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How to Beat Sit-&-Go Poker Tournaments by Neil Timothy
Hits
- Targets low-limit beginner players
- Advice for all stages of play in a sit-and-go
Misses
- Too basic for intermediate or experienced players
- No new or revolutionary advice
Review
You can almost be sure that if this book catches your attention it will be because of its bright yellow cover and not necessarily because of its content. How to Beat Sit-&-Go Poker Tournaments by Neil Timothy has its good points, but for the most part, there's nothing a poker player is going to learn from it that they can't get from other poker books as well.
Even though it's not revolutionary, How to Beat Sit-&-Go Poker Tournaments would be a good book for a very novice poker player who knows they'll be more interested in tournament play rather than cash games.
It starts out very simplistically, talking about the basics of the game of Texas Hold'em and what a sit-and-go actually is. From there, the book moves on to basic strategy such as position and how to play certain hands based on position.
This is all advice you can learn from pretty much any basic poker book out there. So you're almost a quarter of the way through the main part of the book before you hit the sit-and-go specific advice, starting with Chapter 6: Strategy.
The best sit-and-go specific strategy comes in the chapters covering the different stages of the tournament and what tactics work during those stages.
From Chapter 11 to Chapter 16, however, the book reverts to more general advice for any poker situation rather than sit-and-go specific advice. Here you'll find definitions of the different types of players, different plays to use, more basic concepts and online poker tells.
Then it cuts back into some more sit-and-go tips with a Top 17 Tips list and a list of common mistakes players make in sit-and-gos. These two chapters might be the most helpful for players who already know the basics of the game and just want some quick advice for sit-and-gos, rather than having to pore over the entire book.
From there, the book once again diverges to general advice for players on bankrolls, keeping records and other topics.
There are alternatives out there that will give you more for your money if you're looking for more specific sit-and-go advice. This is more of a beginner book with some sit-and-go strategy added in. Our resident expert Daniel Skolovy could even give you some advice for free with his series on Sit-and-Go Essentials.
Details:
- $17.50
Paperback
Cardoza Publishing
184 pages
