Bonesnap

There’s an upside and down side to this book. If you bought it to learn poker you wasted your money. If you bought it to be entertained then it’s a pretty good book. I take nothing away from Mr. Esfandiari he’s a great player but the book lacks when it comes to poker.

Antonio spends his times retelling stories of how he learned poker and all of his magic tricks and very little on the game itself.

In a nut shell he pretty much preaches that you be aggressive, aggressive, and aggressive. That’s about it.

The one thing the book does tell is how he became such a great player is that he played hours upon hours of heads up poker with Phil Lock while they were roomies. After months of training like this, I think most individuals would become really good players.

Other than that, the book came with a DVD so you could learn chip tricks. According to Antonio, fancy chip tricks at the table will intimidate other opponents you play against at the table.

I’ve played against folks who can do the fancy tricks I’ve seen and they still played like crap. I can’t do a single trick and when I do try one it’s for ‘advertising’ purposes only at the table. If folks try and judge my poker skills by my ability to do chip tricks then I welcome that judgment. J