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Matthew Hilger has been playing poker online successfully for the last few years. He has done well in live tournaments, 🌜 too. He made the money and placed 33rd in the 2004 World Series of Poker and won the 2002 New 🌜 Zealand Poker Championship. He started playing poker in college and improved his game while in graduate school. When he took a 🌜 job with Chiquita Foods in Costa Rica, he began playing in weekly tournaments at the local casino. Little did he 🌜 know he played and even won against some of the best players in the world like Humberto Brenes. He started 🌜 to play online after he transferred to Argentina, where gambling is illegal. From those experiences to today, he shares what he 🌜 has learned from playing over seven thousand hours online in his book, Internet Texas Hold'em: Winning Strategies from an Internet 🌜 Pro, which specifically focuses on limit Texas Hold'em. If you are thinking about playing on the internet, this is the 🌜 book for you. Hilger's book is roughly broken into nine sections. During the first three, "The Introduction," "Poker Concepts," and "Starting 🌜 Hands," he gives a general overview about poker which is beneficial to any new player. He includes a few definitions 🌜 and familiarizes the reader with internet jargon. The charts and graphs he includes are easy to read and he suggests 🌜 printing them out and keeping them next to the computer while playing. Hilger spends almost 100 pages discussing the flop. He 🌜 breaks down the concept further by discussing flopping the nuts, sets/trips, two pair, top pair/overpair, middle/bottom pairs, flush and straight 🌜 draws, overcards, and my favorite... trash hands. |