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Beginners: School your friends in low-limit Seven-Card Stud
Product
How to Beat Low Limit 7-Card Stud Poker by Paul Kammen
Hits
- Communicates the basics of Seven-Card Stud at a level the beginner can understand
- Includes easy-to-understand odds charts geared specifically to Seven-Card Stud
- Emphasizes the adjustments needed to succeed at low-limit games
- Summarizes key concepts in a "Quick Guide" at the end of each section
- Addresses a wide range of specific situations the beginner may encounter
- Includes a glossary of common poker terms
Misses
- Rehashes many common themes and concepts covered extensively in almost every beginner's guide to poker
- Does not extend past the beginner level
Review
"If you want to play and win at low-limit 7-card stud poker, you've come to the right source."
A variant of this cliché can be found on the back of almost any poker strategy book, this one being no exception, but in the pages of How to Beat Low-Limit 7-Card Stud Poker, Paul Kammen succeeds in giving the beginning player a good primer in the fundamentals of playing solid Stud poker.
Kammen's advice, geared heavily towards the greenhorn, covers everything from how to buy-in at a casino cash game to what to do when you have four to a flush and no more than five of the cards needed to complete it are dead.
Beginning with the basic game-play of Seven-Card Stud, Kammen takes the reader down each street and points out the sights they may encounter along the way. Designed for the low-limit player, Kammen's strategy takes into account the differences between these games and what you may have seen on TV.
"This isn't the movies and it certainly isn't the World Series of Poker," Kammen says of low-limit games.
This book will not teach you how to do battle with the pros but it succeeds in equipping the beginner with a sound foundation on which to build. Kammen's oversimplified approach has both advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand it is very accessible to the beginner, laying out the basics in a simple and clear way, but on the other it only skims the surface of the deeper strategy involved in Seven-Card Stud.
For the first-timer or the losing player wanting to plug the leaks in their game, How to Beat Low-Limit 7-Card Stud Poker is a good place to start. Kammen speaks from personal experience as a successful low-stakes player and gives readers the benefit of his time on the felt.
Details:
- $14.95
Cardoza Publishing
