How to Win No-Limit Hold'em Tournaments [Paperback]

Tom McEvoy (Author), Don Vines (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2, 2005

The 2004 World Series of Poker awarded more than $30 million in prize money, the biggest prize of any sporting event, with the first place winner receiving $5 million! That, for a mere investment of $10,000. This is the first-ever instructional book devoted entirely to showing players how to win no-limit hold'em tournaments as nationally televised on ESPN and the Travel Channel and watched by millions each week. Readers learn the basic concepts of tournament strategy, plus: how to win big by playing small buy-in events, how to graduate and adjust to medium and big buy-in tournaments, how to adjust for short fields, huge fields, different time periods (slow and fast-action events), how to win online no-limit tournaments, how to manage a tournament bankroll, all the basic and advanced betting and positional strategies, and tips on table demeanor for televised tournaments. The authors also show actual hands played by finalists at the WSOP and the WPT championship tables with card pictures, analysis and useful lessons from the play.

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About the Author

Don Vines is a professional tournament poker player specializing in no-limit hold'em medium buy-in events. He has won more than 40 championship titles.

Tom McEvoy, the 1983 World Champion of Poker, has won millions of dollars playing no-limit and pot-limit hold'em in cash games and major tournaments around the world. He is the author of Tournament Poker, and co-author of 10 other books including Championship No-Limit & Pot-Limit Hold'em, Beat Texas Hold'em, and Championship Hold'em.

Product Details

• Paperback: 388 pages
• Publisher: Cardoza (August 2, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580421601
• ISBN-13: 978-1580421607
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #857,586 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Easily the most pathetic poker book I have ever read!!!, September 2, 2005

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Of the 10-15 poker books I have purchased, this is easily the biggest waste of money. The practice questions were fit for a 3rd grader and I can honestly say I leared less than nothing. I take that back, I learned that I know a little about poker already.

Save your money, purchase dan harringtons books instead.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Yeah, it does suck, April 10, 2007

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C. J. Healey "ZCT" (Conroe, TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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I've been playing poker since 2003, and I've faired pretty well. I realize that I still have a lot to learn, but I've won a few local tournaments and made some money here and there.

I purchased this book to accompany me on a business trip last year, and I had not really got very far through it. Recently I picked it up and started to work my way through the book. I got about half way through and realized that this book is by far the worst poker book I've ever read. Actually, I think I read one that was slightly worse, but this is darn close.

In the last section I was reading that professional players use advanced math and clever calculations to figure out if they are getting the right pot odds to make a call. Now I already know that, and have for some time. In fact watching poker on TV will teach you that. Heck I even know how to do this math in my head. But for some reason this book neglects to cover these skills.

Having read this fact I began to realize that this book tells you that stuff is going on, but gives you no tools to realize how to do it yourself. It's like saying, "Tiger Woods hits the golf ball with tremendous accuracy and power, allowing him to drive the ball great distances and more often than not he gets it to land very close to the pin. You will want to do this too if you expect to win a major golf tournament."

The book is full of pearls of wisdom like this. I came here to read the other reviews, since I have only read half the book. But unless the other reviews are wrong, and the back half of this book is completely different this book is a total waste of time.

I suggest you read the Harrington on Hold'em set of books if you really want to do well in a tournament. The only thing this book might be useful for is letting a newbie player know that poker is harder than it looks. Of course it won't tell you how to improve, merely that you need to.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money for a betterbook, September 22, 2005

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John Davies "JohnnyGringo" (Most any online cardroom) - See all my reviews
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Got to agree with the other reviewer(s), if this had zero starts, that'd be my rating.

I'd like to encourage Tom to continue writing, as his articles published in well know trade magazines are quite good.