The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide: Tournament Edition | Andy Bloch, Richard Brodie, ...

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	The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide: Tournament Edition Andy Bloch, Richard Brodie, ... Grand Central Publishing, 2007 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 30 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

BUY THIS BOOK NOW!!

This is the type of book I hate to recommend to other players. It just flat out gives away too much information (see previous reviewer's comments re: content). Novices and those of us who have only been playing hold'em for 5 years or less could spend another 10 years on the felt to ever absorb this much knowledge.
I own 50+ poker books and countless DVD's. This is among the top 3, including the Harrington on Holdem series (1-3) and Super System. Michael Craig has produced another poker gem.
If you paid $100 for this book you would still be receiving a great bargain. Buy this book now while you still have time to exploit your opponents (that is before they read it too).

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Good information, well written

I wasn't expecting much from a branded book, but the impressive list of authors convinced me to give it a try, and I'm glad I did. So far I've read through the sections on hold'em (about half the book) and, while the authors give contradictory recommendations at time (this is intentional) I picked up an idea or two that I'm now using in my tournament play. I was particularly interested in seeing Chris Ferguson and other authors explain their differing opinions on how to play before the flop.

I recommend you don't get this book; I don't want the competition!

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Excellent Tournament Essay Collection

Like others, I was a bit skeptical seeing the Full Tilt logo, thinking the book could be promotional in nature. But the amount of quality material here is excellent.

The book is geared primarily toward no-limit tournies, although the Huck-Forrest Razz chapter is a particular highlight due its highly user-friendly dialogue format. C. Ferguson's post-flop chapter is a must-read, and I like that he begins by analyzing the purpose of a bet:

1. Getting a better hand to fold (e.g., bluffing)
2. Getting a worse hand to call/raise (e.g., value betting)
3. Protecting your hand (e.g., flopping a low top pair heads up)

But my favorite chapter is Gavin Smith's short text on exploiting the big stack. He advocates going after pots before the ante to build a big stack by the time the ante's introduced, and then discusses specific plays to accumulate the big stack. One very interesting play is the flat-call steal, where a player raises and you flat-call widely if you have position and feel confident out-maneuvering the initial raiser post-flop.

A lot of very interesting material and quite well-edited. Highly recommended for tournament players.

- Collin Moshman
Author, Sit 'n Go Strategy

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Hope this book does not come to Australia

I tried looking for this book at shops here in Melbourne and was unable to find it. I was forced to buy it from Amazon and I would have to say that this is one of the best books on Poker you will find. The book is geared to tournament poker.

The chapters are interesting and set out in the form of essays. i.e Post flop play, pre flop, Limit chapter, PLO Chapter, Razz, Online etc. and a chapter on the theory of leverage which after reading seems so simple that it should be common knowledge, yet it isn't.

It is a book that will really challenge your thinking and approach if you read it properly and if you grasp the concepts, it will improve your play.

The book is in the same league as the best of the Sklansky books and Harrington on Hold em. (although you will see things in here that contradict them!)

This is one of the better books available and I would fully recommend it to anyone who wants to improve their tournament game.

I hope this book doesn't surface in the shops here in Australia!

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Good strategy volume

I haven't completed reading the entire book yet. The parts I have read are well written and easy to understand.
Each contributor is describing how to play from his/her point of view. I like that they go into their personal thought processes. We get several perspectives on playing styles. There is no one correct way to play poker.
I have studied both Supersystem I & Supersystem II and Scklanki's books on Holdem along with Harrington's set of books.

This new book should be a part of any new up and coming tournament poker player.

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