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 enlarge | Author: Phil Gordon
Creator: Chris Ferguson
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 54259
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 1416927190
Dewey Decimal Number: 795.412
EAN: 9781416927198
ASIN: 1416927190
Publication Date: October 3, 2006
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Gordon's Blue book February 1, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Gordon's recent Blue book may not be as instructive as his Green one but it is a great read. It is fun to review actual hands and see why they were played the way they were and what Phil might have done differently given hindsight. It is a perfect table or bathroom book. Each hand is about a 3/5 minute read so the book is easy to pick up and start new and read quickly and put down. Highly recommend.
 A fun but light read January 27, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Phil Gordon comes across like a fun guy to know and his hand descriptions are entertaining. But while these tales do contain insights, it is just disappointing compared to the dense-pack of detailed hand-analysis of Dan Harrington's books or the detailed theoretical work of David Sklansky.
What Gordon does do is communicate the concepts in a user-friendly "bumper sticker" manner. That might be more effective for some readers and I don't mean the bumper-sticker appellation as a put-down. Poker is played in real-time, without notes and calculators, and a KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid) memory system will help many players.
But no offense to Phil, Harrington is the gold standard.
 Essential to any poker library January 11, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book much like the Little greem book (LGB) is very good. This is one of my favorite books, Phil effectivly brings you into his world and shows you what he does in many different situations. If you have already gone through the LGB this is a very good add on to that book and it will illustrate very effectively how phil plays his game and makes god knows how much $$. You should read the LGB before reading this one you'll get something out of it if you just read this, but for the most part you'll be missing out if you skip the LGB
Good information January 4, 2007
Buy this, and the little Green book, too. The more information you have, the better prepared you'll be at the table.
Good book that gets you inside the mind of a pro.... December 31, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I liked this book because it demonstrated and excellent player's strategy in real life situations. It illustrated many important points from the inside and was very readable. Some reviewers criticized that the approach was superficial. Perhaps this is true and it is also true that some of the strategy presented was obvious. However, the book was entertaining overall and I feel I profited from reading it. What I most enjoyed was getting a feel for a great player's thinking.
I am an amateur Texas Hold'em player, so I may not be the best judge. However, this book really was useful and I feel I learned a lot by following along and picking up principles from real life situations. This approach resonated with me more than mere theoretical principles and held my interest much more than that type of book.
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