Texas Hold'em No-Limit Poker ... The Next Level [Paperback]

Bruce Winter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 10, 2008

Texas Hold'em player Bruce Winter is a keen and successful poker player who proved his mastery of the game by winning the Player of the Year title not just once, but two years in succession. His mathematical approach and analytical mind enabled him to savage the opposition on both occasions, and his strong logical alternatives to the recognized theories and long-held beliefs that poker players hold, he blew apart and scuttled - he defied the opposition to beat him. They didn't stand a chance! After two years of playing tournament poker, and with nothing more to prove, Bruce set out to conquer the uniquely different contest of Texas Hold'em no-limit cash-games ... casino style. You will see in this book why Bruce is regarded as a poker player with indisputable and exceptional mathematical skills. It took him almost no time to develop a winning cash-game strategy, which all but guaranteed that he would win - and win consistently. The results were astonishing! The difference between this poker book and all others is simple. Bruce gives explicit, valid, easy to understand, and mathematically backed reasons why his strategy works! He coaches and prepares you for the task ahead and provides a unique and qualified method for you to accurately assess your own true and present level of poker-playing ability. Whatever that level is ... this book, packed full of vital information, will lift your game to new heights.

Editorial Reviews

Review

If you think you already know your game, think again. The Next Level by Bruce Winter is a testament to one mans desire to take a problem, place it outside of the box and find a way to make it work. This book will tell you how to improve your game like no other. It turns on its head some of the most well known methods of playing poker with simple mathematical facts that speak for themselves. If you want to be consistantly 'In The Money' then you must read this book. --GCP Poker Entertainment

About the Author

Texas Hold'em player Bruce Winter read and dissected every relevant viewpoint expressed in the best-of-the-best poker books. Not in agreement with much of what was being written, he then used his indisputable mathematical skills to turn upside-down just about everything the writers were saying! He tore apart and re-assessed many long-held and accepted theories, beliefs and opinions and developed his own brilliant, simple and astonishingly successful, Texas Hold'em strategy. He took his game to ... The Next Level. An original and unique winning formula for experienced players who are seeking the ultimate poker tournament strategy!

Product Details

• Paperback: 185 pages
• Publisher: Holmes Futures PL, Australia (June 10, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0980526302
• ISBN-13: 978-0980526301
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,255,472 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful book, October 6, 2008

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Tom Ewall (Lawrence, KS United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Texas Hold'em No-Limit Poker ... The Next Level (Paperback)

Don't be misled, as I was, by the other customer reviews. This is a terrible book. I don't normally write negative reviews, but felt the situation warranted it.

Here's advice on playing pocket Aces pre-flop:

"Slow playing can be highly dangerous if six or seven players stay in the pot. Don't go all-in against a cashed up opponent. When you bet all-in you don't want any callers, and someone with plenty of chips, might call you!" (page 62)

Here he speaks about a player who went all-in with AJ.

"That person went all-in, when a substantial bet would have achieved the same result. In these particular instances the player was called, just as that person would have been called had the bet been only $1000."

Here the problem is not with the advice, but with the lack of specifics. What was the position of the guy who went all-in? How many chips did he have? How many chips did his opponents have? What were the blinds? How many opponents were there? What was his table image? What were the playing characteristics of his opponents? These are routine questions that any decent poker player would be asking, and he doesn't provide any of these details. Also it's nuts to talk about betting $1000 without any context. At least he could tell us what the blinds are.

I did learn a valuable lesson, however, which is to make sure there are more than 2 customer reviews when I buy a book, and to consider those reviews more carefully than I did.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Outrageously Bad, February 18, 2010

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BlueChair (Wayzata,MN) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Texas Hold'em No-Limit Poker ... The Next Level (Paperback)

This is not only by far the worst book on Texas Hold'em of the dozens I own, but probably the worst book of any kind I've ever encountered. I had to squeeze every ounce of resolve from my sense of public duty just to admit here that I actually bought it. The few valid facts in the book can be found in any beginner's text, and they are overwhelmed by misinformation and laughable analysis. The author's writing style is bad beyond words, but fortunately (at least for you) that is made irrelevant by the lack any reason to read it. The publication and marketing of this book is cynical and outrageous.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't be misled by the people who say they were misled, September 22, 2009

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K. Hills "BobbyBlunder" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Texas Hold'em No-Limit Poker ... The Next Level (Paperback)

Very good book. This book assumes you have player some poker and is not a complete course buy any stretch of the imagination. His purpose is to explain the strategic implications of his mathematical perspective and not much more than that. Not everyone will agree with the numbers but it might suprise some to know that probability theory is not an exact science! It is not about being right or wrong. It is not about describing the complete context of every hand. The value of this book is that it provides interesting material to ponder from a reasonably successful player who has a view you probably won't find published anywhere else.

I am not related to the author and rarely post reviews. I think my only other one was on Dorfman's chess book 'The Critical Moment'. My motiviation is only to defend wrongly maligned authors who I believe have something interesting to say which is simply out of the mainstream and often overlooked because of that alone.