Top 10 Poker Rooms

Player		Location
	Doyle Brunson	Las Vegas, NV, United States
	Gus Hansen	Copenhagen, Denmark
	Johnny Chan	Cerritos, CA, United States
	Annie Duke	Los Angeles, CA, United States
	Andy Bloch	Las Vegas, NV, United States
	Phil Hellmuth	Palo Alto, CA, United States
	Phil Ivey	Las Vegas, NV, United States
	Ted Forrest	Las Vegas, NV, United States
	Kathy Liebert	Las Vegas, NV, United States
	John Juanda	Marina Del Rey, CA, United States

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By David Sklansky & Mason Malmuth, David Sklansky, author and gambler, was born in 1947. Born and bread in Teaneck, NJ, David attended Teaneck High School as well as the University of Pennsylvania but couldn’t complete his studies. He secured a job with an actuarial firm before deciding to start a career in poker. Highly regarded in the poker profession, David is an author of several poker books that includes blackjack.

The experienced poker player and author is also a winner of three World Series of Poker bracelets in addition to Poker by the Book invitational event.

David Sklansky is author or co-author rather of 13 poker and gambling books among which is Hold’em Poker for Advanced Players. The book was authored by both David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth, another poker player. Mason Malmuth, an American player of card games is also an author of gambling and poker books. Mason Malmuth publishes David Sklansky’s books as the owner of Two Plus Two Publishing, which publishes books aside from running a gambling forum online.

The book has been influential to many top professional poker players especially for those that have preference for Hold’em games. The authors of this book did a tremendous work in organizing the contents and overall quality of the materials therein. Since its release, it has been used as a standard upon which the quality of other poker books is measured. The front pages of the book contain preliminary information that covers the Introduction as well as a section – Using This Book where a warning is issued on the manner in which readers are to maximize its use.

Next to the above are eight sections that cover the use of the first two cards. The concept of the hand ranking table encapsulates the kind of hands to play including all related principles. In addition, the authors explain several ideas behind the Hold’em game among which is check raise, semi-bluffing and slow playing. Apart from that, issues regarding miscellaneous topics are addressed; they include playing trash hands, playing when a flush drops and playing against a maniac.

An area of modification of this edition over the previous one is where authors also discussed games that feature no standard rules. Poker players should be familiar with playing short hand, playing No Fold’em games and also playing in abnormal situations. That’s yet another fascinating thing regarding this book as it covers a wide range of games currently played in card rooms.