Book Review: Big Book of Bluffs by Matt Lessinger
Poker player and writer Matt Lessinger has zeroed in on a crucial matter that all players seek to learn, develop, cultivate and use as a deadly weapon in their arsenal of hold’em poker tricks. The subject is bluffing and Lessinger’s work is appropriately titled The Book of Bluffs.
Released in October 2005, the book has 11 substantial chapters, each jammed with illustrations, sample hands, and interviews with players who pulled off some of the biggest bluffs in modern poker history. This approach helps those who hate to bluff or fear bluffing or who often go on tilt once they’ve been bluffed. The entire scenario applies to some of the best known tournament and cash game names in the business, so the book serves every level of play.
Where most books have a basic chapter, section or discussion on bluffs, Lessinger takes it many degrees higher, honing it to a fine art to get us where we’d all like to be–way ahead and brave enough to keep plowing over the oppo… Continue reading Book Review: Big Book of Bluffs by Matt Lessinger
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Poker terminology:
- STACKED [DECK] - A deck that has been arranged to give one player a huge advantage. Also: RIGGED.
- FOURTH STREET - In stud poker, the fourth card dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the fourth community card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is TURN (q.v.).
- CUT - To break the deck into 2 stacks of at least 5 cards each. Usually performed by the player to the dealer's right to insure that the the deck is not stacked.
- BIG SLICK - In Texas Hold'em, hole cards of A-K, suited or not.
- TRIP - Three of a specific kind, as in "Trip sixes".
- FAVORITE - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that figures to be the winner. Ant: UNDERDOG.
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