Ken Warren Teaches Texas Hold'em [Paperback]

Ken Warren (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 8, 2003

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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Cardoza; 1 edition (April 8, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580420850
• ISBN-13: 978-1580420853
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #307,672 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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42 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good starting point, October 11, 2003

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"wercat2" (MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ken Warren Teaches Texas Hold'em (Paperback)

If you haven't read any books on Poker or attended any courses and are interested in learning about Texas Hold'em, then this is a good book to start with. I really liked how he included the tables of odds to drive home why you should play certain hands and not others. In addition I had never thought of pot odds and why you should play some hands only when the pot odds dictated. Although it is all common sense, if you've never thought about it, it is eye opening. Even his break down on what you hope to accomplish by betting is a good read. So if you're just getting into Texas Hold'em and aren't a poker wiz, then you'll find lots of well organized, and thought out material to improve your game and change your thinking.

After this book, some of the others may make more sense.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Beginner Book!, October 7, 2003

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Josh (Canton, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ken Warren Teaches Texas Hold'em (Paperback)

A couple of my friends got me started playing No Limit Hold 'Em. I knew nothing about poker. I started watching poker more on TV, and started playing with friends more, but I was still horrible at it. I bought this book, and it totally changed everything in my game. It teaches you so much. Now that I've read it over and over, and have had months of playing, I'm ready to move to the next level, and try a more advanced book like "The Theory of Poker." If your a beginner, or even a step above, this book can really improve your game. Now all my poker buddies have even read it and their going to buy other books as well!

Some of the sections in this book include...

playing with an ace
starting hands
raising
bluffing
semi-bluffing
short-handed games
position
check-raising
tells
reading the board
odds
pre flop, flop, turn, river play

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible, November 28, 2005

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P. Binion (Houston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ken Warren Teaches Texas Hold'em (Paperback)

This book will cost you money. The recommended play is too loose pre-flop, and too tight/passive post-flop. For example, cards that add to 20 or 21 are recommended starting hands. The problem is that weak offsuit broadway hands are big losers in early position. Postflop, this book is too much like Lou Krieger's "fit or fold" nonsense.

As a guy whose first holdem book was Ken Warren's Winners Guide to Texas Holdem, believe me when I say it took me years to unlearn some of this garbage. Warren is confused. Stay away.