Kill Everyone: Advanced Strategies for No-Limit Hold 'Em Poker, Tournaments, and Sit-n-Gos: Revised and Expanded Edition (Gambling Theories Methods) [Paperback]

Lee Nelson (Author), Tysen Streib (Author), Steven Heston (Author)

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Series: Gambling Theories Methods | Publication Date: June 30, 2009

Kill Everyone took the poker world by storm when it was first released in 2007. Its perfect blend of real-time experience, poker math, and computational horsepower created new concepts and advanced strategies never before seen in print for multi-table tournaments, Sit-n-Gos, and satellites. In this revised and expanded second edition, Kill Everyone adds even more ammunition to a tournament-poker-player's arsenal. In addition to groundbreaking analysis of fear-and-fold equity and equilibrium, plus the presentation of optimal strategies for the bubble, the end-game, and heads-up play, this second edition adds 50 pages of incisive commentary from the hottest tournament-poker-player in the world, Bertrand 'Elky' Grospellier, and a new chapter on short-stack cash games to go with the original discussion of playing in short-handed cash games. With a Foreword by 2006 World Series of Poker champion Joe Hachem, annotations by Elky, and solid math-based strategies from Lee Nelson, Tysen Streib, Steven Heston, and Mark Vos, Kill Everyone packs more poker brainpower between two covers than any book to come before it.

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Kill Phil was a breakthrough book and everyone with an interest in tournament no-limit hold 'em ought to read it. Kill Everyone is as about as revolutionary as its predecessor, and at its best, perhaps even more so. There is great information in this book, and it deserves to be read. ----Nick Christenson, Poker Player

Some of the most important poker advice you'll ever get. ----Howard Schwartz

Whether you're a beginner or a pro, you'll be able to fine tune your play in many common situations with the detailed charts and hand rankings. Read this book before everyone else does and poker tournaments get a lot tougher. --Andy Bloch, professional poker player

Kill Phil was a breakthrough book and everyone with an interest in tournament no-limit hold 'em ought to read it. Kill Everyone is as about as revolutionary as its predecessor, and at its best, perhaps even more so. There is great information in this book, and it deserves to be read. ----Nick Christenson, Poker Player

Some of the most important poker advice you'll ever get. ----Howard Schwartz

About the Author

New Zealander Lee 'Final Table' Nelson has been playing tournament poker for 10 years, with live-tournament wins in excess of U.S. $2,000,000. His nickname was given to him by a tournament director who claimed that Lee made the final table so frequently, he was like 'final-table furniture.' Nelson, won the 2006 Aussie Millions, taking down U.S. $1,000,000 (A$1,300,000), along with the World Open in 2005 (U.S. $400,000). He co-authored the highly acclaimed poker book, Kill Phil, and co-hosts televised celebrity poker shows in both Australia and New Zealand. According to Poker Network's rankings, Lee was the top-rated poker player in Australia/New Zealand for the period 2000-2006. He's a member of Team Poker Stars. Tysen Streib has been a consistently profitable tournament player since 1998, both online and in live play. He specializes in the mathematical aspects of tournament structures and game theory. He has published several highly praised articles in Two Plus Two Internet Magazine and has experience developing artificial intelligence for computer poker players. Although his main passion is poker, Tysen has written articles about and analyzed other strategy games, such as contract bridge. He holds an engineering degree, as well as an MBA. Kim Lee is a university professor. He designed the computer models used in Kill Phil and did the optimal departure analysis for Don Schlesinger's Blackjack Attack.

Product Details

• Paperback: 373 pages
• Publisher: Huntington Press; Second, expanded and revised edition (June 30, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1935396307
• ISBN-13: 978-1935396307
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,139 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Lee Nelson is the top-rated tournament poker player in Australia and Asia, named the Austral-Asia Grand Champion for 2000-2005. In 2005, Lee won the Party Poker World Open with a $400,000 first prize, the $120,000 High-stakes Speed Poker event, and the 7-card stud championship at the Aussie Millions, as well as the pot-limit Omaha event at the Irish Open. Lee also took down the no-limit hold 'em tournament at the St. Maarten Open in late 2004.

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best tournament books, May 27, 2010

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This review is from: Kill Everyone: Advanced Strategies for No-Limit Hold 'Em Poker, Tournaments, and Sit-n-Gos: Revised and Expanded Edition (Gambling Theories Methods) (Paperback)

I bought this book because I had trouble understanding how many people are playing in the big MTTs nowadays. I had read the first two Harrington books on tournament play, but I felt like the game had changed a lot since the days those books came out. I was puzzled about the way many players were winning lots of chips with mediocre holdigs. This book helped me to understand better what was going on in the tables. I can't say that I've become a better player, but I hope that when these concepts sink in I can start to gain some success in the tables.

The book has lots of interesting topics like stealing from UTG, calling early raises in position with suited connectors and pushing short stacked with seemingly bad cards. Theories are backed with mathematical equations. In the first reading these things were a little too hard to get a grip, but more studying is required and hopefully these things fall into place too. It's also good idea to read about the tournament play after several years of Harrington's books, because those techniques are so common and everyone knows them so they are losing their power. It doesn't mean they're obsolete but just a little too common and well known that something else might work better at the moment.

To me the last part of the book, which is about short handed cash games, is unnecessary. I don't understand why the authors have added that obviously too short section on complex matter which deserves its own book.

So if you're playing tournaments and want to develop your skills to more advanced levels you need to know these things. After reading the Harrington books this is a good supplement, because this is newer and goes beyound the basics. I recommed this to everyone playing NLHE tournaments. However, in order to better understand these ideas, it would be good to have some kind of basic understanding of tournament play. Maybe not the first book you should read about MTTs.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My NL bible, August 19, 2010

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This review is from: Kill Everyone: Advanced Strategies for No-Limit Hold 'Em Poker, Tournaments, and Sit-n-Gos: Revised and Expanded Edition (Gambling Theories Methods) (Paperback)

I am a winning Razz player and play on Full Tilt(john21703). But this is my goto NL bible. It helped me win over $800 in cash and prizes in the local S-N-B poker league in the last two months alone (2 local wins, 2nd in regionals, 8th in nationals). I wish I understood every concept in the book, but this isn't a one read type of buy. So get your highlighter and be prepared to win some real money. If I could only recommend one book besides Ace on the River, it would be this one. I think about this book more at the tables than any other one. If you don't know the concepts in this book, be assured someone else at your table does.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, October 22, 2010

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One of the best books about poker tournament I've ever read. Good mathematical analysis (the concept of equilibrium play is essential) and practical tips you can just apply without thinking too much.