Here's a card-player's guide that covers virtually every aspect of poker, starting with a chapter that explains poker rules, then ranks and explains the value of poker hands, from Royal Flush to One Pair. The book goes on to discuss the game's mechanics, describing strategic concepts and explaining how knowledge of strategies separates casual from serious players. Chapters that follow instruct on how to assess differences between winning hands and bad hands, how to estimate odds, how and when to bluff, how to detect an opponent's bluff, and how and when to raise. Author and poker expert Lou Krieger concentrates on the five most popular poker games: Texas Hold 'em, Omaha, Omaha/8, Seven-card stud, and Seven-card/8. Final chapters tell where to find out more about poker, list good web sites for online play, and explain the jargon of betting terms. More than 300 color illustrations include examples that show common poker situations.
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* Poker is the most popular card game in the world. It melds knowledge of strategic principles with luck, probability, an ability to discern what kind of hand your opponent has and how he may choose to act on it, and the courage and conviction required to put your money where your mouth is.
* Find out about the five most popular poker games played around the world, and master the skills and techniques that will give you the confidence to sit down at any poker game and win. Learn how to identify the best games to play in, which starting hands to hold and which to fold, how to figure the odds, when to play drawing hands and when to avoid them, and how to read and deceive your opponents with or without a poker face.
* A ready-reference as well as a progressive tutorial, this is a book you can refer to without reading from cover to cover—if you already know all the rules but want to find out more about advanced strategies . . . or if you want to determine the best starting hands for each common poker variant. But if you want to learn the basics and save the advanced stuff for later, start at the beginning of this book, learn from a master, and wait until you feel ready before you tackle the more advanced concepts.
Lou Krieger learned poker at the age of seven, at his father's side during the weekly game held around the kitchen table in the Brooklyn neighborhood where they lived. He has published several acclaimed poker books, and has written more than 250 columns on poker strategy. Lou was recently named one of the most influential gaming writers of the past 100 years by Casino Journal Magazine. He has served as the Dean of Poker School Online, an Internet-based site for learning poker, and currently hosts the Internet site, www.RoyalVegasPoker.com. His writings can be found online and on his web site, www.loukrieger.com. When not writing about poker, Lou can be found playing it in the card rooms of Southern California.
* Poker is the most popular card game in the world. It melds knowledge of strategic principles with luck, probability, an ability to discern what kind of hand your opponent has and how he may choose to act on it, and the courage and conviction required to put your money where your mouth is.
* Find out about the five most popular poker games played around the world, and master the skills and techniques that will give you the confidence to sit down at any poker game and win. Learn how to identify the best games to play in, which starting hands to hold and which to fold, how to figure the odds, when to play drawing hands and when to avoid them, and how to read and deceive your opponents with or without a poker face.
* A ready-reference as well as a progressive tutorial, this is a book you can refer to without reading from cover to cover—if you already know all the rules but want to find out more about advanced strategies . . . or if you want to determine the best starting hands for each common poker variant. But if you want to learn the basics and save the advanced stuff for later, start at the beginning of this book, learn from a master, and wait until you feel ready before you tackle the more advanced concepts.
Lou Krieger learned poker at the age of seven, at his father's side during the weekly game held around the kitchen table in the Brooklyn neighborhood where they lived. He has published several acclaimed poker books, and has written more than 250 columns on poker strategy. Lou was recently named one of the most influential gaming writers of the past 100 years by Casino Journal Magazine. He has served as the Dean of Poker School Online, an Internet-based site for learning poker, and currently hosts the Internet site, www.RoyalVegasPoker.com. His writings can be found online and on his web site, www.loukrieger.com. When not writing about poker, Lou can be found playing it in the card rooms of Southern California.
About the Author
Lou Krieger learned the rules of poker as a kid, watching his father and friends around the kitchen table at Thursday night games in Brooklyn. As he grew up he became a student of the game, and has published several widely respected poker books. He was recently named among the most influential gaming writers of the past 100 years by the industry bible, Casino Journal Magazine.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Good basic book for beginners,
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This review is from: The Poker Player's Bible: Raise Your Game from Beginner to Winner (Spiral-bound)
For someone who's been playing friendly home game poker (i.e., spending time with friends drinking beer, smoking cigars around a card table) for a while but doesn't really have a foundation in the details of poker, this is a very good introduction. If you're a good experienced player who's looking for a more in depth analysis, this book isn't for you.
Although it's title is a bit much, Krieger's book provides the basics you need to know about the major variations of casino poker (holdem, 7 card stud, and Omaha). It provides good basic guidance regarding starting hands and the play throughout the game. The book doesn't exhaust the reader with overly complex "analysis" of variations of types of players and situations. While the better known books (Brunson, Sklansky et al) dive deeper into these areas, most people just need the fundementals that are in this book. The book doesn't go into the issues tournament play; rather it focuses on the play of individual hands. There are plenty of good books (Cloutier) about tourney play that anyone who's seriously thinking about them should read. A few minor issues. The book is organized a bit awkwardly. It discusses starting hand play for all types of poker, then middle play for all types etc. It would be much easier to read if Krieger had grouped all the discussion of Holdem in one section and done the same for Stud and Omaha. Some of the tables are a bit confusing. The table showing probabilites of making your hand on the turn or river in the holdem section is rather confusing. Last, there are several annoying typos in the book which are easy enough to deal with, but shouldn't be there. For example, in the listing playable suited connectors, it doesn't mention suited T-9 and the table showing the playable starting hands has a couple of typos as well. Overall, a good intro to casino poker for beginners and home players.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not really for a beginner.,
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I like the book. However, I have no idea how to play poker and this did not help.
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