Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 1: Fundamentals and How to Handle Varying Stack Sizes
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (510 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00NIZ5810 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 519 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Tournament poker is a tough game to play, but the rewards for success can be huge. You will learn: Why tournaments are the most profitable form of poker When to play small ball and when to play long ball How to understand effective stack size How to tailor your play to winning, not just cashing plus much more! Jonathan Little is a professional poker player from Pensacola, Florida who started playing poker when he turned 18 years old. In 2013, he cashed five times in the WSOP, including a 3rd place finish. He has won two WPT events and final tabled two others, earning him the Season 6 Player of the Year award. He has total earnings in excess of $5 million. He has cashed over 20 times at the WSOP. Even regular online tournaments offer substantial prizes running to hundreds of thousands of dollars. He quickly became one of the biggest winners in online sit-n-go tournaments. In Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker: Book 1 you will learn the fundamentals of play and how to handle varying stack sizes. If you want to win big at t
Good It's no joke that Jonathan Little knows what he is talking about. His book ranks up their with some of the best on no-limit hold'em.The only problem with the book I had after reading through a third of it was that his ideas are presented a little abstractly and hard to follow for the beginner. This book was written for advanced players who can already play comfortably at their respective chip zone and know how to calculate implied odds. I noticed that Jonathan does not mention SPR (stack-to-pot ratio) and playing with SPRs in the first volume. He does however, mention some. Very average book with many holes. Very average book. The author gives situation poker advice covering about 5% of tournament play. Also, he preaches an ultra-aggressive positional strategy that does not work against good players. You must mix up your play to win tournaments. Save your $$ and avoid this book.. Perfect for transitioning cash-to-tourney poker players. Didier Guerin Jonathan Little really had me intrigued from the opening chapter of his book "Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker" with the premise that cash players have essentially struggled to adapt to the differing stack sizes and dealing with how they constantly change as a tournament progresses. This concept really applied to someone like me who makes a living playing cash games and had just ignored tournaments completely pior to this book, thinking that they were just super high variance luckfests. However, after some insight, Little makes a strong case for live tournaments ac