5 comments about Win Your Way Into Big Money Hold'em Tournaments: How to Beat Casino and Online Satellite Poker Tournament (The Championship).

1. If you have never been to the WSOP and plan to play a satellite for your entry you should read through this book at least once. While the online sections can leave a little to be desired, there isn't much difference it strategy or information, I recommend this book to anyone with questions about satellite play. It will cover your basics and break down each tournment into stages so you can focus on one piece at a time.



2. This is mostly a rehash of general tournament advice. If you read everything, you will want to read this, since it is good advice. But if you are pretty experienced, you probably won't learn much.



3. I am a big fan of McEvoy's books, probably because I tend to play poker in more or less the same fashion that he does and also generally specialize in tournament play. This book is good, but not on par with some of his other books, such as Championship Poker, etc. I think my biggest disappointment was two-fold: There was a substantial chunk of the book devoted to satellite and super satellite play for limit events (which I don't play at all, and seems on the fringes since most premier events are no limit), and the section on internet satellite play was small. I would have liked to see more content there, especially since this is where most people buying this book will be playing there satellite play. Yes we all know how Moneymaker turned $39 into $2.5M, but it would have been nice to have more in-depth discussion about accomplishing that, especially in extremely low-buy in super satellites with large fields. I did find some useful information in this book I hadn't found elsewhere (the mark of a good poker book in my opinion) so I would recommend it to anyone thinking about using some portion of their poker bankroll as a springboard into large, big-money tournaments.



4. Don't bother spending your money on this. The five pages on satellites in Lindgren's book far outweigh any content in this...its mostly just stories of past satellites with some obvious advice thrown in (auto-checking online is a tell!!! thanks for that)



5. Relays basic strategy but doesn't tell you how to satellite in other than how to enter

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4 comments about The Mah Jong Player's Companion.

1. This book has COLOR pictures of all the hands I knew and then some! The group I taught to play fell in love with this book, although it has slowed down play as everyone looks up new hands to try. I love all three of Thompson & Maloney's mah jong books. This is truely for the die hard fan of the game who is always looking for a new hand as well as for the slightly advanced beginner. Seeing the hands helps. The book also breaks the hands into a short list used to start with and then a longer list of even more beautiful mah jong hands.



2. I thought this book would help me understand the American version of Mah better and it did not. It lists many hands and the hands are titled ... but his means nothing to someone who only plays the American version who purchases a new card each year. That said, I am sure it is my ignorance in not knowing what was meant by the title...I am sure this book would be helpful to those playing the game perhaps known as Chinese Mah...and has information on scoring that I didn't know existed. Again, this is probably due to my ignorance of the game but I would never have purchased it had I known it was different than the American version. In a nutshell, had I read the reviews I would have known this and not purchased the book!



3. I thought that these books would be helpful to me as a beginner. I assumed that they were for the form of Mahj played here in the US or western. Unfortunately, the vocabulary is not familiar so I will probably try to resell them on Amazon to someone where they will be helpful.



4. Have tried to order this book, but Amazon no longer carries it...PLEASE BRING IT BACK!

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1 comments about Winning Without Thinking.

1. This book is written by a Brit and spends the majority of the book talking about British race tracks and wagering in pounds. I found the statistical parts of the book too detailed and I soon lost interest. I'll be glad to sell my copy to anyone for ten bucks American.

4 comments about Swimming with the Devil Fish: The Colourful Story of the UK's Number 1 Poker Player.

1. David "Devilfish" Ulliott is a poker player, and a great one at that. A hagiography, however, doesn't do much for this sort of being in the modern world. Perhaps the author might have chosen another time to write this legend lived large story: Victorian England might be otherwise appropriate.
   
   Don't waste your time reading this; learn to play cards instead.



2. Firstly, don't buy this to find the deep inner workings of a genius's mind. Frankly, don't buy it if you've never heard of Dave Ulliott. While hardly a "hagiography" - it won't make anyone want to recommend the man for a place in heaven - this book does a good job of showing how a certain type of gambler, even a criminal, can prevail in the world of poker even in the modern era of college geeks and mathematical wizards. By the way, it traces the history of some of England's best known modern poker players, and hence fills a gap in the poker lierature. Outside the crippling legislation of the US, poker's renaissance is continuing, and the Devilfish is as colorful as any Matusow or the tiresome Hellmuth. This is not a great book, but it's worth a read if you know something of the context. By contrast, Mr Wilson's next tome - Ghosts at the Table - is a very fine history and debunker of poker myth, that should be bought and devoured by all (not released in the US at the time of this review).



3. This book should be retitled to "Swimming with the Poker Fish and Every other poker player in Europe". Too little about Devil Fish. Too much about everyone else.Swimming with the Devil Fish: The Colourful Story of the UK's Number 1 Poker Player



4. Very entertaining look at one of the most colorful characters in poker!
   
   Highly recommended

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