Read Phil Hellmuth Jr.'s Book If You Wanna Be a Poker Pro
When poker professional Phil Hellmuth Jr. released his poker book titled "Play Poker Like the Pros," all poker players and fans knew that such poker book would be successful. This is because of the fact that Phil Hellmuth Jr. has already proven a lot as a player of professional poker. In 1989, Phil Hellmuth Jr. joined the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and won a WSOP bracelet after emerging as the first place winner of the US$10,000 Buy-In No-Limit Hold'em Championship event. What made such victory truly a notable one was the fact that at that time he was the youngest professional poker player to ever win a WSOP bracelet. And ever since such triumph, Phil Hellmuth Jr. has become more and more popular with the innumerable titles he has continuously been achieving.
The first few pages of "Play Poker Like the Pros" is like an introduction to the Texas Hold'em poker game. Phil Hellmuth Jr. explains the mechanics of such poker game explicitly, successfully discussing the basic details and incorporating pieces of strategic advice.
Aside from Limit Hold'em poker games, Phil Hellmuth Jr. also tackles such poker games as Seven-Card Stud High-Low, Razz, Seven-Card Stud, Omaha High-Low, Pot-Limit and Limit Omaha High, and Pot-Limit and No-Limit Hold'em in this poker book. In the last chapter of "Play Poker Like the Pros," Phil Hellmuth Jr. explains how online poker is played.
"Play Poker Like the Pros" also features several appendices that focus on the feeling of participating in the World Series of Poker, the major poker tournaments, the author's description of the Champion of the Year award that he received, and the rank of poker hands.
Just like any other books, some readers might find flaws in "Play Poker Like the Pros." For instance, some readers might find it annoying that some of the examples given by Phil Hellmuth Jr. assume that the readers are playing against one kind of opponent only. This of course is somewhat bothering due to the fact that readers will not be able to learn a lot of poker strategies from this poker book.
Another thing that readers might find annoying is the chapter that Phil Hellmuth Jr. specifically devotes to the game of Seven-Card Stud High-Low. This chapter of "Play Poker Like the Pros" fails to explain such poker game well.
Despite such flaws, we still recommend poker players to read "Play Poker Like the Pros." We guarantee readers that weak poker players will definitely become better players after reading this poker book and after applying what they have read into actual plays. Certainly, Phil Hellmuth Jr. still has succeeded as the author of "Play Poker Like the Pros."