The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How To Think Like One by David Sklansky Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How To Think Like One
Book Review: And I don't play poker
Summary: 5 Stars
I play many games, but not poker. But I still learned a lot!
Sklansky ties everything back to one simple idea, "The Fundamental Theorem of Poker", and he does it in a way which exposes the key ideas and some connections between them. And I ready to play a killer game now? Of course not. But I now have the key concepts and a roadmap to learn how to play.
Book Review: Awesome - must have
Summary: 5 Stars
Just get it! truly a must have for anyone trying to improve not only their poker game, but understanding of... well everything and anything you can gain an edge in. msyBook Review: Awesome Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great book if you have the patience to go over a couple of parts a few times becouse the material is "deep".This books conscepts can be applied to all types poker wich makes it so invaluable. A sure addition to any poker library.Book Review: Basic insights and motivations on ways of playing
Summary: 3 Stars
As the title says, the most part of this book covers the theory behind the pokerplay. It does provide with some new "basics" and behaviour examples of different play, I did found it quite extensive and repeating sometimes. Luckily it has a summary of each chapter so you dont have to repeat all of it. Put in short a basis read for anyone who knows a little poker already, but want to know if he knows all the basics.Book Review: Be Prepared to Scratch Your Head a Few Times...
Summary: 3 Stars
For the ordinary layman, and perhaps even for a poker player that has quite some experience, this book by sklansky can be quite complex. Now what I mean by "complex" is that Theory of Poker is a book which has its foundations based on mathematics. He explains much of his principles using various math that concerns odds and probability, but even for some people, the problem is that they will NOT get the point of all that math done.
This book could have gotten 5-stars had Sklansky broke down his math into a writing style that would EXPLAIN to the reader what all the math means for the player. He does so at the end of each chapter in summary form, but it is so brief that anyone could just read the end of each chapter and get the point. If you read this book and do no understand the concepts behind the mathematics, then you are for a loss because then you are not going to be able to translate the knowledge of the book into your play. Then it would have all been a waste of time. The only way a book is going to help you is if you can comprehend its concepts and apply that information to your play.
To fully understand the mathematics behind pot odds, implied odds, effective odds, and the like, you must read this book more than once. Otherwise, for beginners, it is best to start with something more simple.