World Poker Tour(TM): In the Money [Paperback]

Antonio Esfandiari (Author)

Book Description

Series: World Poker Tour | Publication Date: March 14, 2006

Antonio Esfandiari, a rising star of the World Poker Tour and one of professional poker's best players presents championship strategies for winning Texas Hold'em Cash Games.

This follow–up to WPT: Shuffle Up and Deal from poker professional Antonio Esfandiari with contributions from other stars of the World Poker Tour provides the next level of poker strategies and insights for today's poker players. Cash Games are the most commonly played version of Texas Hold'em; in fact at this very moment thousands are playing this non–tournament style of Hold'em in casinos, home games and online. This will be a must have for all poker enthusiasts.

Esfandiari is a regular at the biggest poker game in the world at Las Vegas' Bellagio

The World Poker Tour is the most popular show in the history of the Travel Channel. The series has revolutionized televised poker by offering expert analysis, and varying camera angles and close–ups of the players' hole cards, creating a whole new brand of high–tech, high–stakes, high–anxiety entertainment.

More than one in five Americans is a poker player, and over 70 million decks of cards are sold in the U.S. each year.

Phil Hellmuth's Play Poker Like the Pros has netted more than 155,000 copies since it was published in April 2003, and has recently hit the NY Times Bestseller List four times.

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About the Author

Once a professional magician, Antonio Esfandiari is now one of the hottest young players of poker. He was the first player under twenty-five to win a first-place prize of over one million dollars.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Pap/DVD edition (March 14, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060763051
• ISBN-13: 978-0060763053
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,119,611 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Could have been much better., July 10, 2006

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Professor of Poker (Tennessee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: World Poker Tour(TM): In the Money (Paperback)

A few nuggets but I was disappointed. I was really looking forward to this book because of how much I liked E-Dogs book (Making the Final Table). It was not boring but there was a lot of puff and it is a short book. If you play a lot of NL cash games, then I would give it a read. If you have not read any NL cash game books or you only play tournaments then I would pass. Sklansky and Miller have a new cash game book if you want to learn the technically side of NL cash games. Also Super System 2 has a great section for NL Holdem.

If your looking for chip tricks, I would recommend Rich Ferguson's video.

4.0 out of 5 stars Not inspiring, perhaps. But not wrong., June 4, 2009

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Jarc23 (Tennessee, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: World Poker Tour(TM): In the Money (Paperback)

Many people, when they've reached a certain age in life aspire to write the next great American novel. Somehow it validates what they've done with the first fifty years of their lives. Then they end up either giving it up or writing pretentious, over-baked b.s. The same is often true of poker players who write books. They want to create some sort of indicator that they've done something in life, rather than just hauled in stack after stack, hand after hand. The problem is, there's only so many great poker books out there to be written. And in the attempt of writing a great poker book, we often get overly dense, overly complicated, and even overly wrong books, by name pros who are trying to distinguish themselves.

Well that's not this book. Anybody who has ever seen Esfandiari knows that he's not one to overreach. He is comfortable laying out what he knows about winning at the World Poker Tour, which is enough to make this book a useful read. But he doesn't try to create some new philosophy of playing, or try to throw a bunch of gimmicky stuff at the book just to wow some people. He's clearly not a math guy at the level of Sklansky, and he's no Negreanu, but who is?

No, this book succeeds only because it does not fail, which, if you think about it, is kind of like how it feels to end up in the money. Not a big winner, but for the price, it's not a bad bet. And if you like Esfandiari, this isn't a bad one for the collection. Like someone else said, though, don't base your play on it.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hold em book on cash games, January 5, 2007

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This review is from: World Poker Tour(TM): In the Money (Paperback)

This well done book fills a void as most books are for tournament poker.
Much of the beginning of book is autobiographical (but interesting).
The only disapointment is the included cd is on chip tricks where a better
use would have been more instruction.