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Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide (Tournament Edition) 438 pp, $29.95

Craig’s Full Tilt poker book is the perfect tournament tutor!

Michael Craig hit a home run when he wrote The Professor, theBanker, and the Suicide King. (If the name’s familiar, it’s where he wrote about the super cash game in Las Vegas that became a modern legend).

This time around, he’s put together the perfectly timed The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide, featuring a dozen world-class poker players who tell you what it takes to make the fi nal table at a major tournament and how to raise your game to a higher level. It’s perfect reading for to coincide with the 2007 World Series of Poker.

Craig was a poker enthusiast who became hooked on it in a good way. Combine that enthusiasm with the fact that he is a master interviewer and you get one of the best looks into the mind of the professional poker player you’ll fi nd in print. In this book, he did more than just pick the brains of the some the most consistent and brightest players, he vacuumed them to fi nd out exactly how they became the most consistent and brightest.

Included in the golden dozen players are big-time competitors Huck Seed, Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Phil Gordon, Gavin Smith, Ted Forrest, David Grey, Mike Matusow, Andy Bloch, Rafe Furst, Richard Brodie, and Keith Sexton.

This book is very special because it carries original, smoothly arranged material for the highest level of play. It’s like being able to sit in at a small, round-table, specialized seminar and being allowed to ask those key questions few players have the time to answer. Craig pulls that information from the players and arranges it so it can be absorbed, analyzed and applied easily.

There are 19 extraordinary chapters that include eight on no-limit play, with topics such as the Theory of Leverage; Play Before the Flop; Play After the Flop; Big Stack Play; Short-Stack Play and Online Tournament Strategy. Chapters also focus on potlimit hold’em; fi xed-limit hold’em; Omaha/8, and potlimit Omaha.

Chapters also discuss seven card stud tournament play; 7- stud/8, and one on razz. The theory about buying any new poker book is that if it offers one or two new ideas that help improve your game or eliminate specifi c weaknesses, it has paid for itself. This book should pay for itself almost immediately and it will likely end up doing even better for your bottom line.

Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide (Tournament Edition) Edited by Michael Craig Grand Central Publishing, 2007 ISBN: 0446698601 438 pp, $29.95

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