| Small Stakes Hold 'em: Winning Big With Expert Play |  | Authors: Ed Miller, David Sklansky, Mason Malmuth
Publisher: Two Plus Two Pub.
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Edition, 2nd Impression
Pages: 369
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 1880685329
Dewey Decimal Number: 795.412
EAN: 9781880685327
ASIN: 1880685329
Publication Date: July 2004
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For todays poker players, Texas hold em is the game. Every day, tens of thousands of small stakes hold em games are played all over the world in homes, card rooms, and on the Internet. These games can be very profitable if you play well. But most people dont play well and end up leaving their money on the table. Small Stakes Hold em: Winning Big with Expert Play explains everything you need to be a big winner. Unlike many other books about small stakes games, it teaches the aggressive and attacking style used by all professional players. However, it does not simply tell you to play aggressively; it shows you exactly how to make expert decisions through numerous clear and detailed examples. Small Stakes Hold em teaches you to think like a professional player. Topics include implied odds, pot equity, speculative hands, position, the importance of being suited, hand categories, counting outs, evaluating the flop, large pots versus small pots, protecting your hand, betting for value on the river, and playing overcards. In addition, after you learn the winning concepts, test your skills with over fifty hand quizzes that present you with common and critical hold em decisions. Choose your action, then compare it to the authors play and reasoning. This text presents cutting-edge ideas in straightforward language. It is the most thorough and accurate discussion of small stakes hold em available. Your opponents will read this book; make sure you do, too!
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 Best Book on Small Stakes Holdem April 9, 2010
Jeff (Los Angeles)
I've had this book for a few weeks now, and I'm already reading through it for the 3rd time. There's so much valuable information for small stakes players that it can't be obtained from a single reading. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in playing holdem seriously.
 In 2010 these strategies lose March 27, 2010
kxyz
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
The strategies outlined in this book no longer work, even at the lowest stakes offered online. Nowadays you'll find yourself swimming in a sea of sharks, people who read this book five years ago and know how to exploit every weakness in the system. Only buy this book if you're capable of understanding why it doesn't work and want to work out the counter-play techniques.
This Book + Lots of Experience Will Make You a Winner November 30, 2009
Steven L. Mitchell
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
You can't expect to become a consistent winner by reading a book; you need to go to a casino and play against other people - a lot. After you have learnt the basics, further reading is about memorizing scenarios that come up rarely. You can sit for hours waiting for one of them to come up. And keep in mind that with each passing year the average skill of opponents improves noticeably. As an occasional player with good book knowledge you may beat other players, but still lose overall, because rake plus tips costs about $9 per hour.
Ed Miller does much much better, because his experience from long hours at the table gives him a huge edge that he cannot describe in words for our benefit. For example, on the turn and river he will throw his cards away much more often than we will and he'll know to make calls that we wouldn't, in part because he is reading opponents subconsciously.
That said, after reading this book a couple of times, and really focusing on its core messages, I learnt more from it than from all the other beginner books.
Remember this guy--buying in over and over August 3, 2009
S. Kalman
1 out of 13 found this review helpful
I have tried several times to read this book and my copy has numerous bookmarks to show my attempts. The editing and grammar are jokes, but more than that the advise, according to one fellow I played with in Vegas, gave him the knowledge to buy in over and over five times (while I played with my same money). This fellow said I could never understand Sklansky--Boy, was he was right! He left the table penniless, while I played all night on my initial stake.
Sklansky needed an editor, somebody to make an index, and (in general) somebody who knows how to make a good read even if his advise is horrible...
Skip this book by all means. A real waste of money...
 Does not apply to online play July 5, 2009
xyzzy22
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This isn't a full review, but merely an important observation for would be buyers.
I bought this as my first poker book, and found it to be extremely valuable, and I was indeed able to use what I learned from it to make money at online low stakes play.
However, I had to alter the advice given in the book considerably. The main problem is that online poker tables simply do not in any way match the play described in the book.
According to the book, loose games will have 6-8 players seeing the flop, while tight games will have 3-5 players seeing a flop.
However, even in the lowest stakes online play, you'd be lucky to find a table with 3-5 players seeing a flop. More typical would be 2-4.
As a result, most if not all of the examples given in the book don't apply to online play, as they all assume you're going to be having 7 people seeing the flop, whereas online you're more likely to have 3.
The book should be rewritten to take this into consideration.
Apparently one of the authors played online a lot during the early days of online poker, when low limit tables were almost as loose as live low limit poker tables. This is no longer true, and hasn't been for years.
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