Poker Tournament Formula: New Strategies to Beat No-Limit Poker Tournaments

by Arnold Snyder

The first book to provide winning strategies for the extremely popular small buy-in no-limit tournaments, the ones played by 95% of tournament poker players!

The first edition is arguably the most influential book on beating small tournaments ever written. From social media sites, to legions of tournament players, to even the great pros—this book has been acknowledged as the catalyst that changed the way people play the games. This is the first book to provide winning strategies for the small buy-in ($100 or less) no-limit hold’em tournaments that have exploded in poker rooms all over the country—and on the Internet. The strategies for small buy-in no-limit hold’em tournaments are different than the big-money games—hand value, position, aggression, chip stacks, and speed of play—cause a radical change of strategy. Snyder recounts his own experience with these methods at a win rate of almost 300% and gives readers specific strategies for winning the big money available at the hundreds of small buy-in no-limit hold’em tournaments taking place daily around the country and on the Internet. This new edition adds even more new strategies to get players to the final table and make them champions.

400 pages, Paperback

Published June 7, 2016

About the author

I’ve been writing nonfiction for more than thirty years, mostly books about professional gambling, and most challenging the conventional wisdom on how to beat blackjack or poker games. The reason I wrote these books was because I was actively making a living playing blackjack and poker, and it drove me crazy to see "experts" who didn't play putting out bad information for newbies.

I published and edited a trade journal for professional gamblers, Blackjack Forum, for more than twenty years. In 2002, I was inducted into the Blackjack Hall of Fame.

I’ve also written three books on how to solve Sudoku puzzles. Those came out of working Sudoku puzzles whenever I got stuck in another writing project.

In 2009, I wrote a book called Topless Vegas that reviews all of the strip clubs and topless shows in Las Vegas, which I update online every few months or so. Gotta keep current with this all-important cultural scene. (Yes, this is culture in Las Vegas, and yes, I get paid for this.)

Indisputably, I’m a whore. I’ll write just about anything if you pay me. (But that “just about” is significant. I’d split an infinitive before I’d ever write speeches for politicians. I have some standards.)

I recently finished writing my first novel, Risk of Ruin, which will be published by Vegas Lit, a new fiction imprint of Huntington Press, on September 30, 2012. (Actually, it's my forty-first published novel, but the first forty--all pseudonymous hack fiction--have happily disappeared from the face of the earth.) It's about a biker tattoo artist professional blackjack player who becomes obsessed with a stripper who believes she's God.