If you fancy yourself becoming a poker professional, or if you want to just play profitably as an amateur, then Professional Poker: The Essential Guide to Playing for a Living
Blade tackles professional poker's every angle, discussing and analyzing in detail the pros and cons of every aspect of playing for a living. He presents some of the best organized and insightful poker discussions you will find in one book. There are chapters on bankroll management, money management, tournaments vs. cash games, Internet vs. live games, educational recommendations, the lifestyle, advanced playing tips, bad beats, self control, and tons more.
Here are just a few of Blade's many hard won lessons:
1) "The formula for winning poker is fairly simple. Play against players who are worse than you." Page 30.
2) "...the profit that comes from picking and choosing the best tournaments and best cash games amounts to the greatest profit potential of all for the versatile pro." Page 36.
3) "When analyzed at its core, playing poker for a living requires two abilities. The first one is expertise in card playing. The second is expertise in bankroll management." Page 87.
4) "Almost every suited connector you have gets beaten by almost every opposing hand that has even one card higher than your highest card, even if that opposing hand isn't coordinated at all." Page 200.
5) "It's a strange, interesting twist that as a consequence of improving your play is that the better you get, the more bad beats you will proportionally get vs. the total number of your showdown hands." Page 258.
This book is so inclusive, it would be no stretch to say that Professional Poker should be the first book that any serious poker player reads.
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R. Steve McCollum
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Copyright 2009 R. Steve McCollum
