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Decide to Play Great Poker: A Strategy Guide to No-Limit Texas Hold Em
 
 

Decide to Play Great Poker: A Strategy Guide to No-Limit Texas Hold Em [Kindle Edition]

John Vorhaus , Annie Duke
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Ask the great poker players how they'd play a hand and the answer is always, 'it depends.' That answer can be infuriating. But guess what? It really does depend. The key to becoming a great poker player is in knowing exactly what it depends on. At last there's a book that gives you that answer.
Poker is a game of so many variables: table position, flop texture, the number of players in a hand, the personalities of your opponents, and so much more. Decide to Play Great Poker teaches you how to identify and analyze those variables, interchange them within basic game-situation templates, and become knowledgeable, comfortable, and confident in any poker situation. Instead of just dictating a bunch of rules that work only some of the time, this book teaches you to become a great poker thinker and strategist so that you can expertly navigate any poker challenge you encounter.
Most players think the goal of poker is to make money. They're wrong! The goal of poker is to make good decisions. Money is simply the way you measure how well you're meeting that objective. So if you're ready to start making world-class decisions at the poker table -- and to reap the substantial rewards those decisions will yield -- all you have to do is decide: Decide to Play Great Poker now. You'll never be vexed by 'it depends' again.

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Terrible 16 Oct 2011
Format:Kindle Edition
A terrible book written by a terrible author. A few internet searches will teach you all about Annie Dukes actual 'poker skills' and the unsavoury ways she makes her money (and trust me, it isn't through playing cards). Again, a terrible book - with any small pieces of relevant poker knowledge probably offered by a third party. Book is pointless, Annie is pointless, ignore.
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The nuts. 26 Nov 2011
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This is a book that comes around only once every couple of years. As a poker book, it's one that comes around even longer than that.
I was going to begin this review noting just how technical it was, but that might not be the right word since it's also so accessible. What I will say is that this book isn't for most players. Most players don't want to know the rationale behind every move that's played at the table (their's or others'), they just want to get "better". This book, sitting at nearly 500 pages, isn't a light book you can flit in and out of; it's a book that will teach you, truly, how to play great poker. You can read it like any other book, but the quality of the content almost demands you treat it like a textbook - taking notes, earmarking pages, underlining the crap out of it. The density of information is actually quite astounding, and will require more than one read-through to grasp everything. Hell, I made tonnes of notes on the first read-through, and there are subtleties I'm noticing only on the second.

The written style is great, easy going, and mature - instead of telling you, Ms Duke *shows* you, explaining why certain players play certain hands, why they might decide to raise instead of call in certain situations, and your different options in responding to their actions depending on the strength of your hand, texture of the board, tilt, etc. Many other books give hard and fast rules, and though if feels like there are some in this book (masked with verbs like 'consider') they make sense in the context of 'making the right decision'. E.g. if you're holding 72o with three callers post-flop you should 'consider' folding. You don't have to, but there's a very, very high chance you'll lose that hand even if a 7 lands on the river; therefore that 'rule' of ducking out there isn't one of those nasty inflexible ones, it makes sense, and why it does is always explained fully, usually with examples.

This book hasn't affected my win-rate much, it was already fairly high, but I am a much better player for having read it. I'm making vastly better decisions, and can now account for all of my actions on the table. I'm also reading people's actions better, rationalising their decisions, and guessing right much more often.

Like I've said, it's rather accesible for a technical book, but by no means is it an 'easy' read. Treat it like a course, read 50 pages every other day, take notes, and put it into practice, and you'll soon be out performing your usual table-mates.
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Having read a good few poker books over the years I have to say this one has made the biggest difference to my game in the shortest time.

The author doesn't try and blitz the reader with hard and fast rules at any point in the book, rather they nudge you gently in the correct direction when it comes to weighing up your options in any given position, the way the book is written really appealed to me as rather than dazzle you with stats, figures and all other stuff that goes in one ear and out the other with me, it simply says to you "here's the reason why X is good play, why Y is a bad play in Z position etc" But It's the easy nature in which the theories in the book are explained which had me coming back and rereading the whole thing another 2 times before my trip to Vegas.

I honestly cannot recommend this book highly enough, it's helped my game immeasurably in the short time i've had it (won the first ever Vegas tournament I entered) and cashed in a number of others whilst I was there last week.

Great book
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