How to Beat Small Poker Games

by Alan N. Schoonmaker

This book is for smart, serious poker players better than their opponents.Don’t understand why their results are so disappointing.Are open-minded and willing to work on their game.Does this sound like you?  Then buy this book.  You’ll learn how to beat these apparently soft, but extremely frustrating, games. Other books give advice that doesn’t fit small games (such as $4-$8 limit hold’em and $1/$2 no limit). Compared to larger  The costs are more than twice the percentage of the action, and other books ignore these costs. The players are much weaker, and most books don’t say how to beat bad players. Many opponents play for fun, not to win, and most books ignore all motives except winning.

94 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 22, 2015

About the author

Alan Schoonmaker earned his Ph.D. in industrial psychology at U of California, Berkeley. He taught and did research at UCLA, Carnegie-Mellon, and Belgium's Catholic University of Louvain. After running management development at Merrill Lynch, he worked as a consultant in twenty-nine countries on all six continents. His clients included the world's largest corporations such as IBM, Mobil, GE, GM, and Chase Manhattan. The annual sales of his clients exceed one trillion dollars.

Reviews

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book. Small stakes games are hard to beat because even though the competition might be soft, the drop (rake, jackpot drop, tips) is large compared to the amount available to be won. This can make these seemingly soft games very frustrating. The author deals less with strategy and more with game structure and psychology to show the reader areas for consideration that must be thought through and applied to the reader's specific game.