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

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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!

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.

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.

This book is sure to revolutionize the poker world along with my income from what has already been a lucrative hobby. My hope is that online players will especially employ Bob's approach ... I know that's where I will most certainly be looking for his impact on my bottom line!! Here's to a new strategy twist being introduced to a wonderful game that really needed some tweaking.

I think is a great book whose time has come. I'm sure it will benefit me greatly as I plan on suggesting it to everyone I play with.

I'd like to urge every poker player in America to read this book. Commit it memory. Practice its principles relentlessly.

Then come sit at my table and demonstrate your new-found skills. We'll have a lot of fun. Well, I will, anyway.

This book will revolutionise the way you play poker. If everyone bought, digested and read this book, then poker would be a far better game to play. I cannot recommend this book enough, go out there buy it, and learn how to stop folding all those bad hands you keep getting dealt.

I play poker for a living. If you follow the advice in this book, you will lose money over the long run. In fact, this book contains some of the poorest advice ever written on the subject of winning at low limit hold'em. I own over 100 poker books and do not recommend this book.

Playing from the low end of the deck as Bob recommends in his "junk card" chapter has helped my profits tremendously. With so many other online players "studying" the conventional wisdom of other authors and TV pros, you are bound to find that Bob's 20-4-50 system is like contrarian investing on the stock market.

This book is total nonsense. Yes, folding a lot of hands at the beginning is boring. The reason all the top players and good books advise you do so is because it's correct, if your goal is winning money. This is especially important for relatively new players to understand.

This book is not just useless to help you improve - it is misleading and likely even harmful for most players. Stick with the concensus best books on the topic: "Hold'em Poker" by David Sklansky, "Winning Low-Limit Hold'em" by Lee Jones, and the new "Small Stakes Hold'em Poker" by Miller, Sklansky, and Malmuth.

Or just buy this book, play your garbage hands with confidence, and watch your bankroll shrink.