| Professional No-Limit Hold 'em: Volume I |  | Author: Matt Flynn; Sunny Mehta; Ed Miller
Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC
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ISBN: 188068540X
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Publication Date: July 20, 2007
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No-limit hold em was once only a tournament game. Cash games were rarely spread in conventional poker rooms, let alone the Internet. All of that changed when the game exploded on television. No-limit cash games started sprouting up at casinos of all types. No-limit hold em is now the most popular form of poker. Tournaments pushed it to the forefront, and a great deal of money can also be won here despite that fact, many players feel frustrated with their results. They win some money, only to lose it all on one botched hand. This book teaches you how to play and think like a professional. It shows how to size your bets, manage the pot, manipulate your opponents, know when to go all-in, and avoid the big mistake. Do you understand critical no-limit concepts like The REM Process, The Commitment Threshold, and Stack-To-Pot Ratios? If not, this is the book for you.
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 The fastest and strongest way to improve your game at cash games. June 3, 2010
F. Gonzalez (Spain)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book have learned me how to analyze and play each hand since Preflop until River in order to obtain profits in the long run in no-limit cash games. It's highly recommended.
Great book for an advanced player May 6, 2010
Mark T (Connecticut)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is not a beginners book rather a book for the intermediate player or better looking to advance their game. You need to read the chapters a few times before it all sinks in but then anything with advanced poker would require the same reading .
 Some Bad Advice.... April 15, 2010
Will To Profit (Stockton, CA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
As a professional NLHE player, I immediately recognized some fundamental flaws with this books advice, the most glaring being the recommended SPR's and the notion of trying to "commit" yourself to a pot based simply on preflop hand selection, while ignoring that your opponents will only commit themselves when the situation dictates. In essence, by trying to "plan your hand" preflop, you are forcing yourself into a mechanical playing style, and allowing your opponents to outplay you post-flop. In the following example, I will explain how their advice has a guaranteed negative expected value in the long run.
You have AA in middle position. Your opponent has 22 in late position. You both have stacks of 100BB.
With the recommended SPR of 6 for the hand AA (overpairs) you should raise to 7BB preflop assuming a single caller.
7BB + 7BB + 1.5BB dead blinds = 15.5BB
Remaining stacks = 93BB
93/15.5 = 6 (recommended SPR)
We will assume that you have already committed yourself to going all in with the hand AA, as committment is the purpose of target SPR's. We will likewise assume that your opponent will only go all in if he flops a set. The odds of your opponent flopping a set are roughly 7.5 to 1, or 11%. The odds of set over set is roughly 1%, which we will subtract from the original 11% odds.
Now let's calculate the expected value from a preflop perspective. 10% of the time, your opponent will flop a set and you will lose 100BB total. 90% of the time, your opponent will miss, and you will win his bet plus the dead blinds. The EV is as follows:
(10% X -100BB) = -10BB
(90% X +8.5BB) = +7.65BB
-10BB + 7.65BB = -2.35BB per hand
Telling your readers to play in a way which is provably unprofitable should simply relegate this book to the trash bin.
Likewise, the advice of aiming for very high SPR hands with deeper stacks by, for example, LIMPING premium hands preflop, is terrible advice. Skilled players will make the most money by playing the hand aggressively and knowing when to give up or release the hand as it develops.
Despite these flaws, I give the book 2 stars for being applicable to short stacks, and for the chapter on REM, which is still worth reading. For better advice on implied odds and deeper stacked play, I recommend Harrington on Cash Games.
 Professional No-Limit Hold em Volume I February 6, 2010
Matthew P. Gray
It's pretty good. I've read a lot of books that cover some of this information, but not as detailed as this. It basically discusses how to size your bets, manage a pot, manipulate your opponents and when you are committed to a pot. I could see several things I wasn't taking into consideration or not doing very well. I hope it's helped plug some leaks and allows me to understand just where I stand on any street of a hand, how much to bet and why. Some of the information tends to be redundant, but it is a pretty good read overall and you should walk away with learning a few good things at minimum.
 Good book for a beginner but... January 11, 2010
Kawakami
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I didn't really like this book. First off, I admit that it may be entirely my fault for expecting something different than what this book is. For some reason I thought that this book was designed to take skilled enthusiasts and show them professional level disciplines and analyses for reducing variance and increasing consistency.
Instead, I found that the book was really a primer to help beginniner level players approach the game in a systematic and analytical way (rather than taking an "I'll just call and see where this takes me" approach). In that regard, it's a pretty good book. It introduces the ideas of playing ranges, planning bet progression, using implied odds.
However, as far as teaching professional level analyses... I think that it falls far short. In my opinion, the book almost encourages volatility and a lack of metagame analysis. One example that had me a little confused was where they posed the problem of how to play pocket kings against someone who seems to be floating to a big river bluff. If you haven't improved by the river, it's hard to call a big bet. I agree. However, they seemed to say that the solution is to raise your pocket kings pre-flop to point where you will be committed to go all-in on the flop or the turn. Well... I think that that IS a counter-strategy to the float, but wouldn't that give you a lot of variance and leave you extremely vulnerable to counter-strategies? If I saw someone play kings that way even once, I would immediately consider playing hit-to-win with any pocket pair or suited connector type hands. If I earned my living player poker, I'd prefer a play that did a better job of securing my much needed rent money.
Anyhow, as I said, I think that this is a good book for taking beginners to the intermediate level, but rather useless for intermediate or advanced players. My dissapointment could be entirely my own fault... I honestly can't remember why I thought that this was a book for semi-pro type players... but it is what it is. This is my opinion; please take it with a grain of salt.
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