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The Poker Player's Bible: Raise Your Game from Beginner to Winner |  | Author: Lou Krieger
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 745000
Media: Spiral-bound
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 6.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0764157884
Dewey Decimal Number: 795.412
UPC: 027011057885
EAN: 9780764157882
ASIN: 0764157884
Publication Date: November 1, 2004
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Product Description
Here's a card-player's guide that covers virtually every aspect of poker, starting with a chapter that explains poker rules, then ranks and explains the value of poker hands, from Royal Flush to One Pair. The book goes on to discuss the game's mechanics, describing strategic concepts and explaining how knowledge of strategies separates casual from serious players. Chapters that follow instruct on how to assess differences between winning hands and bad hands, how to estimate odds, how and when to bluff, how to detect an opponent's bluff, and how and when to raise. Author and poker expert Lou Krieger concentrates on the five most popular poker games: Texas Hold 'em, Omaha, Omaha/8, Seven-card stud, and Seven-card/8. Final chapters tell where to find out more about poker, list good web sites for online play, and explain the jargon of betting terms. More than 300 color illustrations include examples that show common poker situations.
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 Not really for a beginner. August 30, 2009
The Rebel (Nueva Jersey)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like the book. However, I have no idea how to play poker and this did not help.
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 The Poker Player's Bible: how to play winning poker June 27, 2009
David W. Jansen
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book was never received. We sent a message explaining that the address the book was shipped to was incorrect and gave the correct address in my message sent to you. Nothing has been done by you to resolve the issue and the book... who knows where it is now.
 Good basic book for beginners March 7, 2005
D. Wolf (Fairfax, VA USA)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
For someone who's been playing friendly home game poker (i.e., spending time with friends drinking beer, smoking cigars around a card table) for a while but doesn't really have a foundation in the details of poker, this is a very good introduction. If you're a good experienced player who's looking for a more in depth analysis, this book isn't for you.
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br /Although it's title is a bit much, Krieger's book provides the basics you need to know about the major variations of casino poker (holdem, 7 card stud, and Omaha). It provides good basic guidance regarding starting hands and the play throughout the game. The book doesn't exhaust the reader with overly complex "analysis" of variations of types of players and situations. While the better known books (Brunson, Sklansky et al) dive deeper into these areas, most people just need the fundementals that are in this book.
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br /The book doesn't go into the issues tournament play; rather it focuses on the play of individual hands. There are plenty of good books (Cloutier) about tourney play that anyone who's seriously thinking about them should read.
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br /A few minor issues. The book is organized a bit awkwardly. It discusses starting hand play for all types of poker, then middle play for all types etc. It would be much easier to read if Krieger had grouped all the discussion of Holdem in one section and done the same for Stud and Omaha. Some of the tables are a bit confusing. The table showing probabilites of making your hand on the turn or river in the holdem section is rather confusing. Last, there are several annoying typos in the book which are easy enough to deal with, but shouldn't be there. For example, in the listing playable suited connectors, it doesn't mention suited T-9 and the table showing the playable starting hands has a couple of typos as well.
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br /Overall, a good intro to casino poker for beginners and home players.
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