Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Poker Book (Why you lose at poker by Russell Fox and Scott T Harker)

8:20 PM


If you search Amazon.com for books with the words "poker" and "win" in their title, you will find 122 publications listed, if you look for books with "poker" and "lose", you find a mere 3 books; one of which is now out of print, another that was written in the 1970's and finally this book. It's fair to say that this book is unique in its method of teaching, the authors have identified 18 of the most common situations or 'leaks' that cause players to lose money in the long term, they provide solutions to help plug up all the leaks in your game. There are no profound revelations or new game theories to digest, just the 18 biggest reasons why people lose at poker.