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| View Larger Image | Power Hold'em Strategy
by Daniel Negreanu
| | List Price: | $34.95 | | Price: | $23.07 | | You Save: | $11.88 (34%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 3222 | | Studio: | Cardoza | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 672 | | Publication Date: | June 17, 2008 | | Publisher: | Cardoza |
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Product Description
Super Stars of Hold'em does for hold'em what Doyle Brunson's Super System 2 did for poker. Negreanu gathers together the greatest young players, theorists, and world champions of hold'em, to present insider professional secrets and winning strategies for the only poker game that counts nowadays-hold'em. Ten powerful chapters cover every aspect of the major hold'em games-limit, no-limit, and pot-limit for cash games and tournaments -- with in-depth coverage on all aspects of play. This weighty volume will be an instant classic-poker players cannot ignore the professional advice from the greatest stars of the game. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 14 reviews)
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Great book 
They use Daniels name to sell the book as hey only writes one chapter but it's very good. They give a lot of examples and the illustrations are very good. I suggest it anyone at any level!
September 01, 2008 | |
Finally a book about "small ball"... 
I am going to say essentially what everyone else on here has been saying... If you buy this book, know that you can use the chapters not written by Negreanu as toilet paper or kindling for your fireplace. What you are buying this book for is Negreanu's explanation of "small ball" NL tournament poker. I noticed from reading the other reviews that everyone else is similarly interested in small ball, and have found this strategy to be quite effective. I also noticed that one guy on here seems to think Daniel is advocating a "weak, passive" approach to playing poker. This is far, far from the truth. Either he didn't read the book well enough, or is just not intelligent enough to get what Daniel was trying to communicate. Here are some basic ideas behind the small-ball philosophy:
1) Keep the pots small, pre-flop. You don't want to put a lot of your chips at risk before you even see the flop. Your aces may get busted by deuces post-flop, and you'll be pot committed after a few big bets. Not good. Instead, you wait to see the flop, then evaluate the situation based on what your opponent is doing. By keeping the pots small, you will pick up more pots that people don't really care about after the flop and not risk getting drawn out on by some crazy donk.
2) Play lots of hands that have big post-flop potential. That means opening up your starting hand selection by a large amount. This has been a big adjustment for me, but by doing so I have learned a lot about how to play poker in general. I have won a lot of big pots in tournaments and deep-stacked cash games by calling raises with mediocre hands that turn into monsters post-flop. Daniel expounds on which hands to call with under which set of circumstances.
3) Don't let your opponents get a good read on you. By playing your big hands the same as you do your weak hands, it makes it very hard for your opponents to know what you are playing with. It forces players into a guessing game, and if you are fairly decent at reading other people's hands, you can make some really good plays.
4) Playing the texture of the board. A good amount of Daniel's small ball approach deals with making decisions based on the texture of the board. This is something that is key to any poker player's success, I think. You don't always have to have the best hand to end up with the chips.
Those are some main aspects to playing small ball that Negreanu pays a great deal of attention to. What I've noticed for myself and other players is that the people who consistently do well in poker tournaments rely on more than luck and aggression. They rely on skill and discipline. I think this book will help you in both areas, if you aren't a small ball player already.
August 12, 2008 | |
I love Daniel!
Daniel's books are good reading and easy to understand. His style in book writing is as good as his style in playing poker.....winning results!
August 05, 2008 | |
Half Good Book 
This is a long awaited tome from Daniel, and his part of the book is interesting and informative. The rest of the book is a randomly thrown together collection of innocuous filler. The publisher overexaggerates the value of this book to the extreme versus previously published literature like Super System and Harrington. If you buy this book, know you are doing for Daniel's small ball approach to poker only.
July 29, 2008 | |
Hee, what are they doing here?
I really was interested in Negreanu's writings about small ball and it did not disappoint me. It's written well and it's witty. But wait, why do you have to go throught 200 pages of written material by other writers, whose work does have almost nothing in common than... well, that it's about poker. I did not find their work very inspiring. It all seemed rather some bits of this and that. And what the ... is it that entire pages are used to illustrate one hand vs the other hand, like what hands dominate a certain hand. What a waste of trees.
All in all, the book is worth it's money. But I would have paid it too for 200 pages of Negreanu solo (and than I would have some spare space on my bookshelve too).
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July 25, 2008 | |
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