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The contents of this book serve as an anecdote to the widely held views that the gambler is always the best chip manager. Employing the rules of the poker player game and strategies in this book will enable the novice player to become a chip manager that rivals even the professional who plays the poker game as a sport. The player that uses an aggressive betting attack designed to: a. counter the gambler’s inappropriate aggression and b. change the sequence of a gambler’s actions, which should cause the gambler to throw his cards in the dead card stack. Strategies in this book, when applied successfully, allows a player the privilege of taking a principal position that provides the advantage of the last betting action. These betting strategies reduce the gambler’s probability of a positive outcome and increase the probability of a positive outcome for the player. Though there can be more than one gambler in a game; these rules of engagement are presented for beginning players so they can improve their potential for profits. The difference between the gambler and the player is that the gambler tends to take unnecessary risk without regard for the probability of a positive outcome. The player on the other hand is self-disciplined and patient, while waiting to go after the highly populated pots with many chips. He or she waits for the gambler to come after them when the poker odds favor their high probability of a positive outcome.

In this unique book Dr. Stovall discusses some of his significant experiences as a “player” in the poker player game as well as how to convert from being a gambler to a player. He presents rules of engagement that if followed will enhance one’s chance of earning a profit, as a player. The author provides charts suggesting the ideal best two starting cards in descending order and when to hold-em and when to fold-em. He discusses the relationship between the probability of a positive outcome and an appropriate aggressive defense of the best two starting cards. Also, the author details a brilliant strategy and a planned approach for playing the poker players’ game which aims to make the beginning player a successful and profitable chip manager on any poker table.

I am a woman who has never played a live table game as a poker player before. I can tell you though; by reading this book I was able to not only master the strategies of how to play the game, but I was able to sit at a poker table and visualize it from a player perspective. With a reasonable degree of competency, I now understood why the table is arranged with ten players and a dealer; and why when the dealer’s button is placed; the small-and-big-blind are respective positions to your left of that button. I learned an assortment of information about how the table is organized, which two best starting cards to attack with, when to attack an opponent’s betting pattern. Also, I learned the value of building rapport with an opponent in-order to set them up for winning over their chips.

There have been many books written on the mechanics of no limit hold-em, but this book surpasses all others in that it provides working elements to deal with the game and the humanistic input of the people playing. The elements are physiological responses to stress, personality types and response to losing, structured and/or aggressive players, and structured and/or passive players. Furthermore, this book deals with the affects of compulsive gambling experienced by some players while actively in the process of playing the game, signs of problem gambling, and finally the “three phases” of gambling addiction.

Carrie C. Johnson

Editor/Publishing Coordinator