According to the introduction of the book, the authors of ‘Kill Everyone’ are set to find the co-relation between poker maths and real time experiences. While playing poker tournaments, you are bound to encounter some recurring situations while accumulating chips and approaching the money. The book contains a fine mix of maths and tactics, which could be employed in the poker tournaments. Tysen Streib focuses on the early sections of the book with his ‘Endgame Strategies’, while Lee Nelson writes in the later section of the book.

The first part of the book is extremely informative and could be one of the best pieces of poker writing, whereas the version written by Nelson is more of a hit or miss. There are a lot of concepts explained by him, though most of which would already known by the expert players. Conclusively, Kill Bill is one of the important books about poker tournaments and even the short section focussing on the ‘bonus’ short-handed cash games is strongly written by Mark Vos.

The reason why Streib’s version has turned out very well is because it focuses on the later parts of the game, including the final table play, where the stakes are pretty high. Some of the concepts such as cost-per-round or the sum of antes and blinds are highly analytical and discuss the technical aspects of the game. His detailed explanation of the quantification and non-linearity influencing the decision making process is commendable. The part is very convincing and helpful, giving you a fresh insight into the game.

The book is full of a range of charts and graphics, so as to elaborate on these concepts and help the readers to put them into practice. For the reason that late game tournaments would see shorter stacks moving in pre-flop, Streib has also shown some optimal strategies for checking, folding and calling. He has introduced a concept such as the Independent Chip Modelling (ICM), which is essentially important for the tournament players.

Naturally, Sit n Go players would find this book of utmost importance. Streib has also included a hand-by-hand analysis of the tournaments played by players such as Ferguson, Juanda,  Ulliot, and Ivey. None of these players happen to be Sit n Go experts, but the author has highlighted their mistakes to display the correct plays, so as to detail out the essential concepts.

In fact, the book is all about how and where should you sit, the thoughts in your mind, the actions you need to display, when and how should you speak, including the way to breathe. Angelo starts off by describing three different games of poker. according to him, game A is where you play the best and feel the best, game C is when you play poorly and feel the same, whereas game B is anywhere between the first two games. It is impossible for players to play the game A all the time since poker is known to be a psychologically and a physically stressful game. The book strives to help you improve your game C. he explains that improving your game A would increase your win rate by 0.5% per hour, whereas improving game C could be worth more. It’s often the difference between winning and losing.

Angelo explains the basic philosophy behind profits. It actually comes from all those things that you can do better than your opponents. However, it’s not all about the poker hands. Every decision made by you could be an opportunity to decide better than your opponents. Therefore Angelo stresses more on quitting. Players who are prone to tilting in poker would find his advice pretty invaluable.

The underlying theme of the book is self-control. The reader would be able to recognise that this book happens to be a by-product of a long struggle between the author and his problem with the tilt. Angelo has been a professional poker player for a long time and he actually shows the paths he had taken to achieve control over his thoughts and bring in some discipline into his actions. It’s not necessary that all that worked for him could work for his readers too, but the instructive examples can help a lot.

On the other hand, he also discusses some of the common concepts of the game in a plain and easy-to-understand language. The tournament chapters are dedicated towards the survival in the game. There are some ethical issues discussed in the book too, which seem to be a little off-track. But on the whole, the book is fun to read and would prove beneficial for all those players seeming to tilt or the beginners.

I enjoyed various aspects of the book, such as the organization of breakdown of thought processes. It projects as to what they were thinking about, during the setup, flop, pre-flop, turn, as well as river individually. It is also helpful in updating the pot size in the same manner. This is an aspect, which had been absent in most of the books, which I have read.

“One hand at a Time” definitely proved to be a great reading. It was quite informative, and has actually improved upon my tournament plays already. Hence I would definitely recommend anyone to read this book.

Another interesting feature of the book is the 10 functions that you have with the chip stack.

This book provides detailed tips in regard to using chip stacks for making information bets, value bets, as well as dominates small stacks.

The book mainly focuses on the utilization of your resources, for getting a huge chip stack. His thoughts on the selection of games as well as bankroll management are however, less useful.

Still, overall, this book is quite good, as it covers stuffs, which you are not likely to find, any where else.

Sit `N Go Strategy is by far one of the best books on poker, which have ever been published, and is a major contribution to the game of poker, since enough literature on poker is not available as far as SNG tournament strategies are concerned. A properly written, reasonably comprehensive guide for playing low as well as medium buy in, apart from one table tournaments, this book is a fair buy. The text of Sit ‘n Go Strategy is logically distributed into various sections dealing with Medium Blind Play, Low Blind Play, as well as High Blind Play, apart from a chapter, with the title of Sit `N Go Career Play that addresses covers a few additional concepts.

As far as low blind play is concerned, the author tutors a very tight and aggressive style of games, although he admits, that the other playing styles may also be successful, in case the players are skilful at post flop play. When it comes to medium blind section, the author also supports a tight and aggressive game.  However, he displays how a tremendously aggressive play may be the optimal strategy as the blinds enhance, and the table conditions are right.

High Blind Play is another amazing section, and is one of the major highlights of the book. A methodical analysis of the table conditions, the individual styles, blind sizes, stack sizes, payouts, as well as chip values, and how they affect optimum strategies is also provided. A lot of valuable information is offered for the intermediate players, as well as advanced players are likely to get benefited from this section. Various concepts like steals, resteals and stop `n go, are properly explained as well.

