Books On Poker Tips and Tricks

This workbook is designed to help you test and improve your hand reading skills, a crucial skill set for all NLHE players. Unlike traditional poker books, it focuses on practical exercises to refine your ability to assign correct ranges for your opponents on every street. Mastering this process is 100% worthwhile, as it enables you to effortlessly determine when to make a big fold, value bet thinner, or fire that big bluff.

This book explores the psychological pitfalls that can hinder your poker game. They discuss common mistakes like playing hands you should fold, letting emotions affect your game, and playing when you’re off your game. The book helps you identify and correct these mistakes, using your existing poker knowledge. It also covers topics like intuition vs logic, self-evaluation, unconscious and emotional factors, adapting to changes, and stress management.

Silberstang offers twelve impactful chapters, supplemented by over 100 real-life examples, filled with valuable advice on mastering games like Seven Card Stud, Texas Hold ‘Em, Draw Poker, Loball, High-Low, and over 10 other variations.

Poker as Life serves as a primer for success, revealing how the poker table uniquely combines the principles of finance, mathematics, sociology, literature, and psychology all in one place. It teaches that success comes from playing the hand you’re dealt, making your own luck, and lying without cheating, ensuring you’ll never go bust.

Brilliant Poker is filled with all the essential tips and tricks required for winning consistently. Through its visually engaging approach and straightforward instructions, this book elevates players from beginners to advanced levels. By providing insights and strategies, Brilliant Poker helps enhance your gameplay.

Poker’s global popularity has surged, attracting many to the thrill and potential winnings. However, consistent success in poker is not random. Top players often share certain habits that give them an edge. These habits, which can be learned by anyone, provide a deeper understanding of the game and a significant advantage over opponents. Success in poker requires continuous improvement and understanding of various strategies, poker math, bluffing, and reading poker tells. This book aims to guide you in enhancing your poker skills.

Mastering hand reading is the most crucial skill in no-limit hold’em. By accurately predicting your opponents’ hands, you can make consistently smart decisions, spot bluffs and value bets that others overlook, and avoid potential pitfalls. While some argue that hand reading is a skill acquired through experience, it’s not entirely true. Experience is essential, but it’s not the only way to learn. The learning curve is steep, but the book ‘How To Read Hands At No-Limit Hold’em’ can fast-track your learning process. It will not only improve your hand reading skills but also guide you on how to enhance your skill in future games. The book covers various topics like identifying different opponents, finding bluffs and value bets, reacting to raises, spotting common mistakes, identifying non-continuation betting flops, using software for hand reading, and much more.

In various poker settings, women often face male opponents who underestimate them, giving them a unique advantage. The book “Outplaying the Boys” by Cat Hulbert, a top-ranked seven-card stud player, is a guide for women to leverage this advantage. It offers 125 tips filled with strategies and anecdotes, covering topics like projecting a winning image, choosing profitable tables and seats, recognizing personal tells, and understanding when to bluff. The book also helps women understand their inherent strengths and weaknesses, and provides insights into Texas Hold’em and Seven-Card Stud games. It includes a glossary of terms and recommended reading.

In “Beyond Bluffs,” James A. McKenna, a poker columnist and psychotherapist, guides you to enhance your poker strategy by mastering the art of reading your opponents as well as you do your cards. By acquiring these advanced interpersonal skills, you will be adept at identifying when an opponent is bluffing and deciding on the most effective bluffs to counter with. Furthermore, you’ll gain the ability to anticipate the thought processes and reactions of various player types in any gaming scenario, all by playing your opponents with the same expertise as you play your hand.

Prepare your poker face and boost your memory to improve your winning chances. This unique guide goes beyond typical poker strategies, offering memory techniques to track live game statistics easily. It uses engaging imagery to help players remember 10 to 100 times more information than untrained players at a tournament. It covers everything from player frequency to memorizing tells, making it perfect for both serious amateurs and professional players.

This unique book by a practicing CPA simplifies complex tax rules, guiding both hobbyist and professional poker players on transforming their poker playing into a business and their expenses into deductions.

Many poker players often make good decisions, but even experienced ones have predictable habits that lead to mistakes. These situations don’t often occur naturally; you have to create them. “Exploitative Play in Live Poker” teaches you how to create situations where opponents are likely to blunder and how to exploit them. This requires abandoning traditional strategies and adopting new concepts that may push you and your opponents out of your comfort zones. Learn strategies like countering the auto-continuation-bettor and developing a powerful donk-betting strategy.

Poker players often fall into the trap of repeating mistakes, relying on outdated strategies, and consistently leaving significant amounts of money unclaimed. This book is designed to guide you away from those common errors. By reading this, you’ll learn how to avoid the pitfalls that ensnare your opponents, prevent yourself from being overwhelmed in your games, and stop forfeiting large piles of chips. It was written with the intention of helping you break free from the cycle of bad habits that poker players typically pick up.

Americans cheat in various areas, but poker is a major one, with 60-80 million players weekly. Deception expert Allan Kronzek reveals 52 scams in poker, from Renaissance Italy to modern methods. Topics include signaling systems, hidden cameras, false shuffles, card switches, marked cards, and more. Each chapter focuses on a scam and offers advice on spotting and preventing it. You’ll learn about subtle marking systems, how dealers can manipulate the game, why casinos aren’t completely safe, and how cheaters win without marked cards or sleight of hand.