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Kill Everyone: Advanced Strategies for No-limit Hold 'em Poker Tournaments and Sit-n-go's
Price:$25.75
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Huntington Press |
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Product Description
Kill Phil was a revolutionary poker manual -- its simplified yet potent strategies empowered even rank novices to compete against the world's best poker players.Kill Everyone begins where Kill Phil left off. Its perfect blend of real-time experience, poker math, and computational horsepower combine to create nw concepts and advanced strategies never before seen in print for multi-table tournaments, Sit-n-Go's, and satellites. Kill Everyone explains how to choose the right strategy for the right game, provides the proper tactics, and introduces new weapons into a tournament-poker-player's arsenal. These include: * fear and fold equity
*equilibrium plays
bubble factors
endgame strategies
optimal heads-up play
and much much more! Unlike Kill Phil, which was 90% pre-flop strategy, Kill Everyone goes all the way. In the end, you'll know how to accumulate chips early, navigate through the middle stages, and perfect your play on the bubble and at the final table. This book is for anyone serious about playing tournament poker, both live and online. And for cash-game players, a bonus chapter, penned by online cash-game ace and 2007 WSOP bracelet winner Mark Vos, helps you develop your short-handed no-limit hold 'em cash game. |
Customers Reviews
2008-08-24
Kill Everyone: My Review
Very solid and innovative new age tournament poker strategies presented in this book. Definately a book for advanced players as some of the mathematical situations detailed in the book are beyond the grasp of beginners. The book is very well written.
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2008-05-17
If you play poker seriously, you need this book!
I was a little skeptical, if not curious as to what would be written in this book and as to how useful the advice would be. I had read Kill Phil and thought that the ideas were very basic and not very applicable to intermediate and advanced players. When I spent my money on Kill Everyone and read I could not stop reading. Why? Because the 2008 Aussie Millions main event was coming up and the book focuses on bubble play, equilibrium strategies and prize pools and equities; concepts which are very important in the major events. All the money in poker is to be made in or around the bubble and when approaching the final table. Kill Everyone is the best for these situations and therefore very much worth the read. Part one of the book shows how to accumulate chips early on and I found a particular example useful for me in the 2008 Aussie Millions Main Event. For No Limit Hold'em Tournaments this book sets the new precedent. Lee's latest book Let's Play Poker is brilliant for sit and go's. Use these books to improve your skills and reach your poker playing potential.
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2008-05-02
A Must Read
I think this book will help anyone. From a beginner to someone who has played in tournaments. It's more appropriate for those with some knowledge and strategies of their own, but really anyone can benefit from this book.
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2008-04-25
Same level as Harrington's books
This is a great tournament book! They discuss so many new concepts that hasn't been mentioned before in book form. These concepts can be found in different poker forums as in 2+2 forum. One of the concepts that is mentioned is bubble effect. They will discuss how to calculate the real value of your chips in different situations in a tournament and how it will effect your decisions. Many of the concepts are very helpful for sit and go as well, especially when you want to squeeze in to the money often. I highly recommend this great book. The authors have done a great job writing this.
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2008-03-29
Essential addition to the library of every tournament player
If you play freeze-out tournaments (Anything else played today?) you'll find this book to be an essential source-book and reference. An understanding of the concepts and examples presented will give any player a better foundation from which to make decisions - and from which to approach the optimum decision at critical points.
The discussion of play on the bubble is alone worth much more than the price of the book. For example the authors present analysis of how often you should push as a function of your bubble factor (ratio of equity loss from losing to equity gain from winning the confrontation) and your opponent's calling frequency. Most players know intuitively that you should push more frequently when (a) your bubble factor is greater and (b) your opponent is more likely to call. But a chart showing the results of the calculations gives insight that can't be gotten otherwise.
One short section attacks the myth that the big stack should call liberally to knock out small stacks. That discussion alone can make the difference between just finishing in the money and making a big win. If you have ever called or raised a bit loosely to knock out small stacks only to find that you've doubled up one or more and made them into real competition while crippling yourself then this section is must reading.
I could continue with examples, but the book is only 348 pages - probably shorter than my examples would be.
I do have a single criticism. The authors (properly) use the Independent Chip Model but without fully explaining the assumptions on which it relies. Like most other authors they do explain that it assumes equal skill for all players. However, they neglect to mention that it also relies on two other assumptions: (1) that all players will receive equivalent hands over the limited time of the tournament, and (2) that play is based on only your hand and statistical behavior of your opponents. If you're in the middle of a tournament, assumption (1) probably doesn't apply for the limited number of hands remaining, and in any given hand other things - tells for lack of a better word - frequently become more important than either of these assumptions.
Do yourself a favor and buy this book. But, be prepared to study rather than just read for it contains more, much more, than a list of starting hands and advice to play a tight aggressive game.
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What Makes People Play Poker? At first sight we can't but agree with the statement "Life is like a game of poker: If you don't put any in the pot, there won't be any to take out". On the other part, the answer to the question "Why people play poker" seems intricate. To be or not to be, to play or not to play?! Sometimes we play just for a play itself getting excited. Money, addiction, job, etc. are main reasons of the occasion.
Let's take a look at real reasons:
Money. In spite of the fact that many people play poker for fun, some of them really like making money at it. Money rules the world and loves to be counted. Of course poker players crave for a lot of money, but these people are few. At the same time gamblers can get the works for losses. And this is the reverse of the medal. Besides, the more you play the more you have chances to improve your poker skills. And to lose much money as well.
Entertainment. Just about any game demands analytical skills and experience. If you want to win in such a competitive game like poker, you should bend every effort to understanding poker rules, the game necessitates the bit of luck, and master the art of card game. Only after that poker will become a consuming activity. Loads of people find this enjoyable and compare poker to playing sport. Keep in mind, don't get swept up in the 'entertainment' nature of poker, because it is possible to lose a lot of money at the game.
Social communities. Many men prefer making friends over the card table. One may invite neighbors and colleagues to hang out and play cards, the rest can't live without numerous online poker rooms available on the web, or casinos. Moreover, such friendly competitions remind me very much of everyday life persistence.
Education. Needless to say games as well as gambling (namely poker) develop memory, exploit a success, help to improve judgment skills (reading people) and sharpen logical and strategic skills.
The more facts of the matter we know, the more we know 'the how and why of things'. Well, make up your mind and find an appropriate reason why play poker!? Poker is one of the few forms of wagering where you can actually win if you haven't got gambling problems.
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