- ISBN13: 9781880685006
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky discusses theories and concepts applicable to nearly every variation of the game, including five-card draw (high), seven-card stud, hold ’em, lowball draw, and razz (seven-card lowball stud). This book introduces you to the Fundamental Theorem of Poker, its implications, and how it should affect your play. Other chapters discuss the value of deception, bluffing, raising, the slow-play, the value of position, psychology, … More >>
The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How To Think Like One
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I havne’t read the book therefore I have no personal opinion but the person I gave it to likes it. It is supposed to be “The Book” on poker.
Rating: 3 / 5
Every time I read a sklansky book and tried to encorporate it into my game I lost my money. I stay away from his stuff period.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book might have been very good ages ago, but we there are a lot of better poker books by now. I found nothing new after browsing through the whole book, and it was also very boring.
There are better books for complete beginners. There are better books on advanced aspects of the game.
Rating: 1 / 5
I hate to give such a great book a negative title and mediocre review but the fact is that this book is just no longer relevant. Had you bought this before the poker boom you would be golden. The best piece of advice you can get from this book is the basic theory. Other than that the whole book is geared around limit cash games. We all know that NL tournaments is where it is at right now so I would check out Dan Harrington’s books first.
Rating: 3 / 5
This book has some good information in it and is certainly worth reading although I don’t think reading it is a necessity to becoming a good player. It is a very tedious and boring read just like most of the other reviews say. It will take some willpower to get through it because there really is a lot of useless information in the book. However, there is also a lot of good information that you can learn from as well.
Rating: 4 / 5