Five Fingers
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"Cards are war disguised as sport"
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Sklansky and Malmouth promise to turn you into a great holdem player. Unfortunately they try to do so by explaining every variation of hands, table positions and betting patterns in the Universe.
By the two thousandth set play I started feeling as if I had been beaten about the head with a poker baseball bat.
Worse, I was becoming increasingly confused.
Can you really prepare for every eventuality? I was becoming paralysed by knowledge and had visions of sitting at the poker table trembling with fear, trying to remember what Sklansky would do if the player four seats to my right was wearing a yellow hat and biting the nail on his left hand little finger.
Thats not to say there isnt some excellent poker tips within this book. The mechanics of the game have been dissected and dissected again. Indeed it is bible-esque in the shear scale of the project.
And thats the point. I think, being a great player is a divine gift, not something you explain using maths and tables.
If you want to win playing tight, dull, grinding, soul destroying poker, this is for you. If you would rather lose a few but keep a personality, go elsewhere.
Perfect as a toilet read when you have a spare five minutes. It just doesn't read coherently as chapters.
Top Tip: Sklansky and Malmouth have ranked starting hands into groups. Using the strategies of Sklansky should turn the beginner / intermediate player into a regular contender.
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