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18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Waste of money Jun 18, 2006
This is book is such a bad buy that I almost felt like asking Amazon for my money back. I agree with the first reviewer and am sorry for getting the book before I read that review. The presentation in the book is really bad and it also contains some embarrassing errors on the basic level.
Example 1:
(Chapter 1, Odds of a full house on turn or river, page 15)
[Jh Qh] vs. [Kc Ts] and Flop [Ks Tc 2c]
"There are three 10's and three Kings left in deck which could help make the hand a Full house, for a total of six Outs."
Example 2:
(Chapter 2, Playing the Board Bluff, page 48)
[As 8c] vs. [Kc Ac] Board [4s 2c Qs 7c 5s]
"The two hands are not the same, but they split the pot because their kickers don't play:"
So my advice is to spend your money on another poker book than this one.
25 of 25 found the following review helpful:
Unbelievably bad not just as a poker book, but as a book in general Jun 03, 2006
This book is unbelievably bad. It reads as though it was originally written in Chinese and (badly) translated. The title itself is not even proper English for goodness sake! That, and the cheesy 1970's-style illustration on the cover, should have been fair-warning for me. I've literally read instructions for Daewoo home electronics that did less violence to the English language. An example from p.2: "As such, a player equipped with the most advanced warfare [sic.] to stage the gamble[sic.] of No Limit Hold'em has some defined advantages[sic.?] against those players who are still fighting with swords and shields in their hand." Um, OK?
The book uses the most obscure "terms and jargons[sic.]" to explain its approach to poker. It touts its "Turn or River Odds (TORO)" and its Hand-in-Progress-Demography (HIPD)" as being "new to math and gambling science." In fact, this is just basic probability analysis and I don't think any mathematician of the past four or five centuries would have any problem following along. Basically, the book still has you count outs, and HIPD is just an illustration of the table and your position relative to the other players in the hand. There's nothing in here that isn't illustrated and explained infinitely better in the Harrington series.
Essentially, the book includes a series of hands and helps you compute the odds to win in various scenarios. The book shows you both your hand and your opponent's hand and helps you calculate the odds you're facing. The logic of various plays is explained in terms of the changing odds in the hand, and rarely does "Comprehensive No Limit Hold'em and Tournament [sic.]" explain how one is supposed to obtain this perfect knowledge of the hand held by one's opponent. Of course if you could literally *see* the cards held by the other player, the game would reduce to simple math! Then you'd be playing something more like blackjack or lottery, and you'd only play against someone who's giving you the worst of it (e.g. the casino or state).
Mr. "Rock Banker" (if that's really the guy's name) does such an horrendous disservice to purchasers of this book that there really ought to be some sort of refund policy. The book is poorly written, contains errors of both logic and math, and proceeds on the assumption that you know the other guy's likely cards. I suppose an absolute beginner who looked only at the numbers of various match-ups could get something out of this mess, and that might make it worth half a star, but I've chosen to round down on this review because I felt so cheated. Stay away from this book if you value your money and/or time.
I'd recommend Poker Tips that Pay: Expert Strategy Guide for Winning No Limit Texas Hold em or the Harrington series for serious students of the game of poker.
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