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| The Poker Tournament Formula II: Advanced Strategies |  | Author: Arnold Snyder
Publisher: Cardoza
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 1580422268
Dewey Decimal Number: 795.412
EAN: 9781580422260
ASIN: 1580422268
Publication Date: July 8, 2008
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Probably the greatest tournament poker book ever written, and the most controversial in the last decade, Snyder's revolutionary work debunks commonly (and falsely) held beliefs. Snyder reveals the power of chip utility - the real secret behind winning tournaments - and covers utility ranks, tournament structures, small- and long-ball strategies, patience factors, the impact of structures, crushing the Harringbots and other player types, tournament phases, and much more. Includes big sections on Tools, Strategies, and Tournament Phases. A must buy!
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 Playing Players, Not Cards January 27, 2009
Kevin O'Mahoney (Cambridge, MA United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Last June, I was playing in a Caesar's Palace Megastack tournament. I was down to $4,000 in chips, from a starting chip stack of $12,500. I was livid and decided I was going to play poker by my instincts and reads, rather than whatever the hell "the book" or "books" recommended. Out of 561 players, I made the final table and we chopped.
Playing by the book will never make you a winner. But, of course, I'm always on the lookout for a good book on poker. I had real doubts about an author claiming to have a winning tournament formula. What a bunch of nonsense and what nerve? Yet, Snyder's The Poker Tournament Formula was a damn good read. His explanations of player types he's labeled as "boat people," "Canasta Ladies," and so on, were spot on and hilarious. Snyder's analysis of tournament structure, while overly detailed, was a novel insight. His "rock, paper, scissors" analogy was genius and very accurate. He also gives the best explanation of position play that I've ever read. Nevertheless, I was, and remain, skeptical of his relying too heavily on position and not enough on the cards -- even for the fast tournaments his first book is geared toward.
The Poker Tournament Formula 2 is much, much better than TPTF. His re-examining of the theories he recommended for fast tournaments for slow tournaments shows him to be an original thinker, adapting to circumstances rather than adhering to dogma. He rips Sklansky's half-baked ideas on calling requirements and chip values (i.e., "the less chips you have, the more each chip is worth, and the more chips you have, the less each chip is worth" is correctly ridiculed) and the overly tight, rigid play recommended by Harrington in his 3 volume set. Calling the Harrington devotes "Harringbots" is not only accurate, but damn funny. Snyder recommends not surviving, but thriving -- by accumulating a big stack and using your chips as artilery. His explanation of "chip utility" accurately describes, and simplifies, how the size of your stack compared to the blinds/antes and those of your competitors enables you to play poker or cripples you -- and you're headed for the rocks much earlier than you would have thought, at least according to Harrington's "M" formula.
Most surprising about TPTF2? Snyder doesn't recommend a "forumla." He emphasizes "chip utility," reading your opponent, worthwhile gambles, tournament structure, and tournament stages. He seemed to articulate my thoughts on playing tournaments; but since all the authors seemed to disagree with my thoughts, I assumed I was wrong. Snyder has been bludgeoned on some websites for his theories and recommendations, but most of these criticisms seems to be from people who seem too devoted to the common accepted poker theories to see anything worthwhile in Snyder's unconventional theories. Snyder's book is well-thought out, well-written, and witty. I highly recommend it. If it's not the best book on poker I've read, it's in the top 3.
An exception poker book! July 29, 2008
Leonard H. Johnson
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
I like this book because it doesn't go in detail on what starting hand requirements a person should play. This is an advanced concept book and is not for folks who are just starting out playing hold'em.
I won't take away from Mr. Snyder and lay out the content of his book online. You can purchase the book for all of that. However, I will describe a few of topics otherwise no one will be inclined to read his material.
One of the interesting things about the book (and it's not even listed as a selling point) is the 10 functions you have with your chip stack.
Think about it for a second, can you list down all the functions your chips stack has besides adding to the pile? PFT2 goes into detail on how to use your chip stack to make information bets, value bet, dominate small stacks.
The books primary focus is utilizing the weapons you have at hand to develop a monstrous chip stack.
Shhhhhsh! Don't tell anyone else what a great book this one is... January 2, 2009
Online Junkie (Hollywood, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It will cost us money at the tourneys! After reading this book, I played in 4 large casino tourneys (470-730 players) and became huge overall tourney chip leader in 3 of 4. One event by the 6th blind level, I had over 19x the start stack at nearly 135k chips, when about 1.5x was the average stack. The last one in the series, I was overall chip leader for about 5 hours including going into the final table as chip leader with 588k out of a total of 1.8mil chips in play. Lost 4 races in a row (I was ahead when all the chips went in) to finish in 4th place. This book definitely helped my game. Definitely get book one as well, otherwise don't bother getting book 2.
Aggression in live tournaments November 22, 2008
2many2read (United States)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is the second book by a blackjack expert on playing poker tournaments. His first book included online play; here the focus is on brick and mortar poker.
He recommends a very loose aggressive style, playing the situation, not your cards.
The standard books on tournament poker are the Harrington books. They suggest a much tighter style which may lead to pushing marginal hands when you're outchipped.
Probably wisely, Snyder recommends chipping up with early aggression based om position and reads as well as your cards.
The author is using a pen name, but I believe he has a creditable live tourney record. He graphs his tourneys in this book. (Would using his real name hurt his results at the tables?)
This book is well worth adding to your poker library as a different way of thinking about poker. The poker book market has a lot of me-too books. Snyder's works stand above the rabble of cloned poker texts.
Great Sequel July 20, 2010
mesham
If you have read PTF1 you will like PTF2. This book covers a slower tournament structure and the strategies to win. I especially enjoyed his stereotypes of players. Also, his real life observations of winning tournament pros. Highly recommend.
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