The Book of Bluffs: How to Bluff and Win at Poker | 
 enlarge | Author: Matt Lessinger
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 149826
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0446695629
Dewey Decimal Number: 795.412
EAN: 9780446695626
ASIN: 0446695629
Publication Date: October 27, 2005
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Condition: Standard used condition ie..Same quality you would find in your local bookstore.This is a new unread book that received the above wear during its handling. Has remainder mark.
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DESCRIPTION: Twenty years ago, Mike Caro wrote the book on what to look for in a player's movements, gestures, and facial expressions--their "tells"--to determine if they were bluffing, and it remains one of the bestselling poker books of all time. But what Caro didn't do was teach players how to bluff. Enter Matt Lessinger, a professional poker player and columnist, who in THE BOOK OF BLUFFS shows players how to get their opponents to fold--no matter how strong a hand they've been dealt. Lessinger reveals how, with the correct timing and artistry, bluffing will allow a player to win while holding an inferior hand--the very essence of poker.
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 mediocre at best, with a couple of interesting ideas December 20, 2007
J. R.
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The author of this book, Matt Lessinger, is in the same class as Lou Krieger (who praises the author in a blurb on the back cover) and Mike Caro, who wrote the foreword. Which is to say, he's a poker *writer* first, and a poker *player* second. So Lessinger makes a lot of ordinary poker moves sound like they're great. Example from the end of the book: Bobby Baldwin versus Crandall Addington at the 1997 WSOP main event. Baldwin pushes all-in with a 10-high on the turn and gets Addington to fold ... 8-high. Of course this happens all the time in NLHE, when someone thinks he is bravely bluffing with nothing, and his opponent makes a "great laydown" ... with an even lower nothing!
But this sort of overselling of unextraordinary moves is a specialty of the "writer first, player second" type of advice you can expect from poker journalists like Lessinger and Krieger and Caro. You can see this coming, though, since the book starts off with the "bluff of the century" by that one-hit wonder, Chris Moneymaker. Thank heavens this book was published in 2005 before we could be regaled with the "brilliant moves" of the 2006 WSOP winner, Jamie Gold.
There are some interesting ideas in the book, as we might expect. When you first sit at a table in Hold'Em, you are required to post the amount of the big blind. Lessinger suggests you do this when the button is to your immediate left, and recommends you then raise to steal the 2.5 bets in the pot if the action folds around to you. I confess I had not thought of this before, since this can only occur once per session.
Most of the book concerns Limit Hold'Em, although many of the examples can be adjusted for No Limit Hold'Em if you give some thought to appropriate bet-sizing. But there are many No Limit examples, too. There were a few non-Hold'Em examples from which perhaps a thing or two could be learned, but I generally skimmed those examples.
I would not recommend this book to any expert players, nor would I recommend it to beginners, either. It is for intermediate players who won't mind the low price of the book and feel that learning a couple of new things from any inexpensive source to be worthwhile. Some of the advice is contradictory, and the attitude overall is that bluffing is much easier than it really is, but for those for whom bluffing is not in their arsenal yet, perhaps this book will encourage them to experiment and learn.
Two better books on "making moves" in NLHE are: Harrington on Hold'Em Volume Two and the Little Blue Book by Phil Gordon.
Very Helpful book! A+++ July 31, 2007
George Florin Muntean (Cluj Npoca, Romania)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I enjoy reading it, and it helped me a lot. Now I can do more bluffs than ever!
Nothing Special March 8, 2007
BuckeyeGuy (USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Just tells about a lot of bluffs using examples from actual hands. Problem is I have seen the same situations where it didnt work.
 unhappy January 7, 2007
Gerald Q. Ashbrook (usa)
4 out of 17 found this review helpful
This book still has not been shipped to me. Thanks for the opportunity to tell folks how pitiful you are. I ordered it several months ago. I think you are supposed to ship it in another month. It is available now at many other places.
GETTING THE FULL GRASP November 13, 2006
Arthur R. Thude Jr. (PHILLY)
1 out of 12 found this review helpful
I HAVE NOT FINISHED BUT I WILL. SO FAR IT IS HELPING I CAN SEE THAT IT WILL IMPROVE MY GAME.
YOU MUST READ THESE BOOKS MORE THAN 1 TIME 2 GRASP ALL OF THE CONTENTS
KINGAR1
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