Free Poker Book

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.