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 enlarge | Author: Mike Caro
Publisher: Cardoza
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  78 reviews
Sales Rank: 6624
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1580420826
Dewey Decimal Number: 795.412019
EAN: 9781580420822
ASIN: 1580420826
Publication Date: March 18, 2003
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 POKER book!!! October 23, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
GREAT BOOK!!!!!!
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 Good starting place to learn about tells October 22, 2007
Although most of the book is written for stud and five card draw, the same tells apply to hold'em. Written kinda awkwardly with weird rating systems, but still manages to mention some great tells that have helped my live game a bunch.
About as scientific as Gilligan's Island October 19, 2007
I found it informative regarding (1) tells I was unknowingly presenting to others who have read this book, and (2) tells in general, things to watch for around the table that I may be able to correlate w/ certain events for individual players, and subsequently use during an hours-long session.
The value-per-hour and reliability figures cited for each tell are just a tongue-in-cheek way to give it a comic veneer of scientific research. I liked the DVD better because the videos are better demonstrations than the still photos in the book, and also because Mike himself appears and narrates it, so you get more of Mike's exuberance. The only real negative is that the book and DVD both over-emphasize older forms of poker (like Draw) now that Texas Hold 'Em has taken over. For example, one of the Draw tells is a player shuffling his hole cards, but in Hold 'Em you don't have enough to shuffle. Also, I wouldn't bother learning the poker notation presented in the book because I have not seen it used by anyone else.
Basic and bland October 18, 2007
Caro's book typically gets praised because it is one of the only books on tells. This book is great considering the options but doesn't really help much with actually reading players. A book is really not the medium to communicate this kind of information and you would better off with a video. Caro's video is not the right one.
good for what it does, but... August 4, 2007
This is good for what it does -- interpreting the body actions you and others display at the poker table. And some of the stuff is helpful. it will improve your game.
But body language is not nearly as important as other things. Like understanding which hands to play, how to put other players on hand ranges, how stack size influences play, and so on.
So you are better off reading a bunch of other books first. this might be the 6th or so book i'd recommend reading.
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