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6 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Don't spend the money. Buy something else. Jan 08, 2007
I found this book to be full of superficial advice. "Oh, and you can play poker online, too. There are even tournaments online. The advantage of tournaments are that you know what your max loss might be, going in, as it's limited to the entry fee." That's not a real quote, but you get the idea. Having read the chapters, my first thought was "Really? Really? Now why on earth did you spend the time to put this book together?"
If you find someone who says to you "Holdem? What's holdem?", you can give him this book. But if he doesn't say that, you can't give him this book. He already knows everything in this book. And so do you.
I do believe the book should have been properly labeled "For the most raw beginners only". If that had happened, I wouldn't have bought the book. Many people, who are just barely past the Beginner Stage, wouldn't buy the book. They are seeking Intermediate Stage advice, and this book isn't it. For the most raw beginner, this book might offer something. It certainly offered nothing to me. Don't spend the money, in my opinion. Buy something else.
1 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Pressure Poker Jan 04, 2007
Very helpful book for understanding tournament play. Fresh, new insights were very valuable.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Fine, fine job, A's Dec 26, 2006
I'm a pretty stubborn person and don't like to take advice from people, but this was the first poker book I bought since I got so much detailed and helpful advice from doubleas' blog site (it's still the only poker book I own). Yes, I lost $ when I started playing poker online, but have been much more successful since reading Scott's book. He does cover a lot of the basics, but also expands into the other realms of poker which most people should find interesting. There is no such thing as the perfect book, so I'm not sure what some of the complaints are about. If you aren't interested in a certain portion of the book...just skip it...there are plenty of other interested readers who would enjoy the topic you are unintersted in anyway. So hats off to Scott for covering a wide-range of poker and including his buddies in the guest chapters. I find that very honorable, unlike someone else commented. Best of all, the book contains his strategies that have made him, and countless other players, successful poker players. If you don't find the book helpful, or think it's "useless", or even sent it back, then you're not understanding it's content well and not appreciating what the book can do for you.
13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 Where's the Pressure? Nov 11, 2006
The truth about this book lies somewhere between those early five star "publisher's fluff" reviews, and the guy who says the book is worthless. There is some good material in the book. I liked the discussion of the various software tools for online-poker. (Although much or all of this can be found on the internet.)
"Pressure Poker" is a technique or strategy that is currently a hot topic in the poker world. So you would think a book with this title would explore that topic rather throughly. Unfortunately there are only about 5 pages on that topic. So I felt the title was misleading.
People who have never played online poker before (a vast number of people) will find a lot of good intoductory material here. Those already in the know, may consider it to be filler. But I did find a few interesting ideas that I had not seen in print before. So I would not say the book is unoriginal.
Not a bad book. If it were priced comparably to other books of it's size, I could have given it 4 stars. But for the price, you can buy the great "Harrington on Holdem" and still have some change left...
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Don't waste your time with this "book"... Nov 11, 2006
I own over 60 poker related books and dvd's and this is only the 2nd book I have ever sent back. It is just a compilation of information from other books, and a bunch of useless information (how to build a poker table?? don't they sell those in several stores??). Please save your money for one of the myraid other poker titles that will actually teach you something. It sure has a NICE TITLE, and a review from one of his friends, but don't let either sway you.
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