Customer Reviews

The Little Black Book of Poker (Little Black Books) (Little Black Books (Peter Pauper Paperback))

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This is a compact and easy-to-follow book for the neighborhood poker game. Offers variety for a long and fun evening of playing! Highly recommend.

A friend brought this book to my New Year's Eve poker party.
It clearly explains Dealer's Choice games even for the
novice players and the more experienced players used it to choose
games they'd never tried before. Spiral binding a plus. We had a blast!

I am new to the world of poker and this book was quite interesting. This was not how I expected though. This book is for average players or begginers and If you want specific details this is not the book for you. This book gives you the general idea of the game with minor tips and tricks that will help you, but again does not go into specific detail and situations, consider this the cliffnotes of a poker book. The book is fairly small and compact with a hard cover design which is a big plus. All in all this book is easy to read and understand.

The spiral binding makes it easy to use. Excellent for a night of poker with a mixed level of players. rather than trying to explain a rule or game, we can just read this out loud for the entire table to be on the "same page".

Would highly recommend this book! Easy to read and offers a variety of poker games. Fun to change things up a bit.

Slightly disappointed at the coverage of the game especially with regards to odds and betting. As a beginner it was important for me to understand one game well instead of a list of dozens of games with no depth. Having said that this is a "Little Black Book" so it might have been too much expectation on my part for any significant coverage. The most interesting part of the book were the quotations at the beginning of each chapter.
Bottom Line: if you are a beginner(like me) this is not what you are looking for.

Describes all poker games with variations and rules. Includes odds and etiquette. Has it all it an attractive little book you can carry with you. Excellent and complete.

I am teaching my young teenagers to play poker. Our family games are more fun with this book. The kids are always coming up with new fun games they got from the book.

I bought a copy to take to my weekly (for over seven years) poker game. We loved it! Most of our favorite dealer's choice games were in there, although the rules were often a little different. We enjoyed leafing through and picking out new games. We loved playing the old games "by the book." There are loads of ideas with 90 games described inside. I was forced to leave my copy there, to use regularly, so I'm shopping for an extra copy. I've bought several other books that described dealer's choice games, but none as thorough as this one. Tips, strategies, quotes, and loads of games. I'd have given it 6 stars out of 5, if that were possible!

This is a handy reference on different poker games for Dealer's Choice night. It's not exhaustive (several of our favorites aren't in it, though similar ones are).