How to Win No-Limit Hold'em Tournaments : Make Millions of Dollars at the World's Most Exciting Poker Game

by McEvoy , Tom; Vines, Don

• ISBN13: 9781580421607
• ISBN10: 1580421601
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-02
• Publisher: Cardoza

Summary

The 2004 World Series of Poker awarded more than $30 million in prize money, the biggest prize of any sporting event, with the first place winner receiving $5 million! That, for a mere investment of $10,000. This is the first-ever instructional book devoted entirely to showing players how to win no-limit hold'em tournaments as nationally televised on ESPN and the Travel Channel and watched by millions each week. Readers learn the basic concepts of tournament strategy, plus: how to win big by playing small buy-in events, how to graduate and adjust to medium and big buy-in tournaments, how to adjust for short fields, huge fields, different time periods (slow and fast-action events), how to win online no-limit tournaments, how to manage a tournament bankroll, all the basic and advanced betting and positional strategies, and tips on table demeanor for televised tournaments. The authors also show actual hands played by finalists at the WSOP and the WPT championship tables with card pictures, analysis and useful lessons from the play.

Author Biography

Don Vines is a professional tournament poker player specializing in no-limit hold'em medium buy-in events. He has won more than 40 championship titles.

Tom McEvoy, the 1983 World Champion of Poker, has won millions of dollars playing no-limit and pot-limit hold'em in cash games and major tournaments around the world. He is the author of Tournament Poker, and co-author of 10 other books including Championship No-Limit & Pot-Limit Hold'em, Beat Texas Hold'em, and Championship Hold'em.