How To Win No-Limit Tournaments by Tom McEvoy

#1 10-10-2007, 03:16 PM

has somebody this book and give a short recap?
I am really looking for some tourney books. Any suggestions.
What about the Full Tilt tourney book?

I have already read HOH 1-3
and TPFAP

thx

Niediam · #2 10-10-2007, 04:45 PM

All McEvoy books are poo.

Full Tilt Stratigy Guide is good.

As is Phil Gordon's Little Green Book.

jfk · #3 10-10-2007, 04:59 PM

I haven't looked at McEvoy's book in quite some time. I remember that he advocates a very tight, stay out of trouble type philosophy which may not have a lot of relevance in the typically more aggressive styles you see in today's tournies.

He has a lot of stay out of trouble type advice.

If you've read HOH there's no particular need to seek out McEvoy. You'd be better off applying your time to rereading HOH.

If you're looking for a good read that's tourney applicable, you can't go wrong with Chen/Ankenman's Mathematics of Poker. I've applied a lot of their thoughts in my MTT game. The material can be difficult but the book is very well written and fills in a lot of holes not covered in other literature. MoP is outstanding.

Point Point · #4 10-10-2007, 05:53 PM

I'm talking about How to Win at Poker Tournaments co-written by Roy West and published by Lyle Stuart in 1995.

McEvoy's backers according to the book:

Frank Henter = 35%
Johnny Chan = 20%
David Sklansky = 5% (because of a deal during the one table that McEvoy won)
Seymour Leibowitz/Jimmy Doman = 5%
Alan Elrod = 1%
Don Williams = 1%

The first place price money was around $500,000. McEvoy got $165,000. He says in another book that he immediately lost 150k of it in a scam stamp collecting scheme. And he also lost his bracelet while playing Pacman in Hawaii. Interesting read.

fraac · #5 10-10-2007, 05:55 PM

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You would be surprised what role David Sklansky played in McEvoy's winning of the 1983 WSOP Main Event.

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Pimp. Do I look surprised?