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Daniel Negreanu (Kid Poker) needs no introduction. His resume includes four WSOP bracelets, two WPT championships, Player of the Year in 2004, and more than $10 million dollars in tournament winnings alone, showing that he is one of the best poker players in the world. He is also a Cardoza Publishing writer.

His book: Power Hold’em Strategy is a masterpiece of Texas Hold’em poker strategy, containing many helpful hand examples, and focusing in tournament no limit holdem. Sections deal with specific topics like heads-up games, short-handed tables and bluffing. Negreanu discusses what he calls the “small ball strategy”, and how it can be excellent against aggressive players.

The book also have good chapters written by young poker pros like Evelyn Ng, Todd Brunson, David Williams, Paul Wasicka and Erick Lindgren. These sections deal with specifics like online play, short-handed cash games, “mixing it up”, high limit cash games.

However, most of the book was written by Daniel Negreanu, with a writing style that will impress a lot of readers that didn’t like other poker books.

This 504 pages book is a must read for anyone interested in improving their no limit holdem tournament play. You can find this book on the Cardoza Bookstore.

The subtitle of this book says it all: “How to Beat Casino & Online Satellite Poker Tournaments”. Satellites are tournaments with smaller buy-ins that give as prizes entries to tourneys with high buy-ins. After the story of Chris Moneymaker, who went from a $39 satellite to become the champion of the world series of poker main event, several players have tried the same route.

The authors Brad Dougherty & Tom McEvoy present on this book basic strategies for satellite tournaments. It looks like it was developed with the beginner player in mind, but the information is valuable for more experienced ones too. The book covers limit and no-limit poker, as well as live and internet events, although the section about online satellites is small.

Not “must read” in poker literature, but a valuable resource for new players looking for success on satellites.

Poker Pro’s McEvoy & Cloutier give you in this book valuable advice on limit hold’em tournament strategies. They have a very interesting conversational style of writing, making the book easy to understand even for beginners.

The authors share some of the experience they gathered by playing on several tournaments, in their successful careers. They use a step-by-step analysis of played hands, showing how a professional thinks.

A highlight of the book is the section where they discuss the differences in strategy when you play low buy-in versus high buy-in tournaments. Also, they discuss in another part the differences between cash games and tourneys.

Authors
T.J. Cloutier won 6 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, and has 39 final table finishes in this tournament.
Tom McEvoy is a four times bracelet winner on the WSOP. He won the 1983 Main Event.

Book Description
This interesting and informative book is the work of two legendary poker players: Bobby Baldwin and Mike Caro. It offers to its readers the account of Bobby Baldwin early career, while teaching very important concepts to improve your poker skills.
Bobby Baldwin describes his road to the World Series of Poker win.
The strategy information is shown between the stories. The authors discuss the common mistakes of players on 7 variations of poker, as well as topics like starting hands, bankroll, game theory.

Commentary
This book is an easy read, making you dive on the poker scene, as Baldwin plays against the best players of poker history. The strategy tips are very good, and you can find really good advice for beginners and more experienced players, not only on strategy, but also about poker career and life.

About the Authors
Bobby Baldwin is a world champion of poker and belongs to the Poker Hall of Fame. Mike Caro (Mad Genius of Poker) is a poker professional that authored many best-sellers on poker strategy, including “Mike Caro’s Book of Tells”. Both authors of this book were co-authors of the Super System with Doyle Brunson.