Gambling Guide & Directory - Gambling Books - Poker Hold ’em Instruction
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For today’s poker players, Texas hold ’em is the game. Every day, tens of thousands of small stakes hold ’em games are played all
over the world in homes, card rooms, and on the Internet. These games can be very profitable — if you play well. But most people
don’t play well and end up leaving their money on the table.
Small Stakes Hold ’em: Winning Big with Expert Play explains everything you need to be a big winner. Unlike many other books about
small stakes games, it teaches the aggressive and attacking style used by all professional players. However, it does not simply tell
you to play aggressively; it shows you exactly how to make expert decisions through numerous clear and detailed examples.
Small Stakes Hold ’em teaches you to think like a professional player. Topics include implied odds, pot equity, speculative hands,
position, the importance of being suited, hand categories, counting outs, evaluating the flop, large pots versus small pots, protecting
your hand, betting for value on the river, and playing overcards. In addition, after you learn the winning concepts, test your skills
with over fifty hand quizzes that present you with common and critical hold ’em decisions. Choose your action, then compare it to the
authors’ play and reasoning.
This text presents cutting-edge ideas in straightforward language. It is the most thorough and accurate discussion of small stakes
hold ’em available. Your opponents will read this book; make sure you do, too!
About the Author
Ed Miller grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received an S.B. in Physics and another in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
from MIT in 2000. After a year teaching, he moved to Redmond, Washington to work as a software developer for Microsoft. Looking for a
new hobby, he deposited a couple hundred dollars in November 2001 to play $1-$2 and $2-$4 hold ’em online. After losing his initial
stake, he sought to improve his game, and he found the books and website of Two Plus Two Publishing LLC. He participated in discussions
on the forums, and after a few months he turned his losses into wins in a $4-$8 game at a local card room.
By January 2003, he had moved up to $10-$20 and $20-$40, and in March he left his job to play poker full-time. By then he had swapped
roles on the online discussion forums from beginning player seeking advice to expert player giving it. After six more successful months
playing in the Seattle area, he moved to Las Vegas, where he currently resides. Also in 2003, Dr. Alan Schoonmaker, the author of The
Psychology of Poker, introduced Ed to David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth, and a partnership soon was born with this book being its first
result. Today Ed usually plays between $10-$20 and $30-$60, but he can occasionally still be found in the $2-$4 to $6-$12 games around
Las Vegas.
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On any given night, thousands of players are playing poker for real money on the Internet. This book is an excellent tool for players
at all levels to be successful at limit Texas Hold’em with specific topics focused on Internet play.
A comprehensive overview of Texas Hold’em is presented including general poker concepts such as probability and odds, bluffing, raising
and check-raising. Various deceptive tactics are also discussed such as free cards, slowplaying, and inducing bluffs and calls. You’ll
learn the correct strategies for starting hand play as well as playing on the flop, turn, and river. You’ll learn the intricacies of
playing on the Internet and the differences in strategies between Internet and live play. Finally, you’ll be able to practice all of
these strategies on over 200 actual Internet hands.
Poker is a fun game, but it is even more fun when you win. This is a book for players who want to improve their game to win more money.
If you only play a few hours a week or strive to take your game to an advanced level, this book should serve as a reference for many years
to come and help you become a consistent winner!
About the Author
Matthew Hilger is from Atlanta, Georgia and became an Internet poker professional in 2001. In his first full year he made over $100,000
playing online. He has logged over 7000 hours on the Internet, playing at limits from $1-$2 up to $30-$60 and many online tournaments.
Matthew’s live tournament achievements include winning the 2002 New Zealand Poker Championship and finishing 33rd out of 2576 in the 2004
World Series of Poker main event.
Matthew has written for Poker Pages, Poker In Europe, LiveAction Magazine, 5th Street Magazine, and other publications. He has been featured
in magazines and periodicals including the Wall Street Journal, Slate, and the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
Prior to his poker career, Matthew worked in various accounting, finance, and consulting positions with Andersen Consulting (currently
Accenture), Chiquita Brands International, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
He completed a Master’s degree in Finance at Georgia State University in 1991 and also a Master’s degree in International Business from
Thunderbird in 1996.
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Texas Hold ’em is not an easy game to play well. To become an expert you must balance many concepts, some of which occasionally
contradict each other. In 1988, the first edition appeared. Many ideas, which were only known to a small, select group of players,
were made available to anyone who was striving to become an expert, and the hold ’em explosion had begun. It is now a new century,
and the authors have again moved the state of the art forward by adding over 100 pages of new material, including extensive sections
on "loose games," and "short-handed games." Anyone who studies this text, is well disciplined, and gets the proper experience should
become a significant winner. Some of the other ideas discussed include play on the first two cards, semi-bluffing, the free card,
inducing bluffs, staying with a draw, playing when a pair flops, playing trash hands, desperation bets, playing in wild games, reading
hands, and psychology.
About the Authors
About David Sklansky
David Sklansky is generally considered the number one authority on gambling in the world today. Besides his ten books on the subject,
David also has produced two videos and numerous writings for various gaming publications. His occasional poker seminars always receive
an enthusiastic reception, including those given at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City and the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
More recently, David has been doing consulting work for casinos, Internet gaming sites, and gaming device companies. He has recently
invented several games, soon to appear in casinos.
David attributes his standing in the gambling community to three things:
1. The fact that he presents his ideas as simply as possible (sometimes with Mason Malmuth) even though these ideas frequently involve
concepts that are deep, subtle, and not to be found elsewhere.
2. The fact that the things he says and writes can be counted on to be accurate.
3. The fact that to this day a large portion of his income is still derived from gambling (usually poker, but occasionally blackjack,
sports betting, horses, video games, casino promotions, or casino tournaments).
Thus, those who depend on David’s advice know that he still depends on it himself.
About Mason Malmuth
Mason Malmuth was born and raised in Coral Gables, Florida. In 1973 he received his BS in Mathematics from Virginia Tech, and completed
their Masters’ program in 1975. While working for the United States Census Bureau in 1978, Mason stopped overnight in Las Vegas while
driving to his new assignment in California. He was immediately fascinated by the games, and gambling became his major interest.
After arriving in California he discovered that poker was legal and began playing in some of the public cardrooms as well as taking periodic
trips to Las Vegas where he would play both poker and blackjack. In 1981 he went to work for the Northrop Corporation as a mathematician and
moved to Los Angeles where he could conviently pursue his interest in poker in the large public cardrooms in Gardena, Bell Gardens, and Commerce.
In 1983 his first article "Card Domination — The Ultimate Blackjack Weapon" was published in Gambling Times magazine. In 1987 he left his job
with the Northrop Corporation to begin a career as both a full-time gambler and a gambling writer. He has had over 500 articles published in
various magazines and is the author or co-author of 12 books. These include Gambling Theory and Other Topics, where he tries to demonstrate
why only a small number of people are highly successful at gambling. In this book he introduces the reader to the concept of "non-self weighting
strategies" and explains why successful gambling is actually a balance of luck and skill. Other books he has co-authored are Hold ’em Poker For
Advanced Players, written with David Sklansky, and Seven-Card Stud For Advanced Players written with David Sklansky and Ray Zee. All the "advanced"
books are considered the definitive works on these games.
His company Two Plus Two Publishing has sold over 400,000 books and currently has 26 titles to its credit. These books are recognized as the best
in their field and are thoroughly studied by those individuals who take gambling seriously.
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