The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide: Tournament
This is definitely one of the “must have” books on poker that you should always carry. The Brunson’s Super System (I and II) throws light on the game of poker as played in the ring games at various casinos. This quantity is the complement for the tournament games.
The title hints at a deep link with the web portal. This appears very much true, as the basic connection which is visible, is that the book deals with the games that are available on the portal, and the portal deals with the games that are played in casinos or other such places.
Michael Craig, the famous author, has done the great job of managing the book. Although a few negligible grammatical mistakes are there, none of them interfere with either the message or the flow of the book.
The games, which are discussed in the book include Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha, Pot-Limit Hold’em, Seven-Card Stud, Omaha Eight-or-Better, razz, Stud Eight-or-Better and of course No-Limit Hold’em (you can find these at a online casino like Betfair). Quite a few years ago I was a Draw Poker as well as Five-Card Stud player myself. The tricks, which I learned playing those games made me a better Hold’em player. In case, you learn a bit about the other variations of the game of poker, you will find know, that your game improves.
A story that has been a part of the folklores is about Andy Bloch and Chris Ferguson, wherein Ferguson met Bloch in a restaurant. When Ferguson went over to Bloch’s table he saw that Bloch was poring on a binder of computer formatted tables, as a result of the extensive simulation of Bloch’s hand versus table, hand versus hand, etc. Chris had done exactly the same kind of calculations before launching his successful career in No-Limit Hold’em tournament. The similarity in their style of play apart from their success was largely due to the mathematical analysis apart from the table. In a chapter of 57 pages of facts and concepts Bloch puts forward a series of tables, which show a few results pertaining to his simulations. The chapter itself is far more valuable than the price that you have to pay for the book.
Other significant chapters are that of:
- A cram session on Razz strategy by Huck Seed and Ted Forest.
- Rafe Furst and Andy Bloch on Pot-Limit Hold’em
- A chapter on Seven-Card Stud by Keith Sexton.
- Chris Ferguson on Pot-Limit Omaha.
- Limit Hold’em by Howard Lederer.
- A few tricks for Big Stack Play at No-Limit Hold’em by Gavin Smith.
- Phil Gordon discusses Short Stack Play in No-Limit Hold’em.
- And more.
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