Small Stakes Holdem by Sklansky and Malmuth
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Title: Small Stakes Hold’em – Winning big with expert play Author: Ed miller, David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth Facts: The book contains 358 text page. The book is published by two plus two publishing LLC. About the authors: Ed miller is a poker pro that makes a living playing fixed limit at low to medium levels. He is highly educated in physics and computer science. David Sklansky is one of the biggest authorities in poker theory. He has written about 10 books about gambling and cardgames. That he is one of the co-authors to this book gives it an extra credibility. He wouldn’t put his name of something that isn’t good enough. Mason Malmuth has written some other books together with David Sklansky, but also some books like about gambling theory, poker and blackjack by himself. He is a mathematician that has been a full time gambler and gambling writer from 1987. Review: The book has an underline to the title and that is what the book is al about; “the definitive guide to crushing loose games and amateur opponents”. And when you start studying this book remember that the aim is to crush the loose games. Therefore some of the advices rely on the fact that your opponent play to many hands and go to far with it. Something this book wants to take advantage of and at the same time prevent you from making those mistakes. The authors start of with explaining that this is not a beginner’s book. But when you read it you will notice that its very close. Of course, they don’t explain the basics about rules or reading the board. But they explain how a player, that is not that experienced, should play to become a long-term winner. The book advocates a very aggressive play. A player I know that have been playing low-level fixed limit online said that he thought this book is very good. He had been playing for some months and was already making a steady income of his play. Adding the knowledge of these authors added an extra edge to his game. So you should know some about poker before you go into this book. But as soon as you studied the basic rules, board reading and now how to recognise the nuts this could be the book for you. The aim for the authors has been to create a book to take over where the beginner’s book ends. I they have succeeded. The chapters structure are appealing. Starting of with gambling concepts, like where the money comes from and expected value. Taking you into the world of poker specific odds. Part two explains preflop play. Starting Hands for different types of games are discussed and also what the most common mistakes are. They spend a lot of pages on preflop play because your preflop play are very important to help you profit and prevent you from loosing money on later rounds. After the preflop they go into the postflop play and teaching you when to chase your draws and when to lay your hand down. And then they explain river play and in part five some miscellaneous topics. And like most of poker books that Sklansky have been involved in there is a hand quiz-chapter and a question and answer to be reviewed every now and then. Small stakes hold’em might be the second or third book you study about the game. Or even the first if you pick up the basics studying some poker site online. We recommend this book if you want to play fixed limit. And when you have read it and played for a while. Go back and read it again. You will probably find yourself making some of the mistakes they are writing about. |
