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Do you play short-handed? Do you know it is the fastest growing form of poker? Do you know it can be extremely profitable? Short-handed games are extremely profitable and fun to play. Terry Borer and Lawrence Mak - two short-handed experts, and Barry Tanenbaum - one of America's top poker coaches, will teach you how to dominate the short-handed tables, both live and on-line. You will learn: how to optimize your strategies for 6-handed, 3-handed, and even heads-up play. It looks at: how to play every street at an expert level; how to select your site, limit and seat for maximum profit; how to master the mental game and cope with the swings of short-handed play; how to exploit bonuses and get the most rakeback for your time; and, how to use poker software and statistics to maximize your profits. By carefully studying the 245 quiz questions and examples in this book you will improve your game and be able to dominate and control your table.
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Terry and Lawrence have won hundreds of thousands of dollars playing on-line - exclusively in short-handed cash games. They have also consulted for an online gambling and poker website. Now they pass on their knowledge to you.Barry, author of Advanced Limit Hold'em and regular Card Player columnist, has been a full time professional for many years and is widely acknowledged as a top poker coach and teacher.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The best on the market for short-handed limit,
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This review is from: Limit Hold'em: Winning Short-handed Strategies - Techniques for Limit Hold'em Games with Six Players or Less (Paperback)
First, I have to admit that I haven't yet fully tested the advocated short-handed strategy; I have been playing this variant online for the last month and have a decent profit, but month isn't long enough for decent judgment.
If you are familiar will full ring games (casino or online), this is an excellent book to learn the difference between those and 6-or-less-handed games. The difference IS huge; in 9/10-handed games you can often call with hands with potential (i.e. low pairs, suited connectors) hoping for a set or good draw on the flop. In short-handed you have a stricter hand selection because you will rarely get the right odds for drawing hands, and you play your hands agressively from the start. The book is overall decent in explaining strategy at each betting phase. The preflop section is just a series of tables with explanation, which is really all you need. The best parts of the book however are the flop, turn and river sections. Many of the actions you take here are counterintuitive and the author describes these choices well. The quizzes at the end of each chapter are really hard; even after making them several times I still get certain actions wrong, although the explanation makes perfect sense when you read it. Another useful chapter is about opponent modeling, i.e. using your opponent's statistics (from software such as Pokertracker) to improve your decisionmaking. I can recommend this book to anyone who likes Limit but wants a bit more action; in short-handed games this is what you get. The game is still more 'systematic' than no-limit, but you play a lot of hands. The benefit of Limit vs. No-Limit has always been that the variability is lower, i.e. the fluctuations in your gains and losses. Short-handed Limit is in between full-table Limit and No-Limit; things can go rather fast but you won't lose your whole stack on a single decision. Players who read this book should ideally already have some hold'em experience. Beginning players probably don't want to focus on this variant until they have mastered full table Limit or No-Limit, which is definitely a better preparation for a poker career. At the same time though the stuff you learn in this book will come in handy at your regular limit table, e.g. when the table is temporarily short-handed, or when you play postflop heads-up.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
But if you know the jargon....,
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This review is from: Limit Hold'em: Winning Short-handed Strategies - Techniques for Limit Hold'em Games with Six Players or Less (Paperback)
This is not a beginner's book. If you are a beginner, or you want to play No-Limit, buy some other book. True, there is some advice here that goes beyond the technicalities of poker, such as setting up your computer, choosing sites and getting rakeback, but as the short-handed game is predominantly an online phenomenon, this subject matter is not misplaced, and is actually handled very well. The main strength of the book is its organisation of the theory, moving from general considerations such as interpretation of statistics and player modelling, through to a thorough analysis of specific situations street by street.
All in all, the best treatment available on this difficult subject.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great introduction to 6-max for a FR player,
By plaaaaah (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Limit Hold'em: Winning Short-handed Strategies - Techniques for Limit Hold'em Games with Six Players or Less (Paperback)
This book did an excellent job of getting me started playing 6-max online. The authors discuss how and why starting hand requirements can be loosened up compared to full ring, and give good guidance on how to play your more marginal holdings postflop. They gave me a starting point for what kind of behaviours I can expect from villains at short-handed tables, and plenty of advice on what kind of behaviours to watch out for and take note of.
I'm playing rather lower than they assume (I'm at 10c/20c and their example hands range from $1/$2 up into the hundreds) but I've been able to adapt their advice for my villain types. That I could do this is partly thanks to their thorough explanations of WHY they advise playing this way or that, a vital feature. If you put in the effort and make sure you understand the advice here, you should make a good start at the short-handed tables.
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