Jimulacrum
Full House
I dug up this old gem from the depths of my poker book collection: Poker Strategy: Proven Principles for Winning Play (2000) by A.D.Livingston, which is basically just a reprint of Advanced Poker: Strategy and Smart Play (1971).
I picked up the 1971 edition for $2 at a flea market and loved it, which is why I bought the other one (before realizing it was the same book). The writing style is much more entertaining than your average strategy book, and though it's way out of date for most modern games, it's still a great read.
I'm going to donate my 2000 copy to @bergs at the next gathering so that it can serve as a reference volume at Truman's House. Almost the entire back half of the book is a list of dealer's choice games and basic strategy points for each. Lots of wild-card games, but plenty of interesting straight-up games too. Notably, what this book calls Omaha is a flop game ("widow game" to Livingston), but it's significantly different from our notion of PLO.
Table of contents, for your perusal (note that there are far more dealer's choice games covered in the book than listed in the table of contents):
Plus the "Hold Me Darling" pages, probably my favorite pages in the book:
Obscure Poker Word of the Day: To "tap" in old-timey poker means to bet all of your remaining chips in a table-stakes game, i.e., to move all-in.
I picked up the 1971 edition for $2 at a flea market and loved it, which is why I bought the other one (before realizing it was the same book). The writing style is much more entertaining than your average strategy book, and though it's way out of date for most modern games, it's still a great read.
I'm going to donate my 2000 copy to @bergs at the next gathering so that it can serve as a reference volume at Truman's House. Almost the entire back half of the book is a list of dealer's choice games and basic strategy points for each. Lots of wild-card games, but plenty of interesting straight-up games too. Notably, what this book calls Omaha is a flop game ("widow game" to Livingston), but it's significantly different from our notion of PLO.
Table of contents, for your perusal (note that there are far more dealer's choice games covered in the book than listed in the table of contents):
Plus the "Hold Me Darling" pages, probably my favorite pages in the book:
Obscure Poker Word of the Day: To "tap" in old-timey poker means to bet all of your remaining chips in a table-stakes game, i.e., to move all-in.
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