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Now you can learn exactly how consistent winners REALLY do it!
Meet PearlJammer, Rizen, and Apestyles. These top guns of tournament poker are frequent winners in today's highly competitive online scene, as well as in live tourneys. Their collective experience and track record is staggering: more than 35,000 tournaments played, more than 1,000 final tables made, over 200 major wins, and more than $6,000,000 in cashes. They regularly outplay fields consisting of other top professionals victories that are documented by detailed online hand histories.
Are you ready to learn winning ways from today's true tournament experts?
The authors are not only consistent winners, but powerful teachers as well. Step-by-step, they reveal their decision-making processes, using hands drawn from actual play not examples contrived to fit a particular poker theory.
Reading this book is like attending a master class in tournament poker.
You'll see the way cutting-edge pros use their wisdom and incredibly extensive experience to analyze almost every poker situation imaginable. Deep-stacked or short-stacked, against single or multiple opponents, you'll learn the skills that will make you a winner, including:
- When and how to play aggressively or tightly
- When to make moves
- When to make continuation bets and when to hold back
- How to induce and pick off bluffs
- How to accumulate chips without constantly risking your tournament life.
Poker is a fun game, but it's even more fun when you win.
If you want to become a great tournament player, shouldn't you be learning from the best? NOW You can! | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9780974150277
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Eric 'Rizen' Lynch | | Paperback:
| 423 pages | | Publisher:
| Dimat Enterprises, Inc. | | Publication Date:
| June 20, 2008 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0974150274 | | Package Length:
| 8.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 21 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Groundbreaking book for moving from advanced to expert pokerDec 14, 2009
I started playing poker intensively about a year ago, but I've been a professional games player and expert class at both bridge and backgammon. This book isn't for everyone, but for tournament players who are (really) advanced, it is the best written so far.
Harrington's books, in my view, set the pace - and while there are advanced concepts in those, this book is largely all advanced concepts.
First level thinking as a poker player is considering your own hand, is it strong enough to call, raise, fold. Super basic, lesson one, don't play AJo under the gun, but play it from the button or cutoff.
Second level thinking brings in more context, my table image, my opponents table image, stack sizes, etc.
Third level, in my view, begins to think about opponents and ranges, and how they'd play those ranges, how you fare against those ranges, and how you optimise given your view on your EV in a particular hand. It brings in game theory.
Fourth level, you could say, is concerned with future developments and how your hand will fare - which cards will be awful (either lose your market on a good hand, or lose your money if he improves) - this opens the door for 'bluff-outs' - it is more complex because you need to parse an opponents range, and then consider where various cards will put him psychologically and materially (EV).
Fifth level is thinking about his thinking. Which level is he? Is he capable of advanced thinking? If he is, they how do you use that to optimise? It brings in meta games, opponent history, and multi-hand considerations for how to play.
Sixth level - thinking about your thinking about his thinking? Too far?
The three authors provide a hand by hand illustration of how to THINK at all those levels during a tournament poker hand. While other books offer prescriptions: if you have such and such, you ought to do this and not that... The joy of this book is the nuance - some of the hands are straightforward, but many of them (in the hands of experts) will generate hot debate.
One reviewer objects that the author's hands sometimes hit miracle cards, but that happens all the time, and optimising (getting stacks) when that happens is key. Others object they don't say how hands turn out - well they shouldn't, or if they do, there should be a short appendix in the back laying it out. I'm curious whether the series of bubble-play hands offered resulted in a win, but (again) results don't matter, thinking does.
Advanced poker is not so much about having the right answer or being sure all the time (it is too hard), but it is about making sure you have the right thought process. This book is first rate at doing that.
As one pro said to me after I gave him a hand where I'd stacked off - "your play was probably correct, ONLY if you made it for the correct reasons and had the correct thought process...". In other words, (I had KK), if all my money went in because of level 1,2, or 3 thinking, then I was a fish. But if it all went in, having reasoned correctly, then I was learning and starting to play well.
I'm a profitable $100 buy-in tournament player but make many too many errors, but am confident that this book will add considerable $$$ to my account and I'm grateful for those 3 guys (who afterall don't need the money!) for taking the time to write it.
Cant wait for Volume II.
Paul Gibbons (paulgibbo online), [...]
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Helped take my game to a new levelNov 16, 2009
I highly recommend this book for those who are playing a solid game of tournament poker, but want to take their game to a new level. The authors spell out how, and when, they use their position and perceptions of other players to amass chips when they don't necessarily have the best hand. I had to reread the book several times for everything to sink in.
0 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Classic Revelation of Online PokerNov 11, 2009
In some ways, this book is a bit of a joke. I have only read the part by "Rizen" Lynch so far, and hope that the parts by pearljammer and van fleet are better.
I've played with the latter two, but only watched rizen play on TV. From watching him, he is a little loose, but intelligently aggressive, and seems to have good poker judgment. I think he also benefits from a lot of live players who are playing actual poker, folding, whereas rizen is used to online poker where drawing to gut shot straights against "good" opponents pays off -- since such draws hit so much.
The hands that Rizen describes, playing largely in larger buy in tournaments, are seemingly largely against donks. And reading the book reminded me why I stopped playing online. Almost every other hand Lynch describes (at least that I've read so far) he happens to hit his miracle card, and he acts run of the mill about it.
A variation on a classic online situation where in my own online mtt and satellite experience I was running at about a 65 percent win rate (which over the 100 or so occurrences renders this an exceptionallty low probability -- if online poker were truly random, but that is not even the tip of the iceberg) is the AA v Ax pre flop all in.
In Rizen's hand, its not a pre flop shove, but a small raise from Rizen in the small blind with A7 of clubs after it's folded around, and the bb re raises 3x, with still about 80 - 90% of the effective stacks behind. The flop is 689 with two clubs, a fantastic flop for him, giving him the nut flush draw with the open straight draw. His opponent has AA, and of course they get it all in, and he hits his 10 on the turn. Shocker, that. Pretty worthless hand description. The others are better for the thought involved, but the cards Rizen hits are often similarly ridiculous -- albeit post flop rather than on the flop, or he has no real draw just a semi weak but not horrible hand, and his opponents play like donks.
I know lynch knows percentages, but his description of hands seems to intuitively rely upon a much higher probability of cards hitting for him than sheer randomness would dictate. And in most of the hands he describes, it is exactly that, again, which happens.
Combine that with what is often seemingly very poor play by his opponents, and his section is in some ways a testament to the absurdity of online poker. And the fact that players who do well have an extremely strong vested psychological interest in believing that it is truly random (when most have no clue as to whether this really is or is not the case, as every single "study" I have ever seen cited does not fully or correctly address the issue) and that it is all their skill gaining them the rewards they reap online, and nothing else.
On the flip side, I would still mildly recommend this book just off Lynch's section. The reason is three fold. First, knowing that the other two authors will provide similar type of "here's the hand, here is what I was thinking and why" type of analyses, and likely differing points of view. Second, Lynch is a good player, and reading his analysis of specific hands that he has actually played is revealing, if sometimes fairly basic. And third, the hand by hand layout makes it interesting and easy to read, and provokes thought about how to play certain situations, which is particularly helpful in combination with Lynch's decent enough analyses of the hands.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Where's volume 2?Sep 06, 2009
I've got a lot of poker books, and this one is my favorite. I can open it to any page, study the hand scenario, and think how I would play that hand. Then, I can see how it was actually played by a professional player with their comments on what was going on in their mind.
I know of no better way to improve your game than with a book of this nature. Each poker hand shown is a test you can take, and then review the author's opinion of how the hand would be played by them. The book engages you, and tests your own competence. It reminds me of chess tactical puzzle books, which are also the most effective way of improving ones chess game up too around expert level.
The last section is my favorite. All three players give their own takes on how to play the same hands. They don't always agree.
It's about time for Volume 2 isn't it?
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Good read. A bit too analytical sometimesAug 14, 2009
I think that every player will find something in this book, to take his game a step further. I have been discussing some hands from it with friends (all winning players at MTT's) and we all agreed that there are some very interesting concepts in the book. I loved when pearljammer actually "created" fold equity from the small blind out of nowhere, when he didn't have any! (besides that, Rizen is the man!).
However, some of the hands, don't need that much of a text. I think it could all be written in less words
Smart players/writers, original concepts, good read.
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