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Title: Championship Tournament Poker by Tom McEvoy ISBN: 1-58042-123-7 Publisher: Cardoza Pub Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: More like a diary of some of Tom's successes (and he has had many) but only a few anecdotes. Buy one of TJ Cloutier's books (or Slansky's) for much much more insight.
Rating: 1
Summary: The 7-2 Offsuit of Poker Books
Comment: I don't know who this book is supposed to be for. Certainly not someone who wants to learn any of the featured games. It's assumed you already know the games well. Certainly not anyone already playing much tournament poker. Perhaps the delusional player who is just starting to play in tournaments and wants to play in every available event at once. The book is just silly. There are a grand total of 20 pages on no-limit hold 'em for example, and most of those are repetative. In other words, Tom easily could have put 10 pages that say the same thing into the fine book he co-wrote with T.J. Cloutier. The "advice" mostly consists of Tom rephrasing the very problem you probably wanted answered. In the brief section on strategic concepts, for instance, Tom repeats in several different sections the need to stay calm and guard against making errors based on personal dislike of an opponent. He says things like take a deep breath after a bad beat (well, duh!). What he doesn't say, are things like how to adjust your play if you've got a very aggressive player to your immediate left (which is useful to know). He says things like "The champions know when to push a marginal hand and when to back away from it," but makes no attempt to try to quantify how or when they know this. So it isn't very helpful. The chapter on playing poker as a business is probably useful, except it's only useful if you're good in the first place and if you are you aren't reading this book, you're saving your $30 and playin poker with it. There are much better books out there and unless you are going to run right out and enter tournaments in every event, pick up a book that deals with the game in which you want to excel and stick to that. The stuff in here you can find in articles on-line, or figure out playing poker on-line.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not that great...
Comment: I was expecting something a bit more detailed and better than Slansky's Tournament poker book. Unfortunately I was let down. There's not much "advice" nor many concrete examples. Instead we're treated to a few anecdotes and a spare "key concept" here and there. I'd spend my money elsewhere.
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Title: Tournament Poker for Advanced Players by David Sklansky ISBN: 1880685280 Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Championship No Limit & Pot Limit Hold 'Em by Tom McEvoy, T.J. Cloutier ISBN: 158042127X Publisher: Cardoza Pub Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Pot-Limit & No-Limit Poker by Stewart Reuben, Bob Ciaffone ISBN: 0966100719 Publisher: Bob Ciaffone Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Championship Satellite Strategy by Tom McEvoy, Brad Daugherty ISBN: 1884466397 Publisher: Cardsmith Publishing Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Doyle Brunson's Super System by Doyle Brunson ISBN: 1580420818 Publisher: Cardoza Pub Pub. Date: 1979 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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