Power Hold'em Strategy | 
 enlarge | Author: Daniel Negreanu
Publisher: Cardoza
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Pages: 672
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1.6
ISBN: 1580422047
Dewey Decimal Number: 795
EAN: 9781580422048
ASIN: 1580422047
Publication Date: June 17, 2008
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Product Description
Super Stars of Hold'em does for hold'em what Doyle Brunson's Super System 2 did for poker. Negreanu gathers together the greatest young players, theorists, and world champions of hold'em, to present insider professional secrets and winning strategies for the only poker game that counts nowadays-hold'em. Ten powerful chapters cover every aspect of the major hold'em games-limit, no-limit, and pot-limit for cash games and tournaments -- with in-depth coverage on all aspects of play. This weighty volume will be an instant classic-poker players cannot ignore the professional advice from the greatest stars of the game.
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Pretty good book... September 18, 2008
Patrick D. Morrissey (Pewaukee Wisconsin USA)
This is a pretty good book.
Aside from the Evelyn Ng chapter, this is really more of an intermediate to advanced book. For people just starting to play no limit tournaments, though, her chapter is very good, and does present a system that will neutralize some of the trickier players at your table...
For people who have played some, there is some great stuff in here, though.... Paul Wasicka has a real nice chapter on 6-handed no limit hold-em on the internet, lots of good insights there... David Williams has a nice chapter on mixing up your play...
Daniel Negreanu has a long chapter about his "small ball" theory of poker... While I don't agree with all of it, it offers some great insights into the mind of the small-ball player, and he does have one of the best breakdowns of play on the turn and river that I have read...
A real good investment in your poker library.
 Poker Strategy September 7, 2008
Mike Skinner (McCleary, WA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book gives you a different view on how to play no limit poker. Have been trying these different strategy's and they are working very well! I have made the final table six times in a row. What the book is saying so far has worked excellent!!
Mike
Great book September 1, 2008
Poker Scott (Wisconsin)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
They use Daniels name to sell the book as hey only writes one chapter but it's very good. They give a lot of examples and the illustrations are very good. I suggest it anyone at any level!
Finally a book about "small ball"... August 12, 2008
David Olson (Glendora, CA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am going to say essentially what everyone else on here has been saying... If you buy this book, know that you can use the chapters not written by Negreanu as toilet paper or kindling for your fireplace. What you are buying this book for is Negreanu's explanation of "small ball" NL tournament poker. I noticed from reading the other reviews that everyone else is similarly interested in small ball, and have found this strategy to be quite effective. I also noticed that one guy on here seems to think Daniel is advocating a "weak, passive" approach to playing poker. This is far, far from the truth. Either he didn't read the book well enough, or is just not intelligent enough to get what Daniel was trying to communicate. Here are some basic ideas behind the small-ball philosophy:
1) Keep the pots small, pre-flop. You don't want to put a lot of your chips at risk before you even see the flop. Your aces may get busted by deuces post-flop, and you'll be pot committed after a few big bets. Not good. Instead, you wait to see the flop, then evaluate the situation based on what your opponent is doing. By keeping the pots small, you will pick up more pots that people don't really care about after the flop and not risk getting drawn out on by some crazy donk.
2) Play lots of hands that have big post-flop potential. That means opening up your starting hand selection by a large amount. This has been a big adjustment for me, but by doing so I have learned a lot about how to play poker in general. I have won a lot of big pots in tournaments and deep-stacked cash games by calling raises with mediocre hands that turn into monsters post-flop. Daniel expounds on which hands to call with under which set of circumstances.
3) Don't let your opponents get a good read on you. By playing your big hands the same as you do your weak hands, it makes it very hard for your opponents to know what you are playing with. It forces players into a guessing game, and if you are fairly decent at reading other people's hands, you can make some really good plays.
4) Playing the texture of the board. A good amount of Daniel's small ball approach deals with making decisions based on the texture of the board. This is something that is key to any poker player's success, I think. You don't always have to have the best hand to end up with the chips.
Those are some main aspects to playing small ball that Negreanu pays a great deal of attention to. What I've noticed for myself and other players is that the people who consistently do well in poker tournaments rely on more than luck and aggression. They rely on skill and discipline. I think this book will help you in both areas, if you aren't a small ball player already.
I love Daniel! August 5, 2008
Allison Johnson (Oceanside, California)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Daniel's books are good reading and easy to understand. His style in book writing is as good as his style in playing poker.....winning results!
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