A review of The Complete Book of Hold'em Poker

An opinion of my book from a comment in a thread on Brother Ed's blog,

cyberpigeon
@ Sun May 31, 2009 05:17:13 PM
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Sorry, I have no sympathy for any 2+2 posters who complain about being censored. They have been practicing censorship for years and you participated until the censorship hit close to you.

I will never post on their forums, and what they did to Gary Carson is a shame. Now you can buy Gary’s fantastic Texas Holdem book on Amazon for 75 cents (2+2 practically owns the amazon poker book reviews) – shows how powerful 2+2 are…

I think he was tallking about used copies. New copies of The Complete Book Of Hold 'Em Poker: A Comprehensive Guide to Playing and Winning
go for a little more.

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Poker Wizards

Poker Wizards
Ebook By Warwick Dunnett
Published By HTMPublishing
Rating: Not yet rated.
Published: Nov. 15, 2009
Category: Non-Fiction » Entertainment » Gambling
Words: 86499 (approximate)
Language: English


Ebook Description
In the tradition of Super System, an exclusive collection of champions and superstars have been brought together to share their strategies, insights, and tactics for winning big money at poker, specifically no-limit hold’em tournaments. This is priceless advice from players who individually have each made millions of dollars in tournaments, and collectively, have won more than 20 WSOP bracelets.


Available Ebook reading formats:

Online Reading (HTML)
Online Reading (JavaScript)
Epub (open industry format, Stanza reader)
LRF (for Sony Reader)

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An old bestseller list

I'd almost forgotten about this old blog that I abandoned a few years ago (2003). I had used a free service that grabbed Amazon rankings for me and emailed them to me, and I wrote a basic program to use those rankings to estimate a sales history and generate a best seller list. Then the service started charging so I gave it up.

Maybe someday I'll dig it back up and write my own spider to get the Amazon rankings once a week or something. Some Day.

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Calculated Bets

A review is here.

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The Drunkard's Walk

I noticed this book the other day on a list of notable books of 2008. Then today it popped up on Amazon's "recommended for you" list. I guess I'm going to have to read it.

One of the things I talk about a lot in my own writing is the silly idea that there's some kind of conflict between skill and luck in poker. I think that's a nonsense thought, that skill is simply the management of luck, they aren't two forces in conflict. From what the reviews suggest about this book it looks like a strong theme of the book is related to that -- luck is part of life, you don't eliminate it, you work with it.

Here's one of those reader reviews from the Amazon site.

This smart book will make you think. Academic yet easy to read, it explores how random events shape the world and how human intuition fights that fact. I found this point fascinating. It never occurred to me that our brains naturally want to see patterns and order, and life doesn't necessarily work like that.

It's comforting to think of an orderly world, with everything in its place, running according to plan. It dovetails into our yearning for meaning and control, and the need to feel that we are important. The idea of randomness is frightening. If the world is shaped without conscious decision, it's a pretty chilly prospect.

Author Leonard Mlodinow examines the importance of randomness in diverse situations, including Las Vegas roulette tables, "Let's Make a Deal," the career of Bruce Willis, and the Warsaw ghetto after Hitler invaded Poland. The author does a good job explaining how chance and luck are vital factors in how things turn out.

The cover has a nice touch. On the dust jacket, several die-cut holes reveal letters on the hardback underneath. The letters are the R and D in "Drunkard's," the A in "Walk," the N in "Randomness," the O in "Our" and the M in Mlodinow. These letters are connected by a thin red line. They spell out "RANDOM."

Here's the chapter list:

1. Peering through the Eyepiece of Randomness
2. The Laws of Truths and Half-Truths
3. Finding Your Way Through a Space of Possibilities
4. Tracking the Pathways to Success
5. The Dueling Laws of Large and Small Numbers
6. False Positives and Positive Fallacies
7. Measurement and the Law of Errors
8. The Order in Chaos
9. Illusions of Patterns and Patterns of Illusion
10. The Drunkard's Walk

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The Poker Tournament Formula II

The Poker Tournament Formula II: Advanced Strategies



This is a sequel to the book I mentioned yesterday.

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The Poker Tournament Formula

The Poker Tournament Formula, by Arnold Snyder




I havn't read this book yet but I'm going to have to get it and read it. The reviews are uniformly good, even the bad reviews don't really have anything bad to say about the book.

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