Ed Recommends: Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand At A Time
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I just finished reading my first poker strategy book in quite a while (probably the first one since The Mathematics of Poker
It’s called Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time Volume I
(When I write a book with two other authors, we are at least gracious enough not to jam both our real names and our internet handles on the spine. 
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The format of the book is simple. It’s 180-odd hands, all taken from online multi-table tournaments, analyzed by at least one of the three authors (and occasionally by all three). The book covers play in deep stack and short stack situations, and the examples range from early in the tournament hands through to the final table. The bubble is probably the tournament stage covered in the most depth, with a section near the end of the book devoted to analyzing every bubble hand played by the author at a single large buy-in tournament.
The format of the book is simple, and it’s also a fairly simple decision for me to recommend the book. The authors have selected the example hands well to illustrate important tournament concepts, and the level of analysis is consistently strong.
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Hey Ed,
Thanks for the rec. I am strictly a cash game player except once a month a buddies-beerdrinking-shitgiving sit’n'go (10 guys).
However, I recently got involved in a 20 man leauge where after 10 2-table tournaments with a weekly win but highest ranker gets 10,000 for must be used 4 WSP ME entry. (this is nothing I have a strong interest in, but it’s a social change-of-pace type poker 4 me).
So, how this relates to the post, what would you recommend I peruse ? A multi-table book like this one or Colin’s sit’n'go but make some adjustments?
Even though we pay 2 or 3 I always play our little thing fast to win only or at least wreak havoc going down. But here, even out-of-the-money place counts on your leauge-ending standing and the big prize.
So any general (macro) advice you might give me for my situation would be appreciated. This is not pay my daughter’s tuition poker like my cash game play, but if I’m going to play I’m playing to win, so again, any get-me-started into the world of donkaments poker advice would be appreciated.
thanks, JC