Playing Low Limit Hold 'em The 20-4-50 Way [Paperback]

Bob Turgeon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 24, 1999

This hold 'em poker book talks about playing small cards to become a winner at recreational casino play.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

this is a great book for leasure players.also,the chapter (after the flop)is great for any player of any size games.it tells you how many cards or outs you have to make your hand. this chapter alone if you study it real good will improve your game a minimum 10%.

From the Author

This is a first-time author with 4500+ hours (approximately 4 years) of casino play who refined a system of recreational play to improve your odds of winning with "junk" cards at HOLD 'EM POKER. This book only talks about how to play small cards (2-9). It is a lot more enjoyable and relaxing than strictly playing high (10-Ace) cards. By mixing both "junk" and high cards together, it will make you a winner!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 90 pages
• Publisher: B-Lor L.L.C. (September 24, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967531101
• ISBN-13: 978-0967531106
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,758,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What your opponents want you to read!, September 15, 2004

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John Kopecky "harleyxlh54" (Tacoma, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Playing Low Limit Hold 'em The 20-4-50 Way (Paperback)

I absolutely love this book. I want you to read this book so badly. This is the book you should read if you are going to be playing poker against me. Forget Sklansky, Brunson and all of those 'reknown' poker authors. What you need is this book.

You'll be the hit of the table when you read this book. Your always be welcome at any table if you successfully employ the tactics Bob Turgeon teaches.

Read this book, learn it, live it.

Your buddies will love you for it!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WARNING - A booklet, not a book., February 26, 2005

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StealthTax (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Playing Low Limit Hold 'em The 20-4-50 Way (Paperback)

This 'book' consists of just 90 pages of very sparse text and many rather pointless tables. It barely qualifies as a book and is very cheaply printed and bound.

In fact, the brevity is the best thing about The 20-40-50 Way. The writing style is so poor that you'll be glad you've got so little to plough through. Here's a couple of examples of the style and standard of grammar:
"Also, their play is very stereotype, hardly ever bluffs; they are very good to bluff on."
"That is absolutely a great waste of money."
"Raising in the blind is two-fold."
"Raising on third to sixth seat should be a no no except once again as a diversion, or have a large pair."
"This system is not devise to make a living with..."
"Going to Las Vegas many times is where I was introduced to Hold'um Poker (sic)."

As to the content, this could have been summed up in half a page. The author's great insight is that, in a loose game, the multi-way pots may provide sufficient pot-odds to justify playing some marginal hands (such as small suited connectors). That really is about it. We do get some priceless bits of advice such as:
"...add your wins and total the amount of wins. Now divide that by the number of hours you played and you will have hands won per hour."
I would never have thought of that!
The authors central claim is that by playing 20 flops per hour you will win 4 large pots per hour and make a good profit. He doesn't provide a shred of tangible evidence (like stats from real play) to support this but makes it the basis for a series of fanciful calculations of likely income.

It may well be that the author is a competent and experienced poker player. Unfortunately, like so many of them, he has no idea of how to express his system of play in writing. This effort is really far below publishable quality and I'm surprised it's made it into print.

If you want a coherent explanation of anything to do with Poker, read Skalansky.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Breath of Fresh Air, September 16, 2004

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Wenona (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Playing Low Limit Hold 'em The 20-4-50 Way (Paperback)

This book is a breath of fresh air! I've read a lot of the poker books by 'experts' telling me how to be an 'expert' too. Well they're fine if you're happy folding twenty hands in a row and making one or two big bets an hour. If you're don't want to do that, and you want to PLAY more hands rather than FOLDING and watching others play most of the time ..... this is the book to buy. It gives advice on how to play the hands you will receive MOST often .... never again will you fold twenty or thirty hands straight while others have all the fun. Believe me, if everyone bought this super duper book, poker would be a far more enjoyable and profitable pastime.