Customer Reviews
Great concepts to use as tools in playing YOUR type of poker - By: Tex Oldham, 25 Jan 2008 
This is a quality book that brings to you key particular concepts for you to apply to your style of play. It doesn't tell you what to do or how to play. What it does do is tell you the reasons why you could play one way or the other.
This book should develop you into a more varible free thinking poker player knowing why you are playing a certain way. It has helped me to develop my own game & get me thinking.
On the downside, it doesn't cover what to look for & note in opponenets play or how best to deal with their particular triats.
It's a book that has pride of place on my shelf & one that I'll return to again & again.
Hard to follow and not convinced of it's application value - By: Splossy, 17 Jul 2007 
Not entirely sure about this book. I think it's the first no-limit book written by Miller who is a limit geek - & it reallly shows. It reads like he's taken alll the limit concepts he knows & has a applied them to NL. I guess this is interesting as it is a particular way of looking at things but I'm not convinced that a lot of the stuff is what you should reallly be thinking about, or at least are not the main priorities whilst playing NL.
Although it's touted as been "deep" & "complicated" I didn't think it was. Sure you get lots of EV calcs but he didn't need to do them on the pages - the results would have done. it's not like one does those calcs at the table anyway. Some topics are very shalllow. He talks about pot control but reallly just says - big pots for big hands & visa versa. So how are we supposed to keep the pot down in a QQ reraised hand against a guy who's just callled our flop bet? What are the issues here?
I also found a lot of it is stating the obvious & making it seem insightful by offering a maths basis to it.
Advance Mathmatics - Poker Style - By: Mr. M. N. Tang, 15 Feb 2007 
This is a no nonsense book which applies logic to ones action. The authors question & disect every possible move available useing a series of equations & probabilities which wont be to everyone's liking. If you want a book that shows you how to play & when to play without thinking too hard & for too long, then this isn't for you. For me, I had to re-read several pages each time to understand such details & I have been playing for over a year. However this book does make you think about the options available in any given situation from bet sizes, positional play to bluffin & raising. It is a book on theory & the logic on your actions or omissions, not a book on pratical play. This book is for people with a sound grasp of poker knowledge, meaning that you will have an understanding of the language of poker already.
the best poker book I've read - By: Omri S. Suleiman, 13 Nov 2006 Not for beginners at alll, as there is no "play hand (x) like (y)", & quite dry too; but...
Having played a few hundred thousand hands over the years, this is one of the few poker books that has added significantly to my game.
The maths sections are amazing, there had been a few leaks in my game, where the sums are actuallly counter-intuitive, but that's the whole point of learning, no ?!
From my library of about 15 poker books, this is the only one I'm going to re-read.
Excellent. A must read (after you know the basics) - By: MrMoulder, 16 Aug 2006 I've been playing online for several months & deliberately avoided books to see how well I could do without them & let my natural style develop.
Then I plateaued, so I thought it was time to read. The first few books I picked up seemed to state the obvious (obvious after 6 months of playing) but this book has reallly taken me to the next step.
It's a straight forward read but not at alll boring. It covers most if not alll of the different aspects you need to master to become a great player. It's not a receipe book but an awareness book. In other words it doesn't tell you what to do but what to look for how to look for it. Then decision making just flows from there...
