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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Useful poker terms:
- FREEROLL - [1] A poker tournament that does not charge a buy-in fee; players must earn buy-in credits through previous play at the same establishment. [2] Having a lock on part of a pot (sure to win a greater fraction of the pot than one is betting) and playing to win more or all of it.
- STAKE - The amount of a player's BUY-IN, or the amount of money they are willing to play with in a given session. Compare: BANKROLL.
- BIG SLICK - In Texas Hold'em, hole cards of A-K, suited or not.
- NICKEL - Five dollars, usually represented by a red casino check.
- BELLY BUSTER - An inside straight draw. Same as GUTSHOT.
- BET - To put money into the pot, pursuant to the rules of the game, thus maintaining a chance of winning the pot.
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