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This book simply shows you a good amount of playing styles that you may not have thought about.This book is not statistical, but an easy to read beginner's poker book. This book teaches you how to think like a poker player, and how to exploit certain fields of the game. If you're looking for a book that tells you when to raise, fold, check and so on, this is NOT the book for you.
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I would recommend this book to a new poker player to be followed by Phil Gordons little Green Book. If this book were titled "Hold'em Wisdom for New Players" I would have given it 5 stars, as it does provide a lot of answers to questions a new player faces. They did me, since reading these two I have final tabled 7 times and still progressing. The information combined in both books will get you to the final table. For advanced players the book doesn't offer that much. I will say this is probably the easiest of all poker books to read and is suggested reading for the newby before you delve into the meat and potatos of poker theory and mathematics.
Like most of the other reviewers, I'm impressed with Negreanu's poker play. It seems as if he spent no more than an hour writing each chapter. I picked up this book hoping for some novel insights. Not only does Negreanu provide nothing new or incisive for those of us with an advanced understanding of the game, the book doesn't even qualify as a something useful for beginners.Negreanu's "advice" boils down to: be nice at the table, don't tell your bad beat stories, mix up your play and try to put your opponents on a hand -- and, oh by the way, I'm wonderful.
If you're a little more advanced and have the time, I recommend Dan Harrington's three-volume set on playing no-limit tournaments. Indeed, most chapters are only a few pages long and too many contain his recollections of hands he's won. I finished the book, but it wasn't easy.If you're just starting out, Phil Gordon's "Little Green Book" is well-written, insightful, and with enough analysis and real advice to help a beginner or intermediate player take his game to the next level. Maybe the best series ever written on No Limit. Moreover, Gordon is never didactic or condescending. His ability to put opponent's on a hand and to win with such frequency is astounding.
Worse, the tone of the book is often didactic -- don't softplay, be friendly, don't get angry, blah, blah, blah. Truly an outstanding piece of work. Negreanu, after all, claims it contains wisdom for all hold'em players. Although he covers a number of important topics (pot odds, reading opponents, playing a short stack, etc)., he doesn't cover them in enough detail to provide a reader of any level with any insight into the game.
Its a tweener book because its not for people who are starting to play holdem and its not for people who have been playing for awhile. This book is easy to read, but offers little new advice. No new ideas like i was hoping for but maybe his next book will be better.
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