Texas Hold'Em Poker - Win Online

Texas Hold'Em Poker - Win Online

by Paul Mendelson

Quick Thoughts

This is quite a well written and well structured book with some good advice for the new players considering player online poker. It is however quite a short book and only covers topics at a basic level. Unusually for an introductory book it assumes some familiarity with the rules of poker, focusing on the specifics of online poker instead. This is presumably due to space limitations and not wanting to duplicate material covered in Paul Mendelson's other introductory book, Texas Hold'Em Begin and Win.

Overall quite a good book introducing online poker at cheap price. Three stars out of five.

Basics

As mentioned above; this book is short at around 125 pages in a small softback. The first two chapters are essentially the initial introduction to online poker. Some may find these first chapter annoyingly basic with this information available on  many websites, such as those run by the bigger online poker sites. However, as a introductory book its probably not a bad idea to cover some of the basics, the reader can always flick past these chapters it they want. The next three chapters cover the main formats of online poker, cash games, one table sit and go's and multi-table tournaments. Tips and strategy specific to these formats are discussed in these chapters. The final chapter addresses miscellaneous tips for online poker. This includes discussion of bad beats (loosing to a player who had a poor starting hand but who got lucky) , which often seems worse and more regular online compared to the live game due to the large number of hands that can be played in a short period online.

Typical Cost

£2.99 to £4.29, $6 to $7

Additional Thoughts

Although this is a small book this is reflected in the price. You can probably read this book in a evening, or alternatively dip into quickly a few times and finish it in a week.

If you are a complete beginner you will probably need to combine this book with another introductory book that covers the basics of poker not addressed here. Phil Gordon's Little Green Book (see the review here) would be a good choice to combine with this book and would see you through from starting out to more advanced play. However, it you want a small cheap book of similar length to this then Paul Mendelson's other book, Texas Hold'Em Begin and Win, is also a reasonable choice.