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The Rules of Neighborhood Poker According to Hoyle

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This is a great book for recreational players who are more interested in comraderie and smoking cigars than winning money. It provides good advice for hosting and setting up games and it provides a lot of good games and variations to help spice up the weekly game. I've always had problems coming up with new games and learned a lot from this book. This is also a good book for new player who wants to get into a regular group and is intimidated by regular players who seem to know everything about the game . There's a lot to learn.

If you regularly play with the likes of Teddy KGB or that dude in the blue eyeglasses in Vegas, then this book isn't for you. But if you're just starting out and want to learn, this is a good source of valuable information.

This is not a book for "serious" poker players who are in it for the money. This is a book for those who love to play low stakes poker with their buddies for fun. Fun, get it? This is a hilarious book with a lot of great games. It will always be remembered among my poker pals as the book that introduced us to the grin-inducing game of "Do Ya."

I bought this book as a resource and reference for some of my rule-challenging poker pals, but it turned out to be much more than that. The stories that Wolpin tells are laugh out loud funny, and he provides alot of basic information on the rules of Poker and variations on the game.

If you don't play small-money dealer's choice poker, then don't buy this book. If you do, then you won't find a better book on the shelf. This book will give your home game a shot in the arm. This man knows his home games better than anybody who's written a book about it.

This book is great for the beginner who wants to have poker night at their house. It is the poker bible on Saturday nights at my house. We use it and love it.

I bought this book looking for tips or rules of games for a home poker game. After all it does have the name Hoyle on it. Instead I got a book about the author and his buddies poker game. It does have some games in the second half of the book but you have to put up with stories about how his buddies bet and how they play and what type of players they are. This is not a Hoyles rule book of poker games

This is the single best book for learning crazy/wildcard poker
variations. It's only competition is half of AD Livingston's book
"Poker Strategy" and surfing the internet for "home poker". I
recommend this book so you can have it handy while playing.

The author describes dozens of variations and shows exactly how to
deal each of them; most include a sample hand. There is also advice on
hosting home games. Nearly no tactical or stategic advice is given.

This is for people who like to play poker for nickels, dimes, and
quarters with friends and family. If you want to learn how to win
poker at a casino or online, this is not the right book. If you want
to have a blast of fun at the beach house or kitchen table with a deck
of cards, this book is a must.

It is well written and fun to read.

I found this book informative & entertaining. It has a wealth of games (some I'd heard of, some I hadn't). The beginning parts of the book involve the basics of playing poker (ie. what beats what, how to bet, etc.) -- so anyone who's been playing for a while won't get much out of it. However, I found his list of games, their descriptions, and the sample hands to very clearly define and describe each game. Also, many of Wolpin's anecdotes are very funny.

I have to take issue with him in his derisive description of Texas Hold'em. He derides the game as being uninteresting with not enough wild-card, gimmicks, etc. But as far as the type of poker he's talking about, that is, home players in friendly games, hold'em is certianly not a favorite.

I read this book for the first time 10 years ago and started a small-stakes ($20-$50) apartment game with a bunch of friends that has lasted ever since. As most people know, nobody is normally betting enough money to make Texas Hold Em very interesting for very long, so home poker games quickly degrade into a mix of non-poker games like Indian and Between-The-Sheets. This book provides enough variations on basic poker games to still play small-stakes poker without just pushing the high-winner of the night into dealing blackjack. It's not comprehensive and it's not encyclopedic and it's definitely from this author's point-of-view, and it's an excellent book.

I am the occasional hostess of the TEXAS HOLD'EM tournament held at the local American Legion.
Although there is only a page or two on HOLD'EM, the book has some excellent tips on hosting a party. The food, the table, and the availability of a vacuum cleaner for spills.

Texas Hold'em is like all other poker games in that it is most important to know your fellow players.
Some bluff, some don't. Ergo, KNOW YOUR OPPONENTS.