Secrets of Professional Pot-Limit Omaha |  | Author: Rolf Slotboom
Publisher: D&B Publishing
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: First
Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 1904468306
Dewey Decimal Number: 795.412
EAN: 9781904468301
ASIN: 1904468306
Publication Date: October 1, 2006
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Product Description
Pot-Limit Omaha is a fascinating game which is rapidly increasingly in popularity on the back of the current poker boom. However, there is a dearth of quality material giving advice on how to handle all elements of this complex form of poker. Until now...Secrets of Professional Pot-Limit Omaha is one of the first books to analyze medium- and high-stakes PLO in great depth. The author, long-time successful PLO cash game player Rolf Slotboom, reveals key information that has never appeared in print before. The following are just some of the topics that are discussed in this ground-breaking book: A revolutionary short-stack approach Adjustments for big-stack play A study on the proper bet size Correct seating position Blocker play The bare ace bluff Exploiting your opponents specific weaknesses Finally, the practice hands and the chapter on hand match-ups offer tremendous theoretical and practical advice. This book is a must-read for anyone who wishes to play PLO successfully.
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 Great book May 9, 2007
Wolf Finkbeiner (Fayetteville, Arkansas)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Finally a non-idiot book for pot limit 0maha. Rolf claims to "have held nothing back" in his book, and I believe him. Slotboom details his "small-stack" strategy which mathematically served him to become one of his games most frequent winners. He also details a large-stack strategy. His book is pretty comprehensive, he covers starting hands, but he goes into more detail--detailing on how he would play them on early and also on the button. This book also includes "classic" Slotboom articles. Slotboom's writing style is fun. He's a deep thinker but you'll also see him in a deep strategy section refer to an opponent as "tight-a**"!
An excellent resource for poker players of all skill and experience levels December 9, 2006
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
Poker professional and "Card Player" magazine columnist Rolf Slotboom presents Secrets of Professional Pot-Limit Omaha: How to Win Big - Both Live and Online, a guide especially attuned to the complex elements of medium and high-stakes Pot-Limit Omaha poker. Drawing directly on his experience matched against top players, Secrets of Professional Pot-Limit Omaha dispels common misconceptions (such as the idea that an open-ended straight draw on the flop is always a hand to be excited about), presents practice hands and hand match-ups and analysis to test one's poker deductive skills, offers strategies especially for players looking to earn money in online games, and much more. In addition to suggestions for optimum bet sizes, correct seating positions, blocker play, the bare ace bluff, and numerous other tips and tricks, Secrets of Professional Pot-Limit Omaha features an accompanying DVD with Rolf Slotboom, Ed Miller, and Byron Jacobs in person. An excellent resource for poker players of all skill and experience levels looking to hone their Pot-Limit Omaha skills.
Not for you and me ... June 10, 2008
William J. Nicholas (Wilmington, Delaware)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Having read these reviews, I thought I'd better give my sad opinion too, since most of the reviews miss the biggest point.
Unless you are an advanced Omaha player, this book is not for you. If you don't have an exceptional understanding of the game, the stuff Rolf writes will go right over your head. God help you (and your bankroll) if you try using it in money games.
One reviewer is right in saying to read Hwang first. Ciaffone would be another good choice.
One of the standards August 5, 2008
E. Smith (Cambridge, MA USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are looking to learn PLO, this, Hwang, and Ciaffone are the standards.
The only thing I dislike about any of these books is that they tend to show you the easy hands - you play good cards, you get hit in the face by the flop, and then they explain what to do from there, which is fairly obvious.
They don't go into as much detail about what to do for what you really spend the bulk of your time doing, and that is getting cards that aren't that great, or whiffing on flops - because that is what is hard and requires thought and separates the beginners from the rest.
These books are all for beginners and basically tell you what you need to know to minimize the hard decisions and minimize your losses.
They also discuss a fairly tight strategy that is largely specific to full ring games and live. In that there are very few full ring games online, compared to the shorthanded 6max games that are becoming the standard for PLO regulars online.
Of the standards, Slotboom's is probably the best in terms of the next level discussion, but even then it is a lot of him talking about hands he played - but he does show a lot of the thought that goes behind it and it is a good book.
Read it December 18, 2007
Michael Johnson
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Lots of good advice throughout the book, I was impressed enough to write a review. Using the short-stack strategy outlined in the book I was able to go from a winning player to a big winning player. I'd get it just for that. If you new to the game get this later if you want to improve your game and make more money, BUY.
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