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Old 11-14-2007, 01:46 AM
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Default Good horse books?

Hi basically my friend loves to play horse tourneys a lot and his b-day is coming up so i want to get him a good book to help him out some. So i was wondering what book out there is good for all the games. I was looking at SS2 and the full tilt tourney edition. If there are others, what are they and are they any good? Also out of the two i mentioned which do you think is a better book overall for horse tourneys? Thank you for your input [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]
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Old 11-14-2007, 01:58 AM
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Default Re: Good horse books?

Either of the two you mentioned would be good.
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Old 11-14-2007, 02:44 AM
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Default Re: Good horse books?

If you wanted to be an extra good friend and buy him a couple books, the following will cover the basics for low limit HORSE games more or less:

Seven Card Stud for Advanced Players
High Low Split Poker for Advanced Players
Small Stakes Hold'em
Sklansky on Poker

This is assuming he has a general idea of how poker tournaments in general are played.

I'm reading the FT tourney book and it's actually pretty decent for the purpose but obviously a little limited since it's scope is so wide.

The high-low book is the best in my opinion, and it covers two HORSE games that a large number of players aren't particularly good at. It's so good I think that if you can only get him 1 book, you might be best going with this one. Yes, it only covers 2 of the games in HORSE, but it's pretty thorough.
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Old 11-14-2007, 09:14 AM
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I am just basing this on the table of contents, but does SS2 even talk about RAZZ to the same extent that SS does? SS2 does not seem to mention RAZZ at all.
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Old 11-14-2007, 10:06 AM
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SS2 does not have a section on Razz, nor does it have a section on 7 Card Stud. Considering how good Chip Reese's chapter was in SS1 I'm surprised they didn't reprint it.

The razz section of Sklansky on Poker is pretty helpful.
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Old 11-15-2007, 01:31 PM
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I agree with gonso,
I think High low split is the most valuable book you could get your friend, I also play a lot of HORSE and its just unbelievable how bad some players are in these games(especially Stud8)even reading it once should put you ahead of most of the field in low-limit cash games, and if you put some study in to it you can make some serious money with these games.
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Old 11-15-2007, 01:39 PM
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Default Re: Good horse books?

I play in every HORSE tourny that I come across (with the exception of the 50k WSOP) so I can relate to this thread. There is no book written for HORSE tournys because its a compilation of 5 different games that require five different skillsets. The recommendations in this thread have mostly been good, but if he already plays the cash games well and he just needs help adjusting his limit game to a tourny format than I recommend two books - and he should read them both.

1st - David Sklansky's Tournament Poker for Advanced Players. There is a lot of fluff that he may already know, but as a whole its a fantastic read - especially the hand samples in the back of the book.

2nd - Full Tilt's tournament book. Its pretty good, a few errors here and there and its not that great for a newbie but if your an experienced tournament player who plays the cash games well then this is a great book to add some subtle nuance to his tournament game.
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Old 11-15-2007, 02:39 PM
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2nd - Full Tilt's tournament book. Its pretty good, a few errors here and there and its not that great for a newbie but if your an experienced tournament player who plays the cash games well then this is a great book to add some subtle nuance to his tournament game.

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Old 11-16-2007, 10:36 PM
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Default Re: Good horse books?

Hi TT and SGspecial,

may I know which are the errors here and there in FT tourney book?

maybe PM me.

Thanks
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Old 11-17-2007, 02:46 AM
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Hi TT and SGspecial,

may I know which are the errors here and there in FT tourney book?

maybe PM me.

Thanks

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I don't think it's a stretch to say that we may not agree on which points are "mistakes" and which are correct. Then again Huck and Ted didn't agree on every point in the razz chapter, but they both get the job done.
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