How To Play Winning Poker (Paperback)

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This powerful book condenses the essential theory of winning poker into a practical strategy that anyone can learn. Covering the major poker variations played today, Avery Cardoza reveals how to build the pot according to one's cards, how to prevent opponents from getting the "lucky draw, " how to control the game, and how to make weaker hands stay in the pot. Line drawings. 25 charts.

About the Author

Avery Cardoza, the world's foremost authority on gambling, and multimillion-selling author of 21 books and strategies, is a professional poker player on the World Poker Tour. He regularly competes with the best players in the world and is a money-winner in the World Series of Poker. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Cardoza; 4th edition (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0940685752
• ISBN-13: 978-0940685758
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,624,533 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too Broad, Too Brief, April 17, 2000

By	Chris McCall (Pullman, Washington) - See all my reviews

The Book took on too many games to provide any kind of useful information on how to play. It should be used more as an introduction to the various rules of the different styles of poker. Touched only briefly on the issues of starting hands and calling bets in each of the different games.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A joke of a poker book, January 12, 2004

By	deaner73 (Palo Alto, CA USA) - See all my reviews

In all seriousness Avery Cardoza couldn't have spent more then 5 hours putting this book together in it's entirety. The chief ill of this book is that it takes on too broad of a scope in covering the major forms of poker (Hold'Em, Seven card Stud, Lowball, Draw, etc) but then serves further insult by providing only a cursory explaination of rules for these poker variations with no inclusion of specific play strategy for each of them. The other information (winning strategy, money management, etc.) is completely generic and skimpy in weight. Do yourself a favour and fold this weak hand before the flop.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Book for Beginners, November 6, 2004

By	Steven J. Drahozal (Dubuque, IA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: How To Play Winning Poker, 4th Edition (Paperback)

As you can tell from the other reviews, if you are an intermediate or advanced player, you will probably want to skip this one. If, however, you are jumping on to the band wagon or otherwise new to poker it is an excellent introduction.

Cardoza introduces you to the history of the game (not essential, but mildly interesting) as well as the basic rules. He then takes you through Draw, 7 Card Stud, Hold 'Em and Omaha. He does a good job of introducing you to some of the differences between a casino and a home game. This can help the novice player feel a bit more comfortable when sitting down at a table. Then, he goes on to the 15 Winning Concepts of Poker as well as an introduction to bluffing and discusses money managment.

His analysis of Draw and 7 Card Stud are very good. He skimps a bit on Hold 'Em and Omaha. His rather abbreviated discussion of these two popular forms is why I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5.

If you follow the advice in the book, you will become a bit of an A-B-C player (a tight player who plays the same hands the same ways), but you can expand as you get more comfortable.