Tournament Killer Poker By The Numbers: The Keys to No-Limit Hold 'em Success
by Tony Guerrera
Lyle Stuart (2008), 276 pp ISBN 978-0818407239, $14.95

Rolf Slotboom, one of the most respected players on the poker circuit, cashed seven times at the 2007 World Series of Poker, which gives a ton of credence to his coverage of professional poker. His four-DVD set is one of the best selling videos on hold 'em and his Secrets of Professional Pot-Limit Omaha continues to be a popular title among aspiring poker pros.

Now he's written Secrets of Professional Poker 1. Subtitled Winning Strategies for Limit Hold 'em, No-Limit Hold 'em and Omaha, this is a book that is likely to join the ranks of bestsellers.

More Hold'em Wisdom for All Players
by Daniel Negreanu
Cardoza (2008), 167 pp, $14.95
ISBN 1580422241

Serious players always welcome poker advice from a respected champion, even if that advice isn't totally written by the champ himself. For example, in his first book Daniel Negreanu invited a handful of friends, poker pros of course, to contribute to his long-awaited work. In More Hold'em Wisdom for All Players, Daniel covers topics by himself.

The name's familiar to poker fans, the same fans that have been waiting for Daniel Negreanu to release a long-awaited text that defines his style of tournament play. Interestingly, Daniel's title, Power Hold'em Strategy appeared just a couple of weeks before Warwick Dunnett's Poker Wizards (339 pages, paperbound, $19.95) tome arrived featuring the charismatic tourney whiz himself as one of the headlining contributors.

Practical Poker Math-Basic Odds & Probabilities for Hold'em & Omaha by Pat Dittmar ECW Press (2008) ISBN: 1-55022-833-1 231 pp, $29.95

He's not necessarily a media star, doesn't highfi ve his fans in the TV gallery, and he isn't a household name mentioned in the same breath as the big tournament title holders-but Pat Dittmar is a poker pro. A true journeyman, he has been playing and succeeding for 20 years, because he understands the mathematics of the game.

Worth Reading More Than Once Russell Fox, co-author of two previously well-respected poker books, Mastering No-Limit Hold'em and Why You Lose at Poker-both with Scott Harker-has now teamed with Nick Christenson for a book that could be this year's blockbuster. It's Winning Strategies for No-Limit Hold'em, focusing on some advanced concepts that few books have yet covered in depth.

The game of poker consists of two entities-fish and fishermen. The fish could be newcomers who don't know much beyond what they've seen on TV or old timers who never wanted or never bothered to learn the tricks of the game. The fishermen are the players who have watched the fish, learned how they swim, and then baited hooks and cast nets to catch them one by one.

That is precisely the focus of James McKenna's newest edition to your poker library must-haves, Beyond Traps-The Anatomy of Poker Success.

Mike Caro is one of poker's most prolifi c and most readable instructors. He is the author of more than a dozen poker strategy texts and several very helpful videos that focus on beginning to advanced poker strategies. His latest title, Most Profi table Hold'em Advice-The Complete Missing Arsenal, is well worth reading.

Sam Farha is considered to be one of the best Omaha players on the poker circuit. Fans of televised poker know his face, recognize the unlit cigarette that dangles between his lips, wonder about his style, and want to know what he knows.

For Farha on Omaha, he teamed up with Storms Reback (co-author of All- In: The (Almost) Entirely True Story of the World Series of Poker) to produce a well-written, well-priced book for all who play limit Omaha, pot-limit Omaha and Omaha eight or better-a text that reveals many of the techniques that made him so formidable at the tables.

In more than 25 years of reading, reviewing and selling books, I am most impressed with one that is not only a stand-apart work of history, but is also an art in itself. The book is Ulvis Alberts' Poker Face 2-25th Anniversary Edition, a picture book that captures the emotions of people playing America's game as well as the faces. With erudite text by A.