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Summary: Fine Organization but Overpriced.
Review: Internet Texas Hold 'Em is one of the more meticulously put together books I've ever seen. It is strong in organization and focus. It gives chapter outlines, summaries, and test questions galore and the author indisputedly knows what he's talking about. You may recognize his name from this year's WSOP Championship where he had his Aces snapped by Al Krux on ESPN. Overall, this offering is educational even if rather dry and mechanical.
I recommend this guide as I definitely learned some things, but I will say that you may be wise to buy something else first as the price is rather prohibitive. [...]
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Summary: Yet Another Book On Basic Holdem Strategy
Review: Let me be perfectly clear: This is not a bad book on how to successfuly play holdem. I would have no problem recommending this book to anyone who is interested in LEARNING how to play. However, as a book that advertises itself as how to play and win online it is no better than anything else out there. Which is to say: it is a disappointment. 80% of the book is dedicated to the basics of holdem play and strategy. The remaining 20% offers sometimes useful insight into playing online but nothing that is particularly insightful or revolutionary. I bought this book based on the overwhelmingly positive reviews that are listed here. I can only assume after having read the book myself that most, if not all, of the reviewers are personal friends of the author and are jazzing it up so that he can sell a few more copies. If you want to win holdem on the internet I think that I can offer you a little advice and save you the price of this book (and the other internet books). First, if you already know how to play well then just keep playing, practice makes perfect. In other words, follow good strategy, be patient and don't go on tilt. Second, if you don't know how to play well then buy a few books (most of them say the same things), read them carefully and practice alot. Third, don't play over your head. Stay at low limits for a while and then graduate to no limits at small blinds. That is where you will make the money. Fourth, go back to your books frequently and follow the strategies, they do work. So far the best internet poker book that I have read is "Killer Poker Online" It starts out assuming that you already know how to play and then outlines the basic differences between b&m joints versus online play (higher hands per hour and the lack of visual tells). I would also recommend a book on pure advice of philosophy like "The Tao of Poker" Finally, don't buy this book in search of the "secret" to winning on the internet. It is simply not any better or different than anything else out there. It's a good BASIC book on holdem, nothing more, nothing less. I wish I could get my money back, maybe I'll sell it used.
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Summary: [...]
Review: Playing poker online IS different to playing it live, Matt Hilger goes further in addressing this than any other book I have read, he talks about strategy with clear and simple to follow examples, and plenty of them!
Each chapter closes with a review and a selection of questions for you to check how much you have taken on board. I would describe the experience of reading this book as being similar to a night class - and before I take up a lot of your valuable time detailing the topics covered and the strategies discussed I would rather tell you that I have significantly improved my winnings since reaeding this book and it HAS paid for itself many times over and how many books can you say that for ?
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Summary: Regarding support at Matthew's website
Review: Re Matthew's support site (http://www.internettexasholdem.com) it's wonderful that he provides it and I understand he's responsive to queries from readers of his book. But the odds calculator and preflop tool is quite limited. There are much better free tools online, like http://www.holdemkiller.com .
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Summary: I finally see the light!
Review: Systematic, Complete, Accurate. Most of the poker books I've read have a stream-of-consciousness format. Matthew's book is a revelation. Before I bought this book (two weeks ago, on a whim, because I laughed at the cover's illustration), I had been playing online for about six months. I'd read Sklansky, Malmouth, Krieger, etc., and had some success in $3-$6 online. I figured I knew the game better than most. But wow! I learned more from this book than I had from the other dozen I've studied. The starting hand chart is nothing less than brilliant in its design and research. It automatically adjusts your play for loose and tight games, by loosening your standards as the number of callers rises. It also adjusts your play for raised pots, and for playing in the blinds. The chapters on flop play showed me how much I didn't know about the game. I now find myself folding much more often on the flop than I used to. Matthew identifies several catagories of flops based on their characteristics (two-suited, triple-connected, etc), and cross references these with the hand you hold given your pocket cards (flush-draw, mid-pair, etc). He teaches how to play the hand on the flop given the number of opponents, and the preflop and flop action. I had recently been getting very frustrated by having a good preflop hand, and then almost always losing by the river! Now I understand why that was happening, recognize if a flop fits MY hand or is more likely to fit that of any of the five callers behind me. I now know when the reward will not compensate for the risk, and fold. This alone has saved me a lot of money and irritatation. In fact, it's fun to watch the play-out of the rounds after I fold flop-hands that just weeks ago I would have played, and see how much I'm saving.
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Summary: I'm reluctant to write this but I owe it to the author
Review: The first thing I realized reading this book was that although
I've played alot of poker (successfully) in my life I did't know much about Hold'em. I am sure a player can make money playing against less infomed players.The problem is I am (still learning)
the less informed player. I now know I can't win without a
better strategy. This book has a better way. I also found it a comfortable read although it contains alot of statistical information which is absolutly necessary to understand before any real progress can be made in your game.
Lets face it if your looking for a hold'em book things arent
going so well. I'm confident your game will improve as mine has.
I highly recommed this book
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Summary: Maybe a little overrated
Review: The starting hands chart and to actually structuralize how many callers you'd need in order to play a drawing hand/suited connector is worth the price of the book itself. The concept of finding the right Internet table and your positioning relative to them is something I have not seen written in any books. Each chapter has a real example quiz which is very helpful. I did find the book to be excessively long and the card examples could have benefitted with graphical examples [...]. Overall a good book for the intermediate limit player, but nothing new for pro and maybe too difficult for a novice.
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Summary: Very good reference
Review: This book is a complete reference for limit holdem. All the important poker concepts are included. It is a good book to go back to from time to time for reference. The author is not a professional writer so the book is written in, shall I say, an uninteresting style. The hand examples cover both high and low limits; however not enough analysis is devoted to how to play differently in different limits. If you are a beginner, this book will take several reading for it to make sense to you. Even then, you need some game experience to really understand it. All in all, this is a very good book and I recommend it.
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Summary: Great Book for beginning Internet Poker Players!
Review: This book is geared towards beginning poker players who have yet to experience internet poker as well as amateur poker players who might need some guidance with how to adjust to internet poker.
I would recommend this book to anyone that hasnt had much experience with internet poker and also as a beginners guide to Texas Holde'm (the most popular form of poker).
Review by: Michael O'Malley - Card Player Magazine Columnist and Professional Poker Player
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Summary: Finally! A "How To" poker book with ONLINE SUPPORT!
Review: This book is great, for reasons I will detail below, but the really AMAZING thing is that this book comes with ONLINE SUPPORT!
Matther Hilger has a web site, http://internettexasholdem.com/ , which has a forum where he will answer any questions about the book which are posted. How many Famous Poker Guys will give you tips and help you with thier book? This resource is AMAZING. Other great things about this book include a fabulous "FLOP CHART" which shows you exactly what to do FOLD/CALL/RAISE in the betting round right before "The Flop", when the first 3 community cards are revealed. This is the CRUCIAL thing for any begginner to master. I took my book to Kinkos and made wall sized copies of the FLOP CHART and stuck them to the wall behind my computer for easy reference all the time. Get this book. Your bankroll won't be sorry.
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