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Internet Texas Holdem by Matthew Hilger poker book review Matthew Hilger is a successful business person with a masters and a bachelors degree in finance - no slouch. He turned poker pro based on his poker experiences playing abroad while on assignment for his company. As some of his business trips were remote (far from a live game) he came to play internet poker with regular success.
Mathew Hilger's book is all about practical application focusing on internet ring games. Its content is hardy and full of reference to each type of hand and position you could run into. In fact, there isn't a playing situation missing here, because the book is organized into the type of hands youre dealt followed by a whole chapter on it, not just a starting chart. It goes even further to discuss situations and test your learning at the end of each chapter on the type of hands analyzed. This is an excellent way to improve your game, and overcome the bad plays that define losing players. This is the kind of poker book you want under your chair at the poker table. Its realistic. Its content is very useful and organized, and Matthew explains strategy concisely well. Although somewhat short on theory, and low limit applications, this book is a must-have for the ring player at 10/20 limit and higher. Matthew must play a lot of higher stake games because a lot of reference hands are his actual situations from live games in the 20/50 range. There are many other books out there more expensive and not half as useful as this one. Matthew has played in major tournaments as well, as I have seen him place in the money at the WSOP. Here's hoping that Matthew writes a tournament book to compliment this tour de force . by Marty Smith @ PokerStrategyArticles.com Texas Hold'em Odds and Probabilities: Limit, No-Limit, and Tournament Strategies by Matthew Hilger
Hilger's first book, Internet Texas Hold'em, was a good book because it laid out poker strategy in an easy to read and complete volume. The new book has the same readability but focuses primarily on a largely misunderstood facet of poker, the math. This is not to say Hilger's book is a math textbook, it is not.
He simply does an excellent job of explaining how to use the math of poker to get an edge. Probably the most helpful portion of the book (after having read the text thoroughly and multiple times) is the charts section. In this section there are pages and pages of charts that are easily referenced to see what the chances of certain things are. The math of poker is a hole in most people's game and many are intimidated by it. Hilger makes it accessible to all poker players with his easy to read and understand style.
Chris G. (NY, NY) - See all my reviews
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