The Poker Tournament Formula
by Arnold Snyder
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Author: Arnold SnyderEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-08-01
ISBN: 1580422039
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Cardoza
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- The Poker Tournament Formula II: Advanced Strategies
- Blackbelt in Blackjack : Playing 21 as a Martial Art
- Big Book of Blackjack
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Book Review: A Different Approach to Tournament Poker
Summary: 4 Stars
In this book, Snyder, a noted blackjack guru, ventures into the world of tournament poker, specifically focusing on today's "fast" tournaments with rapidly escalating blinds and antes. He attempts to demonstrate that in such a structure, it is necessary to play differently than one would play in a tournament such as the events of the World Series of Poker, even if the events feature the exact same competitors, due to the differences presented by the rapidly increasing blinds.
For the most part, the book does a good job of showing the need to play much more quickly and be slightly less risk-averse in a fast tournament, due to the fact that a player cannot merely sit back and wait for premium starting hands. However, some of the advice he gives for ways to go about adjusting to a new strategy are questionable at best, and most likely are chip-spewing. For example, he mentions a play in which you (in position) call a preflop limp or standard raise, call the flop and turn bets, and then raise hard on the river, even as a bluff. I generally play online fast tournaments as opposed to live tournaments, but it is my experience that in online tournaments, even if you have enough chips to execute a bluff like this, a player who fires bets on all three streets will have something far more often than not and will call your raise. Particularly at lower buy-ins, it seems to me that Snyder overestimates the frequency with which the looser players will fold to bluffs, as many will call with as little as ace high in such a situation, and will almost never fold any type of reasonable pocket pair, even if there is an overcard on the board. Such looseness from opposing players decreases the value of bluffing in some of the spots that he recommends.
Overall, however, I enjoyed the book and it gave me some new perspectives on approaching fast play tournaments. Some people disagree with his overall approach; they think that the optimal play is determined solely by the current state of a tournament, as opposed to the future state of a tournament. However, regardless of your opinion on this matter, the book generates new ideas to thinking about how to play some hands in these types of tournaments, and will certainly force you to reevaluate some aspects of your game, which is unquestionably valuable to a tournament poker player.
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