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I wrote this book to illustrate and analyze the underlying components of Texas Hold em poker odds so that you will become a better Texas Hold em poker player. The poker books I have read only devoted about ten pages on poker odds and expected you to memorize tables that seemed meaningless. The illustrations in this book will bring meaning and life to those tables. You will be able to make quick decisions about complicated problems. You will have more time to focus on other information, such as: tells, who is a weak player, who is a strong player, who is too aggressive, who will fold their blinds, who will protect their blinds, who will take advantage of the button (position) and who you can make a move against (bluff). You will have the confidence you need to play and compete with the pros.
The booklet is indeed about odds. Unfortunately, the author covers about 1% of Hold'em odds. About teaching how to calculate them, it tells about the basics of the basics. Pretending that his book is more useful than his predecessors' (for example, Mike Petriv and Catalin Barboianu, mathematicians who published books with the same topic, but covering almost all Hold'em odds), his only aim is to sell it to the players with no clue about math. Recommendation: on such topic, you should buy a professional book, not a commercial one.
Some good pointer in the book but I think I need to understand the basis of how statitics works for poker. Will find another book and then read this one again.
I am a relatively new Texas Hold'em Poker player and I wanted to cut
down on the learning curve so that I could quickly learn what my
opponents have learned from their playing experiences. I found
exactly what I was looking for in Steven C. Roe's book, Calculating
Texas Hold'em Poker Odds Made Easy. This book is right on point,
easy to understand and it really works! There is a lot more to
calculating odds than just the rule of fours and Roe explains it
thoroughly. He also takes on pot odds and betting patterns so that
you are always asking your opponent to make the wrong decision by
making a call. What I like most is that there are no charts to
memorize because Roe's techniques are so accurate and easy to use
that you can make your mental calculations in a matter of seconds,
not minutes, while playing at a live game.
As a beginning Texas Hold'em player, I found Roe's book to be right
on the money. I wasn't exactly clear what my odds were in certain
situations but Roe cleared it up for me in his book. This is an easy
to read book that gives the reader the tools he or she needs to
calculate any hypothetical odds in a matter of seconds. The greatest
part about this book is that you take the "program" with you. Sure
there are computer programs that you can run while playing online,
but you can't take a computer program with you to a live game. You
can take Roe's practical guide to calculating odds to any live game
in the world and no one at the table will know you are running it!
I give Calculating Texas Hold'em Poker Odds Made Easy by Steven C.
Roe five stars!
I have been playing Texas Hold'em for some time
but I thought that I would brush up on my odds theory and I found
just what I was looking for in Roe's book. This book is well written
and free of obvious grammatical errors. It is an easy book to read.
If you can add, subtract, multiply and divide, then you can follow
the logic of this book from beginning to end. The book was also
short but right on point. If there was more to the book, I think
that it would have taken away from the points that Roe was trying to
make. It is the perfect book for a flight to Las Vegas and when you
get there you will have all of the ammunition that you need to come
to the right decisions about your odds to win the hand, your pot
odds, and whether or not you should stay in the hand.
I would recommend this book from the beginning hold'em poker player
to the professional hold'em poker player.
I rate Roe's book five stars without hesitation!!