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Bad Beats and Lucky Draws: Poker Strategies, Winning Hands, and Stories from the Professional Poker Tour

by Phil, Jr. Hellmuth

A hand-by-hand look at professional poker’s biggest decisions

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A hand-by-hand look at professional poker’s biggest decisions

Built around notable hands from the World Series of Poker, World Poker Tour, and European Tour, this poker guide uses tournament situations to examine bluffs, reads, risky plays, and costly reversals. Phil Hellmuth pairs accounts of high-stakes action with his assessment of the choices players made, including decisions he says he would reconsider. The book’s structure stays close to specific hands, making strategy a matter of concrete table scenarios rather than abstract instruction alone. Contributions from several professional players broaden the view of tournament poker beyond a single voice.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Poker players interested in tournament-hand analysis
  • Fans of professional poker tours and World Series of Poker history
  • Readers who want strategy discussed through real high-stakes scenarios

Themes

Tournament pokerHand analysisBluffing and readsDecision-making under pressureProfessional poker culture

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Book overview

Bad Beats and Lucky Draws is your down-and-dirty guide to the world of high-stakes professional poker. Phil Hellmuth, nine-time World Series of Poker Champion and author of Play Poker Like the Pros, presents a blow-by-blow account of many of poker's "clash of the titans" hands from the World Series of Poker, the World Poker Tour, and the European Tour. Phil provides insights into what the players were thinking and includes his own take on what they (and in many cases what he) should have done differently. Highly entertaining and instructive, Bad Beats and Lucky Draws gives you a seat at the table with the best bluffs, reads, and over-the-top plays such as the hand that won Phil his record-tying ninth bracelet at the 2003 World Series to the heartbreaking play that knocked him out of the "Big One."

Bad Beats and Lucky Draws also includes special contributions by

  • Doyle Brunson
  • Johnny Chan
  • Annie Duke
  • Howard Lederer
  • Daniel Negreanu
  • Ted Forrest
  • Jennifer Harman
  • Layne Flack
  • Men Nguyen
  • John Bonetti
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