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Queens Can Beat Kings
Product
Queens Can Beat Kings: Broad-Minded Poker for Winning Women by Susie Isaacs
Hits
- Isaacs' Five-P Theory for poker
- A lot of great tips for several poker games given in a personable style
- Packed with history of women in the game and advice from top female pros
- Advice on setting up a home poker club and switching to casino play
Misses
- Conversational tone doesn't suit the technical advice portions
- No revolutionary advice on the technical end of playing poker
Review
"On the subject of MEN: MENopause, MENtal stress, MENtal anguish and MENstrual cramps. From these examples it appears that MEN are the beginning of a woman's woes. Indeed, MEN are a tremendous challenge for women in the poker industry (the business of poker or as a poker player). In the end, the feminine force wins out," says Susie Isaacs in her book Queens Can Beat Kings: Broad-Minded Poker for Winning Women.
The book essentially aims to teach women how to become that feminine force in the poker world, one of the few places where people of both genders can compete on a completely equal playing field. To this end, Queens Can Beat Kings explores the history of poker, the many successful women who've played the game, the basics of how to play some of the popular games and strategies for each game, and even how to set up your own home poker club.
Queens Can Beat Kings is peppered with Isaacs' personality and the best parts of the book are the stories of her own poker escapades. Other highlights include the profiles of some of the other great women in the game such as Kathy Liebert, Annie Duke, Lucy Rokach, Vera Richmond, Marsha Waggoner and many, many others, including Poker Alice.
While the book does explain how to play various games, with solid advice for each of them, there are better books out there if you're looking for a players' manual. Isaacs' conversational tone in the book helps make it easy to read, but it actually isn't well-suited to the technical portions.
What you will get from this book that you won't from others is a strictly female perspective on the game, including how men treat women at the poker table and how to use that against them in the game. You'll also find great advice on how to set up your own poker clubs and on how to take the stress out of transitioning to playing in a casino.
Perhaps the best advice Isaacs give in the book is her Five-P Theory for poker, which combines a little technical advice with some personal advice. She explains how a winning strategy includes patience, position, psychology, perseverance and practice.
If you're looking for a serious, in-depth poker strategy book, this one isn't for you. If you're a woman looking for a fun book to learn more about the game in general and to give you some knowledge to get you started playing, by all means pick this one up.
Details:
- $14.95
Lyle Stuart Books