This should not be considered to be just another poker book. It is quite an interesting as well as informative reading for online players who wish to improve their game at one table Sit `N Go contests.

Joe Navarro, one of the co-authors of the book was serving as a special agent in FBI. He mastered the art of behavioural attitude with his job in FBI and utilised the same skills for poker tells. Along with Joe Navarro, Phil Hellmuth is one of the main authors of the book.

A majority of the successful online poker players already know the basic poker skills and possess the expertise which is beyond the scope of the beginners. There are tons of books in the market which speak of poker strategies and the mathematical elements attached to the game. However, most players lack the psychological elements of the game and fail to read people appropriately. Therefore knowing more about poker tells is one of the best things to do as an average poker player, so as to improve the chances in the live settings.

Previously, Mike Caro has made an attempt in explaining the poker tells through his ‘Book of Poker Tells’. However this book takes a completely different approach, while explaining the categories of poker tells and the ways to deal with them. The book also includes tells related to the hand, the feet, the mouth and the overall eye movement.

There is a unique distinction between tells portrayed by the actors and the signs given out by the non-actors. The book elaborates more on the latter kind of players. Navarro begins by explaining the limbic brain, which is the psychological foundation of the unconscious, tells. According to him, the limbic brain reacts to all those things which are heard, sensed, seen or felt. The reactions given out by the brain are so spontaneous in real time and therefore give out an honest response to all the information from the surrounding environment.

As soon as stressful situations are created, just like the ones in the high stakes poker game, the limbic brain would prepare the body to fight, freeze or flee. In the later parts of the book, the authors give out details on how these responses manifest themselves into different body movements. There are various photographs to support the theory, along with description of tells.

The reports on physiological motivations for a tell are pretty interesting and ‘Gravity Defying Tells’ is one of the best chapters in the book. This chapter gives out examples of tells such as raised eyebrows, nostrils, hands or feet. It happens to be a 213 page book, with most information on tells. However, there are a few chapters in the book which are completely irrelevant as compared to the subject of the book. On the whole, the book is fairly informative and would be of great help to the beginners. On the other hand, it would be interesting and captivating to find the interrelation between court judgements, jury discussions and poker tells, all coming from an authentic record of Joe Navarro.

Considering all the aspects, this book is a little disappointing. What is most disappointing is the fact, that this 485 page book has little to do with the writings of Negreanu, which appear only in the last 200 pages. Unlike what was expected, this book does not focus on the unique style of poker of Negreanu.

The book has five chapters before those of Negreanu, and each one is written by a different pro: Todd Brunson, Evelyn Ng, Paul Wasicka, Erick Lindgren and David Williams. Evelyn’s chapter presents an interesting strategy for the beginners, which make quite a lot of sense to me. Also the fact that I hadn’t heard of it before, made it further good. However, the other four chapters by the pros were simply a waste of time. As it is, Lindgren, Brunson, Wasicka and Williams have all written about these very basic concepts, which I had heard about, a million times before.

The chapter by Lindgren dealt with online play. A major drawback with this chapter is that it has been written for players who cut their teeth in casinos (example Click here) and have moved to the online version. In actuality, I believe most of us would start online and then work our ways towards casinos in case we succeed online. This makes the whole thing going backwards. He provides a bit more of the actual in-game strategies than Brunson, but not too much.

All said and done, the chapter by Daniel is simply great and I feel that it is good enough to stand apart, on its own. Around 200 pages in length, an in depth description is provided for his small-ball strategy, the mathematical analysis that makes it work, as well as the art of mastering it. The reader is guided through the starting hand selection and moves all the way through flop, turn, and river play, making it a lot easy to understand the analogies in the way. Although I believe that the rest of the world of poker has caught up with Daniel’s methods ever since his phenomenal success in 2003 & 2004, the strategy is nevertheless, quite a useful weapon for a poker player.

On the whole, with all the disappointing stuff, the book should get just 2 stars.

As Doyle elaborates the several hands, you are available with nicely detailed photographs of the cards. This way, you can get a feel of what has been shown on the table, with the story being told. This is the most amazing aspect of the book, i.e. the ability to see the cards and taking it all in. The flop, turn, and river are displayed almost all of the forty or so of the hold em hands; there are some times where he goes about telling the story sans the pictures of cards. A trivial inconvenience.

Doyle is definitely a poker legend, and it is great to now about his memories pertaining to these hands. A brilliant book, and I know that he may come up with fifty more someday!

This book by Al Schoonmaker can be of great help in this regard. As a matter of fact, this new book with the title “Poker Winners Are Different” sets the bar even higher than his previous books. He identifies, as well as articulates the features of winners, as he helps you in determining whether you have those characteristic features or may cultivate them. He says, tales of poker hands are like fishing stories of the one that got away.  Gambling is a common theme in storytelling, music and movies. As a matter of fact, the most powerful aspect of the book is its “interactive” approach, which helps you in self-evaluating your attitudes as well as your game for determining whether you may indeed be a winner or not. Another great tip, just like slots bonus get poker bonus before you start playing. That will help you build your bankroll..

Joe Hachem was the first Aussie to ever win the Main Event at the WSOP. This happened in 2005 and Hachem took home $7.5M from this poker tournament alone. Mel Judah, better known as the “Silver Fox”, has earned over $3M from his poker career.

So if you ever wondered how much money is in this game, you have your answer. You do have to possess superb skills and of course a lot of luck. If you have these two ingredients, the sky is the limit.