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0 Comments Rolf Slotboom and Rob Hollink join forces to produce THE definitive guide, to short-handed Pot-Limit Omaha (tables with six or fewer players). Do you know Pot-Limit Omaha is one of the fastest growing forms of poker? Do you know that the biggest games online (in money) are Short-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha? Rolf and Rob will tell you how to: Gauge the optimum size of the buy-inDecide whether to check-raise or bet into the raiserRepresent big handsMisrepresent hands in order to get paid offGet your opponents off good, but non-nut handsJudge when to raise with drawing hands The team – Rolf Slotboom – author of the classic “Secrets of Professional Pot Limit Omaha”. In his first attempt in 2007 on the World Series of Poker he cashed four times, including the main $10,000 event. Rob Hollink has been a leading player for over 20 years and has won both a European tour title and, in 2008, a World Series bracelet.
Pot-Limit Omaha is a fascinating game which is rapidly increasingly in popularity on the back of the current poker boom. However, there is a dearth of quality material giving advice on how to handle all elements of this complex form of poker. Until now… Secrets of Pot-Limit Omaha is one of the first books to analyze medium and high-stakes PLO in great depth. The author, long-time successful PLO cash game player Rolf Slotboom, reveals key information that has never appeared in print before. The following are just some of the topics that are discussed in this ground-breaking book: A revolutionary short-stack approachAdjustments for big-stack playA study on the proper bet sizeCorrect seating positionBlocker playThe bare ace bluffExploiting your opponents’ specific weaknesses Finally, the practice hands and the chapter on hand match-ups offer tremendous theoretical and practical advice. This book is a must-read for anyone who wishes to play PLO successfully.
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Jonathan Little is a highly successful poker professional who has won over $4 million in tournament play. His first book, Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 1, dealt with the fundamentals of play. In this second book he builds on this base by examining the highly complex issue of how to handle the different stages of a tournament. As well as outlining a technically accurate style of play, Jonathan also discusses a number of other topics that are crucial to success at poker. These include: How to spot tells (and avoid giving them) Correct etiquette Practical tips for tournament play Managing life as a professional poker player throws up a number of issues in itself and Jonathan ...
How hard are you prepared to work to improve your No Limit Hold’em? The Education of a Modern Poker Player documents the efforts of a serious amateur as he pursues his ambition of rising through the stakes from NL10 ($10 game) to NL100 ($100 game) and beyond. John Billingham is an English maths professor, and a keen player of games. In the summer of 2009 he discovered online poker and was hooked. A year later he decided to trick a couple of impressionable young poker pros, Austrian Thomas Tiroch (TwiceT) and Romanian Emanuel Cinca (EmanuelC16), into teaching him how to play poker on the promise of writing a book with them. Little did he know what he was letting himself in for. The Educatio...
No Limit Hold’em is a tough game to play well which is why it is the game of choice for the high-stakes pros. Unless a player has the table covered then at any moment their entire stack is vulnerable. The key to NLHE is understanding and exploiting this fact. Dominate No-Limit Hold’em will reveal the key plays that will enable you to take advantage of this opportunity. Daniel Ashman is a highly successful NLHE high-stakes player. In this book he reveals how the very best players think about the game and discusses many advanced concepts. There are great rewards in NLHE for the successful players. If you want a piece of the action you need Dominate No-Limit Hold’em. The basic ideas and math behind NLHEThe psychology behind hand readingThe skills to understand strategic play in NLHEHow to understand and learn from real life high-stakes handsHow to make sure you understand the concepts involved in NLHE …plus much more!
If you think you know sit’n‘gos… think again! The sit’n‘go (single table tournament) format is one of the most popular and exciting ways to play poker. The classic sit’n‘go consists of ten players sitting at one table and playing for three prizes – but this is not the only possible format. There are many other ways that these events can be run and they can provide a lucrative opportunity for the skilled player. In Secrets of non-standard Sit’n‘gos, Phil Shaw navigates you through these exciting variants and explains how you can make them profitable. The alternative formats discussed include: Heads-up sit’n‘gos (two players)Sit’n‘gos played across two tables45-player and 180-player sit’n‘gosNon-NL games, including Pot-Limit Omaha, Stud, Razz, Triple Draw and Hi-lo gamesStep systems (where players can win entries to tournaments like the EPT and WSOP) …and many more. As well as a deep examination of the correct strategies for all these events, Secrets of non-standard Sit’n‘gos also analyses the most effective way to capitalise on rakeback and reward programs.
"Talks about the man who took the casinos for an estimated $50 million and many others just like him. This book relates the tales of daring and imaginative roulette players who have taken the casino industry for vast sums of money down the years."--Publisher description
Hang on tight as Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, poker player extraordinaire, takes you with him on a breathtaking, true-life roller coaster ride from his humble beginnings in a trailer park to a rock and roll lifestyle full of hot women, sex, wild drug-filled parties and million-dollar wins and losses. Yet behind the glamour and glory of his high-stakes poker career lurked the flip side: a person torn between two debilitating mental illnesses?—?bipolar disorder and ADHD. To dig himself out of depression and suicidal despair, Matusow turned to dangerous street drugs to self-medicate a problem he didn’t understand, and spiraled deeper into the darker world of addiction, police narcotic stings, and jail time.