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Poker is America’s national card game, and its popularity continues to grow. Nationwide, you can find a game in progress everywhere. If you want to play, you can find poker games on replicas of 19th century riverboats or on Native American tribal lands. You can play poker at home with the family or online with opponents from around the world. Like bowling and billiards before it, poker has moved out from under the seedier side of its roots and is flowering in the sunshine. Maybe you’ve never played poker before and you don’t even know what a full house is. Poker For Dummies covers the basics. Or perhaps you've played for years, but you just don’t know how to win. This handy guide will help you walk away from the poker table with winnings, not lint, in your pockets. If you’re a poker expert, you still can benefit – some of the suggestions may surprise you, and you can certainly learn from the anecdotes from professional players like T.J. Cloutier and Stu Unger. Know what it takes to start winning hand after hand by exploring strategy; getting to know antes and betting structure; knowing your opponents, and understanding the odds. Poker For Dummies also covers the following topics and more: Poker games such as Seven-Card Stud, Omaha, and Texas Hold'em Setting up a game at home Playing in a casino: Do's and don'ts Improving your play with Internet and video poker Deciphering poker sayings and slang Ten ways to read your opponent's body language Playing in poker tournaments Money management and recordkeeping Knowing when and how to bluff Poker looks like such a simple game. Anyone, it seems, can play it well – but that's far from the truth. Learning the rules can be quick work, but becoming a winning player takes considerably longer. Still, anyone willing to make the effort can become a good player. You can succeed in poker the way you succeed in life: by facing it squarely, getting up earlier than the next person, and working harder and smarter than the competition.
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Customer Reviews:
• Lou Krieger Knows Poker
11 July, 2005
it's great that this book assumes that you know nothing about poker, because i knew nothing.
this book is great in helping you think of all the considerations in poker, what the odds are, the groupings of hands, what other players are playing etc, but with a bit of practise, you can make these decisions in a matter of seconds. and practise i did. when i found that lou krieger was host of royal vegas poker, i practised there.
the only aspect that put me off a bit, but was my own shortcoming, not the book's, was the issue of calculating the standard deviations, outs etc. being mathematically challenged, puts me at a disadvantage.
but this is a great book, which is comprehensively basic - as it should be. i'd recommend it to anyone.
- Amazon Customer Review
• There's Not Much Here
12 July, 2005
I love "Dummies" books and usually start with one when I want to learn something completely new. I have played poker recreationally most of my life, and been a consistent winner--because my competition was even worse than I was. I even won in my sole foray into a card club--because I was lucky. I had never played Hold'em, however. I wanted to learn more than just the rules of the game and get an introduction to some of the theoretical poker concepts that I knew were out there. This is the wrong book for that.
This book is just too elementary for anyone but a total and complete novice. The only "take away" for me was an understanding of what playing tight pre-flop means for Hold'em. The commentary on post-flop play was way too simple-minded.
This book spends too much time explaining things like tournaments, the World Series of Poker, and the Internet. I am still looking for the book I want.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Excellent Start
10 March, 2006
This book is great for everyone who's new to poker, especially casino poker. It explains all kinds of poker in detal and gives general rules on how to win in poker. You certainly can learn all your basics from this book, but I don't think it's good for people who want to learn Hold'em in particular - for that I'd recommend "Hold'em Excellence: From Beginner to Winner" by Lou Krieger. It explains everything in detail. Krieger certainly knows what he's talking about and explains it in a simple, easy to read form.
Poker for Dummies doesn't deal very well with internet poker; it only gives some general advice and the info is somewhat outdated. If you're interested in online poker, it's definitely not for you.
- Amazon Customer Review
• I Can Actually Win Poker Now!
17 July, 2009
Ah poker....America's favorite card game! I've played the game since I was a child but have only recently become interested in learning the many strategies involved. I never played enough to increase my skills so I was a casual player for years. I played only when the urge bit me or when I was invited to a game.
Lately, I have been spending more time in Casinos and my love for poker has been rekindled. I'm a little too intimidated to play at the tables, so for the mean time, I've stuck to video poker. I'm a decent player and usually break even on the game. (I can make $20 last for hours on the quarter machines.) I was pleasantly surprised to see that this book offers a small section on video poker! Specifically on Jacks or Better and Deuces Wild. Well, curious to see if this strategy worked, I practiced on the video game called High Rollers Casino for PlayStation 2(IMO best casino game for PS2). Low and behold, the strategy seemed to work. My hands seemed to be better. However, the mechanics of a PlayStation game and an actual Video Poker machine differ in many ways! So, within a couple of weeks, I took this new strategy to a local Casino and won over $200 on the quarter machines! I played for about 3 hours and nothing could wipe the grin off of my face!
Curious as to whether the rest of the book was just as good, I took the Texas Hold'em and basic poker strategies to the internet. Once again, the advice I received proved to be useful and once again, I came out ahead. Of course, I still lost a few hands BUT the winnings more than made up for it!
I will eventually step up to a table game and play for all I'm worth - but for now, I feel as if I've gone from a novice to a decent intermediate player in very little time! I've never played poker to win before. I simply played poker for the sake of playing poker and merely HOPED to win. Now, I can walk up to any (internet) table or video poker machine with confidence, knowing that I'll either walk away with extra cash, or at the very least - breaking even!
I won't recommend this book to anyone who's already intermediate or expert, as I'm sure there is nothing in this book they wouldn't already know. But for beginners or casual players who wish to increase their odds and brush up their skills - this is the perfect book to do just that.
My many thanks to the authors of this fabulous book! I never knew that playing to win could be so much fun and profitable!
- Amazon Customer Review
• Not So Good
03 January, 2007
Honestly, this book didn't do much for me. I never got interested in reading it, and just learned by playing and watching poker tournaments on TV.
- Amazon Customer Review
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