The Poker Tournament Formula
by Arnold Snyder
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Author: Arnold SnyderEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-08-01
ISBN: 1580422039
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Cardoza
Accessories:
- The Poker Tournament Formula II: Advanced Strategies
- Blackbelt in Blackjack : Playing 21 as a Martial Art
- Big Book of Blackjack
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Book Review: Excellent Advice
Summary: 5 Stars
What Snyder points out is that ourneys vary in speed. Not only that but the different stages of tournaments vary in speed. There is a very large range of tournaments between the ones where normal cash-game skill will prevail and the extremely fast tournaments where luck really can't be overcome. Snyder recognizes this and gives methods to use the hidden factor, tournament strategy, which dominates the tournaments too fast for pure poker skill to dominate but slow enough not to be entirely determined by luck.
In fact, he gives methods to determine the speed of a particular tournament, the chance that the type of tournament will be profitable for you and the bankroll requirements to be playing in that tournament. In other words, he helps with one of the most important decisions, whether or not to play in a particular tournament.
His recognition that the "all-in moment" should be avoided and that the majority of ones chips should _and can_ be added without putting your cards face up and seeing who wins is an important virtue of the book. His understanding of position is excellent and his explation of how to use it is inspiring.
He isn't afraid of taking on the poker gurus. He points out that the gap concept, so beloved of Sklansky et al, is valid but it does not govern situations where you have position and the bet or raise is not pot-committing or all-in.
Even in the slowest tournaments I play (the weekend tournaments at Foxwoods where you start with 10K in chips) Snyder's ideas help throughout the tournament, but especially when the blinds and antes have started to make the tournament play faster.
In the Tuesday night rebuy tournament at the bar down the street, which I basically play because I can walk there and walk home, I find his thinking completely valid. Last month, I played one of these almost completely by his pure position strategy, from the time the rebuy period ended until the final table. That is, I raised from the last three seats, without referencing my cards, if it was folded to me. Called after limpers or one normal raise on the button, again without looking, although I never let the other players know that. The only exception I made was to look at my cards in the "always fold" positions or if there had been a big raise previously, so that I wouldn't miss any good hands in those situation.
I got to the final table with a chip lead and won it. This isn't the first time I have won that tournament but it might have been the most fun.
His emphasis on winning chips without showing your hand is important. Farmers have chips so that the bandits can steal them. His point that players almost always lose the most chips on hands where they really like their cards and can't let go of them is true.
We have not seen him on television and that is going to make many readers doubt his advice but he isn't talking about winning a 10K main event. He is talking about making money in poker tournaments and he knews what he is talking about.
Summary of The Poker Tournament Formula
This is the first book to provide winning strategies for the small buy-in ($100 or less) no-limit hold'em tournaments that have exploded in poker rooms all over the country-and on the Internet. The strategies for small buy-in no-limit hold'em tournaments are similar to the big-money games, but the important factors-hand value, position, aggression and others, and speed of play-cause a radical change of strategy. Snyder recounts his own experience with these methods at a win rate of almost 300% and gives readers specific strategies for winning the big money available in prizes at the hundreds of small buy-in no-limit hold'em tournaments taking place weekly around the country and on the Internet.Poker Books
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