Amarillo Slim's Play Poker to Win: Million Dollar Strategies from the Legendary World Series of Poker Winner

This isn't a book about how to play player. This is an anecdotal narrative by a very interesting player. The best poker story I've ever heard is found within this book.

Nice book

Play Poker to Win is filled with many of Amarillo Slim's famous anecdotes, as well as some advice about the game itself. You can go into this book not understanding much about the game, and after 1 or 2 reads, play a decent hand.Not great if you are looking for a book on playing poker really, but good if you want poker humour, and action.

_Play Poker to Win_ isn't the usual kind of poker strategy book. It's about 60% anecdotes (the anecdotes are the usual mix of hilarious Slimmagisms; two or three are repeated from _Amarillo Slim in a World of Fat People_, because they are worth repeating) and 40% poker advice. The poker advice is often over-specific. The reader has to pick through to find the useful advice, and then thoroughly analyze what Slim is saying, working out how to generalize it enough to actually use it. You definitely would not want to use this as your first or only poker reference.This is offset by the occasional gem of insider thinking, and the exposure to the way Slim thinks about hands and games. If you just read this book with a lively and open mind, you may very well get infected with a winner's attitude, which is worth far more than the price of the book.Besides, any book that casually calls Former World Champion Phil Hellmuth, Jr. "soft as butter at the poker table. ... only half kidding[ly] ..." (p. 154) has got to be worth a look.

Amarillo c'mon where are the real secrets to win? I expected more from this Idol of poker, he is a rich man now, but won't share his secrets!

Seriously - if you play poker either on the elite level or just with friends on a Wednesday nigh, this book will blow your mind ... seriously. I'm repeating myself.Slim gives advice about general card playing, but he also delves deep into particular rounds and analyzes each hand. AND he creates a narrative that will keep you riveted. AND he analyzes not only the odds, but the psych. Seriously. (Have you seen that word before?)The first time I read it I got about 1/3 into it, had to stop and go back. And I play cards ... a lot.Yeah, I know, there are a bunch of player wanna-be types. Trust me, you have no, and I mean it, no as in zero clue.Read this book three times, play, play some more, and read the book again.Not for wanna be types, this is the real deal.