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Seven-Card Stud for Advanced Players (Advance Player)
Price:$18.58
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Two Plus Two Pub. |
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Product Description
Seven-card stud is an extremely complex game. Deciding on exactly the right strategy in any particular situation can be very difficult. Perhaps this is why very few authors have attempted to analyze this game even though it is widely played. In 1989, the first edition of this text appeared. Many ideas, which were only known to a small, select group of players, were now made available to anyone who was striving to become an expert, and a major gap in the poker literature was closed. It is now a new century, and the authors have again moved the state of the art forward by adding over 100 pages of new material, including an extensive section on "loose games." Anyone who studies this text, is well disciplined, and gets the proper experience should become a significant winner. Some of the other ideas discussed in this 21st century edition include the cards that are out, the number of players in the pot, ante stealing, playing big pairs, playing little and medium pairs, playing three-flushes, playing three-straights, randomizing your play, fourth street, pairing your door card on fourth street, proper play on fifth, sixth, and seventh streets, defending against a possible ante steal, playing against a paired door card, scare card strategy, and buying a free card. |
Customers Reviews
2008-04-03
Informative
This will be short:
Playing stud is a real challenge. This book breaks it down to the core. You will understand and even come to love this aggravating game. LOL.
This book provides pot odds, variance, cards that out, how to bet according to the cards showing ect. It really will stimulate your mind.
However, this book recomends a very conservative play style. So if you are a loose aggressive player this book will make you want to tear it in half.
-George Johnson
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2008-01-16
Don't just read the easy stuff
I do not agree at all with the other reviewers who say that beginners should read less difficult material before this one. There has been written so much nonsense in poker literature. In Texas Hold'em for instance beginners will instantly get confused about strategy, because of the nonsense advice spread over the Internet, in commentaries of major live tournaments, in poker videos and hundreds of popular books.
The beauty of good poker books is that they train you to think about poker situations, besides giving you a template on how to play your hands. Aside from Chip Reese's section in the original Super System, beginners should NOT start with easier material on stud. Learn to think properly right away, instead of getting confused with lesser quality material.
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2007-04-27
Fundamentally, the best Stud book ever written.
Unlike Hold 'Em, the general game-play complextion of stud has remained the same over the years, through the "poker boom". This book was written about 18 years ago yet it rings just as true today as it did the day it was printed.
The real beauty of this book is that it outlines a fundamental, winning strategy. It lays the perfect foundation for advancing your stud game the right way, as opposed to the "hard way". Many instructional books aren't much more than philosophy or abstract "advice"- not the case with 7CSFAP. This book tells you what you need to do and when you need to do it.
It is also careful not to be too rigid- it explains when there are times to deviate from what might otherwise be considered to be the "optimal" play.
One slight warning- this book has "For Advanced Players" in its title for a reason. While your typical poker nut won't have any problems comprehending it and putting it's great information to use, this is not the book you want to buy if you're just learning how to play stud.
Definite five star rating.
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2006-08-23
Tough going, but worth it
I've been at it for weeks and I'm still not all the way through this one. It's probably the hardest read I've encountered in over 20 poker books I own. The info is there... in GLORIOUS detail, but it's tough getting through it without brain paralysis at some point. They talk about playing all kinds of hands I'd rather just discard, especially in a low-limit game where many other players are loose.
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2006-04-04
Still the best
Thanks to the explosion of no limit hold-em it is becoming difficult, if not impossible, to find a seven card stud game -- even in Las Vegas! In Laughlin, you'll only find it at the Colorado Belle and then rarely more than one table. It's tough being the red-headed stepchild of poker. Still, if you're lucky enough to have a stud game in your local area, or you are an online player, purchasing this book is money well spent.
Sklansky is frequently criticized for having a dry writing style (and rightly so, I suppose) but he's one of the best poker authors because he has the ability to take sophisticated concepts and break them down in ways that are concise and easy to understand. In regards to the game of seven card stud, this book mimics his masterpiece, The Theory of Poker, in many ways. Of course you'll get the information on how to play the various betting rounds but, more importantly, you will also learn how to think like a winner. This won't likely be evident your first time through the book. Only later, and with a few losses, will his ideas hit like a lightbulb.
I'm a little annoyed at the last third of the book, a Q&A session that's repetitive and mostly filler in my opinion. Plus, there is much that could be written about the game that I haven't seen in any book. Until that book comes out, this is still the best.
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