat (well, duh!). What he doesn't say, are things like how to adjust your play if you've got a very aggressive player to your immediate left (which is useful to know). He says things like "The champions know when to push a marginal hand and when to back away from it," but makes no attempt to try to quantify how or when they know this. So it isn't very helpful. The chapter on playing poker as a business is probably useful, except it's only useful if you're good in the first place and if you are you aren't reading this book, you're saving your $30 and playin poker with it. There are much better books out there and unless you are going to run right out and enter tournaments in every event, pick up a book that deals with the game in which you want to excel and stick to that. The stuff in here you can find in articles on-line, or figure out playing poker on-line.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, April 1, 2004

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Mitchell S. Davis "attackdog1" (Irvine, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Championship Tournament Poker (Paperback)

More like a diary of some of Tom's successes (and he has had many) but only a few anecdotes. Buy one of TJ Cloutier's books (or Slansky's) for much much more insight.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not that great..., March 11, 2004

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This review is from: Championship Tournament Poker (Paperback)

I was expecting something a bit more detailed and better than Slansky's Tournament poker book. Unfortunately I was let down. There's not much "advice" nor many concrete examples. Instead we're treated to a few anecdotes and a spare "key concept" here and there. I'd spend my money elsewhere.