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Poker Plays You Can Use
The book comes in two major sections. First you'll read a series of hand examples. These examples are designed to show you the difference between how a typical no-limit hold'em player thinks and how a professional-level player thinks. Each of these hand examples represents a small improvement you can make in your play. The second section turns the lessons from the first section into missions you can do on your own. These missions are the equivalent of recipes in a book on nutrition or exercises in a workout book. Doing the missions - doing them as often and using as much your brain on them as possible - are what will make you a better poker player. Do the missions, and you'll see results. Ignore the missions, and you likely won't.' - from the foreword by Ed Miller.
256 pages, Paperback
First published June 3, 2013
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June 20, 2022
I’m reviewing my poker library after re-reading each of the books and formatting them for ease of reference.
Poker player experience level required: BEGINNER
Original publication date: 2013
Reviewed: 2022
Game: No Limit Hold‘Em
Book information is relevant at time of review: YES
Content:
Doug’s approach to exploring different poker strategies and situations is unique in this book. He presents hands, play styles, villain flaws and scenarios with how best to exploit them using icons and descriptive text. The concepts are to be applied across similar board textures and player holdings against similar villain types.
It takes a little head work to grasp the theory of underlying villain and card texture combination to apply in other situations, but the book is effective in giving multiple branched scenarios to assist the reader in doing so.
The weakness of the book is when Hull dives into analysis and incorporates combinatorics with no background explanation. Combinatorics is fairly advanced and does not need to be introduced, especially since there is no education leading up to its introduction which will confuse the beginner poker player.
Overall it's not a bad book for a beginner who is looking to expand their knowledge of villains and how to try and exploit their weaknesses.
Poker player experience level required: BEGINNER
Original publication date: 2013
Reviewed: 2022
Game: No Limit Hold‘Em
Book information is relevant at time of review: YES
Content:
Doug’s approach to exploring different poker strategies and situations is unique in this book. He presents hands, play styles, villain flaws and scenarios with how best to exploit them using icons and descriptive text. The concepts are to be applied across similar board textures and player holdings against similar villain types.
It takes a little head work to grasp the theory of underlying villain and card texture combination to apply in other situations, but the book is effective in giving multiple branched scenarios to assist the reader in doing so.
The weakness of the book is when Hull dives into analysis and incorporates combinatorics with no background explanation. Combinatorics is fairly advanced and does not need to be introduced, especially since there is no education leading up to its introduction which will confuse the beginner poker player.
Overall it's not a bad book for a beginner who is looking to expand their knowledge of villains and how to try and exploit their weaknesses.
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