This was the first Hold’em book I ever bought. I was just starting out playing hold’em and everything I have learned up until the purchase of this book was via experience and the internet. I seen this book at 1/2 price books and picked it up.
I must say, for a starting book on hold’em, this book is pretty good. It covers all the basic preflop strategies, turn and river strategies. However, this book is focused only on cash games. It has a list of hands and how they should be played. It also provides a detailed chart on card odds and what hands beat other hands and the percentage of the time they do beat them.
Over all, if your starting in hold’em and playing cash type of games this book is a good solid foundation to start your card playing career out with.
However, it goes over exact hand starting requirements and what hands you should play and shouldn’t play in certain positions.
This is good for an early beginner in to the game but if you follow hand charts to the letter a good poker player will soon catch on. And exploit the methods of your betting and hand playing.
Yet, I still recommend it to just about everyone. It’s a small book and had some very good tips that everyone can benefit from